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STREAMING ROOM

Porto 2005 - Heilbronn 2023, room in room, fiberboard on wooden construction, 2 doors, 1 lamp, 1 table, 2 chairs, 2 computers, 3 monitors, 1 TV, various lightning, black carpet (inside: 255 x 300 x 300 cm, outside: 262 x 315 x 315 cm (HxWxD))

KUNSTLANDSCHAFT

Tagebau Garzweiler 2022

TERRA NOVA

Elsdorf 2022

WOHNUNG A (Wohnzimmer)

Rheydt 2017, rooms within a room, blockboards and plywoods on a wooden construction, 16 doors, 6 windows, 10 lamps, 10 radiators, 2 showers, 2 toilets, 2 sinks, inventory, grey and white floor tiles, brown and grey carpet, white and beige walls and wallpapers, not visible live action, detached (outside: 272 x 1047 x 956 cm (HxWxD)), N. SCHMIDT, Pferdegasse 19, 48143 Münster, Skulptur Projekte Münster 2017, LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur, Münster, Germany 10.06.2017 - 01.10.2017

WOHNUNG A (Badezimmer)

Rheydt 2017, rooms within a room, blockboards and plywoods on a wooden construction, 16 doors, 6 windows, 10 lamps, 10 radiators, 2 showers, 2 toilets, 2 sinks, inventory, grey and white floor tiles, brown and grey carpet, white and beige walls and wallpapers, not visible live action, detached (outside: 272 x 1047 x 956 cm (HxWxD)), N. SCHMIDT, Pferdegasse 19, 48143 Münster, Skulptur Projekte Münster 2017, LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur, Münster, Germany 10.06.2017 - 01.10.2017

WOHNUNG A (Schlafzimmer)

Rheydt 2017, rooms within a room, blockboards and plywoods on a wooden construction, 16 doors, 6 windows, 10 lamps, 10 radiators, 2 showers, 2 toilets, 2 sinks, inventory, grey and white floor tiles, brown and grey carpet, white and beige walls and wallpapers, not visible live action, detached (outside: 272 x 1047 x 956 cm (HxWxD)), N. SCHMIDT, Pferdegasse 19, 48143 Münster, Skulptur Projekte Münster 2017, LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur, Münster, Germany 10.06.2017 - 01.10.2017

INVISIBLE CITY

Athens 2017, hand painted water colour on mesh fabric hanging above the ground, mesh fabric, metal construction towers, metal ropes, water tanks and weights (4600qm, H max = 1000 cm), Omonia Square, Athens, Greece 08.05.2017 - 21.05.2017

INVISIBLE CITY

Athens 2017, hand painted water colour on mesh fabric hanging above the ground, mesh fabric, metal construction towers, metal ropes, water tanks and weights (4600qm, H max = 1000 cm), Omonia Square, Athens, Greece 08.05.2017 - 21.05.2017

INVISIBLE CITY

Athens 2017, hand painted water colour on mesh fabric hanging above the ground, mesh fabric, metal construction towers, metal ropes, water tanks and weights (4600qm, H max = 1000 cm), Omonia Square, Athens, Greece 08.05.2017 - 21.05.2017

KLETTERGERÜST

Ciudad de México 2017, metal, paint (300 x 300 x 300 cm (LxWxH)), KINDERGARTEN, Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, Ciudad de México, Mexico 11.02.2017 - 23.07.2017

SUPPE AUSLÖFFELN

life action, Odenkirchener Str. 202, Rheydt, Germany 2014

SCHLAFEN

life action, Odenkirchener Str. 202, Rheydt, Germany 2014

ENTKERNTES GEBURTSHAUS 2014

Odenkirchener Str. 202, Rheydt, Germany 2014

ENTKERNTES GEBURTSHAUS 2014

Odenkirchener Str. 202, Rheydt, Germany 2014

ARCHIV 2014

Bochum 2014, room within a room, plasterboards on a construction made of steel, 3 lamps, 2 doors, 1 radiator, 1 security camera, diverse cupboards, 1 work table, 1 chair, 1 computer, gray linoleum, white ceiling panels, white walls, detached (inside: 450 x 515 x 240 cm, outside: 480 x 545 x 270 cm (L x W x H), S 10 cm), KUNSTMUSEUM, Kunstmuseum Bochum, Bochum, Germany 29.08.2014 - 12.10.2014

BÜRO 2014

Bochum 2014, room within a room, plasterboards on a construction made of steel, 2 lamps, 2 doors, 1 radiator, 2 cupboards, 1 work table, 1 swivel chair, 1 computer, gray carpet, white ceiling panels, white wallpaper, detached (inside: 300 x 300 x 240 cm, outside: 330 x 330 x 270 cm (L x W x H), S 10 cm), KUNSTMUSEUM, Kunstmuseum Bochum, Bochum, Germany 29.08.2014 - 12.10.2014

GERMAN ANGST

Yokohama 2014, masoned room within a room with concrete floor and mud tank, plasterboard on ceiling, 1 door, 2 lamps, 2 ventilation grids, 1 locker, mud, stone, cement, gypsum, paint, varnish, fat, silicone, sperm, coffee (1.122x587x224cm (LxWxH) S. 19cm), YOKOHAMA TRIENNALE 2014, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan 01.08.2014 - 03.11.2014

HAUPTSTRASSE 85a

Stommeln 2014, wall before wall, chipboards on a wooden construction, 1 door, 4 windows, 4 window sills, 1 garage door, 1 letter box, 1 lamp, 1 house number, 1 bell button, yellow and white stucco on the walls, anthracite-colored pedestal (925 x 730 x 695 cm (W x H x D) S. 14,5cm), Synagoge Stommeln, Pulheim, Germany 03.07.2014 - 18.03.2015

BAD 2014

Köln 2014, room within a room, fiberboards on a wooden construction, 1 lamp, 2 doors, 1 shower cabin, 1 mirror, gray tiles on a ground, ceiling white, walls white and off-white, detached (inside: 314 x 250 x 212 cm, outside: 330,6 x 266,4 x 220 cm (L x W x H)), NEUERBURGSTRAße 21, Schauspiel Köln, Köln, Germany 19.06.2014 - 06.07.2014 & 23.08.2014 - 07.09.2014

House of Neu-Garzweiler, built to replace house dying villages at the Garzweiler brown coal mining site, Neu-Garzweiler 2013

STERBERAUM

Rheydt 2005 - 2007, room within a room, blockboards on a wooden construction, 2 doors, 2 window systems, 5 lamps, parquet floor, white walls and ceiling, detached (inside: 769,5 x 544 x 275 cm (L x W x H), S 11,6 - 43 cm), Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria 19.11.2011 - 28.01.2012

DEAD END

Madrid 2011, plastic, metal, wood (10.000x160cm (LxD)), PUNTO MUERTO, Centro de Arte 2 de Mayo, Madrid, Spain 28.10.2011-26.02.2012

DEAD END

Madrid 2011, plastic, metal, wood (10.000x160cm (LxD)), PUNTO MUERTO, Centro de Arte 2 de Mayo, Madrid, Spain 28.10.2011-26.02.2012

KINDERZIMMER (No. 2)

Rheydt 2008, room within a room, chipboards on a construction made of wood, 1 door, 1 mirror, 1 lamp, beige PVC on a ground and at one wall, 3 walls white, pink ceiling (inside: 609x330x230cm, outside: 657x353x251cm (LxWxH)), PUNTO MUERTO, Centro de Arte 2 de Mayo, Madrid, Spain 28.10.2011-26.02.2012

KOLKATA GODDESSES

Kolkata 2011, bamboo, straw, Hooghly River sludge, leftovers of fabric and paint, largest figure: 160 x 70 x 250 cm (L x W x H), Schneider's storage space, Rheydt, Germany 2012

KOLKATA GODDESSES

Kolkata 2011, bamboo, straw, Hooghly River sludge, leftovers of fabric and paint, largest figure: 160 x 70 x 250 cm (L x W x H), Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany 18.01.2013-09.03.2013

IT'S ALL RHEYDT

Kolkata 2011, bamboos, wood, coir ropes, straw, clay, polystyrene, color (23 x 12,2 x 30 m (L x W x H)), Kolkata, India 01.10.2011 - 08.10.2011

IT'S ALL RHEYDT

Kolkata 2011, bamboos, wood, coir ropes, straw, clay, polystyrene, color (23 x 12,2 x 30 m (L x W x H)), Kolkata, India 01.10.2011 - 08.10.2011

IT'S ALL RHEYDT

Kolkata 2011, bamboos, wood, coir ropes, straw, clay, polystyrene, color (23 x 12,2 x 30 m (L x W x H)), Kolkata, India 01.10.2011 - 08.10.2011

IT'S ALL RHEYDT

Kolkata 2011, bamboos, wood, coir ropes, straw, clay, polystyrene, color (23 x 12,2 x 30 m (L x W x H)), Kolkata, India 01.10.2011 - 08.10.2011

IT'S ALL RHEYDT

Kolkata 2011, bamboos, wood, coir ropes, straw, clay, polystyrene, color (23 x 12,2 x 30 m (L x W x H)), Kolkata, India 01.10.2011 - 08.10.2011

IT'S ALL RHEYDT

Kolkata 2011, bamboos, wood, coir ropes, straw, clay, polystyrene, color (23 x 12,2 x 30 m (L x W x H)), Kolkata, India 01.10.2011 - 08.10.2011

IT'S ALL RHEYDT

Kolkata 2011, bamboos, wood, coir ropes, straw, clay, polystyrene, color (23 x 12,2 x 30 m (L x W x H)), Kolkata, India 01.10.2011 - 08.10.2011

IT'S ALL RHEYDT

Kolkata 2011, bamboos, wood, coir ropes, straw, clay, polystyrene, color (23 x 12,2 x 30 m (L x W x H)), Kolkata, India 01.10.2011 - 08.10.2011

Construction: END

Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany 08.11.2008-06.09.2009

END

Mönchengladbach 2008, mixed media (14x14x66m (WxHxL)), Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany 08.11.2008-06.09.2009

KINDERZIMMER (No. 2)

Rheydt 2008, room within a room, blockboards on a wooden construction, 1 lamp, 1 door, 1 mirror, beige PVC on a ground and at one wall, 3 walls white, pink ceiling (inside: 362 x 332 x 218 cm (L x W x H), S 11 - 14 cm), DOUBLINGS, Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf, Switzerland 18.04.2008 - 15.06.2008

KINDERZIMMER (No. 3)

Rheydt 2008, room within a room, blockboards on a wooden construction, 1 lamp, 1 door, 1 mirror, beige PVC on a ground and at one wall, 3 walls white, pink ceiling (inside: 362 x 332 x 218 cm (L x W x H), S 11 - 14 cm), DOUBLINGS, Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf, Switzerland 18.04.2008 - 15.06.2008

BONDI BEACH, 21 BEACH CELLS

Sydney 2007, metal mesh, air mattress, sunshade, garbage bag (20 x 20 x 2,5 m, each cell 4 x 4 x 2,5m (L x W x H)), Kaldor Art Projects, Bondi Beach, Sydney, Australia 28.09.2007 - 21.10.2007

BONDI BEACH, 21 BEACH CELLS

Sydney 2007, metal mesh, air mattress, sunshade, garbage bag (20 x 20 x 2,5 m, each cell 4 x 4 x 2,5m (L x W x H)), Kaldor Art Projects, Bondi Beach, Sydney, Australia 28.09.2007 - 21.10.2007

CUBE HAMBURG 2007

Hamburg 2007, water-resistant chipboard on metal construction, black fabric, white stone base (14 x 1 4 x 14 m (L x W x H)), Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany 23.03.2007 - 10.06.2007

CUBE HAMBURG 2007

Hamburg 2007, water-resistant chipboard on metal construction, black fabric, white stone base (14 x 1 4 x 14 m (L x W x H)), Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany 23.03.2007 - 10.06.2007

FALTCUBE

Hamburg 2007, fold Cube out of cardboard (50 x 70 cm), Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany 23.03.2007 - 10.06.2007

PASSAGEWAY No. 1

Deurle 2006 - Düsseldorf 2007, room within a room, high-gloss chipboards on a wooden construction, 3 lamps, 12 doors, gray linoleum floor, high-gloss white walls, sound-absorbing material on the ceiling, detached (1500 x 200 x 230 cm (L x W x H), S 1,6 – 40 cm), WEISSE FOLTER, K20K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany 17.03.2007 - 15.07.2007

HIGH SECURITY AND ISOLATION CELL No. 3

Rheydt 2005, room within a room, chipboards on a wooden construction, 1 lamp, 1 stainless-steel toilet, 1 door, 1 mattress, gray linoleum floor, walls and ceiling high-gloss white, detached (338 x 220 x 230 cm (L x W x H), S 11 - 25 cm), WEISSE FOLTER, K20K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany 17.03.2007 - 15.07.2007

HIGH SECURITY AND ISOLATION CELL No. 2

Rheydt 2005, room within a room, chipboards on a wooden construction, 1 lamp, 1 stainless-steel toilet, 1 door, 1 mattress, gray linoleum floor, walls and ceiling high-gloss white, detached (338 x 220 x 230 cm (L x W x H), S 11 - 25 cm), WEISSE FOLTER, K20K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany 17.03.2007 - 15.07.2007

PASSAGEWAY No. 4

Rheydt 2005 - Düsseldorf 2007, room within a room, high glossy chipboards on a wooden construction, 3 lamps, 4 doors, grey PVC floor, high glossy white walls, sound-absorbing material on the ceiling, detached (1225 x 200 x 230 cm (L x W x H), S 1,6 - 40 cm), WEISSE FOLTER, K20K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany 17.03.2007 - 15.07.2007

CRYO-TANK PHOENIX 2

Düren 2006, elektro-polished stainless steel, 75 liters fluid (120 x 330 cm (W x H)), 26.11.2006, Fondazione Morra Greco, Napoli, Italy 26.11.2006 - 10.01.2007

400 METER DEAD BLACK END

26.11.2006, Fondazione Morra Greco, Napoli, Italy 26.11.2006-10.01.2007

400 METER DEAD BLACK END

26.11.2006, Fondazione Morra Greco, Napoli, Italy 26.11.2006-10.01.2007

(graphic elaboration) CUBE VENICE 2005

51. International Art Exhibition, Giardini della Biennale, Venedig, Italy, 12.06.2005-06.11.2005

LIVING ROOM (with view of the kitchen)

life action, London 2004, room within a room, fiberboards on a wooden construction, 1 door, 1 window, 1 lamp, 1 radiator, 1 fireplace, 2 cupboards, 2 sofas, 2 tables, 1 TV, walls and ceiling wallpaper, carpet on the ground, detached (inside: 310 x 290 x 235 cm (L x W x H), S 1,2 - 10 cm), DIE FAMILIE SCHNEIDER, Walden Street No. 16 (left) / Walden Street No. 14 (right), London, Great Britain 28.09.2004 - 23.12.2004

BATHROOM

life action, London 2004, room within a room, fiberboards on a wooden construction, 1 door, 1 lamp, 1 radiator, 1 glass cabinet, 1 washbasin, 1 toilet, walls and ceiling white, detached (inside: 285 x 200 x 222,5 cm, outside: 296,2 x 211,2 x 228,1 cm (L x W x H), S 1,2 - 10 cm), DIE FAMILIE SCHNEIDER, Walden Street No. 16 (left) / Walden Street No. 14 (right), London, Great Britain 28.09.2004 - 23.12.2004

Construction: 517 WEST 24TH STREET

Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA 10.11.2003 - 20.12.2003

517 WEST 24TH STREET

New York 2003, room within a room, fermacell boards on a wooden construction, plastering, 1 entrance, 1 street lamp, 1 street bollard, 1 drain, concrete floor, stone sidewalk, motor oil and paint on the walls, detached (1400 x 500 x 400 cm (L x W x H)), Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA 10.11.2003 - 20.12.2003

Construction: DEAD HOUSE u r

The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles 12.10.2003 - 13.09.2004

Entrance: DEAD HOUSE u r

The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles 12.10.2003 - 13.09.2004

u r 42 C, DOPPELGARAGE

Santa Fe 2003, room within a room, gypsum fiber boards on a wooden construction, plastering, concrete floor on a wooden construction, 1 garage door, 1 metal grid, 1 lamp, detached (623 x 353 x 257 cm (L x W x H)), UNEASY SPACE, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, USA 26.07.2003 - 23.11.2003

u r 42 B, DOPPELGARAGE

Hamburg 2003, room within a room, plaster fiberboards on a wooden construction, plastering, concrete floor on a wooden construction, 1 garage door, 1 metal grid, 1 lamp, detached (623 x 353 x 257 cm (L x W x H)), GREGOR SCHNEIDER. HANNELORE REUEN, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany 11.02.2003 - 11.05.2003

u r 42 A, DOPPELGARAGE

Düren 2002, room within a room, plaster fiberboards on a wooden construction, plastering, concrete floor on a wooden construction, 1 garage door, 1 metal grid, 1 lamp, detached (623 x 353 x 257 cm (L x W x H)), Paper Art 8. International Biennale the paper art, Leopold-Hoesch-Museum, Düren, Germany 15.09.2002 - 02.02.2003

u r 54, N. SCHMIDT

life action, rebuilt 2003, room within a room, plaster- and chipboards on a wooden construction, 1 glass door, 1 big window, light-bands, stone floor, white walls and ceiling, detached (838 x 474 x 310 cm (L x W x H)), Kabinett für aktuelle Kunst, Bremerhaven, Germany 20.10.2001 - today

TOTES HAUS u r

Rheydt 1985 - 2001, 24 constructed rooms, mixed media (8,5x18,5x22m (LxWxH)), Deutscher Pavillon, 49. Biennale Venedig, Venezia, Italy 10.06.2001 - 04.11.2001

TOTES HAUS u r

Rheydt 1985 - 2001, 24 constructed rooms, mixed media (8,5x18,5x22m (LxWxH)), Deutscher Pavillon, 49. Biennale Venedig, Venezia, Italy 10.06.2001 - 04.11.2001

IM KERN

Rheydt 1985 - 2001, 24 constructed rooms, mixed media (8,5x18,5x22m (LxWxH)), Deutscher Pavillon, 49. Biennale Venedig, Venezia, Italy 10.06.2001 - 04.11.2001

UNTER IM KERN

Rheydt 1985 - 2001, 24 constructed rooms, mixed media (8,5x18,5x22m (LxWxH)), Deutscher Pavillon, 49. Biennale Venedig, Venezia, Italy 10.06.2001 - 04.11.2001

TOTES HAUS u r

Rheydt 1985 - 2001, 24 constructed rooms, mixed media (8,5x18,5x22m (LxWxH)), Deutscher Pavillon, 49. Biennale Venedig, Venezia, Italy 10.06.2001 - 04.11.2001

KELLER

Rheydt 1985 - Venedig 2001, room within a room, wood, stones, metal, plastering, different types of gypsum, cement, concrete, 1 door, 2 lamps, detached (6 rooms + corridor, together: 920 x 450 x 560 cm (L x W x H), S 1,2 - 40 cm), TOTES HAUS u r, German Pavilion, 49th International Art Exhibition, la Biennale di Venezia, Venezia, Italy 10.06.2001 - 04.11.2001

u r 18, PUFF (AUS BERLIN)

Rheydt 1996, room within a room, plaster- and chipboards on a wooden construction, plastering, 3 doors, 4 lamps, 1 mirror ball, wooden floor, red carpet, white plastered walls and ceiling, detached (340 x 120 x 210 cm (L x W x H), S 1,2 - 10 cm), TOTES HAUS u r, German Pavilion, 49th International Art Exhibition, la Biennale di Venezia, Venezia, Italy 10.06.2001 - 04.11.2001

TOTES HAUS u r

Rheydt 1985 - 2001, 24 constructed rooms, mixed media (8,5x18,5x22m (LxWxH)), Deutscher Pavillon, 49. Biennale Venedig, Venezia, Italy 10.06.2001 - 04.11.2001

