Claudia Wieser
Episode 499 / Claudia WieserClaudia Wieser is a German artist based in Berlin. Her work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at The Drawing Center, New York; the Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, MO; and Smart Museum, Chicago, IL. Her work has been included in recent group exhibitions at the Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY; the Anderson Collection at Stanford University, CA; the Hamburger Bahnhof, Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, Berlin Germany; Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, South Korea; Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans; Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt; and Marta Herford Museum for Art, Architecture, Design, Herford, Germany. Wieser’s work included in a number or prominent public collections, such as the Contemporary Art Collection of the Federal Republic of Germany; Collection of the Berlin State Museums, Neue Nationalgalerie, Sammlung Goetz, Munich; Deutsche Bundesbank Kunstsammlung, Frankfurt; Mercedes-Benz Art Collection, Germany; K21-International Contemporary Art Collection of the Kunstsammlung North Rhine-Westfalia; the Anderson Collection, Stanford University, CA; the William Louis-Dreyfus Foundation Collection; and the Louiand Zabludowicz Collection, London. She has produced large-scale, site-specific commissions for Dior in Vienna, Paris, and Beverly Hills, the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, and the City of Munich. In July 2021, Wieser unveiled her first outdoor public installation, commissioned by Public Art Fund, at Brooklyn Bridge Park in New York. In 2023, she presented work in collaboration with historic Yves Saint Laurent couture, designing a set and exhibiting her work at the Museé Yves Saint Laurent, Paris. In 2020 she collaborated with Hérmes to design a catwalk for Paris Fashion Week. She recently completed an outdoor installation at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center in Athens. Claudia earned an MA in Painting and Sculpture from the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich. She lives and works in Berlin. She just opened a solo show at Marianne Boesky gallery.
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