Art Salon Zürich 2022

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The new art fair for Zurich
The new art fair ART SALON ZURICH (28.09.-02.10.2022) is awaited with great excitement. – We look forward to participating in the premiere in an exclusive circle of international galleries! The easily accessible and characterful halls of the Werkstadt-Zürich offer the perfect ambience for a new art experience in Zurich.
This year we will be showing works by
– TILL AUGUSTIN
– JURGEN JANSEN
– JURGEN PAAS
– DIRK SALZ

ART SALON ZURICH
Gallery Obrist at booth #C15
Preview Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2022, 4-9 p.m.
September 29 – October 2, 2022
Opening times: 12pm-8pm, SUN 12pm-6pm
Werkstadt-Zurich, Hall D South, Hohlstrasse 400, 8048 Zurich / Switzerland

Image: TILL AUGUSTIN. L’ATTRAZIONE DELL’ORO V, 2022.
Steel cables, cut, wound, galvanized, 24kt gold-plated, 32 x 33 x 30 cm

durch – Jáchym Fleig / Armin Hartenstein

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The Trier sculptor Jáchym Fleig and the Berlin painter and draftsman Armin Hartenstein have already entered into a dialogue in several group exhibitions. Under the title “through” they are now showing a double exhibition in the gallery for the first time.
Fleig (*1970) and Hartenstein (*1968) were both born in tranquil Villingen-Schwenningen in the Black Forest. The affinity for rugged nature and landscape can be felt in the work of both artists. Jáchym Fleig deliberately contrasts the spatial architecture with his stalactite-like conglomerates of polyurethane foam, plaster and corrugated cardboard. Outgrowths characterize his works and something organic seems to be growing out of the artificial material.
Armin Hartenstein saws thin plywood to size and shape, applies his work with acrylic, wax, oil paint and other materials. In doing so, he depicts mountains, craters and geological structures in a painterly and object-like manner, playing with illusion and reality. There are no depictions of real landscapes in these pictures, but they are invented and fictional abstractions of reality.

durch – Jáchym Fleig / Armin Hartenstein
Opening Friday, September 16, 2022, 7 p.m.
Duration of the exhibition: September 17 – October 22, 2022
Opening times: WED-FRI 12-18h, SAT 10-16h

SAAI – Super Artistic AI

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SAAI FACTORY IS A COLLABORATIVE PLATFORM FOR ARTISTIC PRODUCTION AND AI TECHNOLOGY

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is already being used in many technical systems today: for example robotics, blockchain or stock exchange trading. AI generally refers to any human-like behavior performed by a machine or system. But how is AI used in art? And what are the implications of incorporating AI into art? The international artist cooperative SAAI Factory addresses these questions in our exhibition.

Participants: AI Wondergirls | Erum Afzal, Sneha Bahl, Sara El-Ateif, Rosana de Oliveira Gomes, Tanjiha Mahmud – Lia Coleman – Creative Quantum AI | Gert-Jan Akerboom, Grishma Prasad, Hannah Reber, Michael Sträubig – Uwe Dresemann – Christoph Faulhaber – Thomas Goepfer & Olivier Pasquet – Max Haarich – The HUB | John-Robin Bold, Andy Cowling, Daniel Vier – Infinite Borders | Anista Mangala Arulruban, Lukas Bleyer, Leon Bohlsen, Frauke Lindemann, Anna Nau, Jochen Stenschke – Lena Michaelis – RadBots NFT Collection – Isaac Sullivan – Nazeli Ter-Petrosyan

SUPER ARTISTIC AI
Opening Friday, August 26, 2022, 7 p.m.
Duration of the exhibition: August 27 – September 10, 2022
Opening times: WED-FRI 12-18h, SAT 10-16h

Collector‘s Lounge 2022 – Works

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Art Karlsruhe 2022

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ART KARLSRUHE
Gallery Obrist H1 / E12
July 7 – 10, 2022
daily 11am-8pm.

Gallery Obrist is showing one-artist shows with Jürgen Paas and Dirk Salz, and works by Marcela Böhm, Christian Boltanski, Armin Hartenstein, Ilka Helmig and Thomas Zika at this year’s Art Karlsruhe.
Because of the preparations for the fair, the gallery in Essen is open ONLY BY APPOINTMENT (+49 201 7266 203) until JULY 10th.
The COLLECTOR’S LOUNGE can still be seen there until August 20th.

ART KARLSRUHE
Gallery Obrist H1 / E12
July 7 – 10, 2022
daily 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Location: Messe Karlsruhe, 76287 Rheinstetten

Collector`s Lounge

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JÜRGEN JANSEN – JÜRGEN PAAS – DIRK SALZ – MARCELA BÖHM – DIETER NUHR – SIMONE HAACK – ARMIN HARTENSTEIN – ILKA HELMIG
The summer can come! For our COLLECTOR’S LOUNGE we have brought together recent and outstanding works by various artists of the gallery, including works with epoxy resin by JÜRGEN JANSEN, new JUKEBOXES and TARGETS by JÜRGEN PAAS, wall objects and drawings by DIRK SALZ, a new painting by MARCELA BÖHM, a large blue caldera by ARMIN HARTENSTEIN, drawings and collages by ILKA HELMIG and much more
Of course, you can also see an excerpt from the COLLECTOR’S LOUNGE program at ART KARLSRUHE from 7.-10. July at our booth H1/E12.

COLLECTOR’S LOUNGE
Opening Friday, June 24, 2022, 7 p.m.
Duration of the exhibition: June 25 – August 20, 2022
Opening hours: WED-FRI 12-18h, SAT 10-16h

The Cube by Andrea Božić / Julia Willms

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The spatial installation “The Cube” by Andrea Božić and Julia Willms can be seen at the Städtische Galerie KUBUS at Hanover until Sunday, June 19. The presentation takes place as part of the Herrenhausen Art Festival and is also part of the Hanover “Night of the Museums” on June 18th. There is a meaningful press report by Ronald Meyer-Arlt in the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of May 22, 2022.

Hannoversche Allgemeine 22-05-2022

Christian Boltanski. Editions.

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Our exhibition is a tribute to the great French artist Christian Boltanski, who passed away last July. We show selected editions in which various aspects of his work come to light.

The art of Christian Boltanski, who was born in Paris in 1944, is shaped by memories of the Holocaust and the reconstruction of his own past. In the cramped, half-dark spaces that he created in his installations, with the props that anonymously referred to people and their fates, the musty mountains of clothing, the stacked zinc crates and the patinated black-and-white photographs, he created an oppressive atmosphere of personal concern that was difficult to bear is. These installations have become icons of the art of memory.

He also acted subversively, because in one of his most important works, the 1200-photo installation Menschlich from 1994, he mixed portraits of the deceased victims with pictures of German soldiers and SS people, of perpetrators. As part of his exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg in 2013, Boltanski said: “I no longer know who is the perpetrator and who is the victim. It just so happens that a man can love his child and kill another child at the same time. Everyone has what it takes to turn into a devil from time to time. But even the devil sometimes takes a break.” – A commentary on the horrors of war, which has unfortunately become very topical again. Boltanski had Ukrainian roots himself, and we will miss his artistic statement in these times. The exhibition features signed photogravures and lithographs that were edited in a small edition.

Christian Boltanski. Editions.
Opening: Friday, May 6, 2022, 7 p.m.
May 7 – June 18, 2022

Thomas Zika – Sovereign Fruits

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Statement by Thomas Zika:
“…Before taking any photographs I am pretreating my analog 4×5 inch film material with mushrooms, which pollute out their spores latently on the film sheets, creating beautiful, but chaotic lamella circles. Depending on humidity and ripeness I let this hidden process endure from hours to months. Serendipity is my friend and my enemy: the emergences of the artefacts on the film sheets are accidentally and unpredictable. The fungi segregate their spores upon the surface lying underneath originating extremely delicate lamellar aureoles appearing as a mix of explosion and aura.
Additionally I am mounting roots from dehydrated plants inside the bellows of my large format camera, which create black fotogram-like outlines to echo a „menetekel“ from the future.
I am applying this trans-dimensional experimental method within my project „sovereign fruits“. I am going to photograph in a biotope near my hometown: a creek running through a forest valley, swampland, birds. Viewed superficially everything seems OK, but over the last years the habitat has changed enormously according to the impacts of global warming.
As I am no longer able to believe in any truth embodied in journalistic documentary picture language, my artistic work results in these chaotic, but beautiful photographs, which whisper of a different thruth of their own…”

THOMAS ZIKA – Sovereign Fruits
Opening Friday, 11 February, 2022, 7 p.m.
Duration: 12 February – 19 March, 2022

Jürgen Paas – United Colours

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Die Reihe PRÄSENZ findet nach den Ausstellungen mit Jürgen Jansen und Dirk Salz ihren Abschluss mit Jürgen Paas. Wir stellen neue Variationen der Werkreihe JUKEBOX vor, sowie eine neue TARGET-Installation.
Im Ursprung ist es die Malerei, die Jürgen Paas antreibt, aber keine mit Pinsel und Farbe, sondern eine Malerei mit industriell vorgefertigten Materialien, mit denen sich das Spiel der RAL-Farben entwickeln kann. Je nach Blickwinkel des Betrachters zeigt sich bei den JUKEBOXES eine sehr unterschiedliche Farbkomposition: während von der einen Seite eine kontrastreiche Struktur mit farbigen Streifen dominiert, offenbart sich von der anderen Seite eine fast monochrome Stimmung; während das Halbprofil von einer bunten Schwere dominiert wird, zeigt die Vorderansicht eine Leichtigkeit zarter Linien. “JUKEBOX hat keine definierbare Hauptansicht, ihr Wesen ist die Veränderung.” (Kathrin Reeckmann)

Reihe PRÄSENZ:
JÜRGEN PAAS – UNITED COLOURS
Eröffnung Freitag, 5. November 2021, 19 Uhr
Es erscheint ein Buch zur Ausstellung (Verlag Kettler).
Dauer der Ausstellung: 5.-27. November 2021

Dirk Salz – Every Colour You Are

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In the second half of 2021, under the title PRÄSENZ, the gallery will show three artists from the gallery who have been closely associated with the gallery for a long time: Jürgen Jansen, Dirk Salz and Jürgen Paas. The focus of the series is on non-digitizable works, art that can only be adequately experienced in the presence of the art object and the physical presence of the viewer. In the second part of the series we show Dirk Salz, who works with many pigmented layers of epoxy resin in his pictures. “From the materiality of his different materials with pigments, resins, aluminum or wood, he develops picture objects, layer by layer, whose inner infinity, color and light intensify in a dialogue with the viewer.” (Dr. Gabriele Uelsberg)

PRÄSENZ:
DIRK SALZ – EVERY COLOUR YOU ARE
Opening Friday, 1 October, 2021, 19h
An exhibition book will be released (Verlag Kettler).
Duration: 2.-30. Oktober 2021

Jürgen Jansen – Any Colour But Red.

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In the second half of 2021, under the title PRÄSENZ, we will show three gallery artists who have been closely associated with the gallery for a long time: Jansen, Salz and Paas. The focus of the series is on non-digitizable works, art that can only be adequately experienced in the presence of the art object and the physical presence of the viewer. Teh Gallery begins with Jürgen Jansen, who works with many layers and levels in his pictures. Jansen’s works make the offer to go on a research trip into the picture and to reconstruct the process of creation of the work in view of the original. The viewer is immersed in peculiar visual worlds that allow diverse associations from macro to micro, from star formations to plant and cell structures.

PRÄSENZ (PRESENCE) series:
JÜRGEN JANSEN – ANY COLOR BUT RED
Opening Friday, September 3, 2021, 7 p.m.
A book for the exhibition will be published (Verlag Kettler).
Duration of the exhibition: 4.-25. September 2021

Fig .: “Any Color But Red”, 2021, mixed media, 100 x 70 cm

NÄHE #3 – First View

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Video on our exhibition:

NÄHE #3 – verführen. Opening in the gallery and on INSTAGRAM LIVE Friday, 18 June 2021, 7 p.m.

NÄHE (Closeness) exhibition series
Artists: Marcela Böhm, Andrea Božić & Julia Willms, John Coplans, EVA & ADELE, FLATZ, (e.)Twin Gabriel, Simone Haack, Franziska Nast, Annegret Soltau

Schedule: March until August, 2021
03/19/ – 05/02/2021 NÄHE #1 – berühren (touch)
05/07/ – 06/12/2021 NÄHE #2 – spüren (feel)
06/18/ – 08/28/2021 NÄHE #3 – verführen (seduce)

Book NÄHE, Kerber Verlag

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NÄHE #3 – verführen

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Closeness can quickly become too much, but it is never enough. We want more and more. We seduce and allow ourselves to be seduced to get closer and closer. The closeness should be anytime, anywhere and permanently. The border to the other should be overcome, it should fall, in favor of absolute closeness. Whether in the erotic encounter of lovers, the get-together of parents and child, the intimate closeness of siblings or best friends, we let ourselves be seduced by images of intimate closeness. We seldom realize that this seduction to closeness never hits the immediate feeling, but is always conveyed through the respective medium – unless through art.

Opening Reception 18 June, 2021, 7 p.m.

NÄHE (Closeness) exhibition series
Artists: Marcela Böhm, Andrea Božić & Julia Willms, John Coplans, EVA & ADELE, FLATZ, (e.)Twin Gabriel, Simone Haack, Franziska Nast, Annegret Soltau

Schedule: March until August, 2021
03/19/ – 05/02/2021 NÄHE #1 – berühren (touch)
05/07/ – 06/12/2021 NÄHE #2 – spüren (feel)
06/18/ – 08/28/2021 NÄHE #3 – verführen (seduce)

Book NÄHE, Kerber Verlag

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Book Release NÄHE 18 June, 2021

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The book of the exhibition series NÄHE will be published at the opening reception of NÄHE #3 – verführen on the 18th of June, 2021. You can order your book online here for gallery’s special price of 25 EUR! (offer valid until the end of the exhibition, 28th of August, delivery of the books after 18th of June, 2021)

NÄHE. berühren – spüren – verführen
Hardcover, 24x20cm, 128 pages, ca. 70 images
Ed. by Sabine Kampmann and Torsten Obrist, Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld/Berlin 2021.
With texts by Hannes Böhringer, Anja Herrmann, Sabine Kampmann, Joachim Landkammer, Torsten Obrist, Annette Pehnt, Frank Schmidt, Arthur Schopenhauer, Liane Schüller, Wolfgang Ullrich
Participating artists: Marcela Böhm, Andrea Božić & Julia Willms, John Coplans, EVA & ADELE, FLATZ, (e.)Twin Gabriel, Simone Haack, Franziska Nast, Annegret Soltau
Curator: Dr. Sabine Kampmann
Book design: smile. Visuelle Kommunikation, Essen
ISBN 978-3-7356-0780-5

NÄHE #2 – First View

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Video on our exhibition:

NÄHE #2 – spüren. Opening on INSTAGRAM LIVE Friday, 7 May 2021, 7 p.m.

NÄHE (Closeness) exhibition series
Artists: Marcela Böhm, Andrea Božić & Julia Willms, John Coplans, EVA & ADELE, FLATZ, (e.)Twin Gabriel, Simone Haack, Franziska Nast, Annegret Soltau

Schedule: March until August, 2021
03/19/ – 05/02/2021 NÄHE #1 – berühren (touch)
05/07/ – 06/12/2021 NÄHE #2 – spüren (feel)
06/18/ – 08/28/2021 NÄHE #3 – verführen (seduce)

Book NÄHE, Kerber Verlag

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NÄHE #2 – spüren

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How can you get close to yourself? Searching and longing to feel oneself frequently lead to trying to get under the skin. In the figurative and in the real sense. Tattoos and (self) harm pursue this goal, as do close-up photographs that come close to the surface of the body and show wrinkles, pimples and pores. The painting can turn the inside out through color and the line of the drawing creates a trace on the picture(skin) that let us feel – maybe even ourselves.

Opening Reception 7 May 2021, 12-22h (online 19h).

NÄHE (Closeness) exhibition series
Artists: Marcela Böhm, Andrea Božić & Julia Willms, John Coplans, EVA & ADELE, FLATZ, (e.)Twin Gabriel, Simone Haack, Franziska Nast, Annegret Soltau

Schedule: March until August, 2021
03/19/ – 05/02/2021 NÄHE #1 – berühren (touch)
05/07/ – 06/12/2021 NÄHE #2 – spüren (feel)
06/18/ – August, 2021 NÄHE #3 – verführen (seduce)

Book NÄHE (Kerber Verlag), release: 18 June 2021

NÄHE #1 – First View

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Video on our exhibition:

NÄHE #1 – berühren. Opening Friday, 19 March, 2021, 7 p.m.

NÄHE (Closeness) exhibition series
Artists: Marcela Böhm, Andrea Božić & Julia Willms, John Coplans, EVA & ADELE, FLATZ, (e.)Twin Gabriel, Simone Haack, Franziska Nast, Annegret Soltau

Schedule: March until August, 2021
03/19/ – 05/02/2021 NÄHE #1 – berühren (touch)
05/07/ – 06/12/2021 NÄHE #2 – spüren (feel)
06/18/ – 08/28/2021 NÄHE #3 – verführen (seduce)

Book NÄHE, Kerber Verlag

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Click & Meet – Termin buchen

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Die GALERIE OBRIST hat wieder GEÖFFNET mit Terminvereinbarung zu CLICK & MEET unter Einhaltung der gültigen Corona-Schutzverordnung. Terminbuchung per Telefon 0201 7266203, Email obrist@relaunch2024.galerie-obrist.de oder online HIER in unserem Buchungskalender.

„NÄHE#2 – spüren” läuft bis 12. Juni 2021!
Bitte wählen Sie erst ein Datum und eine Terminzeit aus, und teilen Sie uns optional Ihren Interessenschwerpunkt mit. Ihr Termin wird Ihnen per Email bestätigt.

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CLOSENESS #1 – touch

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The desire for closeness goes hand in hand with the need for touch. Touching means overcoming the spatial separation between the self and the other. The distance shrinks to a minimum and a positive feeling of familiarity is beginning. But the touch can also be uncomfortable, scary or overwhelming, dangerous or painful. The abandonment of contact and the desire for distance fulfill important functions for the individual and society – they keep the dark side of closeness under control.

NÄHE (Closeness) exhibition series
Artists: Marcela Böhm, Andrea Božić & Julia Willms, John Coplans, EVA & ADELE, FLATZ, (e.)Twin Gabriel, Simone Haack, Franziska Nast, Annegret Soltau

Schedule: March until August, 2021
03/19/ – 05/02/2021 NÄHE #1 – berühren (touch)
05/07/ – 06/12/2021 NÄHE #2 – spüren (feel)
06/18/ – August, 2021 NÄHE #3 – verführen (seduce)

Book NÄHE (german/ english), release: 18 June 2021

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CLOSENESS – exhibition project

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The current omnipresent demands for social distance lead to a lack of contact and physical closeness in our everyday life. As a result, works of art come into focus that seem to deal directly with one’s own body and that of the other. The (naked) body and its surface, the skin, are the preferred subject of this work. They understand the body boundary as a barrier but also as a contact zone between inside and outside. You go in search of closeness between friends and strangers, between family members, between couples, but also for closeness to yourself. The exhibited works of art show an awareness that the supposed directness of the body is always mediated. Video, photography and performance as well as drawing and painting, as artistic media, guide the way in which we create and experience closeness and distance. The exhibition series deals with these ambivalences.
Sabine Kampmann (Kurator)

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NÄHE (Closeness) exhibition series
Artists: Marcela Böhm, Andrea Božić & Julia Willms, John Coplans, EVA & ADELE, FLATZ, (e.)Twin Gabriel, Simone Haack, Franziska Nast, Annegret Soltau

Schedule: March until August, 2021
03/19/ – 05/02/2021 NÄHE #1 – berühren (touch)
05/07/ – 06/12/2021 NÄHE #2 – spüren (feel)
06/18/ – 08/28/2021 NÄHE #3 – verführen (seduce)

Book NÄHE, Kerber Verlag

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Marcela Böhm. Magical Reality.

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“My paintings include things, which contradict the motivic logic. This irritation is important for me, because life is like this. You always find disruptions in reality, magical or lyrical moments in everyday life, when you don’t understand anything and nothing fits together. But in the end everything joins to build a wonderful new scenery.”
Marcela Böhm

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CV Marcela Böhm

Marcela Böhm. Magical Reality.
3 October – 7 November, 2020
Opening: Friday, 2 Oktober 2020, 7 p.m.