Heidenheim sculpture symposium

Placement of the artwork by the artist group Inges Idee . It is a ring made of stainless steel that is attached to the facade of the town hall in Heidenheim.

Detail of the 2.40 m ring on the parapet

The Heidenheim sculpture symposium was first held in 1997 and subsequently took place every four years including 2010. The first sculpture symposium was not planned as a one-off event, rather it was designed for continuity. When the symposia were held, there was a cooperation between artists and companies in the city of Heidenheim an der Brenz .

Conception

Every four years, the symposia sponsored by an association, the Sculptor Symposium Heidenheim eV , offer artists the opportunity to produce an artistic sculpture from the material that is used and processed in companies . The companies have to provide space, material, equipment and technical possibilities such as tools, machines and transport aids. The artists who apply present their drawings and models to a jury, which selects five applicants. As of 2004, the selection process was changed slightly and a two-stage competition process was determined, with six nominators each proposing an artist.

In the following months, the selected sculptors worked on their sculptures and projects in the respective company. This will be accompanied by panel discussions, lectures or workshop discussions in Heidenheim. Participation is mandatory for the artists. After completing the works of art, the sculptures created were exhibited in the public space and a catalog was created.

In this symposium, contemporary art and current technology entered into an unusual combination. Furthermore, the artists must work with the materials and technologies that are available and used in the respective company; this is a non-modifiable condition of participation. The Heidenheim Sculpture Symposium is financed privately.

Symposia

Before the first symposium took place, three recognized personalities were selected who were to name five artists of their choice for the materials. These were Jean-Christophe Ammann , director of the Museum of Modern Art in Frankfurt am Main , Martijn van Nieuwenhuyzen , curator of the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam and Harald Szeemann, curator of the Kunsthaus Zürich . Furthermore, an artistic advisory board consisting of two sculptors and five other artists as well as other personalities was founded.

Symposium 1997

On the occasion of the first symposium, the jury met on May 19, 1998 and awarded the first prize to Russell Maltz, New York, for his work Painted / Stacked . his and the other works were presented to the public after this award ceremony. The following artists and companies were involved:

Rolf Bier from Hanover created a sculpture in the form of a T-shirt for Carl Edelmann GmbH & Co. KG , which manufactures cardboard boxes , consisting of 53,000 pieces of paper . Heidenheim an der Brenz has 53,000 inhabitants. Russel Maltz from New York provided four differently layered and painted stacks of wood at Holzwerke Ziegler , which were set up in different places in the city. Andrea Ostermeyer from Cologne had a plastic "sleeping on your site I" made of fabric attached to the textile company CF Ploucquet , which covers a house front.

Dennis Podruell from Paris created a steel sculpture for the Voith group of companies that depicts the sculptural elements, room and chair. Ingo Vetter from Berlin cast a concrete and steel sculpture about two meters high, wide and deep for the construction company Mattern , which makes critical reference to the town hall in front of which it is erected.

Symposium 2001

The sculpture symposium in 2001 took place with the participation of the following artists:

inges idee is a group of artists who installed a large stainless steel ring with a diameter of around 2.4 m on a corner of the town hall of Heidenheim an der Brenz on the seventh floor. Thomas Klegin created the sculpture Unorte for Carl Edelmann GmbH & Co. KG , which, because of its emptiness, is at most noticeable negatively. Dragan Lovrinovic built a visual lectern made of stainless steel to represent a symbol of the political and religious demonstration of power.

Jürgen Stimpfig blasted the shop windows of Heidenheim fashion stores partially blind with a sandblasting blower and created a contrast to the otherwise colored displays. János Sugár installed a vertical as the simplest form for vertical and horizontal for Aditech Liquid Crystal Displays , which in Heidenheim consists of a total of five LCD light displays, which are installed at various locations in the city center.

Symposium 2004

The participants were determined in a two-stage competition process, with six nominators each having to propose an artist. From 30 proposals submitted, the following artists were selected to implement their ideas in the Heidenheim companies:

Carsten Gliese from Münster changed the front of the building at Franz Schuck GmbH with steel cladding . Thorsten Goldberg from Berlin designed a fictitious stop next stop milk and honey at Aditech GmbH , which manufactures fittings , which displays an electronic display board with daily changing destinations at the top of a four meter high mast. Ute Hörner and Mathias Antlfinger from Düsseldorf left text messages on polarization foils at Aditech GmbH, which manufactures LC displays and controls, that are only visible when wearing special glasses.

Olaf Nicolai from Berlin and Schiessle GmbH & Co. KG , gardening and landscaping, planted an oval open space at the entrance to the Seewiesen Bridge in a camouflage pattern . Klaus Simon from Krefeld , in cooperation with the wood processing company Matthäus Sturm GmbH, designed a sculpture made of wooden beams, which were put together in the shape of an octagon , so that a cage with a domed roof was created.

Symposium 2007

In 2007 there was an encounter between contemporary art and current industrial production, which produced unusual works. The following artists were named for the Heidenheim Symposium in 2007:

Harald Kröner designed two transit areas in a pedestrian and car underpass for Osram GmbH in the Autolampen plant with 750 light bulbs. Ulrich Genth and Heike Mutter formed an intertwined sculpture out of 200 meters of plastic pipe for Franz Schuck GmbH , which manufactures fittings, which was mounted on a mobile base, a truck. Rüdiger Stanko designed a mural for Hummel Siebdruck und Werbetechnik GmbH & Co KG using color associations after a survey of the city's population.

Ralf Werner built the windowless half-timbered house at GBH Grundstücks- und Baugesellschaft AG , which has no function.

Symposium 2010

The competition for 2010 started in June 2009 and in July 2010 the five works were put on display. The award winners and the companies involved are:

Götz Arndt from Luxembourg created the Erl sculpture at Hartmann AG , which criticizes the car as "the German man's favorite toy". Michael Beutler from Berlin developed the hollow infinite column out of paper at Voith AG Vanessa Henn from Berlin created the "Drop" (drop) for CF Maier GmbH & Co. KG in the form of a pink-red shell that resembles an oversized "chewing gum".

Tina O'Connell and Neal White from London designed a project for Pressehaus Heidenheim with the project title Where is Heidenheim? in which Heidenheimer local newspapers basically print "irrelevant" pages from foreign newspapers for Heidenheim newspaper readers. They are printed in the language of the respective foreign country and they are translated at the same time. Stefan Sous from Düsseldorf cast around 40 individual parts into a metal sculpture from individual everyday objects, the "bulky waste heap". This was done with extensive detailed work at SHW Casting Technologies in the Wasseralfingen plant . Sous gave the work the title "private property".

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: information on kulturbox.de. Retrieved July 25, 2010 (different content)
2. ↑ Information on the website bildhauersymposion.heidenheim.com ( Memento of the original from December 18, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved June 25, 2010 
3. ↑ Sculpture Symposium Heidenheim 1997 ( Memento of the original from December 18, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved June 25, 2010 
4. ↑ Sculpture Symposium Heidenheim 2001 ( Memento of the original from December 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved June 25, 2010 
5. ↑ Sculpture Symposium Heidenheim 2004 ( Memento of the original from December 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved June 25, 2010 
6. ↑ ^{a b} Idea and concept of the sculpture symposium in Heidenheim 2007 ( memento of the original from December 14, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved June 25, 2010