KOLLEKTIV HERZOGSTRASSETREFFEN IN LUND3 - 5 SEPTEMBER 1976

Poets, writers, philosophers, psychologists, and many others regularly visit this small cultural center and share their experiences.

For its fifth anniversary, Galerie S:t Petri invites everyone interested to take part in the actions offered by the artist group Kollektiv Herzogstrasse from Munich.
Some members of the collective previously belonged to the well-known Gruppe Spur, which was active in Germany in the early and mid-1960s.
That group arose largely as a reaction to alienation between people and to the suppression of the individual in a society that developed during the 1960s.
In a certain sense, Kollektiv Herzogstrasse may be said to carry forward the ideas of Gruppe Spur.
However, the eleven Germans who form the collective today approach things from the perspective of the problems of the 1970s.

The members of the group are:
Hans Bachmayer, Renate Bachmayer, Jutta von Busse, Heiko Herrmann, Thomas Niggle, Heimrad Prem, Armin Saub, Dieter Strauch, Ursula Strauch, Helmut Sturm, Heini Weld.

According to Kollektiv Herzogstrasse, the great lack of imagination among people must be fought above all.
They believe that a lack of imagination leads to brutality.
Neither mass parties nor groups that rely on the quantity of their members can count on success in the future.
The latter statement comes from the Situationist theorist Vaneigem.
Quantitative, technocratic divisions of the world are evil, they say.
Art must encourage imagination, creativity, and spontaneity.
In this way, opportunities are created for individual freedom, even within the group.
Art must not, according to the collective, become formalist or indulge in serving power.
The collective tries to balance in its art an analytical and emotional, spontaneous approach.

Galerie S:t Petri’s expanded activities with its publishing house and archive will continue to serve as a didactic forum for experimental and marginal art, without any political, religious, or economic implications.

A commemorative volume by Carsten Regild, creator of the cultural magazine Vargen, has been published in connection with the fifth anniversary in support of the gallery.

The exhibition with Kollektiv Herzogstrasse runs from 3–15 September 1976.
Open weekdays 3 p.m.–8 p.m., Saturdays and Sundays 12 p.m.–5 p.m.