# Eberhard Bosslet

Eberhard Bosslet (born 1953) is a German contemporary artist who has been producing site-specific art and architectural-related works, such as sculpture, installation, light art and painting, all indoors and outdoors, since 1979.

## Biography

Eberhard Bosslet was born in 1953 in Speyer, Germany, He has lived in Berlin and Dresden.
Bosslet co-founded the artist group, "Material & Effect" (Material & Wirkung) in Berlin in 1981, and since 1980, has been the co-director of the artistspace "MOPEDS" in Berlin/Kreuzberg that is involved in curating and managing non-conventional artshows.

## List of works

* 1979: Self-referential works in words and writing-form of painting, photography, wall-drawings, and plates; site-specific interior work with wall-drawings and plates.
* Since 1979:
** Sculptures and installations with electric light and electric steering;
** Performance "Per-/Re-ception" (Wahr-nehmen) in a hall at an industrial yard in Speyer, Germany, using electric installation, electric light, zinc sulfide (phosphorus); photographic details of existing situations in the hall, projected in color or black-and-white negative slides, on the situations themselves.
* 1980: Wood panels, coated with colored varnish, and variably arranged in layers.
* Since 1980: Broken glass-panes, site-specific and installation works, as well as paintings with partially colored-coated broken glass, acrylic panes and flexible PVC sheets indoors and outdoors.
* 1981: Works with roadway markings and roadblocks.
* 1982: "Mobilien & Immobilien" (Movables & Immovables), a series of photographs, produced with a painted Vespa motor scooter, and colored house facades at Tenerife/Canary Islandes.
* 1982 - 84: "Mobiliar" (Furniture), and "Stand der Dinge" (Status Quo); photographs of interior designs in which the backgrounds and objects were painted.
* Since 1982:
** Series of color photographs at the Canary Islands, Spain;
** Urban exploration: so-called "scrap metal and sun"; Abandoned cars in southern landscape;
** "Interventions" in public space, site specific art,
* 1983: Works of rubble at a waste dump.
* 1983–2011:
** Works with ruins, so-called "Re/formations and side effects"; here, stabilization and destabilization of perception of conditions of industrial and residential buildings by white painted lines or black painted color fields;
** Site-specific outdoor intervention.
* construction drawing - La Restinga II, El Hierro, 1983
* side effect VII, Guimar, Teneriffa, 1990
* side effect X, Tajao, Teneriffa, Südseite, 2006
* side effect X, Tias, Lanzarote, 2008
* 1985 - 88: Painting — each form complex has its own color and paint material; the "facade ground" is a significantly visible component, and is of equal value as the variables, "form, color, and paint material".
* Since 1985: "Supporting Measures" — indoor, space-related installations and sculptures with items of the building trade; here, new arrangement of space, apparent stabilization and destabilization of the building material and the space itself, by building in structural bodies.
* UM-ANT-Expander, Antwerpen 1985
* Anmaßend I, documenta 8, Kassel, 1987
* Supporting Measures at Mercer Union, Toronto, 1988
* Modulare Struktur - flat, Prato, 1988
* Modulare Struktur - Raster B3/89, Berlin, 1989
* UM Bregenz 90/04, Thurn & Taxis Palais, 2004
* Stallung Bregenz 90/04, Thurn & Taxis Palais, 2004
* Modulare Struktur - Hochkant 90/09 KV-IN-PERI, Ingolstadt 2009
* Subwaystation Auf dem Damm, Duisburg, 2000
* 1986: "Basements" — low, floorplan-like sculptures, with concrete blocks and copper pipe, or bricks and copper pipe.
* 1987 - 1989|89: Sculptures of "Filing Cabinets" with wood, steel strips; tension and pressure keeps the new order of components stable.
* Since 1989:
* "Tapestry" of industrial textiles, with no "ground" due to the color-form-material complexes, sewed up next to each other;
* Wall fixtures, varying in type and shape, have a supporting and visual function.
* Since 1989:
** Project drawings for planned sculptures and installations, computer-generated using a pixel-oriented program, and printed with a 24-needle printer;
** "Pneumatic Pieces" — Free-standing works, with hydraulically or pneumatically driven lifting devices for inside; "contraptions" made of items from industrial and domestic parts.
** "Pneumatic Installations" — Installed works, with hydraulically or pneumatically driven lifting devices for both inside and outside; "contraptions" made of items from industrial and domestic parts.
* 1993 - 98:
** "Bilaterale Beziehungen" (Bilateral Relations);
* "Screens": Lattice-structures of rubber- or polyurethane-mounted on both sides of a wall; anchor bars inserted into holes in the walls, helical pressure springs, and anchor nuts have a visual function and hold the parts together.
** "Gloriolen": cast reliefs, mounted on both sides of a wall, using the same principle as in "Screens", the cast reliefs are held together through anchor bars, helical pressure springs, and anchor nuts that also have a visual function.
* Since 1995: "Barrieren" (Barriers) — foundation-like, knee-high constructions in concrete and steel reinforcement, made on site, designed for the dimensions of the space, and blocking the evident path through the room.
* 1998–2001: "Spacelab" — made out of living room lights from the 1950s–1970s, hanging from the ceiling.view]
* Since 2000:
** "Analogic Discs"
** Paintings: Trampolines are the support, which is a constructive and visual part of the appearance. The support, the form, the material and the color are different, and they are piled on each other.
* Since 2001
** Biomorphic sculptures "Stool Archipelago", "Island growth", "stump stools" are groups of sculptures made of fibreglass plastic on the basis of known organic forms.
* Since 2003
** Colour photo series entitled Falsches Wasser (Fake Water) featuring ships and boats on land in town or countryside settings on the Canary Islands, Spain.
* Since 2006
** EinRaumHaus (OneRoomHouse) colour photo series of small buildings in the landscape of the Canary Islands, Spain.
** Instant sculptures: The sculpture entitled "roundabout" for the public space, consisting of industrial units such as trolleys and fences, which contrary to its conventional use are connected to mega-structures.

