Torsten Schlueter

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Torsten Schlueter (born September 30, 1959 in Hennigsdorf near Berlin ) is a German painter , graphic artist and author .

Life

Schlüter studied at the Bauhaus University Weimar (HAB) with Thomas Freytag, Hannes Hubrich and Birgit Zimmermann (architecture), Gottfried Schüler (painting) and Hubert Schiefelbein (graphic teaching and design). In 1983 he received the honorary diploma at the World Architecture Biennale in Sofia, and in 1986 the architecture diploma on the subject of "Redesigning Hackescher Markt and Hackesche Höfe" in Berlin. After that, he concentrated exclusively on painting. From 1986 until the fall of the Berlin Wall , he spent several months a year on the island of Hiddensee . Because of the departure from the "predetermined academic path", the state authorities of the GDR declared him an undesirable person and terminated his apartment and work space. In 1988 he was approved as a painter and graphic artist by the Association of Visual Artists; since then he has been working as a freelancer. In September 1989 Schlüter became involved in the citizens' movement Neues Forum .

He has had his studio in Berlin-Mitte since 2003 , and a studio house on Hiddensee since 2012. Torsten Schlüter is married, has three children and lives in Berlin and on Hiddensee.

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In addition to painting, literary work also plays a special role. Correspondence with Erwin Strittmatter and an intensive exchange with Manfred Domrös (Hiddenseer Inselpastor) and Hanns Dieter Hüsch gave further suggestions. From 1990 he went on various work trips, including a. to France, Guatemala, Mexico, New York, Namibia, Indonesia and India. In 1993 Torsten Schlüter belonged to the group of visual artists who brought the Kulturbrauerei to life. In 1996 he had a studio in the Hackesche Höfe in Berlin.

In 1997 he published his first literary publication, "Hiddenseer Aufzüge". In various project-related work he cooperated a. a. with the musicians Christoph Theusner , Bob Rutman , Peter Ablinger and Michael von Hintzenstern as well as the directors Fritz Bennewitz , Peter Schroth and Ralf Peter Schulze.

Awards

In 2013 Schlüter received an award at the 19th art exhibition "Natur-Mensch" in the Harz National Park.

Work topics

Between 1986 and 1989 there was a confrontation with social issues u. a. in the context of the GDR . Examples of this are his pictures “The Unity Party” and “The October Storm” (1989) as well as the portraits from the cycle of witches (portraits of women) and heretics (self-portraits). From 1987 he developed an abstract landscape painting (watercolor), influenced by the northern light of Hiddensee. As a result, cycles such as northern lights , horizons and weather times emerged . After 1990, the sketchbooks brought back from work trips served as the basis for large-format oil paintings. Since 1997 the theme of “water” has been dominant in his work, conveyed by the archaic well women and water carriers . In 1994, work began in New York on the subject of bridges and traffic in metropolises (Berlin / Manhattan) and in 1995 the cockfight topic . With Tulipamwe , Schlüter created a multi-layered cycle of painting, sculpture, film and performance on fundamental issues of dealing with and coexistence of different cultures using the example of the development of Namibia in 1997 . In 1999 Tulipamwe was shown as part of the “European Capital of Culture Weimar” and in 1998 on the initiative of Jack Lang and Antoine Favron in Blois, France. In the 1990s, 2000s and 2010s he dealt with issues such as environmental issues , social violence and exclusion . Exemplary works are: Triptych "The Violence" (1992), "Slumdog, Craw and Man" (1996), "Farewell to Europe" (1998), "Street Kids in Mumbai" (1998), "Sea of ​​Flags" (2008), "Fukushima" (2013), "Geminus" / "VW folded up" (2015).

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1984: Honorary diploma for a competition work at the World Architecture Biennial in Sofia
  • 1992: EXPO World Exhibition, German Pavilion, Seville
  • 1992: Young art from East Germany, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung , Bonn
  • 1993: Weimar Classic Foundation , Weimar
  • 1993: German Contemporary Art, Tokyo; Group exhibition
  • 1994: National Art Gallery of Namibia , Windhoek
  • 1994: German contemporary graphics, Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn ; Group exhibition
  • 1997: Salle Saint Paul Blois, France
  • 1998: Inselmuseum Hiddensee
  • 2001: Putbus Orangery
  • 2001: Annual exhibition at Bodenberg Castle, Bad Salzdetfurth “He flies and flies”, group exhibition
  • 2002: Goethe Institute, Berlin
  • 2006: Bad Wildungen Municipal Museums
  • 2006: European artist colonies, Barbizon, group exhibition
  • 2007: Gerhart Hauptmann Museum, Hiddensee
  • 2010: Schleswig Holstein House, Schwerin, group exhibition
  • 2012: Villa Haar, Weimar
  • 2012: Marienkirche Stralsund
  • 2012: Marienkirche Stralsund
  • 2013: Gerhart Hauptmann Museum Agnetendorf / Jagniatkow (Poland)
  • 2013: State Representation Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Berlin
  • 2013: 19th art exhibition "Nature - Human", St. Andreasberg (group exhibition)
  • 2013: Galerie Rother, Wiesbaden (group exhibition)
  • 2014: Tervuren Belgium (group exhibition)
  • 2014: Lilienthal Art Foundation (group exhibition)
  • 2014: Schleswig-Holstein-Haus , Schwerin (group exhibition)
  • 2014: Inselmuseum Hiddensee
  • 2014 Showcase Berlin, (AB)
  • 2015 Art Space Ingolstadt
  • 2015 Museum ship Cap San Diego Hamburg (AB)
  • 2015 Kunsthalle Wittenhagen,
  • 2016 JRGallery Berlin (AB)
  • 2016 Industrial Museum Walsrode (AB)
  • 2016 Dresden Transport Museum (AB)
  • 2016 30 years of the Hiddensee Art Garden
  • 2016 Westfälisches Landesmuseum // JRGallery Berlin // Raab Galerie, Berlin
  • 2017 Raab Galerie // JRGallery // Galerie Kunstraum Ingolstadt
  • 2018 Raab Galerie Berlin, // JRGallery Berlin // Galerie Kunstraum Ingolstadt (Schlüter, Fußmann, Zimmer)
  • 2018 "Manhattan Berlin Hiddensee", SevenStarGallery, Berlin

