Erwin Wurm

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Erwin Wurm, 2016
House on the Mumok (Museum of Modern Art) in Vienna, 2007
DoSto designed by Erwin Wurm at the head of other cars of the GKB art train (LokoMotive, Graz 2003)
Sculpture sailing boat on the roof of the Hotel Daniel in Vienna, April 2014

Erwin Wurm (born July 27, 1954 in Bruck an der Mur ) is an Austrian artist.

activity

Erwin Wurm has been working on a complex work for more than two decades, which can be paraphrased by expanding the terms plastic / sculpture. His work includes material sculptures, actions, videos, photos, drawings and books. One of the most influential groups of works are Wurm's One Minute Sculptures . Erwin Wurm is one of the most successful contemporary artists.

From 1974 to 1977 he studied art history and German at the University of Graz.

From 1977 to 1979 he was a student of art and craft education (sculpture with Ruedi Arnold ) at the University of Mozarteum Salzburg , then called - University of Music and Performing Arts "Mozarteum" in Salzburg - from 1979 to 1982 he attended the University for applied arts and the Academy of Fine Arts .

From 2002 to 2006 he taught as a professor at the Institute for Art and Cultural Studies / Art Education and from 2007 to 2010 for Sculpture / Sculpture and Multimedia at the Institute for Fine and Media Art at the University of Applied Arts Vienna .

He became known to a broader public for his One Minute Sculptures , for which people pose with everyday objects in a surprising encounter, which Wurm then documents through photographs. Often these are also exhibition visitors, who become objects of aesthetic experience within the exhibition situation itself, thus making the relationship between subject and object a subject. These One Minute Sculptures became popular, among other things, through the video of the group Red Hot Chili Peppers for their single Can't Stop from 2003, in which Erwin Wurm is named as a source of inspiration.

Wurm's “Fat” sculptures are also known, showing petty bourgeois status symbols such as cars or single-family houses in a “fatty”, bloated state.

In autumn 2006 the MUMOK dedicated an exhibition to him in the MuseumsQuartier in Vienna. A full-size single-family house, which was attached to the roof of the MUMOK building at an angle and upside down, caused a lot of excitement. In 2010 the Kunstmuseum Bonn exhibited works by Wurms from 2007 to 2009. At the 54th Venice Art Biennale in 2011, Wurm was represented with “Narrow House”, a model of his parents' house, reduced to a sixth of its size in the longitudinal axis. "Narrow House" was already on view in 2010 in the exhibition in Klosterneuburg .

"Humor is a weapon", Erwin Wurm once said. But he does not see himself as a humorist, he uses his wit to show "everyday life from a different perspective". His works are carried by a bizarre humor that often goes into satirical terms. With this in mind, he designed a “self-portrait as a pickled gherkin” in 2008, which is now owned by the Museum der Moderne Salzburg .

For Lent 2020, Wurm installed an 80 square meter Lenten cloth in the form of a violet knitted sweater as a symbol of "warming charity" in St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna .

Art in public space

  • 2011: Gherkins , 2011 in Salzburg, Furtwängler Park
  • 2013: Bob , chip shop on Place François Mitterrand, Lille, France
  • 2014: Installation "Segelboot", Hotel Daniel (on the roof), Vienna
  • 2017: Fat House , in front of the Upper Belvedere , Vienna

gallery

Awards

literature

Movie

  • Erwin Wurm - The artist who swallowed the world . The 55-minute television film was shown on January 30, 2013 on the Franco-German television station arte .

Web links

Commons : Erwin Wurm  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Der Spiegel Kulturspiegel 3/2010, March 2010, p. 26.
  2. ^ Walter Titz: Bags, caves and bazaars. In: Kleine Zeitung , June 3, 2011, p. 42.
  3. ↑ Erwin Wurm - humor as a weapon. In: Focus Online , April 27, 2007.
  4. ↑ Johann Werfring: The history of the pickled gherkin facets. In: Wiener Zeitung , June 14, 2012, supplement “ProgrammPunkte”, p. 7.
  5. ↑ wien ORF at / Agencies red: Giant sweater by Erwin Wurm as a fasting cloth. February 20, 2020, accessed February 21, 2020 .
  6. ^ "Die Presse" of March 20, 2013, accessed on March 20, 2013
  7. ↑ APA: Erwin Wurm receives award from the state of Styria. In: derStandard.at. April 17, 2015, accessed April 17, 2015 .
  8. ↑ Marlies Matejka named Austrian of the year 2015. In: erzdioezese-wien.at. October 24, 2015, accessed October 24, 2015 .
  9. ↑ Can a work of art be bold? in FAZ of January 30, 2013, p. 31.
  10. ↑ https://www.1blick.org/einblick/beginn_1998/wurm_1998.html
  11. ↑ https://www.1blick.org/einblick/1000worte/1000-wurm/1000-wurm.html
  12. ↑ https://www.1blick.org/einblick/animalisch04/wurm-e.htm
  13. ↑ https://www.1blick.org/einblick/baum06/wurm-e.htm
  14. ↑ https://www.1blick.org/einblick/geldgold07/wurm-e.html
  15. ↑ https://www.1blick.org/einblick/glueck08/wurm_e.html
  16. ↑ https://www.1blick.org/einblick/magicon2017/wurm_2017.html
personal data
SURNAME Worm, Erwin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian artist
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Bruck an der Mur