HAMBURG.- The Project Space-in-Residence chess club and the Kunstverein in Hamburg announced the exhibition Angelika Oehms.
A snapshot of a life: developed in collaboration with Bettina Sefkow, this project is dedicated to the work and life of the Hamburg-based artist Angelika Oehms. It brings together materials from the ARCHIV Hilka Nordhausen / Buch Handlung Welt, Oehms’ private collection, as well as photographs, documents, and memories from her personal and artistic circles.
The exhibition sheds light on a largely forgotten artistic position and its context within Hamburg’s art scene of the 1970s and 1980s. At its centre is Oehms’ slide projection Kostbare Sekunden from 1980. Now, 46 years after it was first presented, the work returns to the Kunstverein in Hamburg.
Angelika Oehms (1949–1986) lived and worked in Hamburg. After studying art education, education, and Romance studies, she studied at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Hamburg, where from 1976 she was a student in the classes of Sigmar Polke, Kai Sudeck, and Franz Erhard Walther.
Oehms was an artist closely connected to the circle around Buch Handlung Welt. She worked with, among others, Hilka Nordhausen, Vlado Kristl, and Achim Duchow, with whom she developed the ZRK publishing house. Her diverse body of work encompasses painting, drawing, photography, collage, and sculpture. It moves between expressionistic approaches and is often informed by literary sources. Her work explores questions of gender relations, intimacy, and female self-determination.
Alongside her artistic practice, Oehms worked as a model and teacher and undertook study trips to Japan, the Philippines, and Egypt. She died in 1986 at the age of 37 in Leer, East Frisia.
During her lifetime, her work was shown, among other places, at the Kunstverein Kassel in 1976, the Kunstverein in Hamburg in 1980, Galerie Max Hetzler in Stuttgart, Galerie Barlach in 1983, and Tiempo Circular in Mexico City in 1985. Posthumous exhibitions include presentations at Galerie Hauptmann in Hamburg and the Stadtmuseum Oldenburg.
Curated by chess club (Amanda Weimer)
