{{Short description|German cultural manager and university professor}} {{Multiple issues| {{Promotional|date=October 2024}} {{Resume-like|date=October 2024}} {{COI|date=October 2024}} {{BLP sources|date=October 2024}} {{BLP primary sources|date=October 2024}} }} thumb|Martin Rendel at the TEDx Conference in Chiang Mai, Thailand '''Martin Rendel''' (born 1968 in Limburg an der Lahn) is a German cultural manager and university professor. Innovation through intercultural and interdisciplinary cooperation is the main focus of his work.
== Biography == Rendel studied industrial design at the Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences (h_da), Germany, and communication design at ArtCenter College of Design in La Tour-de-Peilz, Switzerland. During his studies he worked in the design studios of Aldo Cibic (Milan), Matteo Thun (Milan) and Dieter Sieger (Harkotten Castle, Sassenberg). His final work, a water-closet, attracted a great deal of media interest after AP photographer Karsten Thielker became aware of the project during a private stay in Darmstadt in 1992 and had the photos distributed via Associated Press. ''Sueddeutsche Zeitung'' celebrated the work as a "cultural revolution".<ref>published 6 February 1993</ref> The object has been part of the permanent collection at the Museum of Toilet History in Kiev (Ukraine) since 2021 under the name "Latrina Obliqua". In February 2024, Rendel told the story of Latrina Obliqua for the first time in public at the TEDxChiangMai conference under the title "The Incredible Story of My Mother's Cleaning Bucket".<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONtecerFVLI |title=The Incredible Story of My Mother's Cleaning Bucket {{!}} Martin Rendel {{!}} TEDxChiangMai |language=en |access-date=2024-04-06 |via=www.youtube.com}}</ref> thumb|Testing the "K26 Film Award" with Ai Weiwei, 2015 thumb|"Beyond Bauhaus" lecture at the Beijing Institute of Technology Zhuhai 2019 thumb|Opening of "Invisible Things" at TCDC Museum Bangkok with the German Ambassador to Thailand Georg Schmidt, 2019
In 2015 Rendel and the Chinese artist Li Xue founded the art association K29 in Düsseldorf, which advocated freedom of expression in art. Personal differences in the founding phase led to the refounding under the name K26. One of K26's first major projects in the same year was the performance of the Beijing Independent Film Festival (BIFF) during Filmfest Hamburg, which director Albert Wiederspiel made possible as a festival within the festival.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.spiegel.de/kultur/kino/verbotene-filme-aus-china-beim-filmfest-hamburg-a-1055316.html|title="Forbidden images"|last1=Piehler|first1=Moritz|newspaper=Der Spiegel|date=30 September 2015 |access-date=30 September 2015}}</ref> The project found renowned supporters such as Alexander Kluge, Michael Kahn-Ackermann and Ai Wei Wei. However, it created diplomatic tensions between Germany and China. The Chinese festival director Li Xianting and his team had to be uninvited and the cooperation ended with immediate effect. The festival nevertheless took place and the winners of the "K26 Film Award" received their prizes at the opening ceremony in Hamburg.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.filmfesthamburg.de/de/gallerie/2015/10-02/O46_26985/2015_10_02_This_Worldly_Life_amp_K26_Award_br?refer=%2Fde%2Fgallerie%2F2015%2F10-02%2F|title=This Worldly Life & K26 Award|last=Kunze|first=Martin|date=2 October 2015|website=Fimfest Hamburg|url-status=dead}}</ref> Since then the activities of K26 focus on the field of photography.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://festival2018.photoszene.de/martin-rendel-en/|title=Portfolio Review|last1=Häusler|first1=Heide|publisher=International Photoscene Cologne|access-date=21 September 2018}}</ref><ref>Ziehn, Sascha (5 January 2016). Radio interview with Martin Rendel. WDR 3 Resonanzen.</ref>
In addition to Zhuhai, Rendel has also been a visiting professor at King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.arch.kmitl.ac.th/%E0%B8%A8%E0%B8%B9%E0%B8%99%E0%B8%A2%E0%B9%8C-rcdc-%E0%B8%A3%E0%B9%88%E0%B8%A7%E0%B8%A1%E0%B8%81%E0%B8%B1%E0%B8%9A-martin-rendel-cultural-management-mrcm-%E0%B8%9B%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%B0%E0%B9%80/|title=Beyond Bauhaus: Myth & Misconception|last=Adminarch|date=7 October 2019|website=King Mongkut's Institute of Technology|url-status=dead}}</ref> in Bangkok since 2019.
