Matthias Weischer (born 1973 in Elte, North Rhine-Westphalia,

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) is a painter living in

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. Weischer is considered to be part of the

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Life

Matthias Weischer studied painting from 1995 to 2001 and received his MA in 2003 from

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(HGB) in

. He was a student in the master class of Professor Sighard Gille. In 2002, he was a co-founder of the artist-initiated gallery LIGA in Berlin that was run by eleven former HGB students, among them

Christoph Ruckhäberle Christoph Ruckhäberle (born 1972, Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm, West Germany) is an artist based in Leipzig. Ruckhäberle studied at the California Institute of the Arts from 1991 to 1992, and received his BFA in painting in 1995 and his MFA in 2002 f ...

, Tim Eitel, David Schnell and Tilo Baumgärtel. LIGA was closed after two years in 2004. After cooperating with Galerie Kleindienst (Leipzig), Anthony Wilkinson (London) and EIGEN + Art (Leipzig/Berlin) Weischer is currently represented by König Gallery (Berlin) and Grimm Gallery (Amsterdam). His studio is located at the Leipzig Cotton Mill.

Work

Weischers works oscillate between abstract and figurative painting. Until 2006, his paintings depicted deserted interiors like stage settings that are infused with abstract elements. Furniture, everyday objects, and large-scale ornaments stylistically refer to the 1950s and 1960s. In their collage-like appearance, they establish a complex and ambiguous relationship. During his residency in

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in 2007, Weischer concentrated on drawing and studies on nature and landscape. Since then, he predominantly works on and with paper, in smaller formats and with a lighter range of colors. He also explores different printing techniques and, recently, three-dimensional sculptural arrangements. Since 2001, his work has been exhibited worldwide, e.g. in London (2003), Miami (2004), at the

Venice Biennale The Venice Biennale (; it, La Biennale di Venezia) is an international cultural exhibition hosted annually in Venice, Italy by the Biennale Foundation. The biennale has been organised every year since 1895, which makes it the oldest of ...

, the

Cleveland Museum of Art The Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) is an art museum in Cleveland, Ohio, located in the Wade Park District, in the University Circle neighborhood on the city's east side. Internationally renowned for its substantial holdings of Asian and Egyptian ...

, in

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, Korea (2005),

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, Málaga (2008),

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(2011),

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(2015) and

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(2017). Among the public and private collections holding works by Matthias Weischer are the

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA) is a contemporary art museum with two locations in greater Los Angeles, California. The main branch is located on Grand Avenue in Downtown Los Angeles, near the Walt Disney Concert Hall. MOCA's ...

, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague,

Arken Museum of Modern Art ARKEN Museum of Modern Art ( da, ARKEN Museum for Moderne Kunst) is a private non-for-profit charity, state authorised, contemporary art museum in Ishøj near Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark. The museum is amongst Denmark's major contemporary a ...

, Denmark, Arario Collection, Corea,

Museum der bildenden Künste The Museum der bildenden Künste (German: "Museum of Fine Arts") is a museum in Leipzig, Saxony, Germany. It covers artworks from the Late Middle Ages to Modernity. History Museum Foundation and First Museum The museum dates back to the fo ...

, Leipzig, Rubel Family Collection, Miami and Susan and Michael Hort, New York.

Solo exhibitions

* 2020: ''Bühne'', Drents Museum, Assen, Netherlands * 2020: ''Matthias Weischer'', König Tokio Gallery, Tokyo * 2020: ''Stage'', Grimm Gallery, New York * 2019: ''Matthias Weischer'', König Gallery, Berlin * 2017: ''Bankett'', Grimm Gallery, Amsterdam * 2016: ''In und auf Papier'', Kloster Bentlage, Rheine * 2016: ''Matthias Weischer - Grafik von 2005-2016'', Thaler Originalgrafik, Leipzig * 2015: ''Matthias Weischer'', König Gallery, Berlin * 2015: ''traces to nowhere'', Lehmann Maupin Gallery, Hong Kong * 2015: ''Matthias Weischer: Das druckgraphische Werk'', Akademie Franz-Hitz-Haus, Münster * 2014: ''Matthias Weischer'', TAJAN, Paris * 2014: ''The Vincent Award Room: Matthias Weischer.'',

Gemeentemuseum Den Haag The Kunstmuseum Den Haag is an art museum in The Hague in the Netherlands, founded in 1866 as the Museum voor Moderne Kunst. Later, until 1998, it was known as Haags Gemeentemuseum, and until the end of September 2019 as Gemeentemuseum Den Haag. I ...

* 2013: ''Thicket''
GRIMM Gallery
Amsterdam * 2011: ''Obra nueva/New works'',

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, Puerto Rico * 2011: ''Alice, Armin und all die anderen. Auf Papier'',

Leipzig; Kunstverein Bremerhaven * 2010: ''In Monte Carlo'', Galerie EIGEN + ART, Leipzig * 2009: ''Room with a view'', Kunsthalle Mainz * 2008: ''Room with a view'', CAC Málaga - Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga * 2008: ''Der Garten – Arbeiten auf Papier'', Kloster Bentlage, Rheine * 2008:

* 2007:

Museum zu Allerheiligen Kloster Allerheiligen (All Saints abbey) is a former Benedictine monastery in the Swiss municipality of Schaffhausen in the Canton of Schaffhausen. The church ''Münster Allerheiligen'' is the oldest building in Schaffhausen, and houses also the ...

Schaffhausen; Kunsthalle Mannheim * 2007: ''Der Garten – Arbeiten auf Papier'', Neuer Berliner Kunstverein * 2006: ''Arbeiten auf Papier'', Kunstverein Konstanz; Kunstverein Ulm * 2006: Galerie EIGEN + ART, Berlin * 2006: Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen * 2005:

Leipzig (Art award of the Leipziger Volkszeitung) * 2004: ''simultan'', Künstlerhaus Bremen * 2003: ''3 Zimmer, Diele, Bad'', LIGA, Berlin * 2003: Anthony Wilkinson Gallery, London * 2002: ''Räumen'', Kunsthaus Essen * 2001: Galerie Kleindienst, Leipzig

Selected group exhibitions

* 2019: ''Away in the Hill'', Grimm Gallery, New York Grimm Gallery
Away in the Hill, 27 June – 2 August 2019, New York * 2017: ''Germany 8: Next Generation - Young German Art'', White Box Art Center, Peking * 2017: ''Three Positions. Six Directions'', König Gallery, Berlin * 2017: ''Künstlerräume II'', Gallery Karsten Greve, Cologne * 2016: ''Aufschlussreiche Räume - Interieur als Portrait'', Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen * 2016: ''"Maroc"'', ASPN Gallery, Leipzig * 2015: ''Made in Germany'', Highpoint Printmaking Center, Minneapolis * 2015: ''Camera Obscura - Malerei von David Schnell, Matthias Weischer und Christoph Ruckhäberle'', Neuer Pfaffenhofener Kunstverein, Pfaffenhofen * 2015: ''Offen auf AEG: Druckgrafische Arbeiten'' Auf AEG, Nürnberg * 2015: ''All the worlds a stage - works from the Goetz Collection''; Fundacion Banco Santander, Madrid * 2014: ''This side of Paradise'', S, 2 Sotheby's, London * 2013: ''Donation Florence et Daniel Guerlain'', Centre Pompidou, Paris * 2013: ''Ortsbestimmung - Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Sachsen'', Kulturhistorisches Museum Görlitz * 2013: ''Schöne Landschaft - Bedrohte Natur: Alte Meister im Dialog mit zeitgenössischer Kunst'', Kunsthalle Osnabrück * 2013: ''The inevitable figuration'', Centro per l'arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato * 2013: ''Nightfall'', Rudolfinum, Prag* 2012: "Paintings/Pinturas. The Rubell Family Collection", Sala de Arte Santander, Madrid * 2012: "Atelier + Küche – Labore der Sinne", Marta Herford * 2012: "Sidetracks – Painting in the paramodern continuum", Stavanger Art Museum * 2010: "'Die Bilder tun was mit mir ...'. Einblicke in die Sammlung Frieder Burda", Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden * 2010: "Parallels: Young contemporary painting from Norway/Leipzig", Kistefos Museum, Jevnaker * 2008: "Interieur/Exterieur. Wohnen in der Kunst",

Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg The Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg is an art museum in central Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony, opened 1994. It presents modern and contemporary art and is financed by the ''Kunststiftung Volkswagen.'' It takes up aspects of the industrial city of Wolfsburg, whic ...

* 2008: "New Leipzig School",

Cobra Museum The Cobra Museum of Modern Art ( nl, Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst) is an art museum in Amstelveen in the Netherlands. The collection of the museum consists of key works by artists associated with three art movements, Vrij Beelden (1945), Cobr ...

, Amstelveen * 2008: "The Leipzig Phenomenon", Műcsarnok Kunsthalle, Budapest * 2008: "Germania contemporanea. Dipingere è narrare", MART - Museo d'arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto * 2007: "Weischer meets Beckmann",

Kunsthalle Mannheim The Kunsthalle Mannheim is a museum of modern and contemporary art, built in 1907, established in 1909 and located in Mannheim, Germany. Since then it has housed the city's art collections as well as temporary exhibitions – and up to 1927 those ...

* 2007: "Rockers Island. Werke aus der Sammlung Olbricht",

Museum Folkwang Museum Folkwang is a major collection of 19th- and 20th-century art in Essen, Germany. The museum was established in 1922 by merging the Essener Kunstmuseum, which was founded in 1906, and the private Folkwang Museum of the collector and patr ...

