Sebastian Bieniek

Sebastian Bieniek (born 24 April 1975) is a German conceptual artist, painter, photographer, performer, author and movie director.[1] According to Global Thought Leader Ranking he was ranked worldwide as the no. 171 of the most influentional "Thought Leaders" in 2018[2].

In 2015 the theculturetrip.com website choosed him as one of the "Top 5 Influential Contemporary Berlin-Based Artists"[3]

Sebastian Bieniek (left) artist talk during his „Bal Umagbe La“ exhibition opening at the Kandovan Building of the Pejman Foundation in Tehran/Iran. 13th of july 2018.

Early life and education

Sebastian Bieniek, 2007, during a press conference at the 10th Shanghai International Film Festival.

Bieniek was born in Czarnowąsy, Upper Silesia/Poland, and until the age of 14 he grew up in the Upper Silesian village of Kup. In 1989 he left Poland as a late repatriate[4] (ger. Spätaussiedler, which means: "people with German origins that came mainly in the 80's and 90's from Poland and Russia to Germany"[5]).

In 1996 he started to study art at the HbK Braunschweig under the Serbian performance artist Marina Abramović and the Swiss conceptual artist John Armleder. In 1998 he changed to UdK Berlin and continued to study art in the class of the German photographer Katharina Sieverding, where he made his first short movie "Zero".[6]

In 2001 he got a grand (residency) of the DFJW in Rennes/France where he spent a half year and took part in a group exhibition called "Aux voyageurs",[7] curated by Bettina Klein. In the same year he graduated at the UdK Berlin.

In 2002 he started to study movie directing at the DFFB Berlin, where he made several movies.[8][9] His 2007 made full lengh movie "The Gamblers"[10][11] was part of the official competition of the 10th Shanghai International Film Festival.[12] His 2008 made movie "Silvester Home Run"[13][14][15] was part of the international short-film competition of the Festival Internacional de Cine de Mar del Plata[16] and also shown at the Montreal World Film Festival.

Artwork

Sebastian Bieniek 1999, laying for three days in 500 kg. of raw meat during his "Natural Born Sugar Eaters" exhibition in Kunsthaus Tacheles.

Bieniek's early works were radical performances, like "Hand Without a Body"[17] (1999) where he made daily for 16 days a cut into his own arm, or "Born to be Boulette"[18] (1999) where he was laying for three days in 500 kg. of raw meat, or "Robbery"[19] (1998) where he made a robbery in a Deutsche Bank as an art performance. Later his work become more and more minimalist and conceptual like the textworks[20] (ger. Textarbeiten) from 2001.

In 2009 (after a break of seven years) he restarted with "Homeland Security",[21] a serial of realistic conceptual paintings and others serials where he combined a painted image with a text.

In 2013 he continued with photography. His 2013 started photo-serial "Doublefaced"[22] became one of the best-known internet memes.[23] It was published by many[24] magazines and widely in social media. Later Bieniek created his own oeuvre around this Painted-Faces[25] where he continued to combine different media, for example painting and drawing and photography and drawing as in the "Facination" series.[26][27]

Simultaneously Bieniek continued to work on his minimalist textworks,[28] performances and paintings.[29] The "Perfect-Circles"[30] and "Multiplications"[31] serial are around 70 paintings with text made between 2013 and 2016. Also in 2008 he made a performance at the Art Forum[32] in Berlin, 2011 in Georgia,[33] 2013 at the Deutsche Bank KunstHalle[34] opening and 2016 in the University Church of Marburg.[35]

Collaborations

In 2013 Bieniek collaborated with the German INTRO music magazine for a photo shoot.[36] In 2015 he made a photo shoot for the Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazine.[37] In 2015 he collaborated with the French fashion designer Simon Porte Jacquemus at the Paris Fashion Week.[38] In 2016 he cooperated with the "Institute for church building and contemporary art" at the University of Marburg when being a part of the Liturgy Specific Art art-performance serial.[35] In 2016 he also cooperated with the director and Head Curator of the MONA Museum (Australia), Olivier Varenne for his online exhibition project at collectionair.com.[39]

Exhibitions

In 1999 Sebastian Bieniek had his first solo exhibition, named "Natural Born Sugareaters",[40] in the Kunsthaus Tacheles (Berlin). In 2000 he participated in the "Festival of Vision"[40] exhibition in the Hong Kong Arts Centre (Hong Kong), and in 2002 he participated in the HICETNUNC[40] exhibition in the Villa Manin (Italy). In 2014 he had a solo exhibition in the Nicola von Senger Gallery[41] (Zürich) and the Ho Gallery[40] in Vienna. In 2016 he had a solo exhibition in the Potemka Contemporary Art Gallery (Leipzig) called "The Imitation of the Imitation",[42] the Fotogalerie Friedrichshain called "The Melancholy of the Elephants"[43] and the "Views"[44] group show by the Bahrain Arts Society in Manama (Bahrain).

Influence

In 2018 Sebastian Bieniek was ranked as the no. 171 in the Global Thought Leader Ranking[45].

