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Rainer Pagel, Great-Britain

 

Lives and works in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Rainer Pagel’s art practice developed from the 1970s in Hamburg and Belfast, very much under the influence of Bazon Brock, Max Bense and Joseph Beuys while in Germany, and Alastair MacLennan, Adrian Hall, Tony Hill and Dr Slavka Sverakova in Northern Ireland.

Being a student and a friend of Joseph Beuys Rainer, Pagel took part on the invitation of Beuys in the Northern Ireland workshop of the Documenta 6, Kassel, Germany 1977, he became a co-founder of Art and Research Exchange in Belfast, which was a key influence on the development of innovative art practice in Northern Ireland. In 2000, Pagel became a co-founder of Bbeyond, the performance art collective in Northern Ireland. He has presented performances in Belfast, Galway, Glasgow, London, Sete, Beiing and Venice in group- and solo shows.

At its core, Rainer’s art practice is a comment on belief systems, societal events, political developments, absurd ideas and conventions of communication and human interaction. Performance / live / action art allows him to use process to illustrate how our world changes while we're not looking, and how we then misinterpret what we have not seen but think we know intimately.


Pagel--Rainer_Protect-the-Flame---Venice-Jun-2011
Rainer Pagel. Protect the flame.Infr'Action Venezia. 2011. © Infr'Action Venezia and the artist.




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Analia BELTRAN I JANES, Spain


Nadia CAPITAINE, France


Manuela CENTRONE, Italy


Chuyia CHIA, Singapore


Yingmei DUAN, China/Germany


Helinä HUKKATAIVAL, Finland


Magnus Logi KRISTINSSON, Iceland


Rita MARHAUG, Norway


Rainer PAGEL, Great-Britain


Tomas RULLER, Czech Republic


Joakim STAMPE, Sweden


Nenad BOGDANOVIC, Serbia


Gustaf BROMS, Sweden


LAN Hungh, Taiwan


Emilio ROJAS, Mexico


Guadalupe NEVES, Argentina


Mi ANDER, Germany


John COURT, UK/Finland


Bill AITCHISON, UK


Wathiq AL-AMERI, Iraq/Switzerland


Ali AL-FATLAWI, Iraq/Switzerland


Robert ALDA, Norway/Poland


Gustavo ALVAREZ, Mexico


Peter BAREN, the Netherlands


Chun Hua Catherine DONG, Canada


Anna KALWAJTYS; Poland


Omar GHAYATT, Egypt/Switzerland


Pekka KAINULAINEN, Finland


Katri KAINULAINEN, Finland


Nigel ROLFE, Ireland


Neung Kyung SUNG, South Korea


Jaeseon MOON, South Korea


HE Liping, China


CHEN Yufei, China


Guadalupe MARTINEZ, Argentina/Canada


Sinnikaä TÖRMÄLÄ, Finland


Inari VIRMAKOSKI, Finland


Regina FRANK, Germany


XI Jianjun, China


Chongmin BAI, China


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