Dieter Jung (born October 9, 1941, in Bad Wildungen, Hessia) is a German artist working in the field of holography, painting and installation art. He lives and works in Berlin.
Education Dieter Jung was raised in Oberdielfen / Siegen (Province of Westphalia). He studied theology at Kirchliche Hochschule Berlin from 1962 to 1963 and fine arts at the Hochschule für bildende Künste (today Berlin University of the Arts) until 1968. While he was attending the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris he also encountered Arthur Adamov and Alberto Giacometti in 1965. From 1971 to 1974 he studied experimental film at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin.
Work Jung's first academic post was a guest professorship in 1975 at Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Brazil. In 1977 he realized his initial holograms "Feathers" at the New York School of Holography (conducted by Sam Moree and Dan Schweitzer). He developed 1977 in collaboration with Donald White from Bell Laboratories in his garage in New Jersey the technical requirements for the first holographic poem, "Hologramm". From 1982 until 1985 he explored with Jody Burns (Holoplate, New Jersey) the efficiency of One-step Rainbow Holography. He created the series "Into the Rainbow", "Present Space" and "Different Space".
Between 1985 and 1989 Jung worked as a research fellow at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies/MIT in Boston (directed by Otto Piene) in connection with the Spatial Imaging Group (directed by Stephen Benton) at the Media Lab/MIT on the cycle of holographic LightMills, which was inspired by Harold Edgerton´s Multiflash photography and relating to ZERO's early work "Silberne Lichtmühle" (Silver Light-Mill). Guest lectures followed at Harvard University and at Sorbonne University, Paris.
1990/91 Jung acted as a member of the founding council at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne where he served as a professor for creative holography and light art until 2007. From 1992 to 1996 he was a member of the board of trustees of the Center for Art and Media/ZKM in Karlsruhe. In 1996 he directed the international conference and exhibition "Holographic Network: A Visual Journey between Art, Science and Technology" at the Academy of Arts, Berlin.
In 1997–99 he served as a member of the MIT Advisory Council on Art-Science-Technology. The development of Holokinetic Mobiles, HoloMobiles XYZ and TransOptical (Transformation optics) Mobiles is since 1998 one of his fields of activities, as well as the development of Floor Holograms and the research into interactive laser installations since 2002. Oraculum; Light installations: "Strings", "Light in Flight" and "Loops", holographic "TimeCapsules". Since 2010 member of the academic board of advisors of ZERO foundation in Düsseldorf. 2011 member of the International György Kepes Society in Hungary. Since 1970 Jung participated in numerous lectures, workshops and exhibitions throughout the world.
The development of Holokinetic Sculptures "Perpetuum Mobile", HoloMobiles XYZ and TransOptical Mobiles, animated by the kinetic sculptures of Alexander Calder and George Ricky, became since 1998 extended fields of his involvement. After the elaboration of Floor Holograms and interactive Laser installations ("Oraculum – for two lasers and three canvases") he continued creating a variety of Light-works "Strings", "LightFlight", "Loops", holographic "Time Capsules" and the "Particle wave" prints, hence revealing and extending a different perception of motion in space, light and colours.
In 2010 he became a member of the academic board of advisors (now think tank) of ZERO foundation in Düsseldorf, and in 2011 he joined the International György Kepes Society in Hungary. Since 1970 Jung has participated in numerous conferences, workshops and exhibitions throughout the world.
Dieter Jung is one of the pioneers in holographic art. This art, apart from being a form of optical illusion, constitutes a specific phase in the history of Light Art. Illusionist tendencies exist in art since the earliest times and were at certain periods even considered as forming an integral part of Western art. As to the luminous phenomenon with its curious ambiguity between presence and absence it is at the heart of all holographic art and can be compared to our perception of the stars whose physical presence has been superseded by the luminous wave which reaches our eye long after having been emitted. The aesthetics of absence has been the privilege of the mystics of all times, but its metaphysical side is counterbalanced by its scientific connotation in the area of holographic art.
