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Barbara Westermann (born Swiezinski, in Werdohl, Germany in 1958) is a conceptual and site-specific sculptor, artist and teacher living in Red Hook, New York. She has lived and worked in New York City for many years and continues to work on projects in the city.
Recent projects
Recent projects include a Women’s Studio Workshop fellowship and work with seniors in Queens, NY and at the Hessel Museum through the Bard College Lifetime Learning Institute as well as artwork in Art for the Future at Tufts University and super dakota gallery in Brussels. She has shown her work with Street Press Gallery.
Education
She received her B.A. in Architecture & Urban Planning from the University of Kassel, Germany, 1982-77 and her MFA in Sculpture from Fachhochschule Koln, Germany, 1985-82. She studied with Daniel Spoerri, Eduardo Paolozzi and Stefan Wewerka.
She also met her husband and artistic collaborator William Allen planting trees as part of Beuys’ 7000 Eichen project at the documenta 7 project in Kassel, Germany. After moving to New York, she studied at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program and completed the education certificate at the School of Visual Arts.
Art
Barbara is a sculptor and installation artist. Her sculptures, prints, and drawings are minimalist and conceptual, with an emphasis on social sculpture, urban planning, geometry, geophysical mapping, and music. Barbara uses site-specific work that involves sculpture, prints, architecture, and engineering. She makes sculpture to ‘embody’ utilitarian objects.
She has shown her work widely, including single shows at Kunstverein Malkasten in Düsseldorf, the La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Museum fur Neue Kunst in Germany. She delivered a lecture called ‘documenta urbana’ at the documenta 13 in Kassel, Germany and showed a video during the ‘undocumenta’ of 2021.
She completed a fellowship at the Raketenstation Stiftung Hombroich in the fall of 2012 and was a fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in Virginia. She publishes prints with Clay Street Press in Cincinnati.
Her art has been shown at the Tate in London, the Whitney Biennial, MOMA/PS1, the Dia Art Foundation, Paula Cooper Gallery, Holly Solomon Gallery, Ronald Feldman Gallery, E|AB Fair, Clay Street Gallery, Momenta Art, Proteus Gowanus, the Museum of the National Library of Spain, Brooklyn Museum, Hamburger + Munchner Kunstverein, Hamburg/Munich, Germany, New Museum for Contemporary Art, and numerous other venues in the States and Europe.
Awards
Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, 1999 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, 1988 Art Matters Foundation Grant, 1988
Teaching
Hessel Museum-Bard College Lifetime Learning, Su Casa Senior Art Classes, Queens Council on the Arts, Queens, NY Individual Instruction, Studio Practice, Medallion Studios, Queens, NY Seminar Leader and Community Workshops, Women’s Studio Workshop Seminar Leader, Brown University, Providence, RI Beuys Symposium, Brown University and Providence College Sculpture Instructor, Portsmouth Abbey, Portsmouth, RI, 2002-1999 Program Instructor, Roger Williams University, School of Architecture School, Bristol. RI, Instructor, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, Art Teacher, Providence College, Providence, RI Art Teacher, New School for Social Research, New York, NY Seminar Leader, Williams College, Williamstown, MA, 1996 Art Teacher, New York University, Winter 1997. Seminar on Morality & Materials
Art in Publications
Art Demonstration, Group Material, MIT Press, 2022 100 degrees West - 80 degrees East Meridian, Clay Street Press, 2020 ‘Sculpture and Data: History, Function, Invisibility in Architecture’ by Alexandra Keiser, 2019 Geographies, Clay Street Press Gallery, 2013 Providence Art Club, Providence, RI 2005 Exhibition review, Clay Street Press Gallery, Sara Eisen, The Cincinnati Enquirer, 2004 WindSeaSky catalog, Newport, RI, 2004 Essay by Vesela Sretenovic, ‘Observatory,’ 2004 Exhibition review, A.R.T. Gallery, by Ken Johnson, New York Times, 2000 Immobile Spaces, Bell Gallery exhibition, Vesela Sretenovic, Brown University, 1999 Artist’s work, with Group Material at P.S. 1, New York, 1999 Art of the Millennium, by Burkhardt Riemschneider, Taschen , 1999 Blurring the Boundaries: Installation Art 1969-1996, essays by Hugh Davies and Ron Onorato, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, 1997 Artist’s work included in Timeline, Robin Kahn, Creative Time, 1995 Artist’s Portfolio, Chelsea magazine, 1994 Barbara Westermann, monograph, Freiburg Museum, 1988 LivingRoom magazine, Amsterdam, 1985 Editor, Kunstforum International, Nr. 51, Kassel, 1980 Reference
See more at: https://barbarawestermann.com/.