About
ABOUT
ALVAR SIEFERT
Artist and musician
Focus on graphics
Etchings, prints, drawings. Furthermore sculptures, objects and photographs
Member of the BBK (Federal Association of Visual Artists)
Lives and works in Wuppertal
Group and solo exhibitions
Last:
Autopilot, 10 Jahre Druckgrafikkalender, Druckwerkstatt BBK Bergisch Land, Wuppertal 2023, Gruppenausstellung
Kunst.Schau!, Pop-Up-Galerie Werth 13, Wuppertal 2023, Gruppenausstellung
Tag der Druckkunst, Druckwerstatt BBK Bergisch Land, Wuppertal 2023, Group exhibition
Klare Kante!, BBK - State Art Exhibition NRW, Museum Ostwall in the Dortmunder U, Dortmund 2022, group exhibition
WOGA, Teresa Wojciechowska & Projektgruppe Druckgrafik Bergisch Land, Wuppertal 2022, Group exhibition
Spiegelung, Galerie Kirschey, Solingen 2022, group exhibition
Von Tief bis Hoch – drucken was geht, Eckart Kunstraum, Wuppertal 2022, Group exhibition
34. Deutsch-Niederländische Grafikbörse, Im Vennehof, Borken 2022, solo exhibition
Tag der Druckkunst, Druckwerstatt BBK Bergisch Land, Wuppertal 2022, Group exhibition
drunter & drüber, Musikapotheke, Wuppertal 2021, Group Exhibition
WOGA, Teresa Wojciechowska & Projektgruppe Druckgrafik Bergisch Land, Wuppertal 2021, Group exhibition
drunter & drüber, Galerie Kirschey, Solingen 2021, Group exhibition
Tag der Druckkunst, Druckwerstatt BBK Bergisch Land, Wuppertal 2021, Group exhibition
WOGA, Druckwerstatt BBK Bergisch Land, Wuppertal 2020, Group exhibition
WAS DA IST, Galerie Kirschey, Solingen 2020, Group Exhibition
2. UNTERBARMER DRUCK-KUNST-TAGE, Atelier Werbeck, Wuppertal 2020, Group exhibition
HOME SWEET HOME, Galerie Druckstock, Wuppertal 2019, Group exhibition
„DIE LANGE NACHT …“, Galerie Druckstock, Wuppertal 2018, Group exhibition
SICHTWEISEN, Galerie Druckstock, Wuppertal 2018, solo exhibition
BROKEN HERO, Galerie derKunstfänger, Wuppertal 2013, Group exhibition
Field of Work
Preise, Ausstrahlungen, Ankäufe, Stipendien, Kataloge, Sammlungen
Graphic design
Compositing, 3D, Animation, SFX
Film, Video
Virtual characters
Lectures and presentations
Musician
Acting
Preise, Ausstrahlungen, Ankäufe, Stipendien, Kataloge, Sammlungen
- Body & Soul 40, Berlin Artist Magazin, 2023, Originalgrafiken
- Arbeiten in der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
- Arbeiten in dem Deutschem Literatur Archiv Marbach
- Katalog Klare Kante!, BBK Landeskunstausstellung NRW, Dortmunder U – Museum Ostwall, 2022, ISBN 978-3-9825137-0-6
- Broschüre Alvar SiefeRT Works!? 2022
- MKW-Stipendium 2022
- MKW-Stipendium 2021
- Prizes Video festivals in Göttingen and Cologne 1988 ( "Wake up! - † !")
- WDR school television, excerpts 1989 ( "Wake up! - † !")
- Prize " Exemplary School Films", European School Film Festival, Hanover, 1991, („Ver-zweifeln“ )
- ZDF, purchase "Blossoming of the Stones" 1997
- 3sat, television premiere "Blossoming of the Stones" , 4 repeats, 1997
- Best of Design Award Rhineland-Palatinate, 1997, ("Blossoming of the Stones")
- „Best of Imagina 1997“, IMAGINA festival on computer graphics, Monte-Carlo, Monaco, („Blossoming of the Stones“ )
- Federal Center for Political Education, Purchase of " Blossoming of the Stones" for educational purposes, 1998
- Grossmont College, San Diego, CA, USA, purchase of " Blossoming of the Stones" for educational purposes, 1998
- WDR, Live broadcast Computerclubnacht , "Blossoming of the Stones" excerpts, Heinz Nixdorf Museum, Paderborn, 1998
Graphic design
- Posters
- Illustrations
- Storyboards
- Book title design
- Logos
- CDs und Booklets
- Comics
For, among other:
- amnesty international
- Stadt Düsseldorf
- Rabe Verlag
- Tonger Verlag
Compositing, 3D, Animation, SFX
- RRZK (Regional Computing Center University of Cologne), Compositing, 3D, Animation, SFX, 1993-1997
- Wetterkanal, Düsseldorf, Compositing, Freelancer, 1998
- KHM (Academy of Media Arts, Cologne) and the
- GMD (Society for Mathematics and Data Processing, Sankt Augustin) Conception of a virtual character, 1997
- KHM and WDR, Kurt Masur & New York Philharmonic, Tchaikovsky Festival, title computer graphics, 1998
- sero digital media , post-production, Cologne. Compositing, 3D animation, SFX, CD creation / programming, print, 1999-2001
Excerpt from the list of customers
DAS ERSTE, RTL, WDR, RTL2, VOX, Kabel 1, Sat1, Bayer, AachenMünchener, Sparkasse Köln, EMI Electrola
- Digital Artist, Freelance service provided since 2002
Film, Video
Short films (with M. Betz)
- „Wake up! – † !“, 1988-89
- „Ver-zweifeln“, 1990-91
- „Blossoming of the Stones“, computer generated, 1993-97
Documentations
- 3sat, „Making of“ Blossoming of the Stones, Co-Author, 1997
- Co-Director and co-conception, „Optimizing on Sun UltraSPARC“, 2×45 min., 1997
Virtual characters
KHM Academy of Media Arts, Cologne, Prof. Trogemann,
One year as a guest by invitation
Development of my own real-time capable virtual character , 1997
Lectures and presentations
- University of Cologne (1995)
- 1. Alias | Wavefront User-Meeting, Wuppertal (1995).
- On the occasion of the visit of the Vice-President, University of Tokyo to the University of Cologne (1995)
- CEBIT 96, Silicon Graphics
- Internet Day of the University of Cologne (1996).
- 3sat Interview, CEBIT 97
- "European Year Against Racism", Gustav Stresemann Institute, Bonn (1997)
- WDR Live broadcast, Computerclubnacht , Heinz Nixdorf Museum, interview (1998)
Musician
As a professional drummer:
Numerous gigs, recordings, and published music
Last:
- „Hyghlander„, No Time For Dreamers, 2015, Scream Records, Bellaphon
- Author of the drum book"1,000,000 rhythms", Tonger Musik Verlag, Cologne
Many years of teaching activity in his own music school
Acting
- Leading role "Gespenster wie du und ich", Children's and youth theater, Düsseldorf, 1980
Leading role "Jugendliche Verbraucher", WDR school film production (4 episodes), 1984
