Wulf Kirschner

Sculpture spiral (1980). City Museum Gelsenkirchen-Buer

Wulf Kirschner (born September 26, 1947 in Kiel ) is a German painter and sculptor .

Life

From 1970 to 1976 Kirschner completed a degree in painting and graphics at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg and a degree in philosophy at the University of Hamburg (Master of Arts). This was followed by a two-year training from 1976 to 1978 in addition to studying sculpture at the University of Fine Arts there.

In 1980 the artist received a work grant at the Ebernburg artists' station . Two years later he organized the “First Symposium North Sea Coast - Artists in Front of the Dike” , which he repeated in 1984 under the symposium theme Weather . Also in 1984 he received the Barkenhoff grant from Worpswede and funding from the Art Fund Foundation in Bonn.

After receiving the Lower Saxony Art Prize (1991), he began working on the idea and realization of The Great Wall - The Endless Line , an art project for the Great Wall in China, from 1996 . Numerous exhibitions at home and abroad. He lives and works in Frankfurt and Hamburg.

Prizes and awards

• 1981 Art Prize of the City of Buxtehude
• 1984 Barkenhoff grant, Worpswede
• 1984 Funding from the Art Fund Foundation , Bonn
• 1991 Lower Saxony Art Prize
• 2008 Artist in residence, Queens, New York
• 2018 1st prize, Sculptures in the Park , Mörfelden-Walldorf

Exhibitions (selection)

• 2006 Herne: Emschertal Museum and Flottmann Halls

Hamburg: City Nord Sculpture Park

Oerlinghausen: Art Association

Hamburg, Thomas Levy Gallery

Washington DC, Goethe-Institut (with Nicola Staeglich)

• 2007 What happened to you? - Buxtehude Museum, Buxtehude

Arc d'Lig ht - Salena Gallery - Brooklyn Campus, Brooklyn, NY

Active Constellation - The Brno House of Art - Central Building, Brno

• 2008 Call it what you like - Collection Rik Reinking - Kunst Centret Silkeborg Bad, Silkeborg

Fine Works on Paper , Sebastian Fath Contemporary, Mannheim

Traces - elements , city gallery in the Elbeforum Brunsbüttel, Brunsbüttel

Stahl: Zeit , Peine District Museum, Peine

• 2011 Frankfurt, ARTE GIANI

Hamburg, LEVY Gallery (catalog)

• 2013 Frankfurt, ARTE GIANI

• 2014 Bern, Zone contemporaine (with Magda Krawcewicz)

Hamburg, Galerie Peter Borchardt (with Magda Krawcewicz)

literature

• Documents of Our Time, Volume 15: Traces - Elements (1989–1991), with texts by Bettina Gräfin von Pfeil and Dorothea van der Koelen, van der Koelen Verlag, Mainz 1991, ISBN 3-926663-15-4
• Documents of Our Time, Volume 1: Work (1979–1986), with a text by Günther Drebusch, van der Koelen Verlag, Mainz 1986, ISBN 978-3-926663-01-6

Web links

• Homepage of the artist
• Wulf Kirschner . Sculpture @ City Nord, Hamburg, 2006: biography, images (archived version)