Kommissar Hjuler

Kommissar Hjuler (born 1967 in Detlev Hjuler) works as a sound recordist in the field of Noise and Post-industrial music, visual artist, film maker and police officer at Flensburg, a town on the German border with Denmark. He often works together with his wife Mama Baer as Kommissar Hjuler und Frau. As self-taught artist he began making music in 1999 and visual art in 2006. He is considered to work in the field of neo dada, whereas his output also contains elements of fluxus, art brut.

Music releases are available at independent labels like Intransitive Recordings, and Nihilist Records.

Kommissar Hjuler und Frau performed at several festivals like Colour out of Space Festival, Brighton, Zappanale, Incubate (festival) and at artists' venues like Morden Tower, Café Oto or Mary Bauermeister's performance space.

His visual art has been exhibited in solo and groups shows at locations like the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Museum Huelsmann, Bielefeld, Museum Brasileiro da Escultura, São Paulo and at several galleries. Selected art works are part of collections like Artpool Art Research Center, Avant Writing Collection by the Ohio State University, Fondazione Bonotto, the VAC Archive Northwich, the Jan van Eyck Academie, the Wolf Vostell Estate, and the ZKM Karlsruhe.

Short films by Kommissar Hjuler have been presented at European festivals like 12. Internationales Kurzfilmfestival Muenchen 2010,Vienna Independent Shorts 2011,Leeds International Film Festival 2011, and at Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.

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