Thorsten Goldberg
The work of Thorsten Goldberg represents an important contribution to the evolution of art in the public sphere, whose classical localization he suspends by removing crucial determinants in favor of a utopian dimension. His work tells the story of a journey to places that embody the yearnings of our time. By proffering definitions of places that are as specific as they are deliberately incomplete, Goldberg unfolds the spectrum of his artistic reflection before us: from the historic Land of Cockaigne to the virtual palm-lined beach adorning a screensaver, from directions guiding us along the 54th parallel to far-off islands and the radiant cloud we might follow to reach remote paradises.
The often awarded visual artist is realizing projects in public space throughout Europe and Canada. He taught at art academies in Münster, Munich, Linz, and recently as Professor of Art and Media in Kiel. As a member of various committees for public art, he is involved in selection and organization of competitions and of documentation and archiving of art projects in public space. Thorsten Goldberg was a member of the Advisory Committee on Art in Berlin, spokesman for the Bureau of art in public space of the cultural work of the BBK Berlin and is the founder and co-editor of “Public Art Wiki, an imagined library”, the Internet lexicon of art in public space.
Artist Info
Biography
Born in 1960 in Dinslaken, Germany
Lives and works in Berlin, Germany
Teaching
2017-2018
Lecturer, Burg Giebichenstein, Halle/DE
2007-2009
Professor for Arts and Media, Muthesius Art Academy, Kiel/DE
2003-2004
Visiting Professor, Academy of Fine Arts, Munich/DE
2003-2008
Adjunct Professor for Art in Public Space, Art Academy Linz/AT
2002
Visiting Professor for the Sculpture Project “umfluegen” with master class students of the Art Academy, Muenster/DE
2001-2003
Adjunct Professor for Photography in Public Space, Alice-Salomon University of Applied Sciences, Berlin/DE
1994-2001
Adjunct Professor for Experimental Sculpture and Photography, Free Art Academy, Berlin/DE
Solo Shows
2019
FINALISATION, 53º30’N, Edmonton/CA
2018
First presentation of the golden nest “24 kt”, Fuchsberg Elementary School, Berlin/DE
2017
Constructing Clouds – The opera isn’t over till the fat lady sings, Center for Polish Sculpture, Oronsko/PL
2013
51°15min., Municipal City Gallery, Viersen/DE
54°20min., Laznia – Center for Contemporary Art, Gdansk/PL
2012
54°4min., Museum Herbert-Gerisch Foundation, Neumuenster/DE
2010
Constructing clouds, WHITECONCEPTS, Berlin/DE
2005
things are generally different behind closed doors, Espai 13, Fundació Miró, Barcelona/ES
2004
Galeria Amfilada, Szczecin/PL
2002
“HEINZGERDKURTKLAUS“ Gallery HO, Berlin/DE
generic profile, Gallery RLBQ, Marseille/F
Gallery Hafemann, Wiesbaden/DE
detached village, City Exhibition Hall, Muenster/DE
2001
XX1 Gallery, Warsaw/PL
1999
Gallery Hafemann, Wiesbaden/DE
1998
Bellevuegallery, Wiesbaden/DE
1997
birdies inside, Gallery Wohnmaschine, Berlin/DE
1996
senatorial chair, Senate of Culture, Berlin/DE
birdies, Wewerka Pavillon, Muenster/DE
remotes, Gallery Wohnmaschine, Berlin/DE
1995
schmutz, Museum of Fine Arts Heidenheim/DE
1994
Gallery Wohnmaschine, Berlin/DE
1993
Glamor and Misery, Gallery Noeth, Kirchheim/DE
1992
one weekend, Wuerttembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart/DE
1989
half the rent, Stuttgart/DE
1985
media exposure, Kuenstlerhaus Stuttgart/DE
Career and Education
Since 2011
Member of the Advisory Commitee for Art in Public Space (BAK) of the Senate of Berlin/DE
Since 2007
Initiator and Co-Publisher of Public Art Wiki, the Internet library for Art in Public Space in Germany
Since 1999
