Paloma Varga Weisz | Folkestone Triennial

Triennial 2011 Artists Paloma Varga Weisz

PALOMA VARGA WEISZ

TITLE: Rug People

Born: 1966 Neustadt, Germany

Lives/Works: Düsseldorf, Germany

Former Folkestone Harbour Railway station, approx. CT20 1TX
Varga Weisz’s five-headed sculpture appears stranded and forlorn. Arrived as if by magic, the group huddles together on a carpet, which covers the disused railway tracks of the old
harbour station. This station, with its history of bringing First World War soldiers to the harbour to embark to France, as well as being the terminus for the Orient Express until 2008, provided the major inspiration for Varga Weisz’s work.

Interview with Paloma Varga Weisz
Paloma Varga Weisz Interview by FT2011 Audio

Recent solo exhibitions:

Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv (2009)

Gladstone Gallery, New York (2008)

Konrad Fischer Gallery, Berlin (2008)

‘Bumped Body’, Kunsthalle Wien (2008)

Sadie Coles HQ, London (2007)

Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin (2006)

Recent group exhibitions:

‘Neues Rheinland‘, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany (2010-11)

‘intensif station’, K21 Düsseldorf (2010-11)

‘Larger than life – Stranger than fiction’, 11. Triennale Kleinplastik Fellbach, Germany (2010)