Alexander Polzin

Alexander Polzin (* 1973 in Berlin ) is a Berlin sculptor , painter , graphic artist , costume and set designer .

biography

He has exhibited his work at the Getty Center in Los Angeles (2000), in Budapest, Bucharest and Naples (2001), at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (2004), Bard College New York (2006), Van Leer Institute Israel (2007) , San Francisco International Arts Festival (2008) and at the Teatro Real in Madrid (2011). His sculptures in public space include "The Fallen Angel" in front of the Semper Observatory Collegium Helveticum in Zurich , the monument to Giordano Bruno on Potsdamer Platz in Berlin, "Socrates" on the campus of Tel Aviv University, and "The Couple" , ordered for the foyer of the Opera National de Bastille, Paris. Polzin's sculptures are all made in collaboration with the Marc Krepp art casting workshop.

Polzin worked with the composers Amos Elkana , Helmut Lachenmann and György Kurtág in order to combine their music with the visual arts. Polzin was a guest at the International Artist House in Herzliya, Israel, ETH Zurich, The Montalvo Arts Center in Saratoga, California and was the first artist-in-residence at the Center for Advanced Study at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg “Recht als Kultur” in Bonn. Polzin taught as a visiting professor at the ETH Zurich and at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Polzin works regularly as a set designer for opera, dance and drama. He is represented by Maestro Arts and the Kornfeld Gallery (Berlin).

Stage sets (selection)

2013 - Richard Wagner "Parsifal" Salzburg Easter Festival Director: Michael Schulz - Musical director: Christian Thielemann
2012 - Never Mind in Sophiensaele / Berlin - Director: Sommer Ulrickson
2012 - I sing my Brother with Hao Jiang Tian in the China NCPA Concert Hall Orchestra Beijing / Shanghai
2011 - Teatro Real (Madrid), world premiere - composition Pilar Jurado - directed by David Hermann
2010 - Course.Liebe Freilichtspiele Schwäbisch Hall , production: Sommer Ulrickson , music: Moritz Gagern
2010 - Lovesick Neuköllner Oper , director: Sommer Ulrickson , music: Moritz Gagern
2010 - Philomon and Baucis by Josef Haydn and Konstantia Gourzi - Festival of European Church Music Schwäbisch Gmünd
2009 - G. Verdi "Rigoletto" - Deutsche Oper am Rhein , directed by David Hermann
2009 - Winter - a fairy tale of Germany based on H.Heine - Schauspiel Frankfurt , directed by Sommer Ulrickson / Mark Jackson
2009 - After Hamlet - a dance music theater production by Amos Elkana and Sommer Ulrickson in Santa Cruz, California. With the kind support of the Goethe-Institut .
2008 - Benjamin Britten's "Rape of Lucretia" (director: David Hermann) at the Oldenburg State Theater
2008 - Summer Ulrickson's "Foreign Bodies" University of California , Santa Cruz
2007 - Yes yes to Moscow Deutsches Theater Berlin
2007 - Woyzeck State Theater Schwerin
2004 - Creatures of Habit Sophiensaele , Berlin
2003 - Final production at the University for Film and Television , Potsdam
2003 - Jerusalem Syndrome Sophiensaele , Berlin
2003 - Berlin State Opera "Philemon & Baucis"
2002 - Remains Sophiensaele , Berlin

Sculptures and projects (selection)

Grave sculpture for George Tabori

Grave sculpture for Thomas Brasch

Installation of the Giordano Bruno Monument at Potsdamer Platz

2012 - Sculptural intervention for Helmut Lachenmann Festtag Stiftung Schloss Neuhardenberg
2012 - Program design for Turku music festival Finland
2012 - Hommage a Teatro Real for INTRAMUROS magazine

2011 - unveiling of the sculpture "Hommage à Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar "; Käte Hamburger Kolleg “Law as Culture” in the presence of Ajit Kumar, Consul General of the Republic of India in Frankfurt am Main

2010 - Book on the sculpture "Requiem - Hommage a György Kurtág ", Mathes and Seitz (authors: Moshe Zuckermann, Jean Louis Fabiani, Peter Stefan Jungk, Judith Frigyesi Niran, Andre Plesu, Durs Gruenbein, Antjie Krog, Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin, Martin Treml, Almuth Sh.Bruckstein Coruh, Annett Groeschner, Michael Maede, Karl Heinz Barck, Peter Esterhazy, Hannah Duebgen, Michael Roes, Bettina Motikat)

