Moritz Goetze
Biography
| 1964 | Born in Halle |
| 1981 | Cabinetmaker apprenticeship |
| 1983-1986 | Active in several professions |
| since 1986 | Freelance work as painter and graphic artist in Halle; construction of his own workshop |
| 1991-1994 | Lectureship in serigraphy at the Hochschule Burg Giebichstein, Halle |
| 1994 | Guest Professor for serigraphy at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, Paris |
| 1996 | Art encouragement prize of Sachsen-Anhalt |
| 1997 | Graphic Prize of the United Cigarette Factories, Dresden |
| 1997 | "66 Gedichte, was soll dass" ("66 Poems, what about that") - a book with Manfred Krug; Art prize of the Deutschen Volksbanken and Raiffeisenbanken |
| 2000 | Design of the image of the Leipzig Book Fair |
Collections
Angermuseum, ErfurtBadisches Landesmuseum, Karlsruhe
Brandenburgische Kunstsammlungen, Cottbus
Collection Indiana University, USA
Frankesche Stiftungen, Halle
Kunstmuseum Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen, Magdeburg
Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche, Osnabrück
Lindenau-Museum, Altenburg
Museum Junge Kunst, Frankfurt/Oder
Museum fuer Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg
Collection of Deutsche Bank
Collection of Wuerttembergische Bank
University of Leipzig
Sprengel Museum, Hannover
Staatliches Museum, Schwerin
Moritzburg Foundation, Art Museum of Sachsen-Anhalt, Halle
Zeitgeschichtliches Forum, Leipzig
Solo Exhibitions
| 2012 | Galerie im Kulturhaus Leuna, Leuna |
| 2011 | Museum Schloss Burgk, Burgk |
| 2011 | Galerie Alte Schule, Ahrenshoop |
| 2011 | Frank-Loebsches Haus, Landau/Pfalz |
| 2011 | Galerie Binz & Kraemer, Cologne |
| 2011 | Galerie am Sachsenplatz, Leipzig |
| 2010 | Deutscher Bildersaal, Galerie Abtart, Stuttgart |
| 2010 | Kunstverein Wetzlar, Wetzlar |
| 2010 | Galerie Nord, Halle |
| 2010 | Bazon Brock & Moritz Goetze, Galerie Rothamel, Frankfurt/Main |
| 2010 | Neues Schland, Galerie Rothamel Erfurt |
| 2009 | Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz |
| 2009 | Galerie Brunnhofer, Linz |
| 2009 | Neue Saechsische Galerie, Chemnitz |
| 2009 | Maenner und Taten, Museum Junge Kunst, Frankfurt / Oder (catalog) |
| 2009 | Scapa Flow, Foundation of Schloss Neuhardenberg (catalog) |
| 2008 | Eden, Galerie Rothamel Erfurt (catalog) |
| 2007 | Galerie Rothamel Frankfurt |
| 2007 | Saarland Museum - Saarbruecken |
| 2006 | Galerie Rothamel Frankfurt |
| 2005 | Galerie Rothamel Erfurt |
| 2005 | Lindenaumuseum, Altenburg |
| 2004 | Kunstmuseum Kloster zu unser lieben Frauen Magdeburg, Magdeburg |
| 2003 | Galerie Rothamel, Erfurt |
| 2002 | Kunstverein Friedrichshafen, Friedrichshafen |
| 2002 | Kunsthalle Osnabrueck, Osnabrueck |
| 2002 | Kunstverein Ruegen, Puttbus/Ruegen |
| 2001 | Stadtmuseum Limburg |
| 2001 | Zeitkunst Galerie, Schloss Teutschental |
| 2001 | Galerie Rothamel, Jena |
| 2000 | Galerie Rothamel, Erfurt |
| 2000 | Staedtische Galerie Sonneberg |
| 1999 | Stadtmuseum Dresden |
| 1998 | Galerie Ruta Corea, Freiburg / Breisgau |
| 1998 | Galerie Schuster, Frankfurt/Main |
| 1998 | Galerie Kunststueck, Oldenburg |
| 1998 | Galerie Schuster & Scheuermann, Berlin |
| 1998 | Galerie in der Kulturbrauerei, Berlin |
| 1998 | Galerie Schuster, Art Cologne |
| 1998 | Stadtmuseum Siegburg |
| 1998 | Galerie Grimm, Magdeburg |
