i come pretty straight from visual art. started painting as teenager, did evening courses, studied at the art academy dresden and did my diploma for sculpture. then i was 2 years masterstudent, studied post graduat in stuttgart, paris and later moved to brooklyn, new york, where i attended a first computer graphics internship at the institut of technology, ny..
when i came back to germany in 1994, i moved to berlin, right in the middle of the electronic music boom, i started pretty radically to work with computers (only), i knew i have to work the same way like the music i was listening to was made .
i passed another 1 year multimedia design education. since then, none of the fascination of working with software and internet based networks has abated. i never felt any reason to move back to paints and traditional artistic work.
anyway, deep inside i’m a painter and i always was. so i see my work best described in the traditional context of painting. the focus is on the development of an image and color composition.
it is like coming home and feeling full of an expression that, out of its own energy, is longing to become materialized. even in that moment when i would start painting, i don’t have any direct image up on my inner screen. that wouldn’t be fun. just like when you are pulled onto the dance floor by good music, it would be boring to know what happens next. i like to compare my work process to dancing or improvising music. it’s like the process of developing a finished composition throughout a performance or play. for me it is the way in which evolving form elements start organizing and – in the best case – combine to form a fascinating image.
these works shown here, are programmed and recorded as vector files, thus they are unlimited scaleable without a loss of quality. I usually realize 3 prints; one unique print in a smaller size about 80cm (+-) width, one unique print in a medium size about 1 meter (+-) width, and 1 unique print in larger size about 1,80 m (+-) width. since the file format allows unlimited scalability with no decrease in quality and these works are mostly based on very dense and finely generated structures, extra large prints would be ideal.
1960
born in Mittweida/Germany
1985-1990
study for sculpture at the Art Academy, Dresden
diploma
1990-1992
2 year masterstudent with Professor Klaus Schwabe
1991
stipend of the county Baden-Württemberg, study at the Art Academy Stuttgart
stipend at “l’Institut des Hautes Etudes en Art Plastiques – IHEAP”, Paris
lectures with Pontus Hulten, Daniel Buren, Sarkis among others
1 year residence in Paris
1992
trainee at the Institut of Technology, New York /computer art department
1992-1994
2 year residence in Brooklyn, New York
1997-1998
1 year postgraduate education for multimedia at CIMdata, Berlin
since 2006
several lectureships at the Art Acadeny Dresden / Media Class
lives in Berlin c/o Berlin
Two Children; Luise (7), Richard (3)
shows/projects (selection 2005 ->)
2010
Ruinenbaumeister (groupshow)
Galerie Kvant, Berlin
Link: monopol // ruinenbaumeister
2009
Wolkenbank Galerie, Rostock, (groupshow)
19. 12. 2009 – 30. 01. 2010
Link: wolkenbank-galerie.de
1.1.2009 – 2010
Algebra Azalea
Studio Schauplatz Second Life
2008
14. – 16.11. 2008
rot und weiss
Galerie-Tage, Speyer
23.05. – 21.06. 2008
Masterplan
Abel Neue Kunst, Berlin, (groupshow)
31.05. 01.06. 2008
Kunstinvasion
Kunsthalle Berlin, (groupshow)
26.05 – 06.06. 2008
Take These Flowers
Galerie Kasten, Mannheim, Projektraum 4
05. 02. – 8. 03. 2008
BEYOND THE SCREEN
[DAM] Berlin, (groupshow)
19.02 – 20.04. 2008
FILE, electronic languge international festival
Santander Cultural Center in Porto Alegre, Brazil
11.03 – 16.03. 2008
SHARE / Manufacturing
Festival of art and digital culture Torino
2007
22.11. – 24.11.2007
CIMATICS, AV Festival Brussels
participation with spectr|a|um windowfront installation
19.10. – 2.12.2007
Achtung Sprengarbeiten
NGBK Berlin
(groupshow)
14,10 – 10. 11 2007
matter of substraction
media ruimte bruxelles, (BE)
november – december 2007
Auflösung der Architektur / disintegration of the architecture
Goethe Institut Rotterdam (NL), (groupshow)
30.08 – 01.09.2007
Spectr|a|m, Nuit Blanche Bruxelles
installation at window front of big building
together with lab[au]
07. 08 – 15.09.2007
DIGITAL PAINTING – painted with pixel and algorithm
(groupshow)
LUMAS Berlin II – Fasanenstraße and LUMAS München
24.01. – 03.02.2007
clubtransmediale.07 ‘Liquid Space’ workshop and life performance
Ballhaus Naunynstr, Berlin
25.01. – 10.03.2007
META REFRESH
[DAM] Berlin
digital prints and animations
2006
01.10. – 03.12. 2006
FLOWERS
flowers in contemporary art
Kunstmuseum Heidenheim /Hermann Voigt Galery (groupshow) //catalog
computerinstallation
30.09.2006
NUIT BLANCHE
Nuit Blanche Art Festival, Toronto, Ca
computer-installation during the nuit blanche festival
in cooperation with Alekos Hofstetter
31.08. – 10.09.2006
OUT OF DISASTER
Brotfabrik Berlin (groupshow)
in cooperation with Alekos Hofstetter
20.05.2006
Toronto Project
showroom west-germany, Berlin
in cooperation with Alekos Hofstetter
08.03. - 06.09.2006
toronto project
Goetheinstitut Toronto (CA)
computer animation & installation
in cooperation with Alekos Hofstetter
2005
UNSOUND festival for art, new media and music, Krakow (PL)
computer installation
todaysART
Den Haag (NL) //catalog
computer installation
14.02. – 16.03.2005
run into flowers
[DAM] Berlin //catalog
25.1 – 4.2.2005
minimal garden
Installation – clubTransmediale05, Berlin
…
recent publications
Wolf Lieser: The World of Digital Art
H.f.Ullmann Verlag, 2010
Lukas Feireiss (ed.): BEYOND ARCHITECTURE – Architektur in der Kunst
Die Gestalten Verlag, Berlin, 2009
Wolf Lieser: Digital Art
H.f.Ullmann Verlag / ART pocket / 2009
ISBN 978-3-8331-5337-2