2017-2018 the italien dancers Federica Aloisio and Sabrina Vicari created a dance-show called EIOKA inspired by Sebastian Bieniek's artwork which was showed across Italy and became the winner of the Premio Strabismi 2017[46].

In 2015 theculturetrip.com website choose Sebastian Bieniek as one of the "Top 5 Influential Contemporary Berlin-Based Artists".[3]

During the Paris Fashion Week 2015, the FASHION magazine mentioned Sebastian Bieniek's work as "Best Face Art" at the Paris Fashion Week 2015.[47]

In 2015–2016 the Vogue wrote about two internatianal fashion designers who said that their work was inspired by Sebstian Bieniek (Simon Porte Jaquemus[48] and Inês Marques[49]). Also the Caribbean fashion designer Cecilia Devana[50] said that her collection is inspired by the artist.

2014 several international magazines[51][52][53] wrote that a scene in the "Marilyn Monroe" video of Pharrell Williams is inspired by Sebastian Bieniek's artwork.

In 2013 his artwork became one of the "Top 10 Body Art Stories of 2013"[54] by the designboom magazine. In the same year the designcollector.net magazine selected him as one of "The Best Photographers of 2013".[55]

In 2011 Bieniek made a performance in the ARD TV-show "ES GEHT UM MEIN LEBEN".[56] 2015 Japanese and Hong Kong TV[57] made a documentation and interview with him. 2016 he was documented and interviewed[58] by the Franco-German arte TV.