## Exhibitions
### One man shows

* Since 1981: "Interventions" in public space, Antwerp, Barcelona, Canary Islands, Duisburg (Belgium), Spain, Germany.
* 1985: "Interventiones", Fundación Miró, Barcelona; Espacio P, Madrid, Spain (catalog).
* 1986: Wilhelm-Lehmbruck-Museum, Duisburg, Germany (catalog).
* 1987: Heidelberger Kunstverein, Germany (catalog).
* 1988:
** February: John Gibson Gallery, New York City, US.
** Mercer Union, Toronto, Canada.
** John Gibson Gallery, September, New York City, US.
* 1989:
** Barbara Farber Gallery, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
** Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin, Germany (catalog).
** Karl Bornstein Gallery, Santa Monica, California, US.
* 1990:
** Galerie Le Gall-Peyroulet, Paris, France.
** John Gibson Gallery, New York City, US.
* 1991:
** Kunstraum Wuppertal, Germany.
** Galerie Gilles Peyroulet, Paris, France.
* 1993:
** Kunsthal Rotterdam, the Netherlands (catalog).
** Sala 1, Rome, Italy (catalog).
** Galerie Blancpain-Stepczynski, Geneva, Switzerland.
* 1995:
** Interventionen II, VERBAU, Sprengel Museum Hannover, Germany (catalog).
** PLANEN, Kunstverein Heilbronn, Germany (catalog).
* 1998: Fundamental wie Bilateral, Kunsthalle Mannheim, CD-ROM for PC, Germany.
* 2000:
** Satellites, Galerie Bochynek, Düsseldorf, Germany.
** Interventions, John Gibson Gallery, New York City, US.
* 2002: "Analog Discs", Galerie Bochynek, Düsseldorf, Germany.
* 2004:
** Okkupanten, Künstlerhaus Bregenz, Palais Thurn und Taxis, Austria.
** Interventionen und Tekko-Tische, Chiara Marzi Gallery, Berlin
* 2005: Galerie AT, Barriere, Poznan, Poland
* 2006: Galerie der Stadt Backnang (catalog), Germany
* 2007: Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken, (catalog), Germany
* 2009: Additive, Kunstverein Ingolstadt, CD-ROM-archive with booklet in softbox, Germany
* 2010: Humboldt-University Berlin, Thaer-Saal, Berlin, Germany
* 2011: Stump stools, Lichthof im Albertinum Dresden, Dresden, Germany
* 2012: Dingsda, Saarland Museum, Saarbrücken, Germany
* 2014: Chisme-Heavy Duty, TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain

## Group shows

* 1987:
** Bremer Kunstpreis 1987, Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany, (catalog).
** documenta, documenta 8, Kassel, Germany, (catalog).
* 1988:
** European sculpture made in USA, John Gibson Gallery, New York City, US (catalog).
** BRD abstract tendencies in new German art, Karl Bornstein Gallery, St. Monica, California, US.
** Spaces 88, Museo d'arte contemporanea Prato, Italy (catalog).
** New Poverty, MeyersBloom Gallery, Santa Monica, California, US.
* 1989: Intuition, John Gibson Gallery, New York City, US.
* 1990:
** Three German Sculptors, Bosslet, Robbe, Staehle, Anthony Ralph Gallery, New York, US.
** Trans-Europe-Express, John Gibson Gallery, New York City, US.
** Non-Sculpture, Barbara Farber Gallery, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
** The Collection 1988–90, Museo d'arte contemporanea Prato, Italy (catalog).
* 1991: Eurocard, John Gibson Gallery, New York City, US.
* 1992:
** 30th anniversary of Amnesty International, Hótel des arts, Paris, France (catalog).
** Kunst werkt (Art works), Peter Stuyvesant Foundation, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Foundación Miró, Barcelona, Palacio de la Lonja, Zaragoza, Spain (catalog).
** The 1980s, John Gibson Gallery, New York City, US.
** Humpty Dumty's Kaleidoscope: A new generation of German artists, Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney, Australia (catalog).
** Avantgarde Reflex Ost-West, Potsdam, Germany.
* 1993:
** Eberhard Bosslet & Lawrence Gipe, Kunstverein der Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany (catalog).
** John Gibson Gallery, New York City, US.
** La Laiterie, Amnesty International, Strasbourg, France.
* 1994:
** New Furniture for the Villa, Villa Merkel Esslingen, Germany.
** Villa Massimo 1988–92, Kunstverein Hannover, Germany.
* 1997: The Pleasure of Reading, John Gibson Gallery, New York City.
* 1998: Material & Wirkung, Bosslet, Sattel, Klotz, Kunsthaus Dresden, Germany.
* 2003: Unexpected selections from the Margulies collection, The Art Museum, Miami, Florida, US (catalog).
* 2004:
** WorldWatchers, Kunsthaus Dresden (catalog), Germany
** Konstruktion I Statik, Rüdiger Lange -Loop - Raum für aktuelle Kunst, Berlin, Germany
* 2006:
** Faszination Fußball, Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern, Catalog, Germany
** Filzfabrik Speyer, Künstlerbund Speyer, Germany
** Das Jahrhundert moderner Skulptur, Wilhelm-Lehmbruck-Museum, Duisburg, Germany
* 2007: 1plus aus Dresden, Schloss Waldthausen bei Mainz, Germany
* 2008:
** Ostrale 08, Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Dresden, Germany
** 2nd Bienal de Canarias, Arte, Arquitectura y Paisaje, La Regenta,
Las Palmas Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain
** "berufen", Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden, Germany
* 2009:
** Ostrale 09, Ausstellung internationaler zeitgenössicher Künste, Dresden, Germany
** 1st Biennale für Internationale Lichtkunst Ruhr, (Catalog), Curator Matthias Wagner K, Germany
* 2010: Liebhaberstücke, Kunstmuseum Mülheim, Germany,
* 2011:
** Universum, Temporärer Kunstraum Harkort, Leipzig, Germany
** Kunst in der Villa Körbling, Speyer End of the dream, MicaMoco, Berlin, Germany
* 2012:
** Participar, El Matadero, Madrid, Spain
** art claim impulse, Berlin, Germany
** 2nd Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art, Ekaterinburg, Russia (catalog)