Birgitta Weimer

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Birgitta Weimer (born October 3, 1956 in Gemünden am Main ) is a German visual artist.

Reflecting Gaia 2019
Messier Objects 2012
Transfusion 2001

Life

Birgitta Weimer studied ethnology and anthropology at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen from 1976 , art education from 1980 and free art from 1983 to 1988 at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg with Kai Sudeck , Sigmar Polke and Ulrich Rückriem . After studying in West Africa in 1987/88, she lived and worked with interruptions in Cologne until 2000 , then for 2 years in Chicago and from 2002 to 2004 in Frankfurt am Main . From 2004 she had a studio and apartment in Königswinter , and again in Cologne since 2016.

In 1998 she carried out the "Future of Work" project with the Department of Economics at the University of Witten-Herdecke . In 1998/1999 she held teaching positions at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar and the University of Essen , and in 2000/01 at the University of Chicago and the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Milwaukee , Wisconsin USA. In 2003/04 she held the substitute professorship at the Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences in the design department .

She presented works by other artists in the magazine brandeins and is dedicated to the awarding of female artists by the Zonta Club Cologne in 2008. Birgitta Weimer was married to Uwe Sommerfeld from 1996 until his death in 2016 and has a son born in 1996 with him.

Work and artistic position

The artist is interested in "systems of order, patterns, formulas, codes of the various sciences", from ethnology and cultural anthropology to the natural sciences and especially the life sciences , which she reflects in different forms. She works “on a reformulation of the image of man and our understanding of nature” as part of a “poetics of a third nature”. In the three-dimensional works that move between sculpture and installations, she is dedicated to researching three-dimensional aggregate states. She tests and uses an abundance of materials, from liquids such as water and oil, soft materials such as rubber and silicone, solid materials such as wax and grains to hard materials such as metal, glass and acrylic. For some years now, immaterial factors such as artificial light, daylight and the associated translucency have also played a role. In computer animations of multi-layered works on tracing paper, time appears as the fourth dimension.

Awards, grants, projects

Birgitta Weimer received a postgraduate scholarship for fine arts from the DAAD for Gambia , West Africa, in 1992 the Friedrich Vordemberge scholarship from the city of Cologne and in 1996 was artist in residence at Loughborough University in Great Britain.

Exhibitions and public collections

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 1993: Metagenneto , installation Agneskirche , Cologne
  • 1994: Transmitter , exhibition room Fuhrwerkswaage Cologne, Cologne
  • 1996: Crossover , Dortmunder Kunstverein , Dortmund
  • 1997: Rest on the move , Edith Wahlandt Gallery, Stuttgart
  • 1997: Resources , Fassbender Gallery, Chicago, USA
  • 1998: Holon , Städtische Galerie Villa Zanders , Bergisch Gladbach
  • 1998: Clusters , International Community House, Kyoto
  • 1998: Clusters , Museum of Contemporary Art, Sapporo, Japan
  • 1999: Material and Form , Building Union House, Frankfurt am Main
  • 1999: Before completion , Städtische Galerie Gladbeck, Gladbeck
  • 2000: Pseudo Organism , Fassbender Gallery, Chicago, USA
  • 2002: Birgitta Weimer , Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, USA
  • 2002: The Third Nature , The Sybaris Gallery, Royal Oak, USA
  • 2004: Morphogenesis , Galerie Edith Wahlandt, Stuttgart
  • 2005: Change of scene , Museum of Concrete Art , Ingolstadt
  • 2006: Birgitta Weimer , Galeri Konstruktiv Tendens, Stockholm, Sweden
  • 2006: Morphogenesis-Metagenesis , Dorothea van der Koelen gallery , Mainz
  • 2006: Natural Structures , Dorothea van der Koelen Gallery, Venice, Italy
  • 2008: Gallery of the City of Tuttlingen
  • 2007: Works on paper and sculptures , Georg-Meistermann-Museum , Wittlich
  • 2007: Natural Structures , Artmark Gallery, Vienna
  • 2007: Sphären , Leverkusen Art Association
  • 2009: Reconstructing Nature , Galeri Konstruktiv Tendens, Stockholm, Sweden
  • 2010: EI_2010, Plan10 , Forum of Current Architecture in Cologne, Kunstbar Cologne
  • 2010: Reconstructing Nature , Museum and Gallery Im Prediger, Schwäbisch Gmünd
  • 2011: Visual Analogies and Inquiries (with Michiko Itatani), Institute of Art and Design, Milwaukee, USA
  • 2012: Survivors , Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn , Bonn
  • 2013: At rest , Hamburg International Garden Show
  • 2013: InnerOuter Space , Wende Art Villa Heusgen, Krefeld
  • 2013: Reflecting Space , Galerie Maurer, Frankfurt am Main
  • 2014: Luminale , Galerie Maurer Frankfurt
  • 2014: Stella Nova , Karl-Ernst-Osthaus-Museum , Hagen
  • 2015: Embodiments , Galerie Gerken, Berlin
  • 2017: Forms of existence , Karl-Ernst-Osthaus Museum Hagen
  • 2018: Probability Clouds , Galerie Judith Andreae, Bonn
  • 2018: Spooky long-distance effect , Galerie Maurer, Frankfurt am Main

Participation in exhibitions (selection)

