Wulf Winckelmann
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WORKS
Wulf Winchelmann | Ufer #1186 | 2015 | Mixed Media auf Leinwand | 50 x 40 cm
Wulf Wickelmann | Lichtung #1155 | 2015 | Mixed Media auf Leinwand | 50 x 40 cm
Wulf Wickelmann | Westlich von Achil Island #1253 | 2019 | Mixed Media auf Leinwand | 60 x 100 cm
Wulf Wickelmann | View over Erik Erikssen stratet to Nordaustlandet | 2016 | Mixed Media auf Leinwand | 60 x 100 cm
Wulf Wickelmann | Livello dell’ Acqua #1233, #1256, #1234 | 2019 | Mixed Media auf Leinwand | 70×18
Wulf Wickelmann | Livello dell’Acqua #1231, #1232, #1257 | 2019 | Mixed Media auf Leinwand | 70 x 18 cm
Wulf Wickelmann | Frühling II #1224 | 2018 | Mixed Media auf Leinwand | 70 x 60 cm
Wulf Wickelmann | Tristan da Cunha #1058 | 2013 | Mixed Media auf Leinwand | 130 x 180 cm
Wulf Wickelmann | Isla Negra (In memoriam Pablo Neruda #1073 | 2014 | Mixed Media auf Leinwand | 130 x 180 cm
Wulf Wickelmann | Villaine #1206 | 2017 | Mixed Media auf Leinwand | 200 x 170 cm
ARTIST
Wulf Winckelmann
Wide sky above low drawn horizon seems endless. Huge cloud masses in the firmament. The sea, the meadows, fields and waters are left only a narrow strip at the bottom of the broad image.
The contrast between the lavish scenario of the sky and the landscape below, perceivable as if through a veil, is the basic tension of these horizontally oriented picture formats. Not only compositionally, however, the horizon becomes, as it were, the tipping point. For Winckelmann, it refers even more to something that is behind the visible.
His large-format pictures, painted impasto with acrylic paint, pigments, and inks using a palette knife and brush, open up from the constant search for and question of “whether something and what can be perceived beyond the visible”.
The horizon becomes, as it were, a demarcation line on which the painter’s hand gropes for orientation and certainty. Wulf Winckelmann interprets and understands the horizon not as a separation, as a limitation, but as an invitation and a summons. When he paints a landscape, he does so in order to condense and intensify the effect of what he has seen in the process of remembering. In this moment of remembering, coupled with a different way of dealing with time, Winckelmann sees the essential difference between painting and photography, which condition each other and emerge from each other in his oeuvre as a whole.
BIOGRAPHY
1967
Born in Freiburg im Breisgau
1989 – 93
Studied communication design at the FH Mainz. Main focus: free graphics, photography and book design
since 1991
Freelance communication designer
1993
graduation as diploma designer
since 1993
Freelance work in the field of communication design, book design, painting and photography. Several book and stage design projects
since 1996
Focus on painting
1998-2003
Studio scholarship at the Kunsthaus Wiesbaden
2005
Founding member of the “Künstlerverein Walkmühle e.V.” (Artists’ Association Walkmühle)
2005 – 2012
Art-on-building projects in Germany, Hong Kong, Liechtenstein and Russia
2015
Brita Art Award
ARTIST’S STUDIO
EXHIBITIONS
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020s
2021
Kulturhaus Marne, Deutschland
Kunstverein Bellevusaal, Wiesbaden, Deutschland
2020
»Christiane Erdmann und Wulf Winckelmann«. Joint exhibition with Christiane Erdmann. Galerie Bode, Nürnberg, Germany
»Glück« | »Happiness«. Group exhibition at Atelierhaus Darmstadt and Kunsthalle Wiesbaden, Germany.
2010s
2019
»Strukturen«, Joint exhibition with Martin Joppen at Galerie Barbara von Stechow, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Art & Antik Masterpiece Art Fair, Muenster, Germany (with Galerie Bengelsträter)
2018
»Wölfe im Wald«, Galerie Bengelsträter, Düsseldorf, Germany
»Discovery Art Fair«, Frankfurt, Germany (with Galerie Bengelsträter)
»Summmertime«, Group exhibition at Galerie Michael W. Schmalfuss, Marburg, Germany
»New Work«, Galerie Bengelsträter, Iserlohn, Germany
2017
»New Work«, Galerie Kerstner, Kronberg, Germany
2016
»New Work«, Galerie Salon Clemensstrasse 9, Munich, Germany
»New Work«, Galerie Michael W. Schmalfuss, Marburg, Germany
2015
»Into the Green«, Galerie Kerstner, Kronberg, Germany
»Von Landschaften und Tieren«, Schaalsee-Galerie, Dargow, Germany
»Farbobjekte und Malerei«, Schmalfuss contemporary fine arts, Berlin., Germany
2014
»Turn of Tide«, Galerie Cerny + Partner, Wiesbaden, Germany
»Windstille | Calm«, Xinovrisi, Greece
»Neue Arbeiten«, Galerie Hovestadt, Nottuln, Germany
