Martin Wehmer
Martin Martin Wehmer is a German contemporary artist
About the artist[edit]
Martin Wehmer was born in Hattingen, Germany in 1966. He was awarded the Volksbanken art prize in Gemany in 1996. He took up art residencies in Edinburgh in 2003 and in Beijing in 2008, organized by the International Exchange & Studio Program Basel (IAAB). He has lived and worked in Beijing since 2008. He was one of the organizers of the Beijing 798 Biennale in 2009. He has taught as a lecturer at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts, and in the CDK project, a joint programme of the University of the Arts, Berlin and the China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, facilitating art exchange programs between China and Germany. His works have been exhibited extensively throughout Europe and China and included in important public and private collections around the world.
Wehmer’s works are created by the separation of pure presentation and formal abstraction. He draws on socially relevant goods, which remain connected by his personal desire and point of view. He does not intend to de-materialize art nor to contextualize, to advance today's definition of artistic creation, but consciously welcomes the restrictive properties of the painting. As a result, the painting is a mean to demonstrate his artistic creativity and fetish obsession of the objects.
- 1966 Born in Blankenstein j. Hattingen, Germany
- 2003 Art Residencies (International Exchange and Studio Program Basel), Edinburgh, UK
- 2008 Art Residencies (International Exchange and Studio Program Basel), Beijing, China
- 2009 Curator of Beijing 798 Biennale, Beijing, China
- 2009 Lectureship at Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
- 2010 /11 Lectureship, Chinesisch-Deutsche Kunstakademie; China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China
- 2012 Lectureship at Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts, Tianjin, China
- Currently lives and works in Beijing, China
Selected Solo Exhibitions[edit]
- 2020 Body Fragments, Contemporary by Angela Li, Hong Kong, China
- 2020 Beautiful Feet, Long Noses, Sexy Lips, Great Foreheads, Women, Ice and the Best in Abstraction, Cologne, Germany
- 2019 Small Flags, Germany
- 2018 Martin Wehmer: Qi, Beijing, China
- 2018 The Back of the Starry Sky, Contemporary by Angela Li, Hong Kong, China
- 2017 12 Bilder aus China, Cologne, Germany
- 2016 Neighborship in Wang Jing Park, Beijing, China
- 2016 Painting = Box, Shanghai, China
- 2015 Painting = Box, Shanghai, China
- 2015 In the Box There’s a Goat Eating Coloured Pants, Contemporary by Angela Li, Hong Kong, China
- 2014 Ta Men, Contemporary by Angela Li, Hong Kong, China
- 2014 Women, Beijing, China
- 2013 Women, Beijing, China
- 2012 Idols, Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts, Tianjin, China
- 2012 Idols, Beijing, China
- 2012 Idols, Projektraum Knut Osper, Cologne, Germany
- 2010 Sun Wu Kong, Michael Schultz Gallery, Seoul, Korea
- 2010 Sun Wu Kong, Projektraum Knut Osper, Cologne, Germany
- 2008 Back from BEACH, Gallery Daeppen, Basel, Switzerland
Selected Group Exhibitions[edit]
- 2020 Roundabout, Beijing, China
- 2019 German Art in China, German Embassy, Beijing, China
- 2017 27, Beijing, China
- 2016 Blitzeis, Accrochage, Germany
- 2015 Heiter Bis Wolkig, Germany
- 2015 Farbdinge, Farbräume, Herdecke, Germany
- 2014 New Year, Beijing, China
- 2014 Code, Shanghai, China
- 2013 BLACK BRIDGE OFF SPACE, DoDummDummDummDaDoDummDumm, Beijing, China
- 2012 Beijing International Art Biennale, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
- 2011 The White of the Eye, Beijing, China
- 2010 BLACK BRIDGE OFF SPACE, Beijing, China
- 2009 Monumental in Time, Beijing, China
- 2009 ANNEXE/INFIX, Beijing 798 Biennale, Beijing, China
- 2009 Saxonia Foxtrott, Kunsthalle Dresden, Germany
- 2009 International Inkism, Sunshine International Museum, Beijing, China
- 2008 Art Shape, Bridge Art Museum, Beijing, China
- 2008 Critical Mass, Beijing, China
Exhibition Weblink[edit]
The Back of the Starry Sky, Contemporary by Angela Li, Hong Kong, China
In the Box There’s a Goat Eating Coloured Pants, Contemporary by Angela Li, Hong Kong, China
Ta Men, Contemporary by Angela Li, Hong Kong, China
Collections[edit]
- UBS Hong Kong
- UBS Köln
- UBS Zürich
- Kunstkredit Basel
- Kultusministerium Kanton Basel
Interview[edit]
BZ interview with the Beijing-based painter Martin Wehmer, Badische Zeitung, retrieved on the 6th November 2020
Martin Wehmer- Confucius Institute, Nuremberg-Erlangen, accessed on the 6th November 2020
Award[edit]
1996 Awarded the German Art Prize of Volks & Raiffeisen
References[edit]
http://cbal.com.hk/art/artists/martin-wehmer/
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