Maja Weyermann
Introduction
(*1962, Switzerland - 2016, Berlin, Germany)
1987 - 1989: Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam
1989 - 1993 : University of Arts, Berlin
Biography
Solo Shows
2015
Giostra, Gallery Nosbaum Reding, Luxembourg
DEPO-Istanbul, Istanbul
2014
Segues, Gallery Sanatorium, Istanbul
Gallery Kretlow, Bern
2013
The Miller House, Gallery Vous Êtes Ici, Amsterdam
The Miller House – and a Slice of Cake - or - Life Shortly Before Disaster, Gallery Nosbaum Reding, Luxembourg
2012
Research grant of pro helvetia New Delhi (film project “The House of Mr Sharma”, Chandigarh)
2011
Fondation de l’Architecture et de l’Ingénierie, Luxembourg
2010
Carnet Indien II, Fondation Suisse/Pavillon Le Corbusier, Paris
real-time-nomad, uqbar, Berlin, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin
Collegium Hungaricum, Berlin and five shops, Berlin
2009
Carnet Indien I, Unité d’Habitation of Berlin by Le Corbusier, Berlin
2008
Chandigarh, Museum of Fine Arts, Chandigarh, India
Chandigarh: An Approach, India International Centre, New Delhi, India
Chandigarh, Gallery Vera Munro, Hamburg
2006
Renderings, Gallery Nosbaum Reding, Luxembourg
2005
Liminal, Gallery Vera Munro, Hamburg
2004
Guest teacher at the University of Lichtenstein (compartm. architecture)
2003
Gare d’Orsay, Gallery Koch und Kesslau, Berlin
neben Acapulco # 2, Luxus-bar, Berlin, with K.Müller
2001
3 Tassen Tee (ca. 8 km), Gallery Koch und Kesslau, Berlin
Senatsstipendiaten Bildende Kunst 2001, Kunstbank, Berlin, with Paschutan Buzari
1998
transformed object, installation, Kunstruimte, Berlin
1995
54 x Acryl auf Tubolit, installation, shell of the office building from Léon/Wohlhage Archi- tects, Kronprinzendamm, Berlin
1994
Doppelnaturen, installation, Botanisches Büro, Berlin
Projekt Raum, Zurich, with Irène Hug
Group Exhibitions (Selection)
2015
„Chandigarh sehen. Schweizer Reportagen“, Centre Le Corbusier / Heidi Weber Haus, Zurich
2014
Bad Thoughts, Collection Martijn and Jeannette Sanders, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
2013
The Golden Age, partner programm of CTM and transmediale, general public, Berlin
2012
Witness to Change, curated by Rahaab Allana, Indraprastha Gardens, New Delhi
Die Stadt, die es nicht gibt - Bilder globaler Räume, curated by Brigitte Franzen, Ludwig Forum für internationale Kunst, Aachen
Wahlverwandtschaften - Imaginationen des Nomadischen, curated by Peter Herbstreuth, Museum für Völkerkunde, Hamburg
2010
PIX Quarterly - Imaginaries : Exploring Photo Art, Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller
Bhavan, New Delhi
Celebration!, uqbar, Berlin
casting, visite ma tente, Berlin
real-time-nomads, at the Festival The KNOT - linking the existing with the imaginary, Warsaw
2009
Zeigen, An audiotour through Berlin by Karin Sander, Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin
2007
Hotel Humboldt, glue, Berlin
Breakthrough to Grey Room – Casabarata, arab - european dialog, Tangierconference 2007, Tangier
2005
First Choice!, Galerie Vera Munro, Hamburg
me, myself and I, gutleut 15, Frankfurt, Berlin, Amsterdam, München
Klasse Girke, Positionen 1971 - 1996, Vfak-Ruhrgebiet e.V., Oberhausen
2004
At home with friends and guests, with Pool products, Berlin
2000
urban dialogues: Ladenkette, in cooperation with the architect’s office cet-0
1999
somavision, Art and Media Centre, Berlin
1998
Ceterum Censeo, Galerie im Marstall, Berlin
1997
”ailleurs, in Stipendiaten 1995 - 1997, Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin
Grüße aus Brest, Jim, mit “die der art guten Freunde” (Irène Hug, Joey Zimmermann,
Ralf Steeg, Maja Weyermann), Augustrasse 86, Berlin
1996
APOLLO, museumsakademie, Berlin
1993
Goldrausch IV, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin
Grants and Awards
2014
Istanbul residency supported by the Berlin Senate Department for Cultural Affairs, Berlin catalogue funding from the Berlin Senate Department for Cultural Affairs, Berlin
DLRG Film, 1. prize for animation, 8. Istanbul International Architecture and Urban Films
Festival, Istanbul
2012
Research grant of the foundation pro helvetia New Delhi for the project The House of Mr Sharma, Chandigarh
2001
work grant of the Berlin Senate Department for Cultural Affairs, Berlin
1995 - 1997
studio grant of the Karl Hofer Gesellschaft, Berlin
1996
work grant of the Stiftung Kulturfonds, Berlin
1993
work grant of the Berlin Senate Department for Cultural Affairs, Berlin
Projects
2013
DLRG, animation
conception by Antje Buchholz, Sven Flechsenhar and Maja W
eyermann. The animation was made for the exhibition Ludwig Leo - Ausschnitt (gallery die raum), curated by BARa rchitekten und Gregor Harbusch; a project of the Wuestenrot Stiftung in context with the restauration of the Umlauftank, Berlin
2011/2012
about paradise, video project
supported by SFB 586 Differenz und Integration of the Universities of Leipzig und Halle- Wittenberg, the Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft and Institute for Anthropology of the Unversity of Leipzig.
