Claudia Terstappen Biography

Born in Germany 1959, moved to Australia in 2004.

1979-81
Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, German Study of German Literature and Philosophy

1980-87
Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf Sculpture with Architecture – Qualification: MA

1988
Visiting Lecturer at Gesamthochschule Wuppertal, Bergische Universität, Germany

1988
Moved to London

1991-94
Lecturer at The Slade School of Fine Art, London (Mixed Media 1991-92 and Sculpture 1991-94) Lecturer at Winchester School of Art (Fine Art 1993-94). Visiting Lecturer a Goldsmith College, London, Kent Institute of Art and Design, Canterbury (1991-93) Chelsea School of Art, London. Schule für Gestaltung, Zürich, Switzerland The Slade School of Fine Art – Summer School (1993-94). Hochschule für Architektur und Bauwesen, Universität Weimar, Fakultät Gestaltung, Germany Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Hamburg, Germany. Fachhochschule Dortmund, Germany.Lecturer at the Berliner Sommerakademie, Berlin, Germany 1994 Moved to Barcelona 1994.

1994-98
Visiting Lecturer at:The Slade School of Fine Art, London State University of New York, USA University of Maryland, USAMassachusetts College of Art, Boston, USA

2000-03
Lecturer at Europäische Akademie Trier, Germany

1999-00 Visiting Lecturer at:The Slade School of Fine Art, London Royal College of Art, London University, Ruskin School of Art

2003
Visiting Lecturer at:Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany. Bergische Universität Bonn, Germany Charles Darwin University, NT, Austrlia (at 24H Art Gallery)2003 Directora del Máster Europeu de Belles Arts a Barcelona, Southampton University / Winchester School of Art

2003-5
External Examiner at The Slade School of Fine Art (Media Department)

2004
Moved to Melbourne

2004 – 2014
Professor of Fine Arts at Monash University Faculty of Art Design & Architecture (MADA), Melbourne, Australia

2010-12
Head of Fine Art, MADA, Monash University

2012
A/Dean External Affairs

2015/16
Fellowship, Baptist University Hong Kong

since 2016
Adjunct Professor, United International College, Zhuhai/China

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2020
Sousan Boutwell gallery, Munich/German

2019
Form and Memory, Dominik Mersch Gallery

2018
Galeria Palma Dotze, Barcelona, Spain

2017
MAMA – Murray Art Museum, Albury

2016
Warrnambool Art Gallery, “Culture Spirit Identity”

2016
VAC – La Trobe University Visual Art Centre, Bendigo
LUMA – La Trobe University Museum of Art, Melbourne

2014
Galeria PalmaDotze, Barcelona, Spain

2013
Monash Gallery of Art (retrospective), Melbourne
Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney

2011-12
Museum DKM, Duisburg (retrospective), Germany

2011
Galeria Palma Dotze, Barcelona, Spain

2010
Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney
Galerie Caren Jones, Cologne
Place Gallery, Melbourne

2009
Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney
Galeria Palma Dotze, Barcelona, Spain

2008
Place Gallery, Melbourne
Galerie Caren Jones, Cologne, Germany

2007
Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney
Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin

2006
Sala H, Vic (Barcelona)
Galeria Palma Dotze, Barcelona, Spain
CCC B, Centre Cultural Contemporani de Barcelona

2005
Galeria Forum, Tarragona
Faculty Gallery, Monash University, Melbourne
Iglesia de la Universidad, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Metrònom, Fundació Rafael Tous, Barcelona

2004
Galeria Palma Dotze, Barcelona, Spain
CDU Gallery, Darwin, Australia
Gallery Fleur, Kyoto, Japan

2003
NT Centre for Contemporary Art, Darwin, Australia
Galeria Kowasa, Barcelona

2002
Städtische Galerie Im Rathauspark, Gladbeck, Germany
Galeria Spectrum, Zaragoza, Spain
Galerie Hellebrand, Duisburg, German
Stiftung DKM, Duisburg, Germany
Galeria garage regium, Madrid

2000
El Metronom, Fundación Rafael Tous, Barcelona

1999
Galerie Karl Plotzke, Düsseldorf
Goethe Institut London
Galeria Palma Dotze, Barcelona, Spain

1998
Centre Culturel, Riberac France
Galeria panorama, Barcelona

1997 Gallery, State University, New York
96 Grand Street, New York
Centre Culturel, France
Open Studios, Barcelona

1996
Raum 1, Düsseldorf
96 Grand St., New York

1995
´Panorama´, Barcelona

1994
Raum 1, Düsseldorf
Kunstraum Wuppertal, Germany
Galerie 102, Düsseldorf
`Cinco Orejas Escuchando…` Installation-project, Huelva, Spain
Fundacion Municipal de Cultura, Huelva, Spain

1993
Museumsgalerie Gotha, Germany
Galerie H. Reckermann, Cologne

1992
The Slade Gallery, London
Förderkoje (prize-exhibition) with Galerie H. Reckermann,
Artfair Cologne

1989
Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl, Germany
Bielefelder Kunstverein, Museum Waldhof, Germany
Museum Abtei Liesborn, Wadersloh, Germany
Galerie H. Reckermann, Cologne

1988
Emmericher Kunstverein, Haus im Park, Germany

1987 Galerie Tropeninstitut, Düsseldorf
Galerie Monochrom, Aachen, Germany
Raum 1, Düsseldorf

1986
Franzen Zollhaus, Düsseldorf, Germany

1985
Galerie Linie, Moers, Germany

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2020-21
Claudia Terstappen-Richard Long, Museum DKM Duisburg, Germany
Impact 11, Hong Kong (April 20-25, 2021)

2020
PHotoESPAÑA 2020, the International Festival of Photography and Visual Arts of Madrid
Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York City

2019
Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney
Tinning Street Gallery, Melbourne; London Print Studios, GB; Victorian Ceramic Art Award exhibition, Manningham Art Gallery

2018
Museum DKM, Duisburg, Germany

2016-17
Galeria Palma Dotze, Barcelona, Spain
Mornington Peninsular Regional Gallery

2015
Galeria Palma Dotze, Barcelona, Spain

2014
Kumu Art Museum, 16th Tallin Print Triennal, Estonia.
Museum Ostwall, Dortmund
Zona Maco, Contemporary Art Fair, Mexico City
Bowness Prize PhotographyExhibition, MGA Melbourne
Strange Neighbor, Melbourne

2013
Galeria Palma Dotze, Barcelona, Spain

2011
Maroonda Art Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Plimsol Gallery, Hobart, Australia

2010
Tarra Warra Museum, Melbourne
36th Alice Prize exhibition, Alice Springs, Australia
Josephine Ulrick& Win Schubert Photography Award Exhibition, Cowra Regional Art Gallery, Australia
Galeria Palma Dotze, Barcelona, Spain

2009
Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney (Langue Froid, curated by Conny Dietzschold and Bill Wright)
Darmstädter Tage der Fotografie, Designhaus, Darmstadt
Albury Art Prize exhibition, Australia
Gallery Caren Jones, Cologne
Melbourne Convention Centre, Australia
Museum DKM, Duisburg, Germany
Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney
Cubus Kunsthalle, Duisburg, Germany
Mornington Peninsular Regional Art Gallery, Australia
La Trobe University Bendigo, Australia
Flinders University Art Museum, Australia
Städtische Galerie Lüdenscheid, Germany

2008
Natural History Museum, Berlin, Germany
Macquarie University, Sydney

2007
Loop, Video Art Festival, Barcelona, Spain
CCCB, Centro Contemporaneo Cultural de Barcelona, Spain
Musee des Confluences/Departement du Rhone, Lyon, France
Jones & Truebenbach Gallery, Cologne, Germany

2006
St Patricks Cathedral, Melbourne

2005
World Financial Center Gallery, N.Y.C., USA
Womans Museum Dallas, Texas, USA
Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, USA
Simmons College, Boston, USA
Louvre, Paris

2004
Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia
Akureyri Museum, Iceland
Gerduburg Cultural Centre, Rejkavik
Cultural Centre, City of Athens, Greece
Museum Schloß Morsbroich Leverkusen, Germany
Museum Doko, Cologne, Germany

2002
Mobile Museum, Alabama, USA
Alexandria Museum, USA
La Lonja, Galeria Spectrum Sotos, Zaragoza
T20, Murcia, Spain
Sendai, Japan

