It wrote international art history with its spectacular media art events and exhibitions in the early s. In Nam June Paik 's solo exhibition Exposition of Music - Electronic Television , the first video objects were shown in , and at the hour Happening of , the performances of the Paik muse and Fluxus cellist Charlotte Moorman , dressed only in a transparent cellophane film, caused a sensation.
In , he worked as an architect in Berlin on the construction of the Reichsautobahn , was called up to the army in as a Pioneer and was deployed in Russia and southern France. In he fell into American prisoner of war , from which he was released in Probably the first penthouse in Germany [ 1 ] offered a light-flooded exhibition and work room on the top floor, a promenade-like roof terrace and a built-in studio stage for various productions.
It included works by around fifty artists from Germany and France. The landlord was the then Lord Mayor Heinz Frowein, who lived in the house next door.
With its spacious rooms from the cellar to the attic, the villa was the venue for the first pre- Fluxus events in Germany. Around guests took part. A music stand , paper tubes, children's flutes and a double bass were set up on the steps of the villa's entrance hall. Among the Fluxus events, this concert occupies a key position, as it was the first public appearance of the American Fluxus founder George Maciunas in Germany.
Paik took a whole year to carefully prepare two pianos for the exhibition. The exhibition, his first of his own, was entitled Exposition of Music - Electronic Television. In the entrance door of the villa hung a chopped-off ox's head suspended on cords, which had been delivered fresh from the slaughterhouse that morning and, according to Paik, was part of a shamanistic ritual.
