Clemens Weiss

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Clemens Weiss
Installation (1990)

Clemens Weiss (born September 26, 1955 in Grefrath ) is a German artist living in the United States .

Youth and education

Clemens Weiss grew up in the Lower Rhine region. 1970–1973 he completed technical training in mechanical engineering. He then studied art, philosophy, medicine and geology in Krefeld, Düsseldorf and 1977–1982 in Vienna, while at the same time working as a freelance artist. In 1983 he retired to Süchteln and concentrated on his own philosophical-theoretical and artistic work. Since 1986 he had his own studio in Mönchengladbach . There he put together a documentation of his previous artistic work block and finally moved to New York in 1987 , where he has lived and worked ever since.

Installation (New York, 1991)
Installation in the St. Marien Church in Prenzlau (2005)
Installation in the UN Palais des Nations , Geneva

Artistic creation

His exhibition activity began in 1988 at the renowned Ronald Feldman Gallery in New York. Numerous exhibitions as well as art, theater and public sculpture projects in Europe and the USA in galleries, art associations and museums followed; there were also guest lectures, lectures and public events, often in connection with exhibitions. Weiss has appeared as a curator and publisher of large transatlantic projects in the art and media sector, for example the New York project of Juni-Verlag 1991, an art exhibition by American artists in Germany. He advocates international understanding and warns of dangers that threaten humanity: His sculpture Regarding Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapon has been - as an official gift from the Federal Republic of Germany to the United Nations - as a permanent installation in the Palace of Nations since 1996 ( UN) in Geneva . There, 42 handwritten texts are stored in a group of stelae, including all the important international treaties that contain aspects of the complexity of the nuclear age up to the year 1995.

Weiss tries to merge the different genres of art and philosophy by means of installations and groups of works. His installations consist of transparent glass constructions, in which drawings, writings and other objects are often inserted, and which are also used in his own theater productions. His works can be found in renowned museums, for example in the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York and in the Pushkin Museum in Moscow .

Clemens Weiss lives in New York City .

Quote

The international art forum writes about Weiss's work:

  • “Weiss wants to illustrate concepts that are difficult to implement in practice. What is impressively demonstrated is what is interwoven and related to one another in our life: the banal and the outstanding, the precious, the clear and the diffuse. He shows this with rough technical means and with a simplicity that is pleasantly reserved. "

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

  • 2013 Owens Gallery, Ontario (Canada)
  • 2012 Boulder Museum of Art, Boulder / Colorado (USA)
  • 2011 Redline Milwaukee, (USA)
  • 2008 Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York (USA)
  • 2007 Yvonne Lambert Gallery, Paris (France)
  • 2006 Suermond Ludwig Museum, Aachen
  • 2005 St. Marien-Kirche, Prenzlau , Intervention-Stadtraum
  • 2001 Folkwang Museum , Essen. (New acquisitions)
  • 2001 Museum Schloss Morsbroich , Leverkusen. (Darlings)
  • 2000 Expo 2000 , Hanover. (Post Editions)
  • 1999 Nationalgalerie Berlin , (The XXth Century - 100 Years of Art in Germany)
  • 1991 Ludwig Forum for International Art , Aachen. (Transcendence / transparency)

Works (selection)

Works in public collections

Books

  • Clemens Weiss. Drawings - series 1990–1997 . Seippel. Cologne 1997, ISBN 3-9804967-5-9
  • Hans Ehrenbaum-Degele / Clemens Weiss: Poems / Drawings . Weidle. Bonn 1995, ISBN 3-931135-11-X
  • in the city and in the country , Kunstverein Region Heinsberg 1995
  • Development stories. A selection of drawings made in New York in 1988 in a sketchbook . Juni-Verlag, Mönchengladbach 1991, ISBN 3-926738-16-2
  • Drawings and concepts for installation segment No. 3 . New Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen 1990, ISBN 3-929261-12X
  • Albert Vigoleis Thelen / Clemens Weiss: Poems / Drawings . Juni-Verlag, Mönchengladbach 1989

Illustrations

  • Cover photo. Albrecht Joseph: Carl Zuckmayer, Bruno Frank. Portraits . Weidle, Bonn 1993, ISBN 978-3-931135-01-0
  • Cover photo. Rudolph S. Joseph: From great theater times . Alamo. Aachen 1994, ISBN 978-3931135065
  • Design for pre-paid telephone calling card. "Edition of 100", Amerivox 1994
  • Drawing. Beyond Freedom . Book for Olusegun Obasanjo . New York 1996
  • Cover photo. Albrecht Joseph: The last curtain . Weidle, Bonn 1996, ISBN 978-3-931135-23-2
  • Cover photo. Clam pile No. 38. Viersen 1999, ISSN  0085-3593
  • Stage design for Anne Frank 's Diary . Temple Israel, New York 2001

Interviews and media broadcasts (selection)

  • Enzo Capua: Film Documentation New York Artists. 2001
  • Enzo Capua: Studio Interviews: New York Artists Responding to September 11.
  • Vera Linß: Interview Rundfunk Berlin . Atelier New York 2001
  • Interview exhibition Galerie Lutze. Südwestfunk 2000
  • Klaus Fleming: GLASS Theater Performance Report. West German radio . September 1996
  • Ernst Jürgens: Atelier discussions “Line K”. Culture magazine Westdeutscher Rundfunk. February 1995

Literature, sources

  • Klaus Fleming: Transparency. To the work of Clemens Weiss . In: June. Magazine for culture and politics . No. 2-3 / 89. Mönchengladbach 1989, ISSN  0931-2854
  • Walter Delabar: From my aquarium. Clemens Weiss packs the world in glass cases (ibid)
  • Susanne Lingemann: Clemens Weiss - Glass Shrines of Knowledge . In: art - the art magazine . Hamburg, October 1993, ISSN  0173-2781
  • Franz Kotteder : 10 worlds for yourself and for everyone . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of September 4, 1997
  • Encyclopedia entry Clemens Weiss . In: Creps: Biographical encyclopedia of American painters, sculptors & engravers of the US 2002, ISBN 0-9668526-1-3
  • Ken Johnson: Clemens Weiss . In: The New York Times, July 11, 2003
  • Edward Leffingwell: Clemens Weiss at Ronald Feldman . In: Art in America . no. 2. New York 2004, ISSN  0004-3214

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ GLASS theater performance [1] and ensemblia 2007
  2. ↑ Jürgen Kisters: Clemens Weiss . In: Kunstforum international , Volume 101. 1990, Page 321, ISSN  0177-3674
personal data
SURNAME Weiss, Clemens
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Grefrath