Obernkirchen sculpture symposium

The Obernkirchen Sculpture Symposium first took place in 1988 in Obernkirchen , a small town in Lower Saxony , and has been continued every three years since 1997. During the 5th Sculptor Symposium, in addition to the Sculptor Symposium Obernkirchen, an interactive creation of a work of art took place, whereby a sketch is created by an artist on the Internet and artists on site implement this idea in stone and consult and discuss during the execution.

The stone sculptures from the symposia, as far as they remained in Obernkirchen, are now set up on a four-kilometer sculpture path near Obernkirchen.

Sculpture Symposium Obernkirchen

For the sculptor symposia in Obernkirchen, sculptors are selected from the incoming applications who create sculptures from local Obernkirchen sandstone on the historic church square in Obernkirchen .

Interest in this art form is great, according to the organizer, 14,000 visitors came to the church square in 2006 and took the opportunity to watch artists doing their creative work or to discuss with them. The symposia in Obernkirchen are organized by an association that is supported by sponsors.

Interactive sculpture symposium

During the 5th Obernkirchen Sculpture Symposium in 2003 a new idea was developed, the development of a sculpture over the Internet. Artists plan and draw a work of art, and an executive sculptor converts the drawing into natural stone . The artists communicate via the Internet and the development and result of the work of art is published worldwide. The American sculptor Michael Re from Schaumburg from Illinois developed an internet sketch that the sculptor Klaus Vieregge executed on the church square in Obernkirchen. The Japanese sculptor Isamu Fujimoto from the Asago Art Museum drew a sketch on the Internet that the sculptor Pascal Schmidt made. The partners of this internet sculpture symposium were the Internationale Obernkirchener Sculptor Symposion e. V. and the Asago Art Museum in Japan.

During the 6th International Obernkirchen Sculptor Symposium in 2006, the 2nd Interactive Sculptor Symposium took place, the Japanese artist Isamu Fujimoto made sketches on the Internet, which the sculptor Fried Schange from Telgte in Germany implemented on the church square in Obernkirchener Sandstein .

Participant since 1997

4th sculpture symposium 1997

The sculptors symposium in 1997 took part:

Susanne Christensen, Iceland Girts Burvis, Latvia Enea Coi , Italy

Tobias Geron Gerstner, Germany Inez Hegeman, Netherlands Peter Morse, USA

Tanja Preminger, Israel Günter Schulz, Germany Tobel, Germany

Keizo Ushio, Japan Holger Vanicek, Belgium Klaus Vieregge, Germany

Laura White, UK

5th sculpture symposium 2000

At the 5th sculpture symposium in Obernkirchen in 2000:

Poul Bækhøj, Hadsund, Denmark Girts Burvis. Riga, Latvia Geits Burvis, Riga, Latvia

Igor Brown, Tel-Aviv, Israel Fabrizio Dieci, Carrara , Italy Tutani Mgabazi, Mutorashanga , Zimbabwe

Hans Reijnders, Venlo , Netherlands Günter Schulz, Obernkirchen, Germany Enghis Septimiu, Sibiu , Romania

Anne Sewcz , Rostock , Germany Vladimir Slobodchikov, Minsk , Belarus Tobel, Valley, Germany

Keizo Ushio, Hyogo, Japan

6th sculpture symposium 2003

The 6th sculpture symposium in Obernkirchen in 2003 took part:

Ursula Beiler, Silz Austria Jos Beurskens, Beesel , Netherlands Thorsten Bisby-Saludas, Berlin , Germany

Horacio Castrejón, Mexico Ted Carrasco, Ted, Saurat , France Roland Höft, Lemgo , Germany

Kai Lölke, Hanover , Germany Gisela Milse, Radbruch , Germany Jean-F., Ortiz-Garcia, Paris , France

Ricarda Skibbe, Hanover, Germany

9th sculpture symposium 2012

The 9th International Obernkirchen Sculpture Symposium in 2012 took part:

Algimantas Slapikas, Lithuania Ce Zhang, China Christoph Schindler, Germany

Gideon Gomo, Zimbabwe Gudrun Schuster, Germany Ingeborg Obrez-Schmidt, Germany

Perlagia Mutyavaviri, Zimbabwe Petra Lange, Italy Tanja von Triller, Germany

Ralf Ehmann, Germany Stefan Esterbauer, Austria

Web links

• Sculpture city Obernkirchen. Retrieved May 9, 2013 . 

Individual evidence

1. ^ Sculpture path in Obernkirchen. (PDF; 2.7 MB) Schaumburger Land, accessed on May 9, 2013 . 
2. ↑ 1st interactive sculpture symposium in Obernkirchen. (No longer available online.) Internationales Obernkirchener Sculptor Symposium e. V., archived from the original on October 24, 2003 ; Retrieved May 9, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ 1997: The 4th International Obernkirchen Sculpture Symposium. (No longer available online.) Internationales Obernkirchener Sculptor Symposium e. V., archived from the original on April 11, 2011 ; Retrieved May 9, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ 2000: The 5th International Obernkirchen Sculpture Symposium. (No longer available online.) Internationales Obernkirchener Sculptor Symposium e. V., archived from the original on April 8, 2011 ; Retrieved May 9, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ 2003: The 6th International Obernkirchen Sculpture Symposium. (No longer available online.) Internationales Obernkirchener Sculptor Symposium e. V., archived from the original on April 12, 2011 ; Retrieved May 9, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ^ 9th International Obernkirchen Sculpture Symposium. International Obernkirchen Sculptor Symposium e. V., accessed on May 9, 2013 .