Johannes von Stumm

born 1959 in Munich
lives and works since 1995 in South Fawley, Wantage, Oxfordshire, Great Britain

Gallery ROOT Combined Systems

Biography

1984-89 Sculpture studies at the Academy of Arts in Munich
1997 Member of the Royal Society of British Sculptors
1999 Teaching position at the New Greenham Common Arts Centre
1999 Member of the Oxford Art Society
Guest lectureship Dartington/England for Contemporary Glass Society
2003 Founding member of Sculpture Network
2004 Fellow of the Royal British Society of Sculptors
2004 Treasurer of the Royal British Society of Sculptors
2004 Guest Lecture at the Arts Institute at Bournemouth
2005 Guest lecture at Christ Church University Canterbury
2006 Guest lecture at Imperial College London
2007 Guest lecture at Central St Martin's London
2012 President of the Royal British Society of Sculptors
2014 President of the Oxford Art Society

Awards & Participations

Numerous solo and group exhibitions as well as trade fair presentations in the UK, Germany, Austria, Canada, China, Japan, Belgium, India, Switzerland, the Netherlands and the USA

Prices: 2015 Residency in Kyoto - 2015 Sculture - Symposium in Changsha, China

Public purchases:
Buscot Park, Private and National Trust - Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge - Slater Centre, New Greenham - Stad Newbury/Berkshier - Cushman & Wakefield - Prudential Corpration Plc - Accel Venture Capital - Prior's Court School

Participation in trade fairs: 2018 art KARLSRUHE, Gallery ROOT

Artistic position

In his unique sculptures, Johannes von Stumm combines materials as diverse as glass, granite, limestone, bronze, steel and wood to create abstract or reduced figurative works.
By combining different materials, he creates a tremendous clarity and thus an almost meditative calm. He works on the one hand with the pure statement of the material itself and also with the contradictory nature of the materials in order to unite them harmoniously in a sculpture.

The translucency and transparency of glass emphasises the solidity of stone, while the warmth of wood highlights the coldness of steel. These pairs of opposites and the tension between them define the thematic content of the sculptures. Their formal language is clear and unambiguous: circle, cuboid, column. Most of these forms are segmented and fragmented.

Johannes von Stumm works with the hard cut of the partial forms and the materials in relation to each other. It is precisely these hard boundaries that are exciting due to their creative connections, how glass meets stone meets wood meets steel and how they interlock to create a harmonious sculpture. Simple and yet multifaceted.

Exhibitions

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Finds - Archaeology of the future

2019-2023 - Coloured pencil on index card, 10.5 × 14.8 cm each, framed, drawing

 

Land series

2017-2021 - Ink & watercolour on magazine paper, each approx. 20 × 27 cm, framed, painting

Blue archive

2023 - Mixed media on paper, variable formats

Interior views

2020 - Object collages and drawing, installation

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