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Little raptures of color "... Gipper takes on the past, no, not the morbid fascination with it, but its constant transformation, this maelstrom of history, which perhaps is most visible in buildings. (It comes as no surprise that the graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Münster also has a university degree in history and at least toyed with the idea of studying architecture.)... He arranges 'fragments that could have had some connection with one another' ... 'The past has so many stories to tell'... He aims at 'making what is past interesting for today'. In so doing, messages are clearly of less interest to him than the composition of shape and color, with the latter being of prime importance. 'I strive for little raptures of color', says Manfred Gipper. A very poetic remark from a man who is lecturer in the CAD laboratory of the University of Applied Sciences (FHTW) in Berlin and who as an artist is always on the lookout for new colors ..." from the Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, Wittenberg edition, 30 July 2005 |
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1956 | Born in Bonn, Germany | |||||||
1973 | Move to Münster, Germany | |||||||
1978 - 1983 | Commencement of studies at the Academy of Fine Arts, Münster | |||||||
1981 | Pupil of Prof. Hermann-Josef Kuhna | |||||||
1984 | Participation in the first painters symposium of the Grafschaft Bentheim in Nordhorn | |||||||
1985 | Move to Berlin. Since then, numerous exhibitions in Berlin, throughout Germany and abroad, including Paris and Moscow | |||||||
1986 - 2000 | "Landscapes", the blue-green phase | |||||||
1997 | Appointment as lecturer for design in the CAD laboratory of the University of Applied Sciences (FHTW) in Berlin | |||||||
2000 | Casa Europa: start of a new series with the motif of the European house | |||||||
2003-2004 | Collaboration with the Chilean painter Coco Piéart
for the exhibition series 'Residencias' First exhibition in Galerie Montecatini, Concepción, Chile, September 1-15, 2003 Second exhibition in the Embassy of Chile, Berlin, October 5 - November 12, 2004 |
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2003-2005 | 'ESPLANADE' project (former Hotel Esplanade at
Potsdamer Platz in Berlin): Décalage horaire Time lag with French author Colette Sarrey (whose publications include 'Tango', Edition L'Harmattan, Paris 2001) |
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2004 | 2004 Begin of first collage series | |||||||
2005 | 2005 Artist´s stipend from the Cranach Foundation Wittenberg, Germany | |||||||
2006 |
Mailart project 'Bizarre Cities' |
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2007/08 | Artist's stipend from the Bartels Foundation, Basel, Switzerland, Kleiner Markgräfler Hof, December 2007 to July 2008 | |||||||
2009 | artist in residence, Galerie B, Kunstverein Frankfurt/Oder | |||||||
2010 | Artist's stipend from the Künstlerhaus Lukas, Ahrenshoop, in Klaipeda / Lithuania | |||||||
2012 | artist in residence, Tallinn (Estonian Artists' Association EAA) | |||||||
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