Born in Germany , works and lives in New York City/Berlin
Professional Profile
Barbara Westermann is a sculptor and installation artist. Her sculptures, prints, and drawings are minimalist and conceptual, with an emphasis on social sculpture, urban planning, geometry, geophysical mapping, and music. Barbara uses site-specific work that involves sculpture, prints, architecture, and engineering. I use sculpture to ‘embody’ utilitarian objects.
Her art has been shown at the Tate Modern in London, the Whitney Biennial, PS1, the Dia Art Foundation, Paula Cooper Gallery, Holly Solomon Gallery, Ronald Feldman Gallery, E|AB Fair, Clay Street Gallery, Momenta Art, Proteus Gowanus, the Museum of the National Library of Spain, Brooklyn Museum, Hamburger + Munchner Kunstverein, Hamburg/Munich, Germany, New Museum for Contemporary Art, and numerous other venues in the States and Europe.
Single (and Two-person) Exhibitions
RPL- Regional Planning Lab WSW, Rosendale, 2015
Malkasten, Dusseldorf, Germany, 2013
Clay Street Press Gallery, Cincinnati, OH 2013, 2008, 2005-04
Berliner Tunnel, Proteus Gowanus, Brooklyn, 2012
Real Artways, Hartford, CT, 2008
Socrates Sculpture Park, LIC, NY, 2007
Zagreus Gallery, Berlin, Germany, 2006
Wheeler Art Gallery, Providence, RI, 2005
University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, 2005
Lenore Gray Gallery, Providence, RI, 2003
Norton Sculpture Gardens, WPB, FL, 2003
Art Resources Transfer, New York, NY, 2000
AuBase Gallery, NY, 1999
Bell Gallery, Brown U, Providence, RI, 1999
Williams College, Williamstown, MA, 1996
Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY, 1995
Bischoff Galerie, Stuttgart, Germany, 1992
La Jolla Museum, San Diego, CA, 1989
Museum für Neue Kunst, Freiburg, Germany, 1988
Orangerie, Kassel, Germany, 1986
Group Exhibitions ( selected )
Flugblatter, Loitz, Germany,2017
NeonKunst, Berlin, 2017
Super Dakota Gallery, Brussels, Belgium, May-June 2017
E|AB Fair, prints, 2013-2012
Marymount College Gallery, Art & Politics, 2013
Proteus Gowanus, Brooklyn, NY, 2011
Artists Space, New York, NY, 2006
Cincinnati Center for Arts, Cincinnati, OH, 2005-4
New Sense Gallery, Cleveland, OH, 005
Providence Art Club, Providence, RI, 2004
Newport Art Museum, 2006, 2005, 2003
Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, 2001
Art Resources Transfer, New York, NY, 2000
Gasworks Gallery, London, England, 1999
Artspace Manchester, Manchester, England, 1999
Hamburger + Munchner Kunstverein, Hamburg/Munich, Germany, 1998
WDR Gallery, Cologne, Germany, 1997
Informationsdienst, Goethe Haus, NY, 1996
Pierogi, Williamsburg, NY, 1996
Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York, NY, 1996
Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY, 1996
Harlem Studio Museum, New York, NY, 1994
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY, 1994
Bischoff Galerie, Stuttgart, Germany, 1992
New Museum for Contemporary Art, NY, 1992
Museum für Neue Kunst, Freiburg, Germany, 1990
Cologne Word Festival, Cologne, Germany, 1989
Teaching
Seminar Leader and Community Workshops, Women’s Studio Workshop, 2015
Seminar Leader, Brown University, Providence, RI, 2005. Craft and Idea in the Work of Josef Beuys, as a part of the Beuys Symposium, Brown University and Providence College, February 2006
Sculpture Instructor, Portsmouth Abbey, Portsmouth, RI, 2002-1999. Ran the Sculpture department, workshop, taught classes in Studio, 2-D and 3D Design, drawing, and architecture, and ran College Art School Preparation Program
Instructor, Roger Williams University, School of Architecture School, Bristol. RI, 1999-98. Core Curriculum Interdisciplinary courses, 2-D and 3-D Design
Instructor, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, 1999-98. Participated in Senior Critiques, Illustration department
Art Teacher, Providence College, Providence, RI, 1998
Art Teacher, New School for Social Research, New York, NY, 1998-94
Seminar Leader, Williams College, Williamstown, MA, 1996
Art Teacher, New York University, Winter 1997. Seminar on Morality & Materials, with Kirby Gookin
Publications
‘Sculpture and Data: History, Function, and Invisibility in Architecture’ by Alexandra Keiser, 2015
Geographies, Clay Street Press Gallery, 2013
Providence Art Club, Providence, RI 2005
Exhibition at Clay Street Press Gallery, Sara Eisen, The Cincinnati Enquirer, 2004
WindSeaSky catalog, Newport, RI, 2004
Essay by Vesela Sretenovic, “ Observatory,” 2004
Review of Exhibition at A.R.T. Gallery, by Ken Johnson, New York Times, 2000
Immobile Spaces, Bell Gallery exhibition, Vesela Sretenovic, Brown University, 1999
Artist’s work, with Group Material at P.S. 1, Art of the Millennium, by Burkhardt Riemschneider, Taschen , 1999
Blurring the Boundaries,: Installation Art 1969-1996, essays by Hugh Davies and Ron Onorato, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, 1997
Artist’s work included in Timeline, Robin Kahn, Creative Time, 1995
Artist’s Portfolio, Chelsea magazine, 1994
Barbara Westermann, monograph, Freiburg Museum, 1988
LivingRoom magazine, Amsterdam, 1985
Editor, Kunstforum International, Nr. 51 , Kassel, 1980