Biography
Maja Weyermann
*1962, Switzerland - 2016, Berlin, Germany
Education
1989 - 1992
University of Arts, Berlin; Meisterschülerin under R. Girke
1987 - 1989
Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam
Grants and Awards
2014
Istanbul foreign exchange grant of the city of Berlin
2012
Research grant of pro helvetia New Delhi (film project “The House of Mr Sharma”, Chandigarh)
2001
Work grant of the city of Berlin
1995 - 1997
Studio grant of the Karl Hofer Society
1996
Work grant of the Stiftung Kulturfonds
1993
Work grant of the city of Berlin
Solo Exhibitions (Selection)
2019
The Yellow Section, with Birgit auf der Lauer & Caspar Pauli + Evrim Kavcar, after the butcher, Berlin
2015
Giostra, Gallery Nosbaum Reding, Luxembourg
Letters from Abroad, DEPO-Istanbul, Istanbul
2014
Segues, Gallery Sanatorium, Istanbul
Galerie Krethlow, Bern
2013
The Miller House, Vous Etes Ici Gallery, Amsterdam
The Miller House – and a Slice of Cake – or – Life Shortly Before Disaster …, Nosbaum & Reding, Luxembourg
2011
Chandigarh, Fondation de l'Architecture et de l'Ingénierie, Luxembourg
2010
Carnet Indien II, Fondation Suisse/Pavillon Le Corbusier, Paris
real-time-nomads, uqbar, Berlin, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Collegium, Hungaricum Berlin and five shops in Berlin
2009
Carnet Indien, Le Corbusierhaus, Berlin
2008
Chandigarh, Museum of Fine Arts, Chandigarh, India
Chandigarh: An Approach, India International Centre, New Delhi
Chandigarh, Galerie Vera Munro, Hamburg
2006
Renderings, Nosbaum & Reding, Luxembourg
2005
Liminal, Galerie Vera Munro, Hamburg
2003
Gare d'Orsay, Galerie Koch und Kesslau, Berlin
neben Acapulco # 2, Luxus-Bar, Berlin, with Karin Müller
2002
Solo show Art Fair Zürich 2002, Galerie Koch und Kesslau, Zurich
2001
3 Tassen Tee (ca. 3 km), Galerie Koch und Kesslau, Berlin
Kunstbank, Berlin, with Paschutan Buzari
1998
transformed object, room installation, Kunstruimte, Berlin
1995
54 x Acryl auf Tubolit, room installation, shell of the office building from the architects Léon/Wohlhage, Kronprinzendamm, Berlin
Group Exhibitions (Selection)
2019
Ellipses between Word & Image, Jalahar Kala Kendra, Jaipur, India
2017
The Real Estate Show Extended, Kunstpunkt Berlin/Spor Klübü, Berlin
2015
Chandigarh sehen. Schweizer Reportagen, Centre Le Corbusier / Heidi Weber Haus, Zurich
2014
Bad Thoughts, Collection Martijn and Jeannette Sanders, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
2013
The Golden Age, partner programm of CTM and transmediale, general public, Berlin
2012
Witness to Change, curated by Rahaab Allana, Indraprastha Gardens, New Delhi
Die Stadt, die es nicht gibt - Bilder globaler Räume, curated by Brigitte Franzen, Ludwig Forum für internationale Kunst, Aachen
Wahlverwandtschaften - Imaginationen des Nomadischen, curated by Peter Herbstreuth, Museum für Völkerkunde, Hamburg
2010
Imaginaries : Exploring Photo Art, curated by PIX Quarterly, Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan, New Delhi
audio visual presentation of real-time-nomads, THE KNOT, Warsaw
celebration!, uqbar, Berlin
casting, visite ma tente, Berlin
2009
participation in the exhibition “Zeigen, An audiotour throug Berlin” by Karin Sander, Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin
2007
breakthrough to grey room – casa barata, groupshow in context of the arab - european dialog, in cooperation with the Tangerconference, 2007/02/08-10
Hotel Humboldt, Glue, Berlin
2005
First Choice!, Galerie Vera Munro, Hamburg
me, myself and I, gutleut 15, Frankfurt, Berlin, Amsterdam, München
Klasse Girke, Positionen 1971 - 1996, Vfak-Ruhrgebiet e.V., Oberhausen
2004
At home with friends and guests, with Pool products, Berlin
2000
urban dialogues: Ladenkette, in cooperation with the architect's office cet-0
1999
somavision, Art and Media Centre, Berlin
