Gregor Schneider

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Gregor Schneider (born April 5, 1969 in Rheydt ) is a German artist whose work focuses on built spaces. In 2001 he was awarded the Golden Lion of the Biennale for his best-known work “Totes Haus ur” for the German pavilion.

biography

Schneider studied from 1989 to 1992 at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf and at the Art Academy in Münster as well as at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg . From 1999 to 2003 various guest professorships / teaching activities at De Ateliers in Amsterdam, the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg and at the Royal Danish Academy of Art in Copenhagen followed. Gregor Schneider taught as a professor of sculpture at the Berlin University of the Arts (2009 to 2012) and the Munich Academy of Fine Arts (2012 to 2016). In 2016 he was appointed to a chair for sculpture at the Düsseldorf Art Academy as the successor to Tony Cragg . Schneider took up his professorship in the summer semester of 2016.

In 2015 Gregor Schneider was elected to the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts . In May 2018 Schneider was elected as a new member of the Fine Arts section of the Berlin Academy of the Arts .

At the age of sixteen he exhibited in a solo exhibition entitled “Puberty Disgruntlement” in the Contrast Gallery in Mönchengladbach. Since the early 1990s he has been working with rooms in galleries and museums, which he understands as three-dimensional, walk-in sculptures that make the existing gallery or museum rooms disappear; He can find the templates in all areas of a residential building. In 1985 he began to expand and remodel rooms in an apartment building in Rheydt, which he subsequently called "Haus ur".

The "house ur"

House ur on Unterheydener Strasse in Mönchengladbach-Rheydt
ur 1 u 14, BEDROOM, Rheydt 1986 - 1988
"ur 10, (with inventory) COFFEE ROOM." We sit, drink coffee and just look out the window ", Rheydt 1993

The house on Unterheydener Strasse in Mönchengladbach-Rheydt - the "ur" stands for U nterheydener Strasse and R heydt - has been continuously worked on by Schneider since 1985 in an elaborate form. Gregor Schneider duplicated the existing rooms by building complete rooms consisting of walls, ceilings and floors. These doubled rooms were no longer recognizable to visitors as a room within a room. In addition, he used motors to set ceilings or entire rooms in a no longer perceptible slow movement. The shape of the fixtures created cavities and spaces. Some rooms were no longer accessible because they were now behind walls, others were insulated with concrete, lead, glass wool or sound-absorbing insulating materials. With the help of externally mounted lamps, times of the day were simulated. The rooms have been numbered consecutively (u r1 -) to distinguish them. In the beginning, the models for the replicas were all areas of a house: a bedroom, a coffee room, a storage room, a kitchen, a hallway, a cellar. In the Haus ur had since the mid 1980 Visitors reported frightening experiences.

“Dead House ur” in Venice

In 2001 Gregor Schneider won the “Golden Lion” at the 49th Venice Biennale with his solo exhibition “Totes Haus ur Venedig 2001” . Udo Kittelmann, at the time director of the Kölnischer Kunstverein , had invited the artist to a solo exhibition in the German pavilion. Here Schneider erected a dead house ur in a construction period of over three months , for which he had a total of 24 rooms in 100 packages with a total weight of 150 tons transported by ship from Rheydt to Venice; Schneider describes the rooms as dead house ur that were removed from house ur for another location or reconstructed at another location.

Schneider rebuilt the rooms inside the German pavilion into a similar double-walled and double-floored house in the house as in Rheydt. He gave the Wilhelminian style entrance to the pavilion with its portico pillars a building entrance with mailbox slots and aged doorbell signs on the side. Windows inside could not be opened to the outside. "You build what you can no longer know", commented Gregor Schneider on his installation. In the context of the Biennale, the work was also interpreted as a subtle political statement, as the German pavilion from 1909 was occasionally viewed as the “most martial” “thing to be found on the Giardini grounds”.

In 2003 the Dead House was built for one year in the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles (MOCA).

Cube

The black square - homage to Malevich next to the Hamburger Kunsthalle

Gregor Schneider was officially invited to realize the CUBE VENICE 2005 for the 2005 Biennale on St. Mark's Square in Venice. Shortly before the opening, this sculpture was banned on St. Mark's Square due to its “political nature” after a decision in Rome. CUBE VENICE 2005 was to become a sculpture of its own in form, function and appearance, inspired by the Kaaba in Mecca, the holiest place in Islam, to which millions of believers make a pilgrimage every year. Kaaba means “cube-shaped building”. The work of art, which was internationally controversial in the media, was subsequently banned from the forecourt of the Hamburger Bahnhof and a museum for contemporary art in Berlin shortly before its realization. Ultimately, Schneider realized his work CUBE HAMBURG 2007 between the old and new buildings of the Hamburger Kunsthalle . In an exhibition entitled “The Black Square Homage to Malevich” from March to July 2007 under the artistic direction of the curator Hubertus Gaßner , director of the Hamburger Kunsthalle, different aspects of a painting by (1878–1935) were examined. In order to convey the various aspects of the “Black Square”, in addition to numerous works by Malevich himself, his contemporaries, students as well as critics, were represented with works in the exhibition.

