Martin Wöhrl
Born 1974 in Munich, Germany, where he lives and works.
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Pavesi, 2017
Metal, varnish, concrete
Contact Gallery
each ca. 170 x 30 x 30 cm
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About
The point of departure for Martin Wöhrl’s artistic practice is an engagement with space, measure, and volume in the spirit of classical statuary. His contemporary approach involves allusions to contexts external to art and contexts immanent to art. His quotations and appropriations refer to traditions and heraldry, everyday aesthetics and design classics, other artists, art movements, cultural practices and fashions, or national qualities. His practice involves sculpture, wall works, reliefs, objects and multiples.
Wöhrl’s works can, depending on their context, space, and location, be examined with a certain openness and offer a great room for associations without seeming random. Wöhrl treasures a clear formal language, a minimalism with a patina, materials with their own story, the poetic in everyday detail.
„Martin Wöhrl’s works always involve content from art an the everyday, style and value, form and surface as well as intention and projection. When one observes the totality of his works one detects a wealth of facets, but also their stringency: from the furniture and wooden-floor installations through the works referring to architecture and those quoting artists to those engaging with ornament and decoration. (...) The objects he quotes and produces in enlarged form as well as in alienated materials take on specific meanings. Martin Wöhrl transforms their symbolism by changing the objects. (...) The artist is taken by the forming or shaping of living environments and living conditions which become further moulded by aspects of cultural history such as architecture, design, fine art, film and music.“ (Angelika Nollert: Forms of being, in: Martin Wöhrl, So viel Schönheit, so viel Freude, auch für uns Menschen von heute, Nuremberg 2010.)
BIOGRAPHY
Martin Wöhrl (*1974) lives and works in Munich. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, at the Edinburgh College of Art, and at Glasgow School of Art. He has been awarded with the Lothar-Fischer-Prize for sculpture, has received the Villa Concordia grant in Bamberg, the USA-grant of the Bavarian State, DAAD grant and the Bayerischer Staatsförderpreis.
His works are in the following public collections: Lenbachhaus Munich, Kunstmuseum Bonn, and Neues Museum, Nuremberg. In 2017 he designed a room for Museum Villa Stuck, Munich.