Säulen Archive - Page 2 of 10

Pedro Cabrita Reis

* 1956 in Lisbon, Portugal; lives in Lisbon Pedro Cabrita Reis’ work has steadily received international acknowledgement, thus becoming crucial and decisive for the understanding of sculpture from the mid-1980’s onwards. His complex work can be characterized by an idiosyncratic philosophical and poetical discourse embracing a great variety of means: painting, sculpture, photography, drawing, and installations

Fefe Talavera

* 1979 in São Paulo, Brazil; lives in São Paulo Fefe Talavera, a native half Mexican, half Brazilian, went through regular artistic learning at FAAP (Armando Alvares Penteado Foundation) in São Paulo, although she developed her style rather while working in the streets. The brutal reality that the big city offered, the impact and social contrasts,

Lara Mali Lehmann

* 1999 in Munich, Germany; lives in Munich Lara Mali Lehmann has been studying at the School for wood sculpture (Schulen für Holz und Gestaltung) in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, since 2019. Lehmann describes the concept of her column on the theme “Double helix. Human DNA” is described by Lehmann as follows: “The double

Jimmie Durham

* 1940 in USA † 2021 in Berlin, Germany Jimmie Durham war Artist, Poet, Author and activist. His first contact with art took place in the 1960s in the environment of progressive African Americans in Texas. In 1968, he moved to Geneva, Switzerland, where he studied at L’Ecole des Beaux-Arts. In 1973 he returns to the

Joseph Gallus Rittenberg

* 1948 in Linz an der Donau, Austria lives in Munich, Germany “early passion for churches, nylons, burials, cinema and obscure buildings on water and in the air (babylonian), performances of micro-dramas and plays of doom on swamp, trench and stall stages. compulsory years of varnishing apprenticeship to exorcise the spinous circumstance, studies in salzburg,

Thomas Rentmeister

* 1964 in Reken, Germany, lives in Berlin Thomas Rentmeister’s works are created in the field of sculpture and installation. From 1987 to 1993 he studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf with Günther Uecker and Alfonso Hüppi and completed his studies there as a master student with Alfonso Hüppi. Thomas Rentmeister’s work has been shown in national

Liu Wei

* 1972 in Beijing, China lives in Beijing Liu Wei was born and presently resides in Beijing, China. He was trained as a painter at the China Academy of Art, Hangzhou in 1996. He is heavily influenced by the instability and fluctuation peculiar to twenty-first century China, in particular with respect to its physical and

Thomas Kilpper

* 1956 in Stuttgart in Germany; lives in Berlin, Germany Thomas Kilpper studied Arts at the Staatliche Kunstakademie in Nuremberg, Duesseldorf and Frankfurt a.M.; he lives and works in Berlin, Germany, and Bergen, Norway. Kilpper prefers to work site-specific and with a wide range of media – installation, sculpture, graphics, photography, video. Kilpper’s art projects

Sebastian Bühler, Timur Lukas, Daniel Man, Maximilian Prüfer, Marco Ziegletti

* 1984 in Augsburg, lives in Augsburg, Germany / * 1986 in Konstanz, lives in Augsburg, Germany/ * 1969 in London, GB, lives in Augsburg, Germany/ * 1986 in Weilheim, lives in Augsburg, Germany/ * 1974 in Munich, lives in Augsburg, Germany The column ‘Artefacts & Stylite’ that was created in situ by Sebastian Bühler,

Leo Leander Namislow

* 1983 in Essen, Germany lives in Essen The trained stonemason Leo Leander Namislow moves freely between the genres of sculpture and painting. Namislow’s visual language has its origins in street art, especially in graffiti art. The spectrum of his pictorial expression is correspondingly extensive. A frequently recurring stylistic device is the outline, which refers

Noh Suntag

* 1971 in Seoul, South Korea lives in Geonggi-do, South Korea NOH Suntag’s work is created in North and South Korea. With a background in photography, political science, and painting, Noh Suntag documents the intensification of political ideologies in both states, social ambivalences, sociopolitical exceptionalism, and military conflict situations in modern Korea. His works have

Chao-Ming Teng

* 1977 in Taipei, Taiwan; lives in Taipei TENG Chao-Ming, graduated from the School of Architecture and Planning (Media Arts and Sciences program) from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has been invited to residency programs including The Arctic Circle, Villa Arson (FR) and Para Site (HK). Central to TENG’s artistic questions are agency, causality, indeterminacy,