Kommissar Hjuler (born Detlev Hjuler; 1967) works as a sound recordist in the field of

Noise Noise is unwanted sound considered unpleasant, loud or disruptive to hearing. From a physics standpoint, there is no distinction between noise and desired sound, as both are vibrations through a medium, such as air or water. The difference aris ...

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 Mama Baer (born Andrea Katharina Ingeborg Göthling; 29 October 1981) is a German sound recordist of noise music and post-industrial music. She is a filmmaker and visual artist at Flensburg. She has had solo and group art exhibitions around the w ...

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 Neo-Dada was a movement with audio art, audio, visual art, visual and literary manifestations that had similarities in method or intent with earlier Dada artwork. It sought to close the gap between art and daily life, and was a combination of pla ...

, whereas his output also contains elements of

fluxus Fluxus was an international, interdisciplinary community of artists, composers, designers and poets during the 1960s and 1970s who engaged in experimental art performances which emphasized the artistic process over the finished product. Fluxus ...

, art brut.

Work

Music releases are available at independent labels like

Intransitive Recordings Intransitive Recordings was an independent record label for experimental music, founded by the artist Howard Stelzer. Intransitive published electro-acoustic music, free improvisation, sound art, sound poetry, and noise music between its start in ...

, and

Nihilist Records Nihilist Recordings is a record label that releases noise music albums, and is similar to labels like Load Records and Hanson Records, though it tends to release bands that are more controversial or offensive in a sensational manner. Nihilist mana ...

. Kommissar Hjuler und Frau performed at several festivals like Colour out of Space Festival at Brighton, Zappanale, UND #6/ART Karlsruhe, Festival Bruit de la Neige at Annecy, Avantgarde Festival Schiphorst, Blurred Edges Hamburg, Incubate Festival Tilburg, Rapid Ear Movement Festival by Projektgruppe Neue Musik e. V. Bremen, Brise°3 festival Flensburg, and at artists' venues like Morden Tower, Cafe Oto,

Z33 Kunstencentrum Z33 is an art institution in Hasselt that connects art, design and architecture with social themes. Z33 presents itself as an art centre and not as a museum. In fact, the house initiates, produces and displays temporary exhibitions, without a perm ...

MS Stubnitz The Motorschiff Stubnitz e.V., a registered non-profit organization, non-profit association, is the operator of an former freeze & transport vessel of the East Germany, German Democratic Republic high seas fishing fleet based in Rostock. Since 1 ...

Weserburg The Weserburg is a modern art museum in Bremen, Germany. Opened in 1991, it is located on the Teerhof The Teerhof is a peninsula between the River Weser and the Kleine Weser, opposite the city centre of Bremen, Germany. It was first mentioned ...

, iLLUSEUM Amsterdam, Gängeviertel Hamburg, Upper Church Gallery Edinburgh, Centre For Contemporary Art Warsaw/Ujazdów Castle, Museum of Modern Fine Art on Dmitrovskaya (Rostov on Don),

KM Music Conservatory KM Music Conservatory (KMMC) is a higher education institution founded in 2008 by the A. R. Rahman foundation. Located in Arumbakkam, Chennai, in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, the conservatory offers a range of part-time and full-time co ...

, Boekie Woekie Amsterdam, Lokaal01 Breda, Grambacht Mechelen,

Extrapool Extrapool is a Nijmegen based non-profit foundation and an artist-run initiativehttp://www.bataforum.nl/alternatievestadsgids?sobi2Task=sobi2Details&sobi2Id=9 focused on experimental music, movies, avant-garde art and underground art. Extrapoo ...

, Künstlerhaus Sootbörn, or

Mary Bauermeister Mary Hilde Ruth Bauermeister (born 7 September 1934) is a German artist who works in sculpture, drawing, installation, performance, and music. Influenced by Fluxus artists and Nouveau Réalisme, her work addresses esoteric issues of how informati ...

's performance space. His visual art has been exhibited in solo and groups shows at locations like the

Institute of Contemporary Arts The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) is an artistic and cultural centre on The Mall in London, just off Trafalgar Square. Located within Nash House, part of Carlton House Terrace, near the Duke of York Steps and Admiralty Arch, the ICA ...

