Wolf Vostell

Malpartida Fluxus Village

The German artist Wolf Vostell and his family moved to a little village in Cáceres (Extremadura/Spain) in the seventies. In the middle of this primitive environment, he founded a contemporary art museum in connection with the local inhabitants, thus turning Malpartida into the first Fluxus village.

Happening, Kunst, Protest 1968

Documentary by Helmut Herbst.

Ticket of No Return

A sartorially resplendent woman of few words arrives in Berlin with plans to live out the rest of her days as a drunkard.

Berlinfever – Wolf Vostell

In 1973, Wolf Vostell, an artist associated with Fluxus, made a happening in which participants were required to perform a series of ritual, obsessive actions, such as “go to the trunk of your vehicle, there open and close the trunk 750 times and 375 times put a white plate in it and take it out 375 times.” Described by Ottinger as a documentation of what Vostell called “dé-coll/age-happening”, the film is an illustration of her creative method, a surrealist act, a separate work of art, and a strange object. She would later describe her method as “fragments of reality assembled in an unusual manner”.

Kunst und Ketchup

Early documentary about the pop art scene and happenings in Germany.