Rainer Fest

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Rainer Fest (* 1953 in Berlin ) is a German sculptor .

Rainer Fest (left) installing his sculpture “Otto Fountain” in Gützkow 2003

biography

After graduating from high school in 1973, Rainer Fest studied art at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel from 1973 to 1975 . From 1975 to 1981 he was at the Jurva School of Applied Arts in Finland. He then studied sculpture with Professor Altenstein in Bremen. From 1982 to 1988 he received a scholarship from the Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst . After graduating as a qualified sculptor in 1987, he studied for one year at the Academiea des Bellas Artes in Madrid . In 1993 he received a working grant from the Senator for Cultural Affairs, and in 2002 an Otto Niemeyer Holstein grant. Fest currently lives in Glashütte, a district of Rothenklempenow in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania .

Works

  • 1997, “Interior Space”, granite, pink Porino, 700 × 320 × 320 cm, walk-in granite sculpture at the Konrad-Zuse-Institut , Berlin.
  • 2002, memorial stone, erected in churchyard V of the Jerusalem and New Churches on Hermannstrasse . The parishes that were involved in the recruitment and employment of slave labor during the Second World War are engraved on the surface . The memorial stone is located on the site of a former forced labor camp in the churchyard . Fest cut out a layer of the boulder from which the stone was made and divided it into 42 individual parts - each with a name of the parishes involved. As a reminder of their responsibility, each congregation received “their” stone, a responsibility that is combined on the surface of the memorial stone with all names to form the overall responsibility. The memorial stone was moved later and has been in the diagonally opposite churchyard of St. Thomas Parish II , Hermannstrasse 179-185 (east side of Hermannstrasse), next to a memorial pavilion for the forced laborers since 2013 at the latest .
"Otto Fountain" by Rainer Fest in Gützkow 2003

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 1987
    • Church on Tempelhofer Feld, Berlin
  • 1988
    • St. Jakobikirche, Berlin
  • 1990
    • Galerie Stil und Bruch, Berlin
  • 1991
    • Eisenhalle, Berlin
    • Gallery IX, Berlin
    • Galeria Indice, Torre la Vega, Spain
    • Casa de Cultura, Basauri, Spain
  • 1992
    • Galeria Vanguardia, Bilbao, Spain
    • Casa de Cultura, Elvar, Spain
  • 1993
    • Gallery Gleditsch 45, Berlin
    • Galerie Schoen and Nalepa, Berlin
  • 1994
    • Coach house, Stober Collection, Berlin
  • 1995
    • Sankt Petri Chapel, Brandenburg
    • Galerie de Beerenburgth, Eck en Wiel, The Netherlands
  • 1997
    • Kunsthalle Kühlungsborn
  • 2000
    • Obrist gallery in Essen
    • Studio Gallery Warsaw, Poland
  • 2001
    • Galerie de Beerenburght, Eck en Wiel, The Netherlands
    • Kunstquartier, Essen, Galerie Obrist
  • 2002
    • Katzow Sculpture Park
  • 2003
    • Concept gallery buepa.com, Berlin

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personal data
SURNAME Firm, Rainer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin