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Contrasts of chiaroscuro, color surfaces, geometries of lines, dots, triangles - their symbolic condensation and concentration on recurring elements have made DAG (*1964, lives in Berlin) to his trademark.
It is based on the fast, restless painting that DAG created in the exploding Berlin club culture and transformed into rapid painting performances in the mid-1990s. As a figurehead of the admired Berlin music and art scene, he toured the whole world. In this rush, DAG trained his consciousness for constellations, rhythm, dynamics and developed his characteristic style.
He experiments with various materials and finished colors, which he prefers to find in home improvement stores rather than in artists' supplies. He is interested in structures, shapes, and patterns that can be found in everyday life - be it a brick wall, streamers or toys, but also the transient nature of music or words. Translated into abstract surrogates, DAG draws them from the source of his canvases, using his compositional intuition to set them in motion.
With the current series, DAG switches to the black canvas and refers to early computer graphics, which from today's point of view already seems like a digital anachronism. The naïve and fragile pixels of that time, however, symbolize the basic framework of our digital identities of the present. But, they are only layers of color signals that generate rhythm, density, and extinction. Using the instruments of painting, DAG explores its dimensions. In the interaction of calculation and emotion, generalization and individualization, his pictures become a pulsating metaphor of the contradictory nature of being.
It is based on the fast, restless painting that DAG created in the exploding Berlin club culture and transformed into rapid painting performances in the mid-1990s. As a figurehead of the admired Berlin music and art scene, he toured the whole world. In this rush, DAG trained his consciousness for constellations, rhythm, dynamics and developed his characteristic style.
He experiments with various materials and finished colors, which he prefers to find in home improvement stores rather than in artists' supplies. He is interested in structures, shapes, and patterns that can be found in everyday life - be it a brick wall, streamers or toys, but also the transient nature of music or words. Translated into abstract surrogates, DAG draws them from the source of his canvases, using his compositional intuition to set them in motion.
With the current series, DAG switches to the black canvas and refers to early computer graphics, which from today's point of view already seems like a digital anachronism. The naïve and fragile pixels of that time, however, symbolize the basic framework of our digital identities of the present. But, they are only layers of color signals that generate rhythm, density, and extinction. Using the instruments of painting, DAG explores its dimensions. In the interaction of calculation and emotion, generalization and individualization, his pictures become a pulsating metaphor of the contradictory nature of being.
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1964 born in Eberswalde/East-Germany. 1985–1989 studied painting and graphics at Art Academy Berlin-Weißensee and art education at Humboldt-University, Berlin. 1994 exhibited at the first Chromapark show at Berlin. Solo carrier and Collaboration work. Works are shown at numerous international gallery’s and museum’s exhibitions.
Since my studies, I have been working with abstract geometric forms. Influenced by Kasimir Malevich or Wassily Kandinsky they are the starting point of my non-objective paintings and murals. As an artist in post-socialist and reunited Berlin, I have tried since my earliest works to find my own handwriting that can assert itself against the realistic art predominant in Berlin - both in East and West Berlin - and take on a place in the emerging techno scene. The special climate after the fall of communism (1989/90), between political wasteland and a new avant-garde, influenced my art, which I developed further, always oriented to the basic elements triangle, square and circle. My paintings are pulsating constellations that flood canvases as well as exhibition spaces, turning the white surfaces into a playground for geometric turbulence.
