Thorsten Goldberg

Thorsten Goldberg born 26 December 1960 in Dinslaken is a German multimedia artist.

Life
From 1982 to 1991 Thorsten Goldberg studied sculpture at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart in the class of Inge Mahn. In 1991 he won the first prize of the Forum of Young Art for his photographic work, "Class of 97" with exhibition stations at Kunsthalle Kiel, Kunstverein Mannheim, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart and Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden. Along with the screenwriter Wieland Bauder he created the fictional character Thomas Bauer for joint artistic performances. When Thomas Bauer received the scholarship for photography by the Berlin Senate in 1991, he then took part in the art exhibition “Art on a world scale” at the Kunsthalle Kiel in 1993. Since 1995 and in addition to photographs and video works Thorsten Goldberg has been creating site-specific works and public art. He realized numerous projects in public space throughout Germany, in Poland, Norway and Canada and taught at various academies. 2003 - 2008 he was Adjunct Professor for Art in Public Space at the Art Academy Linz/AT and 2007 - 2009 Professor (repress.) for arts and media at the Muthesius Art Academy Kiel/Germany.

As a member of different committees and advisory boards he is involved in the election and organisation of competitions for art in public. Thorsten Goldberg is Initiator and Co-Publisher of „Public Art Wiki“, a Germany-wide internet archive for art in public space in the German-speaking-area (http://www.publicartwiki.org) He is also Co-Publisher of „Kunst in der Großsiedlung (art in the large-housing-area) Marzahn-Hellersdorf“ a printed documentation of more than 460 public works and author of several texts on public art.

Thorsten Goldberg lives in Berlin/Germany.

Selected permanent and temporary works
Cities are all in Germany unless otherwise noted.

Works in public collections

 * The city of Gdańsk, Poland
 * The Mazovian Centre of Contemporary Art – Elektrownia in Radom, Poland
 * The City of Bergen, Norway
 * The Land of Berlin
 * The German Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development
 * The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) in Bonn
 * The City of Lippstadt
 * The City of Heidenheim
 * The Charité University Clinicum in Berlin
 * The Martin-Gropius-Hospital in Eberswalde
 * The Daimler Art Collection in Berlin
 * The Art-Museum in Heidenheim
 * Herbert-Gerisch Foundation in Neumünster
 * The collection Stefan Haupt in Berlin
 * The City of Edmonton, Canada

Publications

 * 1992 - Hans-Peter Feldmann, Preface, catalogue: Goldberg, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart
 * 1995 - René Hirner, catalogue: schmutz, Goldberg, Bauder, Kunstmuseum Heidenheim
 * 2002 - Christoph Tannert, means against amnesia, catalogue: Thorsten Goldberg, Münster ISBN 3-935730-05-5
 * 2002 - Martin Henatsch, moments of fragility, catalogue: Thorsten Goldberg, Münster ISBN 3-935730-05-5
 * 2002 - Frédéric Bussmann, rock-paper-scissors in: Kunst in der Stadt, Skulpturen in Berlin, edited by H. Dickel, U. Fleckner, Nicolai Verlag, Berlin ISBN 3-87584-399-1
 * 2004 - Montse Badia, on milk and honey, Thorsten Goldberg's Utopia Station, in catalogue: Werk 04, Heidenheim Sculpture Symposium ISBN 3-929935-23-6
 * 2007 - Katharina Klara Jung, Milk + Honey +, in catalogue: Show me the way to public sphere, Wiesbaden 2006, ed office for Art and Public, M. Henatsch, Münster and Department of Culture, Wiesbaden, Kerber Verlag
 * 2008 - René Hirner, The receipts 93-08 in: TIEFENRAUSCH, Volume 2 - rapture of the deep, edited by OK Center for Contemporary Art, Upper Austria ISBN 978-3-85256-462-3
 * 2012 - Dr. Martin Henatsch, Eulalia Domanowska, Jadwiga Charzynska, Kristin Danger, Nicole Loeser, catalogue: 54°4MIN., DISTANZ Verlag ISBN 978-3-942405-78-2