Sebastian Wickeroth
„Wo es war, soll ich sein”, 2008
gypsum panels and paint,300qm
„Wo es war, soll ich sein”
The construction of the space is not yet finished. (...) In contrast to this clearly defined environment, a bright red, amorphous shape of splinters and fragments of plasterboards runs diagonally through the 300 square metre space. (...)The point of departure for Sebastian Wickeroth’s works is an engagement with the possibilities and limits of painting. He is interested above all in the relationship of image and wall, shape and space. (...)There is an additional aspect in Sebastian Wickeroth’s recent works: the perfect surfaces of his geometrical shapes and surfaces are no longer closed, but fragmented, deformed, and destroyed. This disintegration of perfect geometry can be interpreted as an iconoclastic gesture: as an affirmation and negation of minimal art.
Anne Schloen
Vita
| 1977 | Geboren / born in Issum |
| 2001- 2007 |
Kunstakademie Münster / École supérieure des beaux-arts de Genéve / Kunstakademie Düsseldorf |
| 2007 | Meisterschüler von Hubert Kiecol / Akademiebrief |
Solo Exhibitions
| 2007 | „form fucks function” Konsortium / Düsseldorf |
Group Exhibitions
| 2005 | „vous êtes ici” Galerie Palais de l´Athénée / Genf, Switzerland, „sous sol” ESBA / Genf, Switzerland |
| 2006 | „exile on cottage street” Temporary / Düsseldorf, „das letzte Wort der Kunst” Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, „wir waren mal Freunde gewesen” Gloria Halle / Düsseldorf, „Akademieausstellung” Kunstforum Oberkassel, „contemporary zoomansicht” Meisterhaus1 / Düsseldorf |
| 2007 | „große Kunstausstellung” Haus der Kunst / München „Stahl im Sturm” glue / Berlin, „thick cut” KIK / Düsseldorf, „SommerMMoGG” MMoG / Düsseldorf, „das Gesetz der guten Gestalt” KKB / Berlin, „Ida Gerhardi Förderpreis” Städtische Galerie Lüdenscheid, „Apropos” Galerie Delank / Köln, „Kunstpreis junger Westen” Kunsthalle Recklinghausen |
| 2008 | „do you have expectations?” Wartesaal / Zürich, Switzerland, „würdest du bitte endlich still sein, bitte” Galerie Dina4 Projekte / München, „fragile” H29 / Brüssel, Belgium, „Kunstinvasion” temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin, „2” Projektraum Felix Ringel Galerie, Düsseldorf |
Awards and Grants
| 2004 | Sokrates Stipendium / Genf, Switzerland |
| 2007 | Haus der Kunst Preis / München |