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 2017 Gallery The Clemente, New York City Museum Chopo, Mexico City 2016 Filmotéca UNAM, Mexico City 2015 Museum of Art, Querétaro, Mexico 2014 Goethe Institut, Mexico City Gallery Blanco, Buenos Aires, Argentina 2013 Cultural Center Borges, Buenos Aires, Argentina Theater Montes de Oca, San José, Costa Rica La Casona Municipal, Córdoba, Argentina 2012 Museum Regional, Guadalajara, Mexico 2011 Museum Ex-Convento del Carmen, Guadalajara, Mexico Gallery José María Velasco, Mexico City, Mexico 2010 Gallery UAM Iztapalapa, Mexico City Gallery Estación Coyoacán of Modern Art, Mexico City 2009 Neuer Sächsischer Kunstverein (mit Gerda Lepke), Dresden 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
Selection of group exhibitions
2017 Savvy Contemporary, Berlin Haus des Buches, Leipzig, Germany 2015 Museum Chopo, Mexico City City Hall, Dresden, Germany 2014 Museum dos Correo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Museum dos Correo, Brasilia, Brazil Gallery Nuett, Dresden, Germany Center of Contemporary Arts, Rosario, Argentina 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 Kunst Messe, Gallery Walter Bischoff, Los Angeles, USA 1993 Theaterhaus, Stuttgart "20 Munich Artist", Old City Hall Munich 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 Foro CC Los Talleres, Mexiko-Stadt 2013 Melancholy – Part 1 Museum Ex-Teresa Contemporary Arts, Mexico City Theater Montes de Oca, San José, Costa Rica Center of Contemporary Arts, Rosario, Argentina 2013 The Inner Labyrinth Museum Ex-Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico City Theatre Nacional, San José, Costa Rica Center of Contemporary Arts, Rosario, Argentina 2005 Ser Viviente (Life-Beings) Museum del Chopo, Mexico City Theatre Centro Cultural „Los Talleres“, Mexico City 2002 Cicles Theatre of the Instituto Peruano-Norteamericano Lima, Peru Theatre Miguel Covarrubias (UNAM), Mexico City Theatre de la Danza, Mexico City 2001 Landscapes of Love 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 Source:
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 Source:
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)
References
Kohlmeyer, Agnes (2004). “Flaming Red” Catalogue, A Workbook 2005, Venecia, Italy Pérez y Pérez, Rafael Alfonso (2008). "La Deconstrucción del Mundo Real", Museum Arzobispado, Mexico City Lozano, Ernesto (2011). "Laberinto Racional" La Razon de Artes Visuales, Mexico City Zavala Alonso, Manuel (2016). "Time of Crows" Art and History of Mexico City
External links
Member at the Association of Professional Visual Artists Germany (BBK) Munich Member at the Sächsischer Künstlerbund