Markus Mußinghoff

Markus Mußinghoff (born September 24, 1962 in Lüdinghausen ) is an international visual artist in the fields of sculpture , installation art , performance , photography and film .

Markus Mußinghoff grew up in Selm and has lived in Düsseldorf since 1983. There he studied from 1983 to 1991 at the Düsseldorf Art Academy with David Rabinovic and Erich Reusch . In 1988 he became a master student.

In 1991 he received the cultural promotion award of his hometown Selm, in 1992 the Ringenberg scholarship of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and in 1993 the art award of the city of Nordhorn . Scholarships: 1999 Artists in Residence, IASKA Kellerberrin, Australia; 2002 guest artist, Association for the Promotion of Artistic Projects with Social Relevance eV, Wiesbaden; 2003 working grant from the Kunstfonds Bonn Foundation ; 2004 Artists in Residence, Ein Hod, Israel; 2006 3rd Woodcutter Symposium, Eppstein.

1994–2003 he took on teaching positions at various universities of applied sciences. Since 1997 he has been a member of the IKG ( International Artist Committee ) and was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Art Fund Foundation.

In addition to the artistic fields mentioned above, his diverse work also includes working on the radio play "Die Folter" (1994), which has been broadcast several times, as well as initiating and curatorial support for artistic projects.

Markus Mußinghoff u. a. through very large sculptural bodies that occupy space, enclose it, structure it, cut it up, but also create it in the first place. They were specially designed and built for the exhibition venues. After the end of the exhibitions, these works were destroyed again. While almost all of these works were realized in Germany, he also appeared as a performance, video and installation artist in other European and non-European countries. a. in Great Britain, France, Poland, Serbia, Switzerland, India, Australia and Israel.

A number of works are privately owned. A permanent outdoor work is located in front of the town hall in Selm. The bright, unmistakably large concrete sculpture makes it possible to experience the separation and connection at the seam of two completely differently designed parts of the building.

literature

• Mechler, Bernd; Mußinghoff, Markus: Exhibition catalog, Ballhaus Düsseldorf 1990
• Mußinghoff, Markus: Exhibition catalog "Places and their happenings" - large spatial sculptures in 3 rooms over 3 floors, Galerie Januar eV Bochum, 1991 (including documentation of the large woodwork from "Stand in the Flucht", Cappenberger Remise, Selm)
• Mußinghoff, Markus: Exhibition catalog Ringenberg Scholarship 1993 (with documentation of the large woodwork "Promptor" in Schloss Ringenberg, "Siedlung" in the artist house Sundernweg in Dortmund and the huge work "Zwei Höfe" in the producer's gallery in Kassel)
• Mußinghoff, Markus: exhibition catalog "Korridor", Städtische Galerie Nordhorn 1993 (including the spatial bodies in the Stadttheater Nordhorn with documentation of the structure and the spatial sculpture "How do you feel" Palac Grohmana, Lodz 1993)
• Knorre, Dr. Alexander von (Ed.), Unter Holz, Geurt van Dijk, Minka Hauschild, Markus Mußinghoff, Anja Wiese, Emschertalmuseum, Herne, 1994
• Soltysik, Mariusz; Smoczynski, Bartek: mount abu, india, marzec 1997 (therein: documentation of the performance “Story about Groceries”), Lodz 1997
• Ebert, Helmut, Lexicon of visual and creative artists in Westphalia-Lippe, Münster 2001
• Förderkreis Schloss Plüchow eV (ed.): "Inside - Outside; Schloss Plüchow - Mecklenburgisches Künstlerhaus", Rostock 2006 (therein: performance "Dig")
• Forum Art Rottweil, Documentation No. 33, Markus Mußinghoff "Convention", Rottweil 2007
• "Normalnull", Edition Schwimmer, Berlin, 2007 (in it: "All the time in the world", performance from October 17, 2006, Kleiner Wannsee, Berlin)
• Cathedral chapter Aachen (ed.), "During this time" Markus Mußinghoff - "Not a beautiful country" Terry Buchholz: Catalog for the double exhibition in the cathedral and in the cathedral treasury Aachen, 11.09. until December 11th 2011 with texts by Georg Minkenberg , Lilly Engel / Raffael Rheinsberg, Sibylle Hofter and Ulrich Meyer-Husmann (compact overview of the most important works with excellent illustrations and exhibition overview in a very nice catalog)
• Wolfgang van Ackeren (Ed.), Markus Mußinghoff "As time will tell": Catalog for the exhibition of the KulturWerft Ruhrort in the Lokal Harmonie, Duisburg from February 23 to April 13, 2014 with texts by Adolf H. Kerkhoff and Wolfgang van Ackeren (video / Photo / Performance; very detailed overview of the artistic career and all artists who were involved in the artistic processes)
• Peter Tedden (Ed.), "Whoever writes, he stays", catalog for the group exhibition of the same name (with Peter Blake, Nam June Paik, Timm Ulrichs, Ben Vautier and others) from 05.05. until June 14, 2017, Galerie Peter Tedden, Düsseldorf 2017
• Forum Kunst Rottweil (ed.), "Nebukadnezar - Bottles for Rottweil", catalog for the group exhibition of the same name (with Magdalena Jentelová, Timm Ulrichs, Franz Eberhard Walther, among others) from November 26, 2017 to January 14, 2018 and a text by Jürgen Knubben, Rottweil 2017
• onomato Künstlerverein eV (Ed.), "The Natural Theater of Oklahoma - An Exhibition on the Final Chapter of Franz Kafka's America-Novel", catalog for the group exhibition of the same name from 01-07.06.2018, Düsseldorf 2019