Michael Sailstorfer

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Michael Sailstorfer, Berlin 2018. Photo by Oliver Mark

Michael Sailstorfer (born January 12, 1979 in Velden (Vils) ) is a German sculptor as well as an installation and object artist .

Live and act

Life

Michael Sailstorfer grew up in Bavaria as the son of the sculptor Josef Sailstorfer, attended vernissages with his father at an early age and studied from 1999 to 2005 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich (among others with Nikolaus Gerhart and Olaf Metzel ) as well as at the Goldsmith College of the Londoners University (2003/2004). He has received numerous awards, such as the AT Kearney Academy Prize in 2001 , the Darmstadt Secession Prize in 2002 (Sculpture Section) and the Ars Viva Prize in 2006/07 , as well as scholarships from the German National Academic Foundation (2003) and the Villa Aurora (2005).

Sailstorfer is on the list of 100 Heads of Tomorrow , with which selected young people are introduced who, because of their "creativity and motivation, are predicted to have a promising future". His work is characterized by built objects and installations . One of his works is in the "Collection of Contemporary Art of the Federal Republic of Germany" in Bonn. Sailstorfer lives in Berlin .

Creating art

Outdoor thermometer (2012)
Main path and side paths at Südtiroler Platz in Vienna
Mückenhäuser on the Blumenthal cycle path near the flyover of the A43

Sailstorfer began his artistic activity with unusual sculptures in the open air, strange temporary structures, for example a tin hut made of cut-up mobile homes on a meadow, of which only photos show. Living with transport links is the name of an installation in which he has equipped various shelters on a bus route with bedroom and other home furnishings in the Bavarian district of Erding. In 2008 he created a video that shows a corrugated iron house that expands its walls as if inflated and seems to burst, but then repeatedly collapses. Sailstorfer is hardly influenced by the starting points of older art, neither in terms of content nor form. He transforms “objects and deprives them of their original purpose. For this he instills new life into them and gives them a soul. A new story begins with the new identity. Michael Sailstorfer's cabaret-ready artistic creation of the new worlds is always exciting. "

The sculptures by the sculptor Sailstorfer transcend the corporeal figurative, they expand into further dimensions and receive rampant expansions through light, noise or smell. The artist is fascinated by everyday objects. He “really takes on these objects, they are dismantled, taken apart, deformed, adapted, reassembled and reinterpreted into powerful installations. Both the space that they occupy and the space that surrounds them are of essential importance. ”He became known for a work from 2005 in which a hanging car tire turns in vain to get away, and then on rubs against a wall so that the rubber slowly rubs off, with a correspondingly pungent odor spreading in the room. He gave the work the title Time is not a highway . The idea for this installation came to him in Japan when he saw a tire warehouse. "A tremendous amount of energy fizzled out into nothing - an artistic effort in the tradition of Sisyphus and Don Quixote, a fate that confronts us with our own lifetime and our own deeds and revolts against the limits of the possible with absurd comedy."

In 2010, Sailstorfer installed three hundred clouds made of truck hoses in the “Kleehalle” in the new extension of the North Rhine-Westphalia Art Collection in Düsseldorf as a temporary installation called Clouds .

In the competition "United Nations Campus in Bonn for the staircase, atrium and foyer wall", category "Art-in-building competition for the staircase location" of the Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning for the building project "Buildings for the United Nations" in Bonn Sailstorfer won 1st prize in 2011 with his design of an outdoor thermometer . The execution was carried out by the master locksmith Bernd Euler.

Quote

  • "I want to make changeable sculptures that work at the same time in a place that I like."

