Thorsten Goldberg

Thorsten Goldberg (*born December 26, 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 and taught at various colleges and art schools. 2003 - 2008 he was Adjunct Professor for Art in Public Space at the Art Academy Linz/AT and 2007 - 2009 Professor (repres.) for arts and media at the Muthesius Art Academy Kiel/Germany.

As the spokesman of the board of artists of the Office for Art in Public Space of the Kulturwerk of the bbk Berlin and 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, an Imagined Library“, the 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.

Realized permanent and temporary works in public space

2011 60°22’52.26”N, 05°20’01.71”E (waterside encased) - light sculpture in Bergen/Norway (in preparation)
2011 reflected ministry, interactive video projections at the Kreuzbauten, Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development, Bonn/DE (in preparation)
2010 milk&honey / Blickwechsel, Museum for History of the City, Ratingen/DE
2010 Cumulus Berlin, sculpture for the Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection, Berlin/DE
2010 die Potsdamer (film production "Horsewoman" on Potsdamer Strasse), Berlin/DE
2009 Cumulus 08.07, neon sculpture for „Lichtpromenade“-Lichtkunst-Skulpturenpfad, Lippstadt/DE
2006 Inventory of the historical busts and bases, Charité Hospital Berlin/DE
2006 Rivers of wine and beer, neon prophecy, installation, Wiesbaden/DE
2005 Wismar depot, neon writing on a shallow storage building in the old harbour of Wismar/DE
2004 next stop - milk & honey, Hauptstrasse Heidenheim/DE
2003 milk & honey, historical map of the land of milk and honey as a large back light display, Unter den Linden, Berlin/DE
2002 finger walks, permanent video installation on 5 large TFT Panels, State Hospital, Eberswalde/DE
2002 curtain mov., permanent slow moving curtain, kinetic installation, State Hospital, Eberswalde/DE
2001 concierge, brick doorpost with integrated plate and entryphone, Bergkamen-Heil/DE
2000 stand-by Potsdam, permanent gas flame, chimney of a fallow industrial area, Potsdam/DE
2000 Hunger and Thirst, Cola and Sausage, intervention with three singers, sculpture project, Wiesbaden/DE
1998 Once very much of all, planting, Levillain-Park, Museum Heidenheim/DE
1997 Rock-Paper-Scissors, randomized neon signs as a permanent marking of the former frontier crossing point, Oberbaumbridge, Berlin/DE
1997 big game (hunt), (colab. A. Kaufmann, R. Reitermann), Central Square Luedenscheid/DE
1996 reichweite, griffhoehe, permanent neon installation, Berlin-Hellersdorf/DE
1993 International sculpture (T.B.), Kunsthalle Kiel/DE
1991 going home, being home, staying home, (T.B.), 10 billboards, Stuttgart/DE

Selected solo exhibitions

2011 Salon Akademii, Warsaw/PL
2010 Constructing clouds, WHITECONCEPTS, Berlin/DE
2005 things are generally different behind closed doors, Espai 13, Fundació Miró, Barcelona/ES
2002 “HEINZGERDKURTKLAUS“ Gallery HO, Berlin/DE
2002 generic profile, Gallery RLBQ, Marseille/F
2002 Gallery Hafemann, Wiesbaden/DE
2002 detached village, City Exhibition Hall, Muenster/DE
2001 XX1 Gallery, Warsaw/PL
1999 Gallery Hafemann, Wiesbaden/DE
1998 Bellevuegallery, Wiesbaden/DE
1997 birdies inside, Gallery Wohnmaschine, Berlin/DE
1996 senatorial chair, Senate of Culture, Berlin/DE
1996 birdies, Wewerka Pavillon, Muenster/DE
1996 remotes, Gallery Wohnmaschine, Berlin/DE
1995 schmutz, Museum of Fine Arts Heidenheim/DE
1994 Gallery Wohnmaschine, Berlin/DE
1993 Glamor and Misery, Gallery Noeth, Kirchheim/DE
1993 Thorsten Goldberg - Gallery Wohnmaschine, Berlin
1992 one weekend, Württemberg Kunstverein Stuttgart/DE
1989 half the rent, Stuttgart/DE
1985 media exposure, Kuenstlerhaus Stuttgart/DE

Works in public collections

The Land of Berlin
The Federal German Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development
The City of Lippstadt
The City of Heidenheim
The Charité University Clinicum Berlin
The Martin-Gropius-Hospital Eberswalde
Daimler Art Collection
Kunstmuseum Heidenheim

Publications

Hans-Peter Feldmann, Preface, catalogue: Goldberg, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, 1992
René Hirner, catalogue: "schmutz", Goldberg, Bauder, Kunstmuseum Heidenheim, 1995
Christoph Tannert, "means against amnesia", catalogue: Thorsten Goldberg, Münster 2002, ISBN 3-935730-05-5
Martin Henatsch, "moments of fragility", catalogue: Thorsten Goldberg, Münster 2002, ISBN 3-935730-05-5
Frédéric Bussmann, "rock-paper-scissors" in: "Kunst in der Stadt, Skulpturen in Berlin", edited by H. Dickel, U. Fleckner, Nicolai Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-87584-399-1
Montse Badia, "on milk and honey, Thorsten Goldberg's Utopia Station" in catalogue: "Werk 04", Heidenheim Sculpture Symposium 2004, ISBN 3-929935-23-6
Katharina Klara Jung, "Milk + Honey +", in catalog: "show me the way to public sphere", Wiesbaden 2006, ed office for Art and Public, M. Henatsch, Münster and Department of Culture, Wiesbaden, published by Kerber Verlag 2007, ISBN 978-3-938025 - 52-9
René Hirner, "The receipts 93-08" in: "TIEFENRAUSCH, Volume 2 - rapture of the deep", edited by OK Center for Contemporary Art, Upper Austria 2008, ISBN 978-3-85256-462-3

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