With works by WIEBKE BARTSCH – MARCELA BÖHM – (E.) TWIN GABRIELSIMONE 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 …
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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 seriesArtists: 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 …
Closeness can quickly become too much, but it is never enough. We want more and more. We seduce and allow ourselves to be seduced to get closer and closer. The closeness should be anytime, anywhere and permanently. The border to the other should be overcome, it should fall, in favor of absolute closeness. Whether in …
https://www.galerie-obrist.de/wordpress/art2buy/naehe-beruehren-spueren-verfuehren/ The book of the exhibition series NÄHE will be published at the opening reception of NÄHE #3 – verführen on the 18th of June, 2021. You can order your book online here for gallery’s special price of 25 EUR! (offer valid until the end of the exhibition, 28th of August, delivery of the books …
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Video on our exhibition: NÄHE #2 – spüren. Opening on INSTAGRAM LIVE Friday, 7 May 2021, 7 p.m. NÄHE (Closeness) exhibition seriesArtists: 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 …
How can you get close to yourself? Searching and longing to feel oneself frequently lead to trying to get under the skin. In the figurative and in the real sense. Tattoos and (self) harm pursue this goal, as do close-up photographs that come close to the surface of the body and show wrinkles, pimples and …
Video on our exhibition: NÄHE #1 – berühren. Opening Friday, 19 March, 2021, 7 p.m. NÄHE (Closeness) exhibition seriesArtists: 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/ – …
The desire for closeness goes hand in hand with the need for touch. Touching means overcoming the spatial separation between the self and the other. The distance shrinks to a minimum and a positive feeling of familiarity is beginning. But the touch can also be uncomfortable, scary or overwhelming, dangerous or painful. The abandonment of …
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 …
Previously shown artists Ad – Gr Gosbert Adler David Alcántara Ayse Arslan Till Augustin Wiebke Bartsch Carsten Behler Marcela Böhm Ralf Bohnenkamp Christian Boltanski Pierre Marie Brisson Frederick D. Bunsen Wolfgang Burat Lukasz Chrobok James Coignard Thomas Deyle Ruth Eckstein Anke Eilergerhard Helge Emmaneel Christoph Faulhaber Rainer Fest Jáchym Fleig Michael Goller Alexis Gorodine Anke …
SELECTED WORKS EXHIBITIONS CV Marcela Böhm Born 1972 in Buenos Aires 1993 Moved to Germany 1994-98 Alanus Hochschule Alfter 1998 Diploma in Painting 2002 Akademie Pentiment, Hamburg 2002/3 Scholarship at Künstlerhaus Hooksiel, Wangerland Exhibitions 2019 “What Never Changes”, Galerie Obrist, Essen 2017 “All The Happy Families”, Galerie Obrist, Essen 2015 “City And People”, Galerie Obrist, …