Volker Tiemann

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Volker Tiemann (born September 16, 1963 in Kiel ) is a German sculptor .

life and work

After graduating from high school in 1983 and completing a stonemason internship, Volker Tiemann studied fine arts from 1986 to 1992 at the Muthesius Art College in Kiel with Jan Koblasa . In 1989 he received an Erasmus grant to study at the Norfolk Institute of Art and Design, Norwich (Great Britain). Volker Tiemann is a member of the German Association of Artists . He lives as a freelance artist in Kiel.

Tiemann belongs to a generation of younger artists who, on the one hand, see their roots in classical sculpture and, on the other hand, adopt radical new positions that at the same time critically question this medium. Right from the start, the artist's work captivates with their humor and apparent lightness, which, however, seems to stand in stark contrast to the elaborate craftsmanship and technical perfection of their realization. The superficial joke in the viewer quickly gives way to existential thinking about art, people and the world.

Volker Tiemann succeeds with his works, which expand into expansive scenarios in exhibitions, " pushed and in rapid succession, to override moments of reality for moments in order to enable the viewer to reflect on reality an experience and knowledge, which the outside world can no longer offer him in this immediacy . ”( Arne Rautenberg : Thoughts on the imitation of reality for the purpose of restoring the pure view, in: If nobody sings, then it's quiet , Kiel 2004, p. 13).

Volker Tiemann's work has a broad spectrum of sculptural gestures, which also venture into areas of the pictorial and photographic and, with their montage of heterogeneous materials and found objects, add their own position to contemporary sculpture.

“ There are works of art and there is the rest of the world. In between there is a border area with transitional solutions. “Said Tiemann on the occasion of his exhibition in the Brunswiker Pavilion in Kiel, which was set up for him in 2005 as a prize winner at the state show of the BBK Schleswig-Holstein.

In 1999, the NDR dedicated a portrait to the artist with the film “Calculated Improvisation” as part of the exhibition and film series “Art forays in Schleswig-Holstein” (director: Michael Engler).

Awards and grants

Working in public collections

City Gallery Kiel , Cultural Office of the State Capital Kiel, Cultural Foundation of the State of Schleswig-Holstein , Sparkassenstiftung Schleswig-Holstein, Collection of the State of Schleswig-Holstein, Art Association Flensburg, Museumsberg Flensburg , Buxtehude Museum , City Museum Eppingen , Elbe Forum Brunsbüttel, Museum Art of the West Coast Föhr

Working in public space

  • 2004 Scattered reflections , Eppingen
  • 2005 Even after Degas , Buxtehude Museum
  • 2007 Large piece for cup and tower , Eppingen
  • 2008 What makes swimming so pleasant - for a moment it doesn't matter that you can't fly. , Kronshagen
  • 2008 Big piece for Flensburg , Flensburg
  • 2009 Blue Horse , art: raum sylt quelle, Sylt
  • 2010 Big piece about gravity No. 1 - stool and house , Tornesch
  • 2011 Big piece about gravity No. 2 - House on the lake with cloud , Esch-sur-Sûre / Insenborn, Luxembourg *
  • 2015 Cross for the Room of Silence , Landtag of Schleswig-Holstein *
  • 2016 Big piece about the right angle , Flintbek near Kiel
  • 2017 Big piece about wall and lamp , Rendsburg
  • 2018 Big piece with table and cloth , Neumünster

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 1999 They went together and ate from a bag of fruit candy , Galerie Prima Kunst, Kiel (with Rolf Bier)
  • 2000 A glass of water , Galerie Breitengraser - contemporary sculpture, Berlin
  • 2000 One part for the whole , Galerie Kunst und Co, Flensburg
  • 2001 In Basel it was also very nice , producer gallery Oha Kunst, Eutin
  • 2002 Small pieces , Galerie Stücker, Brunsbüttel
  • 2003 ... and we generally tend to use larger brushes , Künstlerhaus Sootbörn, Hamburg
  • 2003 With verve and without a plan, he got into the carriage , Kunstverein Wunstorf
  • 2003 Trend Walls , Kunstraum Düsseldorf
  • 2004 Scattered reflections . Work on the Eppinger Kreisel, Eppingen City Museum
  • 2004 If nobody sings, then it's quiet . Schmidbauer / Tiemann, City Gallery Kiel
  • 2005 Even after Degas , Museum Buxtehude
  • 2006 return . Light installation, exhibition window Gegenenzug, Cologne
  • 2006 My left arm at breakfast , Galerie Ruth Sachse, Hamburg
  • 2006 interim solutions . State Show Prize, Brunswiker Pavilion, Kiel
  • 2007 They did not know long-term planning , Galerie Ardizón, Bregenz, Austria (with U. Vonbank)
  • 2008 pieces for Bühl , Friedrichsbau, Bühl
  • 2009 Large pieces and other objects , Galerie Ruth Sachse, Hamburg
  • 2009 Art in the State Parliament - Couples , Schleswig-Holstein State Parliament, Kiel (with Anna Lena Straube)
  • 2012 pieces about gravity , Museumsberg, Flensburg
  • 2013 pieces about gravity No.2 , Kunstverein im Reuchlinhaus , Pforzheim
  • 2013 Schaf bei Licht and other pieces , Whitesquare gallery, Berlin
  • 2013 arrangement and clarity , Galerie im Marstall, Ahrensburg
  • 2014 Rautenberg and Tiemann in Kappeln , Kunsthaus Hänisch
  • 2014 Drawings and tables , Museum Schloss vor Husum
  • 2014 Coincidence and Necessity , Kunstverein Buchholz and St. Johannis Cultural Church, Buchholz
  • 2015 From tables and walls , Kramer Gallery, Bremen
  • 2015 In the eastern hill country , Saarländisches Künstlerhaus , Saarbrücken
  • 2016 World Construction and Tiefengrund , museums in the Rendsburg cultural center, Rendsburg
  • 2018 universal furniture - sculptures by Volker Tiemann , Wenzel-Hablik-Museum , Itzehoe

literature

  • Young Art - Saar-Ferngas-Förderpreis, Saarlandmuseum Saarbrücken 1992.
  • young west 95 - sculpture , ed. by Ferdinand Ullrich, exhibition catalog Kunsthalle Recklinghausen 1995, ISBN 3-929040-27-1 .
  • ArtGenda , Øksnehallen, Copenhagen 1996.
  • Volker Tiemann: A part for the whole , catalog for the exhibition of the same name in the Galerie Kunst & Co, Flensburg 2000, ISBN 3-00-006608-X .
  • Uwe Haupenthal (Ed.): Northern art . Schleswig-Holstein in the 20th century, catalog of the exhibitions in the North Frisian Museum Ludwig-Nissen-Haus, Husum, Sønderjyllands Kunstmuseum, Tondern, Kulturforum Burgkloster zu Lübeck, Neumünster 2003, ISBN 3-529-02784-7 .
  • Volker Tiemann: When nobody sings, it's quiet , catalog for the exhibition of the same name in the Stadtgalerie Kiel, Kiel 2004, ISBN 3-927979-64-3 .
  • Kunstlandschaft 06 , catalog for the exhibition of the same name in the Stadtgalerie im Elbeforum, Brunsbüttel 2006, ISBN 3-931279-35-9 .
  • Think big / voir grand , Saidye Bronfman Center for the Arts, Montreal, CA, 2002, in: the banal le banal, 2007.
  • Dorothee Bieske: Art is a table. Sculptures by Volker Tiemann , in: Vermöbelt. Furniture in Art and Design, exhibition catalog Museumsberg Flensburg, Flensburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-00-021221-5 .
  • Reinhard Ermen, Volker Tiemann: Pieces for Bühl , in: Kunstforum, Vol. 191, May – June 2008, pp. 357–358.
  • Art in the state parliament - couples. Anna Lena Straube / Volker Tiemann , ed. from the Schleswig-Holstein State Parliament, Kiel 2009.
  • Between Northern Lights and Alpine Glow - Volker Tiemann , catalog for the group exhibition of the same name in the Stadtgalerie in the Elbeforum Brunsbüttel and in the Kulturforum Burgkloster Lübeck 2009, ISBN 978-3-931279-43-1 .
  • Pieces about gravity - Volker Tiemann , catalog for the solo exhibition of the same name on the Museumsberg Flensburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-00-039303-7 .
  • Arrangement and clarity - Volker Tiemann , catalog for the solo exhibition of the same name in the Galerie im Marstall 2013, Ahrensburg, ISBN 978-3-9815170-7-1 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in the Deutscher Künstlerbund / Volker Tiemann (accessed on January 9, 2019)

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Tiemann, Volker
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH September 16, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel