Thorsten Goldberg

Thorsten Goldberg born 26 December 1960 in Dinslaken is a German multimedia artist.

Thorsten Goldberg

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.

Year	Location	Venue	Type	Exhibition	Notes	Ref
1985	Stuttgart	Kuenstlerhaus	Solo	media exposure
1989				half the rent
1991			Public space	going home, being home, staying home	10 billboards
1992		Württembergischer Kunstverein	Solo	one weekend
1993	Berlin	Wohnmaschine Galerie Friedrich Loock
	Kirchheim	Gallery Noeth		Glamor and Misery
	Kiel	Kunsthalle Kiel	Public space	International sculpture
1994	Berlin	Wohnmaschine Galerie Friedrich Loock	Solo
1995	Heidenheim	Museum of Fine Arts		schmutz
1996	Hellersdorf		Permanent installation	reichweite, griffhoehe
	Berlin	Wohnmaschine Galerie Friedrich Loock	Solo	remotes
		Senate of Culture		senatorial chair
	Münster	Wewerka Pavillon		birdies
1997	Lüdenscheid	Central Square	Public space	big game (hunt)	Collaboration with A. Kaufmann and B. Reitermann)
	Berlin		Permanent installation	Rock-Paper-Scissors	Randomized neon signs as a permanent marking of the former frontier crossing point
		Wohnmaschine Galerie Friedrich Loock	Solo	birdies inside
1998	Heidenheim	Kunstmuseum Heidenheim	Permanent installation	Once very much of all	Sculpture and planting in Levillain-Park
	Wiesbaden	Bellevuegallery	Solo
1999		Gallery Hafemann
2000			Public space	Hunger and Thirst, Cola and Sausage	Intervention with three singers, sculpture project
	Potsdam			stand-by Potsdam	Horizontal gas flame on a chimney of a fallow industrial area
2001	Bergkamen-Heil		Temporary sculpture	concierge	Brick doorpost with integrated plate and entryphone
	Warsaw, Poland	XX1 Gallery	Solo
2002	Eberswalde	State Hospital	Permanent installation	curtain mov.	Slow moving curtain, kinetic installation
				finger walks	Video installation on 5 large TFT Panels
	Münster	Exhibition Hall	Solo	detached village
	Wiesbaden	Gallery Hafemann
	Marseille, France	Gallery RLBQ		generic profile
	Berlin	Gallery HO		HEINZGERDKURTKLAUS
2003		Unter den Linden	Public space	milk & honey	Historical map of the land of milk and honey as a large back light display
2004	Heidenheim	Hauptstraße		next stop - milk & honey
2005	Wismar			Wismar depot	Neon writing on a shallow storage building in the old harbour
	Barcelona, Spain	Fundació Joan Miró - Espai 13	Solo	things are generally different behind closed doors
2006	Wiesbaden		Temporary installation	Rivers of wine and beer	Neon sculpture
	Berlin	Charité Hospital	Public space	Inventory	Historical busts and bases
2009	Lippstadt	Lichtpromenade-Lichtkunst-Skulpturenpfad		Cumulus 08.07	Neon-sculpture
2010	Berlin	WHITECONCEPTS	Solo	Constructing clouds
		Potsdamer Strasse	Public space	die Potsdamer	film production Horsewoman
		Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture		Cumulus Berlin	Sculpture
	Ratingen	Museum for History of the City		milk & honey
2012	Bergen, Norway			60°N 05°E (encased waterside)	Land art and light sculpture
	Neumünster	Herbert-Gerisch Sculpture Park		Cumulus 11.08	Sculpture
			Solo	54°4 min.
2013	Viersen	Municipal Gallery		51°15 min.
	Gdańsk, Poland	Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art		54°24 min.
		Nadmorski Park	Public space	And honey upon hawthorn grows	Sculpture
2014	Radom, Poland	Mazovia Region Centre of Contemporary Art “Elektrownia”		Radom Cumulus	Light sculpture made of 19 layers of curved neon contours
2015	Bonn	Kreuzbauten, Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport		reflected ministry	Interactive video projections
2016	Neuhausen	Technisches Hilfswerk		20.000 Morgen	32 silver-plated landscape-models at a scale of 1:50.000 for the new building of a guest house
2017	Orońsko, Poland	Center of Polish Sculpture		The opera ain’t over till the fat lady sings	Sculpture
			Solo	Constructing Clouds
2018	Berlin-Marzahn-Hellersdorf		Public space	24 kt	A bird's nest, cast of fine gold and a contract serve as a foundation for a new primary school
2020	Edmonton, Canada	North East Transit Garage		53°30’N	Five 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

External links

• Homepage of Thorsten Goldberg
• Public Art Wiki
• Art in public space
• Walks through Berlin
• Things are generally different behind closed doors - Montse Badia about T.Goldberg
• NY ARTS - Transforming Berlin with Thorsten Goldberg
• A workplace shines, Canadian Architect
• 53°30’N Edmonton Arts Council