Trailer for our current exhibition.
CV Till Augustin
Till Augustin. 17,3t. October 8 – November 12, 2016. opening Friday, October 7, 2016, 7 p.m.
Till Augustin. 17,3t.
After the annealing factory near his studio was taken down, Till Augustin is now again able to adequately anneal his steel ropes. And at the beginning of the year new steel ropes were delivered: 17.3t. We will show the first works that were made from this new material as well as selected new glass works.
CV Till Augustin
Till Augustin. 17,3t. October 8 – November 12, 2016. opening Friday, October 7, 2016, 7 p.m.
cutout
The shape of an “empty frame“ is spread out across the middle of the gallery. Through Armin Hartenstein’s “cutout“ a wide landscape in the form of an earthwork-like red-ocher framework comes into view. Now, a discourse between associative seeing (and thinking) about the morphology of landscape and images develops in the current exhibition in our gallery. The left part of the space is dominated by three large-scale works: “cutout“, “TQ“ and “Tondo“. On the right spans a sequence of image objects, reliefs, paintings, photography and drawings. Readable from left as well as right mainly current works connect with older ones to become an open “narrative form“. (Leit)-Motifs are, among others, the construction, structure and emergence of new image spaces from abstract surfaces as well as the grain of wood in its actual and figurative form.
CV Armin Hartenstein
Armin Hartenstein. cutout.
3 September – 1 October, 2016
Armin Hartenstein. cutout.
In September the gallery will show new image objects and installations by Armin Hartenstein. In addition to pictorial objects reminiscent of landscape painting we will show current architectural-related works in which surface and space, depth and emptiness build an exciting balance. The work “Cutout“, a large image surface which one can pass through, was specifically developed for our gallery space.
On 29 September at 7p.m. we will host an artist talk with Prof. Dr. Georg Imdahl.
CV Armin Hartenstein
Armin Hartenstein. cutout.
3 September – 1 October, 2016
Opening Reception Friday 2 September, 2016, 7 p.m.
Invited by…
Review of our current exhibition in the WAZ – Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung on 28 June, 2016 (by Martina Schürmann, photograph Stefan Arend).
POSITIONS. Invited by Jürgen Paas.
ANKE EILERGERHARD | OTTMAR HÖRL | JÜRGEN JANSEN | MATTHIAS KANTER | NORBERT THOMAS
exhibition: June 25 – August 27, 2016
Positions – Participating Artists
With POSITIONS our gallery starts a new series in which one of our artists will sporadically curate an exhibition with external artists of his/her choice. The gallery program is temporarily extended. Artists and the gallery use the existing networks to create new cooperations of their own dynamic since the view from the outside intensifies the view to the inside. The series begins with Jürgen Paas who invited five renown painters and sculptors from very different positions:
Anke Eilergerhard, born in 1963, has been working as an artist since 1986; she lives and works in Berlin. Her works are part of museum exhibitions and private collections in Germany, Liechtenstein, the Netherlands, Switzerland and the US. Her most important material is silicone which she places on the surface of her sculptures like a second skin reminiscient of countless tentacles. The sculptures are abstract conglomerates which remind the viewer of vases, figures or even stacked cakes, often in a precarious balance. The use of bright colors intensifies the impression of a sweet temptation or a cake topping but at the same time the sculptures seem defensive because of their spiky surface.
Ottmar Hörl, born in 1950, has become known for his multi-dimensional, temporary installations in which he uses everyday objects and figures that he paints with monochrome colors, then multiplied by a thousand and afterwards serially aligned. “With seriality he takes away the elitist element of art. He does not want to build monuments but sustainable communicative occasions. His art is of an immediate presence, becomes event and experience, and it inspires and connects people,“ says curator Carsten D. Siebert. Ottar Hörl has held a professorship at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Nürnberg since 1998 and has been its president since 2002. Hurl lives and works in Frankfurt am Main, Nürnberg and Weinheim.
Jürgen Jansen, born in 1960, studied at the Kunstakademien, first in Karlsruhe, then in Düsseldorf (among others under Per Kirkeby) where he became a “Meisterschüler“ in 1992 and where he lives and works until today. His work has been exhibited in countless solo and group shows in Europe and the US. The material character of his paintings arises from the dialogue between intuition and chance: Jansen uses the chemical reactions of oil and acrylic, resin and lacquer on the surface to direct the painting – a state between reflection and abstraction. Layer by layer, he reaches an in-between-state where he questions the existing and invites new thoughts, up to 30 times without one piece. The viewer is part of this process of becoming since all layers are – literally and figuratively – transparent.
Matthias Kanter often takes classic Renaissance paintings – their composition and colors – and changes them so that objects within the image become abstract, gestural brush strokes. The original motive is still distantly recognizable in its color, shape and composition. The brush strokes now become objects themselves in a hybrid form between external and internal reference(s). Kanter’s works balance between autonomy and associative references to an external reality since they both offer a sensual and intuitive experience. Matthias Kanter was born in Dessau in 1963, studied at the HfBK Dresden and became a “Meisterschüler“ of Max Uhlig. Kanter lives and works in Friedrichshagen and Schwerin.