EXHIBITIONS 2001 – 2019 (Selection)
2019 Rhizome – group show, Frank Taal Gallery, Rotterdam / Netherlands
Contemporary Contemplations – group show, PHK 18, Rotterdam / Netherlands
2018 The Cube AS3 – solo show, Sydney / Australia
Berlin Radio – group show, Gallery Murillio Castro, Belo Horizonte / Brazil
Echoes: Transpositions SYD–BER, ROSALUX, Berlin / ES74 Gallery Sydney / Australia
Influence – solo show with Bram Braam, Laden Fuer Nichts, Leipzig
Contemporary Contemplations – group show, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin
Contemporary Contemplations – group show, Kunsthaus Erfurt Potatos, Prunes And Prism – group show, Pavillon am Milchhof, Berlin
Gerade jetzt – group show, Galerie Weltecho , Chemnitz
2017 after all – group show, Groelle Pass Projects, Wuppertal shaped by ambition – group show, Giessen Biennale Schlaglichter – group show, Sammlung des Landesmuseum fuer Moderne Kunst Brandenburg in Cottbus und @Galeria BWA, Zielona Gora
Struktur – group show, Kunstraum Tyson, Köln
Rausch – group show, Schau-Fenster, Berlin
Golden Ass – group show, LFN Laden für Nichts, Leipzig Construction Time Again – solo show with Karsten Konrad,
R&U Alexandra Erlhoff
It’s all over now, Part 2 – solo show, Kunstverein „Weltecho“, Chemnitz
Disjunktion – solo show with Dirk Krecker, Laura Mars Gallery, Berlin
2016 It’s Allover Now – solo show, Bar Babette (autocenter), Berlin Content Moderation – group show, Laura Mars Gallery, Berlin Herz Haus Messer Kreuz – group show, Museum Junge Kunst, Frankfurt/O
Maximum Likelihood – group show, Kunsthaus Erfurt
2015 SLOWBURN – solo show, Projektraum M1, Berlin
Minimal Compact – solo show, Laura Mars Gallery, Berlin
Glue @ Amsterdam – group show, PS Amsterdam / Netherlands Colour me full – group show, Marie Kirkegaard Gallery, Copenhagen / Denmark
Close and closer – Group show, POP Up ART , Linienstrasse 141, Berlin
Group show, PLU 41, Berlin
Group show, Schau Fenster, Berlin
2014 Laura Mars @ Art14, art fair, London
Angst essen Farbe auf – show with Hannu Prinz, smac, Berlin PICTONES - group show, Laura Mars, Berlin
AND I WAS LIKE ... - solo show, hanfweihnacht, Frankfurt / Main Kimme und Korn – show with Dirk Krecker, Laden für Nichts, Leipzig
The Cambridge Rules - group show, Jochen Hempel, Berlin Wonderfull things to believe in - group show, Christian Ehrentraut, Berlin
Disclosure – solo show, Hammerschmidt & Gladigau, Erfurt
Please don’t kill my vibe ... – show with Rebecca Michaelis, Kunsthaus Erfurt
Double Take – show with Peter K. Koch, Museum Junge Kunst, Frankfurt/O
2013 Never mind the bollocks – group show, JR Gallery Berlin Mothership – group show, saasfee pavillon Frankfurt/M Dutch Treat – group show, DADA-Post, Berlin
Der Nebel und das Glas – group show infernoesque, Berlin Chancen und Risiken – group show, Galerie hanfweihnacht, Frankfurt/M
Alles Wasser – group show, Galerie Mikael Andersen, Copenhagen / Denmark
PROP – solo show at Laura Mars Grp., Berlin
Laura Mars @ Art13, art fair, London / UK
2012 new abstractions – group show, White Trash Contemporary, Hamburg,
Alles Wasser – group show, Galerie Mikael Andersen, Berlin Slow Burn – solo show, Galerie hanfweihnacht, Frankfurt/M Rasterfahndung – group show, KUNSTMUSEUM Stuttgart, Stuttgart
2011 INCLUSION – solo show Laura Mars, Berlin KETTENREAKTION - group show, Kunsthaus Erfurt
2010 Massenbeschleuniger - group show, Galerie Lorenz, Frankfurt/M
2009 am besten besenrein, gutleut 15 ausstellungsraum, das vorbeiprogramm,
Forgotten Bar Projekt, group show, Berlin
Armella Show, group show, Innenministerium Erfurt Wieder 5 Deutsche, group exhibition, PIT, Tilburg
2008 Amsterdam, NL; group exhibition @ kunstruimte09.nl Berlin; Laura Mars Group (group exhibition)
Berlin; Laura Mars Group (with Jens Hagen Engelhard)
Erfurt; Kunsthaus Erfurt; »minimal compact« (with Jens Hagen Engelhard)
2007 Brussels; »minimal compact« (H29) Berlin; »pussy pussy hello hello« (Glue)
Düsseldorf; »Fair for Contemporary Art«, Messe Düsseldorf Berlin; »Glue – Total Recall«, group exhibition
2006 Cologne; »New Contemporaries (Art Cologne)« Berlin; »III. Berliner Kunstsalon«
Amsterdam; »PS Exhibition«, group exhibition
Berlin; »Heute hier und morgen weg.«, group exhibition Erfurt, Kunsthaus Erfurt; DAG »Ansätze«
Berlin, Galerie Asim Chugtai; DAG »Where Is the Beef?« Hamburg, Galerie Hafen+Rand; »Hängt die Sonne«
2005 Berlin, 2. Berliner Kunstsalon: »word & object« Berlin, glue: »outsourcing«
Greifswald, eye kyu: DAG – »Hilde kommt«
München, Galerie Hobbyshop: DAG – »Bruno kommt«
Frankfurt a. M., Gutleut 15 Ausstellungsraum: Schwarz auf Weiss (DAG, Ingo Frölich, Dirk Krecker, Olaf Probst, Frank Reinecke) Berlin, Autocenter: Jessica Centner, Peter K. Koch, Andreas Korte, Dirk Krecker, Jens Risch, DAG.
