Thomas Rentmeister
Thomas Rentmeister (born March 4, 1964 in Reken ) is a German sculptor and professor at the University of Fine Arts Braunschweig .
Life
From 1987 to 1993 Rentmeister studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy with Günther Uecker and Alfonso Hüppi . In 1999 he took on a teaching position at the Kassel Art College . From 2002 to 2004 he was visiting professor at the Berlin University of the Arts . From 2005 to 2006 he was teaching at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art . In 2007 he received a visiting professorship at the Braunschweig University of Art. Since 2009 he has held a professorship for sculpture there. He lives in Berlin.
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In the 1990s Rentmeister became known to a wider audience with high-gloss polyester sculptures. Some look like oversized blobs, others like cartoon characters. From 1999 on Rentmeister repeatedly used Nutella and Penaten cream for his work. He uses “household materials from industrial mass production - from sugar cubes and cotton swabs to paper tissues, sockets and entire refrigerators.” They become sculptures.
"His works are never hermetic, self-contained works of art, monads of the aesthetic; they always let the identity of the materials used, which are far from art, shine through." .
In terms of form and style, Rentmeister refers to Minimal Art, "whose strict formal language he refreshes with a strong pinch of post-pop and Dadaist non-conformism". Ursula Panhans-Bühler found the term “impure” minimalism for his work.
In feature articles and exhibition catalogs Rentmeister's humor is emphasized: "His tools are humor and his attitude is that of a parodist." He knows "to harmonize both formal and content-related density with humor in a light-footed and completely unpathetic way". But he should not only be seen as a “chief ironic”. Rentmeister said on Deutschlandfunk : “My work is always saturated with irony, but it is not the only drive I have. You could also leave out the irony, then they would also work. "
Rentmeister and his work defy a one-dimensional definition. "Rentmeister's work oscillates between a pathetic desire for art and a humorous criticism of art and institutions, between reference to everyday life and claims to art, whereby he carefully avoids taking a clear position."
The philosopher Hannes Böhringer attests to the artist in his essay Refrigerator broken : "All interpretations slip off him." His refrigerator works create "a picture of the final entropic state of art".
Stephan Berg describes the “balancing act between seduction and repulsion, between the aesthetic and the unpleasant” as an important “motor of Rentmeister's work”; Above all, the artist wants to find the point “at which the sweet and the beautiful turn into the disgusting, suppressed, unsuitable.” According to this, Rentmeister's oeuvre pervades a “paradoxical strategy of ambivalence”. The theme of transience also pervades “discreetly, but still unmistakably large stretches of the oeuvre ”.
Solo exhibitions (selection)
- 2019 PUTPUTPUT. Placing positions , Kunstverein Ruhr, Essen
- 2019 Terra Mollis , Project Space | Spare Room, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT University, School of Art), Melbourne, Australia
- 2017 Goodbye everyday life , Galerie Hammelehle and Ahrens, Cologne
- 2016 Hommeland , Kunstverein Wolfenbüttel
- 2015 Hostal , Municipal Gallery Delmenhorst
- 2014 Considering the Matter , home of Croatian visual artists = Meštrović Pavilion - HDLU, Zagreb, Croatia
- 2012 Objects. Food. Rooms. , Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts , Perth, Australia
- 2011 Objects. Food. Rooms. , Bonn Art Museum
- 2008 Thinking in Works. Centraal Museum Utrecht
- 2007 More. House at the Waldsee , Berlin
- 2006 The Holes of Things. Museum Ostwall , Dortmund
- 2005 minimal pop. Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum , Rotterdam
- 2004 stopover. Nuremberg Art Gallery
- 2002 WerkRaum. 10. Hamburger Bahnhof (Berlin)
- 2001 brown. Kölnischer Kunstverein , Cologne
- 1997 Center d'art contemporain de Vassivière en Limousin. (with Thomas Demand )
- 1995 Abteiberg Municipal Museum , Mönchengladbach
Group exhibitions (selection)
- 2017 SUR / FACE. Mirror. Museum of Applied Arts (Frankfurt am Main)
- 2017 North-West Contemporary. Masterpieces from public collections between Jade, Weser and Elbe. Bremerhaven Art Museum , Bremerhaven
- 2015 Streamlines. Oceans, World Trade and Migration. Deichtorhallen , Hamburg
- 2013 Sculpture only! Kunsthalle Mannheim , Mannheim
- 2012 The Presence of Pictures - German Painting: Highlights from Six Decades. State Center for Contemporary Art , Moscow
- 2011 About the metaphor of growth. Frankfurter Kunstverein , Frankfurt am Main
- 2011 Biomorph! - Hans Arp in dialogue with current artist positions. Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck , Remagen
- 2011 Transformed Objects. Quay 10 | Space for Art (Arthena Foundation), Düsseldorf
- 2010 Portfolio Berlin 01. Kunsthalle Rostock
- 2010 Eat Art. Kunstmuseum Stuttgart
- 2009 Eating the Universe - On Eating in Art. Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
- 2009 intemperance. 2. Bienal del Fin del Mundo, Ushuaia, Argentina
- 2009 KölnSkulptur 5 - Reality Check. Sculpture Park Cologne
- 2009 SIK - spridd isolerad const. Kalmar Konstmuseum, Sweden
