Albert Oehlen’s work focuses exclusively on exposing art’s failures. Borrowing from the tropes of traditional abstract painting, Oehlen readily subverts art’s lofty idealism. Using traditional forms and techniques, he conceives a contemporary dialogue of criticism based on the possibilities of creative function rather than aesthetics. In a modern world where painting is considered dead, Albert Oehlen reinvents its life as a manic zombie state: mutated, funny and ideologically dangerous.
BIOGRAPHY
1954
Born in Krefeld, Germany
Currently lives and works in Bizkaia, Spain
1978
Hochschule für Bildende Kunst, Hamburg, BA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2005
Spiegelbilder 1982-1985 Max Hetzler, Berlin
2004
Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne
The Good Life Nolan / Eckman Gallery, New York
2003
Alfonso Artiaco, Naples
2002
Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels
2001
Self Portraits Skarstedt Fine Art, New York
Checkers Galerie Baerbel Graesslin, Frankfurt
2000
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
Patrick Painter Inc, Santa Monica
1999
Lord, Pferdeflusterer, Antichrist Galeria Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid
1998
Galerie Mikael Anderson, Copenhagen
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
1997
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Baladas Heavy Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne
1996
Obras Recientes Galeria Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2005
Groundswell MOMA, New York
2004
Pixels Stellan Holm Gallery, New York
Hot Ice: Recent Painting from the Scharpff Collection Kunstalle, Hamburg
2003
Biennale d’Art Contemporain de Lyon Lyon
Painting Pictures: Painting and Media in the Digital Age Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
2000
Painting on the Move Kunstmuseum, Basel
Glee: Painting Now Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Lake Worth, Florida
1999
Decades in Dialogue Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Digital Sites Numark Gallery, Washington
Sammlung Essl: The First View Klosterneuburg, Vienna
1998
Recollection Kunstverein, Graz
Georg Herold / Albert Oehlen Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
Selbstportraits Galerie Barbel Grasslin, Frankfurt
Fast Forward Archives Kunstverein, Hamburg
1997
Display Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall, Copenhagen
1996
On Paper II Schmidt Contemporary Art, St Louis
Peinture-Peinture Galerie Samia Saouma, Paris
Provins – Legende Museet for Samtidskunst, Roskilde
Article Theme :-
Albert Oehlen combines aspects of figurative sexuality, mechanical distance and painterly abstraction. It’s a bastard hybrid of painting, incorporating smooth polished forms, heavy brushwork, and the implied photo-gloss of airbrush. The end result is more like a collage than a painting: a loud and exasperating argument in different tongues, promising never to be resolved for lack of a common idiom.Albert Oehlen is a master of ironic wit and his paintings are elaborate strategies of provocation. In Untitled, Albert Oehlen subverts the authority of the avant-garde, creating an abstraction of dumbed-down abjection. His painting poses as a deceptive icon of aesthetic contemplation, punctuated with flirtatious eyes returning the viewer’s gaze.
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October 30th, 2009About German Artist Martin Kippenberger Biography and His Exhibitions at the Saatchi-gallery
September 2nd, 2009As one of the most prodigious artists of the 1980s and 90s, Martin Kippenberger epitomised the romantic notion of the artist in the late 20th century. Inventing himself as the centre of the art world, Martin Kippenberger’s practice was based on shameless self-promotion. Mythologizing himself as an Everyman-hero, Kippenberger’s vast body of work is a testament to a larger-than-life character, a tragic-comic paladin, plagued as much by his own talent and success as by his ego and shortcomings.
Martin Kippenberger’s Biography and Exhibitions
BIOGRAPHY
1953 Born in Dortmund, Germany
1971 Moved to Hamburg and lived in various communes
1972 Hamburg College of Art, Fine Art, BA
1978 Moved to Berlin. Became manager of the famous S.O. 36 hall venue.
1980 Moved to Paris and worked on his first novel
1983 Settled in Cologne, worked with Albert Oehlen
1997 Died in Vienna
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2004
Brasilien aktuell: The Magical Misery Tour Gagosian Gallery, London
2003
Das 2. Sein (The Second Being) Museum für Neue Kunst/ZKM, Karlsruhe
Multiples Kunstverein, Braunschweig
Nach Kippenberger (After Kippenberger) Museum Moderner Kunst, Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
2002
Dear Painter, paint me CentreGeorges Pompidou, Paris
1997
Documenta X Kassel, Germany
Der Eiermann und seine Ausleger (The Egg man and his Jib) Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany
1994
The Happy End of Franz Kafka’s America Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam
1993
Kunstverein Kippenberger Fridericianum, Kassel
Kandidatur für eine Retrospektive Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris Founds
MOMAS (Museum of Modern Art Syros), Greece Construction of the first subway station, Syros
1991
Put Your Eye In Your Mouth Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
Heavy Burschi Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne
Tiefes Kehlchen Installation, Vienna
Martin Kippenberger always went too far. Going too far was what the German artist did, in art and in life. It was said he once bought a dilapidated petrol station in Brazil and renamed it Gas Station Martin Boormann, after the Nazi war criminal. It was also rumoured that he installed a telephone line, with the greeting “Boormann… Gaz” on the answerphone. He certainly had a photograph taken of the service station, which he blew up to wall size for an installation.all his work is that. He wants to really invent and with every piece to make something new and to be real avant-garde. All day long and with all of his heart he really does believe in nothing else but in art. He doesn’t define it, his father was an artist, he is an artist and his friends are artists.
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