Bodo Sperling

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Bodo Sperling (2010)
Bodo Sperling (right) with Hilmar Hoffmann (left)

Bodo Sperling (born May 6, 1952 in Hanau ) is a German painter and conceptual artist .

Life

Bodo Sperling's painting of part of the Berlin Wall
Crystal Object, Objectivism, 8 ° 36'44 "49 ° 43'33" 7:00 p.m.

Bodo Sperling passed the entrance examination at the State University of Fine Arts - Städelschule Frankfurt, but then decided to study art history at the University of Tübingen .

Starting in 1980, the first pictures were made from crystals and crystal tablets. Since 1985 he has been using computers as a design tool. Two of his computer paintings can be seen in the Museum of New Art in Karlsruhe .

In November 1989, as spokesman for the board of the Federal Association of Visual Artists, Sperling was co-initiator of the East Side Gallery in the course of the negotiations on the merger of the two German artist associations BBK and VBK . A well-known, publicly accessible work was the section he painted on the longest surviving section of the Berlin Wall , entitled The Transformation of the Pentagram into a Star of Peace in a Great Europe without Walls (East Side Gallery, Fig. 18).

In 1992 the 1st All-German Artists' Congress took place in Potsdam, to which Sperling was delegated as the official representative of the state of Hesse.

In 1991 he created a video installation at the state exhibition in Kassel which, according to the philosopher Thomas Metzinger, confronted the viewer with the "objective documentation of space-time". A steel basin was installed on a stone altar weighing tons, in which crystals formed from a boiling solution. The entire process was documented by an automatic camera over several weeks.

In 1992 he installed a five-meter-high mobile at the 1st All-German Artists' Congress in Potsdam , which, illuminated by slide projectors , created the impression of a constantly changing 3D film.

In the course of the renovation of the East Side Gallery in 2009, Sperling headed a resistance (Gründerinitiative East Side) of the artists whose works were removed from the wall and criticized the lack of transparency and poor financial resources of the artists as well as the violation of copyrights the planned restoration of the works of art. In May 2011, Sperling brought an action against the State of Berlin . The regional court dismissed the lawsuit. Sperling had hoped that his lawsuit would serve as a model for other artists. His lawyer spoke of cultural blackmail in this context.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1983: Gustav-Siegle-Haus / Stuttgart
  • 1986: Frankfurter Kunstverein Steinernes Haus / Frankfurt, "DAS AKTFOTO" Aesthetics History Ideology, Museum of the 20th Century, Vienna. Adhesive action: "15 years before 2000 - the representation of violence and brutality still has priority over the representation of sexuality"
  • 1990: East Side Gallery / Berlin, co-founder from November 1989, picture 18 “The transformation of the pentagram in a Europe without walls” 10 mx 3.60 m on the Berlin Wall
  • 1990: The Pleasures within Distance , WINDOW / Sydney College of the Arts , Sydney, Australia
  • 1991: Hessian State Exhibition '91 BBK Hessen / Kassel
  • 1992: Kunsthalle Darmstadt . Solo exhibition, art prize of the DAG educational institution, Kunsthalle Hamburg, Darmstadt
  • 1993: Goethe-Institut / Prague, Czech Republic
  • 1994: Museum Wiesbaden . Hessiale '94 State art exhibition of the Federal Association of Visual Artists, Hesse

Collections, commissioned work, art in public spaces

  • Museum of New Art ZKM Karlsruhe, "B3" , 1991, computer painting on silver photo canvas, 100 × 140 cm · "B7" , 1991, computer painting on silver photo canvas, 100 × 140 cm, Karlsruhe
  • Computer Associates, implementation of the architectural design of the CA company building in a mural for the entrance hall 1.60 mx 3.60 m, acrylic on canvas and design basis for the East Side Galley picture on the Berlin Wall from 1990, Darmstadt
  • Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena, implementation of the “Cathedral of Siena”, acrylic on canvas 2.20 mx 90 cm, Frankfurt / Siena

Awards

  • 1992: Art Prize of the DAG educational institutions
  • 2016: Audience Award 4th International André Evard Award

literature

  • Thomas Metzinger : Bodo Sperling, Transparency of Consciousness: September 19 - October 31, 1997 in the DigitalArt Gallery, Frankfurt am Main , Verlag Videor Art Foundation, 1997. Length 45 pages
  • Hessiale'91, State Art Exhibition Kassel , (catalog)
  • Bodo Sperling 1992, Kunsthalle Hamburg / Kunsthalle Darmstadt (catalog)
  • Hessiale'94, Landeskunstausstellung Landesmuseum Wiesbaden , ISBN 3-9804024-0-1 (catalog)
  • Zylvia Auerbach (ed.): The Pleasures within Distance , Sydney 1990, ISBN 0-646-01536-2 (catalog)

Web links

Commons : Bodo Sperling  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information on Bodo Sperling at ZKM
  2. ↑ ZKM | Museum of New Art
  3. ↑ Thomas Metzinger: Bodo Sperling, Transparency of Consciousness: September 19 - October 31, 1997 in the DigitalArt Gallery, Frankfurt am Main , Verlag Videor Art Foundation, 1997
  4. ↑ The fake memorial - simulating history: Why Berlin simply had the most famous section of the wall repainted . Peter Geimer - Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, features section December 1, 2009, No. 279, p. 34 ( Memento of March 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) With the kind permission of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
  5. ^ Brother kiss is a long time coming. TAZ May 1st, 2009
  6. ↑ ART UNDER WASSERDAMPF ( Memento of the original from March 25, 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. . art Das Kunstmagazin, April 7th, 2009  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.art-magazin.de
  7. ↑ Fresque du Mur de Berlin: 20 ans après, des artistes réclament un bon cachet . LeParisien.fr, April 1, 2009
  8. ↑ Why artist Bodo Sperling is suing Berlin  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . berliner-Rundfunk , May 4, 2011 (no longer available)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.berliner-rundfunk.de  
  9. ^ Artist Bodo Sperling is suing Berlin . 3sat , May 6, 2011 (no longer available) ( Die Kulturzeit-Nachrichten: artist Bodo Sperling sued Berlin , 3Sat, Kulturzeit, May 6, 2011, on http://programm.ard.de/ )
  10. ↑ Kulturelle-Blackmail , Süddeutsche Zeitung February 8, 2012 (no longer available), "Kulturelle Blackmail, Süddeutsche Zeitung, February 8, 2012" (restricted access via Genios )
  11. ↑ News | messmer museum. In: www.kunsthallemessmer.de. Retrieved May 18, 2016 .
  12. ↑ Bodo Sperling on the video art foundation website
personal data
SURNAME Sparrow, Bodo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and conceptual artist
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanau