Marcel Werner
?–1986
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Marcel Werner was a German performance artist whose practice centered on durational and participatory encounters using his own body as material. Active in the 1970s and early 1980s, he worked during a pivotal shift in European performance art toward live, ephemeral engagement with gallery audiences rather than documentation-based practice. His work emerged at a critical moment when performance moved from object-oriented strategies toward direct corporeal exchange.
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