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Markus Uhr (* 1974 in Baar ZG ) is a Swiss artist .

education

From 1990 to 1994 Uhr completed an apprenticeship as a structural draftsman and from 1995 to 1997 an additional apprenticeship as a landscape gardener in Zug, which he completed with a diploma. He then studied design and art at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences from 1998 to 1999 . He then studied photography from 1999 to 2005 at the University of Graphic and Book Art in Leipzig. In 2001, she was accepted into the specialist class of Prof. Helfried Strauss . In 2002 he continued his studies for two semesters with Boris Mikhailov , only to be accepted again in 2005 in Strauss's master class, from which he graduated in 2008 with a Master of Arts. Uhr lives and works in Leipzig.

Since the 2012/2013 winter semester, Markus Uhr has been the artistic assistant to Professor Bernhard Prinz at the Kassel Academy of Art .

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The pictures and works are mostly grouped and arranged in extensive and often large-scale installations. In addition to painting and installation, his work also includes a complex examination of language and music, which he links with one another using translation methods and aids he created himself. The basis of his work is in particular the handwritten records that have been kept for years.

Since 2004 he has presented his works at numerous solo and group exhibitions.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

2012
  • The end of a legend , Spinnerei Rundgang, Leipzig
  • Brainwashed , gallery shop for nothing, Leipzig
2011
  • Various Things About Love , Billing Gallery, Baar
  • HOTSPOT: Markus Uhr , Galerie Robert Morat, Hamburg
2010
2009
  • 2. , gallery b2, Leipzig
  • I'm Afraid of Jasper Johns , Galerie Billing, Baar
2008
  • Phone Home , Tribeca Studio, New York USA
  • Twelve Step Program , Kunstraum Walcheturm, Zurich
2007
  • They're here , (with Juliane Moritz) Red Stripe Gallery, Leipzig
2006
  • It has always been like that, Kunstverein Leipzig
2005
  • The big ones The small ones The middle ones , Galerie Kleindienst, Leipzig
2004

Group exhibitions

2013
  • Good prospects. Zoom , group exhibition at MARTa Herford (Lippold Gallery)
2012
  • Lost in tugium , sculptures and objects, train
  • Hot spot , La Chambre, Strasbourg
  • Old and new still lifes from the SØR Rusche collection , Museum Abtei Liesborn
  • Single club , Spinnerei Haus 10, Leipzig
2011
  • Annual exhibition , Lucerne Art Museum
  • Dinner for weirdos , shop for nothing, Leipzig
  • Selection Cuvee , room for contemporary art, Lucerne
  • AUSLOESER - Concepts of Photography , Kunsthalle der Sparkasse Leipzig
2010
2009
  • Annual exhibition , Lucerne Art Museum
  • Swiss Art Awards 2009 , Art 09 Basel
2008
2007
  • The hole , gallery b2, Leipzig
2006
  • Against the wall , gallery b2, Leipzig
  • Good prospects , House of Photography, Deichtorhallen Hamburg; Künstlerhaus Dortmund ; Commerzbank Frankfurt a. M .; Art Gallery White Box Munich; Goethe-Institut Washington USA
  • me, myself & I , ARTI Amsterdam
2005
2004
2003
  • Focus Award , Bilderkriege, FH Dortmund

Scholarships / Awards

  • 2011: Funding from the Canton of Zug for free artistic creation
  • 2010: Funding from the UBS Cultural Foundation
  • 2009: Grants from the Canton of Zug for the artist book Transfer Drawings
  • 2008: Marion Ermer Prize
  • 2008: Atelier grant in New York
  • 2007: Dr. Georg and Josi Guggenheim Foundation
  • 2007: Swiss Art Awards
  • 2007: Cultural funding from the Canton of Zug
  • 2006: Funding from the Canton of Zug for the work They're here (catalog and exhibition)
  • 2005: Winner Good Prospects Young German Photography
  • 2003: DAAD (Odessa travel grant with Boris Mikhailov)
  • 2000: AGFA sponsorship award for turning pictures

Publications

  • The Last Supper . Lubok Verlag, Leipzig 2011
  • Transfer Drawings . Kodoji Press, Baden 2010
  • Twelve Step Program . JRP Ringier Kunstverlag, Zurich 2008, ISBN 9783905829471
  • They're here . Publishing house Pöge, Leipzig 2007

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.guteaussichten.org: Vita Markus Uhr
  2. ^ Marion Ermer Foundation: 2008 award winners
personal data
SURNAME Clock, Markus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Baar ZG