ArchiLectures | Wolfgang Weileder

Sculpture has always had a changing and often challenging relationship with public space, the surrounding architecture, as well as the urban context and the people therein. The temporary time-based and site-specific works of Wolfgang Weileder offer a new approach to question our understanding of the urban environment and the interactions we have with it.

In his lecture he will give an introduction to a selection of his international projects including:
– house-madrid, 2004
– le terme, Piazza Oberdan Milan, 2008
– Res publica, 5×5 Public Art Festival, Washington DC, 2012
– cashpoint, Sunderland, UK and Newcastle, Australia, 2007
– transfer, Milton Keynes Gallery, 2006
– transfer Laban, Canary Wharf, London, 2016

Wolfgang Weileder is an artist and Professor of Contemporary Sculpture at Newcastle University. Focusing on large-scale temporary site-specific architectural installation and sculpture in the urban environment his work is concerned with the investigation and critical deconstruction of architecture, public spaces and our interactions with ubiquitous urban environments. He has exhibited extensively throughout Europe and the UK, in both gallery and public contexts, as well as in Singapore, Australia, the United States and Venezuela.
Weileder is also Fine Art Director of Research and the co-funder and convener of the Connecting Principle Research Forum at Newcastle University, an art centred international multi-disciplinary research forum instigating a dialogue between art and other disciplines.

University: Newcastle University, UK