Benedikt Birckenbach

Benedikt Birckenbach (* 1965 in Düsseldorf ) is a German freelance artist . He is a sculptor, draftsman, graphic artist and deals with art in construction and installations.

Life

From 1990 to 1996 he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg with Wilhelm Uhlig and Tim Scott and was a master student with Tim Scott in 1996. Since 2008 he has been teaching at RWTH Aachen University as a research assistant and head of the stone workshop at the plastic chair or as a lecturer at the international Pentiment summer academy in Hamburg. Benedikt Birckenbach lives and works in Troisdorf and uses an old vehicle hall as a spacious studio.

Awards and grants

• 1996 1st Prize / Salon D´Automne D'Arts Majeurs De Paron (France)
• 1997–1998 scholarship at the Schleswig-Holstein artist house in Eckernförde
• 1999 Rhenish Art Prize
• 2006 Grant from the Jackson Pollock and Krasner Foundation (New York)
• 2013 Funded by the Sparkasse Bonn Art Foundation

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions / selection

• 2000 DLR German Aerospace Center Bonn
• 2001 City Museum Siegburg
• 2002 Kunstverein Rhein-Sieg in Siegburg
• 2003 Musée des Arts Contemporain Lyon
• 2004 Art Association Trier Young Art
• 2004 GSF Helmholtz Center Munich
• 2004 Bruhler Kunstverein
• 2005 Bentlage Monastery in Rheine
• 2006 City Museum Siegburg
• 2006 City Museum Beckum
• 2008 Epikur Gallery in Wuppertal
• 2010 art gallery fürth in Fürth
• 2013 Luther Church Bonn
• 2014 Art Association Villa Wessel in Iserlohn

Since 1996, Benedict Birckenbach exhibited at group exhibitions, so at the Great Art Exhibition in Munich, at the Darmstadt Secession , at the Art Cologne , Galerie Koch, on the Art Karlsruhe , the Kunstverein Wilhelmshöhe Ettlingen, the Kunstmuseum singing and the Museum de Fundatie - Kasteel het Nijenhuis (Netherlands).

Public property

Works by Benedikt Birckenbach can be found in the following collections: the Bavarian State Government, the Bavarian State Painting Collection , the Museum Würth Künzelsau, in the GSF Research Center for Environment and Health (Neuherberg). As well as in public space: the city of Leverkusen, on Rheinauen Carré in Bonn, in the domicile Am Venusberg in Bonn and in front of the AOK-Systems in Bonn.

Catalogs / publications / literature

- 2013 Benedikt Birckenbach - Enjoy the silence (20 pages)
Catalog for the installation in front of the Luther Church in Bonn

- 2005 Benedikt Birckenbach - Shortly before the silence (95 pages)
Catalog for the exhibitions in the Bentlage Monastery, the Beckum City Museum and the Siegburg City Museum

- 2004 Benedikt Birckenbach - Borobudur (20 pages)
Catalog for the exhibition in the GSF Research Center for Environment and Health in the Helmholtz Association

- 2002 Benedikt Birckenbach - felling wood. An excitement -Des arbres á abattre. Une exitation- (66 pages)
catalog for the exhibition at the Kunstverein Rhein-Sieg

Web links

• The official homepage of Benedikt Birckenbach
• Large solo exhibition at Villa Wessel in 2014
• Benedikt Birckenbach 2006 scholarship from The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc.
• Benedikt Birckenbach at the art gallery fürth
• Benedikt Birckenbach in the Brühler Kunstverein
• Benedikt Birckenbach in the Koch gallery
• Benedikt Birckenbach in the Epikur gallery
• Art award 1999