Vera Lossau

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Vera Lossau (* 1976 in Haan ) is a German artist.

Life

Vera Lossau studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy with Rita McBride and Magdalena Jetelová . Her works have so far been shown in several solo exhibitions, including the Kunstverein Mönchengladbach (2005), the Stadtmuseum Hattingen (2008) and the Ernst & Young Artforum in Düsseldorf (2008). In 2009 Vera Lossau exhibited in the Bergische art exhibitions in the Museum Baden in Solingen and the Städtische Galerie Remscheid.

Until 2005 Vera Lossau was a senior employee in the Association for Youth Work eV Bonn . She was on the management team of a youth group, of employee groups and youth camps. As part of the development work of the association, she visited the projects in Egypt in 1993.

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Vera Lossau's artistic work is complex. Even if the focus is on sculpture, painting, drawing, video or performance are also an elementary part of her artistic work. In 2006, for example, she carried out a highly acclaimed performance at the Museum kunst palast in Düsseldorf, where she and a specially hired audience reflected on the question of the importance of publicly exhibited art, as well as the role of visitors and the question of the social position of contemporary artists. Her works are always playful but also scientifically intended reflections. It breaks with familiar norms, for example when it replaces the usual information in the displays of the Bochum subway stations with dedications to passers-by. In 2003 she carried out such an action and wrote sentences on the LCD displays of the subway stations like: “Everything is fine. Dream on. ”Or“ Slowly please. I'm in a hurry. ”She also works with such humorous irritations when she pastes wrecking balls, which are usually used to tear down dilapidated houses, with tiny mirrors or splinters of crushed ceramics and thus raises the question of destruction anew. The pears themselves have now become filigree, and the pieces that adorn them from now on have reduced the original purpose of the “wrecking balls” to absurdity. As a sculptor she works with a wide variety of materials, such as bronze, ceramics, clay, glass, metal, plaster, epoxy resin, cast resin, fluorescent tubes and fabrics.

Solo exhibitions

  • 2016. Vera Lossau. A Brief History of the Holes , Museum of Applied Arts Cologne
  • 2010 "con artist", curated by Matthias Erntges, Oberkassel room, Düsseldorf
  • 2010 Origin Center, together with Stefanie Bühler, Philara Collection , Düsseldorf
  • 2009 “dead drop”, Rupert Pfab Gallery, Düsseldorf
  • 2009 "Artist Prize North Rhine-Westphalia. Exhibition of the winners Anja Schrey and Vera Lossau", Ludwig Forum for International Art, Aachen
  • 2008 “The (beautiful) Farewell”, GAP 18 ERNST and YOUNG Artforum, Düsseldorf
  • 2008 "Pokerface", Museum Hattingen
  • 2007 “Saturday Evening Sunday School”, REALACE, Berlin
  • 2006 “Library Bums”, Reimann-Lebègue Gallery, Düsseldorf
  • 2006 Kunstraum Essen
  • 2006 “What´s my name again?” Art Bunker Tumulka, Munich
  • 2005 “We are the world!”, Galerie Schüppenhauer, Cologne
  • 2005 "Who Cares", MMIII, Kunstverein Mönchengladbach (cat.)
  • 2003 “End with Germany”, Galerie Schüppenhauer, Cologne
  • 2003 “Fantastic New Habits”, Kulturmagazin Lothringen, Bochum
  • 2002 "Rise & Fall of Sleeping Beauties", Saarländisches Künstlerhaus, Saarbrücken (cat.)
  • 2001 “Breakthrough”, Henrike Höhn art projects, Berlin

