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Matthias Eder

Black-and-white portrait of the sculptor Matthias Eder wearing glasses

Matthias Eder (b. 1968) studied at the Akademie der bildenden Künste Stuttgart, among others under Karin Sander, after completing an apprenticeship as a sculptor. At the centre of his work stands the human being in its existential nakedness. His works define the form of the body through the detail, the fragment, the imprint of the skin. The thin-skinned metal shells enclose interior and exterior space; they appear strangely two-dimensional and three-dimensional at the same time, owing to the tension between the juxtaposed fragments and the ever-new views and insights that arise from it.

Female and male torsos often stand back to back; the curves of the body emerge only faintly from the narrow bronze panels.

 Matthias Eder plays with the tension between form and non-form, between the recognisable object and dissolution into abstraction.

BIOGRAPHY

Born in 1968 in Rheinfelden Baden

1993 Stone sculptor, master craftsman

1993-1995 Studies at the Akademie für gestaltende Handwerke Aachen

1995–2000 Studies at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, graduating as an academic sculptor under Professors Micha Ullmann, Karin Sander and Jana Grizmek

Freelance artist since 2000

EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED)

  • 2008
    “Eder3” (“Eder hoch 3”), Rheinfelden, joint exhibition with Leonhard Eder and Tobias Eder
  • 2007
    “Multifort Art Projekt”, Rheinfelden (Switzerland)
  • 2005
    “Leonale”, Leonberg
  • 2002
    Kulturpfingsten Lahrensmühle, Leonberg
  • 2001
    AAM Basel (Switzerland)
    “Kunst in Herrenhausen”, Galerie Maier&Co., Stuttgart
    Galerie Kura, Basel (Switzerland)
    Kulturpfingsten, Lahrensmühle, Leonberg
    “Kunstpfad”, Galerieverein Leonberg, Leonberg
    Galerie Königsblau, Stuttgart
    Galerie Artforum, Hannover
  • 2000
    Kunstdorf Unterjesingen
  • 1999
    Sculpture symposium “Eine Art Kunst”, Marbach
    “vielistoftmehr”, Ulm
    Leonberger Galerieverein, Leonberg
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