Ekkehard Altenburger Member of the Society of Royal British Sculptors
* 1966 |
 Education
1998 /99 MA fine Art / Chelsea College of Art, London
1997 /98 Graduation at Hochschule für Künste / Bremen under
Yuji Takeoka Diploma in Fine Art
1995 /96 Edinburgh College of Art/ Sculpture department
1991 - 95 Hochschule für Künste Bremen, Sculpturedepartement
1988 - 91 restoration work @ Cathedral of Schwäbisch Gmünd
1983 - 86 apprentice stonemason |
Commissions
/public sculpture
| 2008 |
“Morningthoughts” , marble, Archbishopspallace Maidstone / Kent |
| |
“Negative falls” with “Themse stone”, granite
Large scale waterspace London Westminster |
| |
Linking Spaces, Kettering Borough Council
Urban Planning Strategy to link 3 parks |
| 2007 |
Give & Take , Schoepfheim ( Switzerland), Stainless steel and laminated glass |
| |
Chelsea & Westminster Hospital London / Chelsea, sculpture “Dopplereffect” and fountain in marble |
| 2006 |
Contemporary War Memorial in Kilkenny Limestone, Streatham Memorial gardens, London |
| |
Queen Elizabeth
Hospital Gateshead, 2 marble sculptures, photographic work and design
of a rock garden with sculptural element |
| 2005 |
Queen Elizabeth
Hospital Gateshead, 2 marble sculptures, photographic work and design
of a rock garden with sculptural element |
| 2004 |
Brighton and Hove -2 sculptures
for a new site at Connaught Rd |
| 2002 |
Museo Municipal Caldas da
Rainha (crashed semi) / Portugal |
| 2001 /02 |
5 granite sculptures for Royal
Arsenal Gardens in London (UK)
granite sculpture - Buddusso sculpturepark (Sardinia) |
| 1999 |
Eglisau Sculpture trail (
Swizerland) |
| 1996 |
Town Hall Plaza Jestetten
( Germany) |
|
Exhibitions
(selection)
| 2007 |
“Politics pays back” Kowalski Gallery London
“art Entlebuch” Fluehli Switzerland |
| 2006 |
Thread Gallery at APT / London |
| 2005 |
"KINO"
Sculpturespace Utica NY/USA
Atkinson Gallery Somerset / UK |
| 2004 |
RBS Gallery
/South Kensington/ London - annual exhibition |
| 2003 |
"Colourspace"
Gallery at APT / London
"Pride of the Valley sculpture Park"
/ Surrey |
| 2002 |
-Royal Society of British
Sculptors- Bursary exhibition at RSBC /Kensington / London (September)
- Caldas da Rainha Sculpture Symposium (Portugal)
-Chelsea Physics Garden / London
-20/20 for Deptford X / London (curated)
-"club" Poitiers- Le Confort Moderne (F)
-Jerwood Sculpture price / Talbot Rice Gallery Edinburgh |
| 2001 |
10 years Video
art price Bremen / GAK and new Museum Weserburg
- "The Jerwood Sculpture Price" Jerwood Space / London
-International sculpture symposium Buduso / Sardinia
-"Club" Beaconsfield Gallery / London
-"a hora azul" solo show Goethe institute Salvador / Brazil |
|
| 2001 |
- "Year of
the artist" a project at the London Stock exchange
- Visiting and filming architect Oscar Niemeyer in Rio |
| 2000 |
- Kunsthalle Bremen / Video
art prize (together with Christine Lahr)
- "Living with the Dutch" Erlanger Road / London
-"How the west won and lost"
Window Gallery /Prague
- presented by British Arts Council
-"Of spaces and frames" Video screening (curated)
Project
Space / London |
| 1999 |
-"do ya know what I mean?"
Gallery at the Goethe Institute/London (GB)
-"Big warm open"
Cambridge Darkroom Gallery/Cambridge
(GB) |
| 1998 |
-Gallery Dechanatsstrasse Bremen (solo)
Kunstfruehling Bremen/ BBK Bremen |
| 1997 |
"schwebende Lasten",
Lichthaus Bremen
Kahnweilerpeis 1997 (Rheinland Pfalz) |
| 1996 |
-"Mutation" Providence/Rhode
Island (USA)
-Quizaine Art et son" CEAC Valauris (F)
-"Sculpture in Water"- International Sculpturesymposium
Isle of
(Tyree/Hebrides) |
|
Awards
| 2005 |
Sculpture Space (New York / Utica) residency programme |
| 2003 |
London Visual Arts grant |
| 2002 |
Royal Society of British Sculptors
Bursary award |
| 2000 /01 |
Year of the artist residency
programme /London |
| 1999 |
Video award Bremen 1999 |
| 1998 /99 |
DAAD Stipendium London |
| 1996 |
Bräunlich- Bieser Award
|
|
|
