Professor Claudia Terstappen

Position title

Qualifications

• MA (Fine Art), Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany

Statement

Claudia Terstappen   studied German Literature, Philosophy and Fine Art in Duesseldorf, Germany. She is now a practicing artist of more than 20 years standing, with an impressive string of international exhibitions and publications to her name.

Before she moved to Australia she lived and worked in Germany, Great Britain, Spain and the US. She has found inspiration for her work travelling in North and South America, Japan, Europe and Australia discovering traces of ancient and modern belief systems.

Her work focuses on the interrelationship between religion, superstition and science.

In 2004 she was appointed to Monash as Professor of Fine Arts.

Works in public collections:

• Museum of Fine Art Houston, Texas USA
• Osaka Prefectual Government, Japan
• Seika University Sammlung, Kyoto, Japan
• Museum und Stiftung DKM, Duisburg, Germany
• Collection Grothe, Germany
• Collection Heiting, Germany
• Collection Schneckenburger, Germany
• Fundación Coca Cola, Spain
• Colecció Rafael Tous d’Art Contemporani, Barcelona
• Colección Spectrum Sotos, Zaragoza, Spain
• Museum La Coruña, La Coruña, Spain
• Monash University Library Collection, Melbourne, Australia
  

Research/Professional activities

Awards (selection):

• 2005, Finalist for the BMW Photo-Prize exhibition, Louvre, Paris
• 2004, Artist in Residence, Northern Territory University, Darwin, Australia
• 2001, Artist in Residence, Fundación Valparaiso,Valparaiso Spain
• 2001,  Art and Humanities Research Board, London: Small Grant and Research Leave Award
• 1999, Art and Humanities Research Board, London: Small Grant
  Support for a project by:
  Staatskanzelei Düsseldorf, Germany
  Kunstfond Bonn, Germany
• 1999, Stftung Kunst und Kultur des Landes NRW, Düsseldorf, Germany
• 1998, Bronze Prize of the Triennale for Sculpture in Osaka, Japan
• 1996, Artist in Residence, Direction régionale des affaires culturelles, France
• 1993, Projektförderung der Stiftung Kunst und Kultur des Landes NRW, (support for a project) for Spain in 1994
• 1990, Ida Gerhardi Prize, Germany, DAAD Scholarship for Britain (one year, London)
• 1989, Förderpreis des Landschaftsverbandes Westfalen-Lippe, Westfälisches Museumsamt Münster
• 1984, Award for open-air sculpture, Landesgartenschau Hamm, Germany

Selected Solo Exhibitions

• 2009, Galeria Palma XII, Barcelona
• 2008, Place Gallery, Melbourne  
• 2008, Galerie Caren Jones, Cologne, Germany
• 2007, Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney
• 2007, Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin
• 2006, Sala H, Vic (Barcelona)
• 2006, Galeria Palma XII, Barelona
• 2006, CCC B, Centre Cultural Contemporani de Barcelona
• 2005, Galeria Forum, Tarragona
• 2005, Faculty Gallery, Monash University, Melbourne
• 2005, Iglesia de la Universidad, Santiago de Compostela, Spain'
• 2005, Metrònom, Fundació Rafael Tous, Barcelona
• 2004, Galeria Palma 12, Vilafranca del Penedés, Spain
• 2004, CDU Gallery, Darwin, Australia
• 2004, Gallery Fleur, Kyoto, Japan
• 2003, NT Centre for Contemporary Art, Darwin, Australia
• 2003, Galeria Kowasa, Barcelona
• 2002, Städtische Galerie Im Rathauspark, Gladbeck, Germany
• 2002, Galeria Spectrum, Zaragoza, Spain
• 2002, Galerie Hellebrand, Duisburg, Germany
• 2002, Stiftung DKM, Duisburg, Germany
• 2002, Galeria garage regium, Madrid