Essen * 2006: "Imagination Becomes Reality. Part V: Fantasy and Fiction",

Sammlung Goetz The Goetz Collection (Sammlung Goetz) is a private collection of contemporary art in Munich, Germany. It opened in 1992. The collection is owned and continually being enlarged by the former gallery dealer Ingvild Goetz, who presents the collectio ...

, Munich * 2006: "Artists from Leipzig", Arario Beijing * 2006: "Netherlands v. Germany - Painting/Malerei", GEM Museum voor actuele kunst, The Hague * 2006: "Deutsche Wandstücke. Sette scene di nuova pittura germanica", Museion Bozen * 2005: "The Triumph of Painting. Part 3",

Saatchi Gallery The Saatchi Gallery is a London art gallery, 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, mov ...

, London * 2005: "51. Biennale di Venezia. The Experience of Art", Venice * 2005: "Cold Hearts. Artists from Leipzig", Arario Gallery, Cheonan, Korea * 2005: "David, Matthes und ich", 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; Katzen Arts Center Museum, Washington D.C.; Frye Art Museum, Seattle; Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City (bis 2008) * 2004: "Northern Light", Rubell Family Collection, Miami * 2003: "sieben mal malerei", Neuer Leipziger Kunstverein im Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig * 2002: "6 aus 11", LIGA, Berlin * 2002: Galerie EIGEN + ART, Leipzig * 2001: Galerie Kleindienst, Leipzig * 2001: "Szenenwechsel XX",

Museum für Moderne Kunst The Museum für Moderne Kunst (''Museum of Modern Art''), or short MMK, in Frankfurt, was founded in 1981 and opened to the public 6 June 1991. The museum was designed by the Viennese architect Hans Hollein. Because of its triangular shape, it ...

Frankfurt am Main * 2000: "lokal", Galerie EIGEN + ART, Leipzig * 2000: "LIGA", Steibs Hof, Leipzig

Awards

* 2017: Eduard Arnhold Scholarship * 2012: Scholarship

Civitella Ranieri Foundation The Civitella Ranieri Foundation is an American artists’ community located at a 15th-century castle in the Umbria region of Italy. The Foundation provides four sessions of six-week long unstructured residencies every year to visual artists, ...

* 2007: Scholarship of the Deutsche Akademie Rom

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, Rome * 2005: Art award of the Leipziger Volkszeitung * 2005:

August Macke Prize The August Macke Prize, named after the painter August Macke, was given the first time in 1959 by the districts Arnsberg, Brilon, Meschede and Olpe in the region of the Hochsauerland, Germany. With the award the recipients get the offer to show t ...

* 2004: Protégé of Mentor

David Hockney David Hockney (born 9 July 1937) is an English painter, draftsman, printmaker, stage designer, and photographer. As an important contributor to the pop art movement of the 1960s, he is considered one of the most influential British artists o ...

- Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative * 2003: Scholarship Stiftung Kunstfonds zur Förderung der zeitgenössischen bildenden Kunst, Bonn * 2001: Scholarship Junge Kunst, Kunsthaus Essen

Publications

* Michael Hametner: ''Auf der Bühne. 15 Gespräche – ein Porträt des Malers Matthias Weischer.'' Mitteldeutscher Verlag 2016. (German/Englisch) . * ''Matthias Weischer. Obra nueva/New work'', exh. cat. Museo de Arte de Ponce, Puerto Rico 2011. (Spanish/English) * ''Kunstwerkstatt Matthias Weischer'', Prestel Verlag, Munich 2011. (German) * ''Matthias Weischer. Room with a view'', exh. cat. Kunsthalle Mainz, Sparkasse Essen 2009. (German/English) * ''Matthias Weischer. In the Space Between'', exh. cat. CAC Málaga 2008. (Spanish) * ''Matthias Weischer. Der Garten. Arbeiten auf Papier/The Garden. Works on Paper'', exh. cat. Neuer Berliner Kunstverein; Kloster Bentlage, Rheine 2007. (German/English) * ''Matthias Weischer. Malerei/Painting'', exh. cat. Museum zu Allerheiligen Schaffhausen, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag 2007. (German/English) * ''The triumph of painting. Matthias Weischer, Eberhard Havekost, Dexter Dalwood, Dana Schutz, Michael Raedecker,

Inka Essenhigh Inka Essenhigh (born 1969) is an American painter based in New York City. Throughout her career, Essenhigh has had solo exhibitions at galleries such as Deitch Projects, Mary Boone Gallery, 303 Gallery, Stefan Stux Gallery, and Jacob Lewis Galler ...

'', London 2005. * ''Matthias Weischer. Simultan'', exh. cat. Künstlerhaus Bremen 2004. (German/English)

References

External links

Official website

Matthias Weischer at König Gallery

Matthias Weischer at GRIMM Gallery

David Hockney and Matthias Weischer, Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative 2004/05
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