* 1960 in Dinslaken, West-Germany,
lives and works since 1990 in Berlin
Thorsten Goldberg is Initiator and Publisher of „Public Art Wiki“, the Germany-wide internet archive for art in public space in the German-speaking-area.
He is Co-Publisher of „Kunst in der Großsiedlung (art in the large-housing-area) Marzahn-Hellersdorf“ a printed complete documentation of more than 460 public works, 320 pages, 2009 and author of several texts on public art in Berlin.
As a member of different committees and advisory boards he is involved in the election and organization of competitions for art in public space:
from 1999 to 2014 spokesman of the Office for Art in Public Space of the Kulturwerk, bbk-berlin
from 1999 to 2014 member of the Advisory Board Art in Public Space Marzahn- Hellersdorf, Berlin
from 2011 - 2015 member of the BAK, Advisory Committee of the Senate for Culture of Berlin
from 2014 to 2016 member of the KÖR commission, Office for Art in Public Space, Vienna/Austria
from 2015 to 2019 member of the Advisory Board Art in Public Space Steglitz-Zehlendorf, Berlin
Study:
from 1984 - 1991 sculpture
at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart/DE
Awards:
1990 Forum-Junger-Kunst-Award, Kunsthalle Kiel, Museum Wolfsburg, Museum Bochum/DE
1991 Senate of Berlin-Stipend for Photography, (together with the screenwriter Wieland Bauder under the pseudonym Tomas Bauer), Berlin/DE
1998 City of Wiesbaden-Art-Stipend, Wiesbaden/DE
Teaching:
1994 - 2001 Adjunct Professor for experimental Sculpture and for Photography, Freie Kunstschule Berlin/DE
2001 - 2003 Adjunct Professor for Photography in Public Space, Alice-Salomon University of Applied Sciences, Berlin/DE
2002 Visiting Professor for the Sculpture Project “umfluegen” with master class students of the Kunstakademie Muenster/DE
2003 - 2004 Visiting Professor at Kunstakademie Munich/DE
2003 - 2008 Guest Professor for Art in Public Space at the Art Academy Linz/AT
2007 - 2009 Professor (repres.) for arts and media at the Muthesius Art Academy in Kiel/DE
2014 - 2017 Adjunct Professor for Art in Public Space, AIB Bonn for PennState University and University of Texas at Austin
2021 - Adjunct Professor for Art in Public Space at the UdK, Berlin University of the Arts and at the KHM, Art Academy in Mainz
Works in Public Collections:
The City of Edmonton, Alberta/CA; The City of Bergen/NO; TheCity of Gdansk/PL; The Land of Berlin; The Centre for Polish Sculpture Oronsko/PL; The German Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development; The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) Bonn; The Mazovian Centre of Contemporary Art – Elektrownia in Radom/PL; The City of Lippstadt; The City of Heidenheim; The Charité University Clinique Berlin; The Martin-Gropius-Hospital Eberswalde; The Daimler Art Collection; The Art-Museum Heidenheim; The collection Gerisch Sculpture Park, Neumünster; The collection Stefan Haupt, Berlin; Institute for Federal Real Estate (BImA)/DE
Seminars, Juries:
2022 Jury, competition: designing a site of remembrance and commemoration for the victims of the National Socialist Underground (NSU) in Erfurt
2022 Jury chairmanship, competition: new building 48. Primary School Pankow, Berlin
2020 Jury chairmanship, competition: Connecting Lights, Berlin
2019 Jury chairmanship, competition: Federal Ministry of Health, Berlin
2019 Jury, competition: Veterinary Centre for Resistance Research of the FU Berlin
2018 Jury chairmanship, competition: Nauener Square, Berlin-Wedding
2017 Jury chairmanship, competition: Human Rights Square, Vienna
2016 Jury chairmanship, competition: new building Kopernikus Secondary School Berlin-Steglitz
2016 Jury competition: new building Deutsches Rheumaforschungszentrum Heidelberg
2016 Jury, competition: Haus der Zukunft Berlin
2015 Jury, competition: new building Fraunhofer IAP, Potsdam Golm
2015 Jury chairmanship, competition: Johann-Gottfried-Herder Secondary School, Berlin Lichtenberg
2015 Jury, competition: new building Federal Environmental Agency Dessau