Selected Group Exhibitions

• 2009, Museum DKM, Duisburg, Germany
• 2009, Gallery Caren Jones, Cologne, Germany
• 2009, ARCO’09, International Art Fair Madrid with Galeria Palma XII
• 2008, Macquarie University Art Gallery, Sydney
• 2008, Melbourne Art Fair with Conny Dietzschold Gallery
• 2008, LOOP’08, International Video Art Festival, Barcelona
• 2008, Hand-haben, Maschinenhaus Kiel, Germany
• 2008, Place Gallery, Melbourne
• 2008, ARCO, International Art Fair Madrid, Spain with Galeria Palma XII
• 2007, LOOP’07, International Video Art Festival, Barcelona
• 2007, CCCB, Centre Contemporani Cultural  de Barcelona
• 2007, Musée des Confluences, Lyon, France
• 2007, FIAC, Art Fair, Turin, Italy
• 2007, Art Fair Korea, Seoul
• 2007, Jones & Truebenbach Gallery, Cologne, Germany
• 2006, St Patricks Cathedral, Melbourne
• 2005, World Financial Center Gallery, New York
• 2005, Womans Museum Dallas, Texas
• 2005, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans
• 2005, Simmons College, Boston
• 2005, Dfoto, Feria Internacional de Fotografia Contemporanea y Video
• 2005, San Sebastián, Spain
• 2005, Louvre, Paris

Monographs

• 2005, Places of worship, Monash University 2005, Melbourne, Australia
  ISBN 0 9756060 9 3
• 2002, Sacred Places, Germany 2002, ISBN 3-9807575-4-4
• 2000, Geister am Jucurucu, Druck und Verlag Schuffelen Cologne, 2000,
  ISBN 3 - 929769 - 66 - 2
• 1998, Je crois aux miracles, Riberac 1997 ” , ADDC e Centre Culturel de Riberac 1998, France
  Power is only dangerous if it´s in the wrong hands, Concept Verlag, Düsseldorf 1989, ISBN 3-92122421-8
• 1987, Der Versuch einen Pharao zu restaurieren, Düsseldorf 198

Curated exhibitions

• 2009 LOOP’09, International Video Art Festival in Barcelona Invited curator of  Australian video art work, (in progress),
• 2009 Co-curator of  the 2009 Devilbend project at the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery (MPRG) (in progress)
• 2008 LOOP’08, International Video Art Festival in Barcelona Invited curator of    Australian video art work.
• 1998 Co- curator of ‘Foreign affairs’, Kunsthalle der Europäischen   Akademie Trier
• 1995-2004 Gallery director of Gallery ‘ panorama’ in Barcelona

Research Projects and Collaborations

“Wunderforschung”, 2006 - 2008

A research collaboration between scientists, philosophers, children and an artist exploring the nature of gaining knowledge and breaking the boundaries of isolation between scientific, philosophical, artistic and children’s research. The project focused on ‘miracles’, ‘strange natural appearances’ and the latest technological inventions exploring historical as well as contemporary methodologies of understanding.

In addition to my involvement in research, I also documented the collection of the Natural History Museum(Berlin), resulting in a series of large format photographs. In addition I was commissioned to design the exhibition, which included site specific furniture and working closely with architects to supervise the production and installation of the exhibition.

Research partners:
Max-Planck-Institute, Department for the History of Science, Berlin
Museum for Natural History/ Humboldt University, Berlin
Comenius Garten, Berlin

Research outcome:
An exhibition combining all research results at the Museum for Natural History (2. Februar bis 30. April 2008), accompanied by a 40-page publication (Wunderforschung, Museum for Natural History, Berlin 2008, edited by C.Terstappen) and daily workshops at the museum during the same period of time.

Funded by
Hauptstadtkulturfond, Berlin, Germany

“Out of the Square”, 2008

Out of the Square is the title of the Mornington Peninsular Regional Gallery (MPRG) exhibition, curated by Rodney James exploring current and future architectural concepts embracing environmentally sustainable principles. As part of the exhibition I was commissioned to research and document local features and specific characteristics of the Mornington Peninsular that inspired the architectural responses/coastal residencies.

Research partners:
Mornington Peninsular Regional Gallery
Senior Curator Rodney James

Research outcome:
The production of a  series of photographic images for the exhibition and the 95-page catalogue publication; ‘Out of the Square’, Beach architecture on the Mornington Peninsular, Mornington Peninsular Regional Gallery, 2008 ISBN 9780975782576

Funded by:
Mornington Peninsular Regional Gallery

"Far Away – So Close", 2007/2008

A research project documenting Germans living in Australia and recording their unusual life stories.This project followed the photographic series by the Australian artist Che Chapman, resident in Berlin, who explored the lives of Australians living in Germany.

Research partner:
Goethe Institut Australia

Research outcome: 
The project resulted in the production of a large series of images and the selection of 25 photographic portraits and a summary of their life-stories.

