Mark Hagen

Born. 1972 Black Swamp, Virginia

Finds inspiration in the breakdown of hierarchies, history, and vision. His practice synthesizes the often contradictory movements of process art, finish fetish, minimalism, craft, modernist architecture, and DIY building. Using various utilitarian materials like cement, steel, and burlap in processes that embrace modularity and geometric repetition, Hagen creates works that are as disorienting as they are ordered. For his “additive” screen sculpture, he cast cement units from consumer packaging, recycled cardboard, and a mold made from the tiles on the facade of the abandoned Rampart police station. Composed of three movable interlocking panels, each the same height as the museum’s temporary walls, the work creates a semitransparent field through which to glimpse the surrounding space and other works in the gallery. In We’ve Seen the Future and We’re Not Going (2012), Hagen made a wall of black mirrors using obsidian (or volcanic glass boulders) cut into a sequence of plates, polished, and mounted on a modular aluminum space frame. Both the plates and the space frame can be rearranged or “unoriented” in what Hagen calls this “space-age meets stone-age” work.

Links

Almine Rech Gallery
International Art Object Gallery

Adam McEwen was born in Great Britain in 1965. He studied at Christ Church, Oxford and California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA. He lives and works in New York City.

Adam McEwen’s work resides somewhere between the celebratory and funereal. After writing obituaries for the Daily Telegraph in London, he began producing obituaries of living subjects such as Bill Clinton and Jeff Koons, thus highlighting the blurred line between history and fiction. He is known for paintings employing wads of chewing gum on canvas that reference the bombing of German cities in the Second World War, and for machined graphite sculptures of such banal objects as a water cooler or an air conditioner. His repurposing of the over-familiar creates momentary ruptures, which in the words of one writer “jolt us temporarily out of our indifference, owing to over-exposure, toward the signs that dominate our daily lives.”



McEwen’s work has been included in numerous group shows including “Haunted,” Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2010); “Beg, Borrow and Steal,” Rubell Family Collection, Miami (2009); “The Reach of Realism,” MoCA Miami (2009); “Into Me/Out of Me,” PS1 / MOMA, New York; and the 2006 Whitney Biennial.

McEwen has curated various projects and exhibitions including “Power, Corruption and Lies”, (with Neville Wakefield; Roth Horowitz, New York, 2004); "Interstate" (Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, 2005) and “Beneath the Underdog” (with Nate Lowman; Gagosian Gallery, 2007). In 2010 he curated “Fresh Hell” at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris, as the third installment of their Carte Blanche series.

Source Gagosian Gallery


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Olivier Antoine - Art concept
Gagosian Gallery

Born in 1982, lives and works in Berlin.



Rees incorporates sculpture and painting into a practice that approaches the process of reproduction and recognition as a medium itself. Using materials and processes like plasticine and artex that are imbued with elements of nostalgia and cultural history, Rees references the remits of personal and everyday culture. He states, “I like the different forms a conversation or collaboration can take, on your own with an artist’s book, in a gallery with a work or with artists themselves.”

Links

Jonathan viner Gallery
New Galerie

Mark Bradford’s abstractions unite high art and popular culture as unorthodox tableaux of unequivocal beauty. Working in both paint and collage, Bradford incorporates elements from his daily life into his canvases: remnants of found posters and billboards, graffitied stencils and logos, and hairdresser’s permanent endpapers he’s collected from his other profession as a stylist. In The Devil is Beating His Wife, Bradford consolidates all these materials into a pixelised eruption of cultural cross-referencing. Built up on plywood in sensuous layers ranging from silky and skin-like to oily and singed, Bradford offers abstraction with an urban flair that’s explosively contemporary.


