Zoyt
Beba Lindhorst
Zoyt
Wood as organic material has a life of its own. Zoyt, who shapes his figures straight out of the trunk, is well aware of that: “With each wooden sculpture I start virtually from scratch”, he describes his work. Using organic material also means that he has to make compromises or sometimes even begin entirely afresh. Zoyt saws, rasps, cuts and sands his sculptures out of wood and on many of them he accentuates particular features with colors. By doing so, he has developed his own form language, which makes his sculptures unique.
He draws his artistic inspiration from the early work of the French sculptor Aristide Maillol. On one hand, Zoyt’s sculptures are realistic and capture anatomic details. But he also likes to play with physical proportions, which creates immediacy as well as remote raptures. Occasionally, he shapes tableaus that tell stories, for instance about a “sudden tiredness” or a woman who meets a man with a dog. The tales, sentiments and thoughts, which Zoyt expresses with his sculptures, are simple, almost archaic and as such instantly move and touch us.
Zoyt is born as Hans-Peter Conen, in Vancouver, Canada in 1957. He lives and works in Babitz, Germany.
EXHIBITIONS
2020“Bright Days ahead”, group show, Galerie Commeter
2019“Bright Days ahead”, group show, Galerie Commeter
2018“Bright Days ahead”, group show, Galerie Commeter;
solo “Sculptures” at “Bischhofsburg Wittstock”, Brandenburg
2017solo show, Gallery “Im Torhaus”, Burg Goldbeck, Brandenburg
2016group show, Gallery Levy
group show, Gallery Commeter
exhibition with Uwe Lindau at „Kunstverein Rastatt, Pagodenburg“
2013exhibition with Sigrid Nienstätten, at “Kunsthaus Klüber“, Weinheim
2012art fair, ART Brandenburg, booth of Sculpture
2010solo show, Gallery Commeter, Hamburg
2006installation of the Sculpture “Well of Mimir” in Hamburg, Poppenbüttel
2005group show, Gallery “Alte Schule”, Berlin with Uwe Lindau, Bernd Fox and Jürgen Zimmermann
solo show, Gallery Levy, Hamburg
2004exhibition with Igor Olenikov, Gallery Art 7, Köln
exhibition with Annette Schröter, Gallery ARTIS, Darmstadt
first prize in a sculpture competition for a new building in Hamburg, Poppenbüttel
2001“Roses for Jerusalem” , installation at Westwerk, Hamburg
2000Contemporary Art of Brandenburg, Potsdam and Bonn
1999participation at the yearly exhibition of Leipzig
art fair, Art Cologne, booth of Sculpture, “Zimmer mit Aussicht”
1998solo show “100 x Zoyt” at Priv-Art-Museum, Hamburg
1997solo show, Gallery Commeter, Hamburg
1995solo show, Gallery Levy, Hamburg
1993solo show, paintings and sculptures at Gallery Tammen/Busch, Berlin
1991symposium for wood sculpturing at Burg Goldbeck, Brandenburg
1989solo show, Gallery “Am Chamissoplatz”, Berlin, Sculptures and Paintings
solo show, Gallery “Abriss”, Hamburg, Sculptures and Paintings
Showing first wooden Sculptures
Kunsthaus Hamburg, Exhibition of the Fellows of Scholarship
1988One Year Scholarship for Free Arts in Hamburg
1987first solo show, “Paintings” at Gallery Prospect, Hamburg
1983Secretary in the Artist “Japs-Büro” of Kiew Stingl
1982selfnaming-act with the performance “Quicklyest Monument of the World”, Hamburg
1981Moving to Hamburg and enrol for the Study of Philosophy at the University
1980First public Performance “Occupation of a square meter”, Ettlingen
Kunstverein Karlsruhe “Artists of Karlsruhe, exhibitioning” with Uwe Lindau, Jürgen Zimmermann, Herbert Zangs and others with an Installation Room „ULU“ Infinity- Life –Infinity
“Chiara” 2019, oak, height 36 2/3 in
“Sturmfrau November” 2009, bronze, height 10 1/4 in
“Goldbeck Grace I” 2010, cherry, height 40.5 in
“Little stormwoman” 2010, bronze, height 13.7 in, edition of 12
“Man with bowl” 2001, bronze, height 16.1 in, edition of 5