Spokesman of the Artists Board of the Office for Art in Urban Environment, Kulturwerk Berlin/DE
Since 1995
Competitions, Seminars und Juries on Art in Urban Environment
1998
City of Wiesbaden-Stipend for Art-Projects, Wiesbaden/DE
1991
Senate of Berlin-Stipend for Photography, Berlin/DE
1990
Forum-Junger-Kunst-Award, Kunsthalle Kiel, Museum Wolfsburg, Museum Bochum/DE
1984-1991
Academy of Fine Arts, Stuttgart/DE
Public collections
Collection Haupt, Berlin
Daimler Art Collection
Herbert Gerisch Foundation
The Art-Museum Heidenheim
The Charité University Clinicum Berlin
The City of Bergen/N
The City of Gdansk/PL
The City of Heidenheim
The City of Lippstadt
The Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development
The Land of Berlin
The Martin-Gropius-Hospital Eberswalde
Selected group exhibitions
2019
The X – Part II (Anniversary), WHITECONCEPTS Gallery, Berlin/DE
2018
Watch Your Bubble, Galerie Nord | Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin/DE
ALLES, Hochhaus, Berlin/DE
2017
Transaktionen, Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin/DE
Kunstverein Neuhausen/DE
2016
Dotyk III, Galeria Miejska bwa, Bydgoszcz/PL
The Touch, BWA Gallery, Kilece/PL
2014
Art Market Budapest art fair, with WHITECONCEPTS, Budapest/HU
Connection? The space between Architecture and Art, aquabit Gallery, Berlin/DE
Just Fair, WHITECONCEPTS, Berlin/DE
COPYLEFT #1, COPYRIGHT, Berlin/DE
Die Kunst der Interventionen III, rk Gallery, Berlin/DE
2013
Art Market Budapest art fair, with WHITECONCEPTS, Budapest/HU
La Grande Migration, Millenaris Park, Budapest/HU
Money Works, WHITECONCEPTS, Berlin/DE
2012
The Golden Cage, KunstBüroBerlin, Berlin/DE
2011
Preview Aftershow, WHITECONCEPTS, Berlin/DE
PREVIEW BERLIN, with WHITECONCEPTS, Berlin/DE
The eye of…, Transmediale, WHITECONCEPTS, Berlin/DE
2010
Uprising Art, Art Museum and public space, Radom/PL
milk&honey/Blickwechsel, Museum for History of the City, Ratingen/DE
Kreuzbauten, Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development, Bonn/DE
Blick in die Landschaft, Gallery Hafemann, Wiesbaden/DE
2009
Zeigen. An Audio Tour through Berlin by Karin Sander, Temporaere Kunsthalle, Berlin/DE
falscher Hase oder vom Leben in den Waeldern, Gallery M, Berlin/DE
Space Matrix 01, WHITECONCEPTS, Berlin/DE
2008
Tiefenrausch, OK Center for contemporary art, Linz/AT
2007
I´m longing for …, House of Iranian Artists, Tehran/IR
2006
Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden/DE
2004
Kunstmuseum Heidenheim/DE
2002
discurski, Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok/PL
2000
Intrigue and Provocation, Ciurlionis Museum, Kaunas/LT
2001
sybaris, Baltic Biennial, Szczeczin/PL
Gallery Hafemann, Wiesbaden/DE
2000
Intrigue and Provocation, Ciurlionis Museum, Kaunas/LT
1999
and II, Sound-Art-Festival Wiesbaden/DE
NGBK, Berlin/DE
1998
Gallery Hafemann, Wiesbaden/DE
Westend, Karl-Hofer-Society, Berlin/DE
1996
Gallery Hafemann, Wiesbaden/DE
1995
Fraeulein Eislingen, Kunstverein Eislingen/DE
Gallery Wohnmaschine, Berlin/DE
1994
Wuerttembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart/DE
Ethnographical Museum, St. Petersburg/RU
Widerstand heute, Villa Merkel, Essligen/DE
1993
Gallery Wohnmaschine, Berlin/DE
Kunst im Weltmaßstab, (T.B.) Kunsthalle Kiel/DE
1992
Jahreslabor, (T.B.) Berlinische Gallery/DE
special appearance (T.B.) at H.-P. Feldmann´s, Gallery D. Buchholz, Cologne/DE
1991
Forum Junger Kunst, Kunsthalle Kiel, Museum Wolfsburg, Museum Bochum/DE
Stuttgart-Duesseldorf, Citymuseum Duesseldorf/DE
Dem Ornament, Gallery Hafemann, Wiesbaden/DE
1990
Galeria M+, Bratislava/SLO
1989
Gallery Babel, Heilbronn/DE
1987
Die erste Spielerei, Kuenstlerhaus Stuttgart/DE