Jürgen Partenheimer

Jürgen Partenheimer (born 14 May 1947 in Munich, Germany) is among the most renowned German artists of his generation. Since his participation at the Paris Biennial in 1980 and the Venice Biennial in 1986, his work has been widely shown internationally.

The Archive, Jurgen Partenheimer

Work

Jürgen Partenheimer, Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, 2004

The work of Jürgen Partenheimer, emerged in Germany in the early 1980s, reveals the artist’s profound experience in his artistic activities which include painting, drawing, sculpture and which also draw on theory, poetry and prose as his referential grammar of artistic expression. His work is distinguished by an abstract quality, which seems to express a state of uncertainty and inconsistency, calling in question the viewer's own preconceived certainties. Marked by a post-minimalist background and a poetic intensity, his art has been referred to as metaphysical realism. “Metaphysical Realism”, for Partenheimer, replaces abstraction and points beyond the facticity of the form. He approaches his subject matter at the very boundary of its corporeality, at the very point of transition between its materiality and its immateriality. Partenheimer's ability to combine his art with serious theoretical discourse testifies to his extraordinary qualities as an artist.

Biography

Jürgen Partenheimer spent his childhood in Munich. Since 1968 studies in philosophy and the history of art at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, Germany. 1970 scholarship to Brandeis University, Massachusetts, chooses to study fine art and history of art at the University of Arizona, Tucson, USA. 1972 Artist in residence to the Museum of Spanish Abstract Art in Cuenca, Spain.1973 -graduates with MFA from UoA, Tucson, AZ. 1974 continues his studies at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich. Dissertation- and research scholarship from the State of Bavaria for Musée d´Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France. PhD in art history with distinction at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, Germany.

Jürgen Partenheimer, China National Museum of Fine Art, Beijing, "World Axis", Imperial Archives, Forbidden City, Beijing, 2000
Jürgen Partenheimer, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, 2014

Moves to Düsseldorf. 1979 first solo exhibition at the Richard Demarco Gallery in Edinburgh. 1980 -1981 participates at the XI Paris Biennial, France and XVI São Paulo Biennial, Nucleus I, Brazil. 1982 National Endowment for the Arts with exhibition of workbooks and drawings at Franklin Furnace, New York. 1983–85 visiting artist to San Francisco Art Institute, California and distinguished visiting professor at the University of California at Davis. 1986 participates at XLII Venice Biennial. 1987–90 visiting artist to Rijksakademie van Beeldenden Kunsten in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Artist in residence to Fine Arts Work Centre, Provincetown, Massachusetts. 1991 writes his poetic manifesto “De coloribus - Notes on colour”, which is co-published by Hine Editions, San Francisco and Art-Book, Amsterdam. 1994 Partenheimer was part of 'A century of Artists' Books' at MOMA, a show curated by Riva Castleman. 1995 receives art critic’s award of the year for best show of the season in Madrid, Spain. 1997–1998 comprehensive solo exhibitions at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the IVAM Valencia and Kunsthalle Karlsruhe. 1999 invited to develop an exhibition of sculpture, painting and work on paper for the space of the Contemporary Art Museum CGAC in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. 2000 first German contemporary artist to receive a retrospective at the National Museum of Fine Arts in Beijing and the Nanjing Museum in Nanjing, China.

Installs the sculpture „world axis“ in the „Forbidden City“ in Beijing. 2002 overview exhibition at the S.M.A.K. in Gent, Belgium, artist in residence to Ergo Pers, Gent; 2004-05 retrospective exhibitions at the Museum am Ostwall in Dortmund, Germany and the Pinacoteca Do Estado in São Paulo, Brazil. Awarded the Prize for Visual Arts by the Kulturstiftung Dortmund. Receives Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. Guest of Honour at the German Academy-Villa Massimo in Rome, Italy and artist in residence to the Copan Building (Oscar Niemeyer), São Paulo, Brazil. 2006 Artist in residence to Nietzsche-House in Sils-Maria, Switzerland. 2007 exhibits “Copan- Drawings” and “São Paulo Diary” at Pinacoteca Do Estado in São Paulo, Brazil. 2008 comprehensive survey exhibition at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham and Kunstmuseum Bonn. 2009 – 2011 site specific installations for Museum Chasa Jaura, Valchava, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Mies van der Rohe Haus, Berlin and Nirox Project Space, Johannesburg. 2011 Artist in Residence to Nirox Foundation, South Africa. 2013 exhibition project „Schaustelle“, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich at Museum Mobile, Ingolstadt. 2014 receives the Audain Distinguished Residency Award, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver and exhibits „Das Archiv-The Archive“ at Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Deichtorhallen-Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag and Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver. Lives and works in Germany and Italy.

Jürgen Partenheimer, Gemeetemuseum, The Hague

Selected Exhibitions 1980 - 2014

Jürgen Partenheimer, IVAM, Valencia, 1998
Jürgen Partenheimer, "World Axis", IVAM, Valencia, 1998
Jürgen Partenheimer, Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporaneo, CGAC, Santiago de Compostela, 1999
Jürgen Partenheimer, Stedelijk Museum voor Aktuele Kunst, S.M.A.K. Gent, 2002
Jürgen Partenheimer, Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, 2004

Literature

Jürgen Partenheimer. Roma - São Paulo, Karlsruhe. Richter Verlag, 2006
Jürgen Partenheimer, Mies van der Rohe Haus, Berlin, 2011
Jürgen Partenheimer, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, 2014

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