untitled Painting

Hinrich Sickenberger, born in 1955 in Aschaffenburg, germany, developed his artistic talent already very early later then the expressionist painters Elisabeth Dering and Anton Bruder formed him. After 2 years of studies in Darmstadt he came in 1975 to Cologne to develop around his own artistic language there. His eccentric appearance and his strictly lived individuality predestined him for his numerous impressive live performances. He showed that, among the rest, in 1976 in the supporting programme of the FIAG, Paris , in 1979 on the ART Basel 10 ("TRANSITORRINESS" + "REFLECTION I"), in 1981 "POSING" with the performance festival „BEI LEBENDIGEM LEIBE - with living body“ in Cologne and in 1982 in BETHANIEN, Berlin "LOVE-SICK" (performance festival „performance, another dimension“). In 1979 the spectacular action „24-HOURS PROINHABIT“ took place in Cologne (in a shop-window pavilion at Karstadt, with MAF Räderscheidt). At the same time he concentrated upon musical performance forms, among others, in 1982 in the KUNSTVEREIN KÖLN; Cologne with a premiere on the occasion of the "suitcase edition" and under the name KALA SIC (&Band) 1983 in the RHEINISCHES LANDESMUSEUM Bonn, in the ALTER WARTESAAL Cologne and in many art-galleries, clubs and other cultural events. The music excursions led him with the project GINA X PERFORMANCE together with Claudia Simmler (Gina Kikoine), Ralph Morgenstern and Zeus B. Hero (producer) they aroused enthusiasm with groundbreaking Sounds&Beats, spectalucair videos and shows. GINA X published between 1978 and 82 worldwide three LPs (NICE MOVER + X-TRAORDINAIRE + VOYEUR). In 1981 Hinrich Sickenberger stepped with immediately some installations to the public: on the ART 12 in Basel with "LOVE TEMPLE" (a gigantic space, forms with large-size drawings) + and at the INTERNATIONALER KUNSTMARKT KÖLN; Cologne (today ART Cologne) with „MICHELANGELO TRIFFT AUF DEM WEGE NACH…..“ (Space installation with MAF Räderscheidt, with drawings). In 1981 was also the year of the scholarship of the DFJW/OFAJ (6 months Paris) and the series "KAMASUTRA" (drawings + performances + videos). In 1982 he showed his installation „BLICKE MIR NICHT ZU TIEF IN DIE AUGEN….. DOES NOT LOOK TO ME IN THE EYES TO DEEP, OTHERWISE YOU WILL BURN" on the PHOTOKINA in the SPANISCHER BAU in Cologne. His most innovative and most long-term artistic development took place since the middle oft he 70th., however, in video-art.