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Karen Inge Schewina He is known for using fat and felt for his sculptures and performances, his political activity for the Green Party in Germany, the establishment of the “Free International University” and his charismatic speeches and lectures at the art academy in Düsseldorf.Curated by Friedhelm Hütte, Global Head of Art, Deutsche Bank, and art critic Ahu Antmen, On the occasion of the 100th year of Deutsche Bank’s presence in Turkey, Sabancı University Sakıp Sabancı Museum (SSM) presents an exhibition entitled “Joseph Beuys and His Students – Works from the Deutsche Bank Collection” from 9 September until 1 November 2009. It’s the first time after Beuys´ death in 1986 that his works on paper are shown together with prints, drawings and photographs done and taken by some of his most important students asPeter Angermann, Felix Droese, Imi Giese, Jörg Immendorff, Anselm Kiefer, Imi Knoebel, Blinky Palermo, Katharina Sieverding and Norbert Tadeusz. Beuys himself considered his teaching his “greatest work of art”. He believed in the creative potential every human being possesses, for him, every person was an artist, every action a work of art. “Art alone makes life possible,” he said in an interview “without art man is inconceivable in physiological terms.” Art was not supposed to be separated from life or presented in elite institutions, but the revolutionary power of art should transform society into a better place for everyone to live in. It may not have been his goal to produce eternal works; he wanted to make people think about their way of living and their option to take an active part in forming the so-called “social sculpture”.The exhibition shows in more than 300 examples how his students found to a way of expressing their feelings and perceptions of the world around them, being supported and guided by […]