Hannes Forster (artist)

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“A Real Wrong Story”, 1990, brick, mortar. Location: Moltkeplatz, Essen

Hannes Forster (* 1955 in Tuttlingen ) is a German artist.

From 1979, Forster completed a degree in art education and art science at the Berlin University of the Arts , where he was a master student of Professor Herbert Kaufmann . During his studies he dealt in detail with the connection between art and architecture and in 1982 won the second prize in a design competition for an open space in Berlin-Kreuzberg . In those years building rubble was one of his favorite working materials. He later received further commissions and scholarships for building-related art, building architectural models according to his own plans. His work has been shown at numerous symposia and exhibitions since 1982. In 1983 he was one of the co-founders of the Halle Trapez in Berlin.

He set up architectural installations in numerous places , including a. 1984 the rescue beacon in the Kunstverein Bremerhaven , 1988 the square for the state horticultural show in Rheda-Wiedenbrück and archeology of the modern age in the house of the art foundation Baden-Württemberg , 1989 the mining damage in the Kunsthalle Recklinghausen as well as several brick installations for a solo exhibition in the Museum Abteiberg , 1990 La Legge della Laguna at the Venice Biennale, 1990 A real false story as part of the Material and Space project on Moltkeplatz in Essen's Moltkeviertel , in 1992 Tired Walls in Hagenbucher in Heilbronn and in 1993 the controversial installation Der Berg ruft (Bergschaden) (half building sinking into the ground) in the miner's museum in Lünen-Süd . That year he received a work grant from the Berlin Senate . In the following years numerous other installations and a. in the Obermarchtal monastery , in the Westphalian open-air museum in Hagen-Selbecke , on the Hoher Fläming art hiking trail and in Białystok and São Paulo . He was awarded the young west art prize in Recklinghausen , a sponsorship booth at Art Cologne and the art prize of the Grundkreditbank Berlin .

In the course of his work he developed the concept of converting the floor plans of his three-dimensional brick installations as negative forms into graphite-painted wooden bodies. He presented this concept a. a. in 2001 in his exhibition Skewed Geometries - dedicated to the square of Kazimir Malevich in art space No. 10 in Mönchengladbach. In the meantime, the implementation of any floor plan in such wooden bodies forms the center of his work.

Forster lives in Jamlitz .

literature

  • Hannes Forster - The archaeological dimension . In: Markus Stegmann: Architectural Sculpture in the 20th Century. Historical aspects and work structures , Tübingen 1995, pages 172–180.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hannes Forster: A real false story 1990 , Art on Moltkeplatz, Essen
  2. ↑ surface damage , NRWskulptur.de
personal data
SURNAME Forster, Hannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Tuttlingen