, Schloss Liedberg (Korschenbroich), Museum Obere Saline (Bad Kissing), Neues Museum Weserburg, Haus der Kleinen Künste (München), Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof (Hamburg), Hamburger Bahnhof (Berlin), Atelierhaus & Galerie A24 (Bergisch-Gladbach), Jan van Eyck Academie, Sallis Benny Theatre (Brighton), VAC Gallery (Northwich), Museum Huelsmann Bielefeld,

Museum of Contemporary Art Australia The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA), located on George Street in Sydney's The Rocks neighbourhood, is solely dedicated to exhibiting, interpreting, and collecting contemporary art, from across Australia and around the world. It is ...

, Museum Brasileiro da Escultura (São Paulo) and at several galleries like Kunstraum Winterthur, Galerie Cross Art (Berlin), Itami City Gallery (Japan), fzkke Euskichen, kunsTTempel (Kassel), The Box (Düsseldorf), ARTpool (St. Petersburg), Fabbrica Immagine (Rome), Flux Factory (Long Island City),

Chicago Cultural Center The Chicago Cultural Center, opened in 1897, is a Chicago Landmark building operated by Chicago's Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events that houses the city's official reception venue where the Mayor of Chicago has welcomed presid ...

, 6028 Gallery (Chicago),

Eyedrum Eyedrum Art & Music Gallery is a non-profit art space and venue in Atlanta, Georgia, founded by American painter Woody Cornwell and musician and journalist Marshall Avett in 1998, and focused on contemporary art and experimental music ranging fr ...

. Selected art works are part of collections like Artpool Art Research Center, Avant Writing Collection by the

Ohio State University The Ohio State University, commonly called Ohio State or OSU, is a public land-grant research university in Columbus, Ohio. A member of the University System of Ohio, it has been ranked by major institutional rankings among the best pu ...

, Fondazione Bonotto, the VAC Archive Northwich, the Jan van Eyck Academie, the Wolf Vostell Archive, 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 The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Chicago is a contemporary art museum near Water Tower Place in downtown Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The museum, which was established in 1967, is one of the world's largest contempora ...

. Since November 9, 2009 he has been a member of the

NO!art NO!art is a radical avant-garde anti-art movement started in New York in 1959. Its founders sought to deliver a shock to the complacent consumerist society around them. The movement was initiated by Boris Lurie, Sam Goodman and Stanley Fisher wh ...

movement, founded by

Boris Lurie Boris Lurie (July 18, 1924 – January 7, 2008) was an American artist and writer. He co-founded the NO!Art movement which calls for socially and politically involved art that would resist and combat the forces of the market. His controversial ...

, Stanley Fisher and Sam Goodman at March gallery New York in 1960. The German novelist Peter Rathke, who works under the pseudonym FOLTERGAUL, represented Kommissar Hjuler as a character at his novel ''Im Knast mit Kommissar Hjuler und Mama Baer''.

Collaboration

Kommissar Hjuler shares concept albums with

Medium Medium Medium Medium was a post-punk band from Nottingham, England, initially active between 1978 and 1983. History Emerging in 1978 out of the Nottingham punk/rhythm & blues band The Press,Unterberger, Richie " Medium Medium Biography, Allmusic, retr ...

, Jonathan Meese,

Tim Berresheim Tim Berresheim (born 1975, Heinsberg, Germany) is a contemporary German visual artist who lives and works in Cologne. He studied at the Hochschule der Bildenden Künste in Braunschweig from 1998 to 2000 and the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf from 20 ...

Thurston Moore Thurston Joseph Moore (born July 25, 1958) is an American musician best known as a member of Sonic Youth. He has also participated in many solo and group collaborations outside Sonic Youth, as well as running the Ecstatic Peace! record label. M ...

, Joël Hubaut, Franz Kamin,

Antye Greie Antye Greie (aka AGF or Poemproducer) is a vocalist, musician, composer, producer, and new media artist. Life Greie was born and raised in East Germany. Her work involves speech combined with electronic music. She works on sound installatio ...

, Marc Hurtado, DDAA, Willem de Ridder, Maja Ratkje,

Jerome Noetinger Jerome (; la, Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus; grc-gre, Εὐσέβιος Σωφρόνιος Ἱερώνυμος; – 30 September 420), also known as Jerome of Stridon, was a Christian priest, confessor, theologian, and historian; he is comm ...

