Monika Brandmeier Explained

Monika Brandmeier (January 19, 1959 in Kamen) is a German sculptor.

Life and work

Monika Brandmeier first studied visual communication at the Dortmund University of Applied Sciences from 1977 to 1982 and then at the Braunschweig University of Art and the Düsseldorf Academy of Art from 1986 to 1991. She was a master student of Erich Reusch. In 1995 she received a professorship for design theory and plastic design at the Fachhochschule Niederrhein in Krefeld.

Since 2001 she has been Professor of Sculpture at the Dresden University of Fine Arts.

Monika Brandmeier is spokesperson for the board of the Stiftung Kunstfonds^[1] and a member of the Deutscher Künstlerbund. She lives in Berlin.^[2]

Prizes and scholarships (selection)

1983: Scholarship from the German-French Youth Organization, Paris
1986: Wilhelm-Fabry-Förderpreis from the city of Hilden
1987: Fellowship from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York
1989: Guest of the Djerassi Foundation, Woodside, California
1990: Fellowship from the Philip Morris Artist Program, Berlin
1992: Scholarship from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Künstlerdorf Schöppingen
1992: Art Prize of the city of Nordhorn for sculpture
1998: Art Omi, Artist in Residence residency, Ghent, NY

Works

Solo exhibitions (selection)

2021 A tropical atmosphere, only a lot cooler. ZAK Center for Contemporary Art, Zitadelle Spandau, Berlin
2020 mainly. Galerie Heike Strelow, Frankfurt a. M.
2019 Viewing. Kunsthalle Recklinghausen
2019 Neigung,. dr. julius | ap, Berlin
2017 Feststellung. dr. julius | ap, Berlin
2015 Weiches Licht - Neue Skulpturen und Fotoarbeiten der 90er Jahre. Gallery Conrads, Düsseldorf
2015 Sätze. dr. dr. julius | ap, Berlin
2014 Reflexbox, Galerie Mark Müller, Zurich
2012 Horizontalplastik, Galerie Mueller-Roth, Stuttgart
2011 Galerie Califa, Horazdovice, Czech Republic (with Martin Zet)
2010 Galerie Matthew Bown, Berlin
2010 Underplaying, Galerie Polaris, Paris
2010 Sachverhalt, Museum für Konkrete Kunst, Ingolstadt
2010 Double or Twice, Galerie Mark Müller, Zürich
2009 Sachverhalt, Leonhardi-Museum, Dresden
2009 Lock, Skulpturi.dk, Copenhagen
2009 Und alles Sehnen schließlich geometrisch, Galerie Conrads, Düsseldorf
2007 Bilder und Blicke /Pictues and Views, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago
2004 Formatting Blick, Galerie Mark Müller, Zürich
2003 Galerie Polaris, Paris
2002 Platzwunder, Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden
2001 Volumen, Kolumba, Cologne
1999 Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin
1998 more lies and a line(with Jordan Baseman), Mario Flecha exhibition space, Girona, Spain
1997 21 Zeichnungen, Galerie Otto Schweins, Cologne
1996 Raum verpflichten (und vier Stützen), Städtische Galerie Ravensburg
1995 no ideas but in things. No ideas but in things. Zadnych idei poza rzeczami,(with Hartmut Böhm) The Artists'Museum, Lodz
1993 Albrecht Dürer Gesellschaft, Nuremberg
1992 R -5, L -6, James Hockey Gallery, Farnham, England
1992 Skulpturen Museum, Marl (with Claudia Terstappen)
1992 Der normale Aufenthalt im Freien, Städtische Galerie Nordhorn
1990 Joint exhibition - floating scale, (with Emiko Kasahara), Spiral Art Center, Tokyo
1989 sehr sehr - Raumkonzept VII, Kunstraum Buchberg, Austria (permanent installation)
1989 und ein paar Schuhe wie Anführungsstriche (unten), Galerie Schütz, Frankfurt a. M.

References

http://www.kunstfonds.de/ueberuns-gremien.html kunstfonds.de: Über uns / Gremien / Vorstand
http://www.kuenstlerbund.de/deutsch/mitglieder/mitglieder/brandmeier-monika.html?ch=B kuenstlerbund.de: Mitglieder "B" / Monika Brandmeier