Thorsten Zwinger


Thorsten Zwinger is a German painter.

Work

Thorsten Zwinger works on the assumptions of an image survey, which pursues three media basics: 1. As a painter, he operates in a structurally designed character system, which is intended to switch off historically loaded attachments to terms such as abstraction, concreteness, narration, illusionism, pop art, concept, realism. The 2. line is complementary to painting. Zwinger photographes as others would draw. Both basics cross correspondingly above the endpoints of visibility: resolution and concretion. The 3. line attempts to transfer the problem between image and perception into the spatial. The sculptures of blown glass volumes, or of alienated packaging, which are designed as objects, are to investigate the phenomenon of appearance.
He lives in Greifswald and Berlin. He is an ancestor of Eugen Zwinger.

Individual exhibitions (selection)

  • 2016: Palmers Pausen, Gallery Werner Tammen, Berlin
  • 2014: New Works, Gallery Werner Tammen, Berlin
  • 2009: Lichtsmoke, Gallery Werner Tammen, Berlin
  • 2007: Kabuff N.K.23, Howard Scott Gallery, New York
  • 2006: Kabuff N.K.23, Gallery Werner Tammen, Checkpoint Charlie, Berlin
  • 2002: Bruch und Übergang / Rupture and Transition, Gallery Werner Tammen, Berlin
  • 2002: Black Paintings / The Same Things That Make You Live Will Kill You, Gallery Paul Veron, Greifswald
  • 1995: Die Stadt als Interieur, museum of the hanse town Greifswald, today Pommersches Landesmuseum, Greifswald
  • 1994: Works on paper, Holly Affinity Galerie, Taipei City, Taiwan, 1994

Exhibitions

  • 2016: ZWINGER : new works : Lucid 2, art Karlsruhe
  • 2015: ZWINGER : recent, Art Fair Miami
  • 2006: STANDPUNKTE II 1986 bis 2006 – paintings, sculptures, graphics from the collection of the Museum Junge Kunst Frankfurt , Kunstraum Potsdam
  • 2004: all about… berlin White Box Gallery, Munich, 2004

Works in public collections

Sammlungen Staatliche Schlösser und Museen, Schwerin Collection Willy-Brandt-Haus, BerlinCollection Museum Junge Kunst, Frankfurt/Oder

Literature, catalogues, publications

Literature