, De Fabriek, Derek Beaulieu, Wolf Vostell, Bill Dietz,

Anna Homler Anna Homler (born November 1, 1948 in Los Angeles, California) is a visual, performance, and vocal artist living and working in Los Angeles. She has performed music and exhibited her artworks in venues around the world. She earned a B.A. at the U ...

& David Moss, Gianni-Emilio Simonetti, David Dellafiora, Hannah Silva, Enzo Minarelli, Ben Patterson,

Morphogenesis Morphogenesis (from the Greek ''morphê'' shape and ''genesis'' creation, literally "the generation of form") is the biological process that causes a cell, tissue or organism to develop its shape. It is one of three fundamental aspects of deve ...

, Smegma,

The Haters The Haters are a noise music and conceptual art troupe from the United States. Founded in 1979, they are one of the earliest acts in the modern noise scene. The group is primarily the work of the Hollywood, California-based musician, artist, ...

, Jaap Blonk, Markus Kupferblum, Anton G. Leitner, Anja Lautermann, Peter Issig, Thilo Schölpen, Uwe Möllhusen, Karlheinz Essl, Andreas Lechner, Rainer Fabich, Jo Kondo,

Peter Weibel Peter Weibel (; born 5 March 1944 in Odessa, USSR) is an internationally known Austrian post-conceptual artist, curator and new media theoretician. He started out in 1964 as a visual poet but soon jumped from the page to the screen within the se ...

Steve Dalachinsky Steven Donald Dalachinsky (September 29, 1946 – September 16, 2019) was an American downtown New York City poet, active in the music, art, and free jazz scenes. He wrote poetry for most of his life and read frequently at Michael Dorf's club th ...

& David Liebman,

Faust Faust is the protagonist of a classic German folklore, German legend based on the historical Johann Georg Faust ( 1480–1540). The wiktionary:erudite, erudite Faust is highly successful yet dissatisfied with his life, which leads him to make a ...

, Mischa Badasyan, Andy Strauß, Wolf Hogekamp & Lino Ziegel,

Nora-Eugenie Gomringer Nora-Eugenie Gomringer (born 26 January 1980) is a German and Swiss poet and writer. She has won a number of awards, including the 2013 Literaturpreis des Kulturkreises der deutschen Wirtschaft, the 2015 Ingeborg-Bachmann-Preis and the Carl Zuc ...

, Xóchil A. Schütz, Daniel Spicer, Sindre Bjerga, Paul Fuchs & Zoro Babel, Jenny Michel & Fredrik Olofsson, Louis Jucker, Azoikum, Jeroen Diepenmaat,

Gerhard Stäbler Gerhard Stäbler (born 1949) is a German composer born in Wilhelmsdorf near Ravensburg. He studied with Klaus Huber and came to prominence with the chamber orchestra "acronym" ''Den Müllfahrern von San Francisco'' (The Garbage Truck Drivers o ...

, Kunsu Shim, Peter Ablinger,

Sven-Åke Johansson Sven-Åke Johansson (born 1943 in Mariestad) is a Swedish composer, drummer, poet, author and visual artist associated with European free jazz and free improvisation, who has lived in Berlin since 1968. Johansson is one of the first European f ...

, Rudolf Eb.er,

Hartmut Geerken Hartmut Geerken (15 January 1939 – 21 October 2021) was a German musician, composer, writer, journalist, playwright, and filmmaker. Life Geerken was born in Stuttgart, read oriental studies, philosophy, German studies and comparative religion ...

Pyrolator Kurt Dahlke (born 29 April 1958) is a German musician and record producer. He is a founding member of record label/publishing company ''Ata Tak'' and has worked and still works in several bands. Dahlke is also known as Pyrolator. Several times ...

, Sabrina Benaim, Tonya Ingram, Daniel Menche,

Negativland Negativland is an American experimental music band which originated in the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1970s. They took their name from a Neu! track, while their record label ( Seeland Records) is named after another Neu! track. The cor ...

, Alfred Harth, Magnús Pálsson, Tom Surgal,

The Nihilist Spasm Band The Nihilist Spasm Band (NSB) is a Canadian noise band formed in 1965 in London, Ontario. The band was founded by Hugh McIntyre, John Clement, John Boyle, Bill Exley, Murray Favro, Archie Leitch, Art Pratten, and Greg Curnoe. Leitch has since ...