Black Square (1913) by Kasimir Malewitsch

The CUBE HAMBURG 2007 was used as an interreligious platform. Ahmet Yazici, deputy chairman of the Alliance of Islamic Congregations in Northern Germany, congratulated the artist "on his international understanding project" . Yazici assured: "Believe me, there is no Muslim community that would object." Islam does not forbid the imitation or depiction of the Kaaba in Mecca.

Gregor Schneider himself said of the idea behind the cube: “It's not my idea, but the idea of ​​a devout Muslim. He saw the connection to the Kaaba, to this building, which for me is one of the most fascinating and beautiful structures of mankind. ” After that, Schneider commented on the work: “ The sculpture demands a lot from everyone involved (...) The box leads all of us, forcing me to take action against false reporting and seek the public, which I didn't have to do before. It challenges Muslims who were new to this form of rapprochement, and it shows visitors from the western world what they have never seen before. In the history of Islam, Abraham / Ibrahim is the builder of the Kaaba. All three monotheistic religions can very well identify with the building. "

Bondi Beach, 21 beach cells

A 400 square meter walk-in installation consisting of 21 identical cells was created on the most famous beach on the Australian east coast, Bondi Beach , under the title of the same name “Bondi Beach, 21 beach cells”. The work of art, tailored to the exhibition location, questions “the ideal of an informal, egalitarian leisure society” , “where otherwise beach volleyball players and backpackers, marathon swimmers and wedding couples determine the picture” .

END

END by Gregor Schneider

From November 8, 2008 to September 6, 2009, Gregor Schneider's 14-meter-high black outdoor sculpture “END” was accessible to the public. The artist built “END” in front of the Abteiberg Museum in Mönchengladbach . The sculpture was connected to the museum and could be used as an additional entrance to the museum rooms. Before walking through “END”, the visitor had to sign a declaration that he had weighed up “whether steep ladders, narrow and / or completely darkened rooms represent a physical or psychological obstacle” for him. Then he was able to enter the ensemble "END" via a ladder through a black opening. In most parts of the room, complete darkness caused a loss of the sense of space and location. Walls were the only orientation for scanning the corridor. Four rooms from “Haus ur” were integrated in “END”.

Controversy

In the spring of 2008, Schneider sparked a controversy in the press about the idea he had formulated: “I want to show a person who is dying of natural causes or who has just died of natural causes. My goal is to show the beauty of death. ”(Authorized quote from Gregor Schneider). In April 2008 the artist was quoted in The Art Newspaper with the words: “I want to display a person dying naturally in the piece or somebody who has just died” and “My aim is to show the beauty of death”. German newspapers then ran the headline: “Artist wants to let people die”. Voices from politicians of the CDU, FDP and the Greens were heard accusing Schneider of “abuse of artistic freedom” and describing his plans as an “attempt at provocation” and a “half-baked idea”. Comments glorifying violence were posted on the internet forums of several newspapers. Schneider received death threats over the phone and by email. "There are absurd death threats against me," Schneider said in an interview with the Westdeutsche Zeitung . On April 21, he told the newspaper “Die Welt”: “I want to build humane places for dying and death”. The Guardian headlined on April 26: "There is nothing perverse about a dying person in an art gallery".

Schneider describes the built art space in detail. He would like to offer this space to a dying or dead person in a museum. This with the respective consent of the person involved, the relatives and the necessary accompaniment. With this public death space, he wanted to lead death out of the social taboo and, similar to the birth of a person, make it a positive experience.

