Prof. Klaus Weber
Sculpture
Ph. +49 251 83 61051
kl.weber[at]kunstakademie-muenster.de
Instagram: atelier_klaus_weber
Office hours: by appointment
Leonardo-Campus 2
Room 051
Klaus Weber, born in 1967, is a conceptual sculptor who lives and works in Berlin. He studied at the UdK Berlin in the free class and graduated as a master student in 1996. He is primarily represented by the Herald St Gallery (London).
Since 2017 he has been Professor of Sculpture at the Kunstakademie Münster.
Solo exhibitions institutes and galleries show Weber among other things in:
- Kunstwerke Berlin (2022 & 2005)
- Volksbühne Berlin (2019)
- Collective in Edinburgh (2018)
- Herald St Gallery, London (seit 2006)
- Andrew Kreps Gallery (seit 2004)
- Fondazione Morra Greco, Neapel (2013)
- Nottingham Contemporary (2011)
- Secession in Wien (2008)
- Hayward Gallery, London (2007 & 2021)
- Kunstverein Hamburg (2005)
- Frieze Projects in London (2003 & 2012)
He has also been represented in numerous group exhibitions, including:
- Centro de Creación Contemporánea de Andalucía/TBA21 (2023–24)
- Kunsthalle Wien (2016)
- KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2015/2013/2005)
- Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (2014)
- Frankfurter Kunstverein (2012)
- Galerie Sprüth Magers, Berlin (2010)
- Mori Art Museum, Tokio, (2008)
- Modern Institute, Glasgow (2008)
- MOCA LA (2005)
- Internationale Biennalen wie z.B. der Lyon Biennale (2015) und der Manifesta 7 (2007)
Weber develops works in various media and spatial contexts that are often based on complex technological interdependencies and finely structured production processes. Through targeted interventions in everyday structures, the tracing of deviations and the exploration of the impossible, his works subvert the metaphorical and actual power of functionalist rationality. In doing so, Weber repeatedly draws on images of nature and explores the enduring potential of the untameable in a humorous and anarchic way. (W.d.W)
He is represented in numerous international collections, including the Phil Aarons Collection, USA, the Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (TBA-21), Austria, the Contemporary Art Collection of the Federal Republic of Germany, the Sara Hildén Art Museum, Finland, and the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Italy.
He has received grants and prizes, including the HAP Grieshaber Prize, the Delfina Studio (London), Villa Aurora (LA) and Casa Baldi (Olevano) scholarships abroad and working grants from the Kunstfonds Bonn and the Berlin Senate.
His work Thinking Fountains is currently on display at the entrance to the Hayward Gallery in London.
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„Veggie Anatomy“
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Public Fountain LSD Hall
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Large Dark Wind Chime (Arab Tritone)
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Untitled yet
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Fountain Loma Dr / W 6 th St
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„Agemo“
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„Emergency Blanket“
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„The Big Giving“
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Clock Rock (lava)
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„Brutstube“, Berlin
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„Eve“ (ostrich egg)
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Snowman (nonument)
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„Thinking Fountains“
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„Mechanics of Youth“
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Basteltornado
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„Hunger Rock“ (nonument)
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Sandfountain
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„Stocktaking stacking“, National Museum, Tbilisi-Georgia
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„Twisted Figure“, Frieze London
