Ekkeland Götze

Ekkeland Götze (born August 14, 1948) is a German painter, printmaker and conceptual artist.

Ekkeland Götze
Ekkeland Götze
Born
Ekkehard Götze

(1948-08-14) August 14, 1948
Dresden, Germany
NationalityGerman
Alma materDresden Academy of Fine Arts
Websiteekkeland.de

Life

Götze was born in Dresden on August 14, 1948. After a training as a screen printer he educated himself as an industrial engineer through a correspondence course. He was not allowed to study painting since he was lacking the "Abitur" educational achievement, but Gerhard Kettner, president of the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, provided him with a teaching assignment for screen printing anyway.[1] Götze painted in his spare time, but he was not allowed to exhibit because of regulations in East Germany - formally he was a printmaker, not a painter. Because of these restrictions he filed an application for an exit permit 1985 which was granted in 1988. He immediately moved from Dresden to Munich, West Germany, where he opened up a printshop for artists. He is also co-owner of a garment company.[2]

Works
Terragraphy No. 643: Warumungu (Tennant Creek, Australia)

In 1989 Götze started to work on a project called "Erde" ("Earth").[3] He collects soil samples at extraordinary sites of human history around the world and applies them to paper, lime mortar or other backgrounds, making use of a standardized, self-developed technique he calls "terragraphy": He grinds the soil, mixes it with a binder and then applies it making use of a technique similar to screen printing.[4] All backgrounds are square and of identical size. For each site the resulting works of art are given an individual name that reflects the importance of the site. According to Götze, the pictures capture th "spirit and energy" of the place where the soil was gathered.[5] German theatre researcher Christopher Balme described Götzes role during the emergence of his works as that of a "medium in a shamanistic sense". During the course of the project, Götze visited various European and North American countries as well as e.g. Australia, Brazil, Egypt, Japan, Madagascar, New Zealand, South Africa, Tibet and Venezuela. In addition to the prints Götzes uses photos of the sites to contextualize the prints.[5] Between 1990 and 2001, Götze compiled and published 13 artist's books depicting the "Erde" works, one site per book.[6] For the book about New Zealand he cooperated with local artist Christina Wirihana.[7] In 2014 he designed an album cover for German jazz trio Kolb Schindler Schubert.[8]

Götze runs a studio in Sendling. He is a member of the Neue Gruppe, an association of Munich artists regularly exhibiting at the Haus der Kunst museum.[9] In 2018 Götze has been awarded the Seerosenpreis, a yearly award assigned to visual artists by the city of Munich.[10]

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

References
  1. "Bodenschätze" (in German). Süddeutsche Zeitung. Retrieved 2018-02-24.
  2. "Crisis Pushes Greeks Far From Home". New York Times. Retrieved 2018-02-28.
  3. "Treppen und Traumpfade". Süddeutsche Zeitung. Retrieved 2018-02-28.
  4. "Blick ins Atelier: Ekkeland Götze" (in German). KunstundReligion.de. Retrieved 2018-02-24.
  5. G. Jock Churchman, Edward R. Landa (2014). The Soil Underfoot: Infinite Possibilities for a Finite Resource. Boca Raton: CRC Press. p. 90. ISBN 9781466571570.
  6. "Ekkeland Götze - Deutschland" (in German). Buchkunst.info. Retrieved 2018-02-20.
  7. "Greater than the sum of its parts". New Zealand National Library. Retrieved 2018-02-24.
  8. "Kolb Schindler Schubert - Pöllat". Discogs.com. Retrieved 2018-02-20.
  9. "Neue Gruppe" (in German). NeueGruppe-HausderKunst.de. Retrieved 2018-02-22.
  10. "Seerosenpreis für Winzens und Ekkeland". Sueddeutsche.de. Retrieved 2018-09-14.
  11. "Bild der Erde" (in German). Federal Foreign Office. Archived from the original on 2016-02-27. Retrieved 2016-02-27.
  12. "Previous Exhibition – Ekkeland Götze". Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Retrieved 2018-03-01.
  13. "Auf den erdigen Spuren Segantinis" [On the earthy trails of Segantini] (PDF). Engadiner Post (in German). Maloja: Gammeter Druck und Verlag AG. 2017-08-05. p. 2. Retrieved 2018-02-27.
  14. "Niki de Saint Phalle - Group exhibitions" (PDF). NikideSaintPhalle.org. Retrieved 2018-02-28.
  15. "Exhibition&Discussion "Possible Water" July 7–21 @ Goethe Institut Tokyo". Mail-Archive.com. Retrieved 2018-02-21.
  16. "Faktor X - Das Chromosom der Kunst" (PDF). Künstlerverbund im Haus der Kunst. Retrieved 2018-02-27.
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