Simon Wachsmuth

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Simon Wachsmuth (* 1964 in Hamburg ) is a media and concept artist .

Life

Simon Wachsmuth studied painting and visual media design at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna . There he was a master student of Carl Unger and Peter Weibel . He also studied at the Institute for Communication Theory with Roy Ascott. In 1989 he won the Prix ​​Ars Electronica award in the computer animation category, and in 2003 he was awarded the Otto Mauer Prize . In 2007 he took part in Documenta 12 in Kassel.

Simon Wachsmuth lives and works in Berlin and Vienna. Simon Wachsmuth lives and works in Berlin and Vienna. He was visiting professor at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna as well as at the Prague Art Academy (AVU) and the Bauhaus University in Weimar.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 2018 Dramatization , Zilberman Gallery, Istanbul
  • 2017 Acts of Description , Galerie Zilberman, Berlin
  • 2015 documents. Monuments. , Belvedere 21, Vienna
  • 2014 analogue , Musee de Valence and art3, Valence
  • 2013 Signatures , Cora Hölzl Gallery, Düsseldorf
  • 2011 Parathesis , Steinle Contemporary, Munich
  • 2010 Aporia / Europa , gallery in the Taxispalais, Innsbruck
  • 2008 Mnemosyne Steinle Contemporary, Munich
  • 2008 Speculum, archive and narrative , Austrian Cultural Forum, Prague
  • 2007 A Way of Considering Two Things Together , Physicsroom, Christchurch, New Zealand
  • 2006 the things which I have seen, I now can see no more . Kunstraum Dornbirn , Dornbirn
  • 2003 earlgrey . Cora Hölzl Gallery, Düsseldorf
  • 2004 of copying , Galerie Hohenlohe and Kalb Vienna
  • 1996 Simon Wachsmuth , Büchsenhausen showroom, Innsbruck
  • 1990 Galerie Gawlik and Schorm, Vienna

Participation in group exhibitions (selection)

  • 2020 Requiem , Kunsthaus Dresden
  • 2019 And Berlin will always need you , Gropiusbau, Berlin
  • The Spirit of the Poet , Center for Persecuted Arts, Solingen
  • The Spark of God , Diocesan Museum, Bamberg
  • Sleeping with Vengeance , Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart
  • 2018 Statues Also Die , Fondazione Sandretto re Rebaudegno and Egyptian Museum, Turin
  • Why art? , Museum Ulm, Weishaupt Art Gallery, Ulm
  • 2017 A Thousand Roaring Beasts, Display Devices for a Critical Modernity , Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville
  • Is Eros the planet I have just observed? , Art Association Goldberg
  • Reflecting windows - reflections of the world and self , Belvedere 21, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna
  • How to Picture Living Systems 2 , Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, Klosterneuburg / Vienna
  • 2016 body luggage, migration of gestures , Steirischer Herbst, Kunsthaus Graz
  • Suzhou Documents , Suzhou Museum of Art, Silkmuseum, Suzhou / China
  • Steinle Revisited , New Museum Nuremberg
  • 2015 Trading Places , L40, Berlin
  • 2014 archeology ?! Searching for traces in contemporary art , Salzburg Museum
  • 2013 Space for archives - know, save, use , House for Art, Wortelkamp Foundation, Hasselbach
  • 2013 On ne connaît les chiffres que d'un côté du plan , art3, Valence
  • 2013 One ten, two thirteen, thirteen , Kunstverein Friedrichshafen and Zeppelin Museum, Friedrichshafen
  • 2012 Dear Aby Warburg, What to do with pictures? , Museum of Contemporary Art Siegen
  • 2012 Garden of Learning , Busan Biennale, South Korea
  • 2012 Economy: Picasso , Musee Picasso, Barcelona * 2011
  • 2011 Atlas - How to Carry the World on Ones Back , ZKM, Karlsruhe
  • 2010 To The Arts, Citizens " , Museo Serralves, Porto, Portugal
  • 2010 Squatting , Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin
  • 2010 Tanzimat , Augarten Contemporary, Vienna
  • 2010 That's the program , Steinle Contemporary, Munich
  • 2010 sette piccoli errori / seven little mistakes , Museo Marino Marini, Florence
  • 2009 What Keeps Mankind Alive , 11th Istanbul Biennale , Istanbul
  • 2009 Tranquility is a special case of movement , Kunstmuseum Vaduz / Liechtenstein
  • 2009 Reduction & Suspense Magazin4, Kunstverein Bregenz
  • 2008 Brno Art Open , Public Space, House of Art, Brno
  • 2007 documenta 12 , Kassel.
  • 2007 Balance - Art in Heiligendamm. Bad Doberan.
  • 2006 Liminal Spaces . Gallery for Contemporary Art, Leipzig.
  • 2006 subject . Badischer Kunstverein , Karlsruhe.
  • 2005 The government - How do we want to be governed. Shown in Miami Art Central, Miami and in Witte de With , Rotterdam.
  • 2005 Critical Societies . Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe.
  • 2003 forms of organization . Gallery of the Academy of Graphics and Book Art, Leipzig, Galerija Skuc, Ljubljana.
  • 2001 The subject and power . House of Artists, Moscow.
  • 1994 Furla Prize . Fondazione Querini Stampalia , Venice.
  • 1993 Austrian Cultural Institute, New York.
  • 1992 Life between Artefact and Nature . 18th Triennale di Milano, Palazzo de'l Arte, Milan.
  • 1991 Bildlicht . Museum of the Twentieth Century, Vienna.
  • 1991 The eyes of Minerva . Salzburg Art Association.

Prices

References and footnotes

  1. ↑ GfZK: LIMINAL SPACES / border areas . October 28, 2006 - January 21, 2007, curated by Galit Eilat, Reem Fadda, Philipp Misselwitz. Online at http://www.gfzk-online.de/de/index.php?menue=29&pos=0&sub=4&show=2006&archiv=75
  2. ^ Witt de With: Be what you want but stay where you are . From April 29 to June 19, 2005, curated by Ruth Noack and Roger M. Buergel. Online at Witte de With presents from April 29 till June 19 the exhibition? Be what you want but stay where you are? ( Memento from November 2, 2007 in the Internet Archive )

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personal data
SURNAME Wachsmuth, Simon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German media and concept artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg