Wilm Weppelmann

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Wilm Weppelmann (2005)

Wilm Weppelmann (born April 17, 1957 in Lüdinghausen ) is a German artist . He currently lives and works as a concept artist , horticultural artist , photographer and author in Münster ( Westphalia ).

biography

Wilm Weppelmann grew up in Ottmarsbocholt ( Westphalia ). In 1977 he passed his Abitur at the Pascal Gymnasium in Münster . After studying German at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster , Weppelmann began his professional career with a position as assistant director and dramaturgy at the Münsteraner Zimmertheater (today's Wolfgang Borchert Theater ). He later worked as a freelance journalist for various culture editorial offices, then Weppelmann took on a managerial position at the Harenberg publishing house in Dortmund, before devoting himself entirely to art in the late 1990s. Since 2005 he has given the garden theme a special focus in his artistic work.

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Weppelmann works in an interdisciplinary manner. In his artistic projects he brings together a wide variety of specialist disciplines. Conceptual art , action art , video art , photo art , garden art and installation are often included in an overall staging and supplemented by an independently curated lecture and cultural program. Subversion as an artistic strategy often underlines the critical and political aspirations of his work.

At the beginning of his artistic activity, Weppelmann dealt intensively with the end of human life. His photo series Here I want to die was shown all over Germany. Wilm Weppelmann was the curator and artist of the exhibition The Coming of Death at the Museum for Sepulchral Culture in Kassel (April 24, 2004 to October 5, 2004). Various installations from the fields of photography, film and sound were presented to the visitors on an area of ​​500 m² . In 2005, the Academy of the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart presented Weppelmann's installation The Last Question .

In his artistic photography Weppelmann touches on border issues of human life. Concept and portrait photo series on the future of human beings, life at night or even death were mostly worked out and exhibited in black and white photographs . A surreal poetry can be found in his photo poster designs for the Free Garden Academy , which have achieved cult status.

At all levels of his artistic work, the urban garden and the urban green, as art, natural and cultural space, have had a priority position, including: staged photography, interventions in public space, guerrilla gardening , permanent performance, earth and plant installations , floating vegetable gardens and other garden creations that also deal with historical topics. Central points of reference are the allotment garden , the vegetable culture and the associated self-sufficiency economy.

Individual projects as a garden artist

Weppelmann founded the Free Garden Academy in 2006 . The international series of cultural events takes place annually in his allotment garden in an allotment garden in Münster and deals with the topic of gardens in all "existential, ecological, philosophical, social and cultural dimensions".

aFarm II - an installation by Wilm Weppelmann (2014) on the Aasee (Münster)

In the summer of 2013 Wilm Weppelmann realized a 24 m² floating vegetable garden as a temporary artistic installation on the Aasee (Münster) . He named his self-sufficiency project aFARM to relate it to global agriculture. In 2014 he expanded the experiment with a micro-house. From September 1 to September 30, 2014, he spent day and night in a permanent performance on the garden island and fed on the horticultural crops that grew there. His strictly regulated daily routine included not only the gardening work, but also the job of a town crier, who loudly addressed the topic of the installation “what I need” and thus the basic human needs. The project met with great national response.

Weppelmann is also internationally active with other long-term projects: The Adventures of Rob Cabbage (conceptual art), Urban Restruction Site (installations to re-measure the city), The Winter Sleep by Wilm Weppelmann (conceptual art to the rhythm of life), Gardenstreet (interventions in public street space throughout Europe) and The Hunger Garden (garden installation on hunger in the present and past).

Publications (selection)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Franz Josef Lay: Death, a part of life.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Südkurier , May 25, 2009. Retrieved January 24, 2016.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.suedkurier.de  
  2. ↑ die is coming: "An exhibition in the Kassel Sepukralmuseum" is coming In: Tà katoptrizómena, the magazine for art, culture, issue 30, 2004. Accessed on January 24, 2016.
  3. ↑ Ariane Wölpper: Stuttgart and the last question - before death. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung , January 13, 2005.
  4. ^ Gerhard H. Kock: ".. legendary posters ..": Guerrillas fight for green.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Westfälische Nachrichten , June 9, 2015. Accessed January 24, 2016.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.wn.de  
  5. ↑ Manuel Jennen: Weppelmanns carrot warriors. Photo shoot for garden academy. ( Memento from January 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) In: Ruhr Nachrichten , August 7, 2014. Retrieved January 24, 2016.
  6. ↑ Greenpeace Magazine 2/2017 Article "Desire for Less"
  7. ↑ Helga Reitter: Between Kant and Pumpkin. In: Welt am Sonntag , June 20, 2010. Retrieved January 24, 2016.
  8. ↑ Eva Hakes: Wilde Triebe in the allotment garden. ( Memento from January 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) In: Wandermagazin , issue 163, March 2012. Accessed on January 24, 2016.
  9. ↑ Sabine Müller: A garden floats on the Aasee. ( Memento of the original from January 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Ruhr Nachrichten , July 17, 2013. Retrieved January 24, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ruhrnachrichten.de
  10. ↑ Heike Eickhoff: Wilm Weppelmann's Beete-Boot leaves the Aasee In: Westfälische Nachrichten , October 28, 2013. Accessed on January 24, 2016.
  11. ↑ Gerhard H. Kock: That must be enough for 30 days - Wilm Weppelmann moves into his hermitage on the Aasee. In: Westfälische Nachrichten , September 1, 2014. Accessed January 24, 2016.
  12. ↑ Ute Scheub: What do people really need? In: Zeit Schweiz , January 7, 2015. Retrieved January 24, 2016.
  13. ↑ Small red cabbage on a big trip. In: Westfälische Nachrichten , August 1, 2013. Retrieved January 24, 2016.
  14. ↑ Petra Noppeney: How far to the next potato plant? In: Westfälische Nachrichten , June 19, 2015. Retrieved January 24, 2016.
  15. ↑ Petra Noppeney: Why can't you calm down? In: Westfälische Nachrichten , August 7, 2010. Retrieved January 24, 2016.
  16. ^ The Hunger Garden I in Weingarten (Württemberg) : The Hunger Project ( Memento from January 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved January 24, 2016.

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personal data
SURNAME Weppelmann, Wilm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludinghausen