Thomas Kesseler

Thomas Kesseler (* 1956 in Gelsenkirchen ) is a German architect , sculptor and painter .

Life

The Bauhaus student Werner Graef instructed Thomas Kesseler at the Folkwang University of the Arts from 1972 to 1975. From 1975 to 1981 Kesseler studied sculpture at the Düsseldorf Art Academy and finally became a master student of Erwin Heerich . From 1981 to 1984 he studied architecture at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. He was accepted into the master class of Hans Hollein . At the same time, from 1982 to 1984 he was given a teaching position for architectural theory and architectural history at the University of Dortmund with Busso von Busse . In 1983 he was awarded the Hatschek Scholarship in Vienna and conducted research on Piero della Francesca in Urbino and at the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome . In 1986 he passed his final exam at the Düsseldorf Art Academy with Ernst Kasper . In 1987 Thomas Kesseler received the advancement award for architecture from the Westphalian Art Association in Münster . In 1990 he was awarded the sponsorship award for architecture of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. From 1990 to 1992 he was a lecturer in architecture at the Art Academy in Dusseldorf and took part in the Architecture Biennale in Venice in part. In 1998 he was appointed professor for color and space, the basic artistic theory of interior design at the Ostwestfalen-Lippe University of Applied Sciences in Detmold .

His work is characterized by large-scale monochrome painting, which is aesthetically appealing and experiencing space through combinatorial hanging in space.

Exhibitions

• 1977 “The Small Format” | Hennemann Gallery, Bonn
• 1977 “Body, Color, Gesture” | Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne
• 1977 winter exhibition | Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf
• 1978 Hennemann Gallery, Bonn
• 1978 "Class Heerich" | Art museum, Kranenburg
• 1980 "Perspectives II" | Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf
• 1984 "Art Landscape BRD" | Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe
• 1984 solo exhibition | Gallery Wehr, Stuttgart
• 1984 solo exhibition | Paul Pozzoza Museum, Düsseldorf
• 1984 “In the focus of art” | Westf. Landesmuseum, Münster
• 1985 solo exhibition | Gallery Krings-Ernst, Cologne
• 1985 Bauhütte | Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf
• 1985 Gallery Krings-Ernst, Cologne
• 1986 “Heerich pupil class” | Peschkenhaus, Moers
• 1986 solo exhibition | Gallery Krings-Ernst, Cologne
• 1986 solo exhibition | Melodrom, Frankfurt
• 1987 Hete Hühnermann Gallery, Düsseldorf
• 1987 solo exhibition | Gallery Krings-Ernst, Cologne
• 1987 "Promotion Prize Exhibition" E | Westf. Kunstverein, Münster
• 1989 solo exhibition | Atelier and gallery collective, Wuppertal
• 1989 “Place and Place” | University f. applied art, Vienna
• 1990 “Place and Place” | Aedes Gallery, Berlin
• 1990 solo exhibition | Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf
• 1990 "Art in the substation" | To sing
• 1990 "NRW Promotion Prize" | Collection NRW, Düsseldorf
• 1991 "Villa Massimo scholarship holders" | Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen
• 1991 “Place and Place” | Architekturmuseum, Basel, CH
• 1991 “Place and Place” | Biennale, Venice, I
• 1991 "Art Academy Düsseldorf" | Biennale, Venice, I
• 1995 solo exhibition | Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen
• 1996 solo exhibition | Gallery Epikur, Wuppertal
• 1996 Gallery Sandmann and Haak | Frankfurt
• 1996 "Paper" | Art Museum, Düsseldorf
• 1997 “Working in the studio”, E | Dusseldorf
• 1997 solo exhibition | Zeughaus, Herisau, CH
• 1997 “Heerich and his students” | Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg
• 1998 solo exhibition | Art Association, Krefeld
• 1998 solo exhibition | Diocesan Museum, Bamberg
• 2000 “Trilogy of Places” | City Museum, Naumburg
• 2000 solo exhibition | City Museum, Mühlheim
• 2000 solo exhibition | Baumgarten Gallery, Freiburg
• 2002 solo exhibition | Art Association, Lüdinghausen
• 2002 Architecture | Alte Post art forum, Neuss
• 2002 Architecture | Ruhrforum, Castrop-Rauxel
• 2004 “Color as Color” | Karl-Ernst Osthaus Museum, | Hagen
• 2004 “Color as Color” | Museum Ostwall, Dortmund
• 2004 "Aqua Aqua" | Art Association, Baden-Baden
• 2004 "North constellations" E | Gallery Ferdinand Ude, Gelsenkirchen
• 2004 Inauguration of the studio | Hoffeldstrasse 46, Düsseldorf
• 2006 solo exhibition | Aedes Gallery, Berlin
• 2007 "Color" | Kestner Museum, Hanover
• 2010 “golden rain” | Denkhaus, Wevelinghoven
• 2010 “In the focus of modernity” | German Glass Painting Museum, Linnich
• 2010 "Make Blue" | Gallery Konrad Mönter KG, Meerbusch-Osterath
• 2010 “All colors are in black” | Schmitz & Partner law firm, Essen
• 2011 “Competition Cathedral Roermond” | Museum voor Flakglasen en enamel art, Ravenstein
• 2012 “Color Power - Painting and Objects” | Municipal gallery Schloss Borbeck, Essen
• 2012 “A Sea of ​​Blue” | Room installation | KICK Bochum
• 2012 "Independent" | Painting and sculpture | Artists Union Cologne
• 2013 "Renaissance Reloaded" | Beck and Eggeling Gallery, Bologna Art Fair
• 2014 Alzey Castle
• 2017 Lüdinghausen Castle, Lüdinghausen

as well as represented by the Beck and Eggeling Gallery , Düsseldorf

Awards

• 1983 Hatschek grant in Vienna
• 1987 Prize for architecture from the Westphalian Art Association in Münster.

Web links

• Vita of Thomas Kesseler

literature

• HG Saur: General artist lexicon
• Church square St. Don Bosco Velbert: Square design and sculptures by Thomas Kesseler / Thomas Kesseler: Art and Church, Vol. 2000 (2000), pp. 228–229
• Taufkapelle St. Joseph Oberhausen: picture cycle by Thomas Kesseler / Thomas Kesseler. - In: Kunst und Kirche Vol. 2000 (2000), pp. 226–227
• Ute Becker-Kesseler, Thomas Kesseler: Rooms; Dialogue between art and architecture, 1984–2000
• Project texts: Jutta Kleinknecht ... - Tübingen [u. a.]: Wasmuth, 2002.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Exhibition at Burgagfit in Alzey - article at Nexis, accessed on February 24, 2016 from the Allgemeine Zeitung