Markus Weggenmann

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Markus Weggenmann (born November 6, 1953 in Singen ) is a German-Swiss artist .

biography

Weggenmann has been working as a freelance artist since 1990. Originally trained as an occupational therapist and later as a psychoanalyst , he pursued these professions before starting his artistic career. Markus Weggenmann lives and works in Zurich .

Weggenmann first received attention with his stripe pictures, which he created from the late 1980s, in which, following the strictly conceptual guidelines of the stripe motif, he lined up colored bars in a wide variety of combinations, formats and variations. From the years from 1999 onwards, one primarily knows the industrially produced car paint pictures. In the collision of the flat, perfect surface and the lively gesture of the motifs, they develop a very unique charisma, which on the one hand keeps the viewer at a distance, but at the same time is able to influence him through form and surface. In the beginning it was often simple surfaces that met in the direct juxtaposition of their colors, but in more recent works there is a development towards multi-layered and perspective. In the same way and at the same time, however, works are also created that here and there even completely tip over into the representational.

Weggenmann was represented in numerous solo and group exhibitions at home and abroad. His works are in well-known public and private collections, e. B. in the Kunsthaus Zürich or in the Kunstmuseum Bonn .

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 2018 Boller and Weggenmann , Galerie Onrust, Amsterdam (NL)
  • 2015 Mostly Paintings on Paper , Galerie Mark Müller, Zurich (ZH)
  • 2013 Stilleven bij Onrust , Galerie Onrust, Amsterdam (NL)
  • 2013 Tornadorot , Galerie Taubert Contemporary, Berlin (D)
  • 2012 Im Hasenbart , Galerie Mark Müller, Zurich (CH)
  • 2011 still lifes , Galerie Onrust, Amsterdam (NL)
  • 2010 it could be sweet , FT-Contemporary, Berlin (D)
  • 2010 Zeniuk - Weggenmann , Mondriaanshuis, Amersfoord (NL)
  • 2009 frozen desire , The Columns, Seoul (CO)
  • 2009 with tangerine trees and marmelade skies , Galerie Mark Müller, Zurich (CH)
  • 2008 about the dream of the skater on the Eisgracht , Galerie Onrust, Amsterdam (NL)
  • 2007 bel étage , Kunsthalle Bremerhaven (D)
  • 2006 View 3 , Kunstmuseum Bonn (D)

Group exhibitions (selection)

  • 2017 forever. In the long run. On time. , Art Museum Singen (D)
  • 2013 Exhibition 2013 , Culture Canton Zurich (CH)
  • 2013 3 + 4 b / w - ftc. , Fiedler Taubert Contemporary, Berlin (D)
  • 2012 twenty-two , Galerie Mark Müller, Zurich (CH)
  • 2012 Segment # 2 , Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul (TR)
  • 2012 group exhibit , Art & Space Gallery, Munich (D)
  • 2011 water | Color color | Water , City Gallery Villa Zanders, Bergisch Gladbach (D)
  • 2010 Watercolors , Museum Liner Appenzell (CH)
  • 2009 painting? Drawing? Object? , Art (stuff) house Rapperswil (CH)
  • 2007 Visionary Collection Vol. 4 , House Konstruktiv, Zurich (CH)
  • 2006 abstraction now - floating forms , Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen (D)
  • 2005 Painting rooms , Helmhaus, Zurich (CH)

Awards

  • 2018 Swiss Art Award
  • 2018 work grant from the city of Zurich (CH)
  • 2014 contribution from the Canton of Zurich (CH)
  • 2013 Work contribution from the Canton of Zurich (CH)
  • 1989 contribution from the canton of Zurich (CH)

Literature (selection)

  • Markus Weggenmann. Done , ed. v. Galerie Mark Müller, Zurich, fiedler contemporary, Berlin, Galerie Onrust, Amsterdam, Pilar Parra & Romero Galería de Arte, Madrid, text: Dr. Christoph Schreier, Nuremberg: Modern Art Publishing House, 2008.
  • Markus Weggenmann. Crossing the Alps in one night , ed. v. Galerie Mark Müller, Zurich, text: Simon Maurer, Zurich, 2000.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Astrid Näff: Weggenmann, Mark. In: Sikart
personal data
SURNAME Weggenmann, Markus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH To sing