Florian Witt

Schnelles Auto, 2019, acrylic, paint marker on canvas, 47x51cm

Unort-ism/non-place-ism

"Translation, intermediality, simultaneity and play. Finding a way to capture the state of being and making it comprehensible is a task that excites me. What lies between the things that can be known and how can this be located as space?

Starting from drawing and construction, I look for a red thread in everything. I paint as if I were drawing; build as if I were painting and write as if I were talking. It's about trying to act out one medium in the other and, if possible, finding a basic note that both have in common. When the ball pen is replaced by a jigsaw and a sheet of paper is replaced by a board, drawings can be made physically accessible and you yourself can become part of the picture. Similarities to translation processes and empathic movements emerge. A more generalist approach distracts me from working out minute details.

Rather, I work on all aspects of a work with equal importance. The canvas a painting is on, the wall a work hangs on, the paint on a sculpture and the space it is in are all materials I work with. They influence each other bidirectionally - so they are only really finished when the exhibition has taken place.

It is similar to when it comes to finding a title. Just as the painting base coat is usually there before the painting, a work can exist as a word before it is even finished. It can also be created without any naming at all; the actual title then emerges in conversation. In the catalogue it is then called what it looks like. Associations triggered in people looking at the work come into focus as further material of the work. Mistranslations and changing interpretive sovereignties feast on the negotiability of reality. So it is also about what is written between the lines. From the misunderstandings and agreements that arise in this way, an intersection emerges that seems to me like a red thread."

Curriculum vitae

*1990 in
lives and works in Bremen, DE

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Education

2021 Diplom, Hochschule für Künste Bremen, Bremen, DE
2016-2021 Studium der Freien Kunst, Hochschule für Künste Bremen, Malerei, Klasse Prof. Stephan Baumkötter, Malerei / Zeichnung, Klasse Prof. Katrin von Maltzahn, DE
2013-2016 Studium der Freien Kunst, AdbK Nürnberg, Malerei, Klasse Prof. Thomas Hartmann, DE
2012-2013 Studium der Philosophie und Sportwissenschaften, Universität Bremen, DE
2011-12 Tischlerausbildung

Awards, Grants, Projects (selection):

2018 DAAD Stipendium für Austauschsemester an der University of Guelph, CA
2016 The Pavilion Project, AdBK Nürnberg, DE
2016 Meisterschüler von Prof. Thomas Hartmann

Collections

Art Collection of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate, DE

Solo and Two-Person Shows (selection)

2024	„Towerplace", Thealit, Bremen, DE
2023	„Moin Hallo", Ciao, Bremen, DE „set / wordspawn 1", Doppelausstellung mit Vincent Kück, Halle 6, Bremen, DE
2022	„Florian Witt: Grüße aus dem Logbuch", Emde Gallery, Mainz, DE „Painting is everywhere", Doppelausstellung mit Sebastian Dannenberg, Woldt Gallery, Hamburg, DE
2021	„Holo_Grafik_Karte", Doppelausstellung mit Vincent Kück, Emde Gallery, Mainz, DE „Dripclub", offsite / Gleishallen GBF, Bremen, DE „ver-aus,zu;hin:vor", Tor 40, Bremen, DE
2018	„bonhomie", Zavitz Gallery, Guelph, CA

Group Shows (selection)

2024	„47. Bremer Förderpreis für Bildende Kunst", Städtische Galerie Bremen, Bremen, DE „books books books", Kunst- und Museumsbibliothek, Köln, DE
2023	„Grand Opening", Tabakquartier, Bremen, DE „Remix 1", Emde Gallery, Mainz, DE
2022	„Einfädelspur", Zuostant, Berlin, DE „GameON!", Künstlerhaus Dortmund, Dortmund, DE
2021	„Art Library to go", Moitoya Gallery, Tokyo, JP „Art Library to go", Y3, Studio, Kobe, JP „AAIP", Sint Lucas School of Arts, Antwerpen, BE „big fungus", offsite /@solo_show, Internet „Sublit", Galerie 149, Bremerhaven, DE „Stereo 2", Spedition, Bremen, DE „Discount", Circa 106, Bremen, DE „Playground", FAQ, Bremen, DE „AAIP", Weserburg, Bremen, DE „Kunst bis zum Ende", Alte Cola-Fabrik, Bremen, DE
2020	„Stereo 1", Kunsthochschule Mainz (Atelier Boppstraße), Mainz, DE „raus project", vol. 1 - curated by Wolfgang Günther, Hamburg, DE
2019	„Montage am Dienstag“, Montagehalle HBK Braunschweig, Braunschweig, DE „Cleanik", Schlachte, Bremen, DE „Artists as Independent Publishers“, HFK Bremen, Bremen, DE
2018	„Say Shibboleth", Klasse Prof. Katrin von Maltzahn, Galerie Oqbo, Berlin, DE „Farbflut Festival", Deichwand, Lemwerder, DE „Hartbreaker", auf AEG, Nürnberg, DE „Bügelfeuerausstellung", Spedition, Bremen, DE „bonhomie“, Zavitz Gallery, Guelph, CA „specialized studio", Alexander Hall, Guelph, CA
2017	„zip“, Klasse Prof. Katrin von Maltzahn, HfK Ausstellungsraum, Dechanatstraße, Bremen, DE
2016	„Rundgang", AdBK Nürnberg, Nürnberg, DE „Klasse Hartmann Stellt aus", Kunstverein Amberg, Amberg, DE Nie Solo Sein“, HfK Ausstellungsraum, Dechanatstraße, Bremen, DE
2015	„Rundgang", AdBK Nürnberg, Nürnberg, DE „Klasse Hartmann Stellt aus", Kunstverein Amberg, Amberg, DE Nie Solo Sein“, HfK Ausstellungsraum, Dechanatstraße, Bremen, DE
2012	„All you can Paint", Freiraumgalerie, Halle (Saale), DE „Farbtöne", Freiraumgalerie, Halle (Saale), DE