1961
Born in Los Angeles

Lives and works in Los Angeles


SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2005
Grace and Measure, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, New York

2004
Bounce: Mark Bradford and Glenn Kaino, REDCAT, Los Angeles

2003
Very Powerful Lords, Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York, New York
Tainted, Lombard-Freid Fine Arts, New York, New York

2002
Caught Up, Suzanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles
Mark Bradford, Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica
That Wasn’t My Car You Saw, Finesilver Gallery, San Antonio, TX Project Series 16: Mark Bradford, Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont

2001
I Don't Think You Ready For This Jelly, Lombard-Freid Fine Arts, New York

2000
Color Theory, Luggage Store, San Francisco

1999
European Wavy, Two Rivers Gallery, Pittsburgh

1998
Distribution, Deep River, Los Angeles
Floss, Walter McLean Gallery, San Francisco


GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2005
Cut, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles
inSite: Art Practices in the Public Domain, San Diego, CA and Tijuana, Mexico
Farsites, San Diego Museum of Art, CA and the Centro Cultural de Tijuana, Mexico
Rogue Wave ’05: Nineteen Artists from Los Angeles, L.A. Louver, Venice
African Queen, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York

2004
California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach
Perspectives @25: A Quarter-Century of New Art in Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
New Balance Frontier, Soap Factory, Minneapolis
Broad Territories, UCR/California Museum of Photography, Riverside
Fade (1990-2003), Luckman Gallery and University Fine Arts Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, and Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles

2003
ARCO 2003, Madrid, Spain
Lean To, Real Art Ways, Hartford
Black Belt, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York

2002
Mirror Image, UCLA Hammer Museum; travels to Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson
Pertaining to Painting, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; travels to Austin Museum of Art, Austin
Painting as Paradox, Artists Space, New York
Mixed Feelings, USC Fisher Gallery, Los Angeles
Ghetto Fabulous, Watts Tower Art Center, Los Angeles

2001
Freestyle, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; travels to Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica
Snapshots: New Art from Los Angeles, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; travels to Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami Beach
Capital Art, 2001, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica

2000
Contemporary Art by African American Artists, The Art Museum of Princeton
Fresh Cut Afros, Watts Towers Gallery, Los Angeles
Black Male, Reginald Ingraham Gallery, Los Angeles

1999
A Place Called Lovely, Greene Naftali, New York
Biennale Internazionale 1999, Palazzo degli Affari, Florence, Italy

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White Cube gallery
Sikkema Jenkins

Born in Vienna, Austria in 1974
Lives and works in Vienna and Brussels

EDUCATION
2000
Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (under Professor Albert Oehlen)

1996
Kunstakademie Münster (under Professor Timm Ulrichs)

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2013

Vienna, Strabag Kunstforum, March 8 - April 5, 2013
New York, Marianne Boesky Gallery, "Svenja Deininger", January – February, 2013

2012
Krems, Austria, Kunsthalle Krems/Factory, "Svenja Deininger", July 13 – September 30, 2012

2011
Vienna, Bank Austria Kunstforum, Tresor
Berlin, Koffer
Vienna, Wiener Art Foundation, "Black Pages: Svenja Deininger"

2010
Vienna, Galerie Martin Janda

2009
Vienna, Thomas K. Lang Gallery at Webster University, "12 seconds with the current", November 11 – December 18, 2009
Vienna, Praterstraße 48, "Svenja Deininger", March 24 - April 4, 2010

2008
Warsaw, Österreichisches Kulturforum, "Zatracone po drodze"

2007
Vienna, layrwüstenhagen contemporary, "Da War Nichts"
Rome, Forum austriaco di cultura, "Who made this hole?"
Berlin, Project space Kapitalistischer Realismus, "Who made your horizon?"

2005
Vienna, layrwüstenhagen, "Mit dir bis zum geht nicht mehr"

2004
Essen, Germany, Kunstraum Essen, "Dann wuchs der Weg zu den Augen zu"


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2013

Solothurn, Switzerland, Kunstmuseum Solothurn, "Das Doppelte Bild", June 1 – August 2013

2012

Vienna, Galerie Lisa Ruyter, "Abstraktion und Subtraktion"

Vienna, Galerie Martin Janda, "Passage"
Vienna, 21er Haus, Belvedere, "Die Sammlung"

