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Ekkehard Altenburger
Member of the Society of Royal British Sculptors
Education
1998/99
MA fine Art / Chelsea College of Art, London
1997/98
Graduation at Hochschule für Künste Diploma Fina Art
1995/96
Edinburgh College of Art/ Sculpture department
1991-95
Hochschule für Künste Bremen, Sculpturedepartement
1988-91
restoration work @ Cathedral of Schwäbisch Gmünd
1983-86
apprentice stonemason
Commissions /public sculpture
2010
Sophrosyne II Guatemala City, Museum of Contemporary Art
2009/10
Harlow arts trust, Sophrosyne I for Newhall/Harlow
2007 - 10
“Negative falls” with “Thamse stone”,
Grosvenor Waterside London Westminster
2009
Aesculapian Arch Milton Keynes Central Hospital
2008
“Morningthoughts” , marblesculpture, Archbishopspallace Maidstone / Kent
2007
Give & Take , Schoepfheim ( Switzerland)
Stainless steel and laminated glass
Chelsea & Westminster Hospital London / Chelsea
sculpture “Dopplereffect” and fountain in marble
2006
Contemporary War Memorial in Kilkenny Limestone,
Streatham Memorial gardens, London
2005
Queen Elizabeth Hospital Gateshead, 2 marble sculptures, and design/ implementation
of a rock garden with sculptural element
2004
Brighton and Hove -2 sculptures Connaught Rd
2002
Museo Municipal Caldas da Rainha (crashed semi) / Portugal
2001
granite sculptures for Royal Arsenal Gardens in London (UK)
2001
granite sculpture - Buddusso sculpturepark (Sardinia)
1999
Eglisau Sculpture trail ( Swizerland)
1996
Townhall plaza Jestetten ( Germany)
Exhibitions (selection)
2010
Carlos Woods Arte( Guatemala City)
Herbert Read gallery Canterbury
Jerwood drawing Price 2009 – Jerwood Gallery and touring throughout the UK
PUBLIC PROPOSALS Chelsea future space London
DIALOGUE Harlow / Newhall ZigZag Building
2009
South/East APT Gallery London
Sculpture at Woburn Abbey ( with Sladmore gallery)
18 @ 108 RBS gallery London
2008
“concrete dreams” Gallery at APT London
“Schoener wohnen am Kollwitzplatz” Berlin
2007
“Politics pays back” Kowalski Gallery London
“art Entlebuch” Fluehli Switzerland
2006
Thread Gallery at APT / London
2005
“KINO” Sculpturespace Utica NY/USA
Atkinson Gallery Sommerset / UK
2004
RBS Gallery /South Kensington/ London - annual exhibition
2003
- “Colourspace” Gallery at APT / London
-“Pride of the Valley sculpture Park” / Surrey
2002
2001
Projects: 2001
2000
1999
- Royal Society of British Sculptors- Bursary exhibition at
RSBC /Kensington / London (September)
- Caldas da Rainha Sculpture Symposium (Portugal)
-Chelsea Physics Garden / London
-20/20 for Deptford X / London (curated)
-“club” Poitiers- Le Confort Moderne (F)
-Jerwood Sculpture price / Talbot Rice Gallery Edinburgh
10 years Video art price Bremen / GAK and new Museum Weserburg
- “The Jerwood Sculpture Price” Jerwood Space / London
-International sculpture symposium Buduso / Sardinia
-“Club” Beaconsfield Gallery / London
-“a hora azul” solo show Goethe institute Salvador / Brazil
- “Year of the artist” a project at the London Stock exchange
- Visiting and filming architect Oscar Niemeyer in Rio
- Kunsthalle Bremen / Video art prize
- “Living with the Dutch” Erlanger Road / London
-“How the west won and lost”
Window Gallery /Prague - presented by British Arts Council
-“Of spaces and frames” Video screening (curated)
Project Space / London
-“do ya know what I mean?”
Gallery at the Goethe Institute/London (GB)
-”Big warm open”
Cambridge Darkroom Gallery/Cambridge (GB)
Awards
2005
Sculpture Space (New York / Utica) residency programme
2003
London Visual Arts grant
2002
Royal Society of British Sculptors Bursary award
2000/2001
Year of the artist residency programme /London
1999
Video award Bremen 1999
1998/99 DAAD Stipendium London
1996
Contact details:
Bräunlich- Bieser Award