Joseph Beuys Cafe
s it too early to call Joseph Beuys Cafe the sleeper success of the 2020 Melbourne arts calendar? An appointment-only gallery established by collector Ian George, this is the only space in Australia dedicated to the seminal figure of late-modern Conceptualism. Name a post-war German artist and they will likely have some sort of connection to Beuys. His influence was so widely spread partly because he taught at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf from 1961 to 1972, where his students included some of Germany’s most important late-modern and contemporary artists such as Blinky Palermo and Sigmar Polke.
