Matthias Weischer

Matthias Wei ( born January 15, 1973 in Elte ) is a German painter, graphic artist, illustrator and stage designer.

Biography

Weischer was born in 1973 in Elte (North Rhine -Westphalia). In 1995 he began a Malerei-/Grafikstudium at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig ( HGB), from which he graduated in 2000 with a diploma. From 2000 to 2003 he was a master student of Sighard Gille. In 2002, he co-founded the Produzentengalerie League in Berlin, which was borne by eleven former students of the German Commercial Code, among others, by Christoph Ruckhäberle, Tim Eitel, David Schnell and Tom Fabritius. For the exhibitions of this heterogeneous group of artists was of press and art criticism in 2002, the term " New Leipzig School " was coined. The Produzentengalerie League broke up after two years of existence in 2004 again. His studio is currently in the Leipzig Cotton Spinning Mill.

Work

Weischer images move on the thin line between abstract and representational painting. He produced until 2007 paintings usually show stage-like, deserted interiors in unusual perspectives that are alienated by abstract elements. Furniture, everyday objects and large-scale decors refer stylistically and in their supposedly faded color on the 1950s and 1960s. The collage-like combined elements often quote character and go a complex, ambiguous relationships.

Since his residence in Rome in 2007, Weischer increasingly focused on direct observation of nature in the medium of drawing. He has since worked primarily on and with paper, in various printing techniques. The constructed interiors are increasingly being replaced by an open space acquisition in smaller sizes with brighter colors in which natural and artificial elements, real and fictional space merge. Recent work includes sculptural arrangements.

Since 2001 works of Matthias Wei are presented in numerous exhibitions, including London (2003), Miami (2004) and Cleveland, Chungnam, Prague and Venice ( 2005), The Hague, Málaga (2008) and Ponce / Puerto Rico (2011 ).

In 2001 he received the scholarship boy art of Rotary at the Kunsthaus Essen, 2004, he was winner of the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative, he was awarded the art prize of the Leipziger people newspaper and August Macke Prize of the city of Meschede 2005. 2007 Weischer was a fellow of the Villa Massimo in Rome.

2010 designed Weischer together with the theater director Armin wood sets the stage for William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night ( Theatre Marl, Ruhr Festival Recklinghausen; Renaissance Theater Berlin, Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg ) and for August Strindberg's Miss Julie ( Neuhardenberg ).

Works by Matthias Wei are, inter alia, in the Museum of Fine Arts in Leipzig, at the Museum of Modern Art, Frankfurt am Main, at the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, in the Rubell Family Collection, Miami, and in Collection of Susan and Michael Hort, New York.

Solo exhibitions (selection )

  • 2013: Thicket, Grimm Gallery, Amsterdam
  • 2011: Obra nueva / New works, Museo de Arte de Ponce, Puerto Rico
  • 2011: Alice, Armin and all the others. On paper, Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig; Kunsthalle Bremerhaven
  • 2009: Room with a view, Kunsthalle Mainz
  • 2008: Room with a view, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga
  • 2008: The Garden - Works on Paper Bentlage Abbey, Rheine
  • 2008: Gemeentemuseum, The Hague
  • 2007: Museum All Saints Schaffhausen; Kunsthalle Mannheim
  • 2007: The Garden - Works on Paper, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein
  • 2006: Works on Paper, Kunstverein Konstanz; Kunstverein Ulm
  • 2006: Ludwig Forum for International Art, Aachen
  • 2005: Museum of Fine Arts, Leipzig ( Art Prize of the Leipzig People's Daily )
  • 2004: simultaneously, Künstlerhaus Bremen
  • 2003: 3 rooms, hall, bathroom, gallery League, Berlin
  • 2002: rooms, Kunsthaus Essen

Group exhibitions ( selection)

  • 2012: Paintings / Pinturas. The Rubell Family Collection, Sala de Arte Santander, Madrid
  • 2012: studio kitchen - Laboratories of the senses, MARTa Herford, Herford
  • 2012: Side Tracks - Painting in the para modern continuum, Stavanger Art Museum
  • 2011: see and die ROM. Perspectives on the Eternal City. To 1500-2011, Kunsthalle Erfurt
  • 2011: LUBOK. Artists' books from Leipzig, City Art Museum Spendhaus Reutlingen
  • 2010: ' something about these pictures with me ... '. Insights into the Collection Frieder Burda Museum Frieder Burda, Baden -Baden
  • 2010: parallels: Young Contemporary Art from Norway and Leipzig, Kistefos Museum, Jevnaker, Norway
  • 2009: lubok. Original Graphic Images Books, Museum of Fine Arts, Leipzig
  • 2008: interior / exterior. Living in Art, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
  • 2008: New Leipzig School, Cobra Museum, Amstelveen, The Netherlands
  • 2008: The Leipzig Phenomenon, Műcsarnok Kunsthalle, Budapest
  • 2008: Germania contemporanea. Dipingere è narrare, MART - Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto
  • 2007: Weischer meets Beckmann, Kunsthalle Mannheim
  • 2007: Rockers Iceland. Works from the Olbricht Collection, Museum Folkwang, Essen
  • 2006: Imagination Becomes Reality. Part V: Fantasy and Fiction, Sammlung Goetz, Munich
  • 2006: Artists from Leipzig, Arario Beijing
  • 2006: Netherlands v. Germany - Painting / Painting, GEM Museum voor actuele art, The Hague
  • 2006: German wall pieces. Sette scene di nuova pittura germanica, Museion Bolzano
  • 2005: The Triumph of Painting. Part 3, The Saatchi Gallery, London
  • 2005: 51st Biennale di Venezia, Italian Pavilion, Venice
  • 2005: Cold Hearts. Artists from Leipzig, Arario Gallery, Cheonan, Korea
  • 2005: David Matthes and I ", Kunstverein Nürnberg; Kunstverein Bielefeld
  • 2004: Life After Death. New Leipzig Paintings from the Rubell Family Collection, Rubell Family Collection, Miami; MASS MoCA, North Adams; SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico; Cats Arts Center Museum, Washington, D.C.; Frye Art Museum, Seattle; Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City (until 2008)
  • 2004: Northern Light, Rubell Family Collection, Miami
  • 2004: Direct Painting, Kunsthalle Mannheim
  • 2003: seven times painting, New Leipzig Art Association at the Museum of Fine Arts, Leipzig
  • 2002: 6 out of 11, LIGA, Berlin
  • 2001: Change of scene XX, Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main
  • 2000: LIGA, Steibs Hof, Leipzig

Awards

  • 2007: Scholarship of the German Academy Rome Villa Massimo
  • 2007: Arts Award of the Helmut Kraft Foundation
  • 2005: Art Prize of the Leipzig People's Daily
  • 2005: August- Macke - Award of the city of Meschede
  • 2004: Winner of the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative, Mentor: David Hockney
  • 2003: Scholarship of the Arts Fund for the promotion of contemporary visual art, Bonn
  • 2001: Scholarship Young Art, Kunsthaus Essen
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