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Marco Schuler (* 1972) is a German artist who works in the media of video, sculpture and painting.\
Marco Schuler first studied philosophy in 1993, then moved to the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich in 1994 to study sculpture under object artist Olaf Metzel. In 1995 he was involved in the group project München liegt am Meer. In 1996 he was awarded a prize in the small sculpture competition organised by the Mainz broadcaster ZDF. In 1998 he became a master student of Prof. Olaf Metzel and taught as his artistic assistant at the academy between 2003-2009. He was quickly honoured with scholarships, such as the Villa Arson in Nice in 1999 and a project scholarship from the Steiner Foundation in Munich in 2000. After receiving his diploma in 2001, his first solo exhibitions took place in 2002. In 2002 (DAAD project grant for Los Angeles) and 2003 he was also supported by grants and studio scholarships. In 2004 he received the Bavarian Art Promotion Prize for Fine Arts, in 2005 the Art Prize for Sculpture and Small Sculpture from the city of Bühl, in 2007 a travel grant from the state of Bavaria for a further stay in Los Angeles and in 2009 an artist residency in Krems an der Donau. He also received the Upper Rhine Media Art Prize, awarded for the third time in 2009 by the Freiburg media art association artforum3. He has been teaching seminars on art in architecture/interdisciplinary projects at the hKDM Freiburg since 2019. In 2023 there were two work residencies February/July "Tropical Berlin", Los Angeles, USA.
Prizes, scholarships & study visits (selection)
1996 ZDF Small Sculpture Prize
1999 Study visit to the Villa Arson, Nice
2000 Project scholarship from the Steiner Foundation, Munich
2002 DAAD project scholarship in Los Angeles, USA
2003 Visual Arts Award of the City of Munich, studio scholarship, iaab-International Exchange and Studio Programme Basel Region in Stiching Kaus Australis, Rotterdam
2004 Bavarian State Prize for Fine Arts
2005 Art Prize for Sculpture and Small Sculpture from the City of Bühl
2007 Travelling grant from the Bavarian State to America (Los Angeles, USA)
2009 AIR artist in residence Krems, Austria
Media Art Prize Upper Rhine
2023 Two residencies February/July "Tropical Berlin", Los Angeles, USA
Solo exhibitions (selection, catalogue *)
2023 "Go!Go!Go!", Kunsthalle Darmstadt
2021 "Light", Citykirche, Mönchengladbach
"OMG", Catholic Academy, Freiburg
2020 "Holy Woodpecker!", Packaging GÖ, GörisrieD
2019 "Orbi", art in public space, Staufen im Breisgau
"Hörnertour", Kunstarkaden, artist in residence, Kempten
2018 "Nuff un Nabb", Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald district office, Freiburg
"unplugged", Offenburg art association
2017 "after the illusion", IAM, Munich
2016 "M.S.", Fischmüller's cabinet for extraordinary experiences, Freiburg
"yalla Sir", the transformers, Brussels, Belgium
2015 "peep", Kunsthaus L6, Freiburg
"yolo", berlin-weekly, Berlin
"HOMUNCULI", Kunstverein Weil am Rhein, Germany
2014 "Hans Thoma meets Marco Schuler", Galerie Fluchtstab, Staufen
2012 "Orbi", Belchengipfel, Black Forest
2010 "humdrum", subzone2, Galerie Adler, Frankfurt am Main
2019 "Zauberberg", gallery Häusler contemporary, Zurich
"Burgfräulein", Gallery Fluchtstab, Staufen
"Sackgesicht", Factory/Kunsthalle Krems
2008 "Doppelböcke", Nikolaus Bischoff Gallery, Lahr
"Under the Siren", Municipal Gallery Villingen-Schwenningen (*)
"Roadrunner", Städtische Galerie Reutlingen (*)
"Gravity in Art", René Daalder, Telic Gallery, Los Angeles
2007 "Storming and Stumbling", Häusler Contemporary, Munich
2006 Gallery Florian Walch, Munich
2005 Atelier Bischoff, Lahr
2004 Kunsthaus L6, Freiburg
Red Cell, Munich
Gallery Foth, Freiburg
2003 March, April, May 2003, Stichting Kaus Australis, Rotterdam
4x4, Charles Schumann Gallery, Munich
2002 Longham Gallery, South Normandy, Los Angeles
"Marco Schuler", Galerie im Tor, Emmendingen
"Search Engine", Zeppelin Museum, Friedrichshafen
Group exhibitions (selection)
2023 "solar breath", Eres Foundation, Munich
2022 "60x60", international film collage, Museum Brot und Kunst, Ulm
"Gipfeltreffen", art night Kempten
2021 "Wurzelspitzen", a growing art project, Seeshaupt
2020 "Art in the type case", Forum Kunst, Rottweil
"Transplantations", Grünes Haus Kunstarkaden Kempten - Art Mix Bremen
2019 "Farewell to the outside", Kunstverein Freiburg
2018 "Georg Thumbach and Marco Schuler", Kunstarkaden, Kempten
"gravitiy-gravity", the transformers, Brussels, Belgium
2017 "House of lies", Pantaleons Muehlengasse, Cologne
