DIETER JUNG - The Light Behind [13 Jan – 24 Feb 2024]

https://galeriekornfeld.com/exhibitions/the-light-behind

The exhibition "The Light Behind" offers a rare opportunity to see a selection of Dieter Jung’s groundbreaking holographic art in Berlin. The concept of the exhibition centres around the hologram, Dieter Jung’s passion and prowess which earned him his worldwide reputation, particularly his work "Pendulum und sein Schatten" and the holograms, accompanied by paintings, drawings and graphics from the last few decades.

Born in 1941 in Bad Wildungen, Germany, Dieter Jung's career spans theology, painting, graphics, and cinema studies in Berlin and Paris. Since 1965, Jung's groundbreaking holographic artistry has graced international exhibitions, earning him global recognition. In his wide-ranging ensemble of paintings, drawings, graphics and installations, the viewer is invited into a play of colour and light, of surface and space. In addition to his creative endeavours, Jung worked as a research fellow at MIT's Center for Advanced Visual Studies from 1985 to 1989; was a member of the founding council of the Academy of Media Arts (Kunsthochschule für Medien) in Cologne in 1990/91, where he worked as Professor of Creative Holography and Light Art until 2007. He served on the board of trustees at the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe from 1992 to 1996 and joined the Academic Advisory Board of the ZERO Foundation in Düsseldorf in 2010. The artist's archive, along with a significant selection of his works, is part of the collection of the ZKM in Karlsruhe, which honoured Dieter Jung with a solo exhibition in 2019. Today, Dieter Jung lives and works in Berlin.