Wilken Skurk
Born in Dresden in 1966
Resides in Berlin
education
1989-2000
Study of Fine Arts | Humboldt-University and Academy of Fine Arts | Berlin
2001
"Meisterschüler" degree by Professor David Evison
awards | recognitions
2013
· Visiting Artist in November 2013
GAPP - Guest Artist Pavilion Project | Toledo Museum of Arts | US-OH
2006
· Coburg Glass Prize | Alexander Tutsek Prize
2005
· Jutta Cuny-Franz Prize | Supporting Award
2003
· Scholarship - Bildhauerstipendium | Kunsthaus Meinersen | DE
2003
· Scholarship | Künstlerförderung Berlin
· Jutta Cuny-Franz Prize | Honorary Diploma
public collections
· Ernsting Foundation | Coesfeld-Lette | DE
· Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg | DE
· Alexander Tutsek-Foundation | Munich
· Glasmuseum Hentrich | museum kunst palast | Düsseldorf
· Glasmuseum Frauenau | DE
· Musée du Verre | Sars-Poteries | FR
work in urban context | projects | competitions
2010
· Gläserne Gärten | Frauenau | DE
2008
· Bombay Sapphire Prize - Final Exhibition | Milan
2004
· Town Planning Competition - City of Meinersen | DE
2000
· Corner | Sculptural Work for Memorial Koppenplatz 6 | Berlin
solo exhibitions
2022
· The Secret of the Secret | lorch+seidel | Berlin
2021
· Selected Works | lorch+seidel | Berlin
2018
· If I Had a Home (with Dafna Kaffeman) | lorch+seidel | Berlin
2017
· A Touch of Lightness | lorch+seidel | Berlin
2016
· Summer in the City (with Andrea Lehnert) | lorch+seidel | Berlin
2014
· Pure Emotion (with Benjamin Bohnsack) | lorch+seidel | Berlin
2012
· What colour is the air? (with Benjamin Bohnsack) | lorch+seidel | Berlin
2011
· Giganten (with Benjamin Bohnsack) | lorch+seidel | Berlin
2009
· Incantato | Galerie Rossella Junck | Berlin
· Berliner Liste | Berlin
2008
· Galerie Rossella Junck | Berlin
2007
· Galerie B | Baden-Baden | DE
2006
· Galerie Kunstbahnhof | Dresden
2005
· Galerie Breitengraser | Berlin
· Galerie Jacob Bach | Düsseldorf
2004
· Urban Design Project - City of Meinersen | Galerie Bongartz | Hannover
2003
· Galerie sphn | Berlin
group exhibitions
2022
· Kunst in der Bastion VII | Kasematten der Bastion VII | Torgau | DE
· The Coburg Prize for Contemporary Glass | Veste Coburg | DE
2021
· Positions Berlin Art Fair | with lorch+seidel
2017
· Positions Berlin Art Fair | with lorch+seidel
· Scope Basel Art Fair | with lorch+seidel
2016
· Scope Miami Beach Art Fair | with lorch+seidel
2015
· Why Glass ? | lorch+seidel | Berlin
2014
· SOFA Chicago Art Fair | with lorch+seidel
· The Coburg Prize for Contemporary Glass | Veste Coburg | DE
· That's what I want | lorch+seidel | Berlin
2012
· Preview Berlin Art Fair | with lorch+seidel
· Verriales | Galerie Serge Lechaczynski | Biot | FR
2011
· Verriales | Galerie Serge Lechaczynski | Biot | FR
· Inside - Outside | Glasmuseum Frauenau | DE
· Art Karlsruhe | with lorch+seidel
· New Acquisitions | Ernsting-Foundation | Coesfeld-Lette | DE
2010
· Frozen in Tension | Alexander Tutsek-Foundation | Munich
· A Gathering of the Tribes | Universität der Künste | Berlin
· Four In One | lorch+seidel galerie | Berlin
· Deutsch-Tschechische Freundschaft | Neues Rathaus | Weiden | DE
· Art Karlsruhe | with lorch+seidel
2009
· Kultursalon | Hyatt Regency Hotel | Mainz | DE
2008
· Bornholm Art Museum | Denmark
· Kunst am Strand | Island of Sylt | DE
· Berlin 2 | Kunstverein Regensburg | DE
· Bombay Sapphire Prize | Milan
2007
· Galerie Rossella Junck | Berlin and Venice
2006
· Coburg Glass Prize | Veste Coburg | DE
· Galerie Breitengraser | Berlin
2005
· Kunstverein Mainz | DE
2002
· Stockholm Art Fair
2001
· National Garden | Athens
· Skulptur/Skurk - Malerei/Zweig | Galerie sphn | Berlin
2000
· PIG 7 | Video with Annette Beisenherz | Berlin
1999
· verlassen sich | Galerie G7 | Berlin
1998
· Klasse Evison | Skulptur & Installation | Unter den Linden 10 | Berlin
1997
· Epidermis | Video with F. Pelka | Kultursommer Wittenberg | DE
· Neue Galerie | Berlin
publications
2014
· Mind the Gap | artist catalogue
· The Coburg Prize for Contemporary Glass | exhibition catalogue
2013
· Wilken Skurk - ein Bildhauer aus Berlin
Interview by Clementine Schack von Wittenau
Glasklar - Festschrift für Helmut Ricke |
museum kunst palast | Düsseldorf
2007
· Glastresor | Catalogue by Galerie B
2006
· The Coburg Prize for Contemporary Glass | exhibition catalogue
2005
· Kreisverkehr Meinersen | Catalogue by Galerie Jacob Bach
2002
· Unzerbrechlich | Catalogue by Galerie sphn