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.
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
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.
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.
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CV Dirk Salz
DIRK SALZ. Resin.
24 October – 14 November, 2015
Marcela Böhm. City And People.
9 May to 13 June, 2015
Obrist Gallery shows new works by Buenos Ayres born artist Marcela Böhm. Urban pictures have become an important subject for her, and we have the pleasure to present several of these pictures for the first time in our exhibition.
Marcela Böhm. City And People.
9 May – 13 June, 2015
Opening Reception Friday, 8 May, 2015, 7 p.m.
At the same time to his upcoming exhibition at Museum Folkwang Obrist Gallery shows works by German photographer Detlef Orlopp (*1937). Orlopp was a student of Otto Steinert in Saarbruecken, and he moved with Steinert to Folkwangschule Essen in 1959. Nevertheless he is only partly a supporter of Steinert’s “Subjektive Fotografie”, because of its formative and experimental character. Orlopp has developed his very own style from nature, and dedicates his analogous black-and-white photography mainly to landscapes.
Detlef Orlopp. Photography.
14 March – 18 April, 2015
Opening Reception 13 March, 2015, 7 p.m.
“Each form has its own means of expression. With language I can be ironic, but through the pictorial language the world seems more serious to me.”, says well-known humorist Dieter Nuhr about the two great creative poles in his life. Beyond the stage world he devotes his time to photography. His work does not represent a collection of travel impressions , instead he offers an insight that moves away from the everyday life perspective and into foreign countries and cultures. However, in doing so, he never illustrates the obvious beauty or a romanticized version of an exotic place. Nuhrs photography depicts the foreign, the detail, offering an exemplification of the „big picture“. Furthermore, Nuhr explores architectural structures between the antagonism of inside and outside spaces. These depictions are often characterized by a striking surface structure that is marked by an almost haptic-seeming impasto on the relief-like façade, which developed over the years and thus have become cultural seismographs and authentic witnesses of time.
Dieter Nuhr – Foreign Terrain. Photography.
31 January – 11 March, 2015
Opening Reception 30 January, 2015, 18.30h
Here some views of our current exhibition with Simone Haack:
Simone Haack – Weiße Schatten (White Shadows).
22 March – 3 May, 2014
Opening Reception 21 March, 7 p.m.
PETER SCHLÖR: Black & Wide
12 Oct. – 9 Nov., 2013
Starting on 18 June Julia Willms will be participating in the exhibition “space affairs” at MUSA Vienna (until 6 Oct., 2012). MUSA is the name for the Contemporary Art Collection of the cultural departement of the City of Vienna.
As early as 9 June a performance titled “Portraits” by Julia Willms and Andrea Bozic will take place at the Centre Pompidou Metz. More information here!
