Biography

HA Schult was born in Parchim in 1939 and grew up in Berlin. He studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1958 to 1961. From 1961 to 1978 he lived in Munich, from 1978 to 1980 in Cologne and from 1978 to 1986 in New York. In 1986 he founded the Museum für Aktionskunst in Essen. From 1986 to 1991 he commuted between Germany and New York, and from 1991 to 1992 he lived in Berlin. In 1992, he moved his museum from Essen to Cologne. Since 2007, the ÖkoGlobe, which he initiated, has been awarded annually as the first international environmental prize to the mobility industry. In 2009, together with Ferdinand Dudenhöffer, he became the founding director of the ÖkoGlobe Institute at the University of Duisburg-Essen. Schult has realized numerous campaigns in collaboration with his former wife Elke Koska and in recent years also with the Moscow-born violinist and performer Anna Zlotovskaya, to whom he has been married for the fourth time since 2010. HA Schult participated in Documenta 5 in Kassel in 1972 with the Biokinetic Landscape and was also represented as an artist at Documenta 6 in 1977.

HA Schult was one of the first artists to address ecological imbalance in his work. His works have been exhibited on all continents. They can be found in many public collections such as the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NYC, the Museum of Modern Art, NYC, the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation, NYC, the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, the Tate Gallery, London, the Centre Pompidou, Paris, State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg, Zendai Museum, Shanghai, Neue Galerie im Joanneum, Graz, ZKM, Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, DHM, Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin, Haus der Geschichte, Museum für Zeitgeschichte Deutschlands, Bonn, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, etc.