Professor Claudia Terstappen

Position title

Qualifications

• MA (Fine Art) Staaatlche

Statement

Claudia Terstappen studied German Literature, Philosophy and Fine Art in Duesseldorf, Germany. She is now a practicing artist of more than 20 years standing, with an impressive string of international exhibitions and publications to her name.

Before she moved to Australia she lived and worked in Germany, Great Britain, Spain and the US. She has found inspirations for her work in North and South America, Japan, Europe and Australia discovering traces of ancient and modern belief systems.

Her work focuses on the interrelationship between religion, superstition and science.

Research/Professional activities

Awards (selection):

• 2005:
  • Galeria Chantal
    Tarragona, Spain,
  • Metronom
    Barcelona, Spain
• 2004:
  • Galeria Palma 12, Vilafranca del Penedés
    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, Germany
  • Stiftung DKM
    Duisburg, Germany
  • Galeria garage regium
    Madrid

Artist in Residencies in France (1996), Spain (2001), Australia (2004)

• 2000:
  • Research Leave Award (one year)
    London
  • Small Grant from the Art and Humanities Research Board
    London
• 1999 Grant from:
  • Art and Humanities Research Board, London
    Staatskanzelei Düsseldorf, Germany
  • Kunstfond Bonn
    Germany
  • Stftung Kunst und Kultur des Landes NRW
    Düsseldorf, Germany
• 1998:
  • Bronze Prize of the Triennale for Sculpture
    Osaka, Japan

Others

Monographs (selection)

• "Claudia Terstappen - Spirits at the Jucurucu", Verlag Schuffelen Cologne, Germany 2000
• "Claudia Terstappen - Sacred Places", van der Most, Duesseldorf, Germany 2002
• "Claudia Terstappen - Sacred Places", Masao Kobayashi, Gallery Fleur, Seika University, Kyoto, Japan 2005

Works in public collections (selection)

• Museum of Fine Art, Houston, Texas, USA
• Contemporary Art and Culture Centre, Osaka, Japan
• Fundacion Coca Cola, Spain
• Fundacion Rafael Tous, Barcelona, Spain
• Stiftung DKM, Duisburg, Germany
  

Published texts (selection)

• "Kris Scholz - Photography" Edition Braus, München, Alemania 2002
• ISBN 3-89904-028-7
• Foreword to the catalogue

Links

• www.kunstnetznrw.de
• www.pccontemporary.co