Exhibitions and projects (selection)

  • 1985 Adolescent mood , Contrast Gallery, Mönchengladbach
  • 1985–2007 Haus ur , Rheydt
  • 1994 Three works , Museum Haus Lange / Kunstmuseen Krefeld , Krefeld
  • 1996 Gregor Schneider , Kunsthalle Bern
  • 1996 Gregor Schneider , Künstlerhaus Stuttgart
  • 1997 Totes Haus ur 1985–1997, Rheydt , Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt , Frankfurt a. M.
  • 1998 Puff , Municipal Museum Abteiberg , Mönchengladbach
  • 1998 La maison morte ur 1985–1998 , Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris , Paris
  • 1998 ur house, Rheydt , ARoS Aarhus Art Museum , Denmark
  • 1999 53rd Carnegie International , Carnegie Museum of Art , Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  • Sleeping in 1999 , Cabinet for Current Art , Bremerhaven
  • 1999 Dead House, Rheydt , Bremerhaven Art Gallery
  • 2000 Hannelore Reuen Old House Slut, Fundacja Galerii Foksal, Warsaw
  • 2000 Keller , Vienna Secession Building , Vienna
  • 2000 Alte Hausschlampe , Museum Haus Esters / Art Museums Krefeld, Krefeld
  • 2000 Apocalypse, Beauty and Horror in Contemporary Art , Royal Academy of Arts , London
  • 2000 Death House ur , Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin
  • 2001 Dead House ur , 49th Venice Biennale , Venice
  • 2001 N. Schmidt , Cabinet for Current Art , Bremerhaven
  • 2002 House ur , Museum DKM , Duisburg
  • 2002 Photography and Sculpture , Museum of Contemporary Art , Siegen
  • 2003 Gregor Schneider. Hannelore Reuen , Hamburger Kunsthalle , Hamburg
  • 2003 My Private # 1 , via Pasteur 21, Milano
  • 2003 Death House ur , Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles , California
  • 2003 Gregor Schneider , Aspen Art Museum
  • 2004 The Schneider family , Artangel London, London
  • 2005 August 28, 2005 - , Cabinet for Current Art, Bremerhaven
  • 2006 total loss , Bonner Kunstverein , Bonn
  • 2006 4538KM , MDD Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens , Deurle,
  • 2006 My Private escaped from italy , Center international d'art et du paysage de L'ile Vassiviere, Ile de vassiviere
  • 2006 November 26th 2006 , Fondazione Morra Greco, Napoli
  • 2007 Gregor Schneider , Milwaukee Art Museum , Milwaukee
  • 2007 WHITE TORTURE , K20K21 Art Collection North Rhine-Westphalia, Düsseldorf
  • 2008 sweet smell , La Maison Rouge, Paris
  • 2008 Gregor Schneider. Doublings , Museum Franz Gertsch , Burgdorf BE
  • 2008 CUBE VENICE - Design and conception , Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venezia
  • 2008 END , Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach
  • 2009 garage 2009 . Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach
  • 2010 Gregor Schneider - Marienstraße , Peill Prize, Leopold-Hoesch-Museum , Düren
  • 2011 Punto Muerto , Centro de Arte 2 de Mayo, Madrid
  • 2011 death room, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck
  • 2014 Gregor Schneider. Hauptstrasse 85 a , Stommeln Synagogue
  • 2014 Neuerburgstrasse 21 , installation in the Kalk Halle of the Schauspiel Köln
  • 2014 German Angst , Yokohama Triennale 2014, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama
  • 2014 Gregor Schneider: Totlast , Lehmbruck Museum , Duisburg in cooperation with the Ruhrtriennale (was canceled by the Lord Mayor of Duisburg)
  • 2014 Liebeslaube , Volksbühne Berlin, Berlin
  • 2014 it's all Rheydt , Gallery Wako Works of Art, Tokyo
  • 2014 The Schneider family , Konrad Fischer Gallery, Berlin
  • 2014 unsubscribe , Galeria Zachęta , Warszawa, Poland.
  • 2014 unsubscribe , Volksbühne Berlin, Berlin
  • 2014 Art Museum , Museum Bochum - Art Collection
  • 2015 White Torture 2005 - today , XII Bienal de La Habana, La Habana
  • 2015 Gregor Schneider , Museum Künstlerkolonie, Darmstadt
  • 2016/2017 Gregor Schneider: Wall before Wall (December 2, 2016 to February 19, 2017), Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany , Bonn
  • 2017 Kindergarten , Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City
  • 2017 Invisible City , Onassis Cultural Center / Fast Forward Festival, Omonia Square, Athens
  • 2017 N. Schmidt , Pferdegasse 19, 48143 Münster, Sculpture Projects Münster 2017, LWL Museum for Art and Culture, Münster
  • 2017 Never Ending Stories , Wolfsburg Art Museum, Wolfsburg
  • 2018 Fundamentalist Cubes: Inside Spaces by Bruce Nauman, Absalon, and Gregor Schneider , M-ARCO, Marseille

