Markus Schürmeyer finds the artistic challenge he is looking for in stone as a working material. The hardness of stone offers the artist resistance; as a material, it can only be extracted and transformed through active destruction. In contrast to this is the formal principle of the bowl. As a vessel form, the bowl is receptive and passive. It absorbs, preserves, offers space and protection, is open. His works impress through artistic design and through their grace.
Born in 1964 in Georgsmarienhütte
1985 – 1994 Studied art therapy and art education at the Ottersberg College of Social Arts, specialising in sculpture
1992 – 1994 Training as a stone sculptor with master stone sculptor, Ulrich Hahn Hahn, Erkrath
since 1995 freelance artist
2022 Flow Fine Art Gallery (G)
2019 – 2022 Exhibitions in Cologne-Delbrück Essen and Wiesbaden 2021
2014 – 2019 various exhibitions in Cologne, Bonn, Wachtberg, Wiesbaden, Düsseldorf, Museum for Art and Cultural History, Dortmund to State Prize – NRW Award
2013 International Fair for Arts and Crafts, GRASSI Museum für Angewandte Kunst Leipzig
2013 Passagen – InteriorDesign Week Quirrenbach-Forum, Rheinauhafen – Cologne
2012 Werkschau 2012 AKK Applied Arts Cologne
2012 Solo exhibition, Enzo Ena, Zurich
2012 Solo exhibition “Steinschlag” Grüter and Suter Lucerne
2012 Gallery Chaplini Contemporary Art, Cologne
2010 – 2019 paxman design Bonn
2011 GRASSI Museum for Applied Art, Leipzig
2011 – 2020 casaceramika Cologne – Passagen Interior Design Week
2011 – 2019 Studio Zabel, Wiesbaden
2005 – 2017 Five nominations for the NRW State Prize
2008 Group exhibition “Liebespfand, zeitgenössische interpretationen mittelalterlicher Minnekästchen
2007 – 2008 Group exhibition at the Passagen, Interior Design Week, Galerie Smend, Cologne