, David Lee Myers, Jerry Hunt,

Philip Krumm Philip Krumm (born April 7, 1941 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American composer who was "a pioneer of modal, repetitive pattern music".88 Keys to Freedom: Segues Through the History of American Piano Music(Accessed June 13, 2006) Krumm studied o ...

, Dan Lander, Ditterich von Euler-Donnersperg, Emil Siemeister, Gerhard Laber, mlehst, Jean-Jacques Birgé,

Un Drame Musical Instantané Un Drame Musical Instantané, since its creation in 1976, featuring Jean-Jacques Birgé, Bernard Vitet and Francis Gorgé, has decided to promote collective musical creation, co-signing their albums, which they consider as artworks in themselves, or ...

, Alexander Kibanov. He collaborated with numerous artists including Family Fodder,

Conrad Schnitzler Conrad "Conny" Schnitzler (17 March 1937 – 4 August 2011) was a prolific German experimental musician associated with West Germany's 1970s krautrock movement. A co-founder of West Berlin's Zodiak Free Arts Lab, he was an early member of Tanger ...

Ken Montgomery Ken Montgomery (born 5 January 1951) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for North Melbourne in the VFL. A reliable half back flanker, with an unusual kicking style, Montgomery was a winning premiership player with North Melb ...

, GX Jupitter-Larsen,

Lasse Marhaug Lasse Marhaug (born 10 September 1974) is a Norwegian musician who primarily works in the field of noise music but frequently drifts into other areas such as improvisation, jazz, rock and extreme metal. Marhaug has also been involved in creating ...

, Dino Felipe, Brume, Amor Fati, Lt. Caramel,

Anla Courtis Alan Courtis (born February 22, 1972) is an Argentine musician, artist, composer and sound artist. He studied classical guitar, piano, theory and composition. He holds a degree in Communication Science from the University of Buenos Aires, where ...

, Andrew Liles, Jean-Louis Costes, Af ursin, Dada Action Group, Clemens Schittko,

, Gianni-Emilio Simonetti, Hans-Joachim Hespos,

Milan Knizak Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city has ...

, Emil Siemeister, Arnulf Meifert, The New Blockaders, Bene Gesserit, Bryan Lewis Saunders, Frank Klötgen, Jürgen Palmtag, Wolfgang Kindermann, Christoph Ogiermann, Al Margolis, Frank Rowenta, Karl Bösmann, Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson, Rod Summers,

Denis Dufour Denis Dufour (born 9 October 1953) is a composer of art music. Biography Born in Lyon, after studying the classics at the CRR in Lyons and the Paris Conservatoire (particularly with Pierre Schaeffer and Ivo Malec), Dufour is recognized as a co ...

, Jean-Louis Costes, Z'EV, John M. Bennett, Rolf Schobert, Franz Graf, The Oval Language, Klaus Girnus, Tooth Kink, Eric Lunde,

Roel Meelkop Roel son of almighty Zeus and beautiful mortal Alcmene, was the strongest man who ever lived. Now when Roel was eight months old, he woke one night to find a monstrous snake had coiled itself around him. Instead of crying out, baby Roel wrapped his ...

, Frans de Waard,

Richard Ramirez Ricardo "Richard" Leyva Muñoz Ramirez (; February 29, 1960 – June 7, 2013), dubbed the Night Stalker, the Valley Intruder (as his attacks were first clustered in the San Gabriel Valley), and the Walk-in Killer was an American serial kill ...

, Jan Kruml, Robert Ridley-Shackleton, Neal D. Retke, Torturing Nurse, Le Syndicat, Pacific 231, Wassily Bosch & Rodin Anton, Wataru Kasahara,

Jaan Patterson Jaan Patterson is a German composer and poet, and runs the Surrism-Phonoethics netlabel he had founded 2007. He is best known for his various Dada and Surrealist inspired experimental music and spoken word projects—such as Undress Béton, Andr ...

, Goodiepal, Smell and Quim, Kouta Yamamoto, Alig Fodder. Kommissar Hjuler und Frau performed with artists like PAAK/Peter Kastner, Jan van Wissen, Caracho, Uwe Möllhusen, Bernd Brecht, Ludo Mich, Jan van den Dobbelsteen,

Eugene Chadbourne Eugene Chadbourne (born January 4, 1954) is an American banjoist, guitarist and music critic. Life and career Chadbourne was born in Mount Vernon, New York, but grew up in Boulder, Colorado. He started playing guitar when he was eleven or twe ...

