Michael Wagener (artist)

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Michael Wagener at the stand of Gutleut verlags on Poetry market Berlin 2016

Michael Wagener (* 1966 in Morsbach ) is a German artist and publisher .

life and work

Wagener studied philosophy and art history from 1988 to 1990 at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and from 1990 to 1998 sculpture and photography with Wolfgang Luy at the HfG Offenbach am Main . In 2002 he founded Gutleut Verlag in Frankfurt .

The artist Michael Wagener works with various media - installation, sculpture, photography and image - on the subject of space and the manifestations of space. He mainly dealt with cartography as a form of spatial conception. In this context he came across the cartographer Gerhard Mercator . Unlike today's editions, the very first atlas compiled by Mercator from 1595 offers not just a collection of topographical and political maps: “It is rather a 'world explanation model' that is not untypical for the Renaissance, but also a kind of total work of art in which Science, religion and art merge. "

Michael Wagener lives and works in Frankfurt am Main .

Publications (selection)

  • permanent landscape - album, Frankfurt / Main 2014
  • The cartography of birds, Offenbach 2011
  • permanent landscape - the remixes, Frankfurt / Main 2010
  • taschenkosmos, Frankfurt / Main 2002
  • Taschenatlas, Frankfurt / Main 2002
  • 2.01-2.10 Frankfurt / other places, Florian Lumeau and Michael Wagener, Frankfurt / Main 2001
  • on stock, M. Fischer, J. Gelhaar, F. Lumeau, M. Wagener, Frankfurt / Main 1995

Solo and group exhibitions (selection)

  • 2011 The cartography of birds, German Weather Service, Offenbach
  • 2010 border lines, cultural summer Rhineland-Palatinate, Mainz
  • 2010 the humboldt-ding, Kunsthaus Erfurt, Erfurt
  • 2009 skeips - the qualities of an x, Kaiser & Cream Art District, Frankfurt / Main
  • 2009 Grenzland, Römer 9, Frankfurt / Main, and Kunstverein Aschaffenburg
  • 2009 best swept clean, showroom gutleut 15, Frankfurt / Main
  • 2008 Nach-Richten, Heilbronn City Library
  • 2007 Gestalte / Create - Design Medien Kunst, MAK, Museum for Applied Arts, Frankfurt / Main
  • 2006 heaven is, Luminale , Frankfurt / Main
  • 2005 word and object, special exhibition art salon, Berlin
  • 2004 upper worlds, exhibition + installation, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
  • 2004 expedition, installation, meat exhibition space (Café Moskau), Berlin Landnahme, Galerie Pankow, Berlin camera convista, Palazzo Barbariggio della Terazza, Venice, Italy
  • 2002 welten.4 - Kosmos, room installation and lecture series, Hl.-Geist-Kirche, Frankfurt / Main
  • 1999 I was there, Galerie Schütz, Frankfurt / Main
  • 1998 BE IN THE WORLD, Goethe-Institut, Rome (catalog)
  • 1995 Schöne Aussicht, Galerie Schütz, Frankfurt / Main

Awards and grants

  • 2003 Venice Scholarship, German Study Center Venice
  • 2003 taschenkosmos, award from the book art foundation
  • 2002 Munch grant NOCA (Oslo), Norway
  • 1994–97 scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation

Web links

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Wagener, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Morsbach