TOTES HAUS u r

Rheydt 1985 - 2001, 24 constructed rooms, mixed media (8,5x18,5x22m (LxWxH)), Deutscher Pavillon, 49. Biennale Venedig, Venezia, Italy 10.06.2001 - 04.11.2001

u r 44, HANNELORE REUEN ALTE HAUSSCHLAMPE

life action, rebuilt 2003, room within a room, blockboards on a wooden construction, 1 door, light-bands, parquet floor, white walls and ceiling, 1 figure / life action (742 x 567 x 350 cm (L x W x H)), HANNELORE REUEN ALTE HAUSSCHLAMPE, Galeria Foksal, Warszawa, Poland 06.03.2000 - 08.03.2000

u r 28, MÜLLSACK IN WICHSECKE

Bremerhaven 1999 - Hamburg 2003, room within a room, plaster- and chipboards on a wooden construction, 3 lamps, 2 metal grids, 1 stone, 1 garbage palstic bag, cement floor, PVC floor, white walls and ceiling (500 x 475 x 310 cm (L x W x H)), GREGOR SCHNEIDER. HANNELORE REUEN, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg 11.02.2003 - 11.05.2003

u r 28, MÜLLSACK IN WICHSECKE

Bremerhaven 1999, room within a room, plaster- and chipboards on a wooden construction, 3 lamps, 2 metal grids, 1 stone, 1 garbage palstic bag, cement floor, PVC floor, white walls and ceiling (500 x 475 x 310 cm (L x W x H)), SCHLAFEN, Kabinett für aktuelle Kunst, Bremerhaven, Germany 19.12.1999 - 23.01.2000

u r 15, KATHEDRALE

Bern 1996, room within a room, breeze blocks and plaster boards, wood, plastering, 3 windows, 20 lamps, brown wooden floor, white walls and ceiling, detached, deconstructed 1996 (400x900x398cm (LxWxH), S 12-20cm), GREGOR SCHNEIDER, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland 31.01.1996 - 06.03.1996

u 67, WAND VOR SCHWARZEM STEIN VOR ROTEM STEIN

Bern 1996, wall in front of wall, breeze blocks and plastering, white (536x12x447cm (LxWxH)), ca. 20cm distance to the wall, black stone, plaster (50x46x7cm (LxWxH)), red stone, plaster (9x9x21,5cm (LxWxH)), GREGOR SCHNEIDER, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland 31.01.1996 - 06.03.1996

u r 3 B, VERDOPPELTER RAUM

Berlin 1994, room within a room plaster boards and a wooden construction, 2 doors, 1 window, 1 lamp, grey floor, white walls and ceiling (247x332x249cm (LxWxH) S 1,8–21cm), 11.3.1994- , Galerie Andreas Weiss, Berlin, Germany 11.03.1994 - 11.04.1994

u r 3 A, VERDOPPELTER RAUM

Rheydt 1988, room within a room, plaster boards and a wooden construction, 2 doors, 1 window, 1 lamp, grey floor, white walls and ceiling (245x263x243cm (LxWxH) S 1,8–21cm), HAUS u r, Rheydt, Germany 1985 - today

u 55, WALL

Düsseldorf 1993, 16.9.1993-, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany 16.09.1993 - 16.09.1994

VERSCHWUNDENES DORF

construction of an unknown work in the disappearing village of Garzweiler, Garzweiler, Germany (created 1990, disappeared 1991)

HAUS u r 2000

HAUS u r, Rheydt 1985 - today

HAUS u r 2000

HAUS u r, Rheydt 1985 - today

KELLER NOVEMBER 1996

HAUS u r, Rheydt 1985 - today

KELLER

HAUS u r, Rheydt 1985 - today

KELLER

HAUS u r, Rheydt 1985 - today

u r 12, TOTAL ISOLIERTES GÄSTEZIMMER

Rheydt 1995, 2 layers of lead, 3 layers of glass wool, 1 layer of rock wool, 1 layer of sound-absorbing material around a room, 3 wooden constructions, plaster boards and plastering, 1 door, 1 lamp, 1 pit, grey wooden floor, white plastered walls and ceiling, detached (inside: 302 x 176 x 204,5 cm, outside: 436 x 212 x 240,5 cm ( L x W x H), S 12 – 100 cm, HAUS u r, Rheydt, Germany 1995

u r 12, TOTAL ISOLIERTES GÄSTEZIMMER

Rheydt 1995, 2 layers of lead, 3 layers of glass wool, 1 layer of rock wool, 1 layer of sound-absorbing material around a room, 3 wooden constructions, plaster boards and plastering, 1 door, 1 lamp, 1 pit, 1 grey wooden floor, white walls and ceiling, detached (176x302x204,5cm (LxWxH) S 12–100cm), HAUS u r, Rheydt, Germany 1985 - today

u r 19 A, LIEBESLAUBE

Rheydt 1995, room within a room, blockboards on a wooden construction, 1 window, 1 lamp, 1 tub, 1 radiator, 1 cupbuard, grey wooden floor, white plastered walls and ceiling (440 x 296 x 314 cm (L x W x H), S 1 - 65 cm), HAUS u r, Rheydt, Germany 1985 - today

u r 19 A, LIEBESLAUBE

Rheydt 1995, room within a room, blockboards on a wooden construction, 1 window, 1 lamp, 1 tub, 1 radiator, 1 cupbuard, grey wooden floor, white plastered walls and ceiling (440 x 296 x 314 cm (L x W x H), S 1 - 65 cm), HAUS u r, Rheydt, Germany 1985 - today

u r 10, (with inventory) KAFFEEZIMMER "Wir sitzen, trinken Kaffee und schauen einfach aus dem Fenster"

Rheydt 1993, rotating room within a room, plaster boards and chipboards on a wooden construction with posts and wheels, 1 engine, 2 doors, 1 window, 1 lamp, 1 cupboard, grey wooden floor, white walls and ceiling, detached, ca. 35 - 105 cm distance to the outer room, window looking south (246 x 289 x 234 cm (L x W x H), S 1,8 - 35cm), HAUS u r, Rheydt, Germany 1985 - today

u r 8, TOTAL ISOLIERTER TOTER RAUM

Giesenkirchen 1989, soil, lead, glass wool, sound-absorbing material in the room, 2 wooden constructions, 1 insulated door, Giesenkirchen, Germany 1989 - 1991

HAUS u r

Rheydt, Germany 1985 - today

u r 1

Rheydt 1986, room within a room, chipboards on a construction made of steel and wood along with posts, 2 doors, 1 window, 1 lamp, 1 radiator, grey carpet, white walls and ceiling, detached, ca. 30 - 50 cm distance from the outer room (298 x 396 x 249 cm (L x W x H), S 1,5 - 12 cm), HAUS u r, Rheydt, Germany 1985 - today

u 7-10, KÜCHE

Rheydt 1987, wall in front of a wall, plaster blocks, white (160 x 239 cm (W x H), S 10 cm), floor above a floor, concrete floor, brown carpet (160 x 296 cm (L x W), S 3cm), ceiling below a ceiling, wood on a wooden construction, ca. 50 cm distance to the ceiling (160 x 196 cm (L x W), S 4 cm), water container in a wall, glass (10 x 10 x 10 cm (L x W x H)), HAUS u r, Rheydt, Germany 1985 - today

