Rolf beer

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Rolf Bier (born October 14, 1960 in Würzburg ) is a German professor of fine arts .

Life

Bier studied from 1980 to 1987 at the University of Fine Arts in Braunschweig and at the Chelsea School of Art in London. He also completed a degree in linguistics and literary studies at the TU Braunschweig. After the publication of a number of cyclical volumes of poetry in the early 1980s, the focus of his conceptually based artistic activity was primarily in the areas of sculpture , photography and painting . In the ensembles of his exhibitions he brings together artefacts from various media on an equal footing to create an overall discursive sound.

In 1984 Bier founded the artist group “artists in residence” in Braunschweig. Up until 1989, it developed thematic installations and exhibition concepts , often also for urban space ( Xongo Bongo - Dead Germans in the cityscape of Braunschweig 1986; Phenotype allocation , Städtische Galerie im Museum Folkwang 1987: Fragments der Liebe , Overbeck-Gesellschaft Lübeck 1987; What are we allowed to believe?, Sprengelmuseum Hannover 1988; and Strip - today we don't buy anything , urban interventions in Hannover-Hainholz 1989).

During a one-year stay in London in 1987/88, Bier realized a sculpture from everyday materials almost every day in his studio at the Chelsea School of Arts and thus founded his sculptural work, which consists of the simplest possible interventions and actions and rejects a predetermined hierarchy of materials . Bier's notes on a projective sculpture and further notes on a theory of the ensemble formulate a decided and playful concept of sculpture that is based on a relational aesthetic and perception. Beer is just as concerned with a contemplative harmonization of material and action as it is with a critical questioning of the seemingly unstoppable process of reshaping the living environment through anthropomorphic design.

This impulse gives rise to sculptural interventions and installations as well as works in the outside space ( Fettfries , Weser underpass Bremen, 1991, Universalien I-III , Heidenheim 1997/98, supermatch , Leinehaus Hannover 2006, Bagno di Pecora , Park Hermannshof 2007, Death of Light , Maschsee Hannover 2009), photographs, text works and artist books.

The three-volume work Animals in my World - My World in Animals (since 2004–2012) is dedicated to the notation of all animals that beer encountered and that he could remember on the respective evening.

Beer and others had important solo exhibitions following the ensemble's ideas. a. 1993 in the municipal exhibition hall in Münster, 1999 in the Kunstverein Hannover, 2001 in the Kunstverein Friedrichshafen, 2002 in the Art Museum Heidenheim and 2004 in the Bilkin Gallery in Bilbao. Parts of his long-term project Portraits of Unseen People - a series of painted imaginary portraits that has grown to over 300 and which he began in 2004 with a grant to New York - were on view at the Kunstmuseum Celle in 2009.

Since 2005, after teaching assignments and visiting professorships at the University of Fine Arts in Braunschweig, the Universities of Applied Sciences in Hanover and Niederrhein / Krefeld and the University of the Arts in Bremen, Bier has been professor for general artistic training at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart .

Awards

Publications

  • Rolf Bier with "artists in residence": phenotype / allocation, Städt. Gallery in the Museum Folkwang 1987.
  • Rolf Bier with "artists in residence": "What can we believe?", Sprengelmuseum Hannover 1988.
  • Gail B. Kirkpatrick , Raimar Stange (texts): Free pieces of property and their necessary extension. Municipal exhibition hall at Hawerkamp, ​​Münster 1993.
  • Ulrich Krempel (text): Apartment, Painting, Kunstverein Wunstorf 1994.
  • Christoph Brecht, Rainer Fuchs, Eckhard Schneider (texts): Relational Panorama. Kunstverein Hannover, 1999.
  • Ulrich Krempel , Rolf Bier (texts): Monograph of Lower Saxon Artists No. 59. Hannover 2006.
  • Between the Ready Made and a Hard Place. Text by Martin Engler. In: home game. Kunstverein Hannover, 2006, pp. 13–21.
  • Rolf Bier "citizen -what citizen? Rethinking re-photographs". To the b / w photographs by Jeff Wall at documenta X, Hannover 2007.
  • Ludwig Seyfarth, Jan Verwoert (texts): Portraits of Unseen People. Kunstmuseum Celle, 2009.
  • Rolf Bier, Nils Büttner (eds.): Who is that pale man? - Andy Warhol news. Silke Schreiber Verlag Munich 2009.
  • Rolf Bier (ed.): Secret - the delight of the place . Hurricane and Barbie Verlag, Hannover 2013.
  • Martin Engler (text): in Rolf Bier. Only Stars Dream of Framing , painting, NORD / LB art gallery, Hannover 2014.
  • Rolf Bier (text, ed.): In the belly of the broom. Stuttgart / Hanover 2015. (Publication by the Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart)
  • Rolf Bier (ed.): The Vermeer Sensor. The attribution and maintenance of value of things and art in times of overabundance. Neofelis-Verlag, Berlin 2016.
  • Rolf Bier: "World with its surroundings." A photographic series. Text by Maik Schlueter. edition metzel, Munich 2019
  • Rolf Bier: "The Fountain Mémoire" - The ready-made impulse and its narratives. edition metzel, Munich 2019/2020

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personal data
SURNAME Beer, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German visual artist
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Wurzburg