Platino
exhibitions involved
PLATINO / april – june 2017
We are pleased to announce that we will be hosting an exhibition by Platino, showing a cross section of his photographic oeuvre since 1979, to be held just before the official award ceremony for the Hans-Thoma Prize. Almost all of Platino’s photographs center around the consecutive life and work cycles Red Space 1, (Red) Space 2 and Space 3. Dubbed Externs by the artist, the resulting photographs are cibachrome prints mounted on acrylic.
Excerpt from the press release of the State Ministry for Science, Research and Arts, Baden-Württemberg, November 2016:
„The 2017 Hans-Thoma Prize honors a body of artistic work that has – since the 1970s – resituated the possibilities of painting, photography and installation within a new artistic process,“ explains State Secretary, Ministry of Science, Research and Arts, Petra Olschowski. This includes Platino’s site-specific works within and around his Spaces, as well as the so-called Externs (the translations of these spaces within the photographic medium), and exhibitions in which the Externs form the point of departure for transforming other spaces.
Olschowski: “Platino’s Spaces are at once artworks, private living spaces, studios, laboratories and galleries. They call into question the structures, ways of functioning and rule systems of art, as well as the rationales underpinning the white cube and the ‘unité d’habitation.’ Platino is constantly sounding out the new frontiers of private and public, art and life, system and chance,” says the State Secretary.
The jury has honored the three spaces designed by Platino as a unique site of aesthetic experimentation and experience. This work has not only had an impact on the regional and supraregional art scene, but also animates and sensitizes people outside of artistic circles. This is also the case with Platino’s projects in public space, such as the designs he first produced around the area of the municipal train station in the Swiss town of Horgen. “Platino’s solo shows stand out because they interrogate and change a given situation in a radical way through colorful and architectonic interventions,” the jury explained the reasons for its choice. “Developed independently of the art market, Platino’s artistic work sought out its own way of being public when he began to establish alternative production methods that connected institutional critique with artistic research, as well as aesthetic and political practice with an artistic position that has maintained its relevance and explosiveness to this day.”
Platino was born in Öhringen in 1948. He studied philosophy at the University of Tübingen and painting and sculpture at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart. He lives and works in Stuttgart.
We are pleased to announce that we will be hosting an exhibition by Platino, showing a cross section of his photographic oeuvre since 1979, to be held just before the official award ceremony for the Hans-Thoma Prize. Almost all of Platino’s photographs center around the consecutive life and work cycles Red Space 1, (Red) Space 2 and Space 3. Dubbed Externs by the artist, the resulting photographs are cibachrome prints mounted on acrylic.
Excerpt from the press release of the State Ministry for Science, Research and Arts, Baden-Württemberg, November 2016:
„The 2017 Hans-Thoma Prize honors a body of artistic work that has – since the 1970s – resituated the possibilities of painting, photography and installation within a new artistic process,“ explains State Secretary, Ministry of Science, Research and Arts, Petra Olschowski. This includes Platino’s site-specific works within and around his Spaces, as well as the so-called Externs (the translations of these spaces within the photographic medium), and exhibitions in which the Externs form the point of departure for transforming other spaces.
Olschowski: “Platino’s Spaces are at once artworks, private living spaces, studios, laboratories and galleries. They call into question the structures, ways of functioning and rule systems of art, as well as the rationales underpinning the white cube and the ‘unité d’habitation.’ Platino is constantly sounding out the new frontiers of private and public, art and life, system and chance,” says the State Secretary.
The jury has honored the three spaces designed by Platino as a unique site of aesthetic experimentation and experience. This work has not only had an impact on the regional and supraregional art scene, but also animates and sensitizes people outside of artistic circles. This is also the case with Platino’s projects in public space, such as the designs he first produced around the area of the municipal train station in the Swiss town of Horgen. “Platino’s solo shows stand out because they interrogate and change a given situation in a radical way through colorful and architectonic interventions,” the jury explained the reasons for its choice. “Developed independently of the art market, Platino’s artistic work sought out its own way of being public when he began to establish alternative production methods that connected institutional critique with artistic research, as well as aesthetic and political practice with an artistic position that has maintained its relevance and explosiveness to this day.”
Platino was born in Öhringen in 1948. He studied philosophy at the University of Tübingen and painting and sculpture at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart. He lives and works in Stuttgart.
platino / biography
1948
*öhringen
1967-1969
studium der philosophie an der universität tübingen
1970-1976
studium der malerei und bildhauerei an der kunstakademie stuttgart
1979-86
lebt und arbeitet in und an red space 1, olgastraße, stuttgart
1985
beginn der arbeit an red space 2, landhausstraße, stuttgart, (1991 umbenannt in space 2)
1986-2003
lebt und arbeitet in und an space 2
seit 2003
lebt und arbeitet in und an space 3 in stuttgart
2017
hans-thoma-preis 2017 des landes baden-württemberg
lebt und arbeitet in stuttgart, de
einzelausstellungen (auswahl) | solo shows (selection)
2017
platino, externs, galerie mirko mayer, cologne, de
out of red ii, galerie schlichtenmaier, stuttgart, de
2013
flechtwerke und fliehkräfte, württembergische kunstverein stuttgart, de
2012
platino, galerie der stadt tuttlingen, de
2011
in touch, städtische galerie ostfildern im stadthaus
2007
y, zeppelin museum und kunstverein friedrichshafen, de
2002
au-delà, kulturwissenschaftliches institut, essen, de
2001
externs. photographs by platino, goethe-institut new york, usa
inside up. raum / malerei, sammlung domnick, nürtingen, de
... aus dem raum für den raum, projektreihe der malerwerkstätten heinrich schmid gmbh & co.kg, schloß monrepos, ludwigsburg, de
2000
nahdistanzen, staatsgalerie stuttgart, de
platino, externs, galerie mirko mayer, cologne, de
1998
platino, externs, galerie mirko mayer, cologne, de
1993
platino, westfälischer kunstverein münster, de
1992
platino, zuger kunstgesellschaft, kunsthaus zug, de
1990
extern at villa arson, centre national d'art contemporain, nizza, fr
1985
erste einzelpräsentation der externs, arco madrid
gruppenausstellungen (auswahl) | group shows (selection)
2020
lust auf farbe, galerie schlichtenmaier, stuttgart, de
die illusion der realität, fotografische positionen, galerie schlichtenmaier, schloss dätzingen, grafenau, de
2017
rauminstallation in der ausstellung rot kommt vor rot, museum ritter, waldenbuch preisträgerausstellung à travers l'autre/durch einander hans-thoma-museum, bernau, de
2012
cracked. white. open, galerie jochen hempel, berlin, de
2009
cella. strukturen der ausgrenzung und disziplinierung, complesso monumentale di san michele a ripa, ex casa di correzione di carlo fontana, rom, it
2008
wollust. the presence of absence, columbus art foundation, leipzig, de
1998
2 ou 3 choses que je sais d'elle. l'hypothèse du tableau volé, mamco, genf, ch
photographie. ready, mate, kunstverein arnsberg, de
1995
das abenteuer der malerei, württembergischer kunstverein stuttgart, kunstverein für die rheinlande und westfalen, düsseldorf, de
1993
kunst um kunst, kunsthalle bielefeld
1992
skulpturen, fragmente. internationale fotoarbeiten der 90er jahre, wiener sezession, at
carambolage. biennale der partnerregionen i, staatliche kunsthalle baden-baden, de
1990
photo. kunst. arbeiten aus 150 jahren, graphische sammlung, staatsgalerie stuttgart, de