Berlin, Bar at Karl Marx Allee, interior wall-painting. Düsseldorf, konsortium: DAG - earth, wind & fire.
2004 Berlin: glue, „Welt ohne Gegenstände“, group exhibition Singapore: Goethe Institut
Zuerich: BD Büro Destruct, with Jim Avignon Berlin: Berliner kunstsalon, „fleisch“ Berlin: Glue, with peter k. koch
2003 Berlin: Showroom, „If you know what I mean?“
Berlin: Austellungsraum „Fleisch“ @ Café Moskau
Tokyo: Rocket Gallery, Laboratory Istinct presents: DAG „unknown pleasures“
Cologne: Gallery Fiebach & Minninger, „New Balance“
2002 Berlin: Glaspavillon/Volksbühne, „aggregat“, coop with Sebastian Meyer
Chicago: Heaven Gallery, „Blueblood/Blue Collar“
2001 Berlin: Haus Schwarzenberg, „Kreatin“ Paris: Galerie Espace Kiron, „Doping“
Offenbach: Fahrradhalle
Tel Aviv: Tal Esther Gallery
Since my studies, I have been working with abstract geometric forms. Influenced by Kasimir Malevich or Wassily Kandinsky they are the starting point of my non-objective paintings and murals. As an artist in post-socialist and reunited Berlin, I have tried since my earliest works to find my own handwriting that can assert itself against the realistic art predominant in Berlin - both in East and West Berlin - and take on a place in the emerging techno scene. The special climate after the fall of communism (1989/90), between political wasteland and a new avant-garde, influenced my art, which I developed further, always oriented to the basic elements triangle, square and circle. My paintings are pulsating constellations that flood canvases as well as exhibition spaces, turning the white surfaces into a playground for geometric turbulence.
EXHIBITIONS 2001 – 2019 (Selection)
2019 Rhizome – group show, Frank Taal Gallery, Rotterdam / Netherlands
Contemporary Contemplations – group show, PHK 18, Rotterdam / Netherlands
2018 The Cube AS3 – solo show, Sydney / Australia
Berlin Radio – group show, Gallery Murillio Castro, Belo Horizonte / Brazil
Echoes: Transpositions SYD–BER, ROSALUX, Berlin / ES74 Gallery Sydney / Australia
Influence – solo show with Bram Braam, Laden Fuer Nichts, Leipzig
Contemporary Contemplations – group show, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin
Contemporary Contemplations – group show, Kunsthaus Erfurt Potatos, Prunes And Prism – group show, Pavillon am Milchhof, Berlin
Gerade jetzt – group show, Galerie Weltecho , Chemnitz
2017 after all – group show, Groelle Pass Projects, Wuppertal shaped by ambition – group show, Giessen Biennale Schlaglichter – group show, Sammlung des Landesmuseum fuer Moderne Kunst Brandenburg in Cottbus und @Galeria BWA, Zielona Gora
Struktur – group show, Kunstraum Tyson, Köln
Rausch – group show, Schau-Fenster, Berlin
Golden Ass – group show, LFN Laden für Nichts, Leipzig Construction Time Again – solo show with Karsten Konrad,
R&U Alexandra Erlhoff
It’s all over now, Part 2 – solo show, Kunstverein „Weltecho“, Chemnitz
Disjunktion – solo show with Dirk Krecker, Laura Mars Gallery, Berlin
2016 It’s Allover Now – solo show, Bar Babette (autocenter), Berlin Content Moderation – group show, Laura Mars Gallery, Berlin Herz Haus Messer Kreuz – group show, Museum Junge Kunst, Frankfurt/O
Maximum Likelihood – group show, Kunsthaus Erfurt
2015 SLOWBURN – solo show, Projektraum M1, Berlin
Minimal Compact – solo show, Laura Mars Gallery, Berlin
Glue @ Amsterdam – group show, PS Amsterdam / Netherlands Colour me full – group show, Marie Kirkegaard Gallery, Copenhagen / Denmark
Close and closer – Group show, POP Up ART , Linienstrasse 141, Berlin
Group show, PLU 41, Berlin
Group show, Schau Fenster, Berlin
