One of the questions that arose during the preparation of the ZERO exhibitions was: why were there so few female artists and why were the not included in the New York, Berlin or Amsterdam shows? There were indeed many women among the ZERO artists, their names were mentioned on invitations and posters. But the amount of information found was, a few years ago, insufficient to include them in the canon of the ZERO history. And yet they are artists who were building a strong and interesting oeuvre. The upcoming exhibition VIBRATION will include also some of those artists, as they were in the early sixties important participants of the international ZERO network.

In the aftermath of the Second World War, a group of young German artists took it upon themselves to leave the past behind and create a new artistic beginning for Europe. Beginning with Heinz Mack and Otto Piene, working from a shared studio in Gladbacher Strasse, Düsseldorf, they took the name Zero in 1958. Although Zero disbanded in 1966, in a short time they and their network beyond Germany created an international avant-garde movement that remains a unique influence and inspiration in contemporary art.

​After the recent exhibitions in New York, Amsterdam and Berlin, there was a great interest by art-historians and curators for the international network and the various artists' groups. One of the questions that arose during the preparation of the ZERO exhibitions was: why were there so few female artists? There were indeed, but most of them disappeared and the information found was, a few years ago, insufficient to include them in the canon of the ZERO history. 

60 Years after the opening of the VIBRATION exhibition organised by Heinz Mack and Otto Piene in their studio, the exhibition at Galerie Till Breckner will include the German Hal Busse, Marianne Aue and Rotraut Uecker, the Turkish Gencay Kasapci, Nanda Vigo and Dadamaino from Italy, more or less forgotten (female) artists. But also the German ZERO artists Oskar Holweck and Hans Salentin, AND Brasilien artist Almir Mavignier, the Belgium Paul van Hoeydonck, who never joined the ZERO group - because of a different vision - but who were also important participant to the early ZERO network. 

The exhibition will open on October 18th in connection with the international symposium at the Akademie and the opening of the ZERO house. ​
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