2009 - Cover design - Oliver Schneller - German Music Council

2009 - Homage to Robert Merton - sound sculptures together with Amos Elkana as part of the conference "Concepts and the Social Order: Robert K. Merton and the Future of Sociology"

2009 - Cover design for Moshe Zuckermann "Sixty Years of Israel", Pahl-Rugenstein Verlag

2008/09 - Illustrations for Lettre International

2008 - Awarding of the "small Bruno sculpture" (Open Society Prize) to Kofi Annan

2008 - Installation of the Giordano Bruno monument at Potsdamer Platz , Berlin (Potsdamer Platz station - Deutsche Bahn AG), speeches for the installation by the Ambassador of the Republic of Italy (Puri Purini) and Durs Grünbein

2008 - Grave sculpture for George Tabori in the cemetery of the Dorotheenstadt and Friedrichswerder communities in Berlin

2008 - Inauguration of the sculpture "THE PAIR" in the Paris Opera / Opera National de Paris - speech by Hans Belting

2006 - Design and manufacture of the Elemér Hantos Prize for the Central Europe Foundation Zurich

2005 - nineteenth exhibition at the Berlin art house ACUD

2005 - Cover photo for Rigas Laiks (art magazine / Latvia)

2004 - Portrait of Josef Tal for the accompanying booklet symphony recording NDR Radio Philharmonie

2004 - picture series & cover for Heiner Müller workbook "Kalkfell II" Akademie der Künste

2003 - series of pictures for Thomas Brasch Arbeitsbuch, purchase for the collection of the Foreign Office

2002 - Sculpture commission for the ETH Zurich

2002 - series of pictures for Lettre International Herbst

2001 - Grave sculpture for Thomas Brasch in the cemetery of the Dorotheenstadt and Friedrichswerder communities in Berlin

2001 - Presentation in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin for the Long Night of Science

2001 - Order for the mural "Chaim's Brief" for the reconstructed Jewish Orphanage Berlin / Installation of the granite sculpture "The Stone Merchant" in front of the orphanage

2000 - Central European University in Budapest: Monument to Giordano Bruno

Exhibitions (selection)

2015 - "Out of my window ..." Homage to Thomas Brasch , Kunstmuseum Ahrenshoop (February 1st - March 15th, 2015)

2014 - Galerie Kornfeld , Berlin

2013 - CONTEXT Art Miami

2013 - Maestro Arts Gallery, London

2013 - Anna Akhmatova Literature and Memorial Museum, St. Petersburg

2013 - Salzburg Easter Festival

2011 - Teatro Real Madrid sculpture exhibition

2011 - Presentation of the sculpture series "five sculptural sketches for Caravaggio's David and Goliath" with Hans Belting ; Käte Hamburger College “Law as Culture” Bonn

2008 - San Francisco International Arts Festival at the ArtworkSF Gallery

2008 - jw gallery, Berlin

2007 - Van Leer Jerusalem Institute , Israel

2007 - International Artists House Herzliya , Israel

2007 - Solo exhibition in Beer Sheva , Israel

2006 - Felicja Blumental Center Tel Aviv, Israel

2006 - Neuhardenberg Castle "Homage a Kurtag"

2006 - Bard College , New York

2006 - Solo exhibition at the Goethe-Institut Los Angeles (opening speech: Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht )

2006 - Goethe-Institut New York (opening speech: Edward Mendelson )

2004 - Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (opening speech: Durs Grünbein )

2004 - Age of Fear at OPENDOORS openeyes - Bordeaux, France

2004 - shadow-collaboration-s, Art Museum Novosibirsk / Chernoff Gallery , Novosibirsk, Russia

2001 - Martin-Gropius-Bau "Theater of Nature and Art": "Meditating Group" (sculpture group)

2001 - Goethe-Institut , Naples, Bucharest and Budapest "Age of Fear" tour (opening speeches: Imre Kertész , Andre Plesu )

1999 - Age of Fear in Galerie Forum Amalien Park , Berlin: 99-part picture series on WH Auden (opening speech: Moshe Zuckermann )

1998 - Gallery Ariadne in Vienna (opening speech: Herbert Lachmayer )

