Gerhard Reinert (artist)

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Gerhard Reinert (born October 20, 1950 in Rastenburg ) is a German visual artist .

life and work

Gerhard Reinert studied at the Berlin University of the Arts and at the Ruhr University in Bochum . Since 1986 he has been working as a freelance artist in the areas of installation art , objects and spaces. His intermedia approach is evident in the production of experimental films, interactive websites and the publication of books. The use of scattering, fragmentation and delimitation is characteristic of his concept . In addition to his artistic work, he works as an exhibition maker. He founded the Kunst-Wirk-Raum, Recklinghausen (1988) and Berlin (1999) and in 2014 the Atelierhaus Recklinghausen. (with Emmy Rindtorff) and in 1990 became a member of the West German Artists Association .

Awards (selection)

  • 1985: Award for Object Art Museum Gelsenkirchen
  • 2006: 1st prize for the sculpture "Pulsing Signalicht", Gelsenkirchen central station
  • 2014: Prize of the Vestische Künstlerbund for a work on Paul Cézanne

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions (selection)

Participation in exhibitions

  • 1985: Color in the Present , Quadrat, Museum Bottrop
  • 1988: upside down , Kunsthalle Recklinghausen
  • 1989: West German Artists Association , annual exhibition at Osthaus Museum Hagen
  • 1992: Die Enge , Lüdenscheid City Museums
  • 1993: Transfer , Sint-Pietersabdij, Centrum voor Kunst en Kultur, Gent, (B)
  • 1994: Transfer , Musée des Beaux Arts, Charleroi, Belgium
  • 1998: One of Hundred , Du Mont-Kunsthalle, Cologne
  • 1999: Art from North Rhine-Westphalia , Yan Huang Art Museum Beijing, China
  • 1999: National Spectrum Museum Gdansk , Poland
  • 1999: Yan Huang Art Museum Beijing, China
  • 2002: West German Artists Association, Museum Bochum
  • 2003: IKOB art collection, Eupen, Belgium
  • 2003: Art Museum Gelsenkirchen
  • 2004: The electronic space , Marl sculpture museum
  • 2007: The ikob collection , Bozar, Palace of Fine Arts, Brussels
  • 2008: Museum of Young Art (MOYA), Vienna
  • 2013: Wortgewand , Meno Parkas, Kaunas, Lithuania
  • 2013: Ironie , project space of the German Association of Artists
  • 2013: Paper meets plastic , Kunsthalle Recklinghausen
  • 2015: Via Via , Pictura, Dordrecht, The Netherlands
  • 2016: Museum = K (x + y) / D, exhibition dedicated to Jan Hoet , ikob , Museum of Contemporary Art, Eupen, Belgium

Working in public space (selection)

  • Daedalus (vibrations) , flag sculpture, Recklinghausen, 1991
  • Acrobats , Marl-Hüls market square (with Rolf Glasmeier), 1990
  • Red carpet , Sculpture Museum Glaskasten Marl (outside area), 1991
  • Pulsating signal light , kinetic sculpture, Gelsenkirchen central station, 2006

Works in public collections (selection)

  • 10 collages, 1994ff. Recklinghausen art gallery
  • Installed television object, untitled, 1989, Sculpture Museum Glaskasten Marl
  • Film installation "Die Stille", 2013 , Collection Internationales Kunstzentrum Ostbelgien, IKOB , Eupen
  • Artists' books from the Art and Poetry series, 2011, ongoing, Bibliotheca Bipontina , Zweibrücken State Library

Books, publications (selection)

  • Works, pieces - on the process of scattering, an overview. Recklinghausen and Hamburg, 2013. ISBN 978-3-939753-40-7 .
  • with Karel Studnar: artist workshops in industrial buildings in the Ruhr area. Kettler DruckVerlag, Bönen 2009, ISBN 978-3-86206-000-9 .
  • five studios, workrooms for art processes. 1980 to 2008, Seltmann printing company, Lüdenscheid 2008.
As editor
  • Artist books - about the possibilities of making and using books. Recklinghausen 2015.
  • Inventory - Contributions to aesthetic district research. The König-Ludwig School and the Ludwigsviertel. Recklinghausen, 2014, ISBN 978-3-939753-47-6 .
  • with Hedda Wilms: Works: Art and Poetry, Vol. 1–9. Recklinghausen and Zweibrücken, 2010–2015.

Book designs

  • To show the flag. Catalog for the Ruhrfestspielausstellung, Ruhrfestspielgelände Recklinghausen, 1990.
  • Small but ..., miniature as a concept. Catalog in postcard format, Museum Bochum, with Elly Valk-Verheijen. Kettler DruckVerlag, 2003.
  • verbatim, language in art. Book for the exhibition series of the West German Artists Association. Seltmann, Lüdenscheid 2011, ISBN 978-3-942831-05-5 .
  • Gerhard Reinert (Ed.): Event, art of happening , book for the art price exhibition in the Kutscherhaus Recklinghausen. Seltmann PrintArt, 2012, ISBN 978-3-942831-51-2 .

literature

  • Karl-Heinz Brosthaus: distributions, distributions. In: NIKE, Sculpture 3, 1992, pp. 8-9.
  • J. Charzynska, I. Zietkiewicz, A. Feuss: Spectrum, German-Polish artists. Catalog for the exhibition, in the National Museum Danzig and in the Museum Ostdeutsche Galerie, Regensburg 1999.
  • Axel Feuss: Reinert (lexicon article). In: General Artist Lexicon. The visual artists of all times and peoples. Edited by Andreas Beyer , Bénédicte Savoy and Wolfgang Tegethoff, Vol. 98, pp. 169–170. Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Bremen / Boston 2018.
  • Ralf Heese: The process of change is shown in a minimalized way. The artist Gerhard Reinert shows pictures and installations in the "gallery im griesbad". In: Stuttgarter Zeitung , October 16, 1990.
  • Anneliese Knorr: The corruptibility of the eye, Gerhard Reinert's unbounded color spaces. Catalog Kunstverein Gelsenkirchen. To: Brigitte Driller, Gerhard Reinert - Color Spaces and Fields of Action , 1985.
  • Sculpture , International Sculpture Magazine, 1991.
  • Ferdinand Ullrich: Pulsating signal light (preface). In: Gerhard Reinert: Pulsating signal light. Boss Verlag, Kleve 2006, ISBN 3-929040-99-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gerhard Reinert , kulturserver-nrw.de
  2. ^ Gerhard Reinert: works, pieces. Recklinghausen 2014, ISBN 978-3-939753-40-7 .
  3. ↑ http://www.atelierhaus-recklinghausen.de/
  4. ^ Gerhard Reinert: Inventory. Hamburg 2014 ISBN 978-3-939753-47-6
  5. ^ Gerhard Reinert, Günther Zins - Installations, catalog for the exhibition in the Sculpture Museum Glaskasten , Marl 1991, ISBN 3-924790-28-0
  6. ↑ Press release: Paper meets plastic ( Memento of the original from January 5, 2016 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / recklinghausen.de
  7. ↑ exhibition Via Via , kunstinzicht.nl
  8. ↑ Daedalus , kunstgebiet.ruhr
personal data
SURNAME Reinert, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH October 20, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Rastenburg