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Wolfgang Bathke
?–2022
WA-00021209
Performance ArtPerformance Art
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About
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Wolfgang Bathke was a German performance artist whose practice emerged from experimental theater and body-art movements of postwar Europe. Working with his own body as material, he created durational and gestural interventions that interrogated physical presence and temporal experience. His performances combined ritual, repetition, and pedestrian movement to challenge boundaries between art and everyday action.
Source: Wikidata · Trust score: 40% · Updated 2mo ago
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