== Exhibitions & festivals (selection) == * 2019 "Invisible Things" TCDC Museum, Bangkok, curated with Philip Cornwel-Smith and Piboon Amornjiraporn<ref>{{cite news |last1=Mahavongtrakul |first1=Melanin |title=The sacred and the mundane |url=https://www.bangkokpost.com/life/social-and-lifestyle/1713884/the-sacred-and-the-mundane |issue=Life & Entertainment |publisher=Bangkok Post |date=17 July 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.goethe.de/ins/th/de/ver.cfm?fuseaction=events.detail&event_id=21391803&|title=Invisible Things are coming to Bangkok|date=3 June 2019|website=Goethe-Institut Thailand}}</ref> * 2018 "Invisible Things", TCDC Museum, Chiang Mai, curated with Philip Cornwel-Smith and Piboon Amornjiraporn<ref>{{cite news |title=Invisible Things at TCDC |url=https://www.chiangmaicitylife.com/citynow/social-life/live-events/opening-invisible-things-exhibition-tcdc/ |issue=Social life |publisher=City Life Magazine |date=24 November 2018}}</ref> * 2018 "The Second Image of Silk Road", Tianshui Photography Biennale, guest curator<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.photoint.net/detail_news_117319.html|title="The 2nd Image of Silk Road - Tianshui Photography Biennial "|last=Su|first=Yuezhuo|date=21 June 2018|website=Photoint}}</ref><ref>Tianshui International Photography Biennale, 2018
</ref> * 2016 "Parabiosis", Changjiang Museum of Contemporary Art, Chongqing, guest curator<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.changjiangart.com/article/detail/21?lang=en|title=Parabiosis International Contemporary Art Exhibition|date=22 October 2016|website=Changjiang Art Museum|access-date=22 November 2019|archive-date=19 May 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220519093714/http://www.changjiangart.com/article/detail/21?lang=en|url-status=dead}}</ref> *2015 "Chinese Independent Cinema", EthnoFilmFest Munich, curated with Stefan Eisenhofer<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ethnologie.uni-muenchen.de/aktuelles/archiv/20150820_news_veranstalt__2015/2015-11-19_ethnofilmfest/index.html|title=Munich EthnoFilmFest 2015|last=Kron|date=20 November 2015|website=Institut für Ethnologie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München|first=Christine|last2=Eisenhofer|first2=Stefan}}</ref> * 2015 "Beijing Independent Film Festival", Filmfest Hamburg, curated with Jens Geiger * 2015 "Jiang Jian", Gallery Julian Sander, curated with Julian Sander and Catherine Cheng<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://galeriejuliansander.de/exhibition/jiang-jian-archives-on-orphans/|title=Jiang Jian - Archives on Orphans|date=22 August 2015|website=Julian Sander Gallery}}</ref> *2014 "August Sander & Jiang Jian", Photo Shanghai, curated with Julian Sander and Catherine Cheng<ref> Photo Shanghai 2014</ref> * 2014 "Purple.Blue.", A tribute to Kong Qian No. 6 Zone Museum of Art, Tianjin, curated with Catherine Cheng * 2014 "Jiang Jian – Archives" PhotoBookMuseum, Cologne, curated with Markus Schaden and Catherine Cheng * 2014 "Invisible Things" Museum am Rothenbaum - Cultures and Arts of the World, Hamburg, curated with Wu Xuefu and René Spitz<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://kulturgut.blogger.de/stories/2399687/|title="The Invisible Things are coming to Hamburg"|last=Thiedig|first=Stefanie|date=5 May 2014|website=Kulturgut}}</ref> * 2013 "Invisible Things", Today Art Museum, Beijing, curated with Wu Xuefu and René Spitz<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://german.china.org.cn/culture/txt/2013-07/05/content_29337955_2.htm|title="Invisible