Last weekend obrist conTEMPORARY presented an exhibition with Jürgen Paas in a popup gallery at Avenue de l’Opera in Paris. The clear works of Paas were in exciting contrast to the construction site situation of the shop. – Many thanks to Claude Steinmetz and ecco shop. – We had lots of nice visitors! Here some impressions:
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We cordially invite you to our popup-gallery in Paris with the exhibition
JÜRGEN PAAS – SEJOUR
Friday, 7 February 2014, 6-10 p.m.
and Saturday, 8 February 2014, 11 a.m. – 7 p.m.
obrist conTEMPORARY, 15, Av. de l’Opera, 75001 Paris (Métro Pyramides)
Meet Jürgen Paas in a beautiful showroom very close to the Louvre and the Opera.
With friendly support by ECCO Shop
Here is the current article about our UNDER THE SKIN exhibition in the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung.
UNDER THE SKIN.
Marcela Böhm, Simone Haack, Anja Schreiber, Andreas Titzrath, Wiebke Bartsch
16 November, 2013 – 11 January, 2014
Currently Kunsthalle Münster is showing the exhibition “Die Liebe zu den Dingen” (Love for things), with the following positions: Wiebke Bartsch, Alexandra Bircken, Karla Black, Kristina Bræin, Sylvie Fleury, Andreas Gloël, Surasi Kusolwong, Al Masson, Roman Signer, Florian Slotawa, Erwin Wurm, Haegue Yang. On 3 und 7 of December a TV-report about the exhibition will be featured on WESTART (WDR-TV).
Die Liebe zu den Dingen.
23 November 2013 through 30 March 2014
Kunsthalle Münster
Hafenweg 28, 48155 Münster, Germany
Opening Hours: Tue – Fri 2pm – 7pm, Sat – Sun 12am – 6pm
Unsere Ausstellung setzt aktuelle Positionen der Malerei in Kontrast und Bezug. Die Haut als Gegenstand der Malerei bedeutete für die Künstler aller Epochen eine besondere Herausforderung. “Das Tiefste, das ist die Haut”, hat es Paul Valery formuliert, und im Kontext der Malerei ist mit diesem Paradoxon nicht nur der besondere Anspruch einer naturgetreuen Widergabe der Haut gemeint, sondern auch ihre Eigenschaft als Projektionsfläche verschiedenster Charakteristika der gemalten Person: Jugend und Alter, Lust und Leid, Härte und Verletzlichkeit, Anspannung und Gleichmut etc. – Die menschliche Oberfläche spricht stets von dem, was darunter liegt. Und jenseits der Abbildhaftigkeit spielt die Haut bei den vorgestellten Positionen unserer Ausstellung auch eine wichtige Rolle in der Reflexion der malerischen Mittel: Insofern ein Thema der Malerei, was eine nähere Betrachtung lohnt.
Beteiligte Künstler und Künstlerinnen: Simone Haack, Marcela Böhm, Anja Schreiber, Andreas Titzrath, Wiebke Bartsch.
Am gleichen Abend eröffnen wir auch die Aktion “WUNDERTÜTE – Die Kunst in Tüten”. Seit mehr als 10 Jahren füllen alljährlich 20 Künstler der Galerie jeweils 20 Tüten mit ihrer Kunst. Was sich in den namentlich gekennzeichneten Tüten befindet, ob Malerei, Skulptur, Fotografie, Objekt oder Multiple, das erfahren Sie erst beim Kauf. Zur Eröffnung am 15. November spricht die WDR-Moderatorin Martina Esser. In diesem Jahr wird die „Wundertüte“ mit einer Spendenaktion zugunsten des Förderturm- Ideen für Essener Kinder e.V. verknüpft: 2€ pro verkaufter Tüte gehen an den Förderturm.
Hier können Sie Wundertüten online bestellen…
UNTER DIE HAUT.
Positionen aktueller Malerei.
16. November 2013 – 11. Januar 2014
Eröffnung: Fr., 15. November 2013, 18h
WUNDERTÜTE 2013. “Wild at Heart”.
