Gregor Schneider

Quick Facts

Full Name	Gregor Schneider
Occupation	Artist
Date Of Birth	Apr 5, 1969(1969-04-05)
Age	55
Birthplace	Rheydt
Country	Germany
Birth City	North Rhine-Westphalia
Horoscope	Aries

Gregor Schneider Biography

Gregor Schneider is one of the most popular and richest Artist who was born on April 5, 1969 in Rheydt, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Schneider transformed the rooms within the German pavilion to create a similar home with double walls and floors on the floor of the house similar to the one he built in Rheydt. Schneider remodeled a late 19th century entrance that had columns like a typical door openings, with a letterbox slot and doorbell panels along the sides. The windows inside could not be open towards the exterior. “One builds what one no longer knows”, Schneider stated about his installation. In the Biennale it has been seen as a subliminal political declaration, as the German pavilion constructed in 1909 is often regarded to be the greatest “intimidating” building “in the area of the Giardini”.

At 16 years old, Schneider was the first artist to exhibit solo in an exhibition , entitled Pubertare Verstimmung in the Gallery Kontrast at Monchengladbach. Since the start of the 1990s, he’s been working in galleries and museums. The rooms are three-dimensional sculptures which can be explored and often conceal or alter the rooms of museums and galleries The rooms that he designs are rooms that he has found in various dwellings or constructions. In 1985, he started taking down and rebuilding rooms within an apartment in Rheydt the city, which he named”Haus u r.

In 2003, the Tote Haus u r was constructed for one year inside the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles.

In 2005, Gregor Schneider was officially invited to realize the Cube Venice 2005 at the Piazza di San Marco in Venice during the 2005 Biennale. Shortly before the opening of the exhibition the sculpture was rejected due to its “political nature”. Cube Venice 2005 was intended to be an independent sculpture in form, function and appearance, inspired by the Kaaba in Mecca, the most holy place of Islam, the destination of millions of believers who make the pilgrimage every year. Kaaba means “cubic building”. This artwork became an international controversy discussed widely in the media. As a result, it was rejected shortly before being realized in the courtyard of the Hamburger Bahnhof, museum of contemporary art in Berlin. Finally Schneider realized his work Cube Hamburg 2007 between the old and new buildings of the Hamburger Kunsthalle. Under the artistic direction of the curator, Dr. Hubertus Gaßner, director of the Hamburger Kunsthalle, different aspects of a painting from 1878-1935 were analyzed in an exhibition entitled “The Black Square – Hommage to Malevich”. To convey the different aspects of “The Black Square” the exhibition featured further works by Malevich as well as works of his contemporaries, scholars, and critics.

Gregor Schneider studied from 1989 until 1992 at a variety of German Art Academies including: the Kunstakademie Dusseldorf (Art Academy of Dusseldorf) and the Kunstakademie Munster (Academy of Fine Arts in Munster) as well as at the Hochschule fur bildende Kunste (University of Fine Arts, Hamburg). From 1999 to 2003 Schneider was an academic guest lecturer and participated in activities for education at several art schools, including De Ateliers in Amsterdam, the Academy of Fine Arts Hamburg and the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen. From 2009 until 2012, he was an instructor of sculpture in the University of Art Berlin and from 2012 until 2016 a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich. Since 2016, he has been following by Tony Cragg on Arts Academy Dusseldorf as a professor of sculpture.

Gregor Schneider Net Worth

Gregor Schneider is one of the richest Artist from Germany. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Gregor Schneider 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Gregor Schneider (born 1969 in Rheydt) is a German artist from Germany. His work has been controversial and sparked intense debates. The year 2001 was the time he won his Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale for his famous project Totes Haus u r exhibited in The German Pavilion.

Since 1985, Schneider has been working elaborately on the house on Unterheydener Strasse in Monchengladbach-Rheydt. “Ur” in Monchengladbach is a reference to the city of R “u r” refers to Unterheydener Strasse and Rheydt. Gregor Schneider created replicas of the rooms that were in use by building complete rooms within other rooms , each with walls, ceilings, and floors. The rooms that are doubled aren’t accessible as rooms inside rooms to viewers. Furthermore, he slowly moves rooms away from view using machines that lift ceilings or entire rooms. Interspaces and hollows are result of the shape of the structures. Certain rooms are not accessible due to their being covered by walls, and others are surrounded by plumbing, concrete, insulation, or sound- absorbing materials. Through fixed lights outside and different time of day were recreated. Rooms are numbered sequentially (u R 1 -) to clearly distinguish. The first rooms comprised all rooms of a house, including an office, a bedroom, a cafe room, a room for lumber, an kitchen and a corridor. There was also cellar. From the middle of the 1980s, visitors to The Haus U r were described as having experienced terrifying experiences in the home.

In 2001, Gregor Schneider won the “Golden Lion” at the 49th Biennale in Venice, with his solo exhibition, “Totes Haus u r Venedig 2001”. Udo Kittelmann, at that time, director of the Kölnischen Kunstverein invited the artist to create solo exhibition in the German pavilion. Within three months time Schneider built a Totes Haus u r inside the pavilion, he transported by ship a total of 24 original rooms using100 packing pieces with a combined weight of 150 tons from Rheydt to Venice; Schneider refers to the rooms, which he has built out of the Haus u r or which have been rebuilt at another place, as Totes Haus u r.

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Gregor Schneider said with regard to the origin of the idea of the cube: “It is not my idea, but the idea of a believing Muslim. He saw the connection to the Kaaba, to this building, which, in my view, is one of the most fascinating and beautiful buildings of in the history of mankind”. Schneider made the following remark about the work: “The sculpture demands something from every participant (…) The box summons us all, it allows me to look past the critical reporting and to call on the public, something I didn’t have to do before. It challenges Muslims, which didn’t know this way of repproachement before, and it shows something to the visitors of the western world they have never seen before. In the history of Islam Abraham/Ibrahim is the constructor of the Kaaba. All three Monotheistic religions can identify with this building very well.”

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Top Facts about Gregor Schneider

1. Gregor Schneider is a German installation artist.
2. He was born in Rheydt, Germany in 1969.
3. Schneider’s work often explores themes of confinement and isolation.
4. His most famous work is “Totes Haus u r” (Dead House ur).
5. The installation took over a decade to complete.
6. Schneider won the Golden Lion award at the Venice Biennale in 2001.
7. He has exhibited his work internationally, including at MoMA PS1 in New York City.
8. Schneider’s installations often involve complex architectural structures and lighting effects.
9. His work challenges traditional notions of space and perception.
10. Schneider continues to be an influential figure in contemporary art today.