Silvia Klara Breitwieser

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Silvia Klara Breitwieser, 2017
Embassies - The Berlin Embassy in Berlin-Kreuzberg
"History and Histology". 2 sandstones, 2 peat sods, 2 text panels. History of layers: mineral stone (Elbe sandstone) and vegetative stone (peat sod)
"History and Histology". Detail 2 peat sods
"History and Histology". Detail text on brass plate

Silvia Klara Breitwieser (born July 26, 1939 in Krefeld ) is a German visual artist .

Life

Silvia Klara Breitwieser was born in Krefeld in 1939 and spent the years 1942 to 1945 as a war child in evacuation in the mountains of Austria. After graduating from high school in 1959, she studied psychology , philosophy and literature in Tübingen and Munich . From 1963 she was in Düsseldorf, Munich and Marburg a. a. active in the book trade. At the same time, the first pictorial works were created. In 1965 she married Dietmar Kamper and has two daughters with him. From 1971 to 1976 she studied sculpture and ceramics at the Kunsthochschule Kassel . Since 1972 she has participated in exhibitions and publications in a time-critical, multi-media and installation manner with her sculptures, objects, photography and interventions. She realized a large number of individual projects abroad, such as in Austria, Florence, Venice, Valencia, Turkey ( The Troy Project ), Greece (Karpathos Island), the Czech Republic and Egypt ( excavation - burial ). Since 1981 there have been permanent and temporary works in public space and their participation in competitions for art in urban space, worth mentioning u. a. Competitions such as the sculpture garden at the radio tower, Berlin West (realized in 1979/80); Memorial Rosa Luxemburg Berlin (2004), BUGA Schwerin (2008).

Silvia K. Breitwieser understands art as evidence of the times and research, her work is linked to social reference, history and histology and memory - as a constant in her sculptural work. Even early groups of works have the titles HARDWARE - SOFTWARE, HIGHTECH - LOWTECH . Her big projects include her TORFFORUM BERLIN. DER SCHWANGENDE BODEN (1987/88) on the site of the former Anhalter Bahnhof , its 32 museum signposts MUSEUM AND MUSEUM EMBASSIES (see illustration), today a purchase by the Berlinische Galerie and its multi-media trajectory WEBWERK - WE (B) BWERK (2009 ff .) with 100 invited participants for the investigation GEWEBE HEUTE, a portfolio, exhibition and online work.

Silvia K. Breitwieser is a member of the German Association of Artists , the Professional Association of Visual Artists, the Association of Berlin Women Artists (VdBK) 1867 eV and the Atelierhaus Neue Panzerhalle (NAP). She has lived and worked in Berlin since 1979, and since 1990 she has had her studio on the outskirts of Berlin / Potsdam / OT Groß Glienicke.

Awards and grants

Publications (selection)

  • Silvia Breitwieser: The disappearance of things (picture essay), in: The disappearance of the senses , ed. v. Dietmar Kamper and Christoph Wulf, Edition Suhrkamp 1188, Frankfurt am Main 1984, ISBN 3-518-11188-4 , pp. 87-97.
  • Silvia Breitwieser: Inscriptions (picture essay), in: Dietmar Kamper and Gerburg Treusch-Dieter: Obsession and Imagination , ed. v. Bankruptcy book publisher Claudia Gehrke, Tübingen 1985, ISBN 3-88769-302-7 , pp. 63–110.
  • Silvia Breitwieser: Created History - Grown History. The lasting Berlin. In: Myth of Berlin. Concepte. ed. v. Mythos Berlin Ausstellung GmbH, Verlag Ästhetik und Kommunikation, Berlin 1986, ISBN 3-88245-139-4 , pp. 67–69.
  • A fictional interview by Silvia Breitwieser: Liaisons dangereuses - making art for the 750th anniversary of Berlin. In: Berliner Kunstblatt. 16. Jhg., No. 56 / 1987. Ed. And publishing house Interest Group Berlin Art Dealers eV, pp. 19-22, ISSN  0170-1665
  • Silvia Breitwieser on Silvia Breitwieser: Art is not enough. Histology versus hierarchy. In: Inge Huber, Karoline Müller (Hrsg.): Physiology of the fine arts. Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-926460-00-8 , p. 94 ff.
  • Dietmar Kamper - Silvia Breitwieser: understand without bringing up the term. A dialogue about art and philosophy , in: Kunstforum International, Volume 100, Cologne 1989, pages 302–315.
  • SK Breitwieser: Image and Building - Working with Photography. Kunstverein Marburg and Edition Dies, Berlin 1993.
  • SK Breitwieser: Res Publica - Working in public space. Metro Verlag, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-928282-06-9 .
  • SK Breitwieser: Muses and museum messages. two-part documentation, ed. v. Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Potsdam / Berlin 1996 and Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-923479-97-2 and ISBN 3-932754-00-X .
  • SK Breitwieser: The Installation - Between Finiteness and Infinity. In: torso. ed. v. Association of Berlin Women Artists 1867 eV, Berlin 2003, pp. 340–343.
  • SK Breitwieser: Das Schwarze Projekt (The Black Project) - Model and Reality. My edicts as an artist on the problem of assets and bequests in the visual arts (essay). In: Anno RAK 4 / messages from the Rhenish archive for artists' bequests. Bonn 2013, pp. 62–73.
  • Hans Joachim Albrecht on Silvia K. Breitwieser In: Hans Joachim Albrecht: Sculptors in Germany in the 20th century. From Hans Arp to Erwin Wurm. Gebr. Mann Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-7861-2778-9 , pp. 219ff.
  • Silvia K. Breitwieser: Marianne von Werefkin - The blue rider? In: New Positions - The Association of Berlin Women Artists 1867 eV ed. v. Association of Berlin Women Artists 1867 eV, Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2019, ISBN 978-3-7319-0812-8 , pp. 36–37, 82–85.

Works in public space

  • Muses and museum messages / The Berlin Embassy between the Berlinische Galerie - State Museum for Modern Art, Photography and Architecture and the Jewish Museum (Alte Jakobstrasse / Lindenstrasse)
  • History and histology. History-Hysteria-Histology , 2003. Two stones on Matthäikirchplatz between Neuer Nationalgalerie / Kulturforum / Philharmonie / Potsdamer Platz, Berlin (until the end of 2018), moved to the sculpture park on Klostersee Lehnin because of the new museum building
  • Art signpost in the Kaiser-Friedrich-Halle Park, Mönchengladbach
  • Guide to Marianne von Werefkin , Zitadelle Berlin (Spandau) on loan from the art collection of the archive of the Academy of Arts Berlin

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Detailed exhibition biography (PDF)
  2. ↑ Competitive participation
  3. ↑ Myth of Berlin. A scenic exhibition at the Anhalter Bahnhof, June 13–20. September 1987
  4. ↑ SK Breitwieser's portfolio, exhibition and online work
  5. ↑ Main studio (NAP)
personal data
SURNAME Breitwieser, Silvia Klara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German visual artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Krefeld