Artist's statement:
Even as a child of 2, I had a strong affinity for using a pencil to put my experiences from my small world on paper in countless repetitions and variations. It was a process of amazement and comprehension. Of course, it was also a process of research and analysis. I was happy and completely at peace with myself. It was the expression and living out of my fascination, joy and interest in what I had seen and experienced.
Painting is still my way and my way of dealing with my environment, the best way to understand and reflect on things, the best way to be in the moment and in the now. When I paint, I am in a flow. It is also my language to explain these things to the world. To show something in a way that perhaps no one else has seen it before. I draw from my immediate surroundings, first and foremost from the abundance of nature that surrounds me. It is often moments of light that inspire me, often water and reflections. Often it's completely incidental phenomena that are worth seeing and painting.
It's about emotions, moods, maybe even meditation. My aim is to create images that are not primarily accessible through the mind and reading long explanations. I'm happy when the viewer finds themselves looking at my work, and they can do that with their own associations. For me, most of the pictures have a reference to a place, but this does not necessarily determine the content.
I can best summarize what drives me with the words of a good old colleague Nikolaus Störtenbecker, who once said: "...that it is the pure joy of creating!
(German to English translation by DeepL)
2000 - 2003 Apprenticeship in product design/textile, Plauenseit
2001 Solo and group exhibitions in Germany, later in the Netherlands and Belgium
2001 - 2003 Artistic mentoring by Manfred Feiler, Plauen
2003 - 2010 Studied at the Kunsthochschule Kassel, graduated 2010
2010 Moved to Hamburg
Since 2011 Studio in Hamburg-Bergedorf
Since 2012 Member of the BBK Hamburg
Since 2018 Member of the renowned artist group "Norddeutsche Realisten" and regular participation in joint Plein Air symposiaThe artist lives with his wife and two daughters in Hamburg, where he also has his studio and works.his works are in public and private ownership
Awards
2013 Dr. Marlene Trentwedel Foundation, Young Talent Award Winner
2018 Uwe Lüders Scholarship from the Sparkassenstiftung Lüneburg
Selected Exhibitions
2024 Künstlermuseum Heikendorf (Group); Grenning Gallery, NewYork (with Steven Levin, & Melissa F. Sanchez); Gallery Tobien (Group); Kunstschaffen Flensburg (Group); Galerie Felix Jud Hamburg (Group)
2023 Friesenmuseum Wyk auf Föhr (Solo); Overbeckmuseum/Hafenmuseum/Geschichtenhaus Bremen with the
Norddeutsche Realisten (Group); Kunstverein Elmshorn (Solo); Kunstverein Hanau, Remise Schloss Phillipstruhe (Solo); Kunstverein Stade with Knud Plambeck; Huntenkunst (Group); Robbe & Berking Werft Flensburg (Group); Tempowerk,
Hamburg (Solo); Galerie Tobien, St. Peter Ording (Group); Galerie Felix Jud, 100 years, 100 artists, 100 works (Group); Participation in the symposium of the North German Realists in Brittany Part II
2022 Galerie Göldner (Solo); Galerie11 Itzehoe (Solo); Probstei Museum Schönberg with Meike Lipp; Robbe & Berking Werft Flensburg (Group); Tempowerk Hamburg (Group); Galerie im Elysee with the North German Realists (Group)
2021 Felix Jud, Hamburg: 30 Positions on the North German Landscape (Group); Duna Atelier Katwijk, Netherlands with the North German Realists (Group)
the North German Realists (Group); Galerie AC Noffke, Ratzburg with the North German Realists (Group); Galerie33, Friedrichstadt (Solo); Galerie Halbach, Celle with the North German Realists (Group); KunstSchaffen in der Robbe & Berking Werft, Flensburg (Group); Galerie im Grand Elysee Hamburg with the North German Realists (Group)
2020 Felix Jud Hamburg (Solo), Galerie im Grand Elysee Hamburg with Lars Möller, Galerie Göldner (Solo)
2019 Hanseoffice Brussels (Solo); Galerie Elbchaussee (Solo); Kunstverein Bad Segeberg Villa Flath (Solo); Reepschlägerhaus Wedel (Solo); Friesenmuseum in Wyk auf Föhr with the North German Realists
2018 Kulturbäckerei Lüneburg (Solo); Mühle Malstedt (Group); Torhaus Wellingsbüttel (Group); ArtKamen (Group)
2017 Borghorster Mühle, Hamburg (Group); Huntenkunst, Ulft (Niderlande) (Group)
2016 Museum Schloss Bergedorf und Vierlande with Knud Plambeck; Emslandmuseum Schloss Clemenswerth (Group);
Huntenkunst, Ulft (Niderlande) (Group); AlsterArt, Hamburg (Group)
2015 OpenAirGallery Berlin (Group); Altonale Hamburg (Group); Pflegen und Wohnen Hamburg Marienthal (Solo); AlsterArt, Hamburg (Group)
2014 Galerie Artworks, Hamburg (Solo), Ravenborg, Hamburg Blankenese (Group); KVG Stade (Group); Kleine Kunstmesse Bergedorfer Mühle (Group); Exhibition on the occasion of the Andreas Art Prize, St.Andreasberg Harz (Group); ViaCafelier, Hamburg (Solo)
2013 Vattenfall Hamburg (Solo); Eppendorf AG Hamburg (Solo); Bremervörde Town Hall with Matthias Weber (Art Prize of the Dr. Marlene Trendwedel Foundation); AlsterArt, Hamburg (Group); Altonale, Hamburg (Group); Rathaus Reinbek (Solo)
2000-2012 Fabrik der Künste Hamburg "Position" BBK Neuzugänge (Group); Bergedorfer Kunstschau (Group); AlsterArt, Hamburg (Group); Altonale, Hamburg (Group); Barockschloss Orangerie Kassel (Solo); Bürgerhaus Stützengrün, Erzg. (Solo);
Open Studio, Kassel (Solo); Akademie Schweiger&Schmitt Plauen (Solo); Klinikum Obergöltzsch Rodewisch (Solo); Artists' weekends at the Malzhaus Plauen cultural center, Vgtl. (Group)
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