Andreas Slominski valuation
German sculptor of animal traps, bicycles and windmills, and of reliefs in cheap polystyrene, made with a deadpan wit.
Andreas Slominski was born in Meppen, in Lower Saxony, in 1959, abandoned a philosophy degree and studied at the Hochschule für bildende Künste in Hamburg from 1983 to 1986.
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Bio
Andreas Slominski was born in Meppen, in Lower Saxony, in 1959, abandoned a philosophy degree and studied at the Hochschule für bildende Künste in Hamburg from 1983 to 1986. He made his name with traps: working animal traps, from vole traps to large snares, built or found and shown as sculpture, at once usable objects and comments on the way art lures its audience. Bicycles, windmills, found objects and elaborate, absurd actions followed, in the line of Duchamp's readymades, and from 2006 he added painting and reliefs, swapping the marble of a classical relief for polystyrene and the subjects of painting for kitsch motifs and colours. Since 2009 he has also hung garage doors on the wall like paintings. He taught at Karlsruhe and in 2004 succeeded Franz Erhard Walther as professor at the Hamburg academy.
The traps, the reliefs and the garage doors are unique objects, often built of ordinary or fragile materials, and polystyrene in particular dents and discolours, so condition should be judged in person. Many works depend on a set arrangement or on an action that was performed with them, and a photograph of the work as first installed, with its title and date, keeps its meaning attached. Thaddaeus Ropac represents him.
At a glance
- Born
- 1959, Meppen
Meppen, Hamburg and the traps
He was in the Venice Biennale of 1988 and 1997 and in Skulptur Projekte Münster in 1997. The Hamburger Kunsthalle gave him solo exhibitions in 1995 and 1997, and the Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin in 1999.
Later solo shows were held at the Serpentine Gallery in London in 2005, the Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt in 2006 and the Deichtorhallen in Hamburg in 2016. He received the Lichtwark Prize and the Hannah Höch Prize in 2013.
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