u r 0

Rheydt 1985, room within a room, calcium-silicate bricks, mortar and wood, 1 door, white walls and ceiling, cement floor, brown carpet (128 x 236 cm (W x H), S 12 cm), HAUS u r, Rheydt 1985 - today

u 25 u 28-29, TREPPENHAUS

Rheydt 1989 - 1993, u 25: wall in front of a wall, plaster boards on a wooden construction, light yellow, 1 white door (333 x 580 cm (W x H), S 10 cm); u 28: wall in front of a wall, plaster boards on a wooden construction with wheels, light yellow (187 x 218 (W x H), S 9 cm); u 29: part of a wall in front of a wall, plaster boards on a wooden construction, light yellow (80 x 223 x 10 cm (W x H x D)), HAUS u r, Rheydt, Germany 1985 - today

u 28-29, FLUR

Rheydt 1989 - 1993, u 28: wall in front of a wall, plaster boards on a wooden construction with wheels, light yellow, deconstructed 1995 (187 x 218 cm (W x H), S 9cm), u 29: part of a wall in front of a wall, paster boards on a wooden construction, light yellow, deconstructed 1995 (80 x 223 x 10 cm (W x H x D)), HAUS u r, Rheydt 1985 - today

u 30, TREPPENHAUSS

Rheydt 1989 - 19993, wall in front of a wall, plaster boards on a wooden construction, light yellow (197 x 313 cm (W x H), S 5 cm), HAUS u r, Rheydt, Germany 1985 - today

u r 11 u 56, FLUR

Rheydt 1993, wall in front of a wall, plaster boards on a wooden construction, white (164x261cm (WxH) S 6cm), HAUS u r, Rheydt, Germany 1985 - today

u r 7, ATELIER

Rheydt 1990, room within a room, plaster boards on a wooden construction, plastering, 1 door, 3 windows, 2 lamps, grey wooden floor, white walls and ceiling (333x662x289cm (LxWxH), S 1,8-56cm), HAUS u r, Rheydt, Germany 1985 - today

u r 6, WUNDERKAMMER

Rheydt 1989, room within a room, concrete, plaster, blocks, wood, 1 window, 1 lamp, carpet and ceiling in brown, walls in white, immured 1989, detached (257 x 394 x 262 cm (L x W x H), S 12 - 20 cm), HAUS u r, Rheydt, Germany 1985 - today

HINTERHALT

wood, metal, ropes, paint (504 x 400 x 325 cm (L x W x H)), Haus u r, Rheydt, Germany 1986

OHNE TITEL

Korschenbroich 1985, acrylic paint on paper (80 x 255 cm)

TOTAL ISOLIERTE KISTEN

Rheydt 1986, lead, glass wool, sound-absorbing material, wooden construction (100 x 100 x 100 cm)

HINTER DEM BILD

1986, ropes were attached to a stretched sheet with self-portrait

Life action: SCHWIMMEN

Liedberg, Germany 1985

Life action: MEHL ORGIE

Korschenbroich, Germany 1985

Life action: BEGRABEN

Liedberg, Germany 1984

URSCHREI

Korschenbroich 1985, acrylic paint on paper (42 x 59 cm)

WÜRGEN

Korschenbroich 1985, plaster and acrylic paint on paper (100 x 74 x 15 cm (L x W x H))

MUTTER

Rheydt 1985, acrylic on paper (42 x 59 cm)

NACKTES MÄDCHEN

Korschenbroich 1982, pastel on paper (72,5 x 200 cm)

FALLGRUBE

Liedberg 1988

New catalogue:

Gregor Schneider
Ernst Franz Vogelmann Prize for Sculpture 2023

Edited by: Marc Gundel, Rita E. Täuber
Text: Marc Gundel, Norman Rosenthal, Rita E. Täuber, Susanne Titz
Publisher: Snoeck
Pages: 144
Dimensions (L/W): 23 x 18,5 cm
Languages: Deutsch, Englisch
ISBN: 978-3-86442-421-2

Dream on Baby: Wie viel Kindheit steckt in Kunst?

Edited: Gesine Borcherdt
Publisher: Institut für moderne Kunst Nürnberg, Nürnberg (16th October 2023)
Page: 258 - 263
ISBN: 978-3922895572

Upcoming:

Désordres, Musée d'art contemporain, Lyon, France, Curator: Antoine de Galbert (Cat)

08.03.2024 - 07.07.2024

A Group Show, Sies + Höke Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany

08.03.2024 - 05.04.2024

Current:

Tod und Teufel, Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany, Curator: Westrey Page, Oliver Sandrock

01.03.2024 - 02.06.2024

Emotion, Dart Chiostro del Bramante, Roma, Italy, Curator: Danilo Eccher

29.11.2023 - 31.07.2024

Home is where you're happy, Haus Mödrath, Kerpen, Germany, Curator: Gesine Borcherdt (Cat)

08.10.2023 - 25.08.2024

Unendliche Ausstellung, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany, Curator: Sam Bardaouil, Till Fellrath, Alice Koegel

16.06.2023 -

Past:

Tod und Teufel, Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Germany, Curator: Westrey Page

14.09.2023 - 21.01.2024

GEGENWARTSGESELLSCHAFT – 50 Jahre / 50 years Produzentengalerie Hamburg, Produzentengalerie Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, Curator: Mario Kramer

08.09.2023 - 22.12.2023

GEGENWARTSGESELLSCHAFT – 50 Jahre / 50 years Produzentengalerie Hamburg, Produzentengalerie Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, Curator: Mario Kramer

08.09.2023 - 22.12.2023

Gregor Schneider Homeless, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Berlin, Germany (Solo)

15.09.2023 - 21.12.2023
Image: Invitation card Homeless, Konrad Fischer Galerie

Film still: Kunstlandschaft, Tagebau Garzweiler 2022
© Gregor Schneider / VG Bild-Kunst Bonn

More info: Konrad Fischer Galerie

Charly, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany, Curator: Rosilene Luduvico, Takeshi Makishima, Gregor Russ, Jost Wischnewski

30.09.2023 - 05.11.2023

250 Jahre Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Galerie Ute Parduhn, Düsseldorf, Germany

01.09.2023 - 30.10.2023

Gregor Schneider, Ernst Franz Vogelmann Prize for Sculpture 2023, Kunsthalle Vogelmann, Heilbronn, Germany, Curator: Rita Täuber, Marc Gundel

15.07.2023 - 29.10.2023
Image: Poster Gregor Schneider - Ernst Franz Vogelmann Prize for Sculpture 2023

Terra Nova, Elsdorf 2022
© Gregor Schneider / VG Bild-Kunst Bonn

More info:

The collection, Fahrbereitschaft, Berlin, Germany, Curator: Krist Gruijthuijsen

23.04.2023 - 29.10.2023

bildwiderstand. garzweiler in film und fotografie, Kunsthaus NRW, Aachen, Germany, Curator: Dr. Marcel Schumacher

14.05.2023 - 22.10.2023

Bernd und Hilla Becher, Laurenz Berges, Bernd Boor, Susanne Fasbender, Claudia Fährenkemper, Gábor Fekete, Matthias Jung, Gregor Schneider

The artist Gregor Schneider, who lives in Mönchengladbach-Rheydt, has been engaged with the mining activities in his hometown region for many years. The material for his internationally renowned long-term project, "Haus u r," in Rheydt largely comes from the dying, evacuated villages. Over the years, photographs and films were created. Gregor Schneider, as part of his artistic interests, established connections with activist initiatives, such as Fridays for Future and the "Lützerath lebt!" initiative, in the context of the documenta fifteen exhibition project "another world is possible."

