Exhibition Julia Willms in June

In a two-part exhibition we show work by Amsterdam based artist Julia Willms: At EY5 Dusseldorf we present the audio installation “A WORLD”, which has been conceptualized together with Andrea Bozic. – Again the gallery space is subject to a radical inquiry. On the occasion of the Opening Reception Sabine Maria Schmidt, curator at Kunsthalle …

Press Release Wiebke Bartsch

Munster based artist Wiebke Bartsch shows her new solo exhibition „I Could Barely Understand Myself“ at Galerie Obrist until 15 June. With her paintings, drawings and plastic works Bartsch is concerned with questions of identity, role models, physicalness and sexuality, which she comments laconically, often with a humorous punchline. Vollständige Pressemitteilung auf OpenPR Wiebke Bartsch: …

Martin Schwenk in Dusseldorf

After our 2012 solo exhibition “Commander Mulroy” we now give a further insight into the work of Martin Schwenk in Düsseldorf. The clear and well-proportional space of the gallery at Mutter-Ey-Straße 5 will be a “walk-in display cabinet” for his few precise positings. CV Martin Schwenk… Martin Schwenk 10-21 April, 2013 Opening Reception: 12 April, …

David Lynch. Transient.

David Lynch became popular with movies such as “Blue Velvet“, “Wild at heart“ or the series “Twin Peaks“. What many don’t know about him: he began his career as a fine artist so that many movies contain processes derived from his education. Lynch (*1946, in Missoula, Montana) went to Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts …

Art Karlsruhe 2013

10 years of Art Karlsruhe, and for the 10th time Obrist Gallery will be participating! Over this period the fair has become one of the most important artfairs in the German-speaking world: Congratulations to the administration of the fair! This year the gallery has moved to hall 2. With its emphasis on current contemporary positions …

WAZ Article on Jürgen Paas

In the WAZ Westdeutschen Allgemeinen Zeitung of 22 January, 2013, there is a very good review of our current exhibition SPUTNIK by Jürgen Paas, text by Martina Schürmann, photograph Kerstin Kokoska. Jürgen Paas: Sputnik II. 23. Januar – 9. Februar 2013. Galerie Obrist @ EY5 – Mutter-Ey-Straße 5, 40213 DüsseldorfJürgen Paas: Sputnik I. 19 Januar …

Press Release Jürgen Paas

German artist Jürgen Paas is known to a broader audience by numerous national and international exhibitions. Titled SPUTNIK he soon will be showing his new work in a two-part exhibition. At Obrist Gallery in Essen a cross-section of his current work is to be seen, and the new Dusseldorf branch of the gallery EY5 will …

Jürgen Paas in January

It is a pleasure for us to show again a new solo exhibition with Jürgen Paas after 2011. His new monography POPPLANET has just been released, and we will initially present it in the framework of the exhibition. The exhibition has two parts: In our Essen gallery we start on 18 January with a cross …

ELASTIC VIDEO at Kunstraum NOE

Link zum Kunstraum NOEHanakam & Schuller and Julia Willms will be participating in the group exhibition “Elastic Video” at Kunstraum Niederösterreich in Vienna. The project was initially shown at the institution Tokyo Wonder Site at Hongo, Tokio, in 2011. It was one of three awarded exhibition projects of the „Emerging Artists Support Program“, which is …

Book POPPLANET by Jürgen Paas

New book by Jürgen Paas (to be published on 9th December). Texts by: Thomas Wulffen, Beate Reifenscheid, Ulrich Krempel and Bernd Finkeldey Edited by: Galerie Obrist, Essen u. a. Language: German/Englisch Pages / Illustrations: 180/100 Size: 32 x 24 x 3 cm Cover: Fester Einband/Hardcover Book Release: Sunday, 9 December, 2012, 11 a.m., Museum Katharinenhof, …

Martin Schwenk in the “Künstlerlexikon”

“Künstler – Kritisches Lexikon der Gegenwartskunst” is a periodically published lexikon, which presents contemporary artists. Volume 100 has just been released, and it is dedicated to the Dusseldorf painter and sulptor Martin Schwenk, who we presented with a solo exhibition in spring 2012, and who had a simultaneous exhibition at Museum Haus Lange in Krefeld. …

Designerstammtisch ab 23.11.

Am nächsten Freitag ab 19 Uhr tagt der DESIGNERSTAMMTISCH in der Galerie. Parallel zur “Wundertüte” werden Arbeiten von Hendrik Dorgathen, Jamiri, Helge Jepsen, Frank Georg Lukas, Arndt Möller, Wolf Schily, Rainer Stock und Klaus Trommer zu sehen sein. Der Designerstammtisch trifft sich nicht nur jeden Montag im De Prins, nein, er stellt nun erstmals auch …