Bertram Schilling

Bertram
Schilling
painting
collage
papercut
Stockholm/Sonthofen (Oberallgäu)
Sweden
About: 

The idea of the mix is a central theme of my paintings, collages, papercuts and installations. Recurring motifs and sources of inspiration come from my daily surroundings, travel experiences and landscape memories.

Project: 

”Map, Mind, Memory"
Munich - exhibition 2015

What I see, I paint. What I don' t see, I paint. What I can, I paint. What I can't, I paint.

Concepts of perception, memory and knowledge is what interests me in my work and in particular for the ”Map, Mind, Memory"-project. For the exhibition in Munich I produce pieces which are not guided by a well-defined program but instead are connected very much with intuitive processes and experimental production-methods.
I like it when paintings and collages become something like the by-product of an almost automatic process, constructing a kind of “own”, independent variation of imaginary form. To decide and evaluate becomes unnecessary, - the articulation becomes the knowing. The knowing comes out of the process, and it refuels a further effort of articulation.

Short CV: 

BERTRAM SCHILLING

born 1971 in Krumbach (Bavaria), lives in Sweden and Germany

1995 – 01  Kunsthochschule Kassel, Akademie der Bildenden Künste München, Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe/ ZKM (Rolf Lobeck, Res Ingold, Ludger Gerdes, Boris Groys, Peter Sloterdijk)

2002 - 03  MFA (Meisterschüler) 

 

PRICES / SCHOLARSHIPS / RESIDENCIES / PROJECT-GRANTS

2001  Barcelona, Erasmus-Grant
         „Abschluss mit Auszeichnung“, Kunsthochschule Kassel

2003  MFA/„Meisterschüler“, Prof. Rolf Lobeck, Kunsthochschule Kassel

2004  Curator at Kunsträume Kempten, Exhibition-project, Grant by the City of Kempten and the Bavarian State

2005  European-Travel-Grant by Bezirk Oberbayern Wroclaw/ Poland;
          Prize „Debutantenförderung“, Bavarian State Ministry of the Arts

2007  Prize „Förderpreis der Dr. Rudolf Zorn Stiftung“, Kempten

2008  Artist-In-Residence Manila „The Supreme Genius of Paul Gauguin“/ Film-project

2008 - 2010  Three year grant „Atelier-Stipendium“ of the Bavarian State

2011/12  Project-Grant, Erwin und Gisela von Steiner Stiftung, Munich

2013  Artist-In-Residence, Big and Small Project Space, Ufa, Russia
          Travel Grant Scandinavia, Project-support by the City of Munich, Culture-Department

2014  Project-Grant by Swedish-Finnish Cultural Foundation for Suomennlinna,/Helsinki, Finland

2015  Project-Grant Konstnärsnämnden

2016  Eurpean Grant by Bezirk Oberbayern, Residency at the Centre of Polish Sculpture in Orońsko, Poland

          Prize "Kunstpreis der Stadt Sonthofen"

2016/2017  Styria Artist-In-Residence, Graz, Project-grant by Land Steiermark

2017  Artist-In-Residence, Kökar, Finland

2017  Grant "Kunsthallen-Stipendium", Kempten/Allgäu

2018  Prize "Kunstpreis des Landkreises Oberallgäu", granted at Villa Jauss, Oberstdorf

2019  Grant, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA), USA

Selected Solo Exhibitions
Schwäbische Galerie, Oberschönenfeld/ Augsburg (2012); Jakob Henle Haus, Lünen (2012) Kunstverein Mönchengladbach (2011); Galerie Vögtle, Karlsruhe (2011 mit Andreas Stöhrer); Kunstforum Kempten (2010); Galerie Ambacher, München (2010 mit Oliver Winheim); Kunsthaus Villa Jauss, Oberstdorf (2008); Kunsthalle Kempten (2005); Dock 4, Kunstraum Kassel (2001);

Selected Group Shows
Museum of Polish Art, Oronsko (2018); Europäisches Künstlerhaus Freising (2017); Sodu 4, Vilnius (2016); Konstnärshuset Stockholm  (2016), Kunsthaus Kaufbeuren (2016);  Südliche, Sonthofen (2016); ArtQ 13 Rom (2015); Galerie der Künstler, München (2015); Kunsthaus Villa Jauss, oberstdorf (2015); Konstnärshuset Stockolm (2015);
Galleria Rantakasarmi, Helsinki (2014); Studio 44, Stockholm (2012), SIHLQUAI55 Offspace, Zürich (2011); Kunsthalle Kempten (2011); Kunstverein „Graz“, Regensburg (2011); Alte Feuerwache Berlin (2011); Formverk, Eskilstuna (2011); Schloß Bad Grönenbach (2010); Pinakothek der Moderne Munich (2010); Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (2009); Polygalerie, Karlsruhe (2009); Staatsgalerie für Moderne Kunst, Glaspalast Augsburg (2009); Galeri u Zlaheto Kohauta, Prague (2009); Städtische Kunsthalle Wroclaw (2005); Hinterconti Hamburg (2003);

Art Fairs
Liste Basel (2009); Preview Berlin (2009, 2010); Supermarket Stockholm (2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2016); Cph_Alt, Copenhagen(2009, 2016); Und_Karlsruhe (2007, 2008, 2009, 2010); Belgrade Art Fair (2012); Suomi Art Fair Helsinki (2013); Art Athina, Fair Athens (2013); V-art, Värnamo (2009)

Collections
Pinakothek der Moderne München, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlung München; Karolinska Institute Stockholm, Gregor Mendel Laboratorien Neu-Ulm; Museen Kempten; Genetikum Stuttgart; Erwin und Gisela von Steiner Stiftung, München; Volkskundemuseum Oberschönenfeld; Stadt Sonthofen; Jakob Henle Haus Lünen; Stadt Fürstenfeldbruck; 

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