Olympic Stadion Beijing 2008

Japan 1994

Jakobkemenate Braunschweig

in the studio

Welcome to the JÖRG PLICKAT Website. You will find information about the work of the German sculptor Jörg Plickat on the following pages

Jörg Plickat works freelanced since 1980. He was presented on several European Art Fairs and more than 300 Exhibitions in many parts of the world. More than 80 monumental works of Jörg Plickat are installed in public space or in churches, mostly in the North of Germany, but also in the USA, Albania, Spain, Italy, France, Montenegro, Turkey, Mexico, Japan and China. Jörg Plickat received many prizes and awards for his works. 2006 he got an Outstanding award for his proposal for the sculpture for the Olympic park in Beijing, 2007 the work was realized in front of the Olympic stadium in Beijing

Jörg Plickat is coming from the figurative sculpture. This might be surprising on the first view, but if you study his works longer you will refind in his sculptures the human proportions.  After Academy he studied intensivly the figurative sculpture for some years, from there he started his way to his reduced formal language  that makes his works so typical. Jörg Plickat  developis sculptural projects for cities, communities and  companies, he consults the China Sculpture Institute. One of his special areas is the work with modern sculpture in the cultural heritage protected area in correspondence with the cultural heritage. In Hamburg, Braunschweig, Kiel und Gettorf Jörg Plickat created in a permanent dialogue with art historians and the institutions of heritage protection sculptures in relation to the specific historical surrounding.

Jörg Plickat works in stone steel and bronce. He is realising his compositions in this different materials.   According to his philosophy to be intellectual creator and high skilled worker Plickat is even realising monumental works himself in his big studio. Plickat received as well for his works in stone as well for his metal sculptures highest international acceptance and awards

2011 Plickat was the first foreign teacher at the Sculpture department of the Art Academy of Cina´s top ranked Tsinghua University. In the same year he was also a guest lecturer at the also top ranked China Academy of Arts in Hangzhou. Plickat has developed a specal program to teach the in China new subject of Abstract Composition.

The Goethe-Institut, the Federal Republic of Germany´s cultural institution about Jörg Plickat in its information about Sculpture in Germany : Jörg Plickat (b. 1954) creates sculpture in stone, steel, and bronze. He lives in Hamburg and Bredenbek(Schleswig-Holstein, and studied at the Muthesius School in Kiel. The intellectual aspect of Plickat´s sculpture involves the impact of relationships between volume, material, situation, and light and shade. His simplified geometrical formal language is comprehensible worldwide, unifying both intimacy and monumentality “  www.goethe.de/ins/us/lp/kue/bku/en23385.htm

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Puerta del Sol 1999 Cultural Prize Almeria Spain

Gate of the Sun 2011 Sorrento Maine USA

Taizhou China 2010

Wuhu South of China 2011

Park of the New Orleans Museum of Art  Lousina USA 2011

Ordos Inner Mongolia 2009