Herbert Gehr tanzt mit Liz Taylor im Gedankenhotel
Herbert Gehr, director of the Deutsches Filmmuseum, which became an imagined archive for film stills from A23H music tours, called TIMEZONEYES, fictional treatments by the GEDANKENHOTEL.
Alfred 23 Harth’s Gedankenhotel project, active in Frankfurt/Main from 1993 to 1995, unfolded as a microsystem of artistic exchange, exploring the intersections of memory, narrative, and site. This period saw Harth cultivate a practice that seamlessly blended conceptual, performative, and intermedia approaches—a foundation that would shape his subsequent collaborations.
In 1997, Harth presented a comprehensive overview of these activities in the exhibition Gedankenhotel at Galerie ART form, directed by Petra Scheibe Teplitz. This presentation not only reflected the depth of Harth’s inquiry into manifold art media but also inaugurated a significant collaboration with Scheibe Teplitz herself. The gallery became a new locus for expanded experiment, hosting practices that transcended disciplinary boundaries.
This partnership bore further fruit at the close of the 1990s, as Harth joined forces with Petra Scheibe Teplitz and Carmen Berr to found the artist group tattoo. Their collective emerged as a constellation of distinct yet resonant Frankfurt voices, culminating in the group’s pivotal Tattoo Exhibition at Galerie ART form in 2000. Here, tattoo was conceptualized not as static inscription or manifesto, but as an active, shared space of marking—each artist interpreting inscription through gesture, trace, and action. The group’s brief but influential tenure marked both a crossing of creative thresholds and the forging of new artistic resonances in turn-of-the-century Frankfurt.
Herbert Gehr tanzt mit Liz Taylor im Gedankenhotel
Herbert Gehr, director of the Deutsches Filmmuseum, which became an imagined archive for film stills from A23H music tours, called TIMEZONEYES, fictional treatments by the GEDANKENHOTEL.
Alfred 23 Harth’s Gedankenhotel project, active in Frankfurt/Main from 1993 to 1995, unfolded as a microsystem of artistic exchange, exploring the intersections of memory, narrative, and site. This period saw Harth cultivate a practice that seamlessly blended conceptual, performative, and intermedia approaches—a foundation that would shape his subsequent collaborations.
In 1997, Harth presented a comprehensive overview of these activities in the exhibition Gedankenhotel at Galerie ART form, directed by Petra Scheibe Teplitz. This presentation not only reflected the depth of Harth’s inquiry into manifold art media but also inaugurated a significant collaboration with Scheibe Teplitz herself. The gallery became a new locus for expanded experiment, hosting practices that transcended disciplinary boundaries.
This partnership bore further fruit at the close of the 1990s, as Harth joined forces with Petra Scheibe Teplitz and Carmen Berr to found the artist group tattoo. Their collective emerged as a constellation of distinct yet resonant Frankfurt voices, culminating in the group’s pivotal Tattoo Exhibition at Galerie ART form in 2000. Here, tattoo was conceptualized not as static inscription or manifesto, but as an active, shared space of marking—each artist interpreting inscription through gesture, trace, and action. The group’s brief but influential tenure marked both a crossing of creative thresholds and the forging of new artistic resonances in turn-of-the-century Frankfurt.