Eric Gand

Eric Gand (* 1945 in Munich ) is a German artist .

Life

Gand has been making photo collages and photos since 1977, and pictures, sculptures and installations since 1987 . He published in Das Landsberger Lesebuch and in the poetry volumes of Walt Whitman and Rodja Weigand as well as in 1986 in a catalog for the exhibition “there was also a beginning at the end” and in 2009 in an art volume Eric Gand - Pictures and Rodja Weigand - Poems. Gand lives near Landsberg am Lech and runs the “Kunstraum Schwifting” with Kurt Tykwer.

Exhibitions

• 1995: Schwiftinger Galerie, Schwifting near Landsberg - pictures
• 1996: Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry, Munich-Martinsried - Cosmos cycle
• 1998: Stadttheater Landsberg - photo collages
• 1999: Schwiftinger Galerie - black lacquer pictures and installations
• 2000: Orangery, Munich - Umschlagplatz - video installation
• 2002: Säulenhalle, Landsberg - rooms / grids - photography, pictures, installations
• 2004: Stadtmuseum Landsberg - photo collages about Walt Whitman,
• 2004: Säulenhalle, Landsberg - Rost - photos, photo collages, images, installations
• 2005: Kunstraum, Schwifting - sculptures
• 2008: Orangery, Munich - captured art - installation
• 2009: Kunstraum, Schwifting - artist books with poems by Rodja Weigand

Video installations

• 1998: Very finely divided solid particles , video
• 1999: The railing , video
• 2000: Umschlagplatz , video installation
• 2012: Not far . Based on a poem by Rodja Weigand, short film on DVD
• 2017: escapes . Short film based on a poem by Amal Djarah (ran in the competition of the Art Visuals & Poetry Film Festival Vienna)

Awards

• 2014: Goethe goes video prize for the film adaptation of poetry by Unweit

Web links

• Literature by and about Eric Gand in the catalog of the German National Library