Jochen Kitzbihler

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Jochen Kitzbihler (born April 2, 1966 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein ) is a German sculptor .

Life

After graduating from the Free Waldorf School in Mannheim in 1985, Kitzbihler completed an apprenticeship as a stone sculptor at the Hans-Günther Thiele sculpture workshop in Ludwigshafen between 1985 and 1987 . He then completed a degree in sculpture / fine art at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe from 1989 to 1995 under the direction of Michael Sandle and Hiromi Akiyama , which he graduated with the title of qualified sculptor. Jochen Kitzbihler has lived and worked as a freelance artist in Freiburg im Breisgau and Landau in the Palatinate since 1989 . In 1994 he was a master student with Hiromi Akiyama. In 1995 he was awarded the Palatinate Prize for Fine Arts .

plant

The sculptural work of Jochen Kitzbihler combines the form ideas of minimalist art in harmony with the material and its natural specifications into an organically shaped concretion. An energetic connection with the natural is an essential starting point for his work. His theoretical preoccupation with the concept of structure aims at a dynamic understanding of structure. Among other things, he examines the development of transformation processes in structural recordings of planetary surfaces and asteroids. For Kitzbihler, these photographic image series are an extension of his sculptural work, which he places in a close relationship to scientific knowledge of quantum mechanics, morphological geology and astronomy. The central question: “Is structure transformation?” Develops his artistic work by integrating scientific aspects into a transdisciplinary work.

Sculptures

Memorial sculpture (memorial in Mannheim)

Memorial sculpture by day

A glass cube in the middle of the pedestrian zone; transparent, made of clear glass, not obstructing the view, but the path that leads past here. The memorial sculpture for the Jewish citizens of Mannheim who were deported and murdered during the Nazi era has found a prominent place in Mannheim city center. In terms of sheer dimensions, the sculpture is quite monumental, but has a rather quiet, introverted monumentality that draws the gaze more on the content than on the outer skin. The shape of the cube is abstract, serves as a kind of archive block for the names of those who have disappeared, Mannheim citizens, part of the community that now has to live with the void of those who have disappeared. Kitzbihler's sculpture names the names, enumerates them in the form of a scrolling list that evokes memories that have been buried many times. The individual fates, family histories and the specific connection to the city of Mannheim are not discussed here; they are reserved for research that has still not dealt with the human and cultural loss that the brown hordes of our generation of fathers and grandfathers left us . As reserved as a distant memory, the memorial sculpture stands in the way of Mannheim residents and visitors to the city. The names seem to float in the air and in this way the disappeared are present again, taking up part of the reality of life in Mannheim to which they are entitled. The memory is brittle, a lot has been forgotten, other things have to be remembered - the glass of the sculpture represents the fragility of memory and human life.

Mu, Heidelberg Sculpture Park

tremolo 79 Hz

In 2004, a large-format outdoor sculpture was erected at the festival hall in Landau in the Palatinate, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Art Nouveau building and its overall restoration.

transversal

The granite sculpture has been designing the Kehler station forecourt transversely since October 2003 . The name means "running diagonally", like the interlocking edge lines of the stele and also the connecting line between the southern Vosges and the northern Black Forest. The 12 meter high column at the Kehler city entrance is built in series from milled granite blocks from quarries in these mountain ranges. A clear sign for this interface and transition point in front of the Europabrücke.

Monolithic systems

Design of the chancel, St. Nikolaus Kappelrodeck 2010

The design of the chancel with a new altar and a new ambo of the Church of St. Nikolaus in Kappelrodeck from 2010 refers to the church interior: the gray-green sandstone is coordinated with the sandstone in the church and its atmosphere. The material of the altar is thus integrated into the room and stands out from it in its clearly reduced form. The reddish copper also acts as a contrast and marking the center compared to the previous one. The strong, cross-shaped copper plate divides, connects and carries the altar, which appears in a weightless balance. The central idea for the celebration of the division and connection of bread and wine, of life and death, inspired the idea of ​​a three-part altar made of a single block of sandstone in multiple divisions.