1998
Ceterum Censeo, Galerie im Marstall, Berlin
1997
Stipendiaten 1995 - 1997 - ailleurs, Kunstamt Kreuzberg, Berlin
Grüße aus Brest, Jim, with “die der art guten Freunde”, Berlin
1996
APOLLO, museumsakademie, Berlin
1993
Goldrausch IV, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin
Projects
2013
Cooperation with A. Buchholz and S. Flechsenhar for the animation DLRG, part of the exhibition “Ludwig Leo - Ausschnitt”, curated by BARarchitekten and G. Harbusch, die raum, Berlin
2011
Film project “about paradise”
2010
Audio video project “real-time-nomads”
2006 - 2009
Interdisciplinary project “Chandigarh”
2004
Guest teacher at the University of Lichtenstein (compartm. architecture)
Public Collections and Support
Collections:
Jennifer Stockman Collection, USA; Cleveland Clinic Foundation USA, Dubai; Art Collection Bern, CH; Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Artothek, D;
Support: About Paradise
Supported by Universities Leipzig and Halle-Wittenberg and Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft and by the Institute of Cultural Anthropology of the University of Leipzig
Real-Time-Nomads:
Supported by European Cultural Foundation, NL
Chandigarh Project:
Supported by pro helvetia New Delhi, pro helvetia, Zurich, ifa, city of Berlin, Fondation Suisse, Paris
Room Installations:
Supported by city of Berlin, pro helvetia, DESY Zeuthen, Piet Mondrian Foundation, Amt für Kultur, Bern
Selected Bibliography
Paul di Felice, Pierre Stiwer, Café-Crème asbl (editor), “Maja Weyermann, The Miller House – and a Slice of Cake – or – Life Shortly Before Disaster …”, in: Mois Européen de la Photographie Luxembourg 2013, Luxembourg, 2013, p. 50 – 53, ISBN 978-99959-674-2-0
Peter Herbstreuth (editor), “about paradise I/II zwei künstlerische Videoportraits von Maja Weyermann”, in: Wahlverwandtschaften - Imaginationen des Nomadischen, catalogue, Leipzig, 2012, ISBN 978-3-926196-63-7
Sameena Siddiqui, “Chandigarh Series”, in: Rahaab Allana (editor), Imaginaries, Pix Quarterly Nr. 3, New Delhi, 2011
Paul di Felice, Pierre Stiwer, Café-Crème asbl (editor), “Maja Weyermann, Chandigarh”, in: Mois Européen de la Photographie Luxembourg 2011, Luxembourg, 2011, p. 54 – 57, ISBN 978-99959-674-1-3
Maja Weyermann (editor), “real-time-nomads”, DVD, CD and documentation, supported by European Cultural Foundation, Berlin, 2010
Nicolas Siepen; Thomas Wulffen, D. Bechtloff (editors), “Abstraktes Leben auf virtuellen Baustellen” in: Fiktion der Kunst der Fiktion, Kunstforum international, Bd. 202, Ruppichteroth, 2010
Fabian Goppelsröder (editor) mit Abbildungen von Maja Weyermann, “Das Palais Stonborough, Wittgenstein als Architekt seiner Spätphilosophie” in: WittgensteinKunst, Diaphanes, Zürich-Berlin, 2006, ISBN-10: 3-935300-14-X
Maja Weyermann (editor), “Chandigarh - an approach”, DVD, supported by pro helvetia new delhi, Berlin, 2008
Mamta Upadhyaya, “Revisiting Chandigarh”, in: DESIGN TODAY - Magazin, New Delhi, May issue 2008
Wolf Jahn, “Maja Weyermann, Galerie Vera Munro”, in: Artforum international, Summer 2005
Michaela Ott, “Raumvielfalten”, Nicolas Siepen, “Abstraktes Leben auf virtuellen Baustellen”, in: free frame cuts (catalogue), Berlin, 2003
“Kundmanngasse II - Maja Weyermann”, ARCH+, Magazine for Architecture und urban planning, 34. year, edition 157, Aachen August 2001
“Absence - Maja Weyermann”, ARCH+, Magazine for Architecture und urban planning, 34. year, edition 156, Aachen Mai 2001
Nicolas Siepen, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Berliner Seiten, 04. 05. 2001
Bernet David, “Derivate des Raumes”, in: SOMA (catalogue), Berlin, 1999
Stepken Angelika, Bernet David, in: transformed object (catalogue), Berlin, 1998
Reust Hans Rudolf, “Binnenräume in Innenräumen als Aussenräume”, in: Doppelnaturen (catalogue), Berlin, 1994