Klaus Gärtner (sculptor)

Klaus Gärtner (born August 3, 1957 in Krefeld ) is a German sculptor .

Life

Gärtner studied from 1976 to 1984 at the State Art Academy in Düsseldorf, where he was a master student. From 1979 to 1982 he worked on the research project "Bild".

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Klaus Gärtner's sculptures are located at the interface between sculpture and architecture. In his artistic approach, he starts from precise topographical situations, transforms them in a wide variety of ways and superimposes them with existing, possible or even utopian spaces. (...) He realizes this with plastic models, computer-generated situations and computer animations.

“The Krefeld artist Klaus Gärtner, born in 1957, uses specially created architectural models as a starting point for his sculptures and installations. As a rule, these are actually existing architectures that are made from cartographic or topographic material, with Klaus Gärtner basically leaving the models rudimentary. (...) Via the material presence, the works of Klaus Gärtner lead into a visionary world in which actual barriers are overcome by the fact that impossible possibilities are revealed. "

- Christian Krausch

Awards

Klaus Gärtner was awarded the Villa Romana Prize in 1992 . In 1989 he had already received the DGB's youth culture award. He had been awarded the Ringelberg Scholarship three years earlier.

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions

1983: Klaus Gärtner - reliefs and graphics ; Art Association Xanten e. V. (KUX), Xanten
1991: Klaus Gärtner ; Kulturform Alte Post, municipal gallery Neuss, Neuss
1993: Klaus Gärtner ; Art Association Freiburg , Freiburg
1998: Klaus Gärtner, sculptural hypotheses ; Museum Goch , Goch
1998: Klaus Gärtner, sculptural hypotheses ; Heidenheim Art Museum , Heidenheim
1999: Klaus Gärtner - sculptural hypotheses ; Art Museum Mülheim an der Ruhr , Mülheim an der Ruhr
2000: Sculpture Concept ; Kunstverein Region Heinsberg , Heinsberg - interruption
2005: Klaus Gärtner - Architecture Transformations ; Municipal gallery Villa Zanders , Bergisch Gladbach

Group exhibitions

1990: The German Association of Artists in Berlin 1990 ; Project space Deutscher Künstlerbund , Berlin
1992: Trends in current sculpture ; Kampnagel , Hamburg
2001: Museum Fragments / A Proposal for Art in Public Space ; Nassauischer Kunstverein , Wiesbaden
2005: Via Senese - 100 years of Villa Romana ; Fuhrwerkswaage Kunstraum, Cologne
2006: Jamboree ; Museum Goch, Goch
2010: Local Poetry ; Kunstverein Bellevue-Saal, Wiesbaden
2018: The Great Art Exhibition NRW Düsseldorf 2018 ; Museum Kunstpalast Foundation , Düsseldorf

Individual evidence

^ Museum Goch Gärtner, Klaus (1998) , accessed on May 6, 2018.
↑ ^a ^b Klaus Gärtner (sculptor) . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 47, Saur, Munich a. a. 2005, ISBN 3-598-22787-6 , p. 166.
^ Art Association Wiesbaden Klaus Gärtner / Art and Public Space , accessed on May 6, 2018.
^ Villa Zanders Klaus Gärtner, Architektur-Transformationen , accessed on May 6, 2018.
↑ Kunstverein Heinsberg Klaus Gärtner , accessed on May 6, 2018.

personal data
SURNAME	Gardener, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH	3rd August 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH	Krefeld

[1] Museum Goch Gärtner, Klaus (1998) , accessed on May 6, 2018.

[akl-2] Klaus Gärtner (sculptor) . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 47, Saur, Munich a. a. 2005, ISBN 3-598-22787-6 , p. 166.

[3] Art Association Wiesbaden Klaus Gärtner / Art and Public Space , accessed on May 6, 2018.

[4] Villa Zanders Klaus Gärtner, Architektur-Transformationen , accessed on May 6, 2018.

[5] Kunstverein Heinsberg Klaus Gärtner , accessed on May 6, 2018.