About The Artist

According to the legend, an arcane clan of ducks, the ”interDucks“ left their unique collection of artworks behind on Earth when they escaped the planet in 1944. These works now make up the DUCKOMENTA exhibition. A group of German artists have devoted themselves to research into what happened to the clan, striving to find out where they might now be located in outer space in order to solve the mystery. The project began in the 1980s, initiated by Prof. Eckhart Bauer as an endeavor undertaken by his students at the Academy of the Arts in Braunschweig/Germany. Students and alumni then continued to pursue these ideas. Today, those responsible for “interDuck“ are still largely, the same artists: Prof. Eckhart Bauer, Anke Doepner, Prof. Volker Schönwart, Rüdiger Stanko and Ommo Wille. This concept revolving around a fictive clan of figures and their mysterious collection of art is intended as a means of making art history, even history at large more accessible to audiences, helping visitors to the show start to research themselves, regardless of their cultural background. 45 DUCKOMENTA-exhibitions in five countries (Germany, Austria, France, Holland and Sweden) have been put since 1986 – and it is high time that the rest of the world is learning about this antide view on our cultural heritage! www.duckomenta-shop.com