About

Jürgen Klauke is widely accepted as an initiator of Performance Art. Since the 1970s, Klauke has photographed and filmed his performances in order to illustrate and to document them. In later works, photography and film have become an autonomous medium in which the human body (often the artist’s own) appears in surreal, carefully staged scenarios: a hallmark that continues in the artist’s work today.

Klauke’s provocative photographs are characterized by a critical examination of socially defined behavioral patterns and gender norms, using the body as an integral means of expression. In …