Thomas Schulz

This article deals with the artist Thomas Schulz. For other people see Thomas Schultz .

Thomas Schulz: ... through which space falls
Photo: Volker Gläser

Thomas Schulz (* 1950 in Berlin ) is a German artist.

life and work

He studied from 1977 to 1983 at the University of the Arts in Berlin . In 1979 he began to develop acoustic sculptures made of steel wire and glass, which became playable instruments in the architectural topological conditions of the landscape and space.

In the work Faced Mirror (1980), an ephemeral sculpture as 16 mm film , 180 steel wires at 360 points are distributed in space from the drawing of a body outline (made from prepared standard steel screws) to a steel wire construction. Against the background of the struggles for occupied houses at the time, the installation, conceived on the basis of cinematic visualization, brought together a double sequence of movements in a contrasting manner.

The monumental installation Sculpture Europe, an acoustic-visual research in and on the construction sites of the Eurotunnel in England and France and in the European Parliament in Brussels and Strasbourg, has been in existence since 1989 .

In 2015 Thomas Schulz was represented at the Donaueschinger Musiktage with the sound installation In den Raumfalls .

Exhibitions

• 1981 Faced Mirror - Nothing New in the West, Lucerne Art Museum , Ludwig Collection; - 16 mm magnetic sound film , DFFB production 1980
• 1982 First Secret Service Permanent Congress Music , Paris Biennale Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris
• 1982 Secret Service Foundation with Angeline Neveu & Philipp Cazal
• 1982 Sonata Somnambulica Gallery Donguy, Paris
• 1983 galera ambulante , Symposium d'Art Performance, Lyon
• 1983 In the theater , Berlin office
• 1984 Transatlantic tablemusic , in DISPERSIONS at the Gare Maritim / Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal
• 1985 Culture Shoc Boxes Clock Tower, MoMA PS1 , New York
• 1986 1 to the power of zero / days for viewing Künstlerhaus Bethanien , Berlin
• 1987 The house speaks Documenta 8 , Kassel Audiothek
• 1987 Visual routes , Ruimte Morguen Gallery, Antwerp
• 1987 Roter Platz / Grünfeld , Moltkerei Cologne
• 1988 Quiems in Merve-Verlag , Berlin, European Capital of Culture
• 1989 Correspondence , Berlinische Galerie , Berlin
• 1989 photography as art as photography
• 1991 Correspondance , Musée d'Art Moderne, Saint Etienne
• 1992 Not there but under the sea , Neuer Berliner Kunstverein , Berlin
• 1993 Dossier Antwerp , European Capital of Culture & Ruimte Morguen
• 1996 From loud to silent , Brandenburg Art Collections Cottbus
• 1997 votes against? Abstentions? So decided! Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum of the Present , Berlin
• 1998 Megaphonie z , ASCII, Berlin
• 1999 contract tendencies , Haus des Rundfunks , Berlin
• 2000 We come to the votes now , Donaueschinger Musiktage
• 2001 European Drawings , Microphone No. VI, in the symposium Art as Science - Science as Art Gemäldegalerie Berlin
• 2002 Hear what the fisherman says , land surveying Strodehne; Start of research at Fischer Schröder Havelland
• 2003 Layered , Microphone No. VII, New Masters Gallery, Dresden
• 2004 Sculpture Europe / supervision of future parliamentary floors, Baltic Sea Biennale of Sound Art - Audiovisual Projection 54 ', Kunsthalle Rostock
• 2004 Neuropean , CDR projection Donaueschinger Musiktage
• 2004 Mutabor - whoever laughs is thrown out , 21 channels in "EU positive", ADK
• 2007 Start of the Havelland landscape project
• 2008 Sonoric perspectives , Nordic Embassies by C. Metzger, Berlin
• 2008 The expulsion from space , DVD production Hybriden-Verlag, Berlin
• 2008 Fake Relatives IV , Baltic Sea Biennial of Sound Art, Usedomer Music Festival, Heringsdorf Art Pavilion
• 2009 The organized promise in the voices of sole , Kunsthalle Brennabor in Brandenburg
• 2010 rau / m / b The head office is modernized , Art Gallery Munich
• 2012 The foreign and the own - Europe as a provocation for intercultural competence , International Colloquium Brussels
• 2013 Acoustic Sculpture / Cinematic Drawing Gallery ART SPACE NIJI, Kyoto
• 2013 International Symposium Soundscape Villa Kamogawa - Goethe-Institut Kyoto
• 2014 Building site europe - a journey throgh time Video sculpture, Villa Aurora , Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences
• 2015 .... space falls through space as an instrument Donaueschinger Musiktage; Through which / Through which video loop portrait Stahldraht-Produktion

Grants

• 1985 Project Studios 1, PSONE, New York
• 1986 Atelier Künstlerhaus Bethanien
• 1989 work grant from the Sen.Kult. Berlin
• 1995 Working grant from the Art Fund Foundation, Bonn
• 1995 Project grant from the Kulturfonds Foundation, Berlin
• 1999 Sen.Kult working grant. Berlin
• 2000 Villa Serpentara, Academy of Arts
• 2000 Project funding Parliament of Sounds, Art Fund, Bonn.
• 2005/2015 Rudolf Lodders Foundation, Dr. T

literature

• Space as an Instrument - The Acoustic Sculptures by Thomas Schulz. In: Neue Zeitschrift für Musik 01/2009, p. 58.
• Language in the technical age. Ed .: Walter Hoellerer / Norbert Miller. LCB - 117/1991; Radio play positions; Contributions to an Aesthetic Theory of Radio

Web links

• Donaueschingen Music Days
• Thomas Schulz at WERGO
• new music magazine
• MD Berlin

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Thomas Schulz in the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Brussels office ( Memento of the original from January 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ Thomas Schulz in the catalog Im west nothing new , Kunstmuseum Luzern 1981.
3. ↑ Reflections on art as “THIRD PLACE” and “LINGUA FRANCA” of the intercultural dialogue by Wolfgang Siano. December 2011 ( Memento of the original from January 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ The European Sculpture / A Hand in the Weather, text by Wolfgang Sieno ( Memento of the original from July 31, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ SWR Sound Art & Composition