Wolfgang Schmidt (concept artist)

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Wolfgang Schmidt (* 1966 in Witten ) is a German artist .

Artistic approach

Since studying object design in Dortmund (1988–1993), the artist Wolfgang Schmidt has been working with his greatly reduced, elongated human figure. With their help, he tried out the possibilities of artistic creation for almost 20 years without ever changing his motif. It is programmatic that only the restriction to the recurring motif gives the artist unlimited freedom of design. With his figure, which is never the same but always similar to itself, everything seems possible: it exists as an individual figure in every artistic medium, it can be transformed, it can be divided, divided, and bent. Wolfgang Schmidt's figure appears in groups and thus conveys reflections on a profound topic in our society: the relationship between the individual and the masses. Nevertheless, the figure is abstract enough to be considered a formal element and become part of experiments on series, rhythms and sequences.

biography

Wolfgang Schmidt was born in Witten in 1966 and grew up in the Ruhr area . In 1988 he began studying object design at the Dortmund University of Applied Sciences , which he completed five years later with a diploma under Werner Nöfer and Pitt Moog . Since 1990 he has also been a lecturer in art and painting . From 1992 to 2000 Wolfgang Schmidt worked for the artist HD Schrader as the first artistic assistant. Wolfgang Schmidt lives and works in Dortmund and is a member of the Dortmunder Gruppe artists' association .

Class reunion web
RuhrFigur 10 locations
Witten synagogue memorial

Awards

  • 2010: Art in architecture: Medical-Center-Ruhrort parking garage, Duisburg
  • 2002: Dortmund graphic 2003
  • 1996: Wilhelm Zimolong Prize for Young Art in the Ruhr Area, Gladbeck
  • 1992: Memorial for the former synagogue in Witten
  • 1990: Building Trade Association of Westphalia

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 2019: "Persona", with Mari Hiraga (Japan), plan d, Düsseldorf (EA)
  • 2018: "Dunavski dijalozi 2018: Volfgang Šmit", Mali likovni salon, Novi Sad, Serbia (EA)
  • 2016: “The color gray”, Galerie am Domhof , Zwickau
  • 2015: "Creating space", Kunstverein Witten, Galerie Haus Herbede , Witten (EA)
  • 2014: "1.8 Kubik", Dortmund Group, City Gallery Torhaus Rombergpark , Dortmund
  • 2013: "Visitors to an exhibition", DASA , Dortmund (EA)
  • 2012: "Gestalten", Depot , Dortmund, with Maik Hester, (EA)
  • 2011: "from different corners", traveling exhibition until 2012: Galerie arteversum, Düsseldorf; Beard art in huis, Nijmegen-Amsterdam / NL; Galerie Bäckerstraße 4, Vienna / A; Critique Gallery, Prague / CZ; Gallery Chantal Bamberger, Strasbourg / F
  • 2010: "RuhrFigur", Hoesch Museum , Dortmund, (EA)
  • 2010: "My square is the figure", Galerie arteversum, Düsseldorf (EA)
  • 2008: "Wolfgang Schmidt. Figures.Worlds ", Depot, Dortmund (EA)
  • 2008: “Here and Now”, Gustav-Lübcke-Museum , Hamm
  • 2008: “Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? ”, Galerie arteversum, Düsseldorf
  • 2007: "connected", Altes Museum Mönchengladbach
  • 2006: "Wolfgang Schmidt", gallery arteversum, Düsseldorf (EA)
  • 2005: "Wolfgang Schmidt", Parliament of the Czech Republic, Prague / CZ (EA)
  • 2004: “Here and Now”, Gustav-Lübcke-Museum, Hamm
  • 2004: "Wolfgang Schmidt", Renate Kammer Gallery, Hamburg (EA)
  • 2003: "Wolfgang Schmidt", City Gallery Torhaus Rombergpark, Dortmund (EA)
  • 2002: "formidable!", Galerie Voss, Dortmund
  • 2000: "Wolfgang Schmidt", Renate Kammer Gallery, Hamburg (EA)
  • 1999: “Boesner Universalkasten”, traveling exhibition until 2000: Galerie Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin; Renate Kammer Gallery, Hamburg; edition galerie howeg, Zurich / CH; Culture days Lana, Lana and Bozen / I; Wolfsberg Art Salon , Zurich / CH
  • 1998: “Look how blue”, Renate Kammer Gallery, Hamburg
  • 1996: “Young Art in the Ruhr Area”, Gladbeck Cultural Center
  • 1994: “Every meter for art”, traveling exhibition until 1998: Museum Modern Art , Hünfeld; Fundacja Gerarda, Swieradów Zdrój / PL; BWA Galeria Arsenal, Bialystok / PL; former State Council building, Berlin; Fürst-Leopold-Carré, Dessau; Kulturrathaus, Dresden

literature

  • Wolfgang Schmidt: Ruhr figure . Published by arteversum, Düsseldorf. With contributions by Reinhard Gröne, Linda Walther, Professor Rolf Lieberknecht , Dr. Rosemarie Pahlke, Manuela Sass, Erhard Mittelsten-Scheidt, Wolfgang Schmidt. Kettler-Verlag, Bönen 2012, ISBN 978-3862061808 .

Web links

Commons : Sculptures by Wolfgang Schmidt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Witten