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Wulf Kirschner
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The steel sculptor Kirschner, born in Kiel in 1947 and now living and working in Hamburg, is concerned in his work with questions of form. His steel works, based largely on the Fibonacci principal and thereby designed in harmonious rows, gain distinctive character through their hand-welded chrome-nickel markings, which transform the initially austere-seeming geometric steel form into a vibrating, animated, and thereby for the viewer incomprehensible sculptural object. The characteristic welding marks distributed across the surface of the artist’s wall pieces, often made of shipbuilding steel and occasionally gigantic, as well as of his smaller objects, are simultaneously an aspect that unifies the individual works. The stigma of heavy industrial work clings to the shipbuilding steel Kirschner frequently uses for his sculptures. Such a connotation also implies the artist's requirement for a correspondingly industrial work environment. Kirschner welds and assembles his steel objects at the Blohm & Voss shipyard under the professional eye of the shipwrights. The artist Kirschner produces his sculptures using the tools of heavy industry and at a location traditionally of great importance to Hamburg's urban culture. |
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Exhibitions (selection)
2009 |
Erfurt |
Hommage an eine Gründergeneration, Forum für konkrete Kunst (G) |
Lüneburg |
"Alle Rechte vorbehalten" - Collection Rik Reinking, Rathaus (G) |
2008 |
Mannheim |
"Fine Works of Paper", Sebastian Fath Contemporary (G) |
Silkeborg |
"Call it what you like" - Collection Rik Reinking, Kunst Centret Bad (G) |
Basel |
20 Jahre Galerie Aphold, Galerie Aphold (G) |
2007 |
Brno |
Haus der Kunst, Sammlung Rik Reinking |
2006 |
Heme |
Emschertal-Museum und Flottmann-Hallen,Sammlung A. Baier |
Esslingen |
Villa Merkel, Sammlung Rik Reinking |
Houston |
Donna Rogers Fine Art |
Hamburg |
City Nord Skulpturenpark, Kurator: Rik Reinking |
Oerlinghausen |
Kunstverein |
Bad Säckingen |
Kunstverein Hochrhein |
Hamburg |
Galerie Thomas Levy (S, K) |
Lodz |
Atlas-Galerie, Sammlung Jürgen Blum |
Washington D.C. |
Goethe-Institut (Solo, with Nicola Stäglich) |
2005 |
Mannheim |
Sebastian Fath Contemporary (S, with Rolf Rose) |
Leipzig |
Halle 14 (Baumwollspinnerei), Stiftung Federkiel, Sammlung Rik Reinking |
Hamburg |
Thomas Levy Galerie |
Lodz |
Atlas-Galerie |
Köln |
ART 39, - Thomas Levy Galerie, Hamburg |
Bremen |
GAK, Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst |
München |
Symposion Lebendige Stadt, Courtesy Thomas Levy Galerie |
Landau |
Kunstverein Villa Streccius, Sammlung Alexander Baier |
Wien |
UNO-Kongresszentrum (C), Sammlung Jürgen Blum |
2004 |
Bad Säckingen |
Kunstverein Hochrhein (S) |
Karlsruhe |
Art Karlsruhe - Galerie Roland Aphold, Basel |
Basel |
Galerie Roland Aphold |
Hamburg |
Hamburger Kunsthalle |
Hünfeld |
Museum Modern Art, Sammlung Jürgen Blum (S) |
Mannheim |
Sebastian Fath Contemporary |
2003 |
Frankfurt |
Galerie ARTE GIANI (S) |
Zürich |
Int. Messe für Gegenwartskunst, - Galerie ARTE GIANI, Frankfurt |
Frankfurt |
ART 14, - Galerie ARTE GIANI, Frankfurt |
Erfurt |
Museum für Konkrete Kunst |
Oerlinghausen |
Kunstverein Alte Synagoge (S) |
Breslau |
Muzeum Architektury |
Hamburg |
Kunsthaus ("Harakiri-Bonbon") |
Dresden |
Altana Galerie, Universitätssammlungen Kunst und Technik der Technischen Universität Dresden |
2002 |
Zürich |
Int. Messe für Gegenwartskunst, Galerie ARTE GIANI, Frankfurt |
Frankfurt |
ART 13, - Galerie ARTE GIANI, Frankfurt |
New York |
Anti Gravity, Robert Pardo Gallery |
Bremen |
Neues Museum Weserburg |
Remscheid |
Galerie der Stadt Remscheid |
G = Group exhibition
S = Solo exhibition
C = Catalogue