Thomas Virnich

Thomas Virnich (2011)

Thomas Virnich: Tower of Babel, 2002

Thomas Virnich: Monument to Otto von Guericke's hemisphere experiment on the Ratswaageplatz in Magdeburg

Thomas Virnich (born March 16, 1957 in Eschweiler ) is a German sculptor and painter .

life and work

Thomas Virnich lives and works in Mönchengladbach- Neuwerk. From 1978 to 1981 he studied at the Technical University of Aachen with Joachim Bandau , then switched to the Düsseldorf Art Academy , where he studied with Alfonso Hüppi and Eugen Gomringer until 1985 . In 1983 Virnich had his first solo exhibition, received the promotion award from the city of Aachen and a promotion booth at Art Cologne . He received the sponsorship award of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia fine arts in 1985, the Karl Schmidt-Rottluff scholarship (together with his two years older brother Winfried Virnich ) in 1987 and the Lower Saxony art award in 2001. Thomas Virnich produces large, colorful sculptures that proliferate and in which everyday objects or waste objects are integrated. Since 1992 he has been teaching at the University of Fine Arts in Braunschweig .

Thomas Virnich is (like his brother Winfried) a member of the German Association of Artists .

Exhibitions (selection)

• 1984 A tank is dismantled . New Gallery - Ludwig Collection , Aachen
• 1985 House blocks at Städtisches Museum Abteiberg , Mönchengladbach
• 1986 Munich Art Space
• 1987 documenta 8 , Kassel
• 1988 ZEITLOS Hamburger Bahnhof , Berlin
• 1994 Thomas Virnich - Small Worlds . Producer gallery, Hamburg
• 1995 Thomas Virnich - Worlds . Municipal gallery Remscheid
• 1996 Thomas Virnich - everything really . Art Association Braunschweig
• 1997 Gerhard Marcks House , Bremen
• 2002 German Society for Christian Art , Munich
• 2003 Malkasten , Düsseldorf
• 2005 Kunstverein Bonn; Lehmbruck Museum , Duisburg
• 2007 Aargauer Kunsthaus , Aarau (Switzerland)
• 2007 Museum Wiesbaden
• 2011 Roemer and Pelizaeus Museum , Hildesheim
• 2014 Thomas Virnich. The world on the coat hook . Museum DKM , Duisburg
• 2015 Kunstverein Region Heinsberg , Schalk Im Kasten
• 2015/16 Thomas Virnich - Helter Skelter , Sculpture Park Waldfrieden , Wuppertal

Further awards

• 1983 Prize of the federal competition for art students from the Federal Ministry of Education and Science
• 1987 Villa Romana Prize
• 1991 Villa Massimo Prize

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Thomas Virnich . In: Art . The art magazine. Gruner + Jahr, December 1987, ISSN  0173-2781 , ART-Lexicon of Contemporary Artists, p. 136 .
2. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Members "V" / Thomas Virnich (accessed on May 25, 2016)
3. ↑ Wolfgang Feelisch: Thomas Virnich - Worlds. Städtische Galerie Remscheid (exhibition catalog), Remscheid 1995. p. 97.

literature

• Hannelore Kersting (arrangement): Contemporary art. 1960 to 2007. Municipal Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach 2007, ISBN 978-3-924039-55-4 .

Web links

Commons : Thomas Virnich  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Thomas Virnich in the catalog of the German National Library
• Official website of Thomas Virnich
• Thomas Virnich at kunstaspekte.de