Dieter Nuhr – About the disappearance of images

Preview February 4, 2024, 3-6 p.m. Exhibition duration: February 4th – March 16th, 2024 The Düsseldorf artist Dieter Nuhr is showing his fifth solo exhibition at Galerie Obrist. While the photographic aspects of his artistic work were previously the focus, new elements are now being added: Nuhr works with digital brushes, combining them with photographic …

KIND ALS PINSEL. CHILD AS A BRUSH. Making art, being a mother.

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 …

Dieter Nuhr – Until 7 March

Obrist Gallery is happy to announce the fourth solo exhibition by Dieter Nuhr. Most of the shown pictures were taken in 2019 and are now presented fo the first time. Since the recent exhibition two years ago Nuhr went on long-distance journeys for several times, and made his subtle discoveries in Georgia and Iran among …

Dieter Nuhr. Photographs.

Obrist Gallery is happy to announce the third solo exhibition by Dieter Nuhr. Since the recent exhibition two years ago Nuhr went on long-distance journeys for several times, and made his subtle discoveries in Moldavia, Georgia and Mexico among others, like the East German province. In big sized photographs Nuhr opens windows to a graceful …

Shinichi Tsuchiya. Fukushima.

Gallery Obrist is happy to show new photoworks by Shinichi Tsuchiya from recent years. The Japanese photo artist – who has been called to be a Master Student of Thomas Ruff in 2006 and who has received the Akademiebrief of the Düsseldorfer Kunstakademie in 2008 – has been living in Japan again since 2011: In …

Exhibition Dieter Nuhr

Gallery Obrist is happy to announce the second solo exhibition by Dieter Nuhr, called “Foreign Terrain“. While the artist is known to many as a comedian and, with that, for his use of words, the medium of photography allows for a different form of expression. He studied fine arts at the former Folkwang School in …

New Exhibition with Dieter Nuhr

One year after our first exhibition with Dieter Nuhr we will soon show the announced second part of “Foreign Terrain”. While in 2015 urban motives were the focus of the exhibition, we will now present landscapes. Dieter Nuhr Foreign Terrain II 27 February – 23 April, 2016 Opneing Reception 26 February, 2016, 6.30 p.m.

Detlef Orlopp – Photography.

At the same time to his upcoming exhibition at Museum Folkwang Obrist Gallery shows works by German photographer Detlef Orlopp (*1937). Orlopp was a student of Otto Steinert in Saarbruecken, and he moved with Steinert to Folkwangschule Essen in 1959. Nevertheless he is only partly a supporter of Steinert’s “Subjektive Fotografie”, because of its formative …

Exhibition with Dieter Nuhr

“Each form has its own means of expression. With language I can be ironic, but through the pictorial language the world seems more serious to me.”, says well-known humorist Dieter Nuhr about the two great creative poles in his life. Beyond the stage world he devotes his time to photography. His work does not represent …

WAZ reports on Cartier-Bresson and Capa

Article on our current exhibition in the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, 24 September, text by Martina Schürmann, photograph by Knut Vahlensieck. (pdf 750kb, german) Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa: The Decisive Moment. 06 Sep.-18 Oct., 2014 Opening Reception: Friday, 5 Sep., 2014, 19h

Exhibition With Andy Scholz

We cordially invite you to our upcoming exhibition with Andy Scholz: “Dust In The Air”. We will be showing new photoworks of the Essen based artist, which come up from a study trip to North Dakota, USA, lasting for several months. In his works Scholz turns towards landscape for the first time. CV Andy Scholz …

Peter Schloer in October

From October 11 to November 9 Obrist Gallery will exhibit selected works by renown Mannheim-based photo artist Peter Schlör. His recent works have a pictorial approach. The artist uses natural phenomena like the sea, clouds, mountains or forests, to achieve a painterly surface in his pictures: the different structures and consistencies assemble to abstract picture …