Dr. Robert Eikmeyer

Art & Cultural Studies

Room G1.403
Holzgartenstr. 36
75175 Pforzheim

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1985 – 1993
Studied graphic design and free painting at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart under Prof. Herwig Schubert and Prof. Erich Mansen; guest studies under Prof. Max Bense at the University of Stuttgart.

1993 Founds the kunstlauf group.

1993 – 1997
Guest studies in art science and media philosophy at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design under Prof. Boris Groys.

2005 Research Program Grizedale Arts, Lake District, England.

2006 Employee for Germany and Europe at Grizedale Arts.

2008 Founding of the publishing house Brigade Commerz - Audio Arts Archives.

2008 – 2009 Lecturer at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design in the Department of Art Studies and Media Philosophy;
Lecturer at the University of Tübingen, seminar “Art and Sport”.

2009 – 2011 Substitute professor at Furtwangen University in the Department of Digital Media.

2011 – 2012 Lectureship at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design, Department of Art Studies and Media Philosophy;
Lectureship at the Stuttgart Media University, Department of Electronic Media.

2012 – 2015 Lectureship in cultural and design theory at Pforzheim University in the Department of Design.

2015 Doctorate (Dr. phil.) in the Department of Art Studies and Media Philosophy at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design.

Since 2015 research assistant in the School of Design at Pforzheim University.

Robert Eikmeyer: “Der Geist ist ein Knochen”, in: Ders. (ed.): Der Geist ist ein Knochen. Zur Aktualität von Hegels Ästhetik, Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1997, pp. 8-13.

Robert Eikmeyer: “Face/Off - Im Körper des Feindes”, in: Ders. (ed.): Face/Off - Im Körper des Feindes, Revolver Archiv für aktuelle Kunst, Frankfurt/Main 2004, pp. 9-15.

Robert Eikmeyer: “Zur Edition”, in: Kunst Propaganda Dokumente (ed. Robert Eikmeyer / Christoph Keller), vol. 1: Adolf Hitler. Reden zur Kunst- und Kulturpolitik 1933-1939 (edited and annotated by Robert Eikmeyer), Revolver Archiv für aktuelle Kunst, Frankfurt/Main 2004, pp. 13-25.

Robert Eikmeyer: “Schwerenöter. Attempt at an Introduction”, in: Ders. (ed.): Jonathan Meese. Slavoj Zizek. Ernteschach dem Dämon. Zwei Gespräche über Karl Marx mit Robert Eikmeyer, JRP Ringier, Zurich 2007, pp. 1-12.

Robert Eikmeyer: “The Day After. An Interview with Slavoj Zizek”, in: Fillip- Review 02, Vancouver 2007, p. 12-13.

Robert Eikmeyer: “Jonathan Meese. Total Constitution of Art”, in: Pyramid Power 06, Vancouver 2009, p. 22-31.

Robert Eikmeyer: “War of the Worlds”, in: Catalogue Grizedale Arts. Adding Complexity to Confusion, London 2009, p. 178-180.

Robert Eikmeyer: “From Hell to Hell. An Interview with Jake & Dinos Chapman”, in: Pyramid Power 07, Vancouver 2010, p. 4-11.

Robert Eikmeyer: “Bilder stinken nicht”, in: Robert Eikmeyer (ed.): Jonathan Meese. Archfood. Erzberggeist Heideggerz erscheine, Mädchenduft Saint Just erwache, Verlag für moderne Kunst, Nuremberg 2011, pp. 94-109.

Robert Eikmeyer: “Nachwort”, in: Robert Eikmeyer (ed.): Jonathan Meese. Selected Writings on the Dictatorship of Art, Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2012, pp. 252-262.

Robert Eikmeyer: “Good Artist Bad Genocider”, in: Rudolf Herz. Zugzwang. Duchamp Hitler Hoffmann (ed. by Heinz Schütz), belleville Verlag, Munich 2013, p. 58 f.

Robert Eikmeyer: “Dogma-friss-Dogma” u. "Die Di(c)ctatur der Kunst", in: Jonathan Meese.
Malermeese-Meesermaler, exhib. cat. Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2013, p. 30 and 122.

Robert Eikmeyer: “W.AFATE to Mars. Per 3D-Druck durch die Galaxis”, in: Sprache und Literatur 115-116. 46, Jahrgang, Themenheft: 3D- Druck, Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Paderborn 2015.

“Man isst nicht nur, um satt zu werden. Olaf Nicolai in dialog with Robert Eikmeyer”, in: Robert Eikmeyer, Thomas Hensel, Birgit Meyer, Jan Of, Michael Throm (eds.): luxus!?, edition cantz, Esslingen 2018, 194-207.

