# Thorsten Goldberg

Thorsten Goldberg born 26 December 1960 in Dinslaken is a German multimedia artist.

## Life

From 1982 to 1991 Thorsten Goldberg studied sculpture at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart in the class of Inge Mahn. In 1991 he won the first prize of the Forum of Young Art for his photographic work, "Class of 97" with exhibition stations at Kunsthalle Kiel, Kunstverein Mannheim, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart and Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden. Along with the screenwriter Wieland Bauder he created the fictional character Thomas Bauer for joint artistic performances. When Thomas Bauer received the scholarship for photography by the Berlin Senate in 1991, he then took part in the art exhibition “Art on a world scale” at the Kunsthalle Kiel in 1993. Since 1995 and in addition to photographs and video works Thorsten Goldberg has been creating site-specific works and public art. He realized numerous projects in public space throughout Germany, in Poland, Norway and Canada and taught at various academies. 2003 - 2008 he was Adjunct Professor for Art in Public Space at the Art Academy Linz/AT and 2007 - 2009 Professor (repress.) for arts and media at the Muthesius Art Academy Kiel/Germany.
As a member of different committees and advisory boards he is involved in the election and organisation of competitions for art in public. Thorsten Goldberg is Initiator and Co-Publisher of „Public Art Wiki“, a Germany-wide internet archive for art in public space in the German-speaking-area (http://www.publicartwiki.org) He is also Co-Publisher of „Kunst in der Großsiedlung (art in the large-housing-area) Marzahn-Hellersdorf“ a printed documentation of more than 460 public works and author of several texts on public art.
Thorsten Goldberg lives in Berlin/Germany.

## Selected permanent and temporary works

Cities are all in Germany unless otherwise noted.
| Year | Location | Venue | Type | Exhibition | Notes |
| 1985 | Stuttgart | Kuenstlerhaus | Solo | media exposure | |
| 1989 | Stuttgart | | Solo | half the rent | |
| 1991 | Stuttgart | | Public space | going home, being home, staying home | 10 billboards |
| 1992 | Stuttgart | Württembergischer Kunstverein | Solo | one weekend | |
| 1993 | Berlin | Wohnmaschine Galerie Friedrich Loock | Solo | | |
| 1993 | Kirchheim | Gallery Noeth | Solo | Glamor and Misery | |
| 1993 | Kiel | Kunsthalle Kiel | Public space | International sculpture | |
| 1994 | Berlin | Wohnmaschine Galerie Friedrich Loock | Solo | | |
| 1995 | Heidenheim | Museum of Fine Arts | Solo | schmutz | |
| 1996 | Hellersdorf | | Permanent installation | reichweite, griffhoehe | |
| 1996 | Berlin | Wohnmaschine Galerie Friedrich Loock | Solo | remotes | |
| 1996 | Berlin | Senate of Culture | Solo | senatorial chair | |
| 1996 | Münster | Wewerka Pavillon | Solo | birdies | |
| 1997 | Lüdenscheid | Central Square | Public space | big game (hunt) | Collaboration with A. Kaufmann and B. Reitermann) |
| 1997 | Berlin | | Permanent installation | Rock-Paper-Scissors | Randomized neon signs as a permanent marking of the former frontier crossing point |
| 1997 | Berlin | Wohnmaschine Galerie Friedrich Loock | Solo | birdies inside | |
| 1998 | Heidenheim | Kunstmuseum Heidenheim | Permanent installation | Once very much of all | Sculpture and planting in Levillain-Park |
| 1998 | Wiesbaden | Bellevuegallery | Solo | | |
| 1999 | Wiesbaden | Gallery Hafemann | Solo | | |
| 2000 | Wiesbaden | | Public space | Hunger and Thirst, Cola and Sausage | Intervention with three singers, sculpture project |
| 2000 | Potsdam | | Public space | stand-by Potsdam | Horizontal gas flame on a chimney of a fallow industrial area |
| 2001 | Bergkamen-Heil | | Temporary sculpture | concierge | Brick doorpost with integrated plate and entryphone |
| 2001 | Warsaw, Poland | XX1 Gallery | Solo | | |
| 2002 | Eberswalde | State Hospital | Permanent installation | curtain mov. | Slow moving curtain, kinetic installation |
| 2002 | Eberswalde | State Hospital | Permanent installation | finger walks | Video installation on 5 large TFT Panels |
| 2002 | Münster | Exhibition Hall | Solo | detached village | |
| 2002 | Wiesbaden | Gallery Hafemann | Solo | | |
| 2002 | Marseille, France | Gallery RLBQ | Solo | generic profile | |
| 2002 | Berlin | Gallery HO | Solo | HEINZGERDKURTKLAUS | |
| 2003 | Berlin | Unter den Linden | Public space | milk & honey | Historical map of the land of milk and honey as a large back light display |
| 2004 | Heidenheim | Hauptstraße | Public space | next stop - milk & honey | Historical map of the land of milk and honey as a large back light display |
| 2005 | Wismar | | Public space | Wismar depot | Neon writing on a shallow storage building in the old harbour |
| 2005 | Barcelona, Spain | Fundació Joan Miró - Espai 13 | Solo | things are generally different behind closed doors | |
| 2006 | Wiesbaden | | Temporary installation | Rivers of wine and beer | Neon sculpture |
| 2006 | Berlin | Charité Hospital | Public space | Inventory | Historical busts and bases |
| 2009 | Lippstadt | Lichtpromenade-Lichtkunst-Skulpturenpfad | Public space | Cumulus 08.07 | Neon-sculpture |
| 2010 | Berlin | WHITECONCEPTS | Solo | Constructing clouds | |
| 2010 | Berlin | Potsdamer Strasse | Public space | die Potsdamer | film production Horsewoman |
| 2010 | Berlin | Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture | Public space | Cumulus Berlin | Sculpture |
| 2010 | Ratingen | Museum for History of the City | Public space | milk & honey | |
| 2012 | Bergen, Norway | | Public space | 60°N 05°E (encased waterside) | Land art and light sculpture |
| 2012 | Neumünster | Herbert-Gerisch Sculpture Park | Public space | Cumulus 11.08 | Sculpture |
| 2012 | Neumünster | Herbert-Gerisch Sculpture Park | Solo | 54°4 min. | |
| 2013 | Viersen | Municipal Gallery | Solo | 51°15 min. | |
| 2013 | Gdańsk, Poland | Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art | Solo | 54°24 min. | |
| 2013 | Gdańsk, Poland | Nadmorski Park | Public space | And honey upon hawthorn grows | Sculpture |
| 2014 | Radom, Poland | Mazovia Region Centre of Contemporary Art “Elektrownia” | Public space | Radom Cumulus | Light sculpture made of 19 layers of curved neon contours |
| 2015 | Bonn | Kreuzbauten, Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport | Public space | reflected ministry | Interactive video projections |
| 2016 | Neuhausen | Technisches Hilfswerk | Public space | 20.000 Morgen | 32 silver-plated landscape-models at a scale of 1:50.000 for the new building of a guest house |
| 2017 | Orońsko, Poland | Center of Polish Sculpture | Public space | The opera ain’t over till the fat lady sings | Sculpture |
| 2017 | Orońsko, Poland | Center of Polish Sculpture | Solo | Constructing Clouds | |
| 2018 | Berlin-Marzahn-Hellersdorf | | Public space | 24 kt | A bird's nest, cast of fine gold and a contract serve as a foundation for a new primary school |
| 2020 | Edmonton, Canada | North East Transit Garage | Public space | 53°30’N | Five topographic models of mountain landscapes |

