Paul WESENBERG
Presentation
Paul Wesenberg is a german artist, born in 1973. He lives and works in Berlin, Germany.
Paul Wesenberg makes his own work by tearing, breaking and upsetting the codes of the smooth canvas. This "irritated" canvas is no longer the result of a brush making flat areas, but rather the superimposition of materials, of dry skins that surround the tubes of oil paint. He recovers and manipulates the entire artistic process. Wesenberg considers the importance he attaches to the material as a true identity and artistic affirmation. These paint crusts trace lines on his canvases and offer the possibility of seeing landscape forms. The artist even titles his works with names of German landscapes, thus demonstrating his attraction to nature and his environment.
Biography
Lives and works in Berlin, Germany.
Education
2005-2016 Decorative art and grafic brand architecture for MJM, Samsung, Hugo Boss, SuperTEL, P&G etc. in Kiel (Germany), Malmö, Stockholm (Sweden) and Helsinki (Finland)
2005 Muthesius University of Art, Kiel, Germany
Selected solo exhibitions
2023
Kunstverein Speyer (upcoming)
2022
Ground Language, Galerie RX
Städtische Galerie Schwabach
Galerie Künstlerhaus Göttingen
Kunstverein Ottobrunn
Kunstverein Unna
2021
Exotic Homeland, Galerie RX, Paris, FR
Kunstverein Flensburg, DE
Sommerreise, SLAG Gallery, New York, USA
2020
depot.K, Freiburg, Germany
Paul Wesenberg, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
2019
Referenzrahmen, Künstlerhaus Sootbörn, Hamburg, Germany Wunderbilder, Kunstverein Eisenturm Mainz, Germany
Nirgendwo dazwischen, Hohenloher Kunstverein, Langenburg, Germany Museo di Arte Sacra Contemporanea, Sesto al Reghena, IT
Selected group exhibitions
2021
Proximity and Distance, Kunstraum LLC, New York, USA
Sublime Encounters and Other Worlds, Residency Unlimited, New York, USA
Annual group exhibition, Galerie Ulf Larsson, Cologne, Germany 2020 0+255, Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin, Germany (upcoming)
PR 17 | Groupshow Berlin Art Week 2020
2019
Galerie Nachtspeicher23, Hamburg, Germany
Galerie Alte Schule Adlershof, Berlin, Germany
2018
Preview 2019, Galerie Nachtspeicher23, Hamburg, Germany
2003
Kunst. Spiel. Sport, Landeskulturzentrum Schloß Salzau, Germany 2002 Extrem, Brunswiker Pavillion, Kiel, Germany
2001
Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg, Germany
1999
Kollektion II, Galerie im Atrium, Hamburg, Germany Null(Stelle), Projektgalerie Lygnaß, Herne
1998
Reflexion, Brunswiker Pavillion, Kiel, Germany Künstlerhaus-Galerie, Karlsruhe, Germany
Kunstverein Neckar-Odenwald, Mosbach, Germany
1997
44. Landesschau, Nordfriesisches Museum, Husum, Germany
1996
Moderne Grafik, Gewerbemuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland Moderne Grafik, Kunstihoone Galerii, Tallinn, Estonia
Awards and Scholarships
2021
Residency Unlimited, New York, USA
LLC Residency, New York, USA
2019
Art Aia Residency, Pordenone, Italy
2003
Art Award "Kunst. Spiel. Sport", Landeskulturzentrum Schloß Salzau, Germany 1995 DAAD-Preis
Catalogues and Publications
2021
Dissonance, Neue Deutsche Malerei, Publication expected in September 2021 at Thames & Hudson, London, UK
2019
Referenzrahmen, Katalog, ISBN 978-3-00-062261-8
Zauber der Zerstörung, Allgemeine Zeitung, 18.02.2019
Seine Bilder werden zu sinnlichen Ereigniszonen, Fränkische Nachrichten, 19.03.2019
Die Natur erobert das Bild, Südwest Presse, 28.03.2019
Miracle Pictures - Paul Wesenberg, www.artrabbit.com
Miracle Pictures - Paul Wesenberg, www.arte.go.it
Paul Wesenberg, www.instart.info