Group exhibitions

  • 2011 Bronner Residency. The scholarship holders. Young artists in the Israeli-German dialogue, Kunst im Tunnel (KiT), Düsseldorf
  • 2010 Enovos Young Art Prize, Wilhelm Hack Museum , Ludwigshafen
  • 2009 "Organ Mix" a. a. with Danica Dakic, Sabine Kacunko, Rita McBride, Klaus Mettig Total Museum of contemporary art, Seoul, Korea
  • 2009 63rd Bergische Art Exhibition, Museum Baden , Solingen;
  • 2009 63rd Bergische Art Exhibition, Gallery of the City of Remscheid
  • 2008 “10 Prize Winners”, Vestischer Künstlerbund Recklinghausen
  • 2007 “Hunter's Moon”, London L`est, Hackney, London
  • 2007 SummerMMOG, Düsseldorf
  • 2007 “Du dear animal”, KunstRaum Essen;
  • 2006 “I am somewhere here”, IMMA Museum of Contemporary Art, Dublin, Ireland
  • 2006 “Rental audience”, performance event at the Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf
  • 2006 “Conversation with Art on Art”, Bauhaus to Contemporary Art, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Japan
  • 2005 "And the ship is sailing", Everything is All Right, Alte Volksbank, Borken with the Stiftung Künstlerdorf Schöppingen and Open Art Gallery (cat.)
  • 2005 "Kleines Affektchen II", (Everything is All Right), NBK Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin (performance event)
  • 2005 "Kleines Affektchen III", (Everything is All Right), Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf
  • 2005 "I am not a suicidor, I am an investigator" (Everything is All Right group), Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund (cat.)
  • 2004 “Little Affect”, Museum Bochum, Exhibition & Video / Performance Event
  • 2004 International ThinkTank, Future Academy, Bangalore, India
  • 2004 "Überkurator 1", Trade Apartment (with Daad scholarship holders 2004)
  • 2004 “my mum is my dad”, Kunstraum Essen
  • 2004 "Photography, Video, Mixed Media", DaimlerChrysler Collection, Berlin
  • 2004 “Paradies”, Tumulka Art Bunker, Munich
  • 2003 "Artists of the Year", Kunstraum Essen
  • 2003 “CALENDAR!” Studio Tommaseo, Trieste Contemporanea, Trieste, Italy
  • 2003 Artfair Innsbruck, Kunstraum Essen, Austria
  • 2003 "Charlie's place", Annelie Juda Gallery / Fordham Gallery, London, GB
  • 2003 Art Frankfurt, with KV Ettlingen
  • 2003 “Blind dates”, culture magazine Bochum, performance event
  • 2003 "Pret-a-porter", Gallery ART & Henle, Berlin
  • 2003 Galerie EB, Brussels, Belgium
  • 2003 "Photography, Video, Mixed Media", DaimlerChrysler Collection, Sindelfingen City Gallery
  • 2003 "Paradise", Project MAIS, Berlin Alexanderplatz
  • 2003 Art-fair Cologne, Performances and Galerie Schüppenhauer
  • 2002 Art Association Ettlingen, class Jetelová (cat.)
  • 2002 Arco Madrid, from Lintel & Nusser Gallery, Spain
  • 2002 “Little Red Riding Wolf”, Galerie Schüppenhauer, Cologne
  • 2002 Project MAIS, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK
  • 2002 "Carte Blance à Magdalena Jetelova", Gallery LAB, Strasbourg, F.
  • 2002 “Pret-a-porter”, Kunstraum Essen
  • 2001 "Format", Galerie 10.000, Berlin
  • 2001 “Trouvailles”, by Lintel & Nusser Galerie, Munich
  • 2001 Arco Madrid, from Lintel & Nusser Gallery, Spain
  • 2001 Project MAIS, Kulturbunker Blochsplatz, Berlin (cat.)
  • 2001 “HinHer”, class Jetelová, Plasy, Czech Republic
  • 2001 “Grand Canyon”, performance event, Museum Bochum
  • 2000 “Young City Art”, video projection in the cinema program cinema, Düsseldorf
  • 2000 boarding school Breulin Castle Performance Congress (cat.)
  • 1999 Class Konrad Klapheck, Chamber of Crafts Düsseldorf (cat.)
  • 1999 Konrad Klapheck class, Bruno Goller House, Gummersbach
  • 1999 Project MAIS Kultur-Hochbunker, Cologne
  • 1998 "ADM", Gladstone / Victoria, Canada

Scholarships, prizes

  • 2010 6-month scholarship from the Kunststiftung NRW, the Bronner Stiftung, the Goethe-Institut and the Artists' Studios in Tel Aviv.
  • 2010 scholarship from the Künstlerdorf Schöppingen Foundation
  • 2010 Nominated for the Enovos Young Art Prize
  • 2009 female artist award (sponsorship award) of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in the area of ​​painterly positions
  • 2009 Erwine Steinblum grant for young art, Stiftung kunst: raum sylt quelle
  • 2005 Foundation Künstlerdorf Schöppingen
  • 2004 scholarship from the city of Mönchengladbach (Josef and Hilde Wilberz Foundation)
  • 2003–2004 Daad scholarship for London
  • 2002 first prize of the Vestischen Künstlerbund

Collections

  • DaimlerChrysler Collection
  • Josef and Hilde Wilberz Foundation

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Lossau, Vera
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Haan