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Reinhild Beuther was born in 1970 in Rostock, East Germany.
She studied Art History at the Humboldt University Berlin, 1990-1992 and then Sculpture, Ceramics and Photography at the Hochschule fur Kunst und Design Halle “Burg Giebichenstein” and Muthesius Hochschule in Kiel, Germany 1992-95, and an MA in Sculpture at the Royal College of Art, London in 1997.
She was DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) scholar at the Royal College of Art, London 1995-96 and had a Henry Moore Scholarship at the RCA, London 1996-97.
Awards have included Merit Award, Aylesford Newsprint 1997; Deloite and Touche First Prize for Excellence 1997; First Base Award, ACAVA 1998-99.
She undertook a six month digital artist residency in Gloucester 1999; was artist in residence at the Poetry Festival, Ledbury, Gloucestershire 2000; artist in residence at the Sculpture Trail, Royal Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire 2000.
Reinhild Beuther has exhibited widely in Great Britain and other parts of Europe, including :
- 1996 “Phobic” group show at Hockney Gallery, London
- 1996 “GlovesOff” group show of German artists in the Shoreditch Town Hall, London
- 1997 “Below Stairs” site specific show at Osterley Park House
- 1997 “hothouse” exhibition in Kew Gardens
- 1998 “Fire” video projection at Schloss Broellin, Germany, Sophiensale Berlin and Officina Gallery, Szehezin, Poland
- 1998 “repeat” solo show with video work at Banbury Museum
- 1999 “Absolut Melancholie”, touring solo show of photographic work in Central Point Gallery, London and Guildhall Arts Centre, Gloucester
- 1999 “little mermaid” video installation as part of the “Single Screen” event, Forest of Dean
- 2000 “Absolut Melancholie”, solo show at the NIMRC London
- 2000 exhibition in Ledbury as part of Ledbury Poetry Festival
- 2000 “Going Nowhere Fast”, group show at ACAVA, Cremer Street Studios, London
- 2001 “Naked Nave”, sound exhibition at Gloucester Cathedral
- 2001 “Beholden”, solo exhibition at Art and Design Gallery, Hatfield, University of Hertfordshire.
Extensive work in sculpture, photography, digital imagery and video installations workshops include : Animationstation in Banbury 1998/99; residency/workshops at Churchdown, Chosen Hill and Harewood schools, Gloucester, 1999; John Maisfield Highschool, Ledbury as part of the Poetry Festival 2000 and teacher training workshops in Gloucester, Worcester and Herefordshire.
Reinhild Beuther is a founder member of the artist run initiative artNucleus (see “Below Stairs”, “Naked Nave”