16. November bis 24. Dezember 2013
Eröffnung: Freitag, 15. November 2013, 19 Uhr
Peter Schlör – Light Shift
11/28/2013 – 01/12/2014
State Gallery Linz
Museumstraße 14, 4010 Linz, Austria
Opening Hours: Tue/ Wed/ Fri 9am – 6pm, Thu 9am – 9pm, Sat/ Sun 10am – 5pm
PETER SCHLÖR: Black & Wide
12 Oct. – 9 Nov., 2013
From October 11 to November 9 Obrist Gallery will exhibit selected works by renown Mannheim-based photo artist Peter Schlör. His recent works have a pictorial approach. The artist uses natural phenomena like the sea, clouds, mountains or forests, to achieve a painterly surface in his pictures: the different structures and consistencies assemble to abstract picture worlds.
In these works Peter Schlör detaches himself from the documental element of photography and devotes himself to contentual and aesthetic questions. For his photographs Peter Schlör awaits the moment when nature assembles in a perfect composition for his image structure. On the one hand it is the might of nature which he wants to capture; on the other hand these moments are chosen in a way that makes them resemble a painter’s brushwork. The very bulky, voluminous clouds in some of his pictures are precisely elaborated by the light. Cloud veils and misty haze, which are creating a poetic and often mythical impression, are applied specifically in contrast to the sharp outlines of forests and rocks. The deprivation of colors abstracts the motif from its reality and emphasizes the significance of the form language. Thus they are no longer reflections of nature but rather compositions of various surface impressions.
(Excerpts from a text by Dana Weschke)
PETER SCHLÖR: Black & Wide
12 Oct. – 9 Nov., 2013
Opening Reception Friday, 11 Oct., 2013, 7 p.m.
From Wednesday, 18 September, 2013, we will be showing a One-Artist-Show with lithographies by American artist and film maker David Lynch at “Berliner Liste – Fair for Contemporary Art”.
Booth# G0.01
Berliner Liste
Opening Reception Wednesday, Sep. 18, 15-22h
Opening Hours Sep. 19-22, 13-21h, Sunday until 19h
Location: KRAFTWERK Berlin
Köpenicker Straße 70, 10179 Berlin
In the WAZ Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung of 11 July, 2013, there is an article on our current exhibition with Julia Willms and Andrea Bozic.
Julia Willms: A World.
21-29 June, 2013
Galerie Obrist@EY5, Mutter Ey-Straße 5, 40213 Düsseldorf
29 June – 24 August, 2013
Galerie Obrist, Kahrstraße 59, 45128 Essen
Pictures of our current exhibition:
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Julia Willms: A World.
21-29 June, 2013
Galerie Obrist@EY5, Mutter Ey-Straße 5, 40213 Düsseldorf
29 June – 24 August, 2013
Galerie Obrist, Kahrstraße 59, 45128 Essen
Until 24 August, 2013, we show the exhibition A WORLD by Julia Willms and Andrea Bozic. In the center of the Essen exhibition is the work “The Avantgarde Never Gives Up”.
Julia Willms: A World.
21-29 June, 2013
Galerie Obrist@EY5, Mutter Ey-Straße 5, 40213 Düsseldorf
29 June – 24 August, 2013
Galerie Obrist, Kahrstraße 59, 45128 Essen
Until 29 June Julia Willms and Andrea Bozic will be showing their work “A WORLD” at Mutter Ey-Straße 5 in Düsseldorf, a manifest, which changes its shape, depending on the context of its placement. At EY5 it is an audiovisual space installation for a visitor and an empty gallery space with an outside view, and it is a signed book-multiple (The multiple you can order HERE). In the future it will take on other shapes: The manifest is an artwork and the artwork is a generator.
Upcoming Friday the exhibition will be inaugurated in Essen, with a wider cross section of the work of Julia Willms and Andrea Bozic.
Julia Willms: A World.
Until 29 June, 2013
Galerie Obrist@EY5, Mutter Ey-Straße 5, 40213 Düsseldorf
29 June – 24 August, 2013, Opening Reception: 28 June, 2013, 7 p.m.
Galerie Obrist, Kahrstraße 59, 45128 Essen
Next week Jürgen Paas will be presented on two Basel artfairs: the solo project with Galerie Peithner-Lichtenfels, Vienna and Scope Art Fair Basel with AB Contemporary, Zurich.
