Wolfgang H. Scholz

Wolfgang H. Scholz (born 5 October 1958) is a German painter, photographer and film director. He lives and works in Mexico City and Munich.

Life
Scholz was born and grew up in Dresden, in a family that had been dedicated to woodcraft for several generations. At the beginning of the 1980s he studied building engineering and painting / graphic arts in Dresden. He studied additionally graphology from 1987 to 1988 with Ingeborg Rudolph in Leipzig. In 1989 he went to Munich, where he had a teaching position from 1990 to 1991 at the University of Television and Film (HFF). He works since 1992 for different European TV-broadcasters, for instance Bayerischer Rundfunk, the Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk, the Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen and ARTE. 1994 he founded together with Meinhard Prill the film production company Sic! Film GmbH and shot his first theatrical feature film “Shadow Seeker”, a story about his childhood in Dresden. His artistic work is conceptually tied to photography, as well as multimedia installations and is basically figurative in the area of painting. Connecting elements are movement, time and space, that brought him to create multimedia performances with dancers. 2001 Scholz went to Mexico City. He is married to the Mexican dancer, choreographer and manager of the Centro Cultural "Los Talleres" Isabel Beteta De Cou in Mexico City. In 2013 he was appointed at the Saxon Academy of Arts, Germany. The film museum of the University UNAM and the Museum Chopo (Mexico City) presented 2016 and 2017 a retrospective of his works.

Selection of solo exhibitions
Museum Chopo, Mexico City Gallery Blanco, Buenos Aires, Argentina Theater Montes de Oca, San José, Costa Rica La Casona Municipal, Córdoba, Argentina Gallery José María Velasco, Mexico City, Mexico Gallery Estación Coyoacán of Modern Art, Mexico City Museum del Arzobispado, Mexico City 2008	Gallery „Seminario de Cultura Méxicana“, Mexico City 2005	Museum del Chopo, Mexico City 1994	Black Box, Gasteig, Munich, Germany 1991	Gallery Carl Baasel, Starnberg, Germany
 * 2017	Gallery The Clemente, New York City
 * 2016	Filmotéca UNAM, Mexico City
 * 2015	Museum of Art, Querétaro, Mexico
 * 2014	Goethe Institut, Mexico City
 * 2013	Cultural Center Borges, Buenos Aires, Argentina
 * 2012	Museum Regional, Guadalajara, Mexico
 * 2011	Museum Ex-Convento del Carmen, Guadalajara, Mexico
 * 2010	Gallery UAM Iztapalapa, Mexico City
 * 2009	Neuer Sächsischer Kunstverein (mit Gerda Lepke), Dresden

Selection of group exhibitions
Haus des Buches, Leipzig, Germany City Hall, Dresden, Germany Museum dos Correo, Brasilia, Brazil Gallery Nuett, Dresden, Germany Center of Contemporary Arts, Rosario, Argentina Kunst Messe, Gallery Walter Bischoff, Los Angeles, USA "20 Munich Artist", Old City Hall Munich
 * 2017	Savvy Contemporary, Berlin
 * 2015	Museum Chopo, Mexico City
 * 2014	Museum dos Correo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
 * 2013	BBK Gallery, Munich, Germany
 * 2012	Gallery Vértice, Guadalajara, Mexico
 * 2008	Museum für Kunst und Geschichte, Ciudad Juárez, Mexico
 * 2006	Gallery Metropolitana, Mexico City
 * 1995	Festival der A*Devantgarde im Neuen Theatre, Munich
 * 1993	Theaterhaus, Stuttgart
 * 1991	Gallery Walter Bischoff, Stuttgart, Germany
 * 1990	"Ausgebürgert", Albertinum, Dresden, Germany
 * 1989	BBK Gallery, Munich, Germany

Selection of multimedia performances
2017	El Vacio – The Void 2013	Melancholy – Part 1 2013	The Inner Labyrinth 2005	Ser Viviente (Life-Beings) 2002	Cicles 2001	Landscapes of Love
 * Foro CC Los Talleres, Mexiko-Stadt
 * Museum Ex-Teresa Contemporary Arts, Mexico City
 * Theater Montes de Oca, San José, Costa Rica
 * Center of Contemporary Arts, Rosario, Argentina
 * Museum Ex-Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico City
 * Theatre Nacional, San José, Costa Rica
 * Center of Contemporary Arts, Rosario, Argentina
 * Museum del Chopo, Mexico City
 * Theatre Centro Cultural „Los Talleres“, Mexico City
 * Theatre of the Instituto Peruano-Norteamericano Lima, Peru
 * Theatre Miguel Covarrubias (UNAM), Mexico City
 * Theatre de la Danza, Mexico City
 * Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, New York City, USA
 * Fringe Festival for Independent Dance Toronto, Canada
 * National Theatre Havanna, Cuba
 * Centro Fotográfico „Álvarez Bravo“, Oaxaca, Mexico
 * Theatre de la Danza, Mexico City
 * Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City

Selection of films
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 * Time of Crows (2014) theatrical feature film
 * The Image Inside (2009) theatrical documentary
 * Distant Neighbours (2003) documentary
 * Lost Wings (1999) theatrical feature film
 * The Real Dream (1995) documentary
 * Shadow Seeker (1994) theatrical documentary-fiction film
 * The Lithographer von Otto Dix (1992) documentary
 * Kohlenlothar (1989/90) documentary
 * Body Building (1988) documentary
 * Dream 1 (1986) shortfilm / fiction film

Selection of awards
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 * 2016 Gold Remi Award, International Film Festival Houston, USA
 * 2015 Award (Drehbuch), Int. Filmmaker Festival, Milan, Italy
 * 2010 Platinum Remi Award, International Film Festival Houston, USA
 * 2004 Saxon Journalist Award (First Prize)
 * 2000 Silver Award, International Film Festival Houston, USA
 * 1991 International Film Festival Dresden (First Prize)