Sebastian Hammwöhner

Born in 1974 in Frechen, Germany, Sebastian Hammwöhner lives and works in Berlin.  He studied at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Karlsruhe from 1995-2001. His work has been featured in international venues such as the CAPC Museum of Contemporary Art, Bordeaux, Deichtorhallen/Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg, CCA Andratx, ZKM Karlsruhe, Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin and the 4th Berlin Biennale.

Hammwöhner’s multifaceted work includes site-specific installations, pastel drawings and sculptures. He utilizes appropriation with the forensic methods of cultural anthropology and the contextual chess games of contemporary art. A photographic image of archaic textiles from the Americas or Middle East reproduced through a virtual

interface, resulting in a pastel drawing, is at once a representation of the utilitarian object and the illusion of such. Floating in a pitch-black monochromatic field the colors retain their vibrancy while faded in some spots. The patterns accumulated by the interlacing weaves merge and separate into forms. Hand-in-hand with his two-dimensional works the square cut wooden posts are ritualistically hand wrapped with geometric precision in some parts, less so in others, depending on the thickness, texture, and color of the wool he uses. Haptic counterpoints bound in stock colors of yarn they act as three-dimensional echoes of the carpet drawings. With systematic logic and interdisciplinary methodology Hammwöhner contemporizes the archaic in the 21st century.

Biography

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2012
  • Sebastian Hammwöhner, Meyer Riegger, Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
2009
  • Sebastian Hammwöhner: Its All Mental, Meyer Riegger, Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
2008
  • Sebastian Hammwöhner, Meyer Riegger, Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
Selected Group Exhibitions
2019
  • No Pattern Save What We Imagine, Nosbaum Reding, Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
2013
  • Fabric as Material and Concept in Modern Art from Klimt to the Present, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
  • Rhythm in it, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland
2012
  • The Man Who Would Be King, Patricia Low Contemporary, St. Moritz, St. Moritz, Switzerland
  • Eye of Horus, Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad, Gstaad, Switzerland
2011
  • Sowing and Weeding, Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Amsterdam, Netherlands

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