Udo Dettmann
Udo Dettmann (born December 5, 1950 in Kolberg ) is a German visual artist.
Life
Udo Dettmann spent his youth in Halstenbek near Pinneberg. After an apprenticeship as a cartographer and a few years in this profession, he studied painting from 1977 to 1981 at the Muthesius Art College in Kiel with Harald Duwe.
When Udo Dettmann began freelance work after graduating in 1982, he pursued a time-critical realism in the early years of his work: until 1987. Since then, he has dealt with the interactive possibilities of real space in the medium of painting. Surface and space, image and object are the components from which the dialogue arises. With his work he creates places that encourage one to visualize one's own state of mind in order to achieve a reflection on the process of perception, i.e. to perceive one's own perception.
Udo Dettmann's multi-layered artistic work includes drawings, pictures, objects, video works and installations.
From 1985 he cultivated intensive contacts with artist colleagues in the GDR. In 1988, together with visual artists and musicians from the GDR and the Federal Republic, he initiated the German-German Ensemble Schifkof, which was active in the field of experimental music and sound art for more than 10 years.
In 1999 the artist colleague René Havekost and Udo Dettmann initiated the Harburger Bahnhof art association, which they also took over as artistic director for the first two years.
Since 2010, together with colleagues Tino Bittner and Thomas Sander, he has been running the Dezernat5 producer's gallery in Schwerin.
Udo Dettmann lives in Lübstorf near Schwerin.
Awards (selection)
- 1983 residency at the Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris
- 1985 Bad Art Prize, 1st prize awarded in Bad Nauheim
- 1987 studio grant at Künstlerhaus Lauenburg
- 1996 Scholarship from the German Academy of Rome, Casa Baldi in Olévano, Italy
- 1999 Scholarship from the Stiftung Kulturfonds Berlin, Künstlerhaus Lukas in Ahrenshoop
- 2002 Scholarship from the Künstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf, Stiftung Kulturfonds Berlin
- 2012 work grant from the state of MV
literature
- Dorothea Keeser Edition and publisher: Udo Dettmann image objects and optophone installations 1987–1997, ISBN 3-928090-14-3
- Schwerin Art and Museum Association: Weisses Rauschen, 2003, ISBN 3-910179-72-X
- Edition Urpresse: Red Shift, 2005, ISBN 3-00-014932-5
- Art Collection Neubrandenburg: Blurring and Imagination, 2009, ISBN 978-3-939779-13-1
- Edition Dezernat5: Die Komische Illusion, 2012, ISBN 978-3-00-038202-4
Web links
- http://udodettmann.bildkunstnet.de Udo Dettmann at the Künstlerbund Mecklenburg-Vorpommern eV
- http://www.dezernat5.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dettmann, Udo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German visual artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 5th December 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kolberg |