Utopia of the art space
In a two-parted exhibition media artist Julia Willms presents current works from 21. to 29. of June at EY5 in Düsseldorf and from the 29. of June to 24. of August at Obrist Gallery in Essen. Entitled „A World“ the exhibition shows works, which were created in collaboration with choreographer Andrea Bozic. In their exhibition Willms and Bozic esthetically put focus on the perception and reflection of art spaces. By exploring, modifying and alienating the reception of these spaces the two artists show ingeniously those layers of an artwork, which regularly are ignored by traditional art perception.
At first Julia Willms displays in Düsseldorf once again an analysis of the reality levels within the White Cube. “A World” is an audiovisual room installation, in which the artist confronts her audience with fragments of an utopian system. After specifying the individual parts of the utopia, the proposal is inverted. Therefore the audience is confronted with a solely auditive mediated utopia – a paradox situation, that irritates and at the same time stimulates.
In the following exhibition in Essen the focus is set on the video installation „Tensiontest” and further the audiovisual room installation “The Avantgarde Never Gives Up”. Considering the video installation, the observers sight is drawn into a fragile system of a rhythmical formation of bubbles. At the same time the tension and expectation increases due to the random popping of bubbles, that fill the dark space in which the sensitive grid appears to be floating in. With “The Avantgarde Never Gives Up” the artist modifies the artistic work process by altering the singularity of the originator and thereby offers a new perspective on the creation process.
“A World” is the fourth exhibition by Julia Willms in cooperation with Obrist Gallery. The artist from Wilmhelmshaven studied media art under Prof. Prof. Bernhard Leitner in Vienna. In 2009 she received the START scholarship for Video and media art of the BMUKK, Austria and displayed her artwork on international level, such as in Vienna, Brno and Leeds.
The exhibition is supported by:
Julia Willms: A World.
21 – 29 June, 2013, Opening Reception: 21 June, 2013, 6 p.m.
Galerie Obrist@EY5, Mutter Ey-Straße 5, 40213 Düsseldorf
29 June – 24 August, 2013, Opening Reception: 28 June, 2013, 7 p.m.
Galerie Obrist, Kahrstraße 59, 45128 Essen
In a two-part exhibition we show work by Amsterdam based artist Julia Willms:
At EY5 Dusseldorf we present the audio installation “A WORLD”, which has been conceptualized together with Andrea Bozic. – Again the gallery space is subject to a radical inquiry. On the occasion of the Opening Reception Sabine Maria Schmidt, curator at Kunsthalle Bremen, will be speaking.
In the center of the Essen exhibition are the video “Tensiontest” and the audiovisual space installation “The Avantgarde Never Gives Up”. In addition photographs by Julia Willms will be shown.
The exhibition is supported by:
Julia Willms: A World.
21 – 29 June, 2013, Opening Reception: 21 June, 2013, 6 p.m.
Galerie Obrist@EY5, Mutter Ey-Straße 5, 40213 Düsseldorf
29 June – 24 August, 2013, Opening Reception: 28 June, 2013, 7 p.m.
Galerie Obrist, Kahrstraße 59, 45128 Essen
In the WAZ Westdeutschen Allgemeinen Zeitung of 15 May, 2013, there is a review of our current exhibition with Wiebke Bartsch.
Wiebke Bartsch: I Could Barely Understand Myself.
4 May – 15 June, 2013
Opening Reception: Friday, 3 May, 2013, 7 p.m.
Wiebke Bartsch: I Could Barely Understand Myself.
4 May – 15 June, 2013
Opening Reception: Friday, 3 May, 2013, 7 p.m.
Munster based artist Wiebke Bartsch shows her new solo exhibition „I Could Barely Understand Myself“ at Galerie Obrist until 15 June. With her paintings, drawings and plastic works Bartsch is concerned with questions of identity, role models, physicalness and sexuality, which she comments laconically, often with a humorous punchline.
Vollständige Pressemitteilung auf OpenPR
Wiebke Bartsch: I Could Barely Understand Myself.
4 May – 15 June, 2013
Opening Reception: Friday, 3 May, 2013, 7 p.m.
After her 2011 exhibition we have the pleasure to show again new work by Wiebke Bartsch. This time the focus is on lightboxes and reverse glass paintings.
Wiebke Bartsch: I Could Barely Understand Myself.
