Mark Lammert

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BLACK, 2004, oil on panel

Mark Lammert (born September 30, 1960 in Berlin ) is a German painter , draftsman , graphic artist and set designer . He lives and works in Berlin.

Life

1979-86 studied Lammert painting at the Art Academy Berlin and 1989-92 he was a master student at the Academy of Arts in Berlin. In 1993 he created his first stage for Heiner Müller's production "Duell-Traktor-Fatzer" at the Berliner Ensemble . In the following years he received grants for painting from the Senate Department for Cultural Affairs, Berlin (1994), and the Art Fund Foundation , Bonn (1996), to which he had been a member of the Board of Trustees since 1997. In 1997 he worked for a longer period in Lisbon . In the following year, in 1998, he received the graphics prize of the Dresden Art Fair and in 1999 the Käthe Kollwitz Prize of the Akademie der Künste. He was invited to Paris in 2000/2001 by the Académie Expérimentale des Théâtres and in 2002 was awarded the Eberhard Roters grant for painting from the Prussian Sea Trade Foundation. In 2003 he spent a long period in France as Artist in Residence des Couvent des Récollets , Paris. Lammert has been Professor of Painting and Drawing at the University of the Arts, Berlin , since 2011 , and a member of the Academy of the Arts since 2015.

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BONE, 2007, pen on paper

Lammert went public early on with paintings and drawings alike and was in numerous exhibitions on German art (including "Deutschlandbilder", Martin-Gropius-Bau , Berlin, 1997, and "Art of Two Germanys", Los Angeles County Museum of Art , 2009). His work is determined by a conceptual process in which the limits of the pictorial are questioned. This applies to the early portraits ( Stephan Hermlin , 1987), which have been described as artistic protests against the lack of history, such as the series in painting, drawing, and graphics: starting with the early group pictures of those waiting (1983-88) through the frozen white nudes and battle pictures up to the graphic series “Kinne” (1993), which override the Heiner Müller cliché.

In his large-format picture series “Alliiert”, 1994–1995, which he applies palimpsest-like to the back of maps in shades of red , his principle of reducing fragments of human figures becomes increasingly clear. He begins to experiment with different reasons for work, to work on book cases and to lay fine lines of lines as a quadrature over drawings on rough paper. Since 1998 he has consciously turned to the small picture formats, which he has expanded into tableaus. In the shortage, the balance between the flesh and the skeleton, framework and matter, line and color, but also between image and polyvalent signs is maintained. The reduction not only captures the figurative traces of the physical, but also the color of the backgrounds, on which the stains of color appear like injuries. “Armbrust” (1997–1999), “Hüllen” (1998–1999), “Breast basket” (1998–2000) and “White” (2001–2003) are on white and “Passion” (2001–2002) and “Black” (2002–2004) set on nuanced dark backgrounds. The color moods are increasingly opening up (“Floaters”, 2005–2009), whereby the relationships between the ground and the pictorial element are changed and, as with the writing, turn into the ornamental in their composition .

Page from a workbook, 2005

In addition, an extensive graphic work was created, in which z. Sometimes old lithographic templates are included in the image creation like a collage . Since the 1980s, Lammert has also been collecting his material in workbooks, which form a parallel workspace and reflect the political context in which his work is created through media reflection. In addition to collages , photos and drawings, which often reveal techniques of representation of the violent, these books are also filled with written notes and excerpts from a wide variety of theoretical texts. The visual is interwoven with the verbal. In the works titled “Risse” (2004), the handwritten copying process is used for the first time to create images that are both text and drawing and release shapes and figures through gaps within the text blocks. These notations are increasingly being fragmented and mapped , for example in the “Bones” (2006/07), in which colored, free-floating fields in linear outlines as documents of the color-coded growth stages from the zoological collection of the Musée Fragonard, Paris, are confronted with text excerpts.

Through his collaboration with Heiner Müller since 1991 ("Aus dem Totenhaus", 1990; "Blockade", 1991; Totenzeichen 1995) Lammert began to create stage spaces in which he translates the materiality of his painting into space. The rooms that are sometimes only structured by falling colored cloths (Germania 3, 1996) or by a rotating wall (Perser, 2006) become players and have been referred to as dramaturgy machines.

Mark Lammert is a member of the German Association of Artists .

Work (selection)

Solo exhibitions

Exhibition at Centro Arte Moderna, “Fragment d'Espace”, Fundação Gulbenkian, Lisbon, 2005
  • 1991 and 1993, Rotunde Gallery, Altes Museum , Staatliche Museen zu Berlin , Berlin (catalog);
  • 1995 Kunsthalle Rostock (catalog);
  • 1996 Kunstmuseum Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen , Magdeburg (catalog);
  • 1998 galerie refugium, Berlin;
  • 1999 Käthe Kollwitz Prize, Academy of the Arts , Berlin (catalog);
  • 2000 Art Cabinet on Goetheplatz, City Museum Weimar;
  • 2001 “Workbooks and Series”, Art Collection Neubrandenburg ;
  • 2002 art space, Les Subsistances, Lyon;
  • 2004 “Risse”, fruehsorge - gallery for drawing, Berlin;
  • 2005 “Fragment d'Espace”, Centro de Arte Moderna , Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon (catalog);
  • 2006 “Selected Drawings”, Berlinische Galerie , State Museum for Modern Art, Photography and Architecture, Berlin (catalog);
  • 2007 “One Stepp beyond” (with Greg Stone), fruehsorge - gallery for drawing, Berlin;
  • 2010 “beauty is booty”, fruehsorge - gallery for drawing, Berlin;
  • 2010 "Painting 1997-2010", Guardini Gallery , Berlin

