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Ekkehard Altenburger
Member of the Society of Royal British Sculptors
Education
1998/99MA fine Art / Chelsea College of Art, London
1997/98Graduation at Hochschule für Künste Diploma Fina Art
1995/96Edinburgh College of Art/ Sculpture department
1991-95Hochschule für Künste Bremen, Sculpturedepartement
1988-91restoration work @ Cathedral of Schwäbisch Gmünd
1983-86apprentice stonemason
Commissions /public sculpture
2010Sophrosyne II Guatemala City, Museum of Contemporary Art
2009/10Harlow arts trust, Sophrosyne I for Newhall/Harlow
2007 - 10“Negative falls” with “Thamse stone”,
Grosvenor Waterside London Westminster
2009Aesculapian Arch Milton Keynes Central Hospital
2008“Morningthoughts” , marblesculpture, Archbishopspallace Maidstone / Kent
2007Give & Take , Schoepfheim ( Switzerland)
Stainless steel and laminated glass
Chelsea & Westminster Hospital London / Chelsea
sculpture “Dopplereffect” and fountain in marble
2006Contemporary War Memorial in Kilkenny Limestone,
Streatham Memorial gardens, London
2005Queen Elizabeth Hospital Gateshead, 2 marble sculptures, and design/ implementation of a rock garden with sculptural element
2004Brighton and Hove -2 sculptures Connaught Rd
2002Museo Municipal Caldas da Rainha (crashed semi) / Portugal
2001granite sculptures for Royal Arsenal Gardens in London (UK)
2001granite sculpture - Buddusso sculpturepark (Sardinia)
1999Eglisau Sculpture trail ( Swizerland)
1996Townhall plaza Jestetten ( Germany)
Exhibitions (selection)
2010Carlos 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
2009South/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
2006Thread Gallery at APT / London
2005“KINO” Sculpturespace Utica NY/USA
Atkinson Gallery Sommerset / UK
2004RBS Gallery /South Kensington/ London - annual exhibition
2003- “Colourspace” Gallery at APT / London
-“Pride of the Valley sculpture Park” / Surrey
2002
- 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
2001
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
Projects: 2001
- “Year of the artist” a project at the London Stock exchange
- Visiting and filming architect Oscar Niemeyer in Rio
2000
- 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
1999-“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
2003London Visual Arts grant
2002Royal Society of British Sculptors Bursary award
2000/2001Year of the artist residency programme /London
1999Video award Bremen 1999
1998/99DAAD Stipendium London
1996Bräunlich- Bieser Award
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