Wackerbarth

The red couch worldwide

Horst Wackerbarth has been travelling around the world for more than one fourth of a century, orchestrating his red couch in front of sensational scenery. He’s placed the couch in different living environments and has photographed a wide range of people. To this day, 800 people from 52 countries have sat on the couch. Wackerbarth has brought his couch to metropolises in Europe, the rain forest in South America, the villages of Siberia and the icy lands of Alaska to portray people and their home, despite the fact that a couch is an epitome of privacy and personal space. His goal is to create a portrait and a gallery of humanity.

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heimat.nrw

The couch that travelled the world is coming home: On behalf of the NRW-Foundation Horst Wackerbarth and his famous piece of furniture travelled through all regions of North-Rhine-Westphalia for a year, portraying striking people and places. This way an artistic portrait and a country-specific portrait, showing Rhenish and Westphalian-Lippisch places, come into being. The combination of both allows the viewer to gain insight on the cultural, natural and economic diversity of a country.   

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The other Horst Wackerbarth

Besides the well known and reputed red couch series, the NRW-Forum is presenting Wackerbarths works called „without couch“: A return to his artistic beginnings and early works.