Thorsten Goldberg

Thorsten Goldberg born 26 December 1960 in Dinslaken is a German multimedia artist.

Life

From 1982 to 1991 Thorsten Goldberg studied sculpture at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart in the class of Inge Mahn. In 1991 he won the first prize of the Forum of Young Art for his photographic work, "Class of 97" with exhibition stations at Kunsthalle Kiel, Kunstverein Mannheim, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart and Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden. Along with the screenwriter Wieland Bauder he created the fictional character Thomas Bauer for joint artistic performances. When Thomas Bauer received the scholarship for photography by the Berlin Senate in 1991, he then took part in the art exhibition “Art on a world scale” at the Kunsthalle Kiel in 1993. Since 1995 and in addition to photographs and video works Thorsten Goldberg has been creating site-specific works and public art. He realized numerous projects in public space throughout Germany, in Poland, Norway and Canada and taught at various academies. 2003 - 2008 he was Adjunct Professor for Art in Public Space at the Art Academy Linz/AT and 2007 - 2009 Professor (repress.) for arts and media at the Muthesius Art Academy Kiel/Germany.

As a member of different committees and advisory boards he is involved in the election and organisation of competitions for art in public. Thorsten Goldberg is Initiator and Co-Publisher of „Public Art Wiki“, a Germany-wide internet archive for art in public space in the German-speaking-area (http://www.publicartwiki.org) He is also Co-Publisher of „Kunst in der Großsiedlung (art in the large-housing-area) Marzahn-Hellersdorf“ a printed documentation of more than 460 public works and author of several texts on public art.

Thorsten Goldberg lives in Berlin/Germany.

Selected permanent and temporary works Cities are all in Germany unless otherwise noted.

Year Location Venue Type Exhibition Notes Ref 1985 Stuttgart Kuenstlerhaus Solo media exposure 1989 half the rent 1991 Public space going home, being home, staying home 10 billboards 1992 Württembergischer Kunstverein Solo one weekend 1993 Berlin Wohnmaschine Galerie Friedrich Loock Kirchheim Gallery Noeth Glamor and Misery Kiel Kunsthalle Kiel Public space International sculpture 1994 Berlin Wohnmaschine Galerie Friedrich Loock Solo 1995 Heidenheim Museum of Fine Arts schmutz 1996 Hellersdorf Permanent installation reichweite, griffhoehe Berlin Wohnmaschine Galerie Friedrich Loock Solo remotes Senate of Culture senatorial chair Münster Wewerka Pavillon birdies 1997 Lüdenscheid Central Square Public space big game (hunt) Collaboration with A. Kaufmann and B. Reitermann) Berlin Permanent installation Rock-Paper-Scissors Randomized neon signs as a permanent marking of the former frontier crossing point Wohnmaschine Galerie Friedrich Loock Solo birdies inside 1998 Heidenheim Kunstmuseum Heidenheim Permanent installation Once very much of all Sculpture and planting in Levillain-Park Wiesbaden Bellevuegallery Solo 1999 Gallery Hafemann 2000 Public space Hunger and Thirst, Cola and Sausage Intervention with three singers, sculpture project Potsdam stand-by Potsdam Horizontal gas flame on a chimney of a fallow industrial area 2001 Bergkamen-Heil Temporary sculpture concierge Brick doorpost with integrated plate and entryphone Warsaw, Poland XX1 Gallery Solo 2002 Eberswalde State Hospital Permanent installation curtain mov. Slow moving curtain, kinetic installation finger walks Video installation on 5 large TFT Panels Münster Exhibition Hall Solo detached village Wiesbaden Gallery Hafemann Marseille, France Gallery RLBQ generic profile Berlin Gallery HO HEINZGERDKURTKLAUS 2003 Unter den Linden Public space milk & honey Historical map of the land of milk and honey as a large back light display 2004 Heidenheim Hauptstraße next stop - milk & honey 2005 Wismar Wismar depot Neon writing on a shallow storage building in the old harbour Barcelona, Spain Fundació Joan Miró - Espai 13 Solo things are generally different behind closed doors 2006 Wiesbaden Temporary installation Rivers of wine and beer Neon sculpture Berlin Charité Hospital Public space Inventory Historical busts and bases 2009 Lippstadt Lichtpromenade-Lichtkunst-Skulpturenpfad Cumulus 08.07 Neon-sculpture 2010 Berlin WHITECONCEPTS Solo Constructing clouds Potsdamer Strasse Public space die Potsdamer film production Horsewoman Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture Cumulus Berlin Sculpture Ratingen Museum for History of the City milk & honey 2012 Bergen, Norway 60°N 05°E (encased waterside) Land art and light sculpture Neumünster Herbert-Gerisch Sculpture Park Cumulus 11.08 Sculpture Solo 54°4 min. 2013 Viersen Municipal Gallery 51°15 min. Gdańsk, Poland Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art 54°24 min. Nadmorski Park Public space And honey upon hawthorn grows Sculpture 2014 Radom, Poland Mazovia Region Centre of Contemporary Art “Elektrownia” Radom Cumulus Light sculpture made of 19 layers of curved neon contours 2015 Bonn Kreuzbauten, Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport reflected ministry Interactive video projections 2016 Neuhausen Technisches Hilfswerk 20.000 Morgen 32 silver-plated landscape-models at a scale of 1:50.000 for the new building of a guest house 2017 Orońsko, Poland Center of Polish Sculpture The opera ain’t over till the fat lady sings Sculpture Solo Constructing Clouds 2018 Berlin-Marzahn-Hellersdorf Public space 24 kt A bird's nest, cast of fine gold and a contract serve as a foundation for a new primary school 2020 Edmonton, Canada North East Transit Garage 53°30’N Five topographic models of mountain landscapes

Works in public collections The city of Gdańsk, Poland The Mazovian Centre of Contemporary Art – Elektrownia in Radom, Poland The City of Bergen, Norway The Land of Berlin The German Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) in Bonn The City of Lippstadt The City of Heidenheim The Charité University Clinicum in Berlin The Martin-Gropius-Hospital in Eberswalde The Daimler Art Collection in Berlin The Art-Museum in Heidenheim Herbert-Gerisch Foundation in Neumünster The collection Stefan Haupt in Berlin The City of Edmonton, Canada

Publications 1992 - Hans-Peter Feldmann, Preface, catalogue: Goldberg, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart 1995 - René Hirner, catalogue: schmutz, Goldberg, Bauder, Kunstmuseum Heidenheim 2002 - Christoph Tannert, means against amnesia, catalogue: Thorsten Goldberg, Münster 2002 - Martin Henatsch, moments of fragility, catalogue: Thorsten Goldberg, Münster 2002 - Frédéric Bussmann, rock-paper-scissors in: Kunst in der Stadt, Skulpturen in Berlin, edited by H. Dickel, U. Fleckner, Nicolai Verlag, Berlin 2004 - Montse Badia, on milk and honey, Thorsten Goldberg's Utopia Station, in catalogue: Werk 04, Heidenheim Sculpture Symposium 2007 - Katharina Klara Jung, Milk + Honey +, in catalogue: Show me the way to public sphere, Wiesbaden 2006, ed office for Art and Public, M. Henatsch, Münster and Department of Culture, Wiesbaden, Kerber Verlag 2008 - René Hirner, The receipts 93-08 in: TIEFENRAUSCH, Volume 2 - rapture of the deep, edited by OK Center for Contemporary Art, Upper Austria 2012 - Dr. Martin Henatsch, Eulalia Domanowska, Jadwiga Charzynska, Kristin Danger, Nicole Loeser, catalogue: 54°4MIN., DISTANZ Verlag