Matthias Glässer

Matthias Glässer (* 1970 in Birkenfeld ) is a German painter and conceptual artist .

Work description

From 1986 to 1994 first artistic works in public urban space . Freelance visual artist since 1994 . The work of Glässer is broad. His installations follow the strategy of conceptual art and minimalism . In painting and drawing, however, the key words are transformation, change and revolution . The subject of much of his work is the human being without being depicted or classified in any way.

From 2009 he used more and more knowledge of science and research for the development of his artistic work. Topics from the field of ecology and sustainability but also the artistic examination of the human body in its physical and psychological world of experience serve him as inspiration and research object for the development of installations, objects and painting. Very often the works unfold like experimental arrangements.

In 2011 Glässer experimented with biological substances, which he used in connection with painting, in a new context and thus created new levels in the viewer's perception (group of works: Bioaktiv!). This interdisciplinary work was funded in 2011 and 2013 with grants from the Künstlerdorf Schöppingen Foundation.

He lives and works in Leisel , Rhineland-Palatinate .

Awards / grants

2011 KWW (Art, Science and Economy) residency grant with funding and in cooperation with the Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia in the Kunststiftung Künstlerdorf Schöppingen.
2013 project grant ( artist in residence ) at the Kunststiftung Künstlerdorf Schöppingen.
Prize winner art in architecture in the competition Kulturhalle Stiftung Schöppingen
2016 Paris scholarship from the state of Rhineland-Palatinate for the Cité Internationale des Arts

Exhibitions (selection)

Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck
Cité Internationale des Arts Paris
Reiss-Engelhorn Museums, Mannheim
E-Werk Freiburg
state art gallery Baden-Baden
TUFA Trier
EMA Art Prize, Aachen
Ökorausch incubator, Cologne
Art room old steam bath, Baden-Baden

Works in public collections

Art collection of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate
Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection, Mainz
Dr. Becker Foundation
University of Applied Sciences Trier
Birkenfeld district

literature

2014 Art Prize of the Archdiocese of Freiburg: Grace. 2015 ”, exhibition catalog, edited by Isabelle von Marschall, Art Commission of the Archdiocese of Freiburg, Kehrer Verlag, ISBN 9783868285703
2013 The Silence of the Sirens, exhibition catalog, edited by Maler-Zang Haus, Denise Essig
2011 Bioactive Art, science magazine Natur und Kosmos, Ed. Konradin Medien Verlag

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personal data
SURNAME	Glässer, Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German artist
DATE OF BIRTH	1970
PLACE OF BIRTH	Birkenfeld , Rhineland-Palatinate , Germany