1998 - Egyptian Museum Berlin (opening speech: Elmar Zorn )

1997–2001 - Einstein Forum Potsdam with pictures and sculptures (opening speech: Gary Smith)

1997 - Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (opening speech: Dieter Simon )

1995 - Givat Ha Viva Kibbutz (Israel) "Monster" (20 pictures) accompanied by a book "Abgritten" with pictures and essays edited by Sander Gilman (opening speech: Yehuda Elkana )

Artist-in-Residence (selection)

2010/11 - Artist-in-Residence Käte Hamburger Kolleg “Law as Culture” Bonn
2008 - Visiting Artist at the University of California at Santa Cruz
2006 - Artist-in-Residence Villa Montalvo and Don Lucas Artists Program
2005 - McCloy Fellowship in Art
2000 - Getty Center Los Angeles
1998 - Collegium Helveticum Zurich, Artist in Residence ETH Zurich and exhibition
1996/97 - Invitation to the International Artists House in Herzliya, Israel (6 months): Sculpture “The Stone Merchant” and exhibition (Text: “The stone beast has no more earlobe”)

Curator (selection)

2011 - Curator of the “ Guilt II ” conference at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg “Law as Culture” in Bonn with Moshe Zuckermann , Toshio Hosokawa , Fawwaz Traboulsi and Ryoko Aoki, among others

2010 - Curator of the “ Guilt I ” conference at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg “Law as Culture” in Bonn with Sudhir Kakar , Ramin Jahanbegloo , Antjie Krog , and Fritz Lichtenhahn, among others

2009 - Advice on exhibition design “ Islamic Imagery ” in the Martin-Gropius-Bau Berlin

2009 - visiting professor for set design UCSC, USA. With the kind support of the Goethe-Institut .

literature

Sander L. Gilman , Alexander Polzin, driven off to a series of pictures by Alexander Polzin, publisher: Wallstein-Verlag (1997), ISBN 978-3-89244-278-3 . With contributions by: Sander L. Gilman, Moshe Zuckermann , Doron Rabinovici , Thomas Brasch , Adolf Muschg .
Gerd Folkers, Helga Nowotny , Observatory Book 1, Callas -Cassandra. On the singing icons by Alexander Polzin, publisher: Haffmans Sachbuch Verlag AG Zurich (1999), ISBN 3-251-40007-X . With contributions by Michael Hagner , Iso Camartin , Brigitte Kronauer .
Alexander Polzin, REQUIEM, on a sculpture, Matthes & Seitz Berlin (2011), ISBN 978-3-88221-572-4 . With contributions by: Andrei Pleșu , Karlheinz Barck , Péter Esterházy , Ha'atelier , Durs Grünbein .
Robert K. Merton, Concepts and the Social Order: Robert K. Merton and the Future of Sociology, commentary on the sculpture Dante's Heads by Alexander Polzin and the sound by Amos Elkana, Central European University (2011), ISBN 978-615505341- 2 . With contributions by Yehuda Elkana , Helga Nowotny , Rivka Feldhay , Harriet Zuckerman , Shmuel N. Eisenstadt .
Anne Eusterschulte, Turning Traditions Upside Down, sculpture Giordano Bruno by Alexander Polzin, Plymbridge Distributors Ltd (2013), ISBN 978-615505363-4 . With contributions by Jürgen Renn , Yehuda Elkana , Ingrid D. Rowland , Durs Grünbein .
Gerard Mortier , dramaturgy of a passion, author / director of the Teatro Real Madrid, opera “El Público”, set design Alexander Polzin, publisher: JB Metzler Verlag GmbH (2014), ISBN 978-3-476-02546-3
Sabine Coelsch-Foisner, Christopher Herzog, Sophie Allen, Memory Art - The Art of Commemoration, Alexander Polzin in Conversation with Hubert Wild and Sabine Coelsch-Foisner. Publisher: Universitätsverlag Winter GmbH Heidelberg (2015), ISBN 978-3-8253-6396-3 .
Philipp Stoellger, Image and Death, On a basic question of image anthropology, "What a risk ..." the death in (my) image worlds, text lecture Alexander Polzin - Verlag Mohr Siebeck (2016), ISBN 978-3-16-154233-6 . with contributions by Jan Assmann , Christoph Markschies , Mauricio Sotelo