Wolfgang H Scholz (1958, Dresden, Germany), painter, photographer and film director
Lives and works in Mexico City and Munich (+studio in Dresden)
Studied fine arts at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts (HfBK, 1982-85, F.Panndorf), Graphology (Leipzig, 1987-88, I.Rudolph), had a teaching position at the University of Television and Film Munich (HFF, 1990-91), gave seminars at the Film University Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica Mexico City (CCC, 2002).
He is founder (1994) and CEO of the Sic! Film Production GmbH, Munich (since 2020 Sic! Film Art Productions). He worked from 1992 till 2008 as an tv editor and film director by Bavarian TV broadcast, ZDF, the MDR and for other European TV broadcasters like ORF and ARTE.
In 2013 he was appointed at the Saxon Academy of Arts, Germany. The Film Library of the University UNAM and the Museum Chopo (both Mexico City) presented 2016 and 2017 a hughe retrospective of his works. In 2017 the Federal Film Archive, Berlin, and in 2018 the State Library of Saxony acquired the largest part of his film and multimedia work for its archive.
Awards and Grants
Studio residence in Munich, cultural department of the city of Munich, 1990
First award Dresden International Film Festival for the film Kohlenlothar, 1991
Federal grant for the production of the film Skinning, 1993
Federal grant for the production of the fiction film Shadow Seeker, 1994
Federal grant for the screenplay of the fiction film: Two Actors and Four Visitors, 1994
Federal grant for the production of the fiction film Lost Wings, 1998
Silver Award, Worldfest Houston International Film Festival (USA), for the fiction film Lost Wings, 2000
Federal grant for the screenplay of the documentary: Shadow Seeker 2, 2002
First journalism award Saxony for the documentary Fremde Nachbarn, 2004
Federal grant for the production of the documentary Image Inside, 2008
Platinum Remi Award, Worldfest-Houston International Film Festival (USA), documentary film Das Bild in mir, 2010
Federal grant for the production of the fiction film Time of Crows, 2012
Award for screenplay Time of Crows, Int'n Filmmaker Festival Milan, Italy 2015
Gold Remi Award (screenplay "Time of Crows"), Worldfest Houston International Film Festival (USA), 2016
a selection of solo exhibitions and - performances
2023 CC Los Talleres, Mexico City
2022 Museum Chopo, Mexico City
2022 CC Los Talleres, Mexico City
2022 Gallery Casa Rafael Galván, Mexico City
2020 Palast of Culture, Dresden, Germany
2019 Museum of Contemporary Art (MACO), Oaxaca, Mexico
2019 Museum Ex Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico City
2018 Chopo Museum, Mexico City
2017 LES Gallery The Clemente, New York City
2016 Film Library of the National University (UNAM), Mexico City
2016 Cineteca Nacional, Mexico City
2015 Museum of Modern Art Querétaro, Mexico
2015 Gallery "Mal de Archivo", Rosario, Argentina
2014 Goethe Institut Mexico City
2014 Galería Blanco, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2014 Festival Soliloquios Dialogos, Mexico City
2014 Centro de Expresiones Contemporáneas, Rosario, Argentina
2013 La Casona Municipal, Córdoba, Argentina
2013 Teatro Montes de Oca, San José, Costa Rica
2013 Teatro Bataclana, Córdoba, Argentina
2013 Centro Cultural Borges, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2013 Gallery "Feuerwache", Dresden, Germany
2013 Museum Ex-Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico City
2013 Theater Centro Cultural „Los Talleres“, Mexico City
