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.

YearLocationVenueTypeExhibitionNotesRef
1985StuttgartKuenstlerhausSolomedia exposure
1989half the rent
1991Public spacegoing home, being home, staying home10 billboards
1992Württembergischer KunstvereinSoloone weekend
1993BerlinWohnmaschine Galerie Friedrich Loock
KirchheimGallery NoethGlamor and Misery
KielKunsthalle KielPublic spaceInternational sculpture
1994BerlinWohnmaschine Galerie Friedrich LoockSolo
1995HeidenheimMuseum of Fine Artsschmutz
1996HellersdorfPermanent installationreichweite, griffhoehe
BerlinWohnmaschine Galerie Friedrich LoockSoloremotes
Senate of Culturesenatorial chair
MünsterWewerka Pavillonbirdies
1997LüdenscheidCentral SquarePublic spacebig game (hunt)Collaboration with A. Kaufmann and B. Reitermann)
BerlinPermanent installationRock-Paper-ScissorsRandomized neon signs as a permanent marking of the former frontier crossing point
Wohnmaschine Galerie Friedrich LoockSolobirdies inside
1998HeidenheimKunstmuseum HeidenheimPermanent installationOnce very much of allSculpture and planting in Levillain-Park
WiesbadenBellevuegallerySolo
1999Gallery Hafemann
2000Public spaceHunger and Thirst, Cola and SausageIntervention with three singers, sculpture project
Potsdamstand-by PotsdamHorizontal gas flame on a chimney of a fallow industrial area
2001Bergkamen-HeilTemporary sculptureconciergeBrick doorpost with integrated plate and entryphone
Warsaw, PolandXX1 GallerySolo
2002EberswaldeState HospitalPermanent installationcurtain mov.Slow moving curtain, kinetic installation
finger walksVideo installation on 5 large TFT Panels
MünsterExhibition HallSolodetached village
WiesbadenGallery Hafemann
Marseille, FranceGallery RLBQgeneric profile
BerlinGallery HOHEINZGERDKURTKLAUS
2003Unter den LindenPublic spacemilk & honeyHistorical map of the land of milk and honey as a large back light display
2004HeidenheimHauptstraßenext stop - milk & honey
2005WismarWismar depotNeon writing on a shallow storage building in the old harbour
Barcelona, SpainFundació Joan Miró - Espai 13Solothings are generally different behind closed doors
2006WiesbadenTemporary installationRivers of wine and beerNeon sculpture
BerlinCharité HospitalPublic spaceInventoryHistorical busts and bases
2009LippstadtLichtpromenade-Lichtkunst-SkulpturenpfadCumulus 08.07Neon-sculpture
2010BerlinWHITECONCEPTSSoloConstructing clouds
Potsdamer StrassePublic spacedie Potsdamerfilm production Horsewoman
Federal Ministry of Food and AgricultureCumulus BerlinSculpture
RatingenMuseum for History of the Citymilk & honey
2012Bergen, Norway60°N 05°E (encased waterside)Land art and light sculpture
NeumünsterHerbert-Gerisch Sculpture ParkCumulus 11.08Sculpture
Solo54°4 min.
2013ViersenMunicipal Gallery51°15 min.
Gdańsk, PolandLaznia Centre for Contemporary Art54°24 min.
Nadmorski ParkPublic spaceAnd honey upon hawthorn growsSculpture
2014Radom, PolandMazovia Region Centre of Contemporary Art “Elektrownia”Radom CumulusLight sculpture made of 19 layers of curved neon contours
2015BonnKreuzbauten, Federal Ministry for Digital and Transportreflected ministryInteractive video projections
2016NeuhausenTechnisches Hilfswerk20.000 Morgen32 silver-plated landscape-models at a scale of 1:50.000 for the new building of a guest house
2017Orońsko, PolandCenter of Polish SculptureThe opera ain’t over till the fat lady singsSculpture
SoloConstructing Clouds
2018Berlin-Marzahn-HellersdorfPublic space24 ktA bird's nest, cast of fine gold and a contract serve as a foundation for a new primary school
2020Edmonton, CanadaNorth East Transit Garage53°30’NFive 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 ISBN 3-935730-05-5
  • 2002 - Martin Henatsch, moments of fragility, catalogue: Thorsten Goldberg, Münster ISBN 3-935730-05-5
  • 2002 - Frédéric Bussmann, rock-paper-scissors in: Kunst in der Stadt, Skulpturen in Berlin, edited by H. Dickel, U. Fleckner, Nicolai Verlag, Berlin ISBN 3-87584-399-1
  • 2004 - Montse Badia, on milk and honey, Thorsten Goldberg's Utopia Station, in catalogue: Werk 04, Heidenheim Sculpture Symposium ISBN 3-929935-23-6
  • 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 ISBN 978-3-85256-462-3
  • 2012 - Dr. Martin Henatsch, Eulalia Domanowska, Jadwiga Charzynska, Kristin Danger, Nicole Loeser, catalogue: 54°4MIN., DISTANZ Verlag ISBN 978-3-942405-78-2
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