Notes

  1. ↑ "Sebastian Bieniek - Sebastian Bieniek". www.b1en1ek.com (in German). Retrieved 2017-03-05.
  2. ↑ "Sebastian Bieniek - Global Influence". Global Influence. Retrieved 2018-08-19.
  3. 1 2 "Theculturetrip magazine "Top 5 Influential Contemporary Berlin-Based Artists"". theculturetrip.com. Retrieved 2016-07-27.
  4. ↑ "Sebastian Bieniek - Detailed vita". www.b1en1ek.com (in German). Retrieved 2017-03-16.
  5. ↑ "Bundesverwaltungsamt - Aussiedler (Spätaussiedler)". www.bva.bund.de. Retrieved 2016-07-27.
  6. ↑ ""Zero" ein Kurzfilm von Sebastian Bieniek, 2002". www.b1en1ek.de (in German). Retrieved 2017-03-16.
  7. ↑ "Website of the DFJW with a record of the "Aux voyageurs" exhibition (openend 13.1.2001 in Rennes)". www.dfjw.org. Archived from the original on 2016-08-01. Retrieved 2016-07-27.
  8. ↑ "List of movies by Sebastian Bieniek on imdb.com". IMDb. Retrieved 2016-07-27.
  9. ↑ "Sebastian Bieniek - Film". www.b1en1ek.de (in German). Retrieved 2017-03-16.
  10. ↑ Bieniek, Sebastian (2007-06-20), Die Spieler, retrieved 2016-07-27
  11. ↑ ""Th Gamblers" a film by Sebastian Bieniek - official Website". www.b1en1ek.com (in German). Retrieved 2017-03-16.
  12. ↑ "List of movies in the official competition of the 10th Shanghai International Film Festival". blog.sina.com.cn. Retrieved 2016-07-27.
  13. ↑ "Silvester Home Run | filmportal.de". www.filmportal.de. Retrieved 2016-07-27.
  14. ↑ Bieniek, Sebastian (2008-08-26), Silvester Home Run, retrieved 2016-07-27
  15. ↑ ""Silvester Home Run", ein Kurziflm von Sebastian Bieniek". www.b1en1ek.de (in German). Retrieved 2017-03-16.
  16. ↑ "German Films: press release. Movies participating at the Festival International de Cine de Mar del Plata 2008". www.german-films.de. Archived from the original on 2016-08-01. Retrieved 2016-07-27.
  17. ↑ "Sebastian Bieniek - Hand Without a Body, 1999". www.sebastianbieniek.com. Retrieved 2016-07-27.
  18. ↑ "Sebastian Bieniek - Born to be Boulette, 1999". www.sebastianbieniek.com. Retrieved 2016-07-27.
  19. ↑ "Sebastian Bieniek - Robbery, 1998". www.sebastianbieniek.com. Retrieved 2016-07-27.
  20. ↑ "Sebastian Bieniek - Textworks, 2013". www.sebastianbieniek.com. Retrieved 2016-07-27.
  21. ↑ "2012 Homeland - Sebastian Bieniek / Early Works / Until 2013". www.sebastianbieniek.com. Retrieved 2016-07-28.
  22. ↑ "Official website of the Doublefaced serial by Sebastian Bieniek". www.doublefaced.eu. Retrieved 2016-07-27.
  23. ↑ "Press - Doublefaced a serial of photographs by Sebastian Bieniek ( double faced )". www.doublefaced.eu. Retrieved 2016-07-27.
  24. ↑ "Review of Doublefaced by theartfoundation". theartfoundation.metamatic.gr. Retrieved 2016-07-27.
  25. ↑ "Sebastian Bieniek artist - Painted Faces". www.bieniek.at. Retrieved 2016-07-28.
  26. ↑ "Sebastian Bieniek - 2014 Facination 1-27". www.b1en1ek.com (in German). Retrieved 2017-03-16.
  27. ↑ "Sebastian Bieniek - 2014 Facination 28-42". www.b1en1ek.com (in German). Retrieved 2017-03-16.
  28. ↑ "Sebastian Bieniek artist - official website - Textwork". www.bieniek.at. Retrieved 2016-07-28.
  29. ↑ "Sebastian Bieniek - 2015 Duplicato". www.b1en1ek.com (in German). Retrieved 2017-03-05.
  30. ↑ "Sebastian Bieniek artist - Perfect Circles 2014-2015". www.bieniek.at. Retrieved 2016-08-19.
  31. ↑ "Sebastian Bieniek - 2015 Multiplications". www.b1en1ek.com (in German). Retrieved 2017-03-16.
  32. ↑ "2009 Burqa - Sebastian Bieniek / Early Works / Until 2013". www.sebastianbieniek.com. Retrieved 2016-07-28.
  33. ↑ "2011 Viehmarkt - Sebastian Bieniek / Early Works / Until 2013". www.sebastianbieniek.com. Retrieved 2016-07-28.
  34. ↑ "2013 Mein Freund - Sebastian Bieniek / Early Works / Until 2013". www.sebastianbieniek.com. Retrieved 2016-07-28.
  35. 1 2 "Sebastian Bieniek. Liturgy-Specific-Art. University Church of Marburg". universitaetskirche.de. Retrieved 2016-07-27.
  36. ↑ "Modestrecke: Ich bin die eine von uns beiden". Retrieved 2016-07-27.
  37. ↑ "Der Künstler Sebastian Bieniek schafft mit Haaren und Make-up ganz neue Persönlichkeiten". Retrieved 2016-07-27.
  38. ↑ "Models get Picasso face and monobrows at Paris". Archived from the original on 2016-04-08. Retrieved 2016-07-27.
  39. ↑ "Collectionair". collectionair.com. Retrieved 2016-07-28.
  40. 1 2 3 4 ArtFacts.net. "Sebastian Bieniek". ArtFacts.net. Retrieved 2016-07-28.
  41. ↑ "Sebastian Bieniek - Ausstellungsansichten". www.nicolavonsenger.com. Retrieved 2016-07-28.
  42. ↑ "Sebastian Bieniek - the Imitation of the Imitation". www.potemka.de. Retrieved 2016-07-28.
  43. ↑ "Fotogalerie Friedrichshain | Sebastian Bieniek »The Melancholy of Elephants«". 2016-03-21. Retrieved 2016-07-28.
  44. ↑ "SEBASTIAN BIENIEK – Views Bahrain". www.viewsbahrain.com. Retrieved 2016-07-28.
  45. ↑ "Sebastian Bieniek - Global Influence". Global Influence. Retrieved 2018-08-19.
  46. ↑ in3minuti.it (2018-08-03). "EOIKA, vincitore del Premio Strabismi 2017, ieri sera nella Valle. Di Enza Di Vita". in3minuti.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2018-08-19.
  47. ↑ "Paris Fashion Week 2015, best Face Art | Backstage Beauty | FASHION Magazine". FASHION Magazine. 2015-03-06. Retrieved 2016-07-27.
  48. ↑ Thawley, Dan. "Vogue Jacquemus Fall 2015 inspired by Sebastian Bieniek". Archived from the original on 2016-08-01. Retrieved 2016-07-27.
  49. ↑ "Inês Marques inspired by Sebastian Bieniek" (in Portuguese). Archived from the original on 2016-08-01. Retrieved 2016-07-27.
  50. ↑ "Fashion Block 2016 - Cecilia Devana inspired by Sebastian Bieniek's Manualism serial". Susumba. Retrieved 2016-07-27.
  51. ↑ "Swiss magazine writes about plagiarism of Sebastian Bieniek's artwort in Pharell Williams Marylin Monroe music video". Private View (in German). Retrieved 2016-07-27.
  52. ↑ "French Inferno magazine writes about plagiarism of Sebastian Bieniek's artwork in Pharrell Williams Marylin Monroe music video". INFERNO. 2014-04-29. Retrieved 2016-07-27.
  53. ↑ "German intro magazine write about the plagiarism of Sebastian Bieniek's artwork in the Pharrell Williams Maryling Monroe Music video". Retrieved 2016-07-27.
  54. ↑ "TOP 10 body art of 2013". 2013-12-31. Retrieved 2016-07-27.
  55. ↑ "The Best Photographers and Fashion Photographers of 2013". Retrieved 2016-07-27.
  56. ↑ "Sebastian Bieniek artist - 2011 ARD "Es geht um mein Leben", Pierre Krause". www.bieniek.at. Retrieved 2016-07-27.
  57. ↑ "Japanese and Hongkong TV interview with Sebastian Bieniek". www.coltface.com. Archived from the original on 2016-08-01. Retrieved 2016-07-27.
  58. ↑ "Die zwei Gesichter des Sebastian Bieniek". ARTE Info. Retrieved 2016-07-27.
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