4 May – 15 June, 2013
Opening Reception: Friday, 3 May, 2013, 7 p.m.
Until FRIDAY 26 April our current exhibition with David Lynch is to be seen (Wed, Thu, Fri 12-18h).
David Lynch: Transient.
Photographs.
16 March – 20 April, 2013
In the WAZ Westdeutschen Allgemeinen Zeitung of 22 January, 2013, there is a review of our current exhibition Transient by David Lynch, text by Martina Schürmann, photograph Kerstin Kokoska.
David Lynch: Transient.
Photographs.
16 March – 20 April, 2013
David Lynch: Transient.
Photographs.
16 March – 20 April, 2013
David Lynch became popular with movies such as “Blue Velvet“, “Wild at heart“ or the series “Twin Peaks“. What many don’t know about him: he began his career as a fine artist so that many movies contain processes derived from his education. Lynch (*1946, in Missoula, Montana) went to Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia from 1966-1970 and studied painting, sculpture and photography there. His first solo exhibition in Germany took place in 2009 at the Max-Ernst-Museum.
David Lynch: Transient.
Photographs.
16 March – 20 April, 2013
Opening Reception 15 March 2013, 7 p.m.
Jürgen Paas: Sputnik I. 19 Januar – 9 March, 2013.
Galerie Obrist, Essen.
Jürgen Paas: Sputnik II. 23 January – 9 February, 2013.
Galerie Obrist @ EY5 – Mutter-Ey-Straße 5, 40213 Düsseldorf
In the WAZ Westdeutschen Allgemeinen Zeitung of 22 January, 2013, there is a very good review of our current exhibition SPUTNIK by Jürgen Paas, text by Martina Schürmann, photograph Kerstin Kokoska.
Jürgen Paas: Sputnik II. 23. Januar – 9. Februar 2013.
Galerie Obrist @ EY5 – Mutter-Ey-Straße 5, 40213 DüsseldorfJürgen Paas: Sputnik I. 19 Januar – 9 March, 2013.
Galerie Obrist, Essen.
Jürgen Paas: Sputnik II. 23 January – 9 February, 2013.
Galerie Obrist @ EY5 – Mutter-Ey-Straße 5, 40213 Düsseldorf
Jürgen Paas: Sputnik I. 19 Januar – 2 March, 2013.
Opening Reception Friday, 18 January, 2013, 7 p.m.
Galerie Obrist, Essen.
Jürgen Paas: Sputnik II. 23 January – 2 February, 2013.
Opening Reception Friday, 25 January, 2013, 7 p.m.
Galerie Obrist @ EY5 – Mutter-Ey-Straße 5, 40213 Düsseldorf
German artist Jürgen Paas is known to a broader audience by numerous national and international exhibitions. Titled SPUTNIK he soon will be showing his new work in a two-part exhibition. At Obrist Gallery in Essen a cross-section of his current work is to be seen, and the new Dusseldorf branch of the gallery EY5 will be showing a single installation… –Complete Press Release on openPR (German)
Jürgen Paas: Sputnik I. 19 Januar – 2 March, 2013.
Opening Reception Friday, 18 January, 2013, 7 p.m.
Galerie Obrist, Essen.
Jürgen Paas: Sputnik II. 23 January – 2 February, 2013.
Opening Reception Friday, 25 January, 2013, 7 p.m.
Galerie Obrist @ EY5 – Mutter-Ey-Straße 5, 40213 Düsseldorf
It is a pleasure for us to show again a new solo exhibition with Jürgen Paas after 2011. His new monography POPPLANET has just been released, and we will initially present it in the framework of the exhibition. The exhibition has two parts: In our Essen gallery we start on 18 January with a cross section of Paas’ current work, and in our new Düsseldorf branch EY5 (ey-5.com) we will be showing a single installation starting on 25 January.
Jürgen Paas: Sputnik I. 19 Januar – 2 March, 2013. Galerie Obrist, Essen.
Jürgen Paas: Sputnik II. 23 January – 2 February, 2013. Galerie Obrist @ EY5 – Mutter-Ey-Straße 5, 40213 Düsseldorf
Opening Receptions:
Essen, Friday, 18 January, 2013, 7 p.m. (Galerie Obrist)
Düsseldorf, Friday, 25 January, 2013, 7 p.m. (EY5)
