Willi Reiche
Willi Reiche, born in Fürth/GER, creates multimedia kinetic (machine) artworks from found and no longer used objects.
Willi Reiche was born in 1954, he lives and works in Wachtberg (NRW). He studied art history in Bonn from 1975 to 1982. After that he went through various creative phases in which he experimented with wood and metal. His first assemblages, wooden sculptures and metal figures were created. This was followed by unique pieces of furniture and room installations. Since 1998, Willi Reiche has concentrated on kinetic objects/art machines with electric motors or driven by muscle power, wind and gravity.
Phase 4: The result is a story-telling magic, a fascination, a living machine of art, that gives each of its useless things a new use. A new purpose and a new sense of art. There is no better usage!
Foreword by Max Moor (Actor, Author, Producent, Reporter, Moderator, …) from KUNSTMASCHINEN by Willi Reiche, ISBN 978-3-00-068032-8
Activities / Long-term projects
Activities:
- School project Roundabout Art
Artistic and technical direction of a school project (grade 10), construction of a kite sculpture made of scrap iron and burr scrap, location since 2019: central island of a roundabout, municipality of Wachtberg in Drachenfelser Ländchen. - Art on the building
Interactive art machine in the foyer of High-Tech Gründerfonds Management GmbH, Bonn location, since 2013
Long-term projects:
- Kunstmaschinenhalle
(Art Machine Hall; visit by arrangement in Remagen) - MAG – Moving Art Garden
Exhibitions
Permanent exhibition:
Selection of solo exhibitions:
- In planning 2022 Blowin’ in the wind, Luftmuseum, Amberg/GER
- 2020 The Aesthetics of the Serial in Kinetics, Galerie Gerhard Grabsdorf, Munich/GER
- 2016 From Object to Art Machine, The New Yorker Hotel, Cologne/GER
- 1988 Exhibition with objects in wood and metal, Kulturzentrum Brotfabrik, Bonn/GER
- 1986 Metal object in the process of creation, live demonstration, town hall forecourt, Neunkirchen-Seelscheid town hall (NRW)
Group exhibitions:
- 2007, 2008, 2009, 2014, 2015 & 2016 Participation in NordArt, City of Büdelsdorf/GER
- 2000 Group exhibition on the occasion of the ceremonial inauguration of the Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences, Sankt Augustin/GER
Awards
- 2021 Third prize in the first German Upcycling Art Prize competition
- 2022 Participation in the Drap-Art Barcelona, which goes along with it