Armin Hartenstein: MONTAN


Der Düsseldorfer Künstler Armin Hartenstein zeigt in der Mutter Ey-Straße 5 die Installation MONTAN. Im Zentrum erhebt sich ein aus Flächen zusammengesetztes Raumgebilde. Die zur Schaufensterseite des Galerieraumes hin geöffnete Form ist einerseits eine koloristische Setzung, andererseits kann sie als eine Art Architektur oder Landschaftsformation verstanden werden. Wie Satelliten ziehen um diese zentrale Erhebung herum mehrere Bildobjekte. Kleine verdichtete kosmische Landschaften -auch diese malerisch und dinghaft gleichermassen.
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Dusseldorf based artist Armin Hartenstein presents the installation MONTAN at Mutter Ey-Straße 5.
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Armin Hartenstein: Montan.
12 – 21 December, 2013
Opening Reception: Thursday, 12 December, 2013, 7 p.m.
Galerie Obrist @ EY5
Mutter Ey-Straße 5, 40213 Düsseldorf

Opening Reception Hanakam and Schuller


Until the 3rd of August, we will be showing the current art project “Interface” by Markus Hanakam and Roswitha Schuller in Dusseldorf. At yesterday’s opening reception Prof. Dr. Ferdinand Ullrich, director of the Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, conducted a conversation with the Vienna-based artist couple. Aside from that the artists gave an introduction into their work by use of a beamer projection. In spite of the oppressive heat it was a very illuminating talk, and the visitors stuck to it until the end.

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Hanakam & Schuller: Interface.
25 July – 3 August, 2013
Galerie Obrist @ EY5
Mutter Ey-Straße 5, 40213 Düsseldorf

Hanakam and Schuller in Düsseldorf


From the 25th of July to the 3rd of August, we will show the current art project “Interface” by Markus Hanakam and Roswitha Schuller in Dusseldorf. The opening on the 25th of July 2013 includes a discussion with Hanakam & Schuller lead by Prof. Dr. Ferdinand Ullrich, as well as a short presentation by the Viennese artist couple.
Markus Hanakam and Roswitha Schuller’s current work “Interface” (2013) represents an object based on drawing in a series of graphic works, which were created as set-elements of their short films. Comparable to other art works by the couple “Interface” again allows its audience to explore the connection between an apparatus and the graphical interface and operate or move individual elements. The art work consists of a ten meter long drawing trail on a roll, a wall construction and a table segment, which enables the participant to create via “scanning” a cutout version of the drawing. Comparable to other works by Hanakam & Schuller, they incorporate again in the case of “interface” small-scale plastic objects, which serve as placeholders or game tokens for the viewer as well as for future performers.

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Hanakam & Schuller: Interface.
25 July – 3 August, 2013
Opening Reception: 25 July, 2013, 18h
Galerie Obrist @ EY5
Mutter Ey-Straße 5, 40213 Düsseldorf

Martin Schwenk in Schwaebisch Gmuend


From 14 June Martin Schwenk will be showing a solo exhibition at Museum Galerie im Prediger, Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany.

Martin Schwenk. Affentellerschraubenblockbaumbuster.
14 June – 1 September, 2013
Opening Reception Friday 14 June, 2013, 7 p.m.
Galerie im Prediger, Johannisplatz 3, D-73525 Schwäbisch Gmünd
www.museum-galerie-fabrik.de

Martin Schwenk in Dusseldorf

After our 2012 solo exhibition “Commander Mulroy” we now give a further insight into the work of Martin Schwenk in Düsseldorf. The clear and well-proportional space of the gallery at Mutter-Ey-Straße 5 will be a “walk-in display cabinet” for his few precise positings.
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Martin Schwenk
10-21 April, 2013
Opening Reception: 12 April, 19 Uhr
Galerie Obrist@EY5
Mutter-Ey-Str. 5, 40213 Düsseldorf

Martin Schwenk in the “Künstlerlexikon”


“Künstler – Kritisches Lexikon der Gegenwartskunst” is a periodically published lexikon, which presents contemporary artists. Volume 100 has just been released, and it is dedicated to the Dusseldorf painter and sulptor Martin Schwenk, who we presented with a solo exhibition in spring 2012, and who had a simultaneous exhibition at Museum Haus Lange in Krefeld.
Text by Annette Kuhn. 16 pages, DinA4, Verlag Der Kunsthandel, Neu-Isenburg 2012.
Here you can order the volume…

Marcela Böhm – Open Water

Marcela Böhm- Das Ende des Spiels
Starting on 28 September German-Argentinian painter Marcela Böhm shows her new work at Obrist Gallery. Titled OPEN WATER paintings and drawings are to be seen, which deal with the theme “humans and water”. In her very own handwriting Böhm creates new and unsighted pictures about this existential relation.
A catalogue has been published.

Press Release (German)
CV Marcela Böhm

Marcela Böhm: Open Water.
Sep. 29- Nov. 3, 2012
Opening Reception: Friday, Sep. 28, 2012, 7 p.m.

Hanakam & Schuller: CATALOGUE, part 3


CATALOGUE 7/9/2012 -22/9/2012 shows KOKOMO, series of scanned objects, arranged together in an island-like setting. KOKOMO entitled a 1988 song by the Beach Boys, in which they describe Kokomo as an utopian island paradise located in the Bahamas. The artists play with this narrative structure of an imaginary geographic spot and turn it into -on a first sight abstract – images, that showcase various details of the scanning process of original three-dimensional objects at a closer look.

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Hanakam Schuller: CATALOGUE.
CATALOGUE 24/08/2012-29/08/2012
CATALOGUE 31/08/2012-05/08/2012
CATALOGUE 07/09/2012-22/09/2012
Opening Receptions: Aug 24, Aug. 31, Sep. 07, 7 p.m.

Hanakam & Schuller: CATALOGUE, part 2

In the focus of the second part of the exhibition series CATALOGUE by Markus Hanakam and Roswitha Schüller is the short film INVASION, which lately was awarded as “Jury Selection Work” at Japan Media Arts Festival 2012. Here is the trailer:

There is a whole body of theoretical reflection about apparatus in cinema theory that could also be passed on photography. INVASION focusses on this wondrous and magical, but also ideological machine that produces a narration about reality as well as it is narration itself.
The film will show an partly absurd, partly reconstructed equipment, whose design is following descriptions and woodcuts of the compendium “The History and Practice of the Art of Photography; or the Production of Pictures through the Agency of Light” (1849).
The scene shows various movements and settings in handling the apparatus. A male Voice Over accompanies the scene. The atmosphere is similar to the genre of Science Fiction, where the machine becomes a crucial part of the story; it turns into a character among others.

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Hanakam Schuller: CATALOGUE.
CATALOGUE 24/08/2012-29/08/2012
CATALOGUE 31/08/2012-05/08/2012
CATALOGUE 07/09/2012-22/09/2012
Opening Receptions: Aug 24, Aug. 31, Sep. 07, 7 p.m.

Hanakam & Schuller: CATALOGUE, part 1


Yesterday was the opening reception of the first part of the exhibition CATALOGUE by Markus Hanakam and Roswitha Schuller. Main work of this exhibition is the installation “White Cube with Sprinkles”, more than the half of the gallery floor is covered with sugar sprinkles. In addition to it two video works, one large-size drawing and two sculptures are to be seen, which all belong to the theme “TOPPINGS”. The Tartes by Hanakam & Schuller result from the artist couple’s ongoing occupation with dessert structures and toppings which they employ and explore as sculptural devices, translating the ranges of forms and color of these toppings into video animation, computer applications, objects, and occasional furniture.

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Hanakam Schuller: CATALOGUE.
CATALOGUE 24/08/2012-29/08/2012
CATALOGUE 31/08/2012-05/08/2012
CATALOGUE 07/09/2012-22/09/2012
Opening Receptions: Aug 24, Aug. 31, Sep. 07, 7 p.m.

CATALOGUE by Hanakam and Schuller


Starting on 24 August the Vienna based artist couple Hanakam & Schuller show a spectrum of their work in our gallery, titled CATALOGUE. This will not only be one, but three exhibitions, which will occur one after another, week by week. Each part introduces another work category and group of themes: Accordingly the gallery appears on three opening receptions in different shape.
CATALOGUE 24/08/2012-29/08/2012
CATALOGUE 31/08/2012-05/08/2012
CATALOGUE 07/09/2012-22/09/2012

CV Hanakam Schuller

Hanakam Schuller: Catalogue.
Aug. 08.- Sep. 22, 2012.
Opening Receptions: Aug 24, Aug. 31, Sep. 07, 7 p.m.

Armin Hartenstein – Havary

Following our recent Martin Schwenk exhibition, with Armin Hartenstein we present another highly topical sculptor position, despite the fact, that Hartenstein assesses himself as a painter. But this description falls too short: The large-format works take a look at a rock formation in a very sculpural way. The rock formation is separated from its environment, the outline of the work is identical to the shape of the rock formation, the picture carrier is three-dimensional in different directions. And even the manner of painting gives the illusion of three-dimensionality.
In his series “Mes Amis de Emmanuel Bove” he deforms small found fragments of plywood, cardboard, linoleum, plastic and other materials, breaks pieces off, adds others. At the same times he paints and draws landscapes onto the workpiece, which is accomplished in an open dialogue between painting and sculptoring. In this middle position Armin Hartenstein permanently questions the essentials of both art forms.

