Paul Schwer in collaboration with Saskia Tamara Kaiser
* 1951 in Hornberg/ Black Forrest, Germany, lives in Ratingen and Duesseldorf, Germany / * 1994 in Dorsten – Recklinghausen, lives in Duesseldorf Paul Schwer, studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1981-1988 and was a master student of Prof. Heerich. At the same time, Schwer worked as a child and adolescent psychiatrist until 1993. From 1985 onwards, he took on various teaching assignments and workshops, including at the Art Academy Hue and Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam) in 2011 and in Chengdu (China) in 2012. From 2007 to 2011, Schwer was a guest lecturer at the Kunstakademie Münster for the orientation area and held substitute professorships in 2011/12 and 2016. Paul Schwer has received several scholarships, including the Bremerhaven Scholarship in 2004, a scholarship for artists in residence from Degussa-China in Shanghai in 2005/2006, a scholarship from the Stiftung Kunstfonds in Bonn in 2009, and from the Kunststiftung NRW for Istanbul in 2015; in 2022 and 2023 the Neustart Kultur scholarship from the Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn.
Saskia Tamara Kaiser completed two apprenticeships before studying art: one as a glass decorator specialising in painting and glass painting, and one as a design assistant for graphics and object design. Building on this, she studied Fine Art with a focus on glass at the Institute for Artistic Ceramics and Glass in Höhr-Grenzhausen. Saskia Tamara Kaiser is currently enrolled in Prof. Gregor Schneider’s class at the Düsseldorf Art Academy. Her performances and sculptural concepts have been shown in solo and group exhibitions at various museums in recent years. She has received funding from the Ministry of Culture and Science of North Rhine-Westphalia (2020-2021/ 2021-2022), among others, and received a Germany Scholarship in 2021.
photo Paul Schwer © Heinz Bunse