The gallery will be showing the new paintings, objects and installation by Essen based artist Jürgen Paas. In the focus of the exhibition are “TARGETS”, installations for wall and ground, made of coloured PVC straps and aluminum, which have arised in the recent two years. On view are also examples from different workgroups, developed since our last solo exhibition in 2015.
Jürgen Paas. Jukebox.
14 Oktober – 11 November 2017
Opening Reception Friday, 13 October, 2017, 7 p.m.
Views of our current exhibition with Marcela Böhm
Marcela Böhm. All The Happy Families.
9 September – 7 October, 2017
Opening Reception Friday, 8. September, 2017, 7 p.m.
The gallery will be showing current paintings by Marcela Böhm, and to a greater degree new drawings and graphic work, which underline the exceptional talent of the German-Argentinian artist of portraying human and especially familistic relationships.
CV Marcela Böhm
Marcela Böhm. All The Happy Families.
9 September – 7 October, 2017
Opening Reception Friday, 8. September, 2017, 7 p.m.
How is a room or a space constructed? What does it consist of? How does an object set itself apart? How does art interact with a location?
In the presented works we deliberately draw borders, crash them, pass trough them or change them.
Dirk Salz selected fellow artists who interact with the spatial qualities of an artwork as well as with the qualities of surfaces. It is about permeability and access, about the construction of layers and shapes.
In Christiane Grimm’s glass objects the impression of color and movement derives from the layering and compositions of the plates. The space which is constructed here receives dimensionality through light.
The architectural photographies by Oster+Koezle isolate dominant pieces of building structures and with that create their own compositions in which they re-shift the focus and corners, edges and shapes come to the foreground. You find a new orientation through the monochrome background.
Katja Pfeiffer works with similar intentions because her works, too, are about newly developed layers but much more intense and less concrete than with Oster+Koezle. She creates multimedial objects where materials connect, strongly grounded but still permeable.
Pieter Obels is directly engaged with the connection of room and object by spontaneously interacting with the material. Not planned, but improvised like a dance, he “moves” the steel and with that, also the viewer. With that, he creates layers in these “twisters” in whose form the process immediately becomes visible.
Alexander Voss’ topic is the “crack” itself: at exactly this point the conteact between spaces, between object and location, between reality and imagination and with that, the possibility to develop something. A plane becomes permeable.
In Thomas Deyle’s work the color almost melts into the space, but at the same time remains within the painting. This diffuse color field, like light, is also found in Salz’ resin paintings. A border within theses openly shimmering layers can only be detected after a while.
All are connected through the use of layers and spatial borders but you clearly see that there are a variety of possibilities that wonderfully add to each other in this exhibition.
POSITIONS 2. Invited by Dirk Salz.
THOMAS DEYLE | CHRISTIANE GRIMM | PIETER OBELS
OSTER+KOEZLE | KATJA PFEIFFER | ALEXANDER VOß
Opening Reception: Friday, 7 July, 2017, 7 p.m.
Exhibition: 8 July – 2 September, 2017
We will show current works by seven reknown artists. For the second time in our gallery the selection of the participants has been done by artist Dirk Salz who himself had several exhibitions in our gallery: The gallery program extends temporarily, new artistic positions are to be discovered.
POSITIONS 2. Invited by Dirk Salz.
THOMAS DEYLE | CHRISTIANE GRIMM | PIETER OBELS
OSTER+KOEZLE | KATJA PFEIFFER | ALEXANDER VOß
Opening Reception: Friday, 7 July, 2017, 7 p.m.
Exhibition: 8 July – 2 September, 2017
Pictures of our current exhibition “Hinterland”.
CV Simone Haack
Simone Haack. Hinterland.
13 May – 1 July, 2017
Opening Reception Friday, 12 May, 2017, 7 p.m.
In the exhibition “Hinterland“ we show paintings and drawings by Berlin based artist Simone Haack. A special, immediate tension arises when you take a closer look at the pictures. Ambivalent in their content and in part almost cheesy and absurd, the painting technique is nearly classical. Through the colors and brush strokes something creepy enters the confrontation between the figures and the viewer: a theatrical world which rejects a final interpretation. The motives between dream and vision still allow for a point of orientation through the concrete, realistic structure. The challenge that arises when the figures provoke a dialogue allows us to enter the “stage“ ourselves and start to discover the unfathomable. Although we believe that we can follow a narrative, it is the moment of irritation which makes the work of Simone Haack so intriguing. Intuitively, we want to engage more with those childlike, naive, absurdly independent figures, protect them even, or narrate their story further. At the same time, it becomes clear: those who enter the back country will not find all of the answers there.
The new paintings by Berlin artist Simone Haack open up paradoxical worlds. The soft painted portraits and the idyllic landscapes seem to derive from the field of classical beauty and harmony, but at a second glance the viewer recognizes the subtleness, the mistery and disconcertment in this strange pictorial world.
CV Simone Haack
Simone Haack. Hinterland.
13 May – 1 July, 2017
Opening Reception Friday, 12 May, 2017, 7 p.m.
On March 17 we opened the exhibition “Light Fall” by Peter Schlör. Here are some images of the evening.
Photographs in our current exhibition with Peter Schlör.
Peter Schlör. Light Fall.
March 18 – May 6, 2017.
“I am fascinated by images which are inexplicably deep and incomprehensible – also for me – and which throw the audience off balance. In reality, the view of things is more important than the actual things. When I’m working with the camera, it’s always the echo of inner images which guides my view of a certain sujet or a certain light situation” says Mannheim photographer Peter Schlör about his work. Since the 1980s he has worked in black and white and has developed an inimitable signature which has made him one of the extraordinary photo artists in Germany.
Peter Schlör. Light Fall.
March 18 – May 6, 2017.
Opening March 17, 2017, 7 p.m.
Jürgen Jansen. You’ve Come A Long Way, Baby. January 28 – March 11, 2017.
CV Jürgen Jansen
The first exhibition of the new year is at the same time the first exhibition of Jürgen Jansen at Galerie Obrist. Building on our work during “Positions“ in June 2016 the artist shows current works in his solo show “Wide Open“. Intuition and chance connect: Jansen uses oil and acrylic, resin and lacquer on various layers and with that creates images as well as abstraction in his pieces.
Jürgen Jansen. You’ve Come A Long Way, Baby. January 28 – March 11, 2017. Opening January 27, 2017, 7 p.m.
