Exhibition from October 21st – November 18, 2023
Opening Friday, October 20th, 7 p.m.
The gallery has been working successfully with the German painter and installation artist Jürgen Paas since 2010, and since then we have been showing his new works in solo exhibitions every two years. Our book “United Colors” was published for Jürgen Paas’s last exhibition, in which his work development over the last few years is presented. This year the chosen exhibition title is “NEON”, which on the one hand refers to the Latin term for the “new”, and on the other hand to the fluorescent colors that Paas uses in some of his recent works. This gives to the JUKEBOXES an additional dimension and stresses its radiance and sharp contrast. Paas also experiments with the formats and abandons the basic square shape. In the exhibition we are now showing a summary of the works from the last few years.
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Opening Friday, March 10, 2023, 7 p.m.
Duration of the exhibition: March 11 – April 22, 2023
Opening times: WED-FRI 12-18h, SAT 10-16h
The works of the Düsseldorf artist Jürgen Jansen are abstract, although here and there one would like to recognize objects, such as cell structures, floral forms or underwater worlds. Before studying fine arts, Jürgen Jansen studied biology with Per Kirkeby and Jan Dibbets, so he is also familiar with scientific methods. Science and research into the building blocks of the world have flowed into his artistic work. Accordingly, he describes his pictures as “experimental arrangements”. In his paintings, calculation and heurism are combined in such a mature way that the viewer has the feeling of being confronted with a self-sufficient cosmos of images.
Jansen’s paintings are characterized by a far-reaching reflection on the most diverse suggestions and impulses from the history of painting, in a spectrum from Monet’s Water Lilies to Ernst Wilhelm Nay and Jackson Pollock’s Drippings. Jansen succeeds in continuing to write these very different positions from art history with contemporary means. The result is his individual version of abstract painting, a universal panorama full of affirmations and contradictions.
With works by WIEBKE BARTSCH – MARCELA BÖHM – (E.) TWIN GABRIEL SIMONE HAACK – ANNEGRET SOLTAU
Even today, women artists who become mothers have to grapple with the question of how motherhood is presented to the outside world. Because it almost seems to be a flaw: making art and being a mother is unthinkable for many art practitioners. Career pauses and career breaks are literally expected and it is doubted whether art can still be created professionally under the conditions of a baby. As in every profession, it is about the question of the compatibility of work and motherhood and whether the art world is not subject to special peculiarities. In one way or another, each of the participating artists in this exhibition has experienced it.
The exhibition also poses the question of how one’s own child and family influence artistic work. Annegret Soltau was one of the first contemporary artists to reflect on her motherhood and her family in her own work, and that was a scandal in the male-dominated art world of the 1970s. Today, the insult is more subtle, with some female artists simply not talking about their motherhood. And why not: children hardly ever appear in the biographies of male colleagues. The exhibition is the prelude to a more in-depth examination of the topic, which will be followed by further events and a publication by 2024.
CHILD AS A BRUSH Making art, being a mother
With Wiebke Bartsch, Marcela Böhm, (E.) Twin Gabriel, Simone Haack, Annegret Soltau
Opening 28 October 2022, 7 p.m. Duration of the exhibition: 29.10.-26.11.22
(E.) Twin Gabriel: Child as a brush (Kooperatorka), 2007. Camera performance, digitized Super-8 film
Annegret Soltau: Erinnerung (Memory), 1980. Video work
Marcela Böhm: Strom, 2022. Oil on canvas, 150 x 90 cm
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
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)
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 – 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)
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)
“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
2000-2020 Twenty Years Galerie Obrist
Anniversary Exhibition
Selected Works from 20 Years
Work by
TILL AUGUSTIN
WIEBKE BARTSCH
MARCELA BÖHM
HELGE EMMANEEL
ILKA HELMIG
ROBIN HORSCH
JÜRGEN JANSEN
DIETER NUHR
JÜRGEN PAAS
DIRK SALZ
ANDREAS TITZRATH
SHINICHI TSUCHIYA
GÜNTHER UECKER
THOMAS ZIKA and more…
Opnening: Friday, 13 March, 2020, 7 p.m.