, Kenzo Kusuda, Clive Graham, Dead Labour Process, Hundred Foot Road & Sukanyan Sunthareswaran, Closedunruh, Ninni Morgia & Silvia Kastel,

Heather Leigh Murray Heather may refer to: Plants *The heather family, or Ericaceae, particularly: **Common heather or ling, ''Calluna'' **Various species of the genus ''Cassiope'' **Various species of the genus ''Erica'' Name * Heather (given name) * Heather (sur ...

, John Wiese and others. As visual artist he collaborated with albrecht/d., Reed Altemus, Vittore Baroni, Geert Baas, Dmitry Babenko, Wolfgang Peter Brunner, Keith A. Buchholz, Jonathan Dilas, Ad Breedveld, Jonathan Caldwell, Daniela Floersheim, Dadanautik, Catherine Drury, Daniel Eltinger, Angela Ferrara, Ace Farren Ford, Kollektiv G.R.A.M./Martin Behr, danma vs. v2r2/Dan Ma & Veronica Reeves, Clayton Patterson, Jaroslav Divis, Bert Feddema, Jean Kiboi, Norbert Futscherndorf, Phillip Graffham, Rachel Heinold, Peter Trautner,

Barbara Rapp Barbara Rapp (also known as Barbara Ambrusch-Rapp) (born 1972) is an Austrians, Austrian multi-media artist. She makes paintings, collages, and sculptures that examine women's sexuality, queerness, gender and heteronormativity, often using humor. ...

, Jean Lessenich, Jan van Hasselt, Karen Houser, Katrien De Blauwer, Stefan Heuer, Veronika Olma, Minouche Marie-Dit-Beaufils, Linus Malmqvist, Vlado Ketch, Jürgen O. Olbrich, Reiner Maria Matysik, Alex Mazzitelli, Ulrike Oppel, Massimo Nota, Jessica Molnar, Yukiko Nasu, Eva Moll, Jose Ney Mila, Armando Ramos, Klaus Rudolf, Kong Wee Pang, M. P. Landis, Odette Picaud, Cornelius P. Rinne, Darija S. Radakovic, Fabio Py, Dorota-Katarzyna Samborski, Gail Scheuring, Gianni-Emilio Simonetti, Inge van Kann, Valerie Savarie, Nada Vitz, Ruud Janssen, Hubert Kretschmer, Litsa Spathi, Cecil Touchon, Topp & Dubio, Reid Wood, Clemens Stecher, Picasso Galinone, Yuko Ueno, John Welson,

Pieter Zandvliet Jan Willem Pieter Zandvliet ( Leiden, Netherlands, 14 April 1969) is a Dutch mixed media artist. He specialises in painting and drawing, but is also involved in writing and movie making. Typical are his comic-like painting style and his atte ...

, Andrey Zhelkovsky, and others, especially for a project called BROTKATZE Collaborations. For an art project called FLUXPORN he collaborated with several pornographic actresses like Lena Nitro, Violet Storm, Texas Patti, Annika Bond, Elly Darnell, Samira Summer, Medea Fox, Kiara Kane, Taya Lamai, Kitty Blair, Leonie Lingua and the Playboy photographer Marco Pallotti from Santa Monica.

Prizes

International artists' prize by

Kleine Zeitung ''Kleine Zeitung'' (, ''Small Newspaper'') is an Austrian newspaper based in Graz and Klagenfurt. As the largest regional newspaper in Austria, covering the federal states Styria and Carinthia (state), Carinthia with East Tyrol, the paper has aro ...

and Innovationskongress Austria, October 2010work displayed at Innovationkongres

in Velden am Woerther See, November 11th and 12th 2010, Kommissar Hjuler presented at book Peter Graning/Ronald Ivancic/Martin Maitz/Cornelia Scala-Hausmann (Hrsg.), Zukunfstkraft, , several group shows of all the winners at

Villach Villach (; sl, Beljak; it, Villaco; fur, Vilac) is the seventh-largest city in Austria and the second-largest in the federal state of Carinthia. It is an important traffic junction for southern Austria and the whole Alpe-Adria region. , the ...

, for instance at Gallery D. U. Design , Villach

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References and notes

External links

Artist's website

Gallery

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Discogs list of Kommissar Hjuler

Discogs list of Kommissar Hjuler und Frau
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