Benjamin Bergmann (artist)

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Benjamin Bergmann (* 1968 in Würzburg ) is a German artist. As a sculptor, he mainly works with installations .

Life

Benjamin Bergmann trained as a wood sculptor from 1991 to 1994 and then studied at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts until 2001 ; among others at Asta Gröting . He was a member of the performance group “GMAM” from 1997–2001 and of the music / performance group “Club le Bomb” from 1999–2001. In addition to several grants (including the 2008 work grant from the Art Fund Foundation ), he received the Bavarian State Promotion Prize in 2002 and the Dorothea von Stetten Art Prize in 2004 . In 2012 he was awarded the Nordhorn City Art Prize.

Bergmann lives and works in Munich. He is the father of a son.

Creating art

Bergmann creates large, expansive installations, many of them in public spaces. His works have a performative character, they hover between the real and the artificial world. In 2005, he redesigned a tunnel entrance in Munich by architecturally doubling the tunnel opening as a representative facade installation and thus removing its purely objective purpose. In this way, he transformed it "into a place that invites you to linger and thus can be physically experienced and experienced" . As an artist, Bergmann is not only active in his work as an architect, constructor and craftsman, but also occasionally as a director and actor of small happenings in some stage-like installations, whereby he benefits from the experience from his time with the performance groups. In 2008, Bergmann hung hundreds of baskets under the museum ceiling for the stair foyer of the Munich Pinakothek der Moderne , all of them filled with items of clothing that could be lowered with ropes. The work, entitled “deep down, tag bright”, was intended to draw the visitor's attention to the existence of a hidden world in which it was reminiscent of the hanging clothes racks commonly used in mining. For the Berlin Palast der Republik he created the roller coaster-like construction “Head Over Head” and in 2006 for the Lenbachhaus in Munich he created an oversized megaphone that can be walked on, surrounded by a wooden structure. At night, lamps changed the sculpture into a luminous body, inside of which a bass tone sounded every hour. The art magazine " art " writes about his work : "Bergmann's installations present the old dream of endless mobility as a deliberately nonsensical fairground sensation."

Quote

  • “For me, the beauty of absurdity is the persistence of the confusion. At some point you catch yourself thinking about whether the absurd might not have more of reality than reality itself. "

Exhibitions (selection)

Secondary literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mirka Knauf about the installation on the Benjamin Bergmann website ( Memento from November 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) on hannover.de
  2. ↑ Holger Liebs in: No. 9/2005
  3. ↑ Quoted from the website of "Schauspiel Frankfurt" ( Memento from January 18, 2006 in the Internet Archive )

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Bergmann, Benjamin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Wurzburg