Born 1954 in Hamburg
1976-80 Studies of Sculpture, Muthesiushochschule Kiel Germany
1980 Diploma of Sculpture
2012 Gran Award of North German Industries, State Museum Gottorf Castle, Germany
2015 Major Award Sculpture by the Sea Bondi, Australia
2017 Major Award Nordart, Germany
2019 Spoonbill Cup Award Shenzhen China
Teaching Positions and International Culture Management
2008 Elected as adviser and member of the China Sculpture Institute
2011- 2015 Direktor of the Hanne Darvoben Foundation Hamburg
2011 One of the first foreign guest teachers at the Sculpture Department of the Academy of Arts and Design Tsinghua University Beijing • Guest teacher at the China Academy of Arts Hangzhou CAA
2013 Guest lecturer at the China Academy of Arts Hangzhou
2014 Guest lecturer Faculty of Fine Arts Universidad Complutense Madrid Spain
2015 Guest lecturer Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (URJC) Madrid Spain
2015 Master workshop with students and professors from CAA Hangzhou and URJC Madrid in Germany
2016, 2017 Guest lecturer Universidad Rey Juan Carlos Madrid Spain
2016, 2017 Director of the 6th and 7th National Seminar of Abstract Sculpture of China Sculpture Magazine
2017 Director of the URJC Madrid marble class in Carrara region Toscany Italy
2018 Director of the CAA Hangzhou marble class in the Carrara region Toscany Italy
2018 Invited professor TAFA Tianjin Academy of Fine Art China
2019 Honorary Prof. of University of for Architecture and Technology Xian China, invited Professor the Xian Academy of Fne Arts
2021 Honorary director of the New Space Art Institute Shenzhen Shenzhen
Jörg Plickat has participated in more than 320 exhibitions worldwide. He has realized more than 90 monuments in public area in ten countries and four continents. He has received several prizes national and international. He was one of the first foreign teachers at the Sculpture Department of Tsinghua University. He is teaching frequently in China, Spain and Italy. See in the following a selection of new projects, recent exhibitions, works and awards. 2015 the war – torn Brooks Bridge Hamburg, with its sculptures‘ portals, reconstructed in accordance with the heritage protection guidelines by Jörg Plickat 2003-2006, was recognized together with Speicherstadt Hamburg as UNESCO World Heritage Site.
One man shows
-2021
www.skulpturen-am-meer.de
5 Monumental Sculptures at the Strande Baltic Beach, Kiel Bay, Germany
www.skulpturen-am-ostufer.de
5 monumental sculptures at the east port Flensburg Germany
-2020
Line Volume Space Campus Kiel University of Applied Sciences 9 Munumental Sculptures
-2019 Il spacio e il vuoto One man Show with 9 monumental sculptures in the historic centre of Seravezza, Toscana, Italy
Participations (selected)
-2021 8th Swiss Triennal of Sculpture, NordArt 2021, Sculpture Line, CZ, 4th China National Exhibition of Abstract Sculpture Qingdao
- 2019 Nordart Germany, Sculpture Line Prague
- 2018 7.Triennial of Sculpture Schwitzerland and Liechtenstein · Nordart 2018 Art Festival Germany · Sculpture Line 2018 - 2 monumental sculptures on the major places of Prague / Czech Republic · 7th International Silk Road Festival Xi’an China
- 2017 Sculpture by the Sea Sydney Australia · Sculpture by the Sea Cottesloe Aus · Nordart 2017 Germany NORDART MAJOR PRIZE 2017/2018 · Chateau Saint Maur St.Tropez/ Grimaud F
- 2016 Sculpture by the Sea Cottesloe 2016, Perth Australia · Sculpture by the Sea Bondi 2016, Sydney Australia · Kunstmeile Kampen nad Falkenstern Fine Art Sylt Germany Nordart 2016
- 2015 6. Internl. Triennial of Sculpture Switzerland and Liechtenstein · Sculpture by the Sea Aarhus 2015, Denmark · Deichtorhallen Hamburg/Sammlung Falkenberg, Nordart 2015, Germany Sculpture by the Sea, Sydney Australia, Major Prize of Sculpture in Australia - Mac Quarie Award
Works and Monuments in public area
2021 Einstein Monument for the City of Kiel
2019 17 m Stainless Steel sculpture for the Gobi desert, North China, 2 Corten Sculptures for Varde, Denmark
2018 Stainless steel sculpture for Ningbo, China • L7,5 m steel sculpture for the Wuhu Sculpture Park, Anhui, China • 3m colored stainless steel sculpture for Ningbo sculpture park. 2017 6m Sculpture for Tai’an Shandong China
2016 Corten sculpture L 4,5m for Qingdao Shandong China • 4,5 m corten steel sculpture for Yiwu China • Marble sculpture for the city of Schleswig Germany • 4,5 m Corten sculpture for West Australia • 5 m Corten sculpture for Canberra Australia • 6 m Corten sculpture für Kangaroo Valley near Sydney Australia • 2 Portrait busts of Nobel awarded scientist of the Kiel University , Centre Kiel Germany
2015 Busts of the 4 Nobel awarded scientists of the Christian-Albrechts University, Centre Kiel, Germany • SXS Bondi winning sculpture permanently installed at Middlehead, Sydney
2014 4m Corten Steel Memorial for a poet, Heide North Germany • 6,4 m Monumental sculpture for Changsha China • 6 m sculpture for Brisbane Australia
2013 6m Granite Sculpture for Lübeck Germany • 4m Granite Fountain for a Hospital Hamburg • 5,5 m corten sculpture for the European walk of Modern Art Potsdam (Capital of the province of Brandenburg) Germany • Opening of the personal Jörg Plickat Sculpture park in Bredenbek Germany
2012 4,5 m Corten Steel sculpture New Orleans, USA
2011 5m Steel sculpture for the Tsinghua University China • 5m Granite sculpture for Sorrento, Maine, USA • 5m Steel sculpture for Wuhu, China • 4m Steel sculpture on campus of the Tulane University Lousiana, USA
2010 Corten steel entrance architecture for the national archive of the State of Schleswig-Holstein Germany • 3 sculptures in the park of the Lousiana Art Museum of New Orleans New Orleans USA • Swimming sculpture Lake of Constance (Switzerland) • 15 m steel sculpture for Tangshan China • 100 ton Stone sculpture for Taizhou China • Stone and Corten sculpture for Sant’ Ippolito Italy
2009 4,5 m granite sculpture for Ordos Inner Mongolia China
2008 Olympic sculpture, chinese marbl,e National Stadium Beijing CHINA • Swimming sculpture in the New Port Area Hamburg Germany • Granite sculpture for the Culture center of Valladares, Vigo, Spain
2007 Marble Sculpture for the EJE, Monterrey, Mexico
2003-2006 Multiple Awarded Corten steel reconstruction of the destroyed parts of a medieval building as architectonical sculpture + 2 monumental entrence sculptures from Corten steel, Cultural Foundation Jakob-Kemenate Braunschweig, in collaboration with OMA BraunschweigAwarded reconstruction of the sculptural decorated portals of the former main bridge Brooksbrücke with 4 monumental bronze figures, connecting centre and Loft town of Hamburg Germany . 2015 listed together with the Speicherstadt Hamburg as Unesco World Heritage Site
