Paloma Varga Weisz

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Paloma Varga Weisz , (* 1966 in Mannheim ) is a German sculptor and illustrator .

Life and professional development

Paloma Varga Weisz was born in Mannheim and grew up in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse . She is the youngest daughter of Feri Varga , who has lived and worked as a Hungarian artist mainly in France and Germany . From 1987 to 1990 she learned wood carving in Garmisch-Partenkirchen . From 1990 to 1998 she studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy with Tony Cragg and Gerhard Merz . Her versatile work includes sculptures and installations, mainly in wood and ceramics, as well as watercolors and drawings . "Paloma Varga Weisz's plastic oeuvre is characterized by obvious recourse to iconographic and craft traditions and combines history with a contemporary artistic practice that only sparsely reveals its genealogical roots."

Paloma Varga Weisz lives and works in Düsseldorf .

Awards and grants (selection)

  • 2017 Holbach Award, Foundation for the Promotion of Art in the Palatinate
  • 2007 Marianne-Werefkin Award, Berlin
  • 2000/2001 Bremerhaven Fellowship, Bremerhaven

Exhibitions (selection)

Beulenmann on the canopy of Düsseldorf Central Station (2019)
  • 2019:
Bumped Body , Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, Netherlands (solo)
Homo Faber: Craft in Contemporary Sculpture , Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, South Korea (group)
Mask: In Present Day Art , Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland (group)
Animalesque / Art Across Species and Beings , Bildmuseet, Umea, Sweden (group)
The Enigma of the Hour - 100 Years of Psychoanalytic Thought , Freud Museum, London (group)
The Palace at 4 am , NEON Foundation, Archeological Museum, Mykonos (group)
A Cool Breeze , Rudolfinium Gallery, Prague (group)
Wundergestalt , Gladstone 64, New York (solo)
  • 2018:
Wild Bunch , Sadie Coles HQ, London (solo)
Parcours , Art Basel, Basel (group)
From foreign countries in own cities Düsseldorf Central Station, MAP Markus Ambach Projekte, Düsseldorf (group), with "Beulenmann" (acquisition of the city of Düsseldorf in 2019)
Nudes Sadie Coles HQ, London (group)
ISelf Collection Bumped Bodies , Whitechapel Gallery, London (group)
A mind of winter , curated by Giorgio Pace and Rita Selvaggio, Fundaziun de Planta Samedan, Samedan (group)
  • 2017:
Galeria Pedro Cera, Lisbon (solo)
ISelf Collection: The End of Love , Whitechapel Gallery, London (cat.)
Dreamers Awake , curated by Susanna Greeves, White Cube, London (group)
Luther and the Avantgarde , Old Prison, Wittenberg (group)
Sculpture Hall, Thomas Schütte Foundation, Neuss / Holzheim (solo)
Lucas Cranach the Elder , Museum Kunstpalast , Düsseldorf (group)
  • 2016:
Behind the curtain. Concealment and Revelation since the Renaissance. From Titian to Christo , Museum Kunstpalast , Düsseldorf (group)
NO MAN'S LAND: Women Artists from the Rubell Family Collection , National Museum of Women in the Art, Washington (group)
Cloud and Crystal - Jackson Pollock Meets Bruce Nauman , Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen , Düsseldorf (group)
The Summer Exhibition , Royal Academy of Arts, London (group)
The Distance of a Day - New in Contemporary Art , The Israel Museum, Jerusalem (group)
Ceramix. Ceramic art from Gauguin to Schütte , Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht; La Maison Rouge, Paris; Sèvres - Cité de la ceramique (group)
  • 2015:
NO MAN'S LAND: Women Artists from the Rubell Family Collection , Rubell Family Collection / Contemporary Arts Foundation, Miami (group)
Root of a Dream , Castello di Rivoli , Turin (solo)
The Problem of God , Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen , Düsseldorf (group) Bois Dormant, Gladstone Gallery, Brussels (solo)
  • 2014:
The Human Factor: The Figure in Contemporary Sculpture , Hayward Gallery , Southbank Center, London (group)
Sadie Coles HQ, London (solo)
  • 2013:
Paloma Varga Weisz, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin (solo)
The sculptors. Art Academy Düsseldorf, 1945 to the present day , Art Collection North Rhine-Westphalia , Düsseldorf (group)
  • 2012:
Alone Together , Rubell Family Collection, Miami (group)
Prima Materia , Gladstone Gallery, Brussels (group)
Sadie Coles HQ, London (solo)
Exquisite Corpses: Drawing and Disfiguration , Museum of Modern Art , New York (group)
  • 2011:
mémoires du futur - la collection Olbricht , La Maison Rouge, Paris (group)
Folkstone Triennial, Folkstone (group)
  • 2010:
New Rhineland , Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen (group)
Love of life and dance of death , Kunsthalle Krems (group)
Silent Revolution - Collection presentation , Art Collection NRW, Düsseldorf (group)
  • 2009:
Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv (solo)
  • 2008:
The Gilded Age , Kunsthalle Wien (solo)
Gladstone Gallery, New York (solo)
  • 2007:
Sadie Coles HQ, London (solo)
Makers and Modelers , Gladstone Gallery, New York (group)
  • 2006:
Of Mice and Men , Berlin Biennale (group)
Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin (solo)
Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Art , The Israel Museum, Jerusalem (group)
  • 2005:
Always a Little Further , Biennale di Venezia (group)
Collection 2005 , new presentation of the art collection at K21, Düsseldorf (group)
  • 2004:
Museum Kurhaus Kleve (solo)
Raumfürraum Kunstverein Düsseldorf Kunsthalle Düsseldorf (group)
  • 2003:
Not Afraid , Rubell Family Collection, Miami (group)
  • 2002:
Big Trip , Konrad Fischer Gallery, Düsseldorf (solo)
  • 2001:
Cabinet for Current Art , Bremerhaven (solo)
Kunstverein Bremerhaven (solo)