Things": Getting to know China and Germany|last=Wang|first=Ran|website=German.China.org}}</ref><ref> "Invisible Things" exhibition poster at Today Art Museum, 2013</ref> * 2011 "Reihenhausmannskost", MAKK - Museum of Applied Arts Cologne, curated with René Spitz<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://makk.de/Reihenhausmannskost|title=Reihenhausmannskost|date=16 September 2011|website=MAKK - Museum of Applied Arts Cologne}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://vimeo.com/373404085|title=Reihenhausmannskost|date=2012|website=Vimeo}}</ref> * 2010 "Neighbourhood", Neues Museum, Nuremberg, curated with René Spitz<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://vimeo.com/49595702|title=Neighbourhood|date=2012|website=Vimeo}}</ref> * 2008 "In German Terraced Houses", MAKK - Museum of Applied Arts Cologne, curated with René Spitz<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://vimeo.com/49762728|title=In German terraced houses|date=2012|website=Vimeo}}</ref> * 2007 "Cabinet Pieces", Excelsior Hotel Ernst, Cologne, during RheinDesign Festival, curated with René Spitz * 2006 "Dear Diary", Eigelstein 115, Cologne, curated with René Spitz * 2004 "Not identified", Eigelstein 115, Cologne, curated with René Spitz<ref>{{cite web |last1=Schlei |first1=Barbara |title="Design bestimmt das Sein" |url=https://www.koelnarchitektur.de/pages/de/home/news_archiv/1085.htm |website=koelnarchitektur.de |date=29 January 2004 |access-date=29 January 2004}}</ref> * 2003 "Blossoming Gap", Eigelstein 115, Cologne, curated with René Spitz * 2002 "Expanding the Gap", Eigelstein 115, Cologne, curated with René Spitz * 2001 "Daring the Gap", Eigelstein 115, Cologne, curated with René Spitz
== Publications (selection) == Published with K26 Sino-German Art Association by Kettler:
* 2016 "Archives on Orphans", photographs by Jiang Jian, {{ISBN|978-3-86206-500-4}} * 2015 "Negatives",<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/fotoband-negatives-zeigt-demonstrationen-von-tiananmen-14214124.html|title=Black sky over Tiananmen|last=Siemons|first=Mark|date=13 May 2016|work=Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung}}</ref> photographs by Xu Yong, {{ISBN|978-3-86206-529-5}}
Edited with Daniel Arnold and René Spitz at Callwey, Munich:
* 2013 "Wir bauen Deutschland – We are building Germany", {{ISBN|978-3868591811}} * 2011 "Reihenhausmannskost – Home cooking in terraced houses", {{ISBN|978-3766718938}} * 2010 "Ein Schloss in der Stadt – A castle in the city", {{ISBN|978-3766718730}} * 2009 "Nachbarschaft – Neighbourhood", {{ISBN|978-3766718174}} * 2008 "In deutschen Reihenhäusern – In German terraced houses",<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ndr.de/kultur/buch/tipps/In-deutschen-Reihenhaeusern,nbinreihenhaeusern101.html|title=In German terraced houses|last=Lahmann-Lammert|first=Silke|date=26 June 2011|website=NDR}}</ref> {{ISBN|978-3766717900}}
Edited with René Spitz at Axel Menges, Stuttgart / London:
* 2006 "Dear Diary", {{ISBN|3-936681-09-0}} * 2005 "Unfilled gap", {{ISBN|3-932565-51-7}} * 2004 "Not identified", {{ISBN|3-932565-40-1}} * 2003 "Blossoming gap", {{ISBN|3-932565-22-3}} * 2002 "Expanding the gap", {{ISBN|3-932565-28-2}} * 2001 "Daring the gap", {{ISBN|3-932565-22-3}}
== References == <references />
== External links == * [https://d-nb.info/gnd/129102911 Martin Rendel in the Catalogue of the German National Library] * [https://rendel.com Official Website of Martin Rendel]
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