Group exhibitions

Exhibition Notation, Berlin / Karlsruhe, 2008/2009

Stage rooms

  • 1993 for Heiner Müller , "Duel-Traktor-Fatzer" (Müller / Brecht), Berliner Ensemble , Berlin;
  • 1995 for Heiner Müller, "Germania 3" (Müller), Berliner Ensemble, Berlin;
  • 1995 for Josef Szeiler , “Philoktet” (Müller), Berliner Ensemble, Berlin;
  • 1997 for Jean Jourdheuil , “Germania 3” (Müller), Lisbon;
  • 2003 for Jean Jourdheuil, “La Finta giardiniera” (Mozart), State Opera Stuttgart ;
  • 2004 for Jean Jourdheuil, “Michel Foucault, chose dites, choses vues”, Festival d'Automne, Paris;
  • 2005 for Jean Jourdheuil “Idomeneo” (Mozart), State Opera Stuttgart;
  • 2006 for Dimiter Gotscheff , “The Persians” (Aischylos / Müller), Deutsches Theater Berlin ;
  • 2007 for Dimiter Gotscheff, "Die Hamletmaschine" (Müller), Deutsches Theater, Berlin;
  • 2009 for Dimiter Gotscheff, “The Persians” (Aeschylus), Epidauros / Greece;
  • 2009 for Dimiter Gotscheff, “Prometheus” (Aischylos / Müller), Volksbühne , Berlin;
  • 2009 for Volker Schlöndorff , “And the light shines in the darkness” (Tolstoy), Berlin / Moscow;
  • 2009 for Jean Jourdheuil, “Philoktet” (Sophokles / Müller), Théâtre de la Ville , Paris;
  • 2009 for Dimiter Gotscheff, “Oedipus Tyrann” (Sophokles / Hölderlin / Müller), Thalia Theater , Hamburg;
  • 2010 for Dimiter Gotscheff, “Die Chinesin” (Godard), Volksbühne, Berlin;
  • 2011 for Reinhild Hoffmann , “Exercices du silence”, State Opera , Berlin;
  • 2011 for Dimiter Gotscheff, "Medeamaterial" (Müller), Deutsches Theater, Berlin
  • 2014 for Ivan Panteleev / Dimiter Gotscheff, "Waiting for Godot" (Beckett), Deutsches Theater, Berlin

Public collections

Prices

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Members "L" / Mark Lammert (accessed on October 2, 2015)

literature

  • Michael Freitag: Cold view. The painter Mark Lammert . In: Eckhart Gillen , Rainer Haarmann (ed.): Art in the GDR , Cologne 1990.
  • Heiner Müller: From the House of the Dead , Edition Pariser Platz 4, Berlin 1991.
  • Jannis Kounellis , Mark Lammert, Heiner Müller: BLOCKADE / ICHABEN FOR NIGHT WITH GESPENSTERN , Berlin 1993.
  • Durs Grünbein : Müller's Kinn , Berlin 1994.
  • Anni Bradon: Suspended State , Rostock 1995.
  • Heiner Müller , Mark Lammert: Printed matter No. 20 . Berliner Ensemble, workbook for Germania 3 / Gespenster am Toten Mann , 1996.
  • Uwe Gellner: body spaces . In: Mark Lammert. Painting , Berlin / Magdeburg 1996.
  • Antje von Graevenitz: Reconstruction of a scene . In: IfA . Stuttgart 1997.
  • Jean Jourdheuil: The space of the theater and the space in the theater , Dresden / Berlin 1998.
  • Matthias Flügge : laudation for Mark Lammert . In: Sinn und Form , Berlin 1999.
  • Michael Freitag: The inauthenticity of appearances . In: Why , Ostfildern 2003.
  • Roland March : Diptych imaginiaire . In: Humboldt , Heft 86, Bonn 2003.
  • Mirjam Schaub: Scriptoria . In: SCHRIFT BILDER THINKEN, Walter Benjamin and contemporary artists , Frankfurt am Main 2004.
  • Knut Ebeling, Carolin Meister: Arbeitsbücher / Workbooks (German / English), Richter Verlag, Düsseldorf 2005.
  • Jorge Molder: Fragment d'espace . In: CMA , Lisbon 2005.
  • Ulrike Haß : Dramaturgy machines. To Mark Lammert's stages . In: Theater der Zeit , 2008.
  • Amy Eshoo: 560 Broadway. A New Drawing Collection at Work, 1991-2006 , 2008.
  • Reinhard Ermen: Mark Lammert . In: Kunstforum International , Vol. 196, Drawing at the Time, 2009.
  • Eckhart Gillen : Szenes from the theater of the cold war of the arts . In: Art of Two Germanys. , County Museum of Art, Los Angeles 2009.
  • Matthias Flügge, Bruno Duarte: Mark Lammert, painting 1997-2010 (German / English), Richter Verlag, Düsseldorf 2011.
  • Juriaan Benschop: Mark Lammert . In: Artforum , March issue, New York 2011.
  • Judith Elisabeth Weiss: Mark Lammert's chin and hair. Drawing fragments by Heiner Müller and Dimiter Gotscheff . In: Kunstforum international , Vol. 216, 2012.
  • Ulrike Haß (Ed.): Mark Lammert. Stage, rooms, spaces . Theater der Zeit, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-943881-55-4 .
  • Mark Lammert: Red Yellow Blue. Texts on the theater , Theater der Zeit, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-95749-161-9 .

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personal data
SURNAME Lammert, Mark
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, draftsman and set designer
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin