Mr Volker Eichelmann

School: The School of Fine Art
Position: Principal Lecturer

Biography

In the production of artworks I investigate how histories and bodies of knowledge are ordered through the means of their generation and classification and how proposed modes of re-presentation generate new models of agency and interaction.

Appropriating existing visual and textual records from historical and scientific archives I employ methods of detournement to re-present material as new and propositional. The process and the presentation innovatively conflate the technologies of production, fabrication and reproduction.

Research expertise

Amateurism, Decoration, Interiors, the Picturesque, Architecture & Utopia, Follies, the Collector / the Collection, Botany, Ronald Firbank, Stephen Tennant, Grottoes, Ruins, Fragments, Landscape Architecture, Hubert Fichte, the Proposal

Professional activity

2011 - presentPrincipal Lecturer, Kingston University, London
2010 - 2012External Examiner Fine Art & Art History, Goldsmiths
2006 - 2011Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at Kingston University, London
2001 - 2006Lecturer in Fine Art at Newcastle University

Educational and professional qualifications

1999MA Goldsmiths
1998BA(Hons) Fine Art Central St Martins

Exhibitions

Recent exhibitions include 'Haute' with Florian Schmidt at Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, 2011, 'Weekend at Valmouth' at Ancient & Modern, London, 2011 and 'Chute' with Kaucyila Brooke at Galerie Andreas Huber, Vienna, 2012

Number of items: 4.

Book Section

Eichelmann, Volker (2010) Volker Eichelmann. In: Furness, Rosalind, (ed.) Frieze Art Fair Yearbook 2010-11. London, U.K. : Frieze. pp. 164. ISBN 9780955320163

Eichelmann, Volker (2006) Kurlichtspiele: Reminiszenz, 12. Dezember 1953. In: Freiling, Rudolf and Herzogenrath, Wulf, (eds.) 40yearsvideoart.de digital heritage: video art in Germany from 1963 to the present. Ostifildern, Germany : Hatje Cantz. pp. 358-361. ISBN 3775717188