2011
Vienna, Strabag Art Lounge, "Strabag Art Award"
Düsseldorf, Petra Rinck Galerie, "Svenja Deininger / Anne Neukamp / Max Schulze / Markus Amm", November 4 - December 23, 2011
Berlin, Praterstraße Berlin, Karina Bruckner, "Svenja Deininger, Hanako Geierhos, Taft Green, Florian Neufeldt, Michael Part, Rudolf Steckholzer, Paul Wagner"
Andratx, Spain, Kunsthalle CCA Andratx, "10 Anos del Programa de Residencias"

2010
Schattendorf, Austria, Kunstverein Schattendorf, "Fahrenheit"
Vienna, Kunsthalle Vienna, "Lebt und arbeitet in Wien III"
Vienna, Ve.Sch – Raum für Form für bildende Kunst, "Ein ungenaues Gespräch"

2009
Salzburg, Austria, dock 48, "On Escape"
Hamburg, bell street project space, Kunst.festival.off, "Subvision"
Vienna, bell street project space, "Splits"
Vienna, Sammlung Lenikus, S"chnitzel Schmiss und Wiener Auster", (with Carsten Fock, Nick Oberthaler)
Vienna, Galerie Martin Janda, "Dark Side of the Moon"

2008
Chicago, Guertin’s Graphics, "Give up"
Vienna, Parlament der Republik Österreich, "Hommage an die Zeichnung"

2007
Düsseldorf, Projectspace acapulco, "Bye bye acapulco"
Vienna, Intoposition, "Bauernmarkt – 8 positions"
Munich, layrwüstenhagen, "Open Art"
Shabla, Bulgaria, "Shabla-Transfer"

2006
Vienna, T-Center, "T - Mobile Art Award 2006"
Vienna, Atelier Bauernmarkt, Vehikel, "aquarellbluten goes Vienna"
Rome, Österreichatelier, "RomAntiCo."

2005
Cologne, aquarellbluten, "Kollektives Bewußtsein"
Vienna, Atelier Bauernmarkt, "In the memory of Aaron Kincaid"

2004
Cologne, aquarellbluten, "loser lodge"
Klagenfurt, Austria, Galerie Judith Walker, "Face to face"
Cologne, Neumann + Luz, Heimat ist da, "wo man sich nicht erklären muß"
Düsseldorf, Kunstpunkte im Salzmannbau
Cologne, Rheinschau, "art cologne projects, aquarellbluten"
Essen, Germany, Kunstraum Essen, "Index 04 Malerei"

2003
Essen, Germany, Kunstraum Essen, "Sex & Crime"
Cologne, KunstKlubKöln / aquarellbluten, "Finde Klarheit in dunklen Wassern und brenne"
Magdeburg, Denmark, Art and Culture Foundation, "Award Exhibition"
Brussels, S. Marquardt & Gallery, "Meiner Liebe entkommst du nicht"

2002
Cologne, Galerie Fiebach & Minninger, "Private View"
Vienna, layrwüstenhagen contemporary, "cut outs"

HONORS AND DISTINCTIONS
2012
Strabag Award, Vienna
Artist in Residency, WIELS, Brussels
Staatsstipendium des bmukk, Vienna

2011
Studio Programm CCA Andratx, Mallorca, Spain

2010
Georg Eisler-Preis der Bank Austria, Vienna
Atelierstipendium Krumau, Bundeskanzleramt der Republik Österreich, Krumau, Czech Republic

2009
Kunststiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf

2008
Atelierstipendium, Österreichisches Kulturforum Warsaw

2007
Atelierstipendium Rom, Bundeskanzleramt der Republik Österreich, Rome

2006
Kunststiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf


PUBLICATIONS

2013

Heinrich, Will. “‘Svenja Deininger: One Second Balance’ at Marianne Boesky Gallery,” The New York Observer / Gallerist NY, January 29, 2013.

Farzin, Media. “Svenja Deininger’s One Second Balance.” Art Agenda, February 6, 2013.

2009
Svenja Deininger, Neue Arbeiten, Remaprint, Wien

Links

Marianne Boesky Gallery