In the Kunsthaus NRW, he presents for the first time as a video installation his two new films, "Sonniger Untergang" and "Kunstlandschaft" (2022). They were filmed at the edge of the demolition site with its strangely touristy-looking observation platforms. The video installation can be seen in the old brewery of the monastery complex. Additionally, we exhibit photographs from his series "Neu-Garzweiler" in the main building. These were taken in the planned settlement, built as compensation for the relocated residents, funded by compensation money.

More info: https://www.kunsthaus.nrw/ausstellung/bildwiderstand/?parent=54

Home is where you're happy, Haus Mödrath, Kerpen, Germany, Curator: Gesine Borcherdt

08.10.2023 - 25.08.2024

Artist-Talk with Gregor Schneider, Kunsthalle Vogelmann, Heilbronn, Germany

24.09.2023 | 11:30 am

More info: Kunsthalle Heilbronn

Immer feste druff, Haus Mödrath, Kerpen, Germany

17.07.2022 - 27.08.2023

More info: https://www.haus-moedrath.de/de/ausstellung_immer_feste_druff.html

How I forgot about the skin of the places 2, Inselstraße 7, Berlin, Germany, Curator: Stephanie Kloss, Peter Welz

10.02.2023 - 30.04.2023

Stillstand, Art Museum Craiova, Craiova, Romania, Curator: Anca Mureșan, Erwin Kessler

09.03.2023 - 09.04.2023

25 Jahre Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve, Germany, Curator: Susane Figner, Harald Kunde, Valentina Vlašic (Cat)

23.07.2022 – 29.01.2023

Der Bau. Hommage an Kafka, Museum Villa Rot, Burgrieden–Rot, Germany, Curator: Thomas Schmäschke

12.06.2022 - 25.09.2022

erste hilfe - first aid, Hugenottenhaus, Kassel, Germany, Curator: Silvia & Lutz Frey

18.06.2022 - 24.09.2022

Paradys, Oranjewoud, Netherlands, Curator: Hans den Hartog Jager (Cat)

07.05.2022 - 14.08.2022

Macht! Licht!, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany, Curator: Andreas Beitin and Holger Broeker (Cat)

12.03.2022 – 10.07.2022

Exhibited works:

Room:

HIGH SECURITY AND ISOLATION CELL No. 4,
Rheydt 2005, room within a room, blockboards on a wooden construction, 1 lamp, 1 stainless steel toilet, 1 door, 1 mattress, grey PVC floor, walls and ceiling high glossy white, detached (338 x 220 x 230 cm (L x W x H), S 11 - 25 cm))

Video:

WHITE TORTURE 2005 - today
HDV 19 min. 49 sec.
© Gregor Schneider

IN THE MEDIA

More info: https://www.kunstmuseum.de

Nation, Narration, Narcosis, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany, Curator: Anna-Catharina Gebbers

28.11.2021 - 03.07.2022

another world is possible, Glasshouse k.format, Kassel, Germany

18.06.2022 - 1.07.2022

Rhenish Lignite Mining Area (Rheinisches Braunkohlerevier) 2022
© Gregor Schneider / VG Bild-Kunst Bonn

Gemeinsam mit internationalen Künstler*innen eröffnen Fridays for Future und die Initiative 'Lützerath Lebt!' zum Auftakt der documenta fifteen am 18.06. die Ausstellung 'Another World Is Possible'. Im Glaspavillon des k.format Kollektivs in Kassel zeigen sie zwei Wochen lang Kunst mit Fokus auf das unmittelbar vom Tagebau bedrohte Dorf Lützerath - bevor dieses im Herbst den Abrissarbeiten des Kohlekonzerns RWEs ausgesetzt ist. Darüber hinaus veranstalten die Aktivist*innen im Juli vier Vorträge im ruruhaus, dem zentralen Begegnungsort der documenta.

Auch der Künstler Gregor Schneider beteiligt sich mit seinen Arbeiten an der Ausstellung. Aufgewachsen am Rande des Braunkohletagebaus in Mönchengladbach-Rheydt, beschäftigt er sich bereits jahrzehntelang künstlerisch mit dem Rheinischen Braunkohlerevier.
Seine Ausflüge in die sterbenden Dörfern dokumentierte er fotografisch und filmisch. Er besuchte einquartierte Flüchtlinge in den sterbenden Dörfern, die nicht mehr auf aktuellen Straßenkarten verzeichnet waren. Er hielt die Umbettung von einem Friedhof fest, fotografierte Reste archäologischer Funde und hielt die Zerstörung der Natur fest. Es entstanden später Video-Kamerafahrten durch die unbewohnten „Geister-Dörfer“. Er begann Materialen aus einzelnen Häusern auszubauen um diese in sein sogenanntes Haus u r (1985-heute) einzubauen. Die ausgebauten Türen, Fenster und Böden wurden wieder zu ganzen Räumen. Schneider sagt: Ohne das Material aus den sterbenden Dörfern hätte ich das sogenannte Haus u r vermutlich nie bauen können. An der Arbeitsweise Räume zu erhalten und zu recyceln halte ich bis heute fest.
Dabei wurde das Haus u r für Gregor Schneider ein Ort des Rückzuges, dem privaten Entzuges, der Isolation und dem Verlust des Vertrautem.

1990 solidarisierte er sich künstlerisch mit dem Ort Garzweiler. Er realisierte die Unbekannte Arbeit im verschwundenen Dorf Garzweiler [https://www.gregor-schneider.de/places/1990garzweiler/pages/1990-91-garzweiler-01.htm]. Eine Arbeit die mit dem Dorf Garzweiler verschwunden ist.
In 2007 fand er ein Kinderzimmer in einem verlassenen Haus, welches ihn zu dem Raum KINDERZIMMER 2008 [https://www.gregor-schneider.de/places/2011madrid/pages/20111028-centro-de-arte-madrid-16.htm] inspirierte. Ein pink gestrichenes Zimmer mit einer pinken Matratze auf dem Boden. Später durchstößt Schneider diesen Raum mit einem übergroßen Wasserrohr. Schneider sagt: Solche großen Rohre liegen hier in der Nachbarschaft um das Grundwasser abzupumpen.
Der temporäre Erweiterungsbau END 2008 [https://www.gregor-schneider.de/places/2008mgladbach/pages/20081108-museum-abteiberg-mgladbach-001.htm] (Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach) war für Schneider auch ein Kommentar zum verdrängten Braunkohleloch vor der Haustüre Mönchengladbachs. Gregor Schneider konfrontiert die Mönchengladbacher in der Innenstadt mit einen schwarzen Loch. In diesem schwarzen Abgrund stießen die Besucher auch auf ausgebaute Räume aus den sterbenden Dörfern.