2014 Laura Mars @ Art14, art fair, London
Angst essen Farbe auf – show with Hannu Prinz, smac, Berlin PICTONES - group show, Laura Mars, Berlin
AND I WAS LIKE ... - solo show, hanfweihnacht, Frankfurt / Main Kimme und Korn – show with Dirk Krecker, Laden für Nichts, Leipzig
The Cambridge Rules - group show, Jochen Hempel, Berlin Wonderfull things to believe in - group show, Christian Ehrentraut, Berlin
Disclosure – solo show, Hammerschmidt & Gladigau, Erfurt
Please don’t kill my vibe ... – show with Rebecca Michaelis, Kunsthaus Erfurt
Double Take – show with Peter K. Koch, Museum Junge Kunst, Frankfurt/O
2013 Never mind the bollocks – group show, JR Gallery Berlin Mothership – group show, saasfee pavillon Frankfurt/M Dutch Treat – group show, DADA-Post, Berlin
Der Nebel und das Glas – group show infernoesque, Berlin Chancen und Risiken – group show, Galerie hanfweihnacht, Frankfurt/M
Alles Wasser – group show, Galerie Mikael Andersen, Copenhagen / Denmark
PROP – solo show at Laura Mars Grp., Berlin
Laura Mars @ Art13, art fair, London / UK
2012 new abstractions – group show, White Trash Contemporary, Hamburg,
Alles Wasser – group show, Galerie Mikael Andersen, Berlin Slow Burn – solo show, Galerie hanfweihnacht, Frankfurt/M Rasterfahndung – group show, KUNSTMUSEUM Stuttgart, Stuttgart
2011 INCLUSION – solo show Laura Mars, Berlin KETTENREAKTION - group show, Kunsthaus Erfurt
2010 Massenbeschleuniger - group show, Galerie Lorenz, Frankfurt/M
2009 am besten besenrein, gutleut 15 ausstellungsraum, das vorbeiprogramm,
Forgotten Bar Projekt, group show, Berlin
Armella Show, group show, Innenministerium Erfurt Wieder 5 Deutsche, group exhibition, PIT, Tilburg
2008 Amsterdam, NL; group exhibition @ kunstruimte09.nl Berlin; Laura Mars Group (group exhibition)
Berlin; Laura Mars Group (with Jens Hagen Engelhard)
Erfurt; Kunsthaus Erfurt; »minimal compact« (with Jens Hagen Engelhard)
2007 Brussels; »minimal compact« (H29) Berlin; »pussy pussy hello hello« (Glue)
Düsseldorf; »Fair for Contemporary Art«, Messe Düsseldorf Berlin; »Glue – Total Recall«, group exhibition
2006 Cologne; »New Contemporaries (Art Cologne)« Berlin; »III. Berliner Kunstsalon«
Amsterdam; »PS Exhibition«, group exhibition
Berlin; »Heute hier und morgen weg.«, group exhibition Erfurt, Kunsthaus Erfurt; DAG »Ansätze«
Berlin, Galerie Asim Chugtai; DAG »Where Is the Beef?« Hamburg, Galerie Hafen+Rand; »Hängt die Sonne«
2005 Berlin, 2. Berliner Kunstsalon: »word & object« Berlin, glue: »outsourcing«
Greifswald, eye kyu: DAG – »Hilde kommt«
München, Galerie Hobbyshop: DAG – »Bruno kommt«
Frankfurt a. M., Gutleut 15 Ausstellungsraum: Schwarz auf Weiss (DAG, Ingo Frölich, Dirk Krecker, Olaf Probst, Frank Reinecke) Berlin, Autocenter: Jessica Centner, Peter K. Koch, Andreas Korte, Dirk Krecker, Jens Risch, DAG.
Berlin, Bar at Karl Marx Allee, interior wall-painting. Düsseldorf, konsortium: DAG - earth, wind & fire.
2004 Berlin: glue, „Welt ohne Gegenstände“, group exhibition Singapore: Goethe Institut
Zuerich: BD Büro Destruct, with Jim Avignon Berlin: Berliner kunstsalon, „fleisch“ Berlin: Glue, with peter k. koch
2003 Berlin: Showroom, „If you know what I mean?“
Berlin: Austellungsraum „Fleisch“ @ Café Moskau
Tokyo: Rocket Gallery, Laboratory Istinct presents: DAG „unknown pleasures“
Cologne: Gallery Fiebach & Minninger, „New Balance“
2002 Berlin: Glaspavillon/Volksbühne, „aggregat“, coop with Sebastian Meyer
Chicago: Heaven Gallery, „Blueblood/Blue Collar“
2001 Berlin: Haus Schwarzenberg, „Kreatin“ Paris: Galerie Espace Kiron, „Doping“
Offenbach: Fahrradhalle
Tel Aviv: Tal Esther Gallery