Wilhelm Moser TIMEMUSEUM – Photography, Mixed Media & Sculptures

Wilhelm Moser   TIMEMUSEUM – Photography, Mixed Media & Sculptures

In the ‘TIMEMUSEUM’ exhibition, we are showing photographs, mixed media & sculptures by international artist Wilhelm Moser, who takes visitors on a fascinating journey through time between the past and the future, exploring the abstract nature of time. To make things simple, time has been referred to as the fourth dimension since Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity. But this is a misinterpretation. Time is like rubber: stretched, twisted, inflated, expanded and exploded. It has never existed. They are moments – exemplary, fleeting and yet, as it were, timeless, frozen by a photograph, a painting, a sculpture, a film.

After completing his Lehrzeit in joinery and carpentry under the supervision of his father Alois Moser, Wilhelm Moser studied at the Folkwang Schule, Essen and the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam.

Wilhelm Moser commuted between Düsseldorf and Paris until 1984, when Andy Warhol encouraged him to move to New York and recommended him to the Charles Cowles Gallery. In 1985, Moser founded The Manipulator Magazin with David Colby a remit to: Showcase the work of known, unknown, lost, forgotten, living and dead artists.

He now splits his time between America, Germany and traveling to hard-to-get-to places.

Moser has exhibited at the Charles Cowles Gallery since 1983. He has also exhibited at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; Creatis Gallery, Paris, France; Galerie Niepel, Düsseldorf, Germany; South Art Gallery, Miami, Florida; Galerie Gmyrek, Düsseldorf, Germany; Cube Art Center, Düsseldorf, Germany; Regina Nuessle Gallery, Miami Beach, USA; Galerie Schreier & von Metternich, Düsseldorf, Germany and Galerie The Box, Düsseldorf, Germany.

Moser published a limited edition portfolio of photographs entitled Terraces in collaboration with the Photographers Gallery, London, England. He also published Ville Tatouee in collaboration with Texbraun Gallery, Paris, France. In addition, Moser has published three books of his work, Ruinenbau (1988), Stone (2002).

SELECTED ACTIVITIES

2024

Photographies • Sculptures • Peintures

La GALERIE MALEBRANCHE en Campagne

TIMEMUSEUM

PART2GALLERY

2021

TIMEMUSEUM

Temporary Showroom

OFFICE REINER OPOKU Berlin

2022

VENICE EXPRESS

an experimental/documentary

2020

KATYDID’S SECRET JOURNEY

a documentary about the amazon river, a fable

2018

STONE

at the Cucif Cuzco Underground Cinema Festival, Peru

THE MANIPULATOR

a special companion issue for the movie THE HAPPY PRINCE in collaboration

with David Colby and Rupert Everett

2017

The making of documentary for the film THE HAPPY PRINCE

2008

Produced one-off issue of THE MANIPULATOR for Babelsberg Studios,

Berlin, with Bruce Weber

2007–2009

Movie: STONE, The Bones of the Earth,

preproduced by Boomtown Berlin

2007

Experimental film shot in the Bahamas

THE CONCRETE SHIP

2004

Traveled to Shanghai and Brussels to produce ANATOMICS,

images sandwiched between Plexiglas and silvered aluminium

1999–2002

Researched and documented ancient and modern sites in South America, Rapa Nui, Asia, The Middle East, Scotlands Outer Hebrides and the New World for the book, Stone, published in June, 2002

1999

Collaboration with RON ARAD, producing the images for his book

Traveled to the Caribbean island of Montserrat, posing as a visiting scientist in order to gain access to areas destroyed by recent volcanic eruptions

1993

Curated High-Heeled Art: The Art of Fashion Photography for the Center for Contemporary Art, North Miami, Florida. The show then traveled to the Charles Cowles Gallery, New York

1989

Traveled to England and photographed decaying tin mines in Cornwall

1988

Renovated and redesigned

THE CENTURY HOTEL, a landmark in Miami Beach’s Art Deco District, with David Colby

Published RUINENBAU, a limited edition book of photographs and paintings

1984

Founded THE MANIPULATOR with David Colby

1982

Founded SELECT Magazine with David Colby, A photographic showcase

1980

Marlene Dietrich and Spider Man, an eight story mural, created for the NordRhein Westfalia Film Institute, Düsseldorf, Germany

