Talk

Wolfgang Weileder

Offsite at Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre, Room B

A photograph capturing the sun setting on the sea. A cloud covers the top left part of this image. One-third of this image on the right is covered by a black shadow.

Wolfgang Weileder, English Bay, Salish Sea, 2015, from the SEASCAPE series. Courtesy the artist

Join artist Wolfgang Weileder as he discusses the relationship between time and space, within his practice in particular reference to the new methodologies of how such changes can be captured and recorded using specially modified analogue and digital cameras.

Biography

Originally from Munich, Germany, Weileder is currently Professor in Contemporary Sculpture at the University of Newcastle, UK. Recent solo exhibitions include Royal Palace of Caserta, Italy (2018); London Festival of Architecture (2017); Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna, Italy, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Germany, Workplace Gallery, Gateshead, UK (2014); MADRE, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina, Naples, Italy (2011); Ciocca Arte Contemporanea, Milan (2008-09). Participation in group exhibitions most recently includes Galerie d’art contemporain L’Entrepôt, Monaco; Photology AIR, Tenuta Busulmone, Noto, Italy (2018); Inner Mongolia Art Gallery, Hohhot, China (2017); FOE 156, Munich, Germany, Project Room Rue Sans Fraise, Paris (2015); Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, UK (2014); ArchiFest 2011, Singapore (2011); Gesellschaft für aktuelle Kunst, Bremen, Germany (2007), amongst many others. He is represented by Workplace Gallery, Gateshead and London, UK.