Simon Schubert (born 1976) is an artist based in

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, Germany, his birthplace. From 1997 to 2004 he trained at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in the sculpture class of Irmin Kamp. Inspired by

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as well as by

Samuel Beckett Samuel Barclay Beckett (; 13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish novelist, dramatist, short story writer, theatre director, poet, and literary translator. His literary and theatrical work features bleak, impersonal and tragicomic expe ...

, Schubert's works imagine architectural settings, common situations and objects, whereas the materials he uses are either simple or sophisticated - white paper folded or mixed media arrangements. Some of his paper foldings entered the West Collection, Oaks, PA, while the

Saatchi Collection The Saatchi Gallery is a London gallery for contemporary art and an independent charity opened by Charles Saatchi in 1985. Exhibitions which drew upon the collection of Charles Saatchi, starting with US artists and minimalism, moving to the Da ...

, London, owns sculptural works in mixed media. In 2008, Schubert received the ZVAB Phönix Art Award for newcomers.ZVAB homepage featuring Schubert and his prize-winning work
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Selected exhibitions

2018 ''Beyond the Doubt of a Shadow'', Foley Gallery, New York City, NY 2008 ''monode'', Kunst-Station St. Peter, Cologne ''paper8'', Upstairs Berlin 2007 ''Mythos'', Upstairs Berlin – Zimmerstrasse, Berlin ''Paramären'', Kudlek van der Grinten Galerie, Cologne ''Entropia'', Villa de Bank, Enschede, NL 2006 ''Klasse Kamp, 1974-2006'', Kunsthalle Düsseldorf 2005 ''Entwohner'', Galerie van der Grinten, Cologne Kunstraum 22, Cologne ''Stipendienausstellung des Vordemberge-Gildewart Stipendium'', KölnKunst 7 2004 ''Bergischer Kunstpreis 2004'', Museum Baden, Solingen ''Airport Art'', Frankfurt am Main 2001 ''Exhibition of the Kamp Class'', Handwerkskammer Düsseldorf Alte Feuerwache, Cologne 1999 Villa de Bank, Enschede

Selected exhibitions

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