Madeleine Dietz

A Part of...

2004, Soil/Steel, 200 x 300 x 180 cm (SOLD)

Ein Teil von 2 — A Part of...,
2004, Soil/Steel, 200 x 300 x 180 cm (SOLD)

Vis à vis

2006, Soil/Steel, 450 x 450 x 25 cm
(Floorinstallation in Kloster Bad Schussenried)

Kt vis á vis — Vis à vis,
2006, Soil/Steel, 450 x 450 x 25 cm
(Floorinstallation in Kloster Bad Schussenried)

Not a poem

March 2015, Soil/Steel, 95 x 50 x 10 cm

Kein Gedicht , Maerz 2015, 95 x 50 x 10 cm — Not a poem,
March 2015, Soil/Steel, 95 x 50 x 10 cm

Tresor Nr. 25 (Safe No. 25)

2005, earth/steel, 100 x 100 x 10 cm

Tresor Nr 25, 2005 — Tresor Nr. 25 (Safe No. 25),
2005, earth/steel, 100 x 100 x 10 cm

Over Corner

2007, Soil/Steel, 300 x 73 x 73 cm

ueber Eck, 300x75x75cm — Over Corner,
2007, Soil/Steel, 300 x 73 x 73 cm

Yirka

2017, Soil/Pigment/Canvas, 120 x 200 cm

Biography

Born 1953 in Mannheim
1969-73 Studies at the Werkkunstschule in Mannheim (book graphics and book illustration)
1986 first video works, performances, spatial installations
1992 first light installations / projections
1992 Daniel-Henry-Kahnweiler Prize for Sculpture
1992-97 various scholarships, including guest scholarship Villa-Romana, Florence, working scholarship Houston, Texas
1999/2000 Lectureship HBK Saarbrücken
2003 Hamburg, Ernst Barlach Prize
2007 First solo exhibition at Galerie Georg Nothelfer
2013 Culture Prize Kunst & Ethos, Edition Schnell&Steiner, Regensburg
2024 Lifetime achievement award for fine arts from the Palatinate District Association
Lives and works in Landau

Madeleine Dietz is known for works that contrast and combine steel and earth: Steel as a seemingly cold, smooth and constructive principle in contrast to earth as a broken, uneven but living principle. A surprising togetherness and juxtaposition that conveys very different haptic experiences to the fingers that run over the surfaces of the materials. And which develops its charm not least because the dimension of time plays an important symbolic role: The earth as natural seemingly transient, the steel as designed seemingly eternal. With earth, steel and light, Madeleine Dietz has created an artistic work that can hardly be surpassed in its symbolism.

Exhibitions

Publications

Schatten der wahren Vergangenheit. Installationen und fragmentarische Nachzeichnungen, 2017, Booklet on the occasion of the exhibition at Galerie Georg Nothelfer, 13 May-17 June 2017, EUR 5

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Kritisches Lexikon der Gegenwartskunst/Critical Encyclopaedia of Contemporary Art. Madeleine Dietz, 2013, Text by Ute Stimmer, issue 103, issue 14, III. quarter 2013, 12 pages with numerous illustrations., EUR 3

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verbergen und entbergen 2004-2009, 2009, Ed. Kunstverein Buchholz/Nordheide, texts by Sven Nommensen, Andreas Mertin, Reiner Sörries (German), 80 pages, numerous illustrations, ISBN 3-9810179-2-7, EUR 20

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