Origo
Origin and Artistic Position
Origo marks the inner point of departure of Bernd Weingart’s artistic practice: the moment in which the visible world is not merely observed, but comes into appearance itself-as a resonant field of light, time, and atmosphere. Across all series, the work revolves around a central question: when does the act of seeing allow the world to assume a new form? Here, the theoretical, aesthetic, and poetic foundations of the work condense into a coherent position that understands appearance not as representation, but as a relational event. The fleeting multiplicity of the moment asks to be perceived, felt, and experienced as a signature of the present.
Origo brings together the aesthetic and conceptual principles underlying Weingart’s work. At its core are light, time, and atmosphere as conditions of a mode of seeing in which appearance becomes relation.
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Voluptas et Dulcedo Sapientum
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for the Homeward Way
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Artistic Profile
Weingart conceives his practice as a field of resonance. Perception is not a registering act, but a dialogical process in which the world returns the gaze. Serial work allows for the sustained exploration of light, time, and atmosphere, making perceptible subtle transitions and thresholds. Apparent oppositions-mind and matter, freedom and constraint, movement and stillness-coexist without being resolved. The aim is not to stabilize meaning, but to render moments of singular intensity and presence experienceable without diminishing their openness.
Credo
My artistic practice begins at the moment of appearance-where perception, light, and time condense into an experience that resists full conceptualization. In these moments, signatures of the instant emerge: singular constellations in which these conditions crystallize into a unique configuration.
The artistic process is understood less as an act of production than as an act of allowing. Through serial practice, visual fields unfold in which appearance becomes relational rather than representational. The works open resonant spaces in which world and perception encounter one another, shift, and reconfigure in ongoing, dynamic constellations.
Work Narrative
Weingart’s oeuvre unfolds along a central movement: the permeability of appearance. Series such as Whispering Vaults, Nocturnes, Odes, or View over Delft explore moments in which the world returns the gaze. Light, time, and atmosphere condense into poetic fields of resonance, rendering visible the fleeting multiplicity of experience. The work articulates a counter-position to accelerated perception, insisting on radical attentiveness-an attentiveness in which signatures, possibilities, and existential tensions sound together.
Short Biography
Bernd Weingart, born in 1965 in the former GDR, lives and works in Berlin. Growing up in an environment shaped by books, images, and material processes, he developed early on a sensitive relationship to light, form, and atmosphere. His artistic practice understands perception as resonance-as the moment in which the world responds to the gaze. Through serially structured works, Weingart investigates those fleeting instances in which light, time, and experience coalesce into distinct signatures of the present.