Marcus Schwier

Marcus Schwier (* 1964 in Düsseldorf ) is a German artist . His main medium is photography .

Live and act

After studying architecture at the Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences with a degree in engineering, Marcus Schwier studied from 1993 to 1998 at the Düsseldorf Art Academy with Ernst Kasper with a focus on photography. Mentor was Erwin Heerich .

As a photo artist, Marcus Schwier has been represented in exhibitions in national and international museums and galleries since the mid-1990s. From 2000 to 2002 he was a lecturer in photography at the Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences in the architecture department. Schwier lives and works in Düsseldorf and on Lake Constance .

Since 1998 Schwier has published almost twenty illustrated books on various projects around the world. His photographs are exhibited regularly and appear in international newspapers and magazines.

Awards

• 2005: Travel grant Scotland Arts Trust , Shetland
• 2004/2014: Scholarship Cité Internationale des Arts , Paris
• 1999: International Photography Prize of DG-Bank (today DZ-Bank), with exhibition in the Sprengel Museum Hannover

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions

• 2019: Kunsthalle Düsseldorf : night foyer
• 2019: Marcus Schwier: Ratingen-West. Ratingen Museum
• 2018: Marcus Schwier: outside and inside - StadtRaumKbody. Art Gallery Fürth
• 2018: Marcus Schwier: Ravensburg. Ravensburg Art Museum
• 2018: Marcus Schwier: Düsseldorf. House of Architects , Chamber of Architects North Rhine-Westphalia
• 2017: Marcus Schwier. Photography. Benrath Castle Museum
• 2014: Goodbye town hall! Ratingen Museum
• 2012: interior. Gallery f75, Stuttgart
• 2011: round about and straight ahead. Artists' Association Malkasten Düsseldorf
• 2007: nightshots. Robert Morat Gallery, Hamburg
• 2003: works. Ratingen Museum
• 2003: works. Krefeld Art Association
• 2002: air, water, high, low. Museum Keitum / Sylt
• 2002: works. Art Gallery of Sudbury (Canada)

Group exhibitions

• 2019 Polke and the aftermath , Akademie-Galerie, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
• 2019 draft future. Ratingen-West and the new building , Museum Ratingen
• 2018 Duesseldorf Photo
• 2017: Search for traces 7 + 7. Art Association Singen in the Art Museum Singen
• 2017: Let's Buy It! Art and shopping. From Albrecht Dürer to Andy Warhol to Gerhard Richter. Ludwig Gallery Castle Oberhausen
• 2017: Duesseldorf Photo Weekend
• 2015/2016: Homebase. The interior in contemporary art . Kunsthalle Nürnberg , KAI10 Düsseldorf
• 2013: “The world from above” - The bird's eye view in art. Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen
• 2012/2013: Carl Schuch and contemporary still life photography. Siegburg City Museum, Herford Art Association, Ratingen Museum, Siegerland Museum
• 2012 Infectious. House of Science , Braunschweig
• 2009: European Architecture Photo Prize. German Architecture Museum Frankfurt am Main
• 2008: photography and sculpture. Gallery Andreas Brüning
• 2007: Nightwalker / Noktambule. Gallery foto forum, Bolzano
• 2006: 5th Concours Rénan de la Photographie d´Architecture in: Colmar, Strasbourg, Karlsruhe
• 2004: Video in the Schauspielhaus Bochum

Publications

• Marcus Schwier: Ratingen-West. Published by Museum Ratingen 2019, ISBN 978-3-926538-76-5
• Marcus Schwier: Düsseldorf. Grupello Verlag, 2018, ISBN 978-3-89978-304-9 .
• Marcus Schwier: outside and inside - city space body. Verlag kunst galerie fürth, 2018, ISBN 978-3-9813858-6-1 .
• Let's buy it! Art and purchasing, from Albrecht Dürer to Andy Warhol to Gerhard Richter. Ludwiggalerie Schloss Oberhausen, Ed. Christine Vogt. Kerber Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-7356-0320-3 .
• Benrath Palace and Park. Photographs by Marcus Schwier. Hatje Cantz, 2016, ISBN 978-3-7757-4177-4 .
• Home base. The interior in contemporary art. Kunsthalle Nürnberg and Kai10. Kerberverlag, 2015, ISBN 978-3-7356-0149-0 .
• Stories of Controlled Chance. Renata Jaworska and Marcus Schwier. Nünnerich Asmus Verlag, 2015, ISBN 978-3-945751-18-3 .
• The world from above. Ed. Dr. Ursula Zeller and Frank-Thorsten Moll. 2013, ISBN 978-3-00-043729-8 .
• Still life, Carl Schuch and contemporary still life photography. Published by the Ratingen Museum and Siegerland Museum. Kerber Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-86678-694-3 .
• Marcus Schwier: Interiors. Text by Eduard von Habsburg-Lothringen. Kerber Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-86678-601-1 .
• Art after 1945. Wienand Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-86832-059-6 .
• New home | New Homeland. European Prize of Architectural Photography 2009. AVedition, ISBN 978-3-89986-117-4 .
• Marcus Schwier: works. Lindemanns Verlag, 2002, ISBN 3-89506-232-4 .
• “Well then!” Said Zarathustra. Alexander Nitzberg, poems - Marcus Schwier, photos. Grupello Verlag, 2000, ISBN 3-933749-30-1 .
• Marcus Schwier: Studienhaus Düsseldorf. Grupello Verlag, 1998, ISBN 3-933749-00-X .

Web links

• Literature by and about Marcus Schwier in the catalog of the German National Library
• Marcus Schwier's website
• Exhibition by Marcus Schwier
• Works by Marcus Schwier

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Interiors on the Kerber Verlag website