Projects

  • 1984: Ice sculptures, Oberhof
  • 1989: Wall painting on Potsdamer Platz, Berlin
  • 1990: Stage design and costumes for "Nathan the Wise", State Theater Eisenach
  • 1992: “Hexen und Hexen”, installations and performance for the exhibition of the same name, ACC Gallery, Weimar
  • 1996: Logo for the island of Hiddensee
  • 1997: "Tulipamwe-BO (O) TSCHAFT", performance, sculpture, film and installation in urban space, Kunstfest Weimar
  • 1997: "Sand folds, stone tracks, running feet and a drawing hand", short film, Windhoek, Berlin, Weimar, Hiddensee
  • 1997: North-South course, installations and performance, Kulturbrauerei, Berlin
  • 1997: “Shadow Places”, photo installation, Goa, India
  • 1998: Ice crystal sculpture, Anjuna, India
  • 2000: "Jalasayan", a fluorescent room for "Mata Nataraya - Hindus, Hippies, Cockfight", ACC Gallery, Weimar
  • 2000: Painting for the Tyrell building "Planet M" at the EXPO 2000, Hanover
  • 2003: Projector painting performance, to the music of Paul van Dyk , Columbiahalle, Berlin
  • 2008: Hiddensee Edition
  • 2010: "Hedinsey", graphic collection, homage to Gerhard Altenbourg and the island of Hiddensee, Berlin
  • 2013: "Sea of ​​Iron Flags", visualized route of the Berlin soccer club 1. FC Union Berlin, Berlin
  • 2015: "VW - folded up in front of the German Reichstag", Geminus , sculpture, Berlin

Publications

literature

  • Beyond assertion. In: Yearbook of the gallery of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation. Bonn 1993.
  • Tulipamwe - Torsten Schlüter, painting, installations, performance. Weimar 1997.
  • Ute Fritsch: artist card Hiddensee. Verlag Jena 1800, Jena 2003, ISBN 3-931911-22-5 .
  • Andreas Apelt: Hiddensee 99 special features of the island . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-95462-899-5 .
  • Frank Willmann, Jan Böttcher: Everything on red . Construction Verlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-351-05046-7 .
  • Thomas Osterkorn: Rediscover Hiddensee . Leuchtfeuer Verlag, Hiddensee 2018, ISBN 978-3-9819571-0-5 .
  • Kornelia Stinn: Torsten Schlüter - magicians playing with shape and color. In: The art trade. The Kunsthandel Verlag, Neu Isenburg 2018, ISSN  0023-5504

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ostsee-Zeitung GmbH & Co. KG: Berlin painter exhibits in open-air gallery on Hiddensee. Accessed April 16, 2018 (German).
  2. ↑ Hiddensee novel on TV: This is how you can see “Kruso” . In: Places in the North . September 25, 2018 ( orte-im-norden.de [accessed on September 26, 2018]).
  3. ↑ Torsten Schlüter Hiddensee - Culture in the past and present. Retrieved April 16, 2018 .
  4. ^ Katja Gartz: artist colonies on the coast . In: THE WORLD . September 10, 2011 ( welt.de [accessed April 16, 2018]).
  5. ^ Ostsee-Zeitung GmbH & Co. KG: Hiddensee as a place of inspiration. Accessed April 16, 2018 (German).
  6. ↑ Torsten Schlüter · Christine Rother Gallery in Wiesbaden (ARTfilo powered). Accessed April 16, 2018 (German).
  7. ^ Exhibition opening 2014 - Hiddensee Local History Museum. Accessed April 16, 2018 (German).
  8. ^ ACC Weimar: Torsten Schlueter (DE) :: ACC-Weimar. Retrieved April 16, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Destroyed artwork tells Weimar's most recent story . ( tlz.de [accessed on April 16, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Schlueter, Torsten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, graphic artist and author
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Hennigsdorf