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Place of Birth: Hennigsdorf, Brandenburg, Germany
About Torsten Schlüter
- Torsten Schlüter (born 30 September 1959 in Hennigsdorf, East Germany) is a German painter, performance artist and author. 1981 -1986 training in architecture and completing his university degree at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar.
- Later in 1986 he turns away from architecture and concentrates on painting.
- Due to his “renouncement of the predetermined academic path” the authorities make him a persona-non-grata in Weimar.
- The island of Hiddensee in the baltic sea is increasingly becoming his refuge. 1986-1987 odd jobs as painter of signs, carpenter's assistant, stage scene painter and tennis trainer.
- Creation of set and costumes for the theatre.
- In 1987 he starts the yearly “Kunstgarten”, an outdoor gallery, on the island Hiddensee.
- From 1988 he works as a freelance artist.
- 1989 Political involvement with Neues Forum (New Forum).
- In the same year, after the Berlin Wall fell, he begins to travel and work on the road especially in Africa and India.
- 1990 He establishes his art studio in the Atelierhaus Weimar.
- 1994 move to a new art studio in the Kulturbrauerei, Berlin.
- 1995 design of the official logo of the Island Hiddensee.
- 1996 art studio Hackesche Höfe, Berlin.
- 1997 “Tulipamwe”, the North-South divide covering art work (Germany and France), initiated by Jack Lang.
- 2003 art studio in Berlin Mitte.
- 2004 He receives the "Süddeutscher Aquarellpreis" award.
- 2004 artist engagement for “Eisern Union” – “1.
- FC Union Berlin”, Goethe Institut Berlin.
- 2007 and 2010 “Hiddensee Edition”.
- 2008 project “Well women-High Priestesses of the Market”, Gerhart Hauptmann Haus, Hiddensee.Various studies and work related visits to Andaman Islands, France, Greece, Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Morocco, Mexico, Namibia, New York, Sri Lanka.
- Torsten Schlüter lives in Berlin and Hiddensee. art books Witches and practice witchcraft, 1992 Hiddensee Notes, 1996 Tulipamwe, 1997 Mata Nataraya - Hippies, Hindus, cock fights“, 2000 [1] Northern lights” – Hiddensee; 2001 Northern lights II - Hiddensee”, 2005 [2] Woman at the Well, 2008 Northern lights III - Hiddensee, 2013
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