Corinne Wasmuht

Corinne Wasmuht (born 1964) is a German visual artist. She is currently based in Berlin.[1]

Early life and education

Wasmuht was born in 1964 in Dortmund, Germany.[1] From 1983-1992 she studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in Düsseldorf, Germany.[1]

Career

Wasmuht's work deals with issues such as globalization, economic crisis, the proliferation of technology, and modern warfare.[2] She makes paintings in oil paint on wooden boards, using many coats of varnish to add to the brightness of the colours.[3] Her images consist of layered fictional environments that reference abstract painting. Wasmuht paints all elements of her complexly layered and graphic paintings entirely by hand. Of her Bibliotheque/CDG-BSL (2011), Peter Plagens said: "As is often the case, a single work can represent the thrust of a show. Here it’s Corinne Wasmuht’s enormous triptych... It’s a daunting painting... Its wildly varying scale (partial human figures five feet tall to some no more than little clots of paint) and institutional glare are supposed to say something, one assumes, about the socially, politically and culturally overwhelmed and unmoored state in which we currently exist."[4]

Select exhibitions

1999

  • Neues Gestirn, Consortium Amsterdam, Amsterdam
  • Damenwahl (with Jason Rhoades), Kunsthalle Bremen
  • European Factory, Galleria darte moderna Bologna, Bologna

2001

  • Musterkarte, Palacio Conde Duque, Madrid

2003

  • Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden
  • Aus dem Archiv, Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg

2004

  • Wandbild, Projektraum Deutscher Künstlerbund, Berlin
  • Contemporary Art from Germany, Europäische Zentralbank, Frankfurt

2005

  • Vanishing Point, Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio

2008

  • Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York

2010

  • Kunsthalle Nurnberg

2011

  • Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria

2014

  • Kunsthalle Kiel, Germany

2015

  • Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York

2016

  • SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia

2017

  • Kunstmuseum Stuttgart

Honours and awards

References
  1. "Corinne Wasmuht CV", Petzel Gallery, Retrieved 24 December 2014.
  2. https://www.petzel.com/artists/corinne-wasmuht/biography
  3. Meyer-Riegger.de
  4. Review of "Chaos and Awe: Painting for the 21st Century" at the Frist Art Museum by Peter Plagens in The Wall Street Journal


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