Overview

(b. 1961 in Lüchow, Germany)

 

Rainer Oldendorf is a sculptor.

He works with various media, including film, photography, teaching, the spoken work and text.

 

"(Oldendorf) uses architecture, light, photography, film and video in a work that proposes a reflection on his own personal, social and political history in the context of the places where it is produced and in relation to the people who have worked on a common project. In that way he involves both the community that takes him in and the spectator, in an exercise that shifts the public space to the private one, the real space to a fictitious one, between photography and film." -Nuria Enguita Mayo

Biography

Recent solo shows include CAC Brétigny, Centre d'art contemporain, Brétigny, France (2007), Erna Hecey Gallery (2006), and Fundacio Antoni Tapies, Barcelona (2000).

 
Parts of Marco 1-14, an ongoing film since 1994 - named after the main actor, the artist's alter ego - were screened at the Pompidou Center, Paris, in 2008.
Works
  • rainer oldendorf_marco14 and CIAM4 / Shipwreck with Spectator. 2017_artproject
    marco14 and CIAM4 / Shipwreck with Spectator, 2017
  • Rainer Oldendorf_cardinal scipion borghese_film still_sculpture_louvre_erna hecey
    En 1620 le cardinal Borghese commande à Bernini un matelas en marbre pour son hermaphrodite, copie romaine d'après original grec, 2007
  • Rainer Oldendorf, Marco (Paineras), 2006
    Marco (Paineras), 2006
  • Rainer_Oldendorf_High-level Black Forest_2005_color_print_erna_hecey
    High-level Black Forest, after a tip of Klaus S., November 2001, 2005
  • Rainer Oldendorf_le texte a besoin daide_the text needs help_photographs_ 2005
    Le texte a besoin d'aide, 2005
  • Rainer Oldendorf_Riesstraße 1, Lörrach, winter 1996/97_photograph
    Riesstraße 1, Lörrach, winter 1996/97, 2005
  • Rainer oldendorf_Armenienne cathedral_black and white_photograph_2000
    Armenian Cathedral Holy Jacob, Jerusalem, January 2000, 2000
  • Rainer Oldendorf_2000_the nile_nils_photograph_greek sculpture
    The Nile, 2000
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