Live Set: Shinda Me (Polypunk)
DJ: OX3, Freiburg
Exhibition: 14 March – 18 April, 2020
Obrist Gallery is happy to announce the fourth solo exhibition by Dieter Nuhr. Most of the shown pictures were taken in 2019 and are now presented fo the first time. Since the recent exhibition two years ago Nuhr went on long-distance journeys for several times, and made his subtle discoveries in Georgia and Iran among others. In his photographs Nuhr opens windows to a graceful and strange world, which in the end remains inapproachable, and here he has developed a very personal and recognizable form of expression in his pictures.
Dieter Nuhr
New Photographs
25 January – 7 March, 2020
Opening Reception Saturday, 25 January 2020, 6 p.m.
“That we togehter with the painter are left between dream and nightmare establishes the quality of her painting. The familiar becomes alien and treacherous, the everyday turns unfamiliar and threatening. …Read this way, Marcela Böhm’s painting is in its beauty as well as its abrupt, occasionally brutal disruption a continuous battle for security, for pictures through which we can confirm our history and our self.” (Martin Engler).
We will show current works by five reknown artists. For the third time in our gallery the selection of the participants has been done by an artist of the gallery, this time Simone Haack, who herself had several exhibitions in our gallery: The gallery program extends temporarily, new artistic positions are to be discovered. Fig.: Miriam Vlaming. Shout Out Loud, 2017. 50x70cm
JUTTA HAECKEL
1972 born in Hanover, Germany
2000 – 2001 Goldsmiths College, London
1995 – 2002 Hochschule für Künste, Bremen
Jutta Haeckel lives and works in Düsseldorf
BEATE HÖING
1966 born in Coesfeld, Germany
2001 – 2005 studies at the Freie Kunstakademie Rhein-Ruhr in Essen and Krefeld
2005 “academy letter” (final academy certificate)
since 2010 lecturer at the Europäische Akademie für Bildende Kunst, Trier, Germany
Beate Höing lives and works in Coesfeld and Münster, Germany
PATRICIA LAMBERTUS
1970 born in Kempten/Allgäu, Germany
1996 – 2004 studies at the Hochschule für Künste Bremen, master student of Karin Kneffel
1992 – 1996 studies at the Freie Kunststudienstätte in Ottersberg, Germany
2000 – 2001 guest studies in Berlin at the class of Katharina Grosse
Patricia Lambertus lives and works in Berlin and Bremen
JUSTINE OTTO
Born in Zabrze, Poland
1997–2000 work at the Städtische Bühnen (communal theater) Frankfurt am Main, section scenery and crafts
1996–2003 studies at the Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste – Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, with Professor Peter Angermann and Professor Michael Krebber
2003 master student
Justine Otto lives and works in Hamburg
MIRIAM VLAMING
1971 born in Düsseldorf
1994-1999 studies in painting and graphics and diploma with distinction at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig
1999–2001 guest studies in painting at the class of Prof. Jan Dibbets Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
master class and master student of Prof. Arno Rink, Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig
Miriam Vlaming lives and works in Berlin
Obrist Gallery is happy to announce the third solo exhibition by Dieter Nuhr. Since the recent exhibition two years ago Nuhr went on long-distance journeys for several times, and made his subtle discoveries in Moldavia, Georgia and Mexico among others, like the East German province. In big sized photographs Nuhr opens windows to a graceful and strange world, which in the end remains inapproachable, and here he has developed a very personal and recognizable form of expression in his pictures.
An exhibition booklet has been published.
In cooperation with Museum Villa Stahmer, Georgsmarienhütte
Dieter Nuhr has been supporting SOS Children´s Villages for many years. Some of his artwork was created during his visits in SOS Children´s Villages. In his current exhibition, among others, artwork from Mexico and Georgia will be displayed. You, as well, can support SOS Children´s Villages with your donations:
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.
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