1977

Invasion of the Clowns won the Golden Venus for Best Experimental Movie

at the Film Festival of the Americas

SELECTED SINGLE EXHIBITIONS

2024

PART2GALLERY, Düsseldorf

2021

TIMEMUSEUM

Office Reiner Opoku, Berlin

2017

The making of documentary and photographs for the film

THE HAPPY PRINCE, Galerie The Box, Düsseldorf

ZEITVERSANDUNG,

Galerie The Box, Düsseldorf

2016

Galerie 102, Berlin

2012

Neues aus dem All, Galerie The Box,

Düsseldorf

2010

NEW YORK,

Schreier & von Metternich, Düsseldorf

2009

CUBA, Regina Nuessle Gallery,

Miami Beach, USA

2007

Bronze Sculptures and mixed media.

Schreier & von Metternich, Düsseldorf

2006

COCONUT WARS,

Regina Nuessle Gallery, Miami Beach, USA

2005

FUTURE CITY PROJECT,

Regina Nuessle Gallery/Charles Cowles Gallery, Miami Beach, USA

FUTURE CITY PROJECT,

Cube Art Center, Düsseldorf, Germany

2004

ANATOMICS,

Regina Nuessle Gallery, Miami Beach, USA

2003

Neue Arbeiten,

Galerie Gmyrek, Düsseldorf, Germany

2002

STONE,

Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY

STONE,

The Bass Museum, Miami Beach, FL

1999

TIME CAPSULES,

Montserrat, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY

1994

The Iron Room, Bianca Lanza,

Miami Beach, FL

1991

Photographs of Moscow,

Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY

1989

Charles Cowles Gallery,

New York, NY

1982

Galerie Texbraun “ville Tatouée”

1984

Galerie Texbraun, Paris, France

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022

Galerie Malebranche en Campagne

2019

100 Jahre Ferlinghetti, Carlspaltz 6, Düsseldorf

2016

EAF,

Enter Art Foundation, Berlin

2008

Summer Show,

Charles Cowles Gallery, New York

2008

Meyerhof Project,

Düsseldorf

2000–2001

Selections from the Permanent Collection and New Acquisitions,

Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL

2000

Second Nature,

Art Center/South Florida, Miami, FL

1999

South Art Gallery, Miami, FL

Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY

1998–1999

Personal Visions: Focus on Photography, Dream Collection … part four,

Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL

1997–1998

Personal Visions: 101 Photographs by 101 Photographers,

Marsh Art Gallery, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA

The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI

1997

Meza Fine Art, Coral Gables, FL

1991

Soho at Duke, Duke University

Museum of Art, Durham, NC

1984

Centre Gorge Pompidou Paris,

“Images et Imaginaires de L’Architecture”

1976

Kunstpalast Düsseldorf,

Winterausstellung

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Braun-van Wickern Collection, Düsseldorf, Germany

Goldman Sachs, New York, Dietrich Museum, Berlin, Germany

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York,

Miami Art Museum, Miami – Charles Cowles Photographic Collection

Nord Rhein Westfalia Museum of Film, Düsseldorf, Germany

Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf, Germany

Museum of Modern Art, Fort Lauderdale

SELECTED PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

Charles Cowles, Richard Meier, Oribé, Rupert Everett, Barbara Becker, Robert & Diane Moss, Ron Arad, Yabu Pushelberg, Montoya, Bob Risse, Bruce Weber, The Glücks, Annie Lennox, Chahan Minassian Paris, Frank & Virginia Shere, Richard Shack, Paul Falke, Joan Quinn, Stefan Kranefeld, Yves Gastou Gallery Paris, Marc Balet, Thomas Jung, Saul Gross, Jeff Roth, Barbara & Dave Struck, Klaus Furmanek, Peter Heinz, Andreas Lange, Julie Brumlik, Uli Marder & Lutz Rometsch, Barbara & Harry König, Charlie Woebcken, Paul Walter, Catherine Mazeyrac, Raquel & Chris Ronacher

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Interview Magazine, USA

New York Times, USA

Vogue, Germany

Liberation, France

I-D Magazine, UK

The Times, UK

The Wire, USA

Out Magazine, USA

The Manipulator, Germany

Creatis, France

Amateur, Germany

Plethora, Denmark

Photographs for the book “To the End of the World”,

Travels with Oscar Wilde by Rupert Everett