Winter / Hörbelt

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Wolfgang Winter (* 1960 in Mühlheim am Main ) and Berthold Hörbelt (* 1958 in Coesfeld ) are German sculptors who have been working together under the name Winter / Hörbelt since 1992 .

Artist biography

Wolfgang Winter

Wolfgang Winter studied music in Cologne from 1980 to 1982 and, after completing his vocational training as a stone sculptor, from 1985 onwards, he studied fine arts and philosophy at the Kassel Academy of Art . From 1986 to 1989 he continued his studies at the Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste - Städelschule Frankfurt am Main , where he received a teaching position for sculpture in 1993 . Wolfgang Winter lives and works in Frankfurt am Main.

Berthold Hörbelt

After completing his vocational training as a stone sculptor, Berthold Hörbelt studied at the Kassel Art College from 1984 to 1989 . In the years 1993–1998 he received a teaching position for “sculptural design” at the Münster University of Applied Sciences . Berthold Hörbelt lives and works in Havixbeck and Frankfurt am Main.

Wolfgang Winter + Berthold Hörbelt

The artists Wolfgang Winter and Berthold Hörbelt have been cooperating under the name Winter / Hoerbelt since 1992. They understand their collaboration as a synergy of ideas and competencies in search of a more advanced concept of sculpture.

Winter / Hörbelt see their concern in expanding the potentials and possibilities of their field of research in the media installation (art) and sculpture . The exploration of border areas of the sculpture, such as architecture or music , leads to building-like sculptures (box house illustration) or sound-animated objects that can be perceived as usable in a broader sense. Artistically applicable material inventions, such as the development of HOEWI 301, a thermoplastic material based on animal glue , or the use of industrial semi-finished products, car taillights or beverage crates for the production of sculptures are a central focus of her work, also for the public space , for which she Design and carry out numerous interventions around the world with temporary or permanent works.

Winter and Hörbelt have taken on a number of teaching positions so far, such as DAAD lectureships at the University of Fine Arts Hanoi , Vietnam (1999, 2001) and from 2000–2001 a substitute professorship at the Leipzig School of Graphics and Book Art . They conceive workshops on the topic (eg: ACAF Alexandria / Goethe Institute, Cairo 2006: "Prototypes for an advanced outdoor visual culture") and give lectures on their work at art institutions around the world.

When asked about the function and motivation of their art, the artists answered a few years ago:

“Why does a saxophonist like to play the saxophone? Does Charlie Watts stop drumming in the middle of the song and ask in the quiet of the room what all the music making is supposed to be? Why does his drum kit consist of drums? The vision of a function of art is a dream that probably all artists have always dreamed, that for example someone takes a nail and puts a picture on the wall, goes further away and is happy that there is exactly this picture because the whole World is in it. "

Exhibitions

  • 1997 Sculpture. Projects in Münster 1997 , Münster and Westphalian State Museum Münster
  • 1999 48th Venice Biennale , Italy
  • 2000 clearing , Kunsthalle Hamburg ; Frankfurter Kreuz , Schirn Kunsthalle , Frankfurt am Main
  • 2002 Hang Thiec Basket # 4 , Westphalian State Museum for Art and Cultural History, Münster, Germany
  • 2002 Yokohama Triennial , Okinawa , Japan
  • 2002 The Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, England
  • 2003 Beaufort: Triennial for Contemporary Art at the Seafront , Ostend, Belgium
  • 2004 UK Projects , Yorkshire Sculpture Park , England
  • 2004 Museum with boxes , Museum of Modern Art , Frankfurt am Main, Germany
  • 2008 Winter / Hoerbelt at Lieu Unique , Le Lieu Unique, Nantes, France
  • 2014 Winter / Hörbelt: Körpermaumau , Ostwall Museum in Dortmunder U , Dortmund, Germany

Public collections (selection)

  • art: raum sylt quelle, Sylt, Germany

Works of art in public space

literature

Monographs, edited volumes, catalogs

  • Hercules at the feet , exhibition Museum Fridericianum , Kassel, 1995.
  • Apertutto. 48th Venice Biennale 1999, Marsilio Edition, Venice, 1999.
  • Kunsthalle Bremen : Art Prize of Böttcherstrasse in Bremen 1999, Bremen 1999.
  • Matzner, Florian (eds.): Wolfgang Winter / Berthold Hörbelt: Kastenhäuser, Stuttgart 1999.
  • Frankfurter Kreuz , exhibition at Schirn Kunsthalle , Frankfurt, 2001.
  • Hamburger Kunsthalle (ed.): Place in space. Working in the museum . 61 current projects in the Hamburger Kunsthalle, Ostfildern-Ruit, 2000.
  • Schwenk, Bernhard (ed.): AIDSMEMORIAL . Revolver Archive for Current Art, Frankfurt, 2002.
  • 70/90. Dedicated art , exhibition Neues Museum Nürnberg , 2004.
  • Shinoda, Takatoshi / Koyama, Naomi / Tabata, Mikiko et al. (Ed.): Yokohama 2005 International Triennale of Contemporary Art. Art Circus, Jumping from the Ordinary , Yokohama, 2005.

Essays

  • Sculpture. Projects in Münster, in: Kunstforum International, vol. 138, September / November 1997.
  • Welti, Alfred: Münster is doing good , in: Art. Das Kunstmagazin, August 1997, p. 44.
  • Matzner, Florian: On the work of Wolfgang Winter and Berthold Hörbelt. A fax dialogue with Florian Matzner , in: Matzner (ed.), 1999, pp. 11–41.
  • Szeemanns Apertutto, in: Kunstforum International, No. 147, September – November 1999.
  • Birnbaum, Daniel: “ The work is about a changed experience of the space, the concrete environment ”. Daniel Birnbaum in conversation with Wolfgang Winter and Berthold Hörbelt, in: Wappler (ed.), 2003, pp. 19–24.
  • Wappler, Friederike: Sculptures in a communicatively expanded field , in: Artists. Critical Lexicon of Contemporary Art, issue 64, issue 31, 4th quarter 2003.

Web links

Commons : Winter / Hörbelt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Friederike Wappler, Winter / Hörbelt , catalog for the exhibition in the Westphalian State Museum for Art and Cultural History Münster, Hatje Cantz, 2003, ISBN 3-7757-1285-2 , p. 33