Michael Sailstorfer, Gabriel Vormstein, Sebastian Hammwöhner, Matthias Bitzer

MICHAEL SAILSTORFER

 

 

Within the Artist-in-Residence Program, CCA is delighted to host Michael Salistorfer, who is staying in Studio XX during May 2019. 

He was born i 1979 in Vils, and today he lives and works in Berlin.


Michael Sailstorfer has a MA Fine Arts from Goldsmiths College, London, and he also studied at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, München.


He primarily works with sculptures and installations, as well as painting, performance, photography and film. His conceptual-adjacent aesthetics revolves around a notion of sculptural expansion, which refers to the ability of his art to transcend its own format by deploying into the surrounding space.


Ranging in scale from nearly imperceptible interventions to highly elaborate productions, his minimalistic and often absurd visions poetically disrupt the everyday. Whether car tires, wrecking balls, popcorn machines or simple trees, familiar objects are systematically diverted from their original functions and frames of references into alternative contexts of meaning.

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Matthias Bitzer (Left), Michael Sailstorfer (Right)

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS


2019  Space is the Place – BNKR Art Center, Munich, Germany


2019  Tear Show – Perrotin Gallery, New York, USA


2019  I will be dead – König London, London, United Kingdom

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS


2020  Wände / Walls – Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Germany


2019 Fly me to the moon. 50 Jahre Mondlandung – Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland


2018  Kunst und Kohle, Hommage an Jannis Kounellis – MKM Museum Küppersmühle für Moderne Kunst, Duisburg, Germany


2018 Rehearsal Exhibition – Tai Kwun Foundation, Hong Kong,