Dietmar Mues

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Dietmar Mues was a German performance artist whose practice emerged from the experimental theater and body art movements of the 1960s and 1970s. Working primarily with his own body as material, he developed durational and gestural interventions that interrogated the boundaries between performance, sculpture, and everyday action. His work engaged with the radical questioning of artistic authorship and presence that defined the European avant-garde of that period.

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