{{Short description|German video artist}} {{Infobox artist | name = Marcel Odenbach | image = | imagesize = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1953}} | birth_place = Cologne, West Germany | death_date = | death_place = | field = Video art, Sculpture, Photography | movement = | works = | patrons = | influenced by = | influenced = | awards = }} '''Marcel Odenbach''' is a German video artist. In the 1970s, with Ulrike Rosenbach and Klaus vom Bruch, he formed the producer group ATV. Odenbach's works criticize the conditions of German society.<ref>Kölnischer Kunstverein.'' Fünf in Köln: Michael Buthe, Sigmar Polke, Ulrike Rosenbach, Gerhard Rühm, Alf Schuler'' : [Ausstellung] Kölnischer Kunstverein, 24.1.-18.2.1979. Köln: Der Kunstverein, 1979.</ref>

==Life and work== Odenbach was born in 1953 in Cologne, Germany, where he studied architecture, art history and semiotics between 1974–79. In the late 1970s, he started using video work, tapes, installations, performances and drawings to probe the cultural identity of his native Germany. His ambivalence to cultural history shows in works such as "Make a Fist in the Pocket", a German expression for hiding one's rage.{{clarify|the mere title of the work does not show any ambivalence to cultural history. the text obviously needs explaining|date=December 2018}}

Odenbach was a professor of media art at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design between 1992–98. He now lives and works in Cologne and is the professor for film and video art at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf since 2010.<ref>Odenbach, Marcel, and Dan Cameron. ''Marcel Odenbach''. New York: New Museum of Contemporary Art, 1998.</ref>

==Works== * 1976-77: The Eternally Creative Hands or For All Art Historians (video, 4 minutes) * 1977-78: To Stay in a Good Mood (video, 13 minutes) * 1983: Die Distanz zwischen mir und meinen Verlusten * 1984: I Do the Pain Test * 1986: As If Memories Could Deceive Me * 1986: In the Peripheral Vision of the Witness * 1987: (Srecan Susret) Die gluckliche Begegnung (translation: The Happy Encounter, video, 6 minutes) * 1994: Make a Fist in the Pocket * 1994: Videoarbeit für einen Winterabend" (Videotape as contribution to "Der Klotz" portfolio of various artist) * 1995: Vom Kommen und vom Gehen (Coming and Going) <ref>Imai – inter media art institute video '' Vom Kommen und Gehen'' http://www.imaionline-katalog.de/servlet/fc?oid=11647&script=f&col=1616&p=1&srid=0&c=3&r=1000&f=180&mf=1&lng=de&order=name&JServSessionIdroot=zsf3ogtnq1&lb=0&wacc_cmd=imageprocessing.1&c=1&imp_type=3</ref> * 1995: Standing is not falling down * 1997-98: The Consumation of My Own Critique (video, DVD player, monitor, chair)

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