Clemens von Wedemeyer
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Clemens von Wedemeyer born (1974 Göttingen, Germany) is a German video artist
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He studied Fine Arts at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig, where he studied with Astrid Klein.
In 2004 von Wedemeyer produced, together with Maya Schweizer, a documentary movie: Metropolis, Report from China which was finished in 2006.
In 2008, he was a resident at the University of California, Santa Barbara
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He lives and works in Berlin
and Leipzig, Germany.
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
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He studied Fine Arts at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig, where he studied with Astrid Klein.
In 2004 von Wedemeyer produced, together with Maya Schweizer, a documentary movie: Metropolis, Report from China which was finished in 2006.
In 2008, he was a resident at the University of California, Santa Barbara
University of California, Santa Barbara
The University of California, Santa Barbara, commonly known as UCSB or UC Santa Barbara, is a public research university and one of the 10 general campuses of the University of California system. The main campus is located on a site in Goleta, California, from Santa Barbara and northwest of Los...
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He lives and works in Berlin
Berlin
Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
and Leipzig, Germany.
Awards
- 2002 VG Bildkunst Award for Experimental Film and Video–art, Munich Film Festival, Germany
- 2002 Marion Ermer Prize, Leipzig
- 2005 Kunstpreis der Böttcherstrasse in Bremen, Germany
- 2008 Villa Romana prizeVilla Romana prizeThe Villa Romana Prize, which has been awarded since 1905, is the oldest German art prize.The Villa Romana was acquired in 1905 by Max Klinger for 60,000 gold liras....
Exhibitions
- Münster Skulpturen Festival
- Moscow Biennale,
- 2011: Metropolis, Report from China, Frankfurter KunstvereinFrankfurter KunstvereinThe Frankfurt Art Association is an art museum founded in 1829 by a group of influential citizen of the city of Frankfurt, Germany. The aim of the institution is to support the arts in the city, which was an important center of trade and business...
, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
External links
- An Interview with Clemens von Wedemeyer by Bert Rebhandl
- "Clemens von Wedemeyer", Art in America, 4/26/10, Koch Oberhuber Wolff, Sabine Russ
- "Clemens von Wedemeyer", frieze, June–August 2006
- Exhibition in 2011