  • 2000: Functional and Non-Functional Objects , Institute of Art and Design, Milwaukee, USA
  • 2000: Under the skin. Transformations of the biological in contemporary art , Lehmbruck Museum , Duisburg
  • 2001: Contemporary Positions in German Drawing , Institute of Art and Design, Milwaukee, USA
  • 2001: Kunsthochelf , Galerie Edith Wahlandt, Stuttgart
  • 2002: The San Francisco Showcase , Kay Kimpton Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, USA
  • 2003: Geometrisk Abstraktion XXIV , Galerie Konstruktiv Tendens, Stockholm, Sweden
  • 2003: Stadtlicht - light art , Lehmbruck – Museum, Duisburg
  • 2006: 100 years - 100 heads , Lehmbruck Museum Duisburg
  • 2007: Even if Love , Kunstverein Ludwigshafen in cooperation with the Wilhelm-Hack-Museum (with Yuko Shiraishi)
  • 2008: New Walls from Berlin , Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York
  • 2008: I dream of Genomes , Islip Art Museum, Islip, New York, USA
  • 2008: Focus: Sculpture II. Abstract Tendencies , Kunsthalle Mannheim
  • 2008: picture exchange. New presentation of the Marli Hoppe-Ritter Collection , Museum Ritter , Waldenbuch
  • 2009: Objectless , Society for Art and Design , Bonn
  • 2009: Die Rationale II , Frauenmuseum Bonn, Bonn
  • 2009: Contemporary Drawing , Artmark Galerie, Vienna, Austria
  • 2010: Abstract II , Artmark Gallery Vienna
  • 2011: Biomorph! Hans Arp and contemporary artistic positions , Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck , Remagen
  • 2012: Illusion Natur , Galerie Judith Andreae, Bonn
  • 2012: Sculpture in the Vorgebirgspark , Cologne
  • 2014: Flow , Neue Galerie Landshut (with Claudia Desgranges )
  • 2015: Walking Dots , Gallery of Artists , Munich
  • 2017: The Planet Is Blue , Galerie Judith Andreae, Bonn, Bonn
  • 2017: Red comes before red , collection presentation Museum Ritter , Waldenbuch, Waldenbuch

Works in public space (selection)

  • Four-Gate House , Hamburg
  • The way , Bremerhaven
  • Children's square , outdoor project of the Springhornhof art association, Neuenkirchen
  • Four Winds Square , Bremen
  • Axioms , Rheinisches Autobahnamt, Krefeld
  • Transfusion III , Städtisches Klinikum Duisburg-Wedau, loan from Wilhelm-Lehmbruck-Museum Duisburg
  • Globules , Les Tourelles Park, Sainte Maxime, France
  • Capsules , vocational school, Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler

Works in public and publicly accessible collections

Publications (selection)

  • Birgitta Weimer. From the origin of matter. 1993, Art Collection of the City of Limburg, Ingrid Haar Gallery, Dorit Jacobs Gallery
  • Birgitta Weimer, Holon. Bergisch Gladbach 1998, ed. Urban Villa Zanders, ISBN 3-9805715-3-X .
  • Birgitta Weimer: The third nature. (= Documents of our time. Volume 28). Chorus Verlag for Science and Art, Mainz 2001, ISBN 3-926663-28-6 .
  • Under the skin. Transformations of the biological in contemporary art. Wilhelm-Lehmbruck-Museum, Duisburg 2001. Hatje Cantz-Verlag, Ostfildern 2001, ISBN 3-7757-9071-3 .
  • Birgitta Weimer. In: artist. Critical lexicon of contemporary art. Issue 73, issue 7, Zeitverlag, Munich 2006, ISSN  0934-1730 .
  • Birgitta Weimer, Morphogenesis - Metagenesis. (= Documents of our time. Volume 37). Chorus Verlag for Science and Art, Mainz 2007, ISBN 978-3-926663-37-5 .
  • wired vol. 01/09, edith wahlandt gallery Stuttgart and gallery am Prediger Schwäbisch Gmünd, ISBN 978-3-936988-16-1 .
  • wired vol. 02/10 Globules, published by IG BAU, Frankfurt
  • wired vol. 03/12 Published by Landschaftsverband Rheinland, LVR Landesmuseum
  • wired Vol. 04/13 Schnellsblasen, Ed. Galerie Maurer, Frankfurt
  • wired Vol. 05./14 Ed. Osthaus Museum Hagen

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ brandeins.de
  2. ↑ Birgitta Weimer in conversation with Susanne Wedewer, for Birgitta Weimer. In: Artists, Critical Lexicon of Contemporary Art. Issue 73, issue 7, 1, quarter 2006, Zeitverlag München 2006, ISSN  0934-1730
  3. ↑ Söke Dinkla: From the first to the third nature. In: Dorothea van der Koelen gallery: Britta Weimer The third nature. (= Documents of our time. XXVIII). Mainz 2001, ISBN 3-926663-28-6 . S- 28.
  4. ↑ Söke Dinkla. Op. Cit, p. 28.
  5. ^ The Planet is Blue. Retrieved December 11, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Red comes before red. Collection presentation. In: museum-ritter.de. Retrieved December 11, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Georg Leisten: Red comes before red in the Museum Ritter in Waldenbuch. At home in raspberry syrup. In: stuttgarter-zeitung.de. June 1, 2017, accessed December 11, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Weimer, Birgitta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German visual artist
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd October 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Gemünden am Main