In the 1970s, with Ulrike Rosenbach and Klaus vom Bruch, he formed the producer group ATV.
[1] Odenbach was born in 1953 in Cologne, Germany, where he studied architecture, art history and semiotics between 1974–79.
In the late 1970s, he started using video work, tapes, installations, performances and drawings to probe the cultural identity of his native Germany.
His ambivalence to cultural history shows in works such as "Make a Fist in the Pocket", a German expression for hiding one's rage.
He now lives and works in Cologne and is the professor for film and video art at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf since 2010.