2010 baute Gregor Schneider 10 Meter der Marienstrasse [https://www.gregor-schneider.de/places/2010dueren/pages/20100627-hoesch-museum-dueren-03.htm] aus um diese Straße als letztes Überbleibsel einer verloren Ortschaft des Braunkohletagebaus bleibend zu erhalten.

Seid 2022 filmt Schneider Sonnenuntergänge (Sonniger Untergang, Rheinisches Braunkohlerevier 2022 [Sonniger Untergang & Kunstlandschaft]) vor der despotischen Kulisse des Rheinischen Braunkohlereviers.

Die Aktionsgruppe zur Ausstellung ist eine Gruppierung aus Fridays for Future, Lützerath Lebt!, Studierenden der Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Gregor Schneider, und weiteren internationalen Künstler*innen und Kollektiven, die sich zum Ziel gesetzt hat, die Kunst als Verbündete im Kampf gegen die Klimakrise zu gewinnen.

Mariesol Kleff für Fridays for Future

Kontakt
documenta@fridaysforfuture.de / documenta@fridaysforfuture.is
www.fridaysforfuture.de
+49 163 743 5791 (Telefonate, SMS, Signal, Telegram, Whatsapp)

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Liste der ausstellenden Künstler*innen und Kollektive:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/18I8-5u4o5CGVQ9dFl6THr7C4wWZ-I_8nniDKU2jDkUNo/edit

More infos:
“Another World Is Possible” auf der Webseite des ruruHauses:
https://ruruhaus.de/another-world-is-possible/

@fridaysforfuture.de
@documentafifteen
@k.format
@ga_ea_collective
@lützilebt
@knstkdmdssldrf

A Century of the Artist’s Studio 1920 – 2020, Whitechapel Gallery, London, Great Britain, Curator: Iwona Blazwick, Dawn Ades, Inês Costa, Richard Dyer, Hammad Nasar, Candy Stobbs (Cat)

24.02.2022 – 5.06.2022

Exhibited works:

Video:

Haus u r, Rheydt 1985 – today
The one video includes the following chapters:
- Habe vergessen, worauf ich warte, 1995
- u r 1, u 14, Schlafen, 1988
- u r 10, Vorhang 1, 1993
- u r 19 A, Liebeslaube, 1995
- Nacht-video, 1996

VHS 29 min. 33 sec.
© Gregor Schneider

IN THE MEDIA

More info: https://www.whitechapelgallery.org

Why can’t we live together, Kunstmuseum Marburg, Marburg, Germany, Curator: F. Peters-Messer

25.03.2022 - 19.05.2022

werden. From Michelangelo to →, Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck, Austria, Curator: Peter Assmann & Co. (Cat)

02.12.2021 - 18.04.2022

Exhibited works:

Sculpture:

KOLKATA GODDESS VI
Kolkata 2011, bamboo, straw, Hooghly River sludge, leftovers of fabric and paint

Video:

It's all Rheydt
HDV 31 min. 23 sec.
© Gregor Schneider

More info: https://www.tiroler-landesmuseen.at

Book presentation: GREGOR SCHNEIDER

8.04.2022 | 4:00 pm

Christian Mosar, director of Konschthal Esch, invites to a book presentation of Gregor Schneider with Gregor Schneider and Raimund Stecker on April 8, 4 pm in Kunsthalle Düsseldorf.

Moderatorin: Sabine Maria Schmidt.

Pages: 112
Size: 205 x 135 mm.
Edited: Raimund Stecker, Esch 2021
Text: Raimund Stecker
ISBN: 978-3-95679-635-7

More info: https://www.sternberg-press.com

GREGOR SCHNEIDER EGO-TUNNEL, Konschthal Esch, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg, Curator: Christian Mosar (Solo) (Cat)

02.10.2021 - 09.01.2022





IN THE MEDIA

NOTHINGTOSEENESS – LEERE/WEIß/STILLE, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany

15.09.2021 - 12.12.2021

More info: https://www.adk.de

BLACK LIGHTNING, Triennale Brugge 2021, Brugge, Belgium

08.05.2021 - 24.10.2021
END, Mönchengladbach

END
Mönchengladbach 2008, mixed media (14x14x66m (WxHxL)), Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany
© Gregor Schneider / VG Bild-Kunst Bonn

More info: www.triennalebrugge.be

More info: https://www.triennalebrugge.be

N. Schmidt, ART CITY Bologna 2021, Ex Gam, Bologna, Italy (Solo)

06.05.2021 - 16.05.2021
N. SCHMIDT, Ex Gam

Photo: LIVING ROOM (with view of the kitchen)
life action, London 2004, room within a room, fiberboards on a wooden construction, 1 door, 1 window, 1 lamp, 1 radiator, 1 fireplace, 2 cupboards, 2 sofas, 2 tables, 1 TV, walls and ceiling wallpaper, carpet on the ground, detached (inside: 310 x 290 x 235 cm (L x W x H), S 1,2 - 10 cm), DIE FAMILIE SCHNEIDER, Walden Street No. 16, London, Great Britain
© Gregor Schneider / VG Bild-Kunst Bonn

More info: agenda.comune.bologna.it

Tote Räume / Dead Spaces, West Den Haag (former American Embassy), Den Haag, Netherlands, Curator: Marie-José Sondeijker, Text: Ory Dessau

29.08.2020 - 11.04.2021

Welcome, West is open to the public. Please note that due to current regulations related to the coronavirus, all visitors are required to reserve a time slot for their visit.

Please make your reservation here.

Tote Räume / Dead Spaces
West Den Haag (former American Embassy), Den Haag, Netherlands
© Gregor Schneider / VG Bild-Kunst Bonn

West Den Haag is thrilled to announce Tote Räume, Gregor Schneider‘s first solo exhibition in the Netherlands. Acknowledged as a groundbreaking artistic proposition, Schneider’s work can be regarded also as prophetic in a time of mandatory social distancing since it is based on mechanisms of physical isolation. Unfolding a sequence of rooms, sculptures, human figures, photos and videos spanning four decades of radical art making, the exhibition is arranged in response to, and exchange with, the original function of its building as the U.S. Embassy in the Netherlands from 1959 until 2018.

