Torsten Schlüter
Torsten Schlüter (born 1959 in Berlin) is a German painter, performance artist and author.
1981 -1986 training in architecture and in artistic creation with successful university studies in architecture at Bauhausuniversity Weimar. Since 1986 going away from the architecture and alloning concentration than an authodiact on painting. Due to his “turning away from the politically imposed academic path” the authorities make him a persona-non-grata in Weimar. The Island of Hiddensee is increasingly becoming his refuge. 1986-1987 odd jobs as a painter of signs, a carpenters assistant, a stage scene painter and a tennis trainer. Creation of set and costumes for the theatre. 1987 (to 2011) he is starting the yearly “Summer Art Garden” on the Island Hiddensee. Since 1988 he works as a freelance artist. 1989 Political involvement with Neues Forum (New Forum). After the Wall is fall, he begins to travel and work on the road especially in Africa and India. 1990 studio in the Atelierhaus Weimar. 1994 studio in the Kulturbrauerei, Berlin. 1995 creation of the official logo of the Island Hiddensee. 1996 studio Hackesche Höfe, Berlin. 1997 “Tulipamwe”, the North-South divide covering art work (Germany and France), with initiated by Jack Lang. 2003 studio in Berlin Mitte. 2004 He receives the Southwest German watercolor painting award. 2004 artist engagement for “Iron 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.[1]
Various study 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
- Northern lights” – Hiddensee; 2001
- Northern lights II - Hiddensee”, 2005
- Woman at the Well, 2008
- Northern lights III - Hiddensee, 2013