Clemens von Wedemeyer explained

Clemens von Wedemeyer (born 1974 in Göttingen, Germany) is a German video artist.

He studied fine arts at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig, with Astrid Klein.^[1] In 2004 von Wedemeyer produced, together with Maya Schweizer, a documentary movie: Metropolis, Report from China which was finished in 2006. In 2008, he was a resident at the University of California, Santa Barbara.^[2] He lives and works in Berlin and Leipzig, Germany.

Awards

• 2002 VG Bildkunst Award for Experimental Film and Video–art, Munich Film Festival, Germany
• 2002 Marion Ermer Prize, Leipzig
• 2005 Kunstpreis der Böttcherstrasse in Bremen, Germany
• 2006 Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen
• 2008 Villa Romana prize

Exhibitions

• 2016 P.O.V., Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Germany (solo)
• 2015 Muster, MCA Screen, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, US (solo)
• 2014 Every Word You Say, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany (solo)
• 2013 MAXXI – National Museum of the 21st Century Arts, Rome (solo)
• 2013 Bergen Assembly, Norway
• 2012 documenta (13), Kassel, Germany
• 2011 Metropolis, Report from China, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (solo)
• 2010 Sun Cinema, Mardin, Turkey (public art project)
• 2009 Curve Commission, Barbican Arts Centre, London
• 2007 Skulptur Projekte Münster, Germany
• 2006 PS1 MoMA, New York City (solo)
• 2005 1st Moscow Biennale, Russia

External links

• An Interview with Clemens von Wedemeyer by Bert Rebhandl
• "Clemens von Wedemeyer", Art in America, 4/26/10, Koch Oberhuber Wolff, Sabine Russ
• "Clemens von Wedemeyer", frieze, June–August 2006
• Exhibition in 2011
• Clemens von Wedemeyer's profile at Kadist Art Foundation

Notes and References

1. Web site: Clemens von Wedemeyer . 15 June 2010 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100503191942/http://www.galeriewolff.com/site/artists_detail.php?uid=1 . 3 May 2010 .
2. Web site: Public Affairs & Communications | Institutional Advancement.