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I collect art – not shares
A conversation with the collector Werner Dohmen
by Oliver Zybok
Volume 235, 2015, Kunstforum Talks, p. 338
Dr. Werner Dohmen, lives and works in Aachen. Teaching practice
for general medicine at the Medical Faculty of the RWTH Aachen
University. Founding member of the Neuer Aachener Kunstverein
(NAK) 1986, chairman of the board since 1988. Since the mid-
1980s establishment of a collection of contemporary art, with spe-
cial focus on artistic positions of non-Western provenance. Werner
Dohmen is currently very engaged in the intercultural project ‚No
es arte‘.
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Oliver Zybok: You are involved as a collector in the work of the ‚No es
arte‘ research group. Can you say something about the project? are now in museums, private property or on the market. Often the-
se are so-called SEWA, relics which the Kogi, ethnic descendants of
Werner Dohmen: During the colonisation of South America, gold the Tairona from the mountain regions of Colombia, believe do not
objects of the Tairona were stolen, including from sacred sites, that represent dead matter, but, like persons, have a life of their own.
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