Rainer Lagemann

Born in Düsseldorf, Germany, on September 14th, 1959, I began my career as an artist in the fall of 2005 when an exploratory foray into welding, during my years in California's Bay Area, quickly became an obsession and yielded my early works. Once I found my medium, I started to express what I had learned in schools, museums, travels, through people and in my dreams. Armed with a degree in Interior Architecture from FH Detmold and inspired by my new passion, I decided to portray the human body in a modern interpretation of the classic art of sculpture.

My pieces invite viewers to contemplate the human body in motion and its universal capacity for self-expression. The stainless steel squares used to sculpt the figures, coupled with the hollow framework of the forms, represent the intellectual ability, emotional range, physical strength and spiritual dimension of each individual. The shadows these sculptures cast on the floors or walls of the spaces they inhabit imbue each piece with a secondary layer of beauty, abstraction, and mystery. Highly customizable in their ability to adopt different colors, spaces and climates, the sculptures enable those who collect them to satisfy their own need for self-expression.

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1965 - 1978, School in Germany

1978 - 1979, El Salvador, Chile: Internship in a Copper mine

1980 - 1982, Duesseldorf, Germany: Civil service for German government

1983 - 1987, Detmold, Germany: Interior Design and Architecture, FH Detmold

1988, Moved to USA

1990, Berkeley, CA: Bay Window Coverings - my first company for Interior Design.

1992 - 2007, Berkeley, CA: The Magazine - my second company.

2005 - Working full time as an Artist in the fall of 2005. It became an obsession right away. Once I found my medium, I finally could start to express what I had learned in the last 25 years in schools, museums, travels, people and in my dreams. I concentrate on the human body in a modern interpretation of the classic art of sculpture.

2019
Show Haligon Fine Art Miami
Shown Artist, Foire de Paris
2018
Public Installation, Lobby of Mandarin Oriental Hotel Miami
2017
Group Show, Bel Air Yacht Club, Beirut Lebanon
Shown Artist, Scope NY
Group Show, Gallery van Dun, Oisterwilk Netherlands
Finalist for The Foundry Parking Garage Projects, Loveland CO
2015
Group show Naples Art Association: call up the Figure
Group show Arts Council of Martin County FL,
Shown Artist Art Expo Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur
Museum show Figge Conservatory, The Baker Museum, Naples FL
Museum show Coral Springs Museum of Art – Florida
2014
Group Exhibition Annual Ocala Outdoor Exhibition, Tuscawilla Park, Ocala FL
Gallery show DTR Modern Galleries, Washington DC
Gallery show DTR Modern Galleries, Boston MA
2013
Juried group show Punctum contra Punctum II USA, Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center, Fort Meyers, FL
Shown artist Art Miami
Shown artist Toronto International Art Fair
Solo show Rukaj Gallery, Toronto Canada
Museum group show Punctum contra Punctum II, Georgian National Museum's National Gallery, Tbiblisi Georgia -
Solo show Ode to Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur
Solo show Ode to Art Gallery, Singapore
Shown artist Dallas Art Show, TX
Gallery show Modern Art ...