2014 Jury, competition: monument for the founders of the Friedrichstadtpalast Berlin Mitte
2014 Jury chairmanship, competition: sepulchral monument for an Aids tomb, Berlin
2014 Jury chairmanship, competition: new building Max-von-Laue Primary School Berlin-Steglitz
2014 Jury, competition: new building Thalia Primary School Berlin-Kreuzberg
2013 Jury chairmanship, competition: new building Schiller Library, Berlin-Wedding
2013 Jury chairmanship, competition: Marzahner Promenade, Berlin-Marzahn
2012 Jury, competition: new building Zentrum für Mikrosysteme und Materialien Berlin-Adlershof
2012 Jury chairmanship, competition: Art Academy Weißensee, Total Building, Berlin-Moabit
2012 Jury chairmanship, competition: Marzahner Promenade, Berlin-Marzahn
2011 Jury, competition: German Federal Parliament, new building Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders-Haus
2011 Jury, competition: new building Zentrum für Mikrosysteme und Materialien, Berlin-Adlershof
2011 Jury chairmanship, competition: Marzahner Promenade, Berlin-Marzahn
2011 Jury chairmanship, competition: Alice Salomon Platz, Berlin-Hellersdorf
2011 Jury, competition: new building Kastanienhof school, Berlin-Lichtenberg
2011 Jury chairmanship, competition: new building Jeanne-Barez-Schule, Berlin-Pankow
2011 Jury chairmanship, competition: new building Carl von Linné school, Berlin-Lichtenberg
2010 Jury chairmanship, competition: Tor nach Pankow, Stadtraum Berlin-Pankow
2010 Jury chairmanship, competition: new building Julius-Hirsch school gymnasium, Berlin-Charlottenburg
2009 Panel: Stadtumbauwoche, Kunst in der Großsiedlung, Städt. Galerie Marzahn
2009 Jury chairmanship, competition: new building Municipal Library Berlin Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg
2009 Jury arch. and art. competition: Boulevard der Stars, Potsdamer Platz Berlin
2008 Jury chairmanship, competition: Doppelkaianlage Gröbenufer, Berlin-Kreuzberg
2008 Jury, stipend: Kunstgenerator Viersen
2008 Jury, competition: new building school gymnasium Charlottenburg Berlin
2008 Symposium and lecture: Archive des Öffentlichen, Viersen
2007 Jury chairmanship, competition: Dathepromenade, Kunst im öffentlichen Raum, Berlin-Lichtenberg
2007 Jury, competition: Platzgestaltung G. Knorr, Berlin Marzahn-Hellersdorf
2006 Seminar: „Light Art“ within the Master of fine Art studies art in public space at the Bauhaus University Weimar
2006 Jury chairmanship, competition: new building fire station, Berlin-Marzahn-Hellersdorf
2005 Symposium and lecture: Kunstprojekte als Stadtteilstrategie, Interreg-Lhasa, Aufbauwerk Leipzig
2005 Panel: zum Verbleib der Kunst im öffentlichen Raum, Kulturreferat Bergkamen
2004 Jury, competition: Boulevard der Stars, Potsdamer Platz Berlin
2004 Seminar within the Master of fine Art studies Art in public space at the Bauhaus University Weimar
2004 Jury, competition: Dern´sches Gelände, Wiesbaden
2004 Jury, competition: new building Wissenschaftszentrum, Forum Adlershof, Berlin
2003 Jury, competition: new building correctional facility, Wrietzen
2003 Seminar: within the Master of fine Art studies Art in public space at the Bauhaus University Weimar
2002 Jury, competition: Neustrukturierung der City-Meile, Berlin-Hellersdorf
2002 Sculpture project: with Master Class students at the Kunstakademie Münster in Bergkamen-Heil
2000 Panel: Kunst des Öffentlichen, Akademie der Künste, Berlin
2000 Jury chairmanship, competition: new building Zolltechnisches Laborgebäude, Berlin
2000 Jury, competition: new building Sartre secondary school, Berlin-Hellersdorf
2000 Jury, competition: new building Max-Planck-Inst./DRFZ, Charité, Berlin
1999 Jury, competition: new building Jugendfreizeitheim, Berlin-Hellersdorf
1999 Jury, competition: 10-Jahre Mauerfall
1999 Jury, arch. competition: Belvedere, Ferch
1998 Jury, competition: new building Bundeswehrkrankenhaus, Berlin
1998 Seminar: at the Akademie für Kultur und Bildung, Berlin
1994 Jury, competition: new building for the University Clinicum Rudolf Virchow, Berlin