Joseph Kosuth

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Joseph Kosuth (born January 31, 1945), an American experimental artist, lives in New York and London after having lived in several European cities, including Ghent and Rome.

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Early life and career

Kosuth was born in Toledo, Ohio, with an American mother and a Hungarian father. (Lajos Kossuth, a relative's who was not well known for his role in the 1848 Hungarian Revolution.) Joseph Kosuth attended the Toledo Museum of Design from 1955 to 1962, where he continued studying privately under Belgian painter Line Bloom Draper. On a scholarship, Kosuth attended the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1963. He spent the next year in Paris and travelled throughout Europe and North Africa. He moved to New York in 1965 and attended the School of Visual Arts until 1967. Stanley Diamond and Bob Scholte at the New School for Social Research, New York, studied anthropology and philosophy from 1971 to 2010.

He made a huge impact on the School of Visual Arts as a student while also influencing younger students and older teachers such as Mel Bochner. As Kosuth's fame grew, he was kicked out of the student body and given a job as a tutor, by Silas Rhodes, the school's founder and President, in 1967. Many of the instructors' opinion had been sparked by his conduct, with others who had unintentionally confronted basic presumptions. His promotion to a teacher was also a result of Kosuth's outside work, which included the co-founding of the Museum of Normal Art (giving first exposure to artists such as Robert Ryman, On Kawara, Hanne Darboven, and others), as well as proselytizing and organising artists in a direction that was later referred to as the experimental art movement. He emphasized his interest in the dialectical process of idea formation in relation to language and context through his art, writing, and organizing. "Art, not a question of shapes and colors, but a matter of meaning production," he said. His writing began a re-reading of modernism, sparking a significant re-evaluation of Marcel Duchamp's importance and signaling the transition into what we now refer to as post-modernism in art. His research had a major influence on his art practice as an artist and, shortly after, it was also on the minds of others. He also retained his academic pursuits during this period. He served on the Faculty, Department of Fine Art, The School of Visual Arts, New York City, until 1985. He has been Professor at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Hamburg, 1988-90, as well as the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, 1991-1997. He teaches at the Kunstakademie Munich and the Istituto Universitario di Architettura, Faculty of Design and Art in Venice, and is currently a professor. He has been invited as a visiting scholar and guest lecturer at several universities and institutions for nearly thirty years; Cornell University; Duke University; UCLA; Cooper Union; Cooper Union; Pratt Institute, New York; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Edinburgh University; Munich University; The Sorbonne, Vienna; Yale University; Carnegie University; Cooper Union; New York University; Yale University; University of Art, New York; Columbia University; Cooper Union; New York University; Yale University; Cooper Union; Art Institute of Art;

Kosuth continued his studies, writing, exhibiting, and exhibition exhibiting, and was quickly recognized as one of the pioneers of Conceptual art and installation art; beginning with word-based works, as well as photo-based works, and appropriation strategies since the 1960s. His work has consistently investigated the art of writing and its relationship with language and meaning. Kosuth's nearly three-year inquiry into the relationship of language and art has taken the form of installations, museum exhibits, civic commissions, and journals throughout Europe, the Americas, and the Far East, including five Documenta(s) and four Venice Biennale(s). His earliest drawings, the Protoinvestigations, were created when he was only 20 years old, and as part of the Conceptual art movement's first exhibits, The Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney, Centre Pompidou, The Tate Gallery, The Reina Sophia, Madrid, among other things, have a youthful representation in the majority of these major collections. Joseph Kosuth's career includes more than 170 one-person exhibits in museums and galleries around the world, twenty-two of whom were exhibitions by the time he was twenty-five years old.

The Foundation for the Arts was established in 1989 by Kosuth and Peter Pakesch as part of Vienna's The Sigmund Freud Museum. He is the President of the foundation. The foundation was founded on the 50th anniversary of Sigmund Freud's death and is a group of artists involved in the establishment of a collection of contemporary art attributed to and relevant to Sigmund Freud. The foundation's exhibition space is located in Anna Freud's former offices at the Sigmund Freud Museum in Vienna.

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