Paul Schwer
Paul Schwer is a painter. In 1988 he finished his studies at the Düsseldorf Art Academy as a master student of Erwin Heerich. After many international exhibitions his works with light and transparent matters like (Plexi) glass and polyester are represented in many public and private collections.
His unmistakable technique to forge very inimitably the painted and printed acrylic plains under great heat develops unique, color-intensive objects, seemingly between painting and sculpture. The applied heat changes even the before imprinted paint, builds small cracks and patterns, animating the surface. The process of developing and evolving is detectable in the work and has an important role, as well as his gambling with hazard.
The finally born individually formed objects recline in the room, the powerful presence of a colour-body, and invite us to find a relationship.
1951 born in in Hornberg, Schwarzwald/Germany. Lives and works in Dusseldorf, Germany
EDUCATION
2011-12 Deputy Professor of painting, Kunstakademie, Münster, Germany
2012 Guest Professor at Chendgdu Academy of Fine Arts, VR China
2007-11 Guest lecturer at Kunstakademie, Orientation Area, Münster, Germany
1978-93 Doctor of child and adolescent psychiatry at University Hospital, Essen, Germany
1981-88 Master student of Professor Heerich, Düsseldorf Art Academy, Düsseldorf, Germany
SOLO EXHIBITION (SELECTED)
2021
- New Viewings, mit Astrid Busch, Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin
2020
- morphing, Johanna Flammer & Paul Schwer, Neue Galerie Gladbeck
- UNGEPLANT. GEPLANT, Galerie Wolfgang Jahn, München
2019
- Trockenbau-Twist, Kunstverein Pforzheim im Reuchlinhaus
- Sonnendeck, Antichambre, hotel friends, Düsseldorf
- Lange Zugfahren, Orangerie Schloss Rheda
2018
- Von beiden Enden, Museum Goch + Museum Ratingen
- Galerie Karsten Weigmann + Partner, Düsseldorf (mit Jan Kolata)
- The Windows / Okno, Umetnostna Galerija, Maribor, Slowenien
- Light Box, Kunstmuseum Celle
2017
- sägen bohren föhnen, Marie Wolfgang – Praxis und Werkstatt für zeitgenössische Kunst, Essen
- Krisenraum, Lutherkirche Bonn, → Artikel
2016
- Caddesi, Galerie Heinz Holtmann, Köln
- Passenger, PI Artworks gallery, Istanbul, TK
- Shining Shelter, Clemens Sels Museum, Neuss
2015
- Caddesi, Galerie Heinz Holtmann, Köln
- Passenger, PI Artworks gallery, Istanbul, TK
- Shining Shelter, Clemens Sels Museum, Neuss
2014
- Forum Kunst, Rottweil, Germany
- Kunstverein Mönchengladbach, with Claudia Desgranges Mönchengladbach, Germany
- What is and what should have been, Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Düsseldorf, Germany
- Museum Biedermann, Donaueschingen, Germany
- Lichtschlag, Permanent Light-Installation, IKOB, Museum für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Eupen, Belgium
2013
- Spot on 6 Istanbul Diary, Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, Turkey
- Home, IKOB, Museum for Contemporary Art, Eupen, Belgium
- Das Fruchtfleisch unserer Architektur (with Joris van den Moortel), Galeri Karl Pfefferle, Munich, Germany
- Galerie Heinz Holtmann, Cologne, Germany
- Travelling’Light, Kunstverein Ruhr, Essen, Germany
2012
- Big Baos, Galerie Heinz Holtmann, Cologne, Germany
- Neutrinos, Kunstverein Ulm, Ulm, Germany
- Umma Ummarum , with Gereon Krebber, Galerie Robert Drees, Hannover, Germany
- Pets, Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Düsseldorf, Germany
- Backbord-Steuerbord, permanent light installation, Bremerhaven Leherheide, Germany
- Billboard Painting, temporary light installation, SKM, Augsburg, Germany
- Sculpture Project HOME, Schützenbrücke, Museum Biedermann, Donaueschingen, Germany
GROUP EXHIBITION (SELECTED)
2022
- (Forthcoming) FLOWER, CHOI&CHOI Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2021
- UNTER GEWISSEN UMST NDEN, Die Neuzug nge der IKOB-Sammlung und Gäste
2020
- IKOB Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgien
- Winter Special 2020, Galerie Heinz Holtmann, Köln
- from dawn till dusk, Galerie Robert Drees, Hannover
- NEARBY – WIE BILDER ZEIGEN!, PEAC – Paul Ege Art Collection, Freiburg i. Br.
- TRAUM VON NATUR – SKULPTURENAUSSTELLUNG, Malkastenpark, Düsseldorf
2019
- 40 Jahre Galerie Heinz Holtmann, Galerie Heinz Holtmann, Köln
- Eine Hommage an Karl Pfefferle, Galerie Karl Pfefferle, München
- Alles Museum 2, Museum Goch, Goch
2018
- Galerie Robert Drees, Hannover
- Kunstraum Alexander Bürkle, Freiburg
- Künstlerhaus Dortmund
- Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerpen (BE)
2017
- Signal, Lichtkunst der Sammlung Robert Simon im Kunstmuseum Celle, Celle
- Meisterwerke,Sammlung des Museums für gegenstandsfreie Kunst Otterndorf
u.a. im Kunstmuseum Bremerhaven - Borusan Contemporary Istanbul, Turkey
- Play, Seaside, Sculpture project of the Busan Biennale , Busan, South Korea
- Imagined homes, Antike und Beton, Parallelprogramm der 6. Thessaloniki-Biennale,
- Goethe- Institut, Thessaloniki, Greece
- Raum 15, Positionen der Malerei, Museum Schloss Moyland, Betburg Hau
- Neon, Sofie van de Velde Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
2016
- SCRIPT, Borussan Contemporary, Istanbul/Turkey
- Lasst Blumen sprechen , Museum Schloss Moyland, Betburg Hau
- Auf Papier – Künstler der Galerie und Gäste, Galerie Karl Pfefferle, München
- Museum = K(x+y) /D, IKOB – Museum für Zeitgen ssische Kunst Eupen, Eupen, Belgium
2015
- Die Kraft der Idee, Kunstmuseum Celle
- Form folgt, Kunstraum Alexander Bürkle, Freiburg
- Domestic space / Paper Edition – Zweigstelle Berlin, Berlin
- Collagen, Sammlung Meerwein, Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck
- Reset, Clemens-Sels-Museum, Neuss
- Desire, Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, TK
2014
- Spaces, Kunstraum Alexander Bürkle, Freiburg
- Wiedersehen, Museum gegenstandsfreier Kunst, Otterndorf
- Open Head mit Inga Krüger und Rene Haustein, Arminius, Rotterdamer Museumsnacht, NL
2012
- Segment 2, Borusan Contemporary, Perili Kösk, Istanbul, TK
- Reset – Abstract Painting In A Digital World, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, NL
- Home, Skulpturenprojekt Donaueschingen, Heimattage Baden-Würtemberg
- Städtische Galerie Villingen-Schwenningen
2011
- Segment 1, Borusan Contemporary, Perili Kösk, TK
- Blast ( Bildperformance), Kunstakademie Hue und Saigon, Goethe-Institut Vietnam
Chamäleon – Colored Interactive
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