2001
Sala d´exposicions, International University Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
Museo La Verreina, Barcelona
University of Maryland Gallery, USA
Tuscon Museum, Arizona, USA
Brenau University, Georgia, USA
Torano Notte e Giorno, Torano/Carara, Italy

2000 Museum Bochum, Germany
White Colums, New York City
Arts Festival Penedès, Spain
Flint Institute, Michigan, USA
Delta Axis, USA

1999
Museum Doko, Köln
Kunsthalle der Europäischen Akademie Trier
1998
Triennale of Sculpture, Osaka, Japan
Kunsthalle der Europäischen Akademie Trier “Construint el Paisatge”Primavera Fotografica, Barcelona Tallers Oberts, Barcelona Museum Doko, Cologne

1997 `Se Alquila´, Barcelona
Tallers Oberts, Barcelona
“The Things that we do”, Barcelona

1996
“Letzter Aufguß”, Düsseldorf

1995
Galeria de Arte del Colegio de Arquitectos en Malaga, Spain East International´, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich Galeria Cavecanem, Sevilla, Spain

1994 Howard Garden Gallery, Cardiff, Britain
Flaxman Gallery, Stoke on Trent, Britain
University of Humberside, Hull, Britain
The Slade Gallery, London
Deutsches Klingenmuseum Solingen, Germany
Bergische Kunstausstellung, Germany
Galerie Gaby Kraushaar, Düsseldorf

1992
´East´, Norwich Gallery, Britain (with catalogue
´Globe´, Düsseldorf
Colchester and District Visual Arts Trust, Britain

1991 Goethe Institute, London
Malania Basarab Gallery, London
Glück Auf, exhibition-project, colepit, Moers, Germany

1990
´Kunstware´, Wuppertal, Germany
Galerie Carol Johnssen, Munich, Germany

1986
Märkisches Stipendium für Bildende Kunst

1987
Lüdenscheid, Germany (with catalogue)

1985
Galerie Suspect, Amsterdam, Holland

1984
´Kumma wat dat da dampft´, Düsseldorf

1983
´Draussen´(Óutside´), Nordpark Düsseldorf

1982
Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf

Museum of Fine Art Houston, Texas USA
Osaka Prefectual Government, Japan
Collection of Seika University, Kyoto, Japan
Museum DKM, Germany
Collection Grothe, Germany
Collection Heiting, Germany
Collection Schneckenburger, Germany
Kunstverein Hasselbach E.V., Germany
Art Bank, Cologne, Germany
Max-Planck-Institute, Berlin, Germany
Fundación Coca Cola, Spain
Colección olorVisual, Spain
Colección Rafael Tous de Arte Contemporáneo, Spain
Colección Spectrum Sotos, Spain
Museum La Coruña, Spain
Monash University Library Collection, Melbourne, Australia

2019
Finalist for the Manningham Victorian Ceramic Art Award, Manningham Art Gallery, Melbourne

2015
Fellowship (5 months), Hong Kong Baptist University

2011
Finalist for the Bowness Photography Prize, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne

2009
Finalist for the Albury Art Prize Finalist for the 36th Alice Prizeinalist fort the Josephine Ulrick& Win Schubert Photography Award

2005
Finalist for the BMW Photo-Prize, Louvre, Paris

2004
Artist in Residence, Charles Darwin University, Darwin

2001
Artist in Residence, Fundación Valparaiso,Valparaiso Spain Grant and Research Leave Award from the Arts and Humanities Research Board, London

1999
Grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Board, London Award from Kunstfond Bonn, Germany Grant for a project by: Staatskanzelei Düsseldorf, Germany Stiftung Kunst und Kultur des Landes NRW, Düsseldorf, Germany

1998
Bronze Prize of the Triennale for Sculpture in Osaka, Japan

1996
Artist in Residence, Direction régionale des affaires culturelles, France

1993
Projektförderung der Stiftung Kunst und Kultur des Landes NRW (support for a project) for Spain in 1994

1990
Ida Gerhardi Prize, Germany DAAD Scholarship for Britain (one year, London)

1989
Förderpreis des Landschaftsverbandes Westfalen-Lippe, Westfälisches Museumsamt Münster

1984
Award for open-air sculpture, Landesgartenschau Hamm, Germany


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