Rainer Eisch

Rainer Eisch (born 1967 in Thun, Schwitzerland) is a Swiss and German visual artist. He lives and works in Düsseldorf.

Life Rainer Eisch studied from 1992 to 1999 at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in the class for the "Integration of Fine Arts and Architecture" with Professor Christian Megert. From 2002 to 2004, he completed postgraduate studies at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne. Rainer Eisch lives and works in Düsseldorf.

Work For over 25 years, Rainer Eisch has been making use of the possibilities of 3D computer programs as they are used in science, research and the film industry. Unlike there, the artist does not use the technology to digitally simulate reality. On the contrary, he strives to deliberately obscure the visible. This raises questions about the possibilities and limits of digital media.

A recurring element in the artist's work is the endless loop. In his work Nous serons-nous jamais rencontrés ?, which was shown in Montreal and Cologne, he addresses this artistically.

In his pictures, video works and installations, Eisch explores the perceptive capacity of the human eye and memory processes. He is concerned with the economy of perception, which enables the viewer to couple fragments with previous images of experience.

In 2010, he produced and directed Cloudtank, a short German film that was inspired by a special effect in which artificial clouds are created using liquids.

Exhibitions (selection) 2002: Kunstraum Düsseldorf 2005: Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’Art Contemporain 2007: Fonderie Darling Montreal 2008: Kunstmuseum Solingen 2010: Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven 2010: KAI 10, Arthena Foundation, Düsseldorf 2010: Kunstmuseum Thun 2011: Kunsthaus Langenthal 2011: Lehr Zeitgenössische Kunst, Köln 2012: Kunstverein Duisburg 2014: MMIII Kunstverein Mönchengladbach 2015: Lehr Zeitgenössische Kunst, Berlin 2016: Kunstmuseum Thun 2017: Kunsthaus Interlaken 2018: Museum für Konkrete Kunst, Ingolstadt 2019 Ludwig Forum, Aachen 2022 Kunstraum Satellit, Thun 2023 NRW-Forum, Düsseldorf

Prizes, awards (selection) 1997: Scholarship from the Aeschlimann Corti Foundation 1998: Travel grant from the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf 2006: Work grant from the Canton of Bern and the city of Thun 2006: Residency grant from the Shetland Arts and the City of Düsseldorf 2008: Funding from the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW for the film Cloudtank 2011: Working grant from the Stiftung Kunstfonds

Interview film Film-portrait by Lars Klosterman and Emmanuel Mir

Interview at Deutsche Welle TV Creativity, AI, and art

Selected bibliography

Rainer Eisch | Loop, Salon Verlag & Edition Köln 2024, was du nicht weißt – eine Unterhaltung mit maschinellen neuralen Netzen, ed. Rainer Eisch, wolkenmaschine 2024, Dark Star, Hrsg. MMIII Kunstverein Mönchengladbach 2015, Textː Christian Krausch flimmernd flackern lichte Schatten, 2013, ed. Lehr Zeitgenössischer Kunst, Köln, Text: Dirk Lehr 01, Report Verlag – Künstler verlegen Künstler 1998, Textː Michael Krajewski,

Honorary positions From 2013 to 2022, Eisch was an honorary member of expert committees of the German Cultural Council Berlin; 2016 to 2018 spokesman of the board of Deutscher Künstlerbund; 2016 to 2023 honorary board member of Bonn; 2016 to 2022 Jury member, Cultural Foundation of the Verwertungsgesellschaft Bild-Kunst Bonn (2020–22 Chairman).