Joseph Beuys
(c)SABAM België, 2017 - photo: M HKA, 2017
The installation Transsibirische Bahn was created between 1961 and 1969. In 1970 it was shown in the Louisiana Museum in Denmark. After the exhibition Joseph Beuys installed the environment in a separate room, in order to shoot the film with the Danish filmmaker Ole John. Although, Beuys described the film as an action he had performed with the camera running, the camera is the active performer here. With the connection between the spheres of the east and the west as a central theme Transsibirische Bahn is part of Beuys’ larger Eurasia project.
Film by Ole John.