Literature (selection)

  • Paloma Varga Weisz. Root of a Dream . Castello di Rivoli, Museum of Contemporary Art , Rivoli, Mousse Publishing, Milano 2017, ISBN 9788867492930 .
  • Maison de Plaisance: Rosemarie Trockel and Paloma Varga Weisz . Museum Morsbroich Leverkusen, Verlag für Moderne Kunst, Nuremberg 2012, ISBN 978-3-86984-360-5 .
  • New Rhineland - the post-ironic generation . Distance Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-942405-20-1 .
  • A million miles from home . Folkestone Triennale, Cultureshock Media, 2011, ISBN 978-0-9562669-4-1 .
  • Paloma Varga Weisz, Gilded Age. A Tale of Today . Catalog Kunsthalle Wien. Modern art publishing house, Nuremberg 2008, ISBN 978-3-940748-28-7 .
  • Paloma Varga Weisz, drawings . Koenig Books, London 2005, ISBN 3-88375-999-6 .
  • Room by room . Catalog Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, art association for the Rhineland and Westphalia. Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-88375-924-4 .
  • Most Wanted: The Olbricht Collection . Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2005.
  • Interviews 2 . Gerald Matt, Kunsthalle Wien, 2008, ISBN 978-3-86560-364-7 .
  • Of Mice and Men. 4 . Berlin Biennale, Hatje Cantz, 2005, ISBN 3-7757-1765-X .
  • Collection of contemporary art in K 21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen . 2005, Düsseldorf, ISBN 3-8321-7567-9 .
  • Paloma Varga Weisz . Catalog Museum Kurhaus Kleve. Revolver, Archive for Current Art, 2004, ISBN 3-934935-16-8 u, ISBN 3-937577-43-2 .
  • Paloma Varga Weisz . Ackermans Collection, Xanten 1999.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Angela Stief, curator at Kunsthalle Wien
  2. ↑ Paloma Varga Weisz - Wild Bunch , at www.sadiecoles.com, accessed October 15, 2018
  3. ^ Art Basel Parcours , from www.hmb.ch, accessed on October 15, 2018
  4. ↑ From foreign countries in their own cities , on vonfremdenlaendern.de, accessed on October 15, 2018
  5. ↑ Nudes , at www.sadiecoles.com, accessed October 15, 2018
  6. ↑ iself Collection: Bumped Bodies on www.whitechapelgallery.org, accessed on 15 October 2018
  7. ↑ A Mind of Winter , at atpdiary.com, accessed October 15, 2018
  8. ↑ Paloma Varga Weisz November 17, 2017 - January 6, 2018 , at www.pedrocera.com, accessed October 15, 2018
  9. ↑ iself Collection: The End of Love , on www.whitechapelgallery.org, accessed on 15 October 2018
  10. ↑ Dreamers Awake at White Cube Bermondsey , on awarewomenartists.com, accessed October 15, 2018
  11. ↑ Luther and the Avantgarde , at luther-avantgarde.de, accessed on October 15, 2018
  12. ↑ Paloma Varga Weisz , on thomas-schuette-stiftung.de, accessed on October 15, 2018
  13. ↑ Paloma Varga Weisz , at www.sadiecoles.comwww.blainsouthern.com, accessed October 15, 2018
  14. ↑ Summer Exhibition 2016 , from www.royalacademy.org.uk, accessed on October 15, 2018
  15. ↑ [1] , from www.imj.org.il, accessed on October 15, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Varga Weisz, Paloma
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weisz, Paloma Varga; Varga-Weisz, Paloma
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim