Wolfgang Laib's work has been exhibited worldwide in many of the most important galleries and museums.
15 Facts About Wolfgang Laib
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Wolfgang Laib represented Germany in the 1982, Venice Biennale and was included with his works in the Documenta 7 in 1982, and then in the Documenta 8 in 1987.
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Wolfgang Laib became world-renowned for his "Milkstones", a pure geometry of white marble made complete with milk, as well as his vibrant installations of pollen.
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Wolfgang Laib was born 25 March 1950 in Metzingen, Germany, the son of a medical doctor Gustav Laib and his wife Lydia.
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In spite of his ever-growing passion for art, Wolfgang Laib begins to study medicine at the University of Tuebingen in 1968.
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Wolfgang Laib's search led him to Eastern spiritualism, philosophy and pre-Renaissance thought.
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At this point Wolfgang Laib engaged himself in parallel studies of Sanskrit and eastern philosophies.
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At this moment Wolfgang Laib decided to finish his medical studies, but with the full intent of embarking on the career of an artist.
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Wolfgang Laib returned to his village near Biberach, and in the intensity of his medical experience combined with all else, he intuited the creation of his first milkstones as an expression of all what he felt of at that time.
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In 1977, Wolfgang Laib began to collect pollen in the meadows and forests around the vicinity of his village.
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Wolfgang Laib lived and worked in Tribeca, a time during which he met Carolyn Reep, a conservator specialized in Asian art and antiquities, who would then after become his wife.
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Wolfgang Laib has always been less concerned with innovation or formal development than with the notion of continuity.
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Wolfgang Laib's oeuvre is not to be approached in a chronological order, but in a cyclical manner, as he uses the same forms and materials regularly.
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Wolfgang Laib considers himself as a vehicle for ideas of universality and timelessness that are already present in nature.
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In 2010, Carolyn and Wolfgang Laib purchased a small space in Manhattan to function as a sharing place of their life and works in this world crossroads, forging new relations within the art world in the US.