Kurt Fleckenstein (born December 5, 1949) is a German artist/sculptor associated with land art, minimal art and installation art. He initially completed a Masters degree in landscape architecture with a special emphasis on art history at the University of Applied Science in Weihenstephan. Then followed regional planning studies at the University of Karlsruhe majoring in environmental space and landscape before completing a Doctorate in Political Science at the University of Kaiserslautern which enabled Fleckenstein to professionally link the science disciplines studied.
He was politically active in the eighties as a member of the Regional Planning Association – Lower Neckar, co-founded a local green party and was the Local member for the County Council of Rhein-Neckar district in Baden-Wurttemberg.
As a recipient of research awards by the Federal Government and the University of Karlsruhe/Sparkasse Foundation in 1980/1981 Fleckenstein commenced a period of intense scientific activity culminating in over 80 publications in books and trade journals. His main field of research was the environmental impact of large-scale infrastructure projects on landscape planning. As a result of his research, many current planning practices have been adopted in the area of integrating infrastructure routes and mining ventures into the contemporary landscape.In the early 1990s as the borders of eastern Europe were opened he established offices at Dresden in the former East Germany and Wrocław in Poland. This strategic move created a point of departure for his future cross-border plans and research.
Against the backdrop of his qualifications in the field of landscape, it does not surprise that land-art objects and installation represent an important part of the current works by Kurt Fleckenstein. Playing with gravity is particularly distinct in his work – when balls threaten to roll down a hill or cubes are ready to tip – but do not fall down. In his art he refers to minimalist positions and thus finds new ways to deal with reduction, so that an artwork is a thing by its own existence. His provocative art form is designed to charm, irritate and challenge the viewer to question and compare “idealism with realism” on major social, cultural, economic and environmental issues. Fleckenstein now divides his home and work life between Mannheim, Germany and Wroclaw, Poland.
Individual exhibitions
2012 National Art Museum Ukraine, Kiew (UA) , WRO Art Center for media art, Wroclaw (PL), Art Hall St. Annen, Lübeck (D; catalogue), Art Society Worms, Worms (D)
2011 Museum of Contemporary Art Villa Croce, Genoa (I), LAVRA, City Gallery of the municipality of Kiev (UA), GB KUNST – Society of Fine Arts, Trier (D)
2010 Art Hall Gallery Kunstihoone, Tallinn (EST), New Art Society Regensburg, Regensburg (D)
2009 Museum NONCONFORMIST ART, St. Petersburg (RUS), März Gallery, Project-space Cube 4/4/4, Mannheim (D)
2008 Gallery Contemporary Art “Profil” of the municipality of Poznań (PL; catalogue), Gallery BWA Center of Art, of the municipality of Gorzów ((PL)
2007 Art Society Neckar Odenwald, Mosbach (D)
2006 Gallery KulturForum Europa, Cologne/Vettweiß (D), Gallery BWA, Galeria Awangarda, Wrocław (PL), Gallery Wzgórze Zamkowe of the municipality of Lubin ((PL), Gallery Storkower Bogen, Berlin (D)
2005 Museum of Architecture, Wrocław (PL; catalogue), Gallery Town hall and public spaces in the city of Seelze (D), Gallery Brama Wrocławska of the municipality of Oleśnica (PL), Villa Meixner, gallery of the municipality of Brühl (D), Gallery Drugie Piętro, Wrocław (PL)
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