| 1998 | Galerie am Sachsenplatz, Leipzig |
| 1998 | Galerie Ruta Corea, Mülhouse (F) |
| 1998 | Galerie Weiße, Chemnitz |
| 1997 | Galerie Schuster & Scheuermann, Berlin |
| 1997 | Galerie Rothamel, Erfurt |
| 1996 | Galerie Alfican, Brussels |
| 1996 | Das Heimatmuseum, Staatliche Galerie Moritzburg Halle |
| 1995 | Staatliche Galerie Moritzburg Halle |
| 1995 | Kunstverein Wuerzburg |
| 1995 | Galerie Schuster, Paris |
| 1995 | Galerie Tammen und Busch, Berlin |
| 1995 | Galerie Sandmann + Haak, Hannover |
| 1994 | Galerie Peters - Barenbrock, Braunschweig |
| 1994 | Galerie Transit, Leuven (Belgium) |
| 1994 | Museum für Kunst & Handwerk, Hamburg |
| 1994 | Kunsthaus Dortmund |
| 1994 | Galerie Chaos Art, Hamburg |
| 1993 | Galerie Lang, Berlin |
| 1993 | Albrechtsburg Meissen |
| 1993 | Galerie Alvensleben, Munich |
| 1993 | Galerie Gebrueder Lehmann, Dresden |
| 1993 | Galerie Weiße, Chemnitz |
| 1992 | Schloß Ballenstedt (with Ruediger Giebler) |
| 1992 | Galerie Lang, ART Frankfurt and Art Colgne |
| 1992 | Galerie Lang, Leipzig |
| 1992 | Lindenau Museum Altenburg, "Der Prinzenraub" |
| 1992 | Galerie Alter Markt, Halle |
| 1991 | Galerie Felix, Hamburg |
| 1991 | Galerie Axelrod, Boston, USA |
| 1991 | Galerie Alter Markt, Halle |
| 1991 | Galerie am Chamissoplatz, Berlin |
| 1990 | Galerie Weisser Elefant, Berlin |
| 1990 | Kunstverein Roederhof |
| 1990 | Galerie Kraftwerk, Leipzig |
| 1989 | Galerie Barbakane, Leipzig |
Group Exhibitions
| 2011 | God + Co, Galerie Rothamel Erfurt |
| 2011 | Halleluhwah! Hommage á CAN, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin |
| 2011 | Friedrich Haecker - Leben und Mythos, Badisches Landesmuseum, Karlsruhe |
| 2011 | Spektrale, Mainz |
| 2011 | Halleluwah! Hommage á CAN, Galerie Abtart, Stuttgart |
| 2011 | Connectings, Stadtmuseum Nördlingen |
| 2011 | "Matthias" Baader Holst, Rote Fabrik Zurich |
| 2010 | Luise. Leben und Mythos der Königin, Schloß Charlottenburg, Berlin |
| 2010 | Sachsen am Meer, Geraer Kunstsammlung, Gera |
| 2010 | Das Voynich Manuskript, Kunstverein Aschersleben |
| 2009 | Neue Saechsische Galerie, Chemnitz |
| 2009 | Temporary Kunsthalle Berlin |
| 2009 | Stiftung Schloss Neuhardenberg |
| 2008 | Jagd & Kugelfang, Galerie Spesshardt und Klein, Berlin |
| 2008 | Maerkischer Sand, Kunstmuseum Deiselkraftwerk Cottbus |
| 2008 | Anhaltinische Gemaeldegalerie Dessau |
| 2006 | "Was ist deutsch?" (What's German?), Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg |
| 2005 | Museum Junge Kunst, Frankfurt / Oder |
| 2003 | "Wahnzimmer", Museum Folkwang, Essen |
| 2003 | New York University, New York |
| 2002 | "Wahnzimmer", Museum der Bildenden Kuenste, Leipzig |
| 2002 | Bundeskanzleramt, Berlin |
| 2002 | Museum Folkwang, Essen |
| 2002 | Sprengelmuseum, Hannover |
| 2002 | Museum der Bildenden Kuenste, Leipzig |
| 1997 | "Bohéme und Diktatur", Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin |
| 1995 | "De Gemartelde Tijd", Leuven (Belgien) |
| 1994 | "Bekoemmlich", Kunsthaus Hamburg |
| 1992 | "Zwischen den Seiten", Brandenburgische Kunstsammlung, Cottbus |
Serious and Lightness
Seven men are taking a boat trip. Debris and mines are floating on the water. On board the ship is an oil barrel, a lit torch and a TV set. The sea is stormy, and the waves look like shells. Welcome to Rococo. Welcome to the 21st century.Moritz Goetze likes to use metaphors and historical settings to address pressing issues of his time. With outstanding painterly virtuosity and draughtsmanship, he assembles his visions into crystal-clear compositions whose semantic layers reach near-abyssal depths. Though his visions are often clad in aristocratic nonchalance, they can occasionally become explicit, and sometimes drastic.
In 2004/05, Moritz Götze painted "Im Zimmer" (In the Room). It depicts a group of Europeans in colonial dress who fight an invisible enemy. In the right-hand part of the image, Arabic script hovers above the ruins of western civilisation. The writing details the formula for Al-Napht, an explosive used in medieval sea battles. This painting anticipated the recent uproar sparked by the Muhammad caricatures and the subsequent attacks on Western embassies in some Arabic countries. As early as 1997, Goetze had spelled a gloomy prophecy when he painted a plane crashing into a tower building (published in M. Goetze, Station to Station, Leipzig 1997).
An important point of departure for the Rococo series was the memoirs of Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798). They are among the most significant cultural-historic artefacts from the 18th century, containing both the small and large form - a historic panorama as well as trivial anecdotes. This can also be said of Goetze's masterful drawing "Die Überraschung" (The Surprise), which references another of the great adventurers of Rococo: Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von Münchhausen (1720-1797). The key to this painting is the seminal film with Hanns Albers in the title role, which dates from 1943. The conversation with the bodiless woman's head was derived from it. As we all know, Muenchhausen - like Casanova but unlike our steadfast family man Goetze - was a distinguished rascal and seducer. Goetze's drawing inserts him into a conversational triangle, stuck between the body-less woman who appears to be growing out of a flower pot, a chat (a flirt?) on the telephone (accurately represented by spiralling text) and a young lady in stockings and summer hat entering the room.
A Moritz Goetze still-life can be seen on the wall opposite to a collage made from a forty-year old magazine with a photograph of a sitting figure whose posture is very close to Muenchhausen's. The carpet is covered with patterns, drawings, a knocked-over watering can with its puddle and - danger for the flower-potted lady! - garden shears. The face in the TV set is observing the scenery, the antenna promises alpha and omega, beginning and end. The background tapestry depicts scenes from life as large as it gets - love, death, religion, oil and money - while the open door clearly leads in to the void. Goetze's outlook on life and art is akin to that of the Rococo to the extent that, in those silver times, even the weightiest themes were seen with playful lightness but also clarity and depth, and without any illusions.
Mortiz Goetze's ludibund seriousness has raised the attention of collectors and museums alike. This year, Götze's work will be shown in the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg. In 2007, the Saarland Museum in Saarbruecken will stage a personal exhibition, while two major institutions have pledged to follow suit in 2009.