Matthias Eder

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Matthias Eder (born April 28, 1968 in Rheinfelden ) is a contemporary German sculptor .

Life

Matthias Eder is a son of the sculptor Leonhard Eder and a younger brother of the sculptor Tobias Eder .

From 1986 he completed an apprenticeship as a stone sculptor with his father, which he completed in 1993 with the master's examination. He then studied at the Academy of Design in Aachen until 1995 and from 1995 to 2000 at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart with Professors Micha Ullman , Karin Sander and Jana Grzimek , graduating as an Academic Sculptor. Since 2000 he has been working as a freelance artist.

His work is characterized on the one hand by dealing with the topic of communication, on the other hand by dealing with the contrast between inside and outside. These themes are expressed, for example, in flat material shapes (e.g. panels) and surfaces that are processed in the manner of skin, or in his seating group installations, which are designed to form a circle and set up in lively places.

Matthias Eder is married and has four children. He lives and works in Leonberg near Stuttgart, where in autumn 2007 he acquired the former women's prison from the state of Baden-Württemberg , which is now a listed building and is now part of the art mile in the historic old town of Leonberg. In the building, Eder realizes his concept of the “art cell” as the nucleus for artistic and cultural creation with a studio, exhibition, gallery and event rooms.

Exhibitions

  • 1999: Exhibition in the town hall of Marbach am Neckar , sculpture symposium "A kind of art" in Marbach, exhibition "vielistoftmehr" in Ulm , exhibition Leonberger Galerieverein
  • 2000: Unterjesingen Art Village
  • 2001: AAM in Basel (Switzerland), “Art in Herrenhausen” fair (in the Great Garden in Hanover-Herrenhausen ), Galerie Maier & Co. FineArt (Stuttgart), Galerie Kura (Basel, Switzerland), Kulturpfingsten Lahrensmühle Leonberg , “Das Brot Dazwischen ” (Art Camp Spitalhof Stuttgart), Kunstpfad Galerieverein Leonberg, Galerie Königsblau Stuttgart (art alarm 2001), Galerie Artforum (Hanover)
  • 2002: Cultural Pentecost Lahrensmühle Leonberg
  • 2004 to 2007: annually at the international art fair " Art Karlsruhe "
  • 2005: "Leonale" (Leonberg)
  • 2007: "Multifort Art Project" in Rheinfelden AG (Switzerland)
  • 2008: "Eder³" ("Eder hoch 3") in Rheinfelden (Baden) , joint exhibition with Leonhard Eder and Tobias Eder
  • The Hart Gallery ( Carmel , California, USA)

Works

  • "Nine months of protection", concrete sculpture , Rechberghausen (KaB)
  • "Signum", plastic made of steel and acrylic glass, Stuttgart, 1998 (KaB)
  • “Self-Portrait / Fool”, Marbach am Neckar; silver-plated sheet steel, 1999 (KaB)
  • "Young person", seven-part steel sculpture, Schurbergschule Rechberghausen, 1999/2000 (KaB)
  • “Encounter”, three U-shaped plates made of cast iron welded together, the vertical plates indicate two pregnant women standing opposite each other, 2002
  • New creation of the principal pieces (altar, cross, ambo , baptismal font and Easter candle) for the choir of the Protestant church of Lohrbach (Mosbach), 2002/2004
  • Catholic parish church of St. John the Baptist in Leonberg: Competition for the renovation and development of a contemporary room concept, 1st prize (together with architect Odilo Reutter, Esslingen), 2003
  • Open-air sculpture exhibition in the Bürgerhospital Stuttgart, 2002/2003 (KaB)
  • New creation of the principal pieces of the Peterskirche Heidelberg , from COR-TEN steel , 2004/2005

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personal data
SURNAME Eder, Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Rheinfelden (Baden)