Claus Richter (artist)

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Claus Richter (* 1971 in Lippstadt ) is a contemporary German artist . His artistic practice is multimedia.

Life

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In 2003 Richter completed his studies at the Offenbach am Main University of Design .

In addition to his artistic installations, most of which are stylistically dedicated to a nostalgic toy aesthetic, he writes puppet plays, stages them on stage, composes songs, invents stories and gives lectures.

The conceptions of his exhibitions often have an illusionistic character. He constructs spatial arrangements, which he works out in detail and thus creates complete worlds of illusion. These rooms deal with a. with amusement parks, film sets and fairytale-like subjects that are based on the artist's childhood. The source of his aesthetic is to a large extent his childhood and youth in the 1970s and 80s. Richter is characterized by a great passion for collecting. His collection includes technical and analog toys from this period.

Richter's work has been shown in solo exhibitions in museums and in art associations. In 2010, the Leopold Hoesch Museum presented a solo exhibition by Richter. He also had solo exhibitions at the Kunstverein Braunschweig (2008), the Ursula Blickle Foundation in Kraichtal, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Siegen (2005) and the Clages Gallery in Cologne.

In 2015 Richter's work Very Large Self-Portrait with Train and Colored Lights was part of the group exhibition Toys Redux at the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Zurich .

Richter's work was also shown in Oliver Tepel's group exhibition Après Crépuscule at the Kölnischer Kunstverein in 2009.

Claus Richter's work is represented in the collections of the Museum Ludwig in Cologne and the Leopold Hoesch Museum in Düren , among others .

Richter is gay. He lives and works in Cologne .

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions
  • Get a Life, Ursula Blickle Foundation, Kraichtal, 2005
  • Serendipity, revolver, Archive for Current Art, Frankfurt am Main, 2006
  • Based on a true story, Ringenberg Castle, Hamminkeln, 2006
  • The Funky Rabbit-Hole, revolver, Archive for Current Art, Frankfurt am Main, 2007
  • Two barnum Egress Drifts, Kunstverein Braunschweig, 2008
  • Tendre est la nuit / Read more books (with Oliver Tepel), Clages, Cologne, 2008
  • Nosegay-Press / Forever yours, Clages, Cologne, 2009
  • Follow your dream, never give up, believe in yourself, etc., Kunstverein Assenheim, Niddatal, 2009
  • Nothing is easy & selected works from the Hoesch Collection, Leopold-Hoesch-Museum, Düren, 2010
  • Millions of Lights, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, 2010
  • Mirrored Mountain Castle, Clages, Cologne, 2011
  • WAKEFIELD, FLITCRAFT, ISIDOR, artothek, Cologne, 2013
  • Regen, Clages, Cologne, 2013
  • Very strange chronology of various events of the Kölnischer Kunstverein from 1839 to 1914, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, 2014
  • Ignorance, Clages, Cologne, 2014
Group exhibitions
  • Formalism. Modern art, today, (with Jensen / Husain), Kunstverein Hamburg, 2004
  • Photography, Galerie Meerrettich in the glass pavilion at the Volksbühne, Berlin, 2004
  • Film, State Art Gallery, Baden-Baden, 2005
  • Unquenchable greed, Migros Museum, (with Jensen / Husain), Zurich, 2005
  • A Delicious Feeling of Confidence, frieze art fair, London, 2007
  • Experimenta Folklore, Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main, 2008
  • Après Crepuscule, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, 2009
  • Twelve Arguments Part I, Clages, Berlin, 2009
  • Twelve Arguments Part II, Clages, Cologne, 2009
  • New Frankfurt Internationals "Museum of Modern Art / Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main, 2010
  • Spectrums of Lights, Temporary Gallery, Cologne, 2011
  • Cosima from Bonin`s Cut! Cut! Cut! for Museum Ludwig`s Sloth Section, participation, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, 2012
  • Gold rush. Contemporary art from, with or about gold, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nuremberg, 2012
  • ONLY HERE. Collection of contemporary art from the Federal Republic of Germany. Acquisitions from 2007 to 2011, Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn, 2013
  • The only performances that make it all the way ..., Künstlerhaus Graz, Graz, 2013
  • (impossible! Artists as Architects, Marta Herford, Herford, 2013
  • Toys Redux - On Play and Critique, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich 2015

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ [1] Retrieved July 10, 2015
  2. ↑ [2] Retrieved July 10, 2015
  3. ↑ [3] Retrieved July 10, 2015
  4. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from July 11, 2015 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 July 10, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.migrosmuseum.ch
  5. ↑ Queer.de: CDU doubts monument for LGBTI in Düsseldorf , April 11, 2020
  6. ↑ Après Crépuscule in the Cologne Art Association 2009
  7. ^ Migros Museum group show
personal data
SURNAME Judge, Claus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German visual artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Lippstadt