Awards

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

2019

  • SINK, SANK, SUNK, König Galerie , Berlin
  • Space is the Place, BNKR Art Center, Munich
  • TEAR SHOW, Perrotin Gallery, New York City

2018

  • Brainspotting, Avlskarl Gallery, Copenhagen
  • We love them all, Carbon 12, Dubai
  • Tear Show, King London, London
  • Troubling Matter II, Galerie Jahn, Landshut

2017

  • Retirement home for cosmonauts, Kunsthal 44 Moen, Askeby
  • Gräflicher Park Bad Driburg, Bad Driburg
  • Neuhardenberg Castle, Neuhardenberg
  • Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh
  • Heat-free, König Galerie , Berlin
  • Clouds and Tears, Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City
  • Retirement home for populists, Grieder Contemporary, Zurich

2016

  • Maze, Senate Department for Justice, Berlin
  • Troubling matter, Galerie Jahn, Landshut
  • Silver Cloud, performance, Studio Michael Sailstorfer, Berlin

2015

  • Michael Sailstorfer. Meadows by night , KuWi - Kunstverein Wiesen eV, Wiesen Castle , Wiesen

2014

2012

2011

  • Hangover, art window by the BDI , Berlin

2010

2008

2007

  • Multi-storey car park in Malkastenpark , Düsseldorf
  • Galleria Zero, Milan

2006

  • Johann König Gallery, Berlin

2005

2004

  • espace d'art contemporain, Geneva

2002

Group exhibitions

literature

Catalogs

  • Veit Görner, Martin Germann, Kristin Schrader, Philippe Van Cauteren, Thomas Caron, Ellen Seifermann (eds.): Michael Sailstorfer: p . Texts: Martin Germann, Kristin Schrader, Thomas Caron, Ellen Seifermann, Birgit Sonna, Berlin 2011.
  • Matthias Ulrich and Max Hollein (eds.): Michael Sailstorfer. 10,000 stones . German and English. König, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-86560-465-1 .
  • Sailstorfer, Michael - Kraichtal . Texts: Nicolaus Schafhausen, Max Hollein. Ursula Blickle Foundation, Kraichtal 2005.
  • Forever was yesterday. Michael Sailstorfer . Texts: Gioni Massimiliano, Michael Sailstorfer. Verlag für Moderne Kunst, Nuremberg 2005, ISBN 3-936711-86-0 .

Secondary literature

  • Sandra Danicke: The Urtlfinger's pride and business acumen . In: Frankfurter Rundschau of May 29, 2008.
  • Dirk Grundmann: Farbjahr, yearbook of the art academies 2003. Düsseldorf, 2004, ISBN 3-9809475-0-5
  • Johann Fredrik Hartle: About buses and people . In: Catalog "WE, HERE!" . Revolver, Frankfurt 2003.
  • Christian Huther: Culture and Service . In: Frankfurter Neue Presse of May 27, 2008.
  • Ronald Meyer-Arlt: The big booth magic . In: Hannoversche Allgemeine from May 30, 2008.
  • NN. Sculpture on the wrong track . In: art. The art magazine . No. 12, 2006, ISSN  0173-2781 .
  • Rudolf Schmitz: Michael Sailstorfer and Terence Koh in the Schirn . In: hr2 -kultur Mikado on May 28, 2008.
  • Birgit Sonna: The high-flyer . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of October 8, 2002.
  • Julia Voss : Painted white or painful borderline experience? In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of May 28, 2008.

Web links

Commons : Michael Sailstorfer  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Franz-Xaver Schlegel: Michael Sailstorfer - Staging the world with humor. In: “kunsttermine.de” on May 1, 2004. Reiner Brouwer Verlag, Stuttgart
  2. ^ Matthias Ulrich on the Schirn website for the 2008 exhibition
  3. ↑ Dorothea Apovnik, quoted from the Schirn press release of April 30, 2008
  4. ^ FAZ of July 10, 2010, page 31
  5. ↑ BBR - Kunst am Bau UN Campus - competition results on the website of the Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning, accessed on August 30, 2014
  6. ↑ Michael Sailstorfer: Thermometer, 2012, UN Campus Bonn on the website of master locksmith Bernd Euler, accessed on August 30, 2014
  7. ↑ Quoted from "Der Überflieger". In: "Süddeutsche Zeitung" of October 8, 2002
  8. ↑ Homepage Museum Kurhaus Kleve Ewald Mataré Collection Exhibitions , accessed on September 19, 2014
  9. ^ Announcement on the exhibition , accessed on September 6, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Sailstorfer, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor, installation and object artist
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Velden (Vils)