Kommissar Hjuler (German artist)

Kommissar Hjuler (born Detlev Hjuler; 1967) works as a sound recordist in the field of Noise and Post-industrial music, visual artist, film maker and police officer at Flensburg, a town on the German border with Denmark. He often works together with his wife Mama Baer as Kommissar Hjuler und Frau. As a self-taught artist he began making music in 1999 and visual art in 2006. He is considered to work in the field of neo dada, whereas his output also contains elements of fluxus, art brut. Music releases are available at independent labels like Intransitive Recordings, and Nihilist Records. Kommissar Hjuler und Frau performed at several festivals like Colour out of Space Festival at Brighton, Zappanale, UND #6/ART Karlsruhe, Festival Bruit de la Neige at Annecy, Avantgarde Festival Schiphorst, Blurred Edges Hamburg, Incubate Festival Tilburg, Rapid Ear Movement Festival by Projektgruppe Neue Musik e. V. Bremen, Brise°3 festival Flensburg, and at artists' venues like Morden Tower, Cafe Oto, Z33 Kunstencentrum, MS Stubnitz, Weserburg, iLLUSEUM Amsterdam, Gängeviertel Hamburg, Upper Church Gallery Edinburgh, Centre For Contemporary Art Warsaw/Ujazdów Castle, Museum of Modern Fine Art on Dmitrovskaya (Rostov on Don), KM Music Conservatory, Boekie Woekie Amsterdam, Lokaal01 Breda, Grambacht Mechelen, Extrapool, Künstlerhaus Sootbörn, or Mary Bauermeister's performance space. His visual art has been exhibited in solo and groups shows at locations like the Institute of Contemporary Arts, Schloss Liedberg (Korschenbroich), Museum Obere Saline (Bad Kissing), Neues Museum Weserburg, Haus der Kleinen Künste (München), Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof (Hamburg), Hamburger Bahnhof (Berlin), Atelierhaus & Galerie A24 (Bergisch-Gladbach), Jan van Eyck Academie, Sallis Benny Theatre (Brighton), VAC Gallery (Northwich), Museum Huelsmann Bielefeld, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Museum Brasileiro da Escultura (São Paulo) and at several galleries like Kunstraum Winterthur, Galerie Cross Art (Berlin), Itami City Gallery (Japan), fzkke Euskichen, kunsTTempel (Kassel), The Box (Düsseldorf), ARTpool (St. Petersburg), Fabbrica Immagine (Rome), Flux Factory (Long Island City), Chicago Cultural Center, 6028 Gallery (Chicago), Eyedrum. Selected art works are part of collections like Artpool Art Research Center, Avant Writing Collection by the Ohio State University, Fondazione Bonotto, the VAC Archive Northwich, the Jan van Eyck Academie, the Wolf Vostell Archive, and the ZKM Karlsruhe. Short films by Kommissar Hjuler have been presented at European festivals like 12. Internationales Kurzfilmfestival Muenchen 2010, Vienna Independent Shorts 2011, Leeds International Film Festival 2011, and at Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Since November 9, 2009 he has been a member of the NO!art movement, founded by Boris Lurie, Stanley Fisher and Sam Goodman at March gallery New York in 1960. The German novelist Peter Rathke, who works under the pseudonym FOLTERGAUL, represented Kommissar Hjuler as a character at his novel Im Knast mit Kommissar Hjuler und Mama Baer. End of July 2025 he released his novel "Der Napfkuchenmann", and end of November 2025 "Der Napfkuchenmann 2" together with his wife . Summer 2026, Pt. 1 got released "The Bundt Cake Man" as English translation by Editions Cox, Canada. Hjuler und Frau performed with artists Jan van den Dobbelsteen, Eugene Chadbourne, and John Wiese. International artists' prize by Kleine Zeitung and Innovationskongress Austria, October 2010 testcard no. 16 - Extremismus, Ventil Verlag, ISBN 978-3-931555-15-3, p 101-107 Asylum Lunaticum, CD, (INT033), mentioned at The Wire (magazine)'s years review, issue 311, Jan. 2010, as one of the best 15 albums of the year 2009 in outsider music festival programs, catalogues and posters exist for all festivals August 2nd 2009, in a series of performances that previously featured John Cage, Nam June Paik, Jean Tinguely, Niki de Saint Phalle and Karlheinz Stockhausen program to exhibition Calling Out Of Contest, Nov. 2009 catalogue by Gesellschaft für aktuelle Kunst GAK Bremen, to installation Three Resurrected Drunkards, Oct. 2010 catalogue to exhibition Kunst im Quadrat, Feb-Sept. 2007, ISBN 3-9805831-8-X, also LP by Kommissar Hjuler and Mama Baer released by Museum for this exhibition as Ed. Huelsmann program of exhibition TROYART, Jan. 2011, Kommissar Hjuler's contribution is now part of public collection of the museum artlout:com magazine, Leipzig, 2009, issue 04:08 "program" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-03-22. Retrieved 2011-04-13. program of festival program of festival Feb. 15th-20th 2011 at FluxFest, documented at websites of curators Keith A. Buchholz, Kommissar Hjuler mentioned on poster Im Knast mit Kommissar Hjuler und Mama Baer, P.Rathke Verlag, 2011 (ISBN 978-3-9804622-0-4), Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Der Napfkuchenmann, SHMF, 2025, ISBN 978-3-00-083643-5, Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Der Napfkuchenmann, SHMF, 2025, ISBN 978-3-00-085412-5, Deutsche Nationalbibliothek ISBN 978-3-9826294-3-8 program Paulo Post Futurum [permanent dead link], Lokaal 01, Breda, November 3rd to 4th 2007, and to end all live, iLLUSEUM , Amsterdam, August 1st 2009, videos at youtube "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-03-22. Retrieved 2011-04-06.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)Musikpalast Flensburg,July 12th 2008, concert program[permanent dead link] January 19th 2008, at KKI Flensburg "KKI Flensburg". Archived from the original on 2011-08-19. Retrieved 2011-04-06., Tour dates John Wiese "John Wiese". Archived from the original on 2009-04-30. Retrieved 2011-04-06. work displayed at Innovationkongress in Velden am Woerther See, November 11th and 12th 2010, Kommissar Hjuler presented at book Peter Graning/Ronald Ivancic/Martin Maitz/Cornelia Scala-Hausmann (Hrsg.), Zukunfstkraft, ISBN 978-3-7084-0411-0, several group shows of all the winners at Villach, for instance at Gallery D. U. Design , Villach, Artist's website No!art website Archived 2019-03-24 at the Wayback Machine Gallery What happened to the happening? Discogs list of Kommissar Hjuler Discogs list of Kommissar Hjuler und Frau