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Armin Hartenstein. Havary.
26 May to 30 June, 2012

Opening Reception Armin Hartenstein on Friday

We cordially invite you to our upcoming Opening Reception with ARMIN HARTENSTEIN, Friday, 25 May, 2012, 7 p.m., introduction by Bernd Ruzicska. Titled HAVARY we show new works by the Dusseldorf based artist.
Our exhibition contains large-size reliefs, which seem to be pictorial models of fictional landscapes, and works from the small-sized series “Mes Amis de Emmanuel Bove”.

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Armin Hartenstein. Havary.
26 May to 30 June, 2012
Opening Reception, Friday, 25 May, 7 p.m.

Book on Martin Schwenk just arrived

The book on Martin Schwenk published by Kerber is now available in the gallery. – On 120 pages the “cabinet of wonder” of Martin Schwenk has been opened with numerous large-format illustrations, supported by well-informed and worth reading articles on his work:
Martin Schwenk. Home Grown. 18 March to 18 August 2012, Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld.
Edited by Martin Hentschel (Preface), authors Annelie Pohlen and Heinz-Norbert Jocks.
Hardcover, bound, 120 pages, 81 colored and 1 s/w illustrations, 23,00 × 28,00 cm, German/ English,
ISBN: 978-3-86678-692-9, price: 34,00 €

Martin Schwenk: “Commander Mulroy”.
24 March to 19 May, 2012 (prolonged)

Hanakam Schuller in August

Starting in August the gallery presents for the first time an exhibition of the Vienna based artist couple Markus Hanakam and Roswitha Schuller. Hanakam Schuller have studied in the class of Erwin Wurm, and already had shows all over the world. Lately their short film INVASION (2010) was awarded as “Jury Selection Work” at Japan Media Arts Festival 2012. Here is the trailer:

CV Hanakam Schuller
Hanakam Schuller: Catalogue.
Aug. 08.- Sep. 22, 2012.
Opening Receptions: Aug 24, Aug. 31, Sep. 07, 7 p.m.

Openings Martin Schwenk

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Upcoming Sunday, 18 March, 2012, 11.30 a.m. the Museum Haus Lange in Krefeld will inaugurate the exhibition: MARTIN SCHWENK – HOME GROWN.
In our gallery the solo exhibition with Martin Schwenk starts on Freitag, 23 March, 7 p.m., titled “COMMANDER MULROY”.

Martin Schwenk: “Commander Mulroy”.
24 March to 12 May, 2012
Opening Reception on Friday, 23 March, 7 p.m.

At Art Karlsruhe

Here some impressions of Obrist Gallery’s booth at Art Karlsruhe:

Gesamtansicht mit Bernard Schultze, Jürgen Paas, Günther Uecker, Peter Schlör, Dieter Kränzlein und Robin Horsch
Gesamtansicht mit Bernard Schultze, Jürgen Paas, Günther Uecker, Peter Schlör, Dieter Kränzlein und Robin Horsch

Marcela Böhm
Marcela Böhm

Seitenansicht mit Arbeiten von Dieter Kränzlein, Johannes Hüppi, Jürgen Paas und Robin Horsch
Seitenansicht mit Arbeiten von Dieter Kränzlein, Johannes Hüppi, Jürgen Paas und Robin Horsch

Arbeiten von Bernard Schultze und Dieter Kränzlein
Arbeiten von Bernard Schultze und Dieter Kränzlein

Art Karlsruhe 2012, Stand H3/K19
Until Sunday, 11 March
8-10 March 12-8 p.m.
11 March 11-7 p.m.
Messe Karlsruhe, Messeallee 1, 76287 Rheinstetten, Germany

Art Karlsruhe 7-11 March, 2012

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We cordially invite you to visit us at Art Karlsruhe in the forthcoming week. Again you will find us at booth H3/K19. We present work by: JÜRGEN PAAS (One Artist Show), MARCELA BÖHM, ROBIN HORSCH, JOHANNES HÜPPI, DIETER KRÄNZLEIN, BERNARD SCHULTZE, GÜNTHER UECKER a.m.

Art Karlsruhe 2012, Stand H3/K19
7 March Vernissage and Preview, 2-9 p.m.
8-10 March 12-8 p.m.
11 March 11-7 p.m.
Messe Karlsruhe, Messeallee 1, 76287 Rheinstetten, Germany