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
Collector`s Lounge
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
Interview with Simone Haack
In the ZEIT / Kunst und Auktionen from January 14th, 2022 there is a conversation with the Berlin artist Simone Haack about her current work:
NÄHE #3 – First View
Video on our exhibition:
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)
Book NÄHE, Kerber Verlag
http://relaunch2024.galerie-obrist.de/art2buy/naehe-beruehren-spueren-verfuehren/
NÄHE #2 – First View
Video on our exhibition:
NÄHE #2 – spüren. Opening on INSTAGRAM LIVE Friday, 7 May 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)
Book NÄHE, Kerber Verlag
http://relaunch2024.galerie-obrist.de/art2buy/naehe-beruehren-spueren-verfuehren/
CLOSENESS – exhibition project
The current omnipresent demands for social distance lead to a lack of contact and physical closeness in our everyday life. As a result, works of art come into focus that seem to deal directly with one’s own body and that of the other. The (naked) body and its surface, the skin, are the preferred subject of this work. They understand the body boundary as a barrier but also as a contact zone between inside and outside. You go in search of closeness between friends and strangers, between family members, between couples, but also for closeness to yourself. The exhibited works of art show an awareness that the supposed directness of the body is always mediated. Video, photography and performance as well as drawing and painting, as artistic media, guide the way in which we create and experience closeness and distance. The exhibition series deals with these ambivalences.
Sabine Kampmann (Kurator)
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)
Book NÄHE, Kerber Verlag
http://relaunch2024.galerie-obrist.de/art2buy/naehe-beruehren-spueren-verfuehren/
Positions 3
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
POSITIONS 3. Invited by Simone Haack.
JUTTA HAECKEL | BEATE HÖING | PATRICIA LAMBERTUS
JUSTINE OTTO | MIRIAM VLAMING
Opening Reception: Friday, 8 June, 2018, 7 p.m.
Exhibition: 9 June – 25 August, 2018
| New Work by Simone Haack
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.
Simone Haack. Hinterland.
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.
Art Karlsruhe 2017
Die 14. Ausgabe der art KARLSRUHE präsentiert über 200 internationale Galerien. Seit Anfang an ist die Galerie Obrist bereits auf dieser Messe vertreten. In diesem Jahr finden Sie uns wie zuvor in der Halle 2, Stand E12. Wir zeigen dort: Neue Arbeiten von ARMIN HARTENSTEIN – JÜRGEN JANSEN – JÜRGEN PAAS – DIRK SALZ, Fotografie von DIETER NUHR und PETER SCHLÖR, Papierarbeiten von MARCELA BÖHM und SIMONE HAACK, Bildhauerei von TILL AUGUSTIN – ANKE EILERGERHARD – PI LEDERGERBER. Wir freuen uns auf Ihren Besuch an unserem Stand!
Art Karlsruhe, 16.-19. Februar 2017
Preview: Mittwoch, 15. Februar 15-18 Uhr
Messezeiten: DO-SA 12-20 Uhr, SO 11-19 Uhr
Messe Karlsruhe, Messeallee 1
76287 Rheinstetten
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.
Artists And News
Shinichi Tsuchiya
“Criterium 92” (solo show)
Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, Japan
20 Feb – 15 May 2016
Dieter Nuhr
“Nuhr aus Wesel”.
Städtisches Museum Wesel
24 Jan – 13 Mar 2016
Julia Willms
Rauminstallation “home” in der Ausstellung
“Himmelwärts”
Altana Kulturstiftung Bad Homburg
18 Oct 2015 – 14 Feb 2016
Jürgen Paas
“Hulahoop”. Stern Wywiol Galerie Hamburg
8 Oct 2015 – 27 Feb 2016
Andreas Titzrath
“Er wieder”.
Kloster Bentlage, Rheine
21 Feb – 3 Apr 2016
Hanakam und Schuller
“Trickster” (2014), screening at
“Les Rencontres Internationales 2016”
New Cinema and Contemporary Art
Gaîté Lyrique Paris
12-17 Jan 2016
Simone Haack
recommended in
Ch. Mullins – Picturing People. The New State of the Art.
published by Thames & Hudson, London 2015
192 pages, 70 artists, Hardcover
“In this companion to 2006’s Painting People, art critic Charlotte Mullins explores the latest wave of figurative art in the contemporary marketplace, both celebrating individual artists and contemplating why figuration has become popular yet again. […] Figurative art is a broad subject, but Mullins’s astute overview pairs powerfully with the selected images, offering a perceptive argument for the enduring range and power of figuration into the 21st century.”
Kunst 15 Zurich
At this year’s Kunst Zurich from 29 October through 1 November we will be presenting works by: Till Augustin, Marcela Böhm, Simone Haack, Jürgen Paas, Dirk Salz and Martin Schwenk. We are looking forward to meeting you there!
Kunst 15 Zurich, Booth A1
30 Oct. – 02 Nov., 2014
ABB-Hall 550, Zurich-Oerlikon
Borderlines
Borderlines
Wiebke Bartsch, Simone Haack, Kerstin Müller-Schiel, Barbara Ring
Until 10 January, 2015
Kunst-in-Tueten.de
Exhibition Views Sign Pattern Ornament
Zeichen – Muster – Ornament (Sign – Pattern – Ornament)
Group Show
28 June – 23 August, 2014
Opening Reception 27 June, 2014, 7 p.m.
Sign – Pattern – Ornament
The stronger the artistic autonomy, the more the ornament turns into an accessory part: In the 21st century this rule does not apply anymore, as trend-setting exhibitions by the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg and the Fondation Beyeler worked out, that ornament currently resurrects as the carrier of a global pictorial language. Geometric, floral and calligraphic ornaments are more than just decoration, instead they visualize classification systems, which now are critically questioned by contemporary artists. In selected works by artists of the gallery our exhibition discusses the current controversy on this topic.