»4×4 Wasserlandschaften«, Galerie Kerstner, Kronberg i. Ts., Germany
2013
»Badefreuden«, Galerie Kerstner, Kronberg i. Ts., Germany
»Landschaften«, Galerie Michael W. Schmalfuss, Marburg, Germany
2012
»The Touch of Nature«, Kwai Fung Hin Art Gallery, Hong Kong, China
»Projekt Q | Land«, Galerie Kerstner, Kronberg, Germany
»Nah und fern«, Galerie Cerny + Partner, Wiesbaden, Germany
»Menschen Tiere, weite Welten«, Galerie Schmalfuss contemporary fine art, Berlin, Germany
2011
Salon Clemensstrasse 9, Munich, Germany
»Kultour«, Rathaus Heiligenhafen, Germany
»Neue Landschaften«, UBS AG, Wiesbaden, Germany
2010
»Incontro«, Galerie Cerny + Partner, Wiesbaden, Germany
»Oxygen«, Galerie Lumas, Berlin, Germany
»Oxygen«, Galerie Lumas, Zurich, Switzerland
Galleria Le 5Venice, Venice, Italy
»Kopflandschaften«, Museum im Wehener Schloss, Taunusstein, Germany
2000s
2009
UBS AG,Wiesbaden, Germany
Kwai Fung Hin Art Gallery, Hong Kong, China
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Innere Medizin/Internistenkongress, Wiesbaden, Germany
2008
UBS AG, Wiesbaden, Germany
Gallery by the Harbour/Kwai Fung Hin Art Gallery, Hong Kong, China
2007
Galerie Global Art Source, Küsnacht/Zurich, Switzerland
Künstlerverein Walkmühle, Wiesbaden, Germany
Gallery Holly Snapp, Venice, Italy
2006
Gallery Holly Snapp, Venice, Italy
Galerie CP, Wiesbaden, Germany
Galerie Lindern, Lindern, Germany
2005
Kwai Fung Hin Art Gallery, Hong Kong, China
Galerie Needien, Neede, The Netherlands
Regionalgalerie Südhessen, Darmstadt, Germany
2004
Gallery Holly Snapp, Venice, Italy
Inselgalerie Rettbergsaue, Wiesbaden, Germany
2003
Galerie Leonardis, Oberursel, Germany
2002
Stiftung für Konkrete Kunst, Freiburg, Germany
Museum im Wehener Schloss, Taunusstein, Germany
2001
Airport Club, Frankfurt am Main Airport, Germany
Galerie Leonardis, Oberursel, Germany
Kwai Fung Hin Art Gallery, Hong Kong, China
Rolf Benz AG, Nagold bei Stuttgart, Germany
2000
Galerie Artlantis, Bad Homburg, Germany
Kaus & Meyer, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
1990s
1999
Backyard Gallery, Wiesbaden, Germany
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018
»Discovery Art Fair«, Frankfurt, Germany (with Galerie Bengelsträter)
»Summmertime«, Group exhibition at Galerie Michael W. Schmalfuss, Marburg, Germany
2017
»Naturliebe«, Künstlerverein Walkmühle, Wiesbaden, Germany
»16 Jahre Galerie Schmalfuss Marburg«, Galerie Michael W. Schmalfuss, Marburg, Germany
2015
»20 Jahre Kunst im Wehener Schloß«, Museum im Wehener Schloß, Taunusstein, Germany
»Endlich und unendlich«, Kunsthalle Wiesbaden., Germany
»Seestücke«, Weingut Baron Knyphausen/Galerie Cerny+Partner, Eltville-Erbach, Germany
2014
»Die Kunst zu Schenken«, Künstlerverein Walkmühle, Wiesbaden, Germany
2012
»Space between us«, Museum of Architecture, Wroclaw, Poland
»Schwarz-Weiss«, Galerie Cerny + Partner, Wiesbaden, Germany
Art Karlsruhe (Galerie Cerny + Partner), Germany
2011
»Rückblick 2011«, Galerie Barbara von Stechow, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
»Wagnis Fotografie«, Wiesbadener Fototage, Galerie Cerny + Partner, Wiesbaden, Germany
»New Talents«, Galerie Barbara von Stechow, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Art & Antique, Wiesbaden (Galerie Cerny + Partner), Germany
Art Karlsruhe (Galerie Cerny + Partner), Germany
2010
»Die Kunst der Natur ist die Natur der Kunst«, Künstlerverein Walkmühle, Wiesbaden, Germany
»Art Fair Wiesbaden«, Wiesbaden (Galerie Cerny + Partner), Germany
2009
Wiesbadener Fototage, Galerie CP, Wiesbaden, Germany
2005
Nord-Art Kunstmesse, Büdelsdorf bei Kiel, Germany
2004
Nord-Art Kunstmesse, Büdelsdorf bei Kiel, Germany
2003
Museum im Wehener Schloss, Taunusstein, Germany
1998
Frankfurt Book Fair, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
COLLECTIONS
Works by Wulf Winckelmann are in private collections in Brazil, China, France, Germany, Greece, Great Britain, Italy, Liechtenstein, the Philippines, the Russian Federation, Switzerland, Singapore, Spain, and the U.S.A.
Allied Irish Bank
Bankhaus Julius Baer
Bank Sarasin
China Gain Investments Ltd
Credit Suisse China Office
Credit Suisse Private Banking
Cybercentre, Hong Kong
Frankfurter Volksbank
Hong Kong University
Inn-Side Premium Hotels, Frankfurt am Main
Jones Day, Hong Kong
Nan Fung Development Ltd., Hong Kong
Nassauische Sparkasse
Ritz Carlton Hotel, Moscow
Sheraton Hotel, Hong Kong
UBS Art Collection
Università degli Studi di Trento, Italy