2012 Museum Regional, Guadalajara, Mexico
2012 Dreikönigskirche, Dresden, Germany
2011 Museum Ex-Convento del Carmen, Guadalajara, Mexico
2011 Gallery José María Velasco, Mexico City
2010 Gallery UAM Iztapalapa, Mexico City
2010 Gallery Estación Coyoacán of Modern Art, Mexico City
2010 Heilig-Geist-Kirche, Dresden, Germany
2009 Neuer Sächsischer Kunstverein (mit Gerda Lepke), Dresden, Germany
2009 Museum del Arzobispado, Mexico City
2008 Gallery „Seminario de Cultura Méxicana“, Mexico City
2005 Museum Chopo, Mexico City
2003 Theater of the Instituto Peruano-Norteamericano, Lima, Peru
2003 Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, New York City, USA
2002 Fringe Festival for Independent Dance Toronto, Canada
2002 National Theater Havanna, Cuba
2002 Theater Miguel Covarrubias (UNAM), Mexico City
2001 Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City
2001 Centro Fotográfico „Álvarez Bravo“, Oaxaca, Mexico
1994 Black Box, Gasteig, Munich, Germany
1991 Galerie Carl Baasel, Starnberg, Germany
a selection of group exhibitions and - performances
2024 Sächsische Landesbibliothek Dresden
2024 Motorenhalle Dresden, Germany
2022 Museum Dieselkraftwerk Cottbus, Germany
2021 Berlin Art Week, New Society of Visual Arts (nGbK), Berlin
2019 Butoh Festival, Kyoto, Japan
2018 Museum of SHCP, Antiguo Palacio del Arzobispado, Mexico City
2018 Gallery of Casa de Coahuila, Mexico City
2017 Savvy Contemporary, Berlin
2017 Saxon Academy of Arts, Haus des Buches, Leipzig, Germany
2017 Estación Coyoacán of Modern Art, Mexico City
2016 Int'n Film Festival Houston, USA
2015 Museum Chopo, Mexico City
2015 BBK Galerie, Munich
2015 Rathaus Dresden
2015 Int'n Film Festival Milano, Italy
2014 Museu dos Correo, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
2014 Gallery Sybille Nütt, Dresden Contemporary Art
2014 Museu dos Correo, Brasilia, Brasil
2013 Gallery OBEN, Chemnitz, Germany
2013 JohannStadthalle, Dresden
2013 BBK Galerie, Munich
2013 Centro Cultural „Los Talleres“, Mexico City
2013 Theater Universität Tlaxcala, Tlaxcala, Mexico
2012 Galerie Vértice, Guadalajara, Mexico
2011 Dreikönigskirche "Kreuz-Projekt", Dresden
2011 Gallery Vértice, Guadalajara, Mexico
2011 Gallery SHCP, Mexico City
2011 Film Festival Usti nad Labem, Tschechien
2010 Documentary Campus, Newseeland
2009 Dresdner Stadtmuseum
2009 Angermuseum, Erfurt
2009 Motorenhalle Dresden
2009 Int'l Dokumentarfilm Festival Leipzig
2008 Gallery Vértice, Guadalajara, Mexico
2008 Museum of Art and History, Juarez City, Mexico
2006 Gallery Oscar Roman, Mexiko City, Mexico
2006 Gallery Metropolitana, Mexiko City
2005 Centro Cultural „Los Talleres“, Mexico City
2001 Int'n Independent Film Festival New York, USA
2000 Int'n Film Festival Mailand, Italien
2000 Int'n Film Festival Karlovy Vary, Tschechien
2000 Int'n Film Festival Houston, USA
2000 Filmfestspiele Bieberach, Deutschland
2000 Int'n Film Festival Vancouver, Kanada
2000 San Marco Island Int'n Film Festival Florida, USA
1999 Internationale Filmtage Hof, Deutschland
1995 Festival der A*Devantgarde, Munich
1995 Int'l Dokumentarfilm Festival Munich
1995 Int'l Dokumentarfilm Festival Leipzig
1993 ART FAIR, Gallery Walter Bischoff, Los Angeles, USA
1993 Theaterhaus, Stuttgart
1992 ART FAIR, Gallery Walter Bischoff, Cologne
1992 Int'l Dokumentarfilm Festival Munich
1991 Altes Rathaus Munich
1991 Gallery Walter Bischoff, Stuttgart
1990 "Ausgebürgert", Albertinum, Dresden
1989 BBK Galerie, Munich
1988 HfBK Academy of Fine Arts Dresden