Jürgen Jansen. Nodding Yellow.

Opening Friday, March 10, 2023, 7 p.m. Duration of the exhibition: March 11 – April 22, 2023 Opening times: WED-FRI 12-18h, SAT 10-16h The works of the Düsseldorf artist Jürgen Jansen are abstract, although here and there one would like to recognize objects, such as cell structures, floral forms or underwater worlds. Before studying fine …

Fabian Weinecke And FESTLAND

Fabian Weinecke – Painting / FESTLAND – “Hippies”, Album Release Opening Friday, January 20, 2023, 7 p.m. Duration of the exhibition: January 20 – February 11, 2023 Opening times: WED-FRI 12-18h, SAT 10-16h Gallery Obrist is showing works by Fabian Weinecke and FESTLAND are playing songs from their new album “Hippies”. The Düsseldorf artist Fabian …

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 …

durch – Jáchym Fleig / Armin Hartenstein

The Trier sculptor Jáchym Fleig and the Berlin painter and draftsman Armin Hartenstein have already entered into a dialogue in several group exhibitions. Under the title “through” they are now showing a double exhibition in the gallery for the first time. Fleig (*1970) and Hartenstein (*1968) were both born in tranquil Villingen-Schwenningen in the Black …

Collector`s Lounge

JÜRGEN JANSEN – JÜRGEN PAAS – DIRK SALZ – MARCELA BÖHM – DIETER NUHR – SIMONE HAACK – ARMIN HARTENSTEIN – ILKA HELMIG The summer can come! For our COLLECTOR’S LOUNGE we have brought together recent and outstanding works by various artists of the gallery, including works with epoxy resin by JÜRGEN JANSEN, new JUKEBOXES …

Jürgen Paas – United Colours

Die Reihe PRÄSENZ findet nach den Ausstellungen mit Jürgen Jansen und Dirk Salz ihren Abschluss mit Jürgen Paas. Wir stellen neue Variationen der Werkreihe JUKEBOX vor, sowie eine neue TARGET-Installation. Im Ursprung ist es die Malerei, die Jürgen Paas antreibt, aber keine mit Pinsel und Farbe, sondern eine Malerei mit industriell vorgefertigten Materialien, mit denen …

Dirk Salz – Every Colour You Are

In the second half of 2021, under the title PRÄSENZ, the gallery will show three artists from the gallery who have been closely associated with the gallery for a long time: Jürgen Jansen, Dirk Salz and Jürgen Paas. The focus of the series is on non-digitizable works, art that can only be adequately experienced in …

Jürgen Jansen – Any Colour But Red.

In the second half of 2021, under the title PRÄSENZ, we will show three gallery artists who have been closely associated with the gallery for a long time: Jansen, Salz and Paas. The focus of the series is on non-digitizable works, art that can only be adequately experienced in the presence of the art object …

Marcela Böhm. Magical Reality.

“My paintings include things, which contradict the motivic logic. This irritation is important for me, because life is like this. You always find disruptions in reality, magical or lyrical moments in everyday life, when you don’t understand anything and nothing fits together. But in the end everything joins to build a wonderful new scenery.”Marcela Böhm …

Marcela Böhm. What Never Changes.

“That we togehter with the painter are left between dream and nightmare establishes the quality of her painting. The familiar becomes alien and treacherous, the everyday turns unfamiliar and threatening. …Read this way, Marcela Böhm’s painting is in its beauty as well as its abrupt, occasionally brutal disruption a continuous battle for security, for pictures …

Jürgen Jansen – The Piano Has Been Drinking

We are looking forward to our second solo exhibition Jürgen Jansen at Obrist Gallery with a selectinon of current paintings. As the exhibition title announces: Jansen brings together the disparate in his work. This is true on the level of the used materials (oil and acrylic, resin and lacquer), but also on the level of …

Dirk Salz – Painting The Absolute

“Objektive sensory knowledge is not possible. The fact that works by Dirk Salz reflect this in the medium of painting turns out for the viewer, however, not to be the expression of despair over knowledge theory, but rather it awakens curiosity and a desire to discover and makes way for unexpected insights into the nature …

Jürgen Paas – Jukebox

The gallery will be showing the new paintings, objects and installation by Essen based artist Jürgen Paas. In the focus of the exhibition are “TARGETS”, installations for wall and ground, made of coloured PVC straps and aluminum, which have arised in the recent two years. On view are also examples from different workgroups, developed since …

Marcela Böhm. All The Happy Families.

The gallery will be showing current paintings by Marcela Böhm, and to a greater degree new drawings and graphic work, which underline the exceptional talent of the German-Argentinian artist of portraying human and especially familistic relationships. CV Marcela Böhm Marcela Böhm. All The Happy Families. 9 September – 7 October, 2017 Opening Reception Friday, 8. …

| New Work by Simone Haack

Pictures of our current exhibition “Hinterland”. CV Simone Haack Simone Haack. Hinterland. 13 May – 1 July, 2017 Opening Reception Friday, 12 May, 2017, 7 p.m. In the exhibition “Hinterland“ we show paintings and drawings by Berlin based artist Simone Haack. A special, immediate tension arises when you take a closer look at the pictures. …

Simone Haack. Hinterland.

The new paintings by Berlin artist Simone Haack open up paradoxical worlds. The soft painted portraits and the idyllic landscapes seem to derive from the field of classical beauty and harmony, but at a second glance the viewer recognizes the subtleness, the mistery and disconcertment in this strange pictorial world. CV Simone Haack Simone Haack. …

Jürgen Jansen. You’ve Come A Long Way, Baby.

The first exhibition of the new year is at the same time the first exhibition of Jürgen Jansen at Galerie Obrist. Building on our work during “Positions“ in June 2016 the artist shows current works in his solo show “Wide Open“. Intuition and chance connect: Jansen uses oil and acrylic, resin and lacquer on various …

cutout

The shape of an “empty frame“ is spread out across the middle of the gallery. Through Armin Hartenstein’s “cutout“ a wide landscape in the form of an earthwork-like red-ocher framework comes into view. Now, a discourse between associative seeing (and thinking) about the morphology of landscape and images develops in the current exhibition in our …

Armin Hartenstein. cutout.

In September the gallery will show new image objects and installations by Armin Hartenstein. In addition to pictorial objects reminiscent of landscape painting we will show current architectural-related works in which surface and space, depth and emptiness build an exciting balance. The work “Cutout“, a large image surface which one can pass through, was specifically …