Scholarships and Awards

literature

  • Löhrl Gallery: Gregor Schneider. 1985-1992 , Fritz Altgott KG, 1992
  • Krefeld art museums: Gregor Schneider Haus ur 1985-1994 , 1994, ISBN 3-926530-69-3 .
  • Kunsthalle Bern: Gregor Schneider , Stämpfli + Cie AG, 1996, ISBN 3-85780-107-7 .
  • Foksal Gallery: Gregor Schneider. Dead virgins. December 19, 1997 , 1997
  • Gregor Schneider, Andrzej Przywara, Adam Szymczyk: Gregor Schneider. Totes Haus ur / Dead house ur / Martwy Dom ur 1985-1997 , Dimograf 1997, ISBN 83-908380-2-8 .
  • Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris: Gregor Schneider , 1998, ISBN 2-87900-410-1 .
  • Aarhus Art Museum: Gregor Schneider - Haus ur Rheydt , 1998
  • Gregor Schneider, Udo Kittelmann: Gregor Schneider, Totes Haus Ur, La Biennale di Venezia, 2001 , Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2002, ISBN 2-7028-9292-2 .
  • MOCA - The Museum of Contemporary Art: Gregor Schneider , Edizioni Charta, 2003, ISBN 88-8158-460-3 .
  • Gregor Schneider: The Schneider Family , Steidl Göttingen, 2006, ISBN 3-86521-236-0 .
  • Gregor Schneider: Cubes: Art in the Age of Global Terrorism Gva-Vertriebsgemeinschaft, 2006, ISBN 88-8158-580-4 .
  • Kunstforum International (Plateau of Mankind), No. 156, August to October 2001. pp. 288 and 305.

Web links

Commons : Gregor Schneider  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

swell

  1. ↑ monopol magazine for art and life April 4, 2016: successor to Tony Cragg. Gregor Schneider becomes professor for sculpture in Düsseldorf (dpa) , accessed on April 4, 2016
  2. ↑ Academy of Künste14 welcomed new members. , Deutschlandfunk from July 10, 2018, accessed on July 10, 2018.
  3. ^ Museum Abteiberg acquires the "coffee room" from Gregor Schneider . Archived from the original on June 27, 2015. 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 / www.kulturstiftung.de
  4. ↑ Report in the Rheinische Post ( memento of the original from April 26, 2008 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 / www.rp-online.de
  5. ↑ See Kunstforum International (2001), p. 293ff., With images of rooms in the house from 1986, 1988 and 1989–1993
  6. ↑ Kunstforum international (2001), p. 288
  7. ^ Kunstforum International (2001), p. 242
  8. ↑ Heiko Klaas: "Peace in the box" . Der Spiegel , February 15, 2007 (accessed December 2, 2007)
  9. ↑ Peter Schiering: Who's Afraid of the Black Cube? Gregor Schneider and his “Cube Venice 2005” . In: 3sat, Kulturzeit, March 23, 2007. (accessed December 2, 2007)
  10. ↑ Kaldor Art Projects: "Gregor Schneider 2007" ( Memento of the original from January 17, 2008 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. (accessed December 18, 2007) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kaldorartprojects.org.au
  11. ↑ Goethe-Institut: "Bondi Beach - Gregor Schneider am Strand" (accessed on December 18, 2007)
  12. ↑ Comment ( Memento of the original from June 13, 2008 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. (accessed December 27, 2009) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.staab-kunst.com
  13. ↑ The art of provocation: artist wants to exhibit dying people ( Memento from April 22, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), Netzeitung , April 21, 2008
  14. ↑ Garage 2009 , Museum Abteiberg Mönchengladbach ( Memento of the original from May 16, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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 / museum-abteiberg.de
  15. ^ Christiane Hoffmans: Gregor Schneider ignites the art debate in North Rhine-Westphalia. Die Welt, August 6, 2014 , accessed September 1, 2014.
  16. ↑ http://www.deutschlandradiokultur.de/gregor-schneider-kunstaktion-mit-goebbels-schutt-in-warschau.2156.de.html?dram:article_id=304661
  17. ↑ Presentation of the Children's Choice Awards at the Ruhrtriennale 2014. Gregor Schneider's KUNSTMUSEUM receives the Best of the Best award from the official festival jury. ( Memento of the original from February 6, 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.2014.ruhrtriennale.de
  18. ^ Gregor Schneider's Hauptstrasse 85 a
  19. ↑ Bundeskunsthalle at the very front
  20. ↑ Academy of Künste14 welcomed new members. , Deutschlandfunk from July 10, 2018, accessed on July 10, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Schneider, Gregor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 5th 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Rheydt