Bogomir Ecker

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Bogomir Ecker at the opening of Emscherkunst. 2010
Bogomir Ecker, Boden-ein Hertz, Lehmbruckmuseum Duisburg, sculpture in public space, 1990
Bogomir Ecker, Longitudi I Place Flageyplan, Brussels, sculpture in public space, 2009
Bogomir Ecker, vedere, 2001, temporarily in Lantz'schen Park , 2020

Bogomir Ecker (born May 29, 1950 in Maribor , Yugoslavia ) is a German sculptor and object artist , photographer and installation artist .

life and work

Bogomir Ecker came to Germany at the age of six. He grew up in Duisburg and, after an apprenticeship as typesetter from 1965 to 1968, studied from 1971 to 1973 with Horst Egon Kalinowski at the Karlsruhe Art Academy and then with Fritz Schwegler and Erich Reusch at the Düsseldorf Art Academy until 1979 . From 1993 to 2002 he was professor of sculpture at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg and from 2002 until his retirement in 2016 he was professor at the University of Fine Arts in Braunschweig .

Ecker is a Documenta participant and has been a member of the Berlin Academy of the Arts since 2003. He became known for art in public spaces and contextual sculptures and installations. In his work he deals with the phenomena of technology and communication as the formative impulse of this society. His works are characterized by the fact that scientific approaches are always incorporated into them. They address sensory perceptions and communication, especially seeing and hearing, and often have a technical or apparatus-like character without focusing on technology for its own sake. In the sculptures, which move on the borderline between irony and romanticism, the everyday as well as the mysterious, the trivial and the fantastic can often be associated. One of his most famous works is the “stalactite machine” in the Hamburger Kunsthalle. Various curatorial activities: such as “Das Künstlermuseum”, 2002, “NUR SCULPTUR”, 2013, Kunsthalle Mannheim, and “lens-based Sculpture” 2014, Akademie der Künste Berlin. "Idylle + Desaster", 2012, Museum für Fotografie Berlin and Photomuseum Braunschweig showed Ecker his extensive collection of anonymous photography. Bogomir Ecker lives and works in Düsseldorf.

Exhibitions

  • 1986: Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau, Munich, Bogomir Ecker - The sculpture inside (Part III)
  • 2003: Neues Museum - State Museum for Art and Design in Nuremberg, Prototypes II, 1991–1999
  • 2006: Kunsthalle Hamburg, 10 years of stalactite machine
  • 2006: Museum Folkwang Essen, You are never alone (2007 also: Kunsthalle Hamburg)
  • 2008: Akademie der Künste, Berlin, The year 2352
  • 2009: Museum of Modern Art, Haus am Dom, Frankfurt am Main, Angel Dust
  • 2010: EMSCHERKUNST.2010 with the project " reemrenreh (hardly any singing) "
  • 2012: Contact loop problem, Städt. Wolfsburg Gallery
  • 2013: Idyll and Disaster, Museum of Photography Berlin, Museum of Photography Braunschweig
  • 2013: The Sculptors, NRW Art Collection
  • 2013: ONLY SCULPTURE, Kunsthalle Mannheim
  • 2014: lens-based sculpture, Academy of Arts Berlin, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein
  • 2016: The Power of the Avantgarde, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
  • 2017: Museum Folkwang , Essen, 6 ½ weeks (2nd episode): Ecker Riemer Ruff - Retouched
  • 2020: "vedere", International Sculpture Park, Lantz'scher Park , Düsseldorf-Lohausen

literature

  • Bogomir Ecker, Thomas Huber: Art Museum. A new presentation of the collection of the museum kunst palast, Düsseldorf. Düsseldorf 2002, ISBN 3-9808208-5-8 .
  • Bogomir Ecker: With meteorites. Art Association for the Rhineland and Westphalia, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-925974-44-X .
  • Bogomir Ecker: The stalactite machine. Hamburger Kunsthalle 1996, ISBN 3-7757-9017-9 .
  • Bogomir Ecker: View into the engine room , Museum Ostdeutsche Galerie, Regensburg 1998, ISBN 3-89188-086-3 .
  • Bogomir Ecker: You 're never alone. Folkwang Museum Essen and Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 3-935567-33-2 .
  • Bogomir Ecker: Contact loop problem , Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg, Revolver Publishing, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-86895-203-2 .
  • Bogomir Ecker: Idylle + Disaster , Staatl. Museums zu Berlin, Museum for Photography and Museum for Photography Braunschweig, Spector Books, Leipzig [2012], ISBN 978-3-940064-61-5
  • Bogomir Ecker: Of people, cities, things, signs and media , Walther König bookstore, Cologne 2015, ISBN 978-3-86335-706-1 (German edition), ISBN 978-3-86335-707-8 (English edition)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "reemrenreh (hardly any singing) and life" on emscherkunst.de

Web links

Commons : Bogomir Ecker  - collection of images, videos and audio files
personal data
SURNAME Ecker, Bogomir
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Maribor , Slovenia