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![]() Transformer 1998,silicone tubes, steel tubes, 57x63x5 cm |
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![]() Organic Cubes 2000, paraffin, beeswax, pigment, 30 x 30 x 30 cm |
![]() Tropic 1997, steel, rubber, silicone, latex, 180 x 12 cm |
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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
1956 Born in Gemünden am Main/Germany on October 3rd
1976-79 Studies ethnology and anthropology in Göttingen
1980-86 Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in
Hamburg with Kai Sudeck, Sigmar Polke and Ulrich Rückriem
1987-88 DAAD-Postgraduated-Grant/or Visual Arts in Gambia (Western
Africa)
1992 Friedrich-Vordemberge-Grant by the City of Cologne
1996 Artist-in-Residence, Loughborough
University, GB: project with computer-scientists to the theme
Creativity and
Cognition
1999-2000 Teaches design at the Bauhaus-Universität in Weimar
2000-01 Teaches at the Department of Fine Arts at the University of
Chicago
2001 Teaches at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Milwaukee,
Wisconsin
2000-2002 lebt und arbeitet in Chicago
2000/2001 Lehraufträge University of Chicago und Institute of Art
and Design,
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2002-2004 lebt und arbeitet in Frankfurt
2003/2004 Vertretungsprofessur Fachhochschule Darmstadt Fachbereich
Gestaltung
2006 Gastprofessur Sommerakademie Pentiment der Hochschule für
Angewandte Wissenschaften Hamburg
seit 2004 lebt und arbeitet in Königswinter
Birgitta Weimer