The photographs and texts were exhibited at the Immigration Museum Melbourne in September 2007, followed by the Goethe Institut Sydney in December 2007. Other exhibition venues will follow.
The project was accompanied by a catalogue and an interactive portal www.goethe.de/faraway that showed all photos from the double exhibition and offered interested readers the possibility of telling their own German-Australian stories.

Funded by:
Goethe Institut Australia and Germany

Book Chapters

• Terstappen C. In Dialogue with Nature and ‚ A Conversation between Marian Hosking and Claudia Terstappen, March 2007’, in ‘Marian Hosking: Jewellery’, Living Treasures: Master of Australian Craft, Object, Thames & Hudson 2007, ISBN 978-0-9803540-2-7
• Terstappen C., Homogenous Disharmonies, in  “Kris Scholz - Photography” Edition Braus, München, Germany 2002 ISBN 3-89904-028-7

Edited Catalogue

• Terstappen, C(ed), Wunderforschung, Museum for Natural History, Berlin 2008

Catalogue Essays

• Terstappen, C., ‘Träume machen Jagd auf Bilder’, in : ‘Linien Stiller Schönheit, aus der Sammlung DKM_Band 1’, Museum/Stiftung DKM, Duisburg 2008, ISBN 3-981500-0-2, S. 228-231
• Terstappen, C., ‘Pictoral Strategies’, in: ‘Douglas Kirwan, Pattern and Narrative’
  Counihan Gallery, Melbourne 2008, ISBN 978-0-646-50157-4
• Terstappen, C., ‘Dual Carriageways’, in: ‘Parallel’ ,Salamanca Arts Centre, Tasmania, 2008; ISBN 978-0-646-49783-9, S. 14–17
• Terstappen, C., ‘Silent objects of being’, on Vito Bila, catalogue, Australian Contemporary, Collect 2007,  Melbourne  2007,  ISBN978-0-9750468-5-2
• Terstappen, C., ‘ Jewellery as a repository for nature’, in ‘Marian Hosking, Tracks – works in silver 2005 / 2006’, Monash Asia Institute Clayton, ISBN 1-876924-46-2
• Terstappen, C., ‘Going for a walk’, 1998, on  Victor Perezporro’, Barcelona 1998
• Terstappen, C., ‘ Homage an einen Magier ´ Museum Bochum, on - Fujio Akai, Germany 1998
• Terstappen, C.,  ‘Photography’, Europäische Akademie für Bildende Kunst, Trier 1998, Germany
• Terstappen, C., ´ Lessons of the Other ´, 1996 in ‘Picante’ for the MA European Fine Art Program of Winchester School of Art, 1996, Barcelona
• Terstappen, C., ´Tierzeichnungen´, on Michael Kukulies 1987, Germany

