Markus Zimmermann (sculptor)

Markus Zimmermann (born October 31, 1978 in Hanover ) is a German sculptor .

Life

Markus Zimmermann attended the St. Ursula School in Hanover . After graduating from high school, he completed his community service and began studying fine art at the Münster Art Academy with Timm Ulrichs in autumn 2000 . In the winter semester of 2002 he switched to Bogomir Ecker at the Braunschweig University of Art . There he completed his studies with a diploma in 2006; in 2007 he was a master class student. Research trips to New Zealand, France and Ireland took place during the course. He lives and works in Berlin and Hanover .

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Starting in the Chambers of Wonder from the late Renaissance and Baroque periods , Markus Zimmermann has developed countless small sculptures since 2003. These impress with their wealth of detail and precise design. To do this, he combined different materials such as cardboard, paper, plastic films, foam with plaster of paris, wax and paint to create new shapes. The small sculptures were presented on shelves or tables, in displays or in empty shop windows as room-filling installations.

While the objects in the Chambers of Wonder were only intended to be viewed, since 2006 Zimmermann has been inviting viewers with peep boxes to literally take their art into their own hands . The elaborately designed boxes reveal fantastic landscapes and geometric spaces when you look inside. a. remind of theater stages or the Merzbau by the artist Kurt Schwitters , who is also from Hanover . Side slits let light into the peep boxes and show the scenes from changing perspectives.

Performances have followed since 2012 . They are primarily characterized by playful interactions with the audience. Markus Zimmermann plays Mau Mau with the audience or bets for money; he destroys objects sacred to him or asks the public to create sculptures themselves. The seemingly harmless performances cite strict rituals of the liturgy and stage universal themes from mythology . In times of digital effects and the entertainment industry, Markus Zimmermann manages to create unexcited moments of mindfulness and the present. Free from ideological platitudes , he puts Joseph Beuys' views and demands on social sculpture into practice.

Since 2013 Markus Zimmermann has also been the initiator of projects in overarching art genres. In 2013, for example, the Art Fund Foundation sponsored the WORLD WITHOUT TIME project , a twenty-four-hour performance with 12 artists in the former Czech cultural center in Berlin. As a team he develops and supervises the IKONOSTASE project in Munich, Berlin and at CeBIT in Hanover.

Zimmermann was one of the founders of the Berlin Art Club in 2006. In 2013 Florian Dietrich, Martin Schepers and Markus Zimmermann founded the artist collective IKONOSTASE.

Scholarships

From 2002 to 2006 Markus Zimmermann was a fellow of the Cusanuswerk ; In 2008 he received the Roelfs Partner Scholarship.

Awards

In 2010, Markus Zimmermann was awarded the ars viva prize from the German Business Cultural Association. This was followed by a series of exhibitions in Chemnitz, Stuttgart and Istanbul as well as a publication.

Exhibitions, participations and projects

2007

• The art of collecting , Museum Kunstpalast , Düsseldorf

2008

• –Zoom + , Künstlerhaus Dortmund
• Schein , Galerie Birgit Ostermeier, Berlin
• On a weekend in September , Schwerin Str. 42, Düsseldorf
• Believe me! , Art in the Tunnel , Düsseldorf
• May I help you! , Kunsthalle Münster

2009

• Idyllism , dance school, Munich
• Awarded Roelfs-Partner-Scholarship , Kunst im Tunnel, Düsseldorf
• nested , Junge Kunst e. V. Wolfsburg
• Out of the box , Museum van Bommel van Dam , Venlo
• Scales of the universe , Jeanroch Dard Gallery, Paris
• Who does the art? , hub: kunst.diskurs eV Hannover
• 1000 x me, 1000 x you , act, Berlin

2010

• Generating the Preview , Museum Sztuki Lodz
• Magicgruppe Kulturobjek , Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht
• ars viva price 2010 - laboratory , art collections Chemnitz
• Preservation and Decay , German Museum of Technology Berlin
• Larger than life - stranger than fiction , 11th Triennial Small Sculpture , Fellbach
• Cast off , autumn exhibition at the Kunstverein Hannover
• The world as a model , Montag Foundation Art and Society, Bonn
• Striding , Hermannshof, Völksen, Völksen

2011

• From Trash to Treasure , Kunsthalle Kiel
• Crime and Image , Walkmühle Artists' Association, Wiesbaden
• ars-viva 10/11 laboratory , Kunstmuseum Stuttgart

2012

• Magic group cultural object , Ludwig Forum for International Art , Aachen

2013

• 15 years of Junge Kunst , Junge Kunst, Wolfsburg
• Faith, love, hope , Rubenstrasse 42, Cologne
• Laterna Magica , Wolfenbüttel Art Association

2014

• World without time - turnover , performance in the former Czech cultural center Berlin
• IKONOSTASE II - Save the economy , installation and discussion in the House of German Business , Berlin
• Episode 7 , another space, Copenhagen

2015

• SUPERFILIALE - marzipan pigs , installation and performance, Simultanhalle , Cologne
• SUPERFILIALE - Picnic on the mountain , installation and performance, KW Institute for Contemporary Art , Berlin
• IKONOSTASE III - Practice of freedom , installation and performance at CeBIT , Hanover
• Karma Spin , performance, frontviews gallery at Leipziger Str. 63, Berlin

2016

• Sukkot , installation and performance, exhibition space D21, Leipzig
• me and you, ARCA , Performance, Emscherkunst 2016 - Emscher Quelle and Dortmunder U
• me and you, Museum ON / OFF , Performance, Center Georges Pompidou , Paris
• Disturbance of the peace , performance, Britzenale Berlin

Web links

• Markus Zimmermann's personal website
• Selection of works
• Markus Zimmermann on Instagram
• Artist collective IKONOSTASE Artist collective IKONOSTASE
• Interview on YouTube about the exhibition in Bielefeld

Individual evidence

1. ↑ St. Ursula School Hanover high school graduates 1998 . Archived from the original on March 6, 2017. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 29, 2016. 
2. ↑ Markus M. Zimmermann on Artmap.com .
3. ↑ Small sculptures . Archived from the original on April 27, 2016. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 27, 2016. 
4. ^ "Eastern" .
5. ^ Bureau van de Meester: German / English . 18th May 2017.
6. ↑ Art Prize - ARS VIVA Art Prize: Nina Canell, Klara Hobza, Markus Zimmermann and Andreas Zybach - findART.cc old and modern art .
7. ↑ Descriptions and photos of performances . Archived from the original on April 27, 2016. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 27, 2016. 
8. ↑ ICONOSTASIS - ICONOSTASIS III .
9. ↑ Link Art Club Berlin .
10. ↑ ICONOSTASIS - About .
11. ↑ ars viva award for HBK alumnus Markus Zimmermann - HBK University of Fine Arts Braunschweig .
12. ^ Kulturkreis der Deutschen Wirtschaft, Anette Hüsch, Friedrich Meschede, Dieter Roelstraete, Christiane Schneider, Gregory Volk: Ars Viva 10/11. Laboratory: Nina Canell, Klara Hobza, Markus Zimmermann and Andreas Zybach . Hatje Cantz Publishing House. October 22, 2010.
13. ↑ The page could not be found: Monday Foundations .
14. ^ Exhibition description Hermannshof
15. ^ Ludwig Forum .
16. ^ Art Association Wolfenbüttel .
17. ↑ ICONOSTASIS - ICONOSTASIS III .
18. ↑ Markus Zimmermann - ARCA .