Marcel Odenbach (Bilingual edition)

Using collage and montage as a medium and always in connection with his own biography, Marcel Odenbach investigates politically and culturally relevant topics of his time, such as the process of coming to terms with Nazi crimes, remembrance culture, the effects and after-effects of European colonialism in Africa, racism, and time and time again, the relationship between the individual and society.

The artist Marcel Odenbach (*1953) lives in Cologne, Berlin, and intermittently in Ghana. Since 1976, he has worked with video. His filmic collages and installations have contributed to the fact that today, video art is a central medium in contemporary international art. Parallel to this, he has created a wide-ranging graphic oeuvre. In the joint consideration of his video and paper works, it becomes clear that Odenbach regards art and culture under a socio-political perspective and at the same time relies on the strength of the sensuous-aesthetic experience of images.