Paloma Varga Weisz

Paloma Varga Weisz (born 1966) is a contemporary artist living in Germany, best known for her sculptures and drawings.[1] In 2012, six of her drawings were acquired by and exhibited in the Museum of Modern Art.[2][3] She lives and works in Düsseldorf.

Life

Paloma Varga Weisz was trained as a woodcarver from 1987–90 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. From 1990 to 1998 she studied at the Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf under Tony Cragg and Gerhard Merz.[4] Her multifaceted practice includes sculptures and installations mainly in wood and ceramics, as well as watercolors and drawings.[5] Angela Stief, a curator at the Kunsthalle Wien, has said of her work: "Paloma Varga Weisz’ sculptural oeuvre, characterized by obvious references to traditional iconography and handcraft, joins the historical with a contemporary artistic practice that only rarely reveals its genealogical roots."[6]

She is the youngest daughter of Ferenc "Feri" Varga (1906–1989), a Hungarian painter who primarily lived and worked in France and Germany.

Awards and scholarships
  • 2017: Holbach-Award, Stiftung zur Förderung der Kunst in der Pfalz
  • 2007: Marianne-Werefkin-Preis, Berlin
  • 2000/2001: Bremerhavenstipendium, Bremerhaven

Solo and Group exhibitions (selection)
  • 2019:

Bumped Body, Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, Netherlands; Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK (solo)

Homo Faber: Craft in Contemporary Sculpture, Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, South Korea (group)

Mask: In Present Day Art, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland (group)

Animalesque / Art Across Species and Beings, Bildmuseet, Umea, Sweden (group)

The Enigma of the Hour - 100 Years of Psychoanalytic Thought, Freud Museum, London (group)

The Palace at 4 a.am, NEON Foundation, Archeological Museum, Mykonos (group)

A cool Breeze, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague (group)

Wundergestalt, Gladstone 64, New York (solo)

  • 2018:

Wild Bunch, Sadie Coles HQ, London (solo)

Topologies, curated by Mika Yoshitake, THE WAREHOUSE, Dallas (group)

Parcours, Art Basel, Basel (group)

Von fremden Ländern in eigenen Städten, Düsseldorf Central Station, MAP Markus Ambach Projekte, Düsseldorf (group)

[IM]MATERIELL. Über das Geistige im Stofflichen, Galerie Altes Feuerhaus, Städtische Galerie Bad Reichenhall, Bad Reichenhall (group)

Nudes, Sadie Coles HQ, London (group)

ISelf Collection - Bumped Bodies, Whitechapel Gallery, London (group)

The Beautiful Escape, CFHILL, Stockholm (group)

A MIND OF WINTER, curated by Giorgio Pace and Rita Selvaggio, Fundaziun de Planta Samedan, Samedan (group)

  • 2017:

At Sea. Works from the Kunsthalle Bremerhaven Collection, Städtische Galerie Delmenhorst, Delmenhorst (group)

Galeria Pedro Cera, Lisbon (solo)

ISelf Collection: The End of Love, Whitechapel Gallery, London (cat.)

Dreamers Awake, curated by Susanna Greeves, White Cube, London (group)

Luther and the Avantgarde, Altes Gefängnis, Wittenberg (group)

'Skulpturenhalle, Thomas Schütte Foundation, Neuss/Holzheim (solo)

Lucas Cranach the Elder, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf (group)

  • 2016:

Revolt of the Sage, Blain Southern, London

Behind the Curtain. Concealment and Revelation since the Renaissance. From Titian to Christo, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf (group)

NO MAN’S LAND: Women Artists from the Rubell Family Collection, National Museum of Women in the Art, Washington (group)

Cloud and Crystal – Jackson Pollock Meets Bruce Nauman, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf (group)

The Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London (group)

With a touch of pink, with a bit of violet, with a hint of green – Dorothee Fischer in memoriam, Galerie Konrad Fischer, Düsseldorf (group)

The Distance of a Day – New in Contemporary Art, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem (group)

Sulta Croce – Giubileo 2016, Collezione Giancarlo e Danna Olgiati, Lugano (group)

Ceramix. Ceramic art from Gauguin to Schütte, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht; La Maison Rouge, Paris; Sèvres - Cité de la céramique (group)

  • 2015:

NO MAN’S LAND: Women Artists from the Rubell Family Collection, Rubell Family Collection/Contemporary Arts Foundation, Miami (group)

Root of a Dream, Castello di Rivoli, Turin (solo)

The Problem of God, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf (group) Bois Dormant, Gladstone Gallery, Brüssel (solo)

  • 2014:

The Human Factor: The Figure in Contemporary Sculpture, Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, London (group)

Sadie Coles HQ, London (solo)

  • 2013:

Paloma Varga Weisz, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin (solo)

Die Bildhauer. Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, 1945 bis heute, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf (group)

  • 2012:

Alone Together, Rubell Family Collection, Miami (group)

Prima Materia, Gladstone Gallery, Brüssel (group)

'Sadie Coles HQ, London (solo)

Exquisite Corpses: Drawing and Disfiguration, Museum of Modern Art, New York (group)

  • 2011:

mémoires du futur – la collection Olbricht, La Maison Rouge, Paris (group)

Folkstone Triennial, Folkstone (group)

  • 2010:

Neues Rheinland, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen (group)

Lebenslust und Totentanz, Kunsthalle Krems (group)

Silent Revolution – Sammlungspräsentation, Kunstsammlung NRW, Düsseldorf (group)

  • 2009:

Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv (solo)

  • 2008:

The Gilded Age, Kunsthalle Wien (solo)

Gladstone Gallery, New York (solo)

  • 2007:

Sadie Coles HQ, London (solo)

Makers and Modelers, Gladstone Gallery, New York (group)

  • 2006:

Of Mice and Men, Berlin Biennale (group)

Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin (solo)

Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Art, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem (group)

  • 2005:

Always a Little Further, Biennale di Venezia (group)

Sammlung 2005, Neupräsentation Kunstsammlung im K21, Düsseldorf (group)

  • 2004:

Museum Kurhaus Kleve (solo)

  • 2003:

Not Afraid, Rubell Family Collection, Miami (group)

  • 2002:

Big Trip, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf (solo)

  • 2001:

Kabinett für aktuelle Kunst, Bremerhaven (solo)

Kunstverein Bremerhaven (solo)

Bibliography
  • Paloma Varga Weisz. Root of a Dream. Castello di Rivoli, Museum of Contemporary Art, Rivoli, Mousse Publishing, Milano 2017. ISBN 9788867492930
  • Maison de Plaisance: Rosemarie Trockel und Paloma Varga Weisz. Museum Morsbroich Leverkusen, Verlag für Moderne Kunst, 2012, Nürnberg. ISBN 978-3-86984-360-5
  • Neues Rheinland - die postironische Generation. Distanz Verlag, 2010, Berlin. ISBN 978-3-942405-20-1
  • A million miles from home. Folkestone Triennale, Cultureshock Media, 2011. ISBN 978-0-9562669-4-1
  • Paloma Varga Weisz, Gilded Age. A Tale of Today. Katalog Kunsthalle Wien. Verlag für moderne Kunst, 2008, Nürnberg. ISBN 978-3-940748-28-7
  • Paloma Varga Weisz, Zeichnungen. Koenig Books, 2005, London. ISBN 978-3-88375-999-9
  • Raumfürraum. Katalog Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen. Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2005, Köln. ISBN 978-3-88375-924-1
  • Most Wanted: The Olbricht Collection. Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2005, Köln
  • Interviews 2. Gerald Matt, Kunsthalle Wien, 2008. ISBN 978-3-86560-364-7
  • Of Mice and Men. 4. Berlin Biennale, 2005, Hatje Cantz. ISBN 978-3-7757-1765-6
  • Sammlung Kunst der Gegenwart in K 21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen. 2005, Düsseldorf, ISBN 978-3-8321-7567-2
  • Paloma Varga Weisz. Katalog Museum Kurhaus Kleve. Revolver, Archiv für Aktuelle Kunst, 2004. ISBN 3-934935-16-8 u. ISBN 3-937577-43-2
  • Paloma Varga Weisz. Sammlung Ackermans, 1999, Xanten

Notes and references
  1. "New York Times, Sep. 23, 2005 - Art in Review; Paloma Varga Weisz, by Roberta Smith".
  2. "New York Times, Mar. 30, 2012 - Morphing Figures, Mismatched and Distorted, by Karen Rosenberg".
  3. "MoMA Collection, Paloma Varga Weisz".
  4. "artnews.org Biography of Paloma Varga Weisz, by Barbara Gladstone".
  5. "Frieze Magazine, Issue 147, May 2012, Paloma Varga Weisz, by Sadie Coles".
  6. "Worldcat: Gilded Age - A Tale of Today; Paloma Varga Weisz, by Matt Gerald and Angela Stief".
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