Works by: Wiebke Bartsch, Marcela Böhm, Michael Goller, Simone Haack, Hanakam & Schuller, Armin Hartenstein, Bodo Korsig, Jürgen Paas, Rainer Stock, Martin Schwenk.
Zeichen – Muster – Ornament (Sign – Pattern – Ornament)
Group Show
28 June – 23 August, 2014
Opening Reception 27 June, 2014, 7 p.m.
WAZ Reports On Simone Haack
Simone Haack – Weiße Schatten (White Shadows).
22 March – 3 May, 2014
Opening Reception 21 March, 7 p.m.
Exhibition Views Simone Haack
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.
Press Release And Catalogue Of Simone Haack
Press Release at openPR (German)
Exhibition Booklet Simone Haack – Weisse Schatten.
Simone Haack – Weiße Schatten (White Shadows).
22 March – 3 May, 2014
Opening Reception 21 March, 7 p.m.
Simone Haack – White Shadows
In our first solo exhibition of the young painter Simone Haack from Berlin we are showing a representative cross section of her recent work, with an emphasis on her most current pieces. The scholar of Karin Kneffel impresses the audience with her evermore challenging snapshots, often dealing with children and adolescents. The line between good and evil, and the oscillation from one to the other pole creates the unique tension and atmosphere of her work.
Simone Haack – Weiße Schatten (White Shadows).
22 March – 3 May, 2014
Opening Reception 21 March, 7 p.m.
Obrist Gallery at Art Karlsruhe
Next week, 13-16 March, we show highlights of the gallery programme at Art Karlsruhe. At our booth in hall 2 / #E12 we present a One Artist Show of Mannheim based artist Peter Schlör for the first time. Furthermore: MARCELA BÖHM, ARMIN HARTENSTEIN, DIETER KRÄNZLEIN and JÜRGEN PAAS, who we already have introduced in Karlsruhe in earlier years. New at our booth: TILL AUGUSTIN, SIMONE HAACK, BODO KORSIG and DIRK SALZ. And as a special accent works by two classics of German contemporary art are to be seen: EMIL SCHUMACHER und GÜNTHER UECKER.
Art Karlsruhe
13-16 March, 2014
Hours: Thu-Sat 12-20h, Sun 11-19h
Messe Karlsruhe, Messeallee 1, 76287 Rheinstetten
Exhibitions until June 2014
Our upcoming exhibitions:
EDGES – Bodo Korsig, Jürgen Paas, Dirk Salz.
25 Jan. – 16 March 2014
Opening Reception 24 Jan., 7 p.m.
ART KARLSRUHE, Hall 2, E12
13 – 16 March, 2014
Opening Reception 12 March
Simone Haack – Weiße Schatten.
22 March – 3 May, 2014
Opening Reception 21 March, 7 p.m.
Andy Scholz – Neue Fotoarbeiten.
10 May – 21 June, 2014
Opening Reception 9 May, 7 p.m.
WAZ article about exhibition UNDER THE SKIN
Here is the current article about our UNDER THE SKIN exhibition in the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung.
UNDER THE SKIN.
Marcela Böhm, Simone Haack, Anja Schreiber, Andreas Titzrath, Wiebke Bartsch
16 November, 2013 – 11 January, 2014
“Unter die Haut” und Wundertüte 2013
Unsere Ausstellung setzt aktuelle Positionen der Malerei in Kontrast und Bezug. Die Haut als Gegenstand der Malerei bedeutete für die Künstler aller Epochen eine besondere Herausforderung. “Das Tiefste, das ist die Haut”, hat es Paul Valery formuliert, und im Kontext der Malerei ist mit diesem Paradoxon nicht nur der besondere Anspruch einer naturgetreuen Widergabe der Haut gemeint, sondern auch ihre Eigenschaft als Projektionsfläche verschiedenster Charakteristika der gemalten Person: Jugend und Alter, Lust und Leid, Härte und Verletzlichkeit, Anspannung und Gleichmut etc. – Die menschliche Oberfläche spricht stets von dem, was darunter liegt. Und jenseits der Abbildhaftigkeit spielt die Haut bei den vorgestellten Positionen unserer Ausstellung auch eine wichtige Rolle in der Reflexion der malerischen Mittel: Insofern ein Thema der Malerei, was eine nähere Betrachtung lohnt.
Beteiligte Künstler und Künstlerinnen: Simone Haack, Marcela Böhm, Anja Schreiber, Andreas Titzrath, Wiebke Bartsch.
Am gleichen Abend eröffnen wir auch die Aktion “WUNDERTÜTE – Die Kunst in Tüten”. Seit mehr als 10 Jahren füllen alljährlich 20 Künstler der Galerie jeweils 20 Tüten mit ihrer Kunst. Was sich in den namentlich gekennzeichneten Tüten befindet, ob Malerei, Skulptur, Fotografie, Objekt oder Multiple, das erfahren Sie erst beim Kauf. Zur Eröffnung am 15. November spricht die WDR-Moderatorin Martina Esser. In diesem Jahr wird die „Wundertüte“ mit einer Spendenaktion zugunsten des Förderturm- Ideen für Essener Kinder e.V. verknüpft: 2€ pro verkaufter Tüte gehen an den Förderturm.
Hier können Sie Wundertüten online bestellen…
UNTER DIE HAUT.
Positionen aktueller Malerei.
16. November 2013 – 11. Januar 2014
Eröffnung: Fr., 15. November 2013, 18h
WUNDERTÜTE 2013. “Wild at Heart”.
16. November bis 24. Dezember 2013
Eröffnung: Freitag, 15. November 2013, 19 Uhr