- 2009 SuperStories - 2de Triënnale voor beeldende kunst, mode en design. Hasselt, Belgium
- 2008 Man leaves the earth. Kolumba (museum) , Cologne
- 2008 Ad Absurdum - Energies of the Absurd from Classical Modernism to the Present. MARTa Herford
- 2008 … 5 minutes later. KW Institute for Contemporary Art , Berlin
- 2007 Capital - Blue Chips & Masterpieces. Museum of Modern Art , Frankfurt am Main
- 2006 Lang Leve Beeldhouwkunst! Middelheim Museum , Antwerp, Belgium
- 2006 O Momento Suspendido - Colección H&F. Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Spain
- 2005 M city. European cityscapes. Kunsthaus Graz
- 2004 Santo * (first presentation of the permanent loan in the collection), Museum of Modern Art Frankfurt am Main
- 2004 SEE history 2003. Kunsthalle zu Kiel
- 2001 close up. Kunstverein Hannover
- 2000 Sculpture 2000. Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven
- 1999 mode of art. Art Association for the Rhineland and Westphalia , Düsseldorf
- 1997 Plastik - an exhibition of contemporary sculpture. Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart and the Hawerkamp Municipal Exhibition Hall, Münster
Public collections (selection)
Works by Thomas Rentmeister are represented in these collections (alphabetical order): Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck , Remagen; Kolumba (Museum) , Cologne; Art Museum Bonn ; MARTa Herford ; Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum , Rotterdam, Netherlands; Museum of Modern Art Frankfurt am Main; Museum Ludwig , Cologne; Museum Ostwall in the Dortmunder U, Dortmund; Museum Ritter , Waldenbuch; Municipal Museum Abteiberg , Mönchengladbach; Lehmbruck Museum , Duisburg
Awards (selection)
- 2002 Piepenbrock Young Talent Award for Sculpture
- 1996 Working grant from the Art Fund Foundation , Bonn
- 1988 Philip Morris scholarship in Berlin
literature
- Christoph Schreier (Ed.): Thomas Rentmeister: Objects.Food.Rooms. Kunstmuseum Bonn / Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, 2011, ISBN 978-3-832193-96-6 .
- Hannelore Kersting (arrangement): Contemporary art. 1960 to 2007 . Municipal Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach 2007, ISBN 978-3-924039-55-4 .
- Ellen Seifermann, Kunsthalle Nürnberg (ed.): Thomas Rentmeister: Zwischenlandung. Ostfildern 2004, ISBN 978-3-7757-9196-0 .
- Udo Kittelmann, Kölnischer Kunstverein (ed.): Thomas Rentmeister: brown / brown. Cologne 2002, ISBN 978-3-7757-9107-6 .
- Martin Köttering, Roland Nachtigäller , Städtische Galerie Nordhorn (ed.): Thomas Rentmeister. Sculptures. Nordhorn 1998, ISBN 978-3-922303-28-2 .
- Thomas Rentmeister, Welcome. Catalog for the exhibition at Galerie Otto Schweins, Cologne 1996.
Web links
- Literature by and about Thomas Rentmeister in the catalog of the German National Library
- Homepage of the artist
- Hammelehle and Ahrens Gallery, Cologne
- Aurel Scheibler / ScheiblerMitte, Berlin
- Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Thomas Rentmeister at the HBK Braunschweig
- Kerstin Stremmel: Joke and deeper meaning - Thomas Rentmeister shows “The Holes of Things” in Dortmund. in: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, March 24, 2006, p. 26.
- Dirk Hohnsträter: Thomas Rentmeister opens Contemporary Food Lab
Individual evidence
- ↑ Christoph Schreier: Culture paste. The rebirth of modernity from Nutella and Penaten cream. in: Thomas Rentmeister - Objects. Food. Rooms. Catalog Kunstmuseum Bonn and Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Cologne 2011, p. 28.
- ^ Leigh Robb: Condition Report. in: Thomas Rentmeister - Objects. Food. Rooms. Catalog Kunstmuseum Bonn and Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Cologne 2011, p. 137.
- ↑ Christoph Schreier: Culture paste. The rebirth of modernity from Nutella and Penaten cream. P. 26.
- ↑ a b Magdalena Kröner: Painting with Penaten Cream. Thomas Rentmeister in Bonn. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, December 29, 2011.
- ↑ Christoph Schreier: Culture paste. The rebirth of modernity from Nutella and Penaten cream. P. 25.
- ↑ Ursula Panhans-Bühler: Heavy sweetness and gravity sweetness. in: Thomas Rentmeister - brown. Catalog Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne 2002, p. 29.
- ↑ a b Christoph Schreier: Culture paste. The rebirth of modernity from Nutella and Penaten cream. P. 30.
- ↑ Stefanie Stadel: Between pleasure and weariness. in: K.West - The culture magazine of the West. 11/2011.
- ↑ Peter Backof: Nutella, tampons and penate cream. in: Corso. Culture after three. on Deutschlandfunk, October 19, 2011.
- ↑ Hannes Böhringer: Refrigerator broken , in: Thomas Rentmeister - Objects. Food. Rooms., Catalog Kunstmuseum Bonn and Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Cologne 2011, p. 110
- ↑ a b Stephan Berg: Are you sure that the light in the refrigerator will go out when you close the refrigerator door? in: Thomas Rentmeister - Objects. Food. Rooms. Catalog Kunstmuseum Bonn and Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Cologne 2011, p. 52/54.
- ↑ Piepenbrock Young Talent Award for Sculpture on hamburgerbahnhof.de
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Rentmeister, Thomas |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor and university professor |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 4th 1964 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Reken |