Bibliography

• ‘Linien Stiller Schönheit, aus der Sammlung DKM_Band 1’, Museum/Stiftung DKM, Duisburg, Germany 2008, S. 228-231, ISBN 3-981500-0-2
• Terstappen, C., Places of worship, Monash University, Melbourne 2005,
  ISBN 0-9756060-9-3
• Bufill, Joan , Lugares Sagrados, Claudia Terstappen, Kowasa Gallery Barcelona, in: “La Vuanguardia” 14.1.2004  / Cultura No 82 (review)
• Ooms, Anne, Heilige Orte - Sacred Places, Claudia Terstappen, NT Centre for Contemporary Art, Darwin, 9 - 31.5.03,  review in:  “Photofile”, August 2003
• ARCO 03, Feria internacional de arte, ARCO / IFEMA, Feria de Madrid, Spain 2002, S. 329
•  Fragmentos,  Propuesta para una Colección de Fotografia Contemporánea, Colección Rafael Tous de Arte Contemporáneo. Diputación Provincial de Malaga, Spain 2002, ISBN84-7785-493-9
• Terstappen, C., Sacred places, Düsseldorf, Germany  2002, ISBN 3-9807575-4-4
•  Fragments”, Proposta per a una Col. lecció de Fotografia Contemporania, Col.lecció Rafael Tous d’ Art Contemporani , Museu de la Universitat d’ Alacant (MUA), 8.11.2002 - 23.2.2002. Universitat d’Alacant, Museu Universitat d’Alacant, Spain 2002, ISBN 84-931911-7-5
• Mirar el mundo otra vez, Galeria Spectrum Sotos, Ajuntamiento de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain 2002
• Welche Landschaft wollen wir? , Hildegard Kurt und Erwin Wortelkamp, Kunstverein Hasselbach, Germany 2002, ISBN 3-89279-580-0
• ARCO 01, Feria internacional de arte, ARCO / IFEMA, Feria de Madrid 2002, S 310-311
• ARCO 02, Feria internacional de arte, ARCO / IFEMA, Feria de Madrid 2002 , S. 330-331
•  Fragmentos - Collección Rafael Tous, 3.5. - 28.6.01, Centro Cultural “Casa del Cordón”, Caja de Burgos, Spain 2001, ISBN 84-87152-67-8
• Huesca Imagen 5.7. - 31.7.01, Diputación de Huesca e Ibercaja, ISBN 84-95005-16-6
• East 2001, Norwich Gallery, Norwich School of Art and Design, Great Britain 2001, ISBN 1-872482-54-6
• Potlatch, Galeria Palma 12, Barcelona , Spain 2001
• BT 9, Monthly Art Magazine, Bijutsu Techo, Vol. 53, No 810, September 2001, Barcelona Art Report, S. 74, Spain 2001
• Woman of the World - A Global Collection of Art, curated by Claudia DeMonte, herausgegeben von Pomegranate California 2000, ISBN 0-7649-1334-4
• Zen und die westliche Kunst , Museum Bochum 25.5 - 20.8.2000, Bochum, Wienand Verlag, Germany 2000, ISBN 3-8093-0219-8
• Kunstforum, Edition 152, Oktober - Dezember 2000, S. 348/349 Claudia Posca - “Zen und die westliche Kunst”, Museum Bochum 25.6. - 20.8.2000, Germany
• Terstappen, C., Geister am Jucurucu, Schuffelen Verlag, Cologne, Germany 2000, ISBN 3-929769-66-2
• Sculpture, Painting, Print  - Osaka Triennale, International Contemporary Art Competition, Document 1990 – 1998,  Osaka Prefectual Government / Osaka Foundation of Culture, Osaka, Japan 2000
•  Im Tal, Jörg und Karen van den Berg für den Lehrstuhl für Kunstwissenschaft, Ästhetik und Kunstvermittlung der Universität Witte/Herdecke und für den Kunstverein Hasselbach, Duisburg, Berlin, Germany pict.im, 1999, ISBN 3 - 932256-04-2
• Osaka Triennale 1998 - Sculpture , 9th International Contemporary Art Competition 1998, Osaka Prefectual Government and Osaka Foundation of Culture, Osaka, Japan 1998
• Terstappen, C., Je crois aux miracles, Riberac 1997, published by ADDC e Centre Culturel de Riberac, France1998
• Foreign affairs, Europäische Akademie für Bildende Kunst, Trier, Germany 1998
• Van der Most, Jan , ‘Pablo’ (Mexico) aus der Serie “Schicksale” seit 1995 ’, ‘ lose Folge # 8,  Claudia Terstappen,, Postkartenausgabe, Düsseldorf 1998
• Letzter Aufguß, Kulturamt, Düsseldorf 1996
• East International, Norwich Gallery and Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Great Britain, 1995, ISBN  1 872482 16 3
• Flächenbezogene Kunst, 48. Bergische Kunstausstellung, Städtische Galerie Deutsches Klingenmuseum, Solingen, Germany 1994
• Berliner Sommerakademie, Bildende Künste 1994´, Berlin, Germany 1994
• East International, Norwich Gallery, Great Britain1993, ISBN 1872482 09 0
• Terstappen, C., et.al. in: ´Quer-Beet´, Charly & Annekathrin Hüskes, Krefeld, Germany 1992
• Glück Auf, München, Popa Verlag, Germany 1992, ISBN 3-925818-92-8
• Terstappen, C. in: Brandmeier, M. & Terstappen, C., Studio Galerie, Westfälisches Museumsamt, Münster, Germany 1990
• Terstappen,C., ´Power is only dangerous if it´s in the wrong hands´, Concept Verlag, Düsseldorf, Germany 1989, ISBN 3-92122421-8
• Arghir, Anca, Transparenz als Werkstoff, Wiegand-Verlag, Cologne 1988, Germany, ISBN 3-87909-180-3
• Terstappen, C., ´Der Versuch einen Pharao zu restaurieren´, Düsseldorf, Germany 1987

Links

• Claudia Terstappen 
• http://www.claudiaterstappen.com/ (In progress)