© Gregor Schneider / VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, Odenkirchener Str. 202, Rheydt, Germany 2014, laser print on Premium Fine Art Matt, 45 × 30.5 cm (sheet); 52 × 42 cm (frame), edition of 6
© Gregor Schneider / VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2001-2013, lead, granite, gold paint, mixed media, 32 x 16 x 24 cm, unique
© Gregor Schneider / VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2000, 2000, Performance at Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld, German
© Gregor Schneider / VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, Odenkirchener Str. 202, Rheydt, Germany 2014, laser print on Premium Fine Art Matt, 45 × 30.5 cm (sheet); 52 × 42 cm (frame), edition of 6
1969年ドイツ・ライト生まれ。現在、同地を拠点に活動。
閉ざされた空間への尽きない興味を契機として、大掛かりな室内の改変を制作に用いながら時空の接続や断絶を想起させる数々の空間インスタレーションを発表している。2001 年に当時史上最年少としてベネチア・ビエンナーレの金獅子賞を受賞。ドイツを代表する現代美術作家として、毎年各国の美術展で作品を展示している
Born in Rheydt, Germany, Lives and works in Rheydt .
Gregor Schneider has exhibited internationally since his first exhibition in 1985, at the age of sixteen, at Galerie Kontrast, Mönchengladbach. In 2010, as part of the inauguration of the Treffpunkt Düren at the Leopold-Hoesch-Museum, Düren, Germany, the artist was presented with this award and created a new, expansive and site-specific installation, Marienstraße. In 2008, Gregor Schneider was awarded the prestigious Peill Prize by the Günther Peill Foundation, and in 2001 he was awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale for Totes Haus u r.