KGGB is well known for their unique way of mixing up the performing and fine arts in over and over new forms and creating by this constantly new cultural genres. The group enjoys cult status in the art, music and theatre scene.
website + contact via mail: https://kggbberlin.de
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website with fine classic design (flash player): https://www.kunstgruppeGOTTLIEB.de
Several of their works proved to be catalysts for new artistic tendencies and blueprints for new forms of artistic expressions.
Even the name of the group, kunstgruppe, as an counterdraft to the german word künstlergruppe, was adopted so frequently by countless groups all over Germany, that it has been included as a new term into the german vocabulary.
KGGB realized numorous shows and works in concert halls, theatres and museums all over the world -- e.g. London, Berlin, Boston, New York, Mexico City.
KGGB has been chosen as official contribution of the European Capitals of Culture 2010 and 2019.
They are also long and well known for their extraordinary way of inventing temporarly new artspaces for their works -- e.g. goods station, warehouses, atomic shelter, prison, airport, frighter, motorcade, firefighting boat, subway stations, port, colliery, atlantic ocean.
Many people got inspired by their way of involving population, locations and social and political life reactions into their boundary breaking total works of art.
The music of this exceptional band, with its compelling vocals and haunting compositions, which grows increasingly more with repeated listening, can not be categorized. Therefore the term dark art music was created.
Critics of total different musical styles, from contemporary classical music to metal underground and avantgarde and even to mainstream, reviewed this cool and powerfull stuff enthusiasticly:
„a voice that won't leave your head!" (Berliner Morgenpost)
"a highly original trip" (Tip, Berlin)
"a sound distinctly its own" (N.E.U. Boston)
"the outstandingly powerful, incantatory music gave the whole event a mystical quality" (Mitteldeutsche Zeitung)
"The voice goes straight to the marrow...a show full of dark passion...unconventional and original."
(Freie Presse)
"ghostly and very powerful" (Deutschlandradio)
"music you hear when the mouth of the pistol tickles your temples" (Tagesspiegel, Berlin)
"for those in search of something new" (ARD, German TV)
"Arte Total" (Radio Dark Wave, Mexico City)
recorded live in Berlin
while the artists dissolve into their own artwork Dark Square
words and music: kunstgruppe GOTTLIEB Berlin
editing: kunstgruppe GOTTLIEB & Jules Denner
final soundmix / mastering / video sync: toccato studios
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KGGB
is guest at festivals for music, theatre and art.
Famous works of kunstgruppe GOTTLIEB:
Exil Cafe, Remote Controlled, My Sex, Massacre, SCHALLFEST - world´s largest sound art installation, Outbreak -- the liberation of objects, MonDonSanto, Vomitar, Geschlossene Gesellschaft, Ausbruch -- Die Befreiung der Objekte, GmbH -- Gesellschaft mit bewusster Haltung, schwarz rot kohle, K.N.,
Find The Net - worldwide installation (godfather: Frank Castorf)
Under Cover (with the collaboration of Sir Yehudi Menuhin, H.H. the Dalai Lama, Günter Grass, Ernesto Cardenal, Tschingis Aitmatow, Einstürzende Neubauten an many others)
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