Bertram Schilling
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.
”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.
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;
