- Source: Kinderstern
Kinderstern/Star for Children is an artwork series the German artist Imi Knoebel has created since 1988. The artwork is entirely donated to projects for children in need. The Star for Children has so far collected donations of four million Euros and is the only artwork worldwide from which 100% of proceeds go to children in need. The "Star for Children in Need" receives support through artists and collectors, musicians and actors/actresses, museums like Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin and Sammlung Grässlin in the Blackforest and art fairs.
History
The Kinderstern is a social sculpture formulated in 1967 by Joseph Beuys.
In 1988, the Star for Children was printed for the first time as silkscreen in red. This print was, next to original prints from the artists Sol LeWitt, Jörg Immendorff, Sigmar Polke, Max Bill, Heinz Mack, Keith Haring, part of a portfolio created under the auspices of Lothar Späth, minister-president of Baden-Württemberg/Germany. Title of the portfolio: "Kinderstern"/Star for Children. Its proceeds supported the financing of accommodations for parents close to pediatric clinics.
In 2016, Knoebel told collectors not to buy the Kinderstern at auctions, stating that the auction houses overpriced the art.
Exhibitions
1991 Art Cologne
1993 Art Frankfurt
2010 Art Cologne
2010 art forum berlin
2011 Pure Freude Düsseldorf
2012 Herberholz Frankfurt
2014: Pure Freude Düsseldorf
2015: Pure Freude Düsseldorf
2016: Pure Freude Düsseldorf
2016: Herberholz Frankfurt
2017: Pure Freude Düsseldorf
Kinderstern Sponsorships and Cooperations
Grace P. Kelly Foundation
Association for the Fight against Mucoviscidosis,
Union Chernobyl, Aid for Chernobyl victims in Ukraine
Fanconi Anemia Project, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf.
Aid for Bulgaria
Christian Campaign Man and Environment for the Pediatric Clinic Nr. 14 Ochmatdet, Kiew
Medical child protection day ward at the Protestant Hospital in Düsseldorf
Arco Iris Foundation for Street Kids in La Paz/Bolivia
The children´s Right Foundation
World in Union e. V. Düsseldorf
Order of the Poor Brothers in Düsseldorf, accommodating homeless children.
Children's Planet Heidelberg/Germany
Phönikks, a Foundation for psycho social help, Hamburg/Germany
Peacevillage Oberhausen/Germany, aid for children in war zones
Children´s village Baan Gerda for HIV orphans in Nong Muang/ Thailand
German Economic Foundation for Humanitarian Help/WHH
From the Hearts to the Hearts – cardiac operations for child victims of Agent Orange in Vietnam
SonKy Orphanage in Saigon/Vietnam financing the buying of a new house for orphans
Outback Stiftung, Refugee Home Düsseldorf, language training and social aid for child refugees
Ullaaitivu Children's Aid, Sri Lanka
Support of Waaga e.V., medical aid for children from Afghanistan
Caritas Mettmann, Projects for refugee children
Königinnen und Helden, neighborhood Integration Projects in Düsseldorf
Schlaufox, Hamburg, Initiative to support immigrant children Education
Diakonie Kaiserswerth, language training and integrative Dance-Workshops
Bunte Schule Dortmund, Waldorf education in social hotspot Dortmund
IJS e.V, integrative projects for particularly vulnerable refugee children
Carolinenhof Essen, therapeutic riding for children with special needs
Support of a school in a social hotspot in Düsseldorf
Wasserwerk Theater, Strausberg, integrative Theatre projects for children
UPSALA, the street children's circus in St. Petersburg,
"Housing First" purchase of a flat for homeless mothers.
References and notes
External links
kinderstern.com
Imi Knoebels guter Stern Spiegel, Hamburg, 2. Juli 1990, S. 167.
Himmlische Momente. Archived 2012-05-07 at the Wayback Machine In: Monopol Magazin. Berlin, Oktober 2010
"Artist Imi Knoebel: 'If you want to stay alive, you have to do something radical" The Guardian, 15. July 2015
Further reading
Imi Knoebel: Werke von 1966 bis 2006. Kerber, Bielefeld 2007. Kinderstern page 24 ff., ISBN 978-3-86678-089-7.
Imi Knoebel: Zu Hilfe, zu Hilfe ... Hatje Cantz Verlag, Berlin 20 ISBN 978-3-7757-4424-9.
