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Christian Hasucha (* 1955 in Berlin-Neukölln ) is a German street artist and installation artist , who gained notoriety especially through his public interventions . This is a series of installations presented in public space since 1981.

Hasucha studied Fine Arts at the HdK Berlin (now UdK Berlin) from 1975 to 1981, immediately thereafter had a DAAD scholarship in London and continued to study there at the Chelsea School of Art . Except for the years 1988 to 1996, which he spent in Cologne and a one-year working trip through outskirts of Europe in the workshop car, he lives and works in Berlin.

His works have been shown in numerous places since 1978, and public interventions were mostly supported by the municipalities or art associations. Since 1984 he has been teaching at the HdK Berlin, the Chelsea School of Art (London), the Kunstakademie Trondheim , the University of Greifswald, the Kunstuniversität Linz and the University of Cologne . From 2001 to 2003 Hasucha also had visiting professorships for "Aesthetics in Theory and Practice" at the University of Kassel , Department of Architecture, and for "Art in Public Space and New Artistic Strategies" at the Bauhaus University in Weimar, Department of Design.


Hasucha has been initiating so-called Public Interventions throughout Europe since 1981. He often installs irritating and contradictory objects he calls implants in public space. These implants range from very small objects to replicas of rooms and passageways. The first intervention took place in 1981 in Budapest , where Hasucha presented the wings of a rocket in public places. In London , during the second intervention, he changed puddles on damaged roads and gave them the shape of reptiles. The fourth Intervention Radio from 1984, sponsored by the Internationale Bauausstellung Berlin, consisted of a concrete radio in a Kreuzberg backyard, which played a short loop of detective film music for four weeks. The seventh intervention NOW was presented in Cologne and Frankfurt am Main in 1989 and 1990, with an actor sitting in an exposed spot next to a light box for three weeks in the evening, occasionally turning on the lettering NOW in the evening sky.

The 16th Intervention, called P, consisted of 50 steel platforms, which were attached only a few inches above ground level on public poles in Heilbronn , Graz and Cologne 1993/94 and could be used arbitrarily by volunteers. At the 18th intervention Hasucha finds in Langenhagen in a snack bar a bar table as an intersection between public and private space and marks this height at 5,000 posts of lanterns, electricity pylons and traffic signs throughout the city. Because of violent citizen protests against this type of art, the City Council is cutting the budget of the series site for the coming year. In the 34th Pulheimer Rochade intervention in 1999/2000 an area of ??about 25 m² was exchanged at the secondary school in Pulheim for a few weeks for an equal area in front of the Brauweiler abbey with its road surfaces, bike racks and fence five kilometers away. At the 35th Intervention Günter's window Hasucha built in 2000 in Mülheim an der Ruhr the window niche of the one-room apartment of his Berlin neighbor, who then looked there for two weeks daily from his window. The 37th Intervention Transfer spent sticky notes from Berlin's street masts on pipe sections of the same thickness, which Hasucha in turn attached to street pylons in Aschaffenburg.

At his 48th intervention Münster-Coerde turn he turned the Hamann Square in Münster-Coerde for half a year by 180 °. His 49th intervention Eschbachzeit was part of the Regional 2006 in North Rhine-Westphalia; Hasucha had the houseplants of a Berlin apartment rented on a raft appropriate to the floor plan in their original position in the room on a lake.

The series of interventions continues to the present day. In 2007, the 52nd Intervention Kurz vor Heinde was part of LandArbeit 07 and supported by the German Federal Cultural Foundation , the state of Lower Saxony, the city of Hildesheim, the Friedrich Ebert Foundation and the University of Hildesheim . This was an artificial hill near Heinde , which was due to incorporated roller bearings by bike seemingly endless to climb. During the 53rd project The journey in 2008, a five-meter-long beam-shaped structure was transported in small batches across Eisenhardt Castle near Bad Belzig for a period of six weeks. In addition to other projects, in 2008 there was also the 55th project +28.33 , in which the temporary reconstruction of a gallery in Berlin-Moabit resulted in the construction of 28.33 square meters of additional public space, as well as the maintenant installation for the Horizons Sancy project series in 2008 , in which a 50-meter-long word of letter pontoons swam for three months on a lake in the Auvergne at Murat le Quaire. As part of the renaturation of the Seseke in 2010, the project was About water going , in which Hasucha installed the stone sculpture NOW and the river .

In 2012, Hasuchas design won the Sparda Art Award NRW . The planned ensemble, where a small apple tree is to grow into the sweeping outline template of its own late form, was installed in the summer of 2013 on the central station forecourt Paderborn. In 2014 it was part of the urban art project Tatort Paderborn curated by Florian Matzner. In the same year Hasucha went with his workshop car on a six-month working trip, which led him to the High Caucasus in Georgia. In the fall of 2014, immediately after his return, he had a re-acclimatization room implanted in the Berlin-Neukölln gallery bauchhund salonlabor, which then consisted essentially of a murdered copy of his office and some of his office equipment and furniture. His "real" office was about a kilometer away. In the semi-public of the gallery operation Hasucha made so a stopover and worked here for five weeks at the documentation of his travel interventions, before he moved back into the seclusion of his studio.