2016 "initial", Kunstverein Freiburg
"Optic Mountaineering", TENT, Rotterdam, Netherlands
"fi4 sculptures", Lichtfeld Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
"how to hide in a white cube", the transformers, Brussels, Belgium
2015 "Napa Valley collects", Napa Valley Museum, California, USA
"gravity and the body", LU Arts Project Space, Loughborough, UK
"Aeolian harp", DG Gallery, Munich
2014 "affaire de coeur", HBKsaar Gallery, Saarbrücken
"Regionale 14", E-Werk, Freiburg
"Movie", cinema Kandern, Kunstverein Weil am Rhein
Public collections
State Gallery, Stuttgart
Lenbachhaus, Munich
Pinakothek of Modern Art, Munich
Villingen-Schwenningen Municipal Gallery
Zeppelin Museum, Friedrichshafen
Marco Schuler ⎮ New Works
April 19th - June 15th 2024
Marco Schuler presents new works that immediately confront the visitor with all kinds of beings, figures and scenarios of all genres and genres, all of which seem to have sprung from the personal and social subconscious. The visitor is greeted by the steel sculpture "Radix", a disarmingly cheerful goblin, which with its pointed spikes also has a potential for danger and points explosively in all directions to Schuler's universe of almost 30 pictures. This armada, this panopticon, "those figures of the game of life", open up the whole spectrum of human expression, feeling and imagination between life and death with fantasy, joie de vivre, humour and profundity.
Auf der Straße, 2023
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Biss, 2023
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Frosch fällt, 2024
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Hinter der Decke, 2023
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Kobold, 2016
Aluguß
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Maske, 2023
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Netzwerk, 2023
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PEACE!PIECE!, 2023
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Pinkes Glas, 2023
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Puck, 2023
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Raketen, 2023
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Schwangere Dose, 2023
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Talk the walk, 2023
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Verkehrt, 2023
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Astronaut reitet Katze, 2023
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Baby, 2024
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DIE! NO, 2023
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Freund oder Feind , 2023
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Gelber Helm, 2023
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Kind, 2024
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Mädchen, 2019
Aluguß
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Nackt ums Haus, 2023
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Papageno, 2023
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Pinker Baum, 2023
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Prosit, 2023
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Schrei, 2024
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Springseil, 2023
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Turm, 2023
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Zwick, 2023
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4 Himmelsrichtungen, 2023
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Aufm Teppich, 2023
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Composer, 2024
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Frau und Katz, 2023
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Gassi, 2023
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Kick, 2023
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Liegendes Gesicht, 2024
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Mutter und Kind, 2024
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No name, 2023
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Peng, 2024
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Plakat, 2023
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Radix, 2020
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Rosa Gesicht, 2024
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Springer, 2023
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Totentanz, 2023
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Wer rennt weg, 2024
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