Wolf Hamm

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Wolf Hamm (* 1974 in Delmenhorst ) is a contemporary German painter and draftsman .

Career

In 1996/97, Wolf Hamm worked as an assistant for the Finnish artist Marjatta Tapiola in Symä, Finland. From 1998 to 2001 he studied painting and graphics at the University of the Arts in Bremen with Wolfgang Schmitz and Paco Knöller . In 1999 he received a grant from the Städtische Galerie Bremen with residence in Vallauris , France. In 2001 he moved to the Düsseldorf Art Academy in the class of Siegfried Anzinger , from which he graduated as a master class student in 2004 . Hamm lived in Bilbao , Spain, from 2004–2006 , where he accepted a scholarship from the Bilbao Arte Foundation, which honored his work in 2005 with a solo exhibition. Back in Germany, Hamm received project funding from the Senator for Culture in Bremen in 2007. In 2012 he was given a teaching position at the University of Graphics and Book Art in Leipzig and in 2013 at the University of the Arts in Bremen . His work was last u. a. in the Kunstmuseum Ahlen , in the Nelimakka Museo in Alajärvi , Finland as well as in the Kunsthalle Recklinghausen and the Kunstmuseum Mülheim an der Ruhr .

Wolf Hamm has lived and worked in Berlin since 2010 .

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In his powerful and large-format behind-glass painting, Hamm visualizes a pictorial universe that encompasses people's private relationships, mythical narratives and processes in society and history. Hamm undertakes a revision of the visual modernism: kitsch, parody and pathos are intertwined. Complex image structures in the border area between abstraction and narrative objectivity, overlaps and superimpositions of visual scenes characterize his work. In this respect, his work is always to be understood as a confrontation with tradition: he ties in with the classical canon with his themes, motifs and artistic processes, but uses materials of his time and formulates his questions from a contemporary context.

Conceptually, Hamm's work is initially close to surrealism , but the artist is less concerned with exploring dream worlds and the unconscious. Rather, Hamm uses the surreal alienation as a cipher to make complex relationships in the real world visually understandable. The sometimes fantastic, narrative tableaus thus become projection surfaces on which Hamm comments on current events, the state of the world and the human condition in general.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 2017/18: Sleep - a productive waste of time, Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum , Bremen
  • 2017: The Heart of Gold, Galerie Kunstkabinett Corona Unger, Bremen
  • 2016: Zeitzeichen, Beck & Eggeling, Düsseldorf
  • 2014: Between the Phenomena / The Eucatastrophe - The Sudden Turn for Good, Kunstmuseum Ahlen
  • 2014: 25 years of Kunstverein Recklinghausen, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen
  • 2013: Maahinen North of 66 ° 33´44´´, Nelimarkka Museo, Alajärvi, Finland
  • 2012: Social Utopia, Donopoulos International Fine Arts, Thessaloniki, Greece
  • 2011: The world is not a disk, Kunstverein Recklinghausen
  • 2010: collector's items, Mülheim an der Ruhr art museum , Mülheim an der Ruhr
  • 2010: That everyone dares to be a citizen, Donopoulos International Fine Arts, Thessaloniki, Greece
  • 2009: The invisible hand, Städtische Galerie Delmenhorst
  • 2007: The known world with rules, Städtische Galerie Delmenhorst , Haus Coburg
  • 2007: Stabat Mater, Philharmonie im Gasteig Munich, Berlin Philharmonic , Bremen Citizenship
  • 2008: Hamairu, in the Mercado Municipal Bilbao, arte galeria epelde & mardaras, Bilbao, Spain
  • 2006: A vida o muerto, adn galeria, Barcelona, ​​Spain
  • 2005: Eat and be eaten, Fundación Bilbao Arte, Bilbao, Spain
  • 2004: IV Certamen National de Pintura Parlamento de La Rioja, Logroño, Spain
  • 2004: XIV Certamen de Dibujo Museo Gregorio Prieto, Valdepeñas and in the Museo de la Ciudad, Madrid, Spain

Public collections

Literature (selection)

  • Wolf Hamm - Between the Phenomena, Ed. Burkhard Leismann, Beck & Eggeling Kunstverlag 2014, ISBN 3-930919-92-3
  • Wolf Hamm - In the Brief of Time, Ed. Dr. Ute Eggeling and Michael Beck, Beck & Eggeling Kunstverlag 2012, ISBN 3-930919-78-8
  • Wolf Hamm - The world is not a disc, edited by Kunstverein Recklinghausen, Verlag Kettler 2012, ISBN 978-3-86206-157-0
  • Wolf Hamm - The world we know with rules, Ed. Städtische Galerie Delmenhorst, Hachmannedition 2007, ISBN 978-3-939429-25-8

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Barbara Alms, Wiebke Steinmetz: Point - Art in the Northwest . Ed .: Kunstverein Bremen. 1 / spring 2007. Bremen March 1, 2007.
  2. ↑ Barbara Alms: Announcement for the exhibition 'Wolf Hamm - The world we know with rules' . Municipal Gallery Delmenhorst 2007.
  3. ↑ Rainer Bessling: Wolf Hamm - The known world with rules . Ed .: Städtische Galerie Delmenhorst. Hamchmannedition, 2007, ISBN 978-3-939429-25-8 .

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personal data
SURNAME Hamm, Wolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Delmenhorst