Robert Eikmeyer; Doris Mampe: Jonathan Meese 1970-2023, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2018.

Robert Eikmeyer: "Bauhaus heute. An Ontology of Actuality", in: BAU [ SPIEL ] HAUS, exhib. cat. Neues Museum Nürnberg, Verlag für moderne Kunst, Vienna 2019, pp. 44-61.

1995
“The Impossible Present”, Remembering and Forgetting, Württemberg State Museum, Stuttgart.

1996
“Der bezaubernd schöne Schlag der Nachtigall”, Kant und der Humanismus, Melanchthonhaus, Bretten.

1997
“The spirit is a bone”, On the topicality of Hegel's aesthetics, Hegelhaus, Stuttgart.

2000
“Tiepolo and the cinema”, Residenz, Würzburg.

2003 - 2004
“Face/off - Mediale Körperphantasien”, Kunstverein Pforzheim; 
“Body Installation”, Stadttheater Pforzheim.

2005
Symposium “Kulturkrieg, Hitlers Reden zur Kunst”, Center for Art and Media (ZKM), Karlsruhe.

2006
“Journey to the End of the Night”, panel discussion with Elisabeth Bronfen, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart.

2007
Jonathan Meese: “Das Gruselkabinett des Dr. ERZMARX”, Museum Karl-Marx-Haus, Trier.

2008
Jonathan Meese: “Stofftier Heidegggerz”, film performance Todtnauberg; "Agrifashionista", Grizedale Arts, London.

2009
“Die Diktatur der Kunst”, panel discussion with Boris Groys and Jonathan Meese at the Kubus of the ZKM, Karlsruhe;
Jonathan Meese: "Gralsbaby D'Annunzioz", radio performance and installation at the Vittoriale Degli Italiani, Gardone.
“1949-2009 / 60 Years of Artistic Freedom”, panel discussion with Christian Jankowski and Wolfgang Hoffmann-Riem, Majolika Karlsruhe in the former Lüpertz studio.

2010 
Grizedale Arts: “Late at Tate”, Tate Britain, London.

2011
“Das kalte Herz”, Tanzpodium Pforzheim;
“Als die Wälder auf Reisen gingen”, Kunstverein Pforzheim;

2014
“Nussknacker und Mausekönig”, ballet evening Stadttheater Pforzheim.
“Luftbeben 100_14”, opera collage to mark 100 years of the First World War, Pforzheim City Theater Opera.

2016
“Kunst ≠ Design”, Jonathan Meese in conversation with Robert Eikmeyer as part of the Artefakte event series, School of Design at Pforzheim University
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“Hell is a Model”, Jake Chapman in Conversation with Robert Eikmeyer as part of the event series Artefakte, School of Design at Pforzheim University
Pforzheim.
“Shaping the world. On the Aesthetics and Epistemology of the Model”, together with Thomas Hensel, Pforzheim University/Faculty of Design.

2017
Research project “LowHighTech. E-Waste for 3DPrintAfrica”, funded by the TURN fund. Cooperation with African countries of the German Federal Cultural Foundation.
“LowHighTech - Democracy through Technology”, panel with Amelie Klein, Marcel Odenbach, Koffi Sénamé Agbodjinou as part of the Design Summit LowHighTech, Pforzheim University.
“Schnaps ist Schnaps”, Tobias Rehberger in conversation with Robert Eikmeyer as part of the Artefakte event series, School of Design, Pforzheim University.
“Tiny Houses Big Ideas”, Van Bo Le-Mentzel in conversation with Robert Eikmeyer as part of the event series Artefakte, School of Design, Pforzheim University.
Olaf Nicolai in conversation with Robert Eikmeyer, symposium “luxus! Positions between Opulence and Asceticism”, School of Design at Pforzheim University.
Research project “From Bauhaus to AppHaus. Kreative Spielräume gestern und morgen”, funded by the Bauhaus heute fund of the German Federal Cultural Foundation.

2018
“Dictatorship of Art”, talk with Bazon Brock as part of the event series Dictatorship of Truth, Denkerei Berlin.
“Uniformierte Freiheit”, Bazon Brock in conversation with Robert Eikmeyer as part of the event series Artefakte, School of Design, Pforzheim University.

2019
“Dictatorship of Religion”, conversation with Bazon Brock and Jonathan Meese as part of the event series Dictatorship of Truth, Denkerei Berlin.
“BAU [ SPIEL ] HAUS”, together with Thomas Hensel in collaboration with Liam Gillick and Olaf Nicolai, Neues Museum Nuremberg.