Exhibitions, actions and projects

  • 1990: Karlstal sculpture symposium, Kaiserslautern
  • 1991: Traces, St. Peter Mountain Church, Worms (EA)
  • 1992: Assault Art Festival, Leipzig
  • 1994: Diffusion Hatzfeld'sches Palais, Breslau, spatial planning of Waldhausen Castle, Mainz (EA) 1995 Pfalzgalerie, Kaiserslautern
  • 1996: Spatial planes - picture planes, Städtische Galerie Villa Streccius, Landau (with D. Paal)
  • 1997: Interfaces, Pfalzgalerie, Kaiserslautern (EA with catalog)
  • 1998: Sculpture Symposium Kobe, Japan, Natura Mentale Orsay (GA)
  • 1999: Franco-German sculpture symposium in Lauterbourg, Alsace, invitation
  • 2000: Differences, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Natura Mentale, Spijkenisse, Holland (co-production with J. Heieck), Rückführung, St. Guido, Speyer (with JS Sistermanns, R. Knodt, D. Zurnieden), construction / body / Bau, Friedrichsbau, Bühl (with P. Riek), viewpoints, realization of the granite sculpture 157 m above sea level. NN near Herxheim / Pfalz
  • 2002: Water-river sculpture, Rathausplatz Buggingen / Südbaden, realization, Der Berg, Heidelberg, realization of the granite sculpture Lichtenberg (GA), balanced, Galerie Nagel, Neustadt / W (EA)
  • 2003: International Sculpture Symposium in Icheon / Korea, invitation, transversal, a granite sculpture for the city of Kehl, realization, memorial sculpture for the Jewish victims of National Socialism in Mannheim, realization
  • 2004: tremolo 79 Hz, a monolithic sculpture for the Art Nouveau festival hall of the city of Landau / Pfalz, realization
  • 2005: International sculpture symposium Les Geants du Nideck, Alsace, France, invitation, realization of the granite sculpture trace forestière, layers, Kunsthaus L6, Freiburg
  • 2006: espai escultural, sculpture and photography, Galerie Maria Villalba, Barcelona (EA), Monolithic Systems, Mannheimer Kunstverein (EA with book publication)
  • 2007: Stone sculpture-stone landscape, gallery in the Artforum, Offenburg, (EA)
  • 2008: art-Karlsruhe, individual presentation on the sculpture square; march gallery Mannheim (GA)
  • 2009: Werkschau, Schauraum, Freiburg, (EA), OSZ-Skulptur, Z-Laser Optoelectronik Freiburg, realization, steles, Galerie Marie-Louise Wirth, Sorell-Hotel Zürichberg (GA), river stones – celestial bodies, Galerie Eulenspiegel, Basel (EA ), Works on paper, Galerie Linde Hollinger, Mannheim (GA)
  • 2010: [GREEN] contemporary, Galerie Schindel, Freiburg (with D. Burdeny, S. Wenzel, P. Harris), DORT - Terrains und Skulptur, Galerie Eulenspiegel, Basel (EA), chancel design (altar, ambo and furnishings) for St. Nikolaus, Kappelrodeck
  • 2011: The Second Glance, contemporary photography, Art Association Villa Streccius Landau (GA with publication), Schöppingen Artists' Village Scholarship ("KWW", art, science, business); Between heaven and earth, German Society for Christian Art, Munich
  • 2012: Fenêtre Contemporaine picture installation DORT (Victoria-Crater, Mars) on the outer wall of the Humanist Library, Sélestat (Alsace)
  • 2013: Residency of the Christoph Merian Foundation, Basel in Fremantle, Western Australia; BODIES IN MOTION Galerie Eulenspiegel, Basel (EA)
  • 2014: Out of nowhere Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern (EA)

literature

  • Interfaces, Jochen Kitzbihler. Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern 1997, ISBN 3-89422-095-3 .
  • The mountain. Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-933257-98-0 .
  • I have called you by name. Text by Jochen Kitzbihler, City Archives Mannheim / Institute for City History, Mannheim 2005, ISBN 3-926260-65-3 .
  • Monolithic Systems, Jochen Kitzbihler, Sculptures and Photographs 1996–2006. modo-Verlag, Freiburg 2006, ISBN 3-937014-38-1 ( digitized version ).
  • Michael Klant (ed.): New art in public spaces. (= Sculpture in Freiburg. Volume 3). modo Verlag, Freiburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-86833-030-4 .
  • The Second Look, Contemporary Photography. Kunstverein Villa Streccius Landau, Landau 2011, ISBN 978-3-00-034056-7 .
  • Out of nowhere, picture concept options, installations, sculpture. Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern 2014, ISBN 978-3-89422-193-5 .

Web links

Commons : Jochen Kitzbihler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Author: Heinz Höfchen .
  2. ↑ Author: Martin Stather
personal data
SURNAME Kitzbihler, Jochen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH April 2, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludwigshafen am Rhein