2010
REAL-TIME-NOMADS, audio- video project
supported by the European Cultural Foundation, the Netherlands
2006 - 2009
Chandigarh Projekt
supported by the Berlin Senate Department for Cultural Affairs, the foundation pro hevetia, Zurich and New Delhi, Institut fu?r Auslandbeziehungen e.V. ifa, Stuttgart
2004
guest lecturer at the University of Liechtenstein, department architecture. Liechtenstein
1994 - 2000
Doppelnaturen, 54 x Arcryl auf Tubolit und transformed object, installations supported by the Berlin Senate Department for Cultural Affairs, Sciences and Research,
Foundation Pro Helvetia, Zurich, Karl Hofer Gesellschaft, Berlin, Stiftung Kulturfonds,
Berlin, Office for Culture of the Canton of Berne, Berne, DESY Zeuthen, Mondrian Founda tion, Amsterdam, Royal Netherlands Embassy, Berlin
projects
Public Collections
Selected Bibliography
Doris Agoati, “Virtual rooms”, Sophie Jung, “Garden Cities”, Nicolas Siepen “Pixel Dust” and Hans Rudolf Reust “Modo Geometrico - or Awakening from Modernism into a Dream”, in: Maja Weyermann, catalogue, Bielefeld, 2015, ISB 978-3-7356-0092-9, German Version: ISBN 978-3-86678-988-3.
Sophie Jung, “Maja Weyermann. Die Moderne als Rendering”, in Maja Weyermann, Baunetzwoche#385, www.baunetz.de/baunetzwoche.html, (accessed 30 October 2014)
Paul di Felice, Pierre Stiwer (eds.), “Maja Weyermann, The Miller House – and a Slice of Cake – or – Life Shortly Before Disaster …”, in Mois Européen de la Photographie Luxembourg 2013, Luxembourg, 2013, p. 50 – 53, ISBN 978-99959-674-2-0.
Peter Herbstreuth (ed.), “about paradise I/II zwei ku?nstlerische Videoportraits von Maja Weyermann”, in: Wahlverwandtschaften - Imaginationen des Nomadischen, catalogue, Leipzig 2012, ISBN 978-3-926196-63-7.
Sameena Siddiqui “Chandigarh Series” in: Rahaab Allana (ed.), Imaginaries, Pix Quarterly Nr. 3, New Delhi, 2011.
Hans Rudolf Reust, “Maja Weyermann - Luxembourg”, in Kunstbulletin 6/2011, Zu?rich, 2011
Paul di Felice, Pierre Stiwer (eds.), “Maja Weyermann, Chandigarh”, p. 54 -57 in Mois Européen de la Photographie, Luxembourg, 2011, ISBN 978-99959-674-1-3.
Thomas Wulffen, “Kritische Bildproduktion Maja Weyermann bei uqbar”, in Kunstmagazin, Edition 1011, Berlin, 2010.
Nicolas Siepen, Thomas Wulffen and Dieter Bechtloff (ed.), “Abstraktes Leben auf virtuellen Baustellen” in: Fiktion der Kunst der Fiktion, Kunstforum international, Bd. 202, Ruppichteroth, 2010.
Maja Weyermann (ed.), “real-time-nomads”, DVD, CD and documentation, supported by European Cultural Foundation, Berlin, 2010.
Fabian Goppelsröder (ed.) with drawings by Maja Weyermann, “Das Palais Stonborough, Wittgenstein als Architekt seiner Spätphilosophie” in WittgensteinKunst, Zurich-Berlin 2006, ISBN-10: 3-935300-14-X.
Maja Weyermann (ed.), “Chandigarh - an approach”, DVD, supported by pro helvetia new delhi, Berlin, 2008
Gunter Gebauer, “Der Blick von Innen”, in Chandigarh - an approach, DVD Booklet, supported by pro helvetia, Berlin, 2008
Mamta Upadhyaya, “Revisiting Chandigarh”, in DESIGN TODAY- Magazin, New Delhi, May issue 2008
Wolf Jahn, “Maja Weyermann, Galerie Vera Munro”, in Artforum international, summer 2005
Michaela Ott, “Raumvielfalten”, Nicolas Siepen, “Abstraktes Leben auf virtuellen Baustellen”, in: free frame cuts catalogue, Berlin, 2003
Maja Weyermann, ”Kundmanngasse II - Maja Weyermann”, ARCH+, Magazine for Architecture und urban planning, 34. year, edi- tion 157, Achen, August 2001
Maja Weyermann, ”Absence - Maja Weyermann”, in ARCH+, Magazine for Architecture und urban planning, 34. year, edition 156, Aachen, Mai 2001
Nicolas Siepen, ”Plötzlich kippt die Ordnung, Maja Weyermann bringt Wittgenstein und Mies van der Rohe aus dem Gleichgewicht”, in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Berliner Seiten, 04. 05. 2001.
Bernet David, “Derivate des Raumes”, in: SOMA, catalogue, Berlin, 1999
Stepken Angelika, Bernet David, in transformed object, catalogue, Berlin, 1998
Reust Hans Rudolf, “Binnenräume in Innenräumen als Aussenräume”, in Doppelnaturen, catalogue, Berlin, 1994