## Works in public collections

* The city of Gdańsk, Poland
* The Mazovian Centre of Contemporary Art – Elektrownia in Radom, Poland
* The City of Bergen, Norway
* The Land of Berlin
* The German Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development
* The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) in Bonn
* The City of Lippstadt
* The City of Heidenheim
* The Charité University Clinicum in Berlin
* The Martin-Gropius-Hospital in Eberswalde
* The Daimler Art Collection in Berlin
* The Art-Museum in Heidenheim
* Herbert-Gerisch Foundation in Neumünster
* The collection Stefan Haupt in Berlin
* The City of Edmonton, Canada

## Publications

* 1992 - Hans-Peter Feldmann, Preface, catalogue: Goldberg, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart
* 1995 - René Hirner, catalogue: schmutz, Goldberg, Bauder, Kunstmuseum Heidenheim
* 2002 - Christoph Tannert, means against amnesia, catalogue: Thorsten Goldberg, Münster ISBN 3-935730-05-5
* 2002 - Martin Henatsch, moments of fragility, catalogue: Thorsten Goldberg, Münster ISBN 3-935730-05-5
* 2002 - Frédéric Bussmann, rock-paper-scissors in: Kunst in der Stadt, Skulpturen in Berlin, edited by H. Dickel, U. Fleckner, Nicolai Verlag, Berlin ISBN 3-87584-399-1
* 2004 - Montse Badia, on milk and honey, Thorsten Goldberg's Utopia Station, in catalogue: Werk 04, Heidenheim Sculpture Symposium ISBN 3-929935-23-6
* 2007 - Katharina Klara Jung, Milk + Honey +, in catalogue: Show me the way to public sphere, Wiesbaden 2006, ed office for Art and Public, M. Henatsch, Münster and Department of Culture, Wiesbaden, Kerber Verlag
* 2008 - René Hirner, The receipts 93-08 in: TIEFENRAUSCH, Volume 2 - rapture of the deep, edited by OK Center for Contemporary Art, Upper Austria ISBN 978-3-85256-462-3
* 2012 - Dr. Martin Henatsch, Eulalia Domanowska, Jadwiga Charzynska, Kristin Danger, Nicole Loeser, catalogue: 54°4MIN., DISTANZ Verlag ISBN 978-3-942405-78-2