Opening:
Tuesday, June 3,2008, 7 pm

Duration:
June 4 – September 12, 2008
Monday – Friday, 9 am to 8 pm

The objects and installations created by the Munich artist Stefan Wischnewski cause surprise because of their unusual use of materials and unexpected subject matter.

He mostly uses industrial material to represent spatial experiences and objects, extending the classic concept of sculpture.The analysis of everyday settings and the world of art is linked with experiments in sculpture and often coupled with science fiction motifs.His latest sculptures, consisting of ropes, reflectors or light sources and sporting titles such as “Supernova” and “Black Hole Sun”, hark back to the aesthetics and pioneering spirit of the modern era.Their visionary qualities, underpinned with a fine layer of irony, are a continuation of the avant-garde sculpture that burst on the scene at the start of the 20th century.Wischnewski’s sculptures are partly experiments in form and partly a conscious projection of social issues.

Wischnewski has taken the title of the exhibition, “Hinter dem Horizont geht's weiter” (There’s more beyond the horizon), from a song by Udo Lindenberg to   reflect the artistic nature of the sculpture and to hint at forms yet to be developed.

In addition to his solo artistic projects, Stefan Wischnewski works with Wolfgang Stehle and Martin Wöhrl in the “Swinger” group that turns the ritualistic forms of the exhibition industry into sculptural works in their performance tours, and is a member of the netzhalde.de group that develops its sculptural projects in its interaction with the specific location.

Stefan Wischnewski

Biography

Stefan Wischnewski was born in 1974 in Neumünster.After an apprenticeship as a toolmaker he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, at the Uiah University of Art, Academy of Fine Art Helsinki and at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design.Stefan Wischnewski studied under James Reineking and received numerous grants and awards, including a grant from Warteck pp, Basel and a project award from the Erwin und Gisela Steiner Stiftung in 2003, a grant from the Schleswig-Holstein Art House, Eckernförde in 2004, and a DAAD grant for a study visit to the Valand School of Fine Art, Göteborg in 2005.In 2007 Stefan Wischnewski received the Bayerischer Kunstförderpreis (Bavarian state award for the advancement of arts).