Moritz Riesenbeck

I investigate the real, the memories, the traces, the emotions that we leave behind and through which we construct our realities. Our connections to places, architectures and objects are conditioned by these factors, for which I seek and for which I establish perceptibility. I am searching, connecting and visualising information. All components such as a flat, a told story or a person can become a material – a flat becomes the memory of a person, a rescue mattress the memory of a body.

Moritz Riesenbeck, born in 1991, first studied architecture in Münster and there worked as a tutor in the History and Theory Department. Simultaniously, he began studying Art in Public Space at the Kunstakademie Münster with Profs. Löbbert and in 2018 switches to the class of Prof. Gregor Schneider at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where he graduated with exellence diploma (Meisterschüler) in 2022. Riesenbeck is an editor of artistbooks, founding member of About Repetition e.V., the Sono-Kollektiv, as well as a contributor to the group Impersonal Figure and is currently lecturer at the ABK-Stuttgart for architecture and industrial design.

EDUCATION

2018 – 2022
Academy of Fine Arts Düsseldorf, Prof. Gregor Schneider, (Diploma + Meisterschüler)
2013 – 2018
Academy of Fine Arts Münster, Profs. Maik und Dirk Löbbert (Meisterschüler)
2011 – 2017
Bachelor in architecture, msa | münster school of architecture (BA-Arts)

TEACHING

since 2023
lecturer at State Academy of Fine Arts, Stuttgart
2014 - 2018
teaching assistant, department history & theory, msa | muenster school of architecture

MEMBERSHIPS

2022
Co-Founder About Repetition e.V.
2021 - 2023
Member Sono-Kollektiv
2021
Contributor Impersonal Figure

RECOGNITION

2023
GWK-Kunstpreis
Junger Westen (shortlisted)
2022
Young Artists publication grand
Kunstpreis des Landtags NRW (shortlisted)
2020
74. Bergischer Kunstpreis (shortlisted)
Deutschlandstipendium
Brachum-Kunstpreis (shortlisted)

CONTACT

info[at]moritzriesenbeck.com
@sudo_moritzriesenbeck