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.
Fabian Weinecke – Painting / FESTLAND – “Hippies”, Album Release
Opening Friday, January 20, 2023, 7 p.m.
Duration of the exhibition: January 20 – February 11, 2023
Opening times: WED-FRI 12-18h, SAT 10-16h
Gallery Obrist is showing works by Fabian Weinecke and FESTLAND are playing songs from their new album “Hippies”.
The Düsseldorf artist Fabian Weinecke (1968-2012) left an extensive oeuvre that can now be rediscovered in this exhibition. In small-format paintings and drawings, Weinecke unfolds idylls and Arcadian landscapes, which are always broken up by inconsistent elements. He often uses the form of the raw picture carrier in his composition, be it wooden planks or torn paper, or he integrates modern devices such as tape recorders or electric guitars into the motifs of the mythologically seeming idyll. “Weinecke takes us into the enigmatic and quirky. Narratively speaking, his pictures run into the indefinite, they generate no meaning and do not explain any connections. But the absurdity of the situation is clear.” (From the text: “Idyll versus Irony” by Sven Drühl, 2011) Fabian Weinecke grew up in Düsseldorf, studied fine arts at the Düsseldorf State Art Academy from 1988 to 1990. He first lived in Essen, later in Berlin. Selection of exhibitions: 2010 “Night Works”, Märkisches Museum, Witten / 2008 “Lügen”, Künstlerverein Malkasten, Düsseldorf / 2007 “Phantasmagoria”, Galerie Claudia Simon, Düsseldorf / 2005 “Just Perfect”, Galerie Jacky Strenz, Frankfurt am Main / 2003 “Rage in Eden”, Gallery Jacky Strenz, Berlin
As the lyricist of the Essen pop band FESTLAND, Fabian Weinecke’s world of ideas is still present today, and the band’s new album was the occasion for the extensive exhibition and concert tour that begins at Obrist Gallery.
FESTLAND, Portrait: Cornelis Gollhardt
Byte.FM is presenting the FESTLAND tour and writes:
“Hippies” will be released on January 20, 2023 as a double album on the Hamburg label ZickZack Records. Although the band, which was founded in Essen in 2004, is nominally a trio, it still feels more like a quartet. Because in their minds they see the painter who died in 2012, illustrator and lyricist Fabian Weinecke as an “associated band member”. Because not only did he write most of the band’s lyrics and design their covers before his death, the bond remains after his death and Festland also conceptualizes Weinecke’s work on their fourth album , idealistic and artistically true. This is reflected in the setting of his lyrical texts on “Hippies” and the band continues to use his pictures for cover design. In the mid-nineties, the studied musicians Joachim Schaefer (Yoshino) and Dietmar Feldmann (DDFM) joined with Thomas Geier for Festland. Geier had not learned the percussion at the conservatory, but played from beginning to the middle of the 90s on the most important albums by “Die Regierung”. Geier’s percussion and Feldmann’s double bass groove form the mainstay of the song “Girls on the Kai”. A minimalist-jazzy, stoic support on which vocal harmonies are layered (…). This structure doesn’t even falter when dramatic strings pile up towards the end. Instead, it remains securely anchored in the no man’s land between pop and avant-garde.
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
The Trier sculptor Jáchym Fleig and the Berlin painter and draftsman Armin Hartenstein have already entered into a dialogue in several group exhibitions. Under the title “through” they are now showing a double exhibition in the gallery for the first time.
Fleig (*1970) and Hartenstein (*1968) were both born in tranquil Villingen-Schwenningen in the Black Forest. The affinity for rugged nature and landscape can be felt in the work of both artists. Jáchym Fleig deliberately contrasts the spatial architecture with his stalactite-like conglomerates of polyurethane foam, plaster and corrugated cardboard. Outgrowths characterize his works and something organic seems to be growing out of the artificial material.
Armin Hartenstein saws thin plywood to size and shape, applies his work with acrylic, wax, oil paint and other materials. In doing so, he depicts mountains, craters and geological structures in a painterly and object-like manner, playing with illusion and reality. There are no depictions of real landscapes in these pictures, but they are invented and fictional abstractions of reality.
durch – Jáchym Fleig / Armin Hartenstein
Opening Friday, September 16, 2022, 7 p.m.
Duration of the exhibition: September 17 – October 22, 2022
Opening times: WED-FRI 12-18h, SAT 10-16h
JÜRGEN JANSEN – JÜRGEN PAAS – DIRK SALZ – MARCELA BÖHM – DIETER NUHR – SIMONE HAACK – ARMIN HARTENSTEIN – ILKA HELMIG
The summer can come! For our COLLECTOR’S LOUNGE we have brought together recent and outstanding works by various artists of the gallery, including works with epoxy resin by JÜRGEN JANSEN, new JUKEBOXES and TARGETS by JÜRGEN PAAS, wall objects and drawings by DIRK SALZ, a new painting by MARCELA BÖHM, a large blue caldera by ARMIN HARTENSTEIN, drawings and collages by ILKA HELMIG and much more
Of course, you can also see an excerpt from the COLLECTOR’S LOUNGE program at ART KARLSRUHE from 7.-10. July at our booth H1/E12.
COLLECTOR’S LOUNGE
Opening Friday, June 24, 2022, 7 p.m.
Duration of the exhibition: June 25 – August 20, 2022
Opening hours: WED-FRI 12-18h, SAT 10-16h
Die Reihe PRÄSENZ findet nach den Ausstellungen mit Jürgen Jansen und Dirk Salz ihren Abschluss mit Jürgen Paas. Wir stellen neue Variationen der Werkreihe JUKEBOX vor, sowie eine neue TARGET-Installation.
Im Ursprung ist es die Malerei, die Jürgen Paas antreibt, aber keine mit Pinsel und Farbe, sondern eine Malerei mit industriell vorgefertigten Materialien, mit denen sich das Spiel der RAL-Farben entwickeln kann. Je nach Blickwinkel des Betrachters zeigt sich bei den JUKEBOXES eine sehr unterschiedliche Farbkomposition: während von der einen Seite eine kontrastreiche Struktur mit farbigen Streifen dominiert, offenbart sich von der anderen Seite eine fast monochrome Stimmung; während das Halbprofil von einer bunten Schwere dominiert wird, zeigt die Vorderansicht eine Leichtigkeit zarter Linien. “JUKEBOX hat keine definierbare Hauptansicht, ihr Wesen ist die Veränderung.” (Kathrin Reeckmann)
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
“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
“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 are looking forward to our second solo exhibition Jürgen Jansen at Obrist Gallery with a selectinon of current paintings. As the exhibition title announces: Jansen brings together the disparate in his work. This is true on the level of the used materials (oil and acrylic, resin and lacquer), but also on the level of content. The top image shows a photograph of the French city of Nantes, which he has processed to his typical manner of painting. The finished picture is now to be seen in our upcoming exhibition.
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
“Objektive sensory knowledge is not possible. The fact that works by Dirk Salz reflect this in the medium of painting turns out for the viewer, however, not to be the expression of despair over knowledge theory, but rather it awakens curiosity and a desire to discover and makes way for unexpected insights into the nature of gazing.” Peter Lodermeyer in the book “Dirk Salz. Painting The Absolute.”, Kerber Verlag 2017
14 April through 2 June, 2018
Opening Reception 13 April, 2018, 7 p.m.
On the occasion of the exhibition a new book on Dirk Salz has been published.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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FESTLAND, Portrait: Cornelis Gollhardt