A clear example to this exchange is the ‘Interrogation Room’ – a pristine room replicating one of the prison cell modules in Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp, the U.S. detention facility located on Cuba’s southeastern coast. When incorporated into the setting of West Den Haag ‘Interrogation Room’ exceeds the boundaries of the aesthetic field and acquires the status of a real authoritarian space, outlining the exercise of power over the visitors and the potential violation of their bodily sovereignty.
Also included in the current sequence is ‘Cold Storage Cell’, which joins ‘Interrogation Room’ to politically contextualize Schneider’s continuous experiments in sensory deprivation and practices of stealth interrogation and clean torture, intermittently conducted throughout his entire oeuvre.
With the display of ‘Cryo-Tank Phoenix 3’ Schneider’s conception of sealed-off spaces extends beyond the political-jurisdictional framework provided by West Den Haag and obtains a metaphysical sense, turning every site in which it emerges into an intermediary zone situated between life and death, between this world and the world to come. A separate section in the exhibition is dedicated to ‘Geburtshaus Goebbels’, which involves the actual building in Mönchengladbach-Rheydt where Joseph Goebbels—the Reich Minister of Propaganda in Nazi Germany—was born. In ‘Geburtshaus Goebbels’ Schneider traces the roots of Nazi history almost literally, uncovering the physical foundations of Goebbels’ birthplace—the origins of his origins. Within Schneider’s universe ‘Geburtshaus Goebbels’ is also a follower of ‘Haus u r’, the artist’s own site of origin, standing a short distance away from it. ‘Haus u r’ is the name Schneider gave to the abandoned residential building, which he occupies since 1985, all the while ceaselessly reconstructing its inner structure as an idiosyncratic typology of visceral rooms built inside the house’s preexisting rooms (with windows in front of windows, walls in front of walls, etc.). Being realized through a process of self-consuming duplication—whereby each room is also the concealed room into which it was inserted, and the space—the difference—between them—makes ‘Haus u r’ an enduring experience of cognitive dissonance in relation to which presence and absence, construction and elimination, are no longer distinguishable from one another.

In the context of the exhibition a series of performances will be staged specifically for the occasion. Additionally to the project ‘Tote Räume’ West will organise an international symposium in November of this year. With the working title: ‘Gregor Schneider: Kunst im Kopf’.

Gregor Schneider (Germany, 1969) is cosidered one of the most influential artists of the last three decades. Since the end of the 1990s Schneider has been presenting solo exhibitions in leading museums around the world, including, among many others, Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, Museun of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Museo d’Arte Contemporena Roma. In 2001 Schneider won the Golden Lion award in the Venice Biennale of Art, and from then on his work is the subject of worldwide discussions and controversies. Schneider’s practice is an intersection between architecture, sculpture, and performance, intervening in the fabric of material, social and historical reality.

This project is supported by the Ministry of Education, Cultural Affairs and Science, the city of The Hague, Mondriaan Foundation and the Goethe-Institut.

More info: http://www.westdenhaag.nl/exhibitions/20_06_Gregor_Schneider

IN THE MEDIA

Encounter: Gregor Schneider

Video link: https://player.vimeo.com/video/468175163

Encounter
Gregor Schneider & Ory Dessau

Lockdown with Gregor Schneider

I. Intro, office & Storage I

Video link: https://player.vimeo.com/video/418024325

II. Car ride & big storage

Video link: https://player.vimeo.com/video/418025376

III. Goebbels birth house

Video link: https://player.vimeo.com/video/418027290

IV. House u r + mini interview

Video link: https://player.vimeo.com/video/418029020

KREUZWEG (based on an idea for Berlin in 2006), St. Matthäus-Kirche, Berlin, Germany, Curator: Pastor Hannes Langbein (Solo)

19.02.2021 - 02.04.2021
Kreuzweg

KREUZWEG / WAY OF THE CROSS (based on an idea for Berlin in 2006), Logroño 2020
Foto: Josema Cutillas
© Gregor Schneider / VG Bild-Kunst Bonn / Goethe Institut Madrid

Kreuzweg (Way of the Cross) is a dark black passageway in the shape of a cross. The cross-shaped structure has four openings, one in each of its ends, through which the viewer can enter and exit. The shape of the cross is fully obtainable only from an aerial, God-like point of view. Upon entering the passageway, the viewer loses the formal contour of the structure, as the contour of his/her own body becomes blurred, melting into the indefinite blackness surrounding it, in which the distinction between one’s own outer/physical and inner/psychological space is no longer clear.

Obviously, Kreuzweg bears a direct reference to the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ. Rather than merely formal or iconographic, the reference to the Crucifixion is also experiential. Kreuzweg stages a theatrical rite of passage, a liminal scenography that strips viewing subjects walking through the passageway of their identities and everyday concepts of time and place, after which they are born again, reemerging into a world of a higher order juxtaposing terminality with resurrection.

Kreuzweg is the current culmination of the redemptive theological thread that runs through Schneider’s oeuvre. It is the explicit conclusion of many earlier works. One example of which is CUBE (2005-07). Schneider’s CUBE is a gigantic cubic outdoor structure covered in black cloth, seemingly replicating Islam’s holy edifice of the Kaaba. Formally, a flattened cube results in a cross. In this sense, Kreuzweg is the spatialization of CUBE after it was flattened. The geometrical link between the two works enables Schneider to incorporate CUBE’s scenario of circumambulating a black void into the immersive walked-through black void of Kreuzweg.

… In 2008 CUBE became END: a sixty-six-meter-long dark passageway which Schneider constructed outside Abteiberg Museum in Mönchengladbach. To enter the dark passageway, the viewer had to climb a small ladder and pass through a black square opening. At the end of the passageway, along which one’s own orientation and bodily integrity were being shaken, was a shaft leading the viewer to an underground dark space. The sole way out of the dark underground space was an elevator which carried the viewer to the museum’s illuminated collection galleries on the second floor, as if launching him or her from the domain of black death into the white territory of life after death.

Schneider’s interest in the hereafter can also be traced in his Cryo-Tank Phoenix (2006). A sealed cylindrical tank made of electro-polished stainless steel Cryo-Tank Phoenix was first presented on 02.11.06–the Christian Day of the Dead–at St Peter’s Church, Cologne. Its initial religious backdrop established a fundamental connection between the cryonic vision of preserving dead bodies in low temperature until wishful revivification, the story of Christ’s resurrection, and the anticipated event of his Second Coming. It marked the appearance of Cryo-Tank Phoenix in affinity to the apocalyptic-eschatological circumstances of the hereafter, turning every site in which it emerges into an intermediary zone situated between life and death, between this world and the world to come.

An excerpt from “Gregor Schneider and the Architecture of the Afterlife,” a text by Ory Dessau.

More info: https://www.stiftung-stmatthaeus.de

Time Present, Photography from the Deutsche Bank Collection, PalaisPopulaire, Berlin, Germany

10.06.2020 - 22.02.2021

STERBERAUM, Staatstheater Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany (Solo)

28.01.2021, 9:00 pm – 31.01.2021, 10:30 pm (LIVE STREAM)

Staatstheater Darmstadt, Darmstadt 2021
© Gregor Schneider / VG Bild-Kunst Bonn

NEWSPAPER

RADIO

TV

More info: https://www.staatstheater-darmstadt.de/veranstaltungen/sterberaum.897