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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