"One of the pioneers in holographic art" (excerpt) written by Frank Popper, Paris 2008 for the exhibition "Invisible-Visible" of Dieter Jung, Today Art Museum Beijing—full text
Grants and awards Awards: 1965/66 Fellowship by French Institute (Institut Français) for the École des Beaux Arts Paris. 1967 The German National Merit Foundation (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes). 1968–69 USA Fellowship by German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD); 1977 Artist-in- Residence at the MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire, USA. 1978 Artist in Residence at Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, New York; Grant by Cabin Creek Center for Work and Environmental Studies, New York. 1983 Artist-in-Residence grant, Museum of Holography New York. 1984 Stiftung Kunstfonds, 1985–86 Rockefeller-Fellow at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies, MIT; Grant by the Council for the Arts of the MIT. 1988 and 2003 Award by the Shearwater Foundation, USA. 2003 Grant by ZEIT-Stiftung, Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius, Hamburg.
Solo exhibitions 1968 Dieter Jung, Galerie Defet, Nuremberg, Germany 1973 Galerie Haus Seel, Siegen, Germany 1974 Museo de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Museu de Arte de São Paulo; Dieter Jung, Galeria San Diego, Bogotá, Colombia 1975 Bilder: Gemälde-Aquarelle-Bilder-Filme, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, Germany 1977 Asociacion Cultural Humboldt, Caracas, Venezuela 1979 Drawings and Paintings, Pointdexter Gallery, New York, N.Y., USA 1981 Écriture Holographique, La Revue parlée de Blaise Gautier, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France 1982 Goethe House, New York, United States 1983 Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan 1984 Holography in Art, Hong Kong Arts Center, Hong Kong; Pinturas – Desenhos – Hologramas, Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Brazil. 1985 Dieter Jung – Hologrammeja/Piirroksksia/Maalauksia, Näyettey Kluuvin Galleria, Helsinki, Finland; Dieter Jung, Musée de Québec, Quebec City, Canada; Art Basel; Museum of Holography, New York; Dieter Jung-Installation, Museum of Holography, New York, N.Y., USA 1986 Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS), MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, US 1987 Dieter Jung, Galleria Marrozini, San Juan, Puerto Rico 1988 Dieter Jung, Paris Art Center, Paris, France 1990 Dieter Jung, Hologramme/Zeichnungen, Art Center Zamalek, Cairo, Egypt 1991 Dieter Jung, Bilder/Zeichnungen/Hologramme, Kunsthalle Berlin, Berlin, Germany 1992 Dieter Jung-Bilder/Zeichnungen/Hologramme, Ulmer Museum, Ulm, Germany; Dieter Jung, Goethe-Institut Madrid, Spain; Palais de Luxembourg, Paris 1993 Dieter Jung, Escola das Belas Artes, Salvador, Brazil 1998 Dieter Jung, Galerie Schoeller, Düsseldorf, Germany 1999 Dieter Jung, Trinitatiskirche, Cologne, Germany 2002 Kibela Gallery, Maribor, Slovenia 2003 Kun Shan University, Tainan, Taiwan POC; Dieter Jung – Anders als man denkt, Museum im Kulturspeicher, Würzburg, Germany; Kunst-Museum in Ahlen, Germany; Kunstmuseum Heidenheim, Heidenheim, Germany; Dieter Jung, Virtual Images, Kun Shan University, Tainan, Taiwan 2004 Dieter Jung, Hologram Works-The extended Space to Dénes Gábor, Ateliers Pro Arte, Budapest, Hungary 2005 Shantou University, Guangdong, China; Dieter Jung, The Garden of Light, Taipei Fine Arts Museum Taipei POC 2006 Zendai Museum of Modern Art Shanghai; Dieter Jung, The Passion of Light, Zendai /Himalaya Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China 2007 A-Space Beijing; Beijing; Imperial City Art Museum, Beijing; Dieter Jung- Installation, Goethe Institut Shanghai, China; Dieter Jung, Holographie und Lichtkunst, Cubus Kunsthalle, Duisburg, Germany; Dieter Jung, Looking Forward- Multimedia Holography and LightArt, A-Space Beijing, China; Beijing Imperial City Art Museum, Beijing, China 2008 Phases/Faces, Oroom Gallery, Seoul, Korea; Dieter Jung – Invisible-Visible, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China 2009 Dieter Jung, Fliegende Farben, Städt. Galerie Haus Seel, Siegen, Germany; Dieter Jung, A Visit to Berlin 2009, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China 2010 Dieter Jung, Flying Colors – Moments of Seeing OCT Art & Design Gallery, Shenzhen, China 2011 Today Art Museum, Beijing; Dieter Jung, Space-Light-Colour, LinLin Gallery, Beijing, China
