Corinne Wasmuht
Corinne Wasmuht (born 1964) is a German visual artist. She is currently based in Berlin.[1]
Early life and education
Wasmuht was born in 1964 in Dortmund, Germany.[1] From 1983-1992 she studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in Düsseldorf, Germany.[1]
Career
Wasmuht's work deals with issues such as globalization, economic crisis, the proliferation of technology, and modern warfare.[2] She makes paintings in oil paint on wooden boards, using many coats of varnish to add to the brightness of the colours.[3] Her images consist of layered fictional environments that reference abstract painting. Wasmuht paints all elements of her complexly layered and graphic paintings entirely by hand. Of her Bibliotheque/CDG-BSL (2011), Peter Plagens said: "As is often the case, a single work can represent the thrust of a show. Here it's Corinne Wasmuht's enormous triptych... It's a daunting painting... Its wildly varying scale (partial human figures five feet tall to some no more than little clots of paint) and institutional glare are supposed to say something, one assumes, about the socially, politically and culturally overwhelmed and unmoored state in which we currently exist."[4]
Select exhibitions
1999
- Neues Gestirn, Consortium Amsterdam, Amsterdam
- Damenwahl (with Jason Rhoades), Kunsthalle Bremen
- European Factory, Galleria darte moderna Bologna, Bologna
2001
- Musterkarte, Palacio Conde Duque, Madrid
2003
- Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden
- Aus dem Archiv, Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg
2004
- Wandbild, Projektraum Deutscher Künstlerbund, Berlin
- Contemporary Art from Germany, Europäische Zentralbank, Frankfurt
2005
- Vanishing Point, Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio
2008
- Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
2010
- Kunsthalle Nurnberg
2011
- Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria
2014
- Kunsthalle Kiel, Germany
2015
- Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
2016
- SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia
2017
- Kunstmuseum Stuttgart
Honours and awards
- 1996: ars viva prize, Cologne
- 2008: Heitland Foundation, Celle
- 2011: Oberrheinischer Kunstpreis, Offenburg
- 2011: August Macke Prize, Meschede
- 2014: Käthe Kollwitz Prize by the Academy of Arts, Berlin
References
- "Corinne Wasmuht CV", Petzel Gallery, Retrieved 24 December 2014.
- https://www.petzel.com/artists/corinne-wasmuht/biography
- Meyer-Riegger.de
- Review of "Chaos and Awe: Painting for the 21st Century" at the Frist Art Museum by Peter Plagens in The Wall Street Journal
External links
- Corinne Wasmuht on ArtNet.com
- Further information from the Saatchi Gallery
- Corinne Wasmuht at Berliner Poster Verlag