Clemens von Wedemeyer (born 1974 in Göttingen, Germany) is a German video artist.
He studied fine arts at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig, with Astrid Klein. In 2004 von Wedemeyer produced, together with Maya Schweizer, a documentary movie: Metropolis, Report from China which was finished in 2006. In 2008, he was a resident at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He lives and works in Berlin and Leipzig, Germany.
Awards 2002 VG Bildkunst Award for Experimental Film and Video–art, Munich Film Festival, Germany 2002 Marion Ermer Prize, Leipzig 2005 Kunstpreis der Böttcherstrasse in Bremen, Germany 2006 Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen 2008 Villa Romana prize
Memberships 2026 Member of the Academy of Arts, Berlin
Exhibitions 2016 P.O.V., Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Germany (solo) 2015 Muster, MCA Screen, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, US (solo) 2014 Every Word You Say, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany (solo) 2013 MAXXI – National Museum of the 21st Century Arts, Rome (solo) 2013 Bergen Assembly, Norway 2012 documenta (13), Kassel, Germany 2011 Metropolis, Report from China, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (solo) 2010 Sun Cinema, Mardin, Turkey (public art project) 2009 Curve Commission, Barbican Arts Centre, London 2007 Skulptur Projekte Münster, Germany 2006 PS1 MoMA, New York City (solo) 2005 1st Moscow Biennale, Russia
References
External links An Interview with Clemens von Wedemeyer by Bert Rebhandl "Clemens von Wedemeyer", Art in America, 4/26/10, Koch Oberhuber Wolff, Sabine Russ "Clemens von Wedemeyer", frieze, June–August 2006 Exhibition in 2011 Clemens von Wedemeyer's profile at Kadist Art Foundation