

Tim Berresheim und Markus Oehlen
Radieschen und Erdnuss (Eine gemeinsame Erklärung)
Kunsthalle Giessen, March 7 – May 16, 2010
Opening: March 7, 2010 11.30 am
The Exhibition
From 07 March to 16 May 2010, the Kunsthalle Giessen will show the first joint exhibition of Tim Berresheim and Markus Oehlen with new works by both artists. The voluminous curved organic sculptures by Markus Oehlen with their linear string coats will contrast with the abstract line formations and guilloche ornaments in the new silkscreens by Tim Berresheim. The exploration of the line and its qualities is the common element in the works of these two artists.
Tim Berresheim was born in Heinsberg in 1975 and lives in Cologne. He studied with Johannes Brus at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig from 1998 to 2000, then with Albert Oehlen at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf from 2000 to 2002.
His œuvre encompasses photographs, prints on various materials, and music. With the aid of compositing, a method employed primarily in the film industry, Berresheim adds figures and objects to real photos. The trans-media connections thus created are distinguished by a new and completely independent pictorial language.
In the work of Tim Berresheim, possibilities and conditions of pictorial production, conveyance of meaning and reception mechanisms are subjected to permanent reflection. Rather than narrative elements, the concern is with experimentation in colour and form, arrangement of the pictorial objects, and their relationship to the pictorial space. He pursues these interests in the service of a visual experience which is self-contained and unmistakable. For Giessen, Tim Berresheim is producing a series of five large-scale silkscreens entitled WISHING RADISH (SILKSCREEN) 1 – 5, each measuring two by three metres. He will also show the photo series WISHING RADISH (FOTO) 1 – 4.
Markus Oehlen was born in Krefeld in 1956 and lives in Munich. He has held a professorship at the Munich Akademie der Bildenden Künste since 2002. In the early 1980s, Markus Oehlen was a founding member of the first German punk band “Mittagspause”, and following its dissolution produced further LPs in collaboration with Martin Kippenberger, Werner Büttner and Albert Oehlen. To this day, he continues to publish CDs and LPs in addition to his work as a painter and sculptor.
The Markus Oehlen sculptures to be placed on view at the Kunsthalle Gießen exhibit structures similar to those encountered in his paintings with regard to content as well as form. A number of the sculptures, e.g. Don Hobby, are spatial “sound bodies” – curved bodies with ornamentally laced outer skins in gently varying colouration. They are narrative forms with soft amplitude and figural appendages, furnished with electronically functional instruments such as radios, amplifiers, bass boxes and tweeters. With its undulating “string coat”, the exterior appearance of these works repeats the grids and branchings also to be found in the artist’s paintings. Four Markus Oehlen sculptures will be on display in Giessen, including Wunderbrot II and Free Fidelity Camp. Oehlen is also executing an entirely new sculpture for the exhibition, which will make its public debut at the Kunsthalle Giessen.
In the spacious hall-like interior of the Kunsthalle Gießen, the dialogue between the works of the two artists will develop into a highly unusual interplay. The exhibition is being curated by Ute Riese.
In conjunction with the show, the two artists are producing a joint artists’ book in which views of the installation at the Kunsthalle Giessen will also be featured. The catalogue will be bilingual (German/English) with texts by Ute Riese and Wolfgang Brauneis (Cologne).
Kunsthalle Giessen
Berliner Platz 1 35390 Giessen
Tel. (0641) 306 2022
www.kunsthalle-giessen.de
kunsthalle@giessen.de
Giessen, 25. Februar 2010 / Fotos: Frank Sygusch (Giessen-Server.de)
Februar 2012
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