Norbert Thomas born in 1947, lives and works in Essen where some of his large installations are present in inner and outer spaces. Since 1991 Norbert Thomas has been professor for “Grundlagen der künstlerischen Gestaltung“ at Bergische Universität Wuppertal and he has exhibited his works in numerous galleries and museums all over Europe. His work is in the tradition of non-concrete, constructivist tendencies which have their origins in the Dutch De Stiijl movement, the group around Theo van Doesburg. With a strict conceptual approach Thomas creates works that circle around the contrasts like light and shadow, system and chance, order and chaos, progression and deconstruction. Despite their structure and straightness his works apply to the sensual character as well which can be reached artistically through conceptual thought.
POSITIONS. Invited by Jürgen Paas.
ANKE EILERGERHARD | OTTMAR HÖRL | JÜRGEN JANSEN | MATTHIAS KANTER | NORBERT THOMAS
opening: Friday, June 24, 2016, 7 p.m.
exhibition: June 25 – August 27, 2016
Positions.
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We will show current works by five reknown artists. For the first time in our gallery the selection of the participants has been done by artist Jürgen Paas who himself had several exhibitions in our gallery: The gallery program extends temporarily, new artistic positions are to be discovered.
POSITIONS. Invited by Jürgen Paas.
ANKE EILERGERHARD | OTTMAR HÖRL | JÜRGEN JANSEN | MATTHIAS KANTER | NORBERT THOMAS
Opening Reception: Friday, 24 June, 2016, 7 p.m.
Exhibition: 25 June – 27 August, 2016
Shinichi Tsuchiya. Fukushima.
Gallery Obrist is happy to show new photoworks by Shinichi Tsuchiya from recent years. The Japanese photo artist – who has been called to be a Master Student of Thomas Ruff in 2006 and who has received the Akademiebrief of the Düsseldorfer Kunstakademie in 2008 – has been living in Japan again since 2011: In the year of the nuclear desaster he returned to his homeland. An incidence which shocked the whole world had its deepest impact especially on Japan. And since then some new aspects are to be found in the work of Tsuchiya which we want to introduce in our exhibition. Simultaneously to his solo show at the Mito Arts Foundation at Ibaraki, Japan, we present Tsuchiya’s first solo exhibition in Europe after this time.
Shinichi Tsuchiya
Fukushima. New Photoworks.
30 April – 18 June, 2016
Opening Reception Friday, 29 April, 2016, 7 p.m.
Exhibition Dieter Nuhr
Gallery Obrist is happy to announce the second solo exhibition by Dieter Nuhr, called “Foreign Terrain“.
While the artist is known to many as a comedian and, with that, for his use of words, the medium of photography allows for a different form of expression. He studied fine arts at the former Folkwang School in Essen and has ever since been invested in photography alongside his stage performances; he understands himself as a multimedia artist.
The works in “Foreign Terrain II“ show landscape motifs from various areas of the world but through the selected frame one is unable to geographically localize the scenes. In his photographs Nuhr is interested in places and moments where movement and standstill overlap: a glacier which is covered with linens to prevent it from melting or a cloud formation almost completely covering a mountain area. Not a specific location is relevant to the artist but instead the form and structure of a certain view.
Dieter Nuhr prints his motifs on canvas which inevitably results in a comparison with painting: the matte surface does not show a reflection und therefore annuls the boundary between viewer and image. The contours seem softer and bring the viewer closer in contact with the atmospheric nature. The viewer becomes the photographer’s accomplice both in observing and in experiencing.
With that Dieter Nuhr takes part in the ongoing photographic discourse about individual observation, perception and documentation. The choice of the frame is both an autonomous as well as an influenced decision in dialogue with the landscape that he visits.
An exhibition booklet has been published.
>Dieter Nuhr
Foreign Terrain II
27 February – 23 April, 2016
Opening Reception 26 February, 2016, 6.30 p.m.
Opening Reception With Dieter Nuhr
One year after our first exhibition with Dieter Nuhr we now show the announced second part of “Foreign Terrain”. While in 2015 urban motives were the focus of the exhibition, we now present landscapes.
Dieter Nuhr
Foreign Terrain II
27 February – 23 April, 2016
Opening Reception 26 February, 2016, 6.30 p.m.
New Exhibition with Dieter Nuhr
One year after our first exhibition with Dieter Nuhr we will soon show the announced second part of “Foreign Terrain”. While in 2015 urban motives were the focus of the exhibition, we will now present landscapes.
Dieter Nuhr
Foreign Terrain II
27 February – 23 April, 2016
Opneing Reception 26 February, 2016, 6.30 p.m.
Opening Reception FAVOURITES and MENTAL SPACE
On 22 January we had the opening reception of our exhibition FAVOURITES with selected new works by Marcela Böhm, Simone Haack, Armin Hartenstein, Bodo Korsig, Jürgen Paas and Dirk Salz. The same evening there was the opening of the mental space gallery in our basement, a young space for contemporary art by gallery owner Roman Zheleznyak. Mntal space shows “why not” by Marije Vermeulen and Guido Nieuwendijk. Welcome to Kahrstraße 59!
FAVOURITES.
Marcela Böhm, Simone Haack, Armin Hartenstein, Bodo Korsig, Jürgen Paas, Dirk Salz
23 January – 20 February, 2016
Favourites
In our first exhibition this year we will show a selection of painting positions of the gallery, including Jürgen Paas’ concrete color archives and figurative paintings by Simone Haack. All participating artists primarily show new and recent works.
Marcela Böhm, Simone Haack, Armin Hartenstein, Bodo Korsig, Jürgen Paas, Dirk Salz
FAVORITES. January 23 – February 20, 2016
opening Friday January 22, 2016, 7 p.m.