Early work

Since 1964 he works in the field of mixed media works with film, photos, music, sculptures and environments.
In 1970 he created the mediacontact agency in Düsseldorf in collaboration with Jochen Gerz and Terry Fox

Terry Fox

Terrance Stanley "Terry" Fox , was a Canadian humanitarian, athlete, and cancer research activist. In 1980, with one leg having been amputated, he embarked on a cross-Canada run to raise money and awareness for cancer research...

. Quits 1975 the traditional art scene.
Dietmar was co-worker for several editions of Ausgabe by Edition Hundertmark, Cologne

NO!art

NO!Art

NO!art is a radical avant-garde anti-art movement started in New York in 1959. Its founders sought to deliver a shock to the complacent consumerist society around them....

 Movement

He had the first meeting with Boris Lurie

Boris Lurie

Boris Lurie was an American artist and writer. He co-founded the NO!Art movement which calls for art leading to social action...

 in 1978 for pushing NO!art movement, founded by Boris Lurie

Boris Lurie

Boris Lurie was an American artist and writer. He co-founded the NO!Art movement which calls for art leading to social action...

 (deceased), Stanley Fisher (deceased), and Sam Goodman (deceased) at March gallery New York in 1960, to stronger development.

He was responsible for the first verification of NO!art anthology (1978-1988) and the NO!art Box at Edition Hundertmark, Cologne.

Since 1999 Dietmar Kirves beside Clayton Patterson

Clayton Patterson

Clayton Patterson is a Canadian-born artist, photographer, videographer, and folk historian. Since moving to New York City in 1979, his work has focused almost exclusively on documenting the art, life and times of the Lower East Side in Manhattan.-Early life:Before moving to New York City in...

 (FRONT WEST) is leader of the NO!art, leading headquarter (FRONT EAST).

He works at the world wide web with continuation the NO!art movement and organized several NO!art shows, exhibtions and editions for the NO!art.

He worked together with the founders and most of the members of the NO!art, members are Rocco Armento, Isser Aronovici (†), Enrico Baj

Enrico Baj

Enrico Baj was an Italian artist and writer on art. Many of his works show an obsession with nuclear war. He created prints, sculptures but especially collage. He was close to the surrealist and dada movements, and was later associatied with CoBrA. As an author he has been described as a leading...

 (†), Paolo Baratella, Herb Brown, Ronaldo Brunet, Guenter Brus, Al D'Arcangelo (†), Aleksey Dayen(†), Frank-Kirk Ehm-Marks, Erro (Ferro), Klaus Fabricius, Charles Gatewood, Paul Georges (†), Jochen Gerz, Dorothie Gillespie, Esther Morgenstern Gilman (†), Amikam Goldman, Leon Golub

Leon Golub

Leon Golub was an American painter. He was born in Chicago, Illinois, where he also studied, receiving his BA at the University of Chicago in 1942, his BFA and MFA at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1949 and 1950, respectively.He was married to and collaborated with the artist Nancy Spero...

 (t), Blalla W. Hallmann (t), Harry Hass, Allan Kaprow

Allan Kaprow

Allan Kaprow was an American painter, assemblagist and a pioneer in establishing the concepts of performance art. He helped to develop the "Environment" and "Happening" in the late 1950s and 1960s, as well as their theory. His Happenings - some 200 of them - evolved over the years...

 (†), Kommissar Hjuler

Kommissar Hjuler

Kommissar Hjuler works as a sound recordist in the field of Noise and Post-industrial music, visual artist and film maker at Flensburg, a town on the German border with Denmark. He often works together with his wife Mama Baer as Kommissar Hjuler und Frau. As self-taught artist he began making...

 (Detlev Hjuler) and Mama Baer

Mama Baer

Mama Baer works as a sound recordist in the field of Noise and Post-industrial music, visual artist and film maker at Flensburg, a town on the German border with Denmark. She often works together with her husband Kommissar Hjuler as Kommissar Hjuler und Frau...

 (Andrea Katharina Ingeborg Hjuler), Yayoi Kusama

Yayoi Kusama

is a Japanese artist whose paintings, collages, soft sculptures, performance art and environmental installations all share an obsession with repetition, pattern, and accumulation...

, Konstantin K. Kuzminsky, Jean-Jacques Lebel

Jean-Jacques Lebel

Jean-Jacques Lebel is a French artist, poet, poetry publisher, political activist and scholar born in Paris in 1936. He is known primarily for his work with Happenings, and as an art theory writer and art curator. He is the son of Robert Lebel, art critic and friend of Marcel Duchamp.-Life and...

, Suzanne Long (Harriet Wood), LST, Enzo Mastrangelo, Stu Mead

Stu Mead

Stu Mead is an American painter living in Germany. He is primarily-known for girl art incorporating strong elements of sexual fantasy and taboo themes, including adolescent sexuality and bestiality...

, Peter Meseck, Lil Picard (†), Leonid Pinchevsky, Bernard Rancillac, Francis Salles, Naomi Tereza Salmon, Reinhard Scheibner, Bruno Schleinstein (†), Dominik Stahlberg, Michelle Stuart

Michelle Stuart

Michelle Stuart through her art has created complex, multifaceted investigations of the relationship between nature and culture for over four decades,. Her artworks range in scale from monumental earthworks to intimate talismanic sculptures...

, Aldo Tambellini, Seth Tobocman

Seth Tobocman

Seth Tobocman is a radical comic book artist who has been living in Manhattan's Lower East Side since 1978. Tobocman is best known for his creation of the political comic book World War 3 Illustrated, which he started in 1979 with fellow artist Peter Kuper...

, Jean Toche, Toyo Tsuchiya

Toyo Tsuchiya

Toyo Tsuchiya is a Japanese born artist and photographer and one of the early artists involved in the Rivington School art movement of the East Village art scene of New York City of the 1980s.Toyo Tsuchiya moved from Japan to New York in 1980...

, Wolf Vostell

Wolf Vostell

Wolf Vostell was a German painter, sculptor, noise music maker and Happening artist of the second half of the 20th century. Wolf Vostell is considered one of the pioneers of video art, environment-sculptures, Happenings and the Fluxus Movement...

(†), Friedrich Wall, Mathilda Wolf, Natalia E. Woytasik, Miron Zownir.

External links

• NO!art Movement http://www.no-art.info/
• NO!art in Buchenwald http://retro.no-art.info/2003/luriebuch/info-de.html
• Gallery and Edition Hundertmark http://www.hundertmark-gallery.com/