Skip to main content

Matthias Eder

Schwarz-Weiß-Porträt des Bildhauers Matthias Eder mit Brille
Matthias Eder (b. 1968) studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart under Karin Sander and others after completing an apprenticeship in sculpture. His work focuses on the human being in its existential nakedness. His pieces define the human form through cutouts, fragments, and skin impressions. The thin-skinned metal shells encompass interior and exterior space, appearing strangely two-dimensional and yet three-dimensional at the same time due to the tension between the juxtaposed fragments and the ever-changing vistas and perspectives that result. Female and male torsos often stand back-to-back; the curves of the body emerge only suggestively from the narrow bronze panels.

 Matthias Eder plays with the tension between form and non-form, between recognizable objects and dissolution into abstraction.

BIOGRAPHY

Born in 1968 in Rheinfelden, Baden

1993 Stone sculptor, master craftsman

1993–1995 Studied at the Academy of Designing Crafts in Aachen

1995–2000 Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart, graduating with a degree in academic sculpture under Professors Micha Ullmann, Karin Sander, and Jana Grizmek

Freelance artist since 2000

EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED)

  • 2008
    “Eder3” (“Eder to the Power of 3”), Rheinfelden, group exhibition with Leonhard Eder and Tobias Eder
  • 2007
    “Multifort Art Project,” Rheinfelden (Switzerland)
  • 2005
    “Leonale,” Leonberg
  • 2002
    Kulturpfingsten Lahrensmühle, Leonberg
  • 2001
    AAM Basel (Switzerland)
    “Art in Herrenhausen,” Galerie Maier&Co., Stuttgart
    Galerie Kura, Basel (Switzerland)
    Kulturpfingsten, Lahrensmühle, Leonberg
    “Art Trail,” Galerieverein Leonberg, Leonberg
    Galerie Königsblau, Stuttgart
    Galerie Artforum, Hanover
  • 2000
    Kunstdorf Unterjesingen
  • 1999
    Sculpture Symposium “Eine Art Kunst”, Marbach
    “vielistoftmehr”, Ulm
    Leonberger Galerieverein, Leonberg
Skulpturen von 
Matthias Eder
CONTACT