Michael Kortländer

Michael Kortländer , 2006

Michael Kortländer (* 1953 in Münster ) is a German sculptor and painter . Since 2008 he has been chairman of the Düsseldorf- based association for the organization of art exhibitions and thus director of the large art exhibition NRW Düsseldorf .

Artistic career

Michael Kortländer was born in Münster in 1953. At the age of 19 he moved to Düsseldorf and began studying there from 1972 to 1978 at the Düsseldorf Art Academy with the painter Gerhard Hoehme . In 1978 Michael Kortländer was made a master class student. Based on and in contrast to the spatial painting of his teacher, he began at this time with his first work in space, so-called "spatial images", which he realized primarily with cardboard. From 1982 to 1984 he received the Wilhelm Lehmbruck grant and from 1985 he received a working grant from the Federation of German Industries at Europa Carton AG, which donated a large part of his materials to him. In 1993 and 1996 he was a lecturer at the Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences for sculptural design. In 2008, 2013 and 2016, Kortländer was a guest at the Cité Internationale des Arts Paris . At the beginning of his career painting dominated his work, while he discovered sculpture for himself from the 1980s . His preferred material is cardboard, which he often paints over with glazed layers or simply soaked with linseed oil.

In 2013, he and artist colleagues from Palermo and Düsseldorf founded the Düsseldorf Palermo eV association , which set in motion the art and cultural exchange between the two cities with exhibitions in Düsseldorf and Palermo and led to a city partnership in 2016 . In 2014 Michael Kortländer was elected chairman of the Association of Düsseldorf Artists for Mutual Support and Help . Numerous artistic initiatives were and continue to be launched by this association for the city of Düsseldorf. Michael Kortländer has been curating the garden pavilion in the park of the Düsseldorf artists' association Malkasten since 2016 .

He lives and works in Düsseldorf, Neuss and Palermo.

Exhibitions (selection)

1978: Real Pictures , Schmitz & Becker Gallery, Duisburg

1982: Michael Kortländer , Galerie Wolf & Klaus, Düsseldorf

1988: Michael Kortländer , Galerie Kröner, Wiesbaden

1991: Material and Space , Heimeshoff Gallery, Essen

1995: Plastic works , Museo de la Nation, Lima , Peru

1997: Boxes , Hansefestival Bergen, Norway

1999: Don't try this at home , Villa Zanders , Bergisch Gladbach

2000: Cardboard I , Art Team Hamburg

2002: Cardboard II , Art Association Ibbenbüren

2005: RAUMALSBILD , artist mine “Our Fritz”, Herne

2014: Ponteggio , Generatorenhalle, Kunstverein Viersen

2015: abstract strategies , Galerie Poiesis Spec, Berlin

2016: heights, widths, depths , Cubus Kunsthalle , Duisburg

2016: Michael Kortländer - objects and installations , Galerie Schloss Neersen

2017: Shelter , Künstlerhaus Göttingen

2017: 2-3 dimensional , Flottmann-Hallen Herne

Literature (selection)

LO SPAZIO - Michael Kortländer , Kunstverein Duisburg, Duisburg 2012.
Michael Kortländer - objects and installations , Neersen Castle, Lux, exhibitions 2016.
TWO TO THREE-DIMENSIONAL - Jürgen Buhre Michael Kortländer , Herne 2017, ISBN 978-3-934940-54-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Heine price for an indomitable. Accessed March 17, 2019 (German).

personal data
SURNAME	Kortländer, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German sculptor and painter
DATE OF BIRTH	1953
PLACE OF BIRTH	Muenster

[1] Heine price for an indomitable. Accessed March 17, 2019 (German).