Via Lewandowsky

Volker Via Lewandowsky (born 7 March 1963, in Dresden) is a German artist who works with installation, sculpture, object art, photography, performance, painting and drawing. Poem for an Artist Born in Dresden in 1963 lost an eye at the age of three because of arts. Since then, a devotee. Ergo: unshorn no one will ever be. Durs Grünbein, 1997 Life Via Lewandowsky studied at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts from 1982 until 1987. Starting in 1985, he organised subversive performances together with the avant-garde group Autoperforationsartisten that undermined the Communist art authorities of Eastern Germany (GDR). In 1989, shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall, he left the GDR and subsequently moved to West Berlin. Since then, he has travelled extensively and has lived for extended periods in New York, Rome, Peking and Canada. He now resides in Berlin.