Group exhibitions
1968: Nouvelle École de Berlin, Galerie Motte, Geneva / Milan / Paris 1969: New York Studio School, New York 1971: Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany 1976: Musée National de Monaco, Monte Carlo, Monaco 1977: Berlin Now, Contemporary Art 1977: Denise René Gallery, New York; New York Avant Garde Festival, World Trade Center, New York 1979: Museum of Holography, New York; Holographie, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany 1981: Museum of Natural History, Beijing, China 1983: Light Dimensions, Science Museum, London, England; Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria 1985: East-West Encounter, National Center for The Performing Arts, Bombay, India; National Geographic Society's Explorers Hall, Washington, USA; Mehr Licht, Kunsthalle Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany; A Imagem Holografica, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal 1986: Museum Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark; LUMIÈRES –Perception/ Projection, Centre d´Art Contemporaine de Montréal, Quebec, Canada; Holomedia, Städt. Galerie im Prinz-Max-Palais, Karlsruhe, Germany; Lichtjahre, Künstlerhaus Wien, Vienna, Austria; Holography, Institut for Telecommunication, Beijing, China; Internationale Poesifestival, Oslo Konzerthus, Oslo, Norway 1987: Ologrammi, Museo de Fotographia, Florence, Italy; Light Dreams, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Michigan, USA; Morris Museum, Morristown, New Jersey, USA; National Museum of Science, Ottawa and Montreal, Canada 1988: LightsOrot, Yeshiva University Museum, New York; Museum of Science, Los Angeles 1990: Fotografie, Wissenschaft und neue Technologien, Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf, Germany 1992: Moving Image, Museum Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain 1993: Virtual-Real Image, The World of Holography ´93, Daimaru Museum, Tokyo, Japan; Das Licht-Die Musik-Der Raum, with Otto Piene, Heinz Mack, Günther Uecker, Ferdinand Kriwet, music by Karlheinz Stockhausen, Landtag Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany; MIT Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, US; 81996 Holographic Network, Akademie der Künste Berlin and Bauhaus Archiv Berlin, Germany 1997: UNESCO, Paris, France 1999: Natura della luce, Galleria d'Arte Contemporaneo, Venice, Italy; Farblicht, Städtische Galerie Würzburg and Kunstmuseum Heidenheim, Germany; Malerei, Galerie Neher, Essen, Germany; Lumia, International Lyskunst, Charlottenborg Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark; Kangastus Mirage, Rauman Taidemuseo, 9.10-5.12.1999, Finland 2000: Manege, St. Petersburg, Russia; Kangastus Mirage, Verutitalli-Salon kaupungin taidemuseo, 14.1-12.3.2000; Kemin taidemuseo, 16.6.-20.8.2000; Kajaanin teidemuseo, 3.9-29.10.2000, Finland; Machines Times, V2, Rotterdam, Netherlands 2001: SkyArt Conference, Delphi and Ikaria, Greece; College of Fine Arts, Paddington, Sydney, Australia 2005: Two Asias-Two Europes, Doland Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China; Enseigner /Produire: Exposition Enquête, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France 2006: Museum of Contemporary Art /ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany; Entry Gate, Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China; Motion in a Square, Museum Ritter, Waldenbuch, Germany 2007: Remote Control, Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, China