Exhibition
SVEN DRÜHL
Permutation
29 April – 9 July 2017
The painter, mathematician, writer and art historian Sven Drühl focusses on motives he finds in landscape paintings of the last two centuries. He now shows his works at Caspar David Friedrich's birthplace.
Sven Drühl, CDF, 150 x 150 cm, Lack auf Leinwand
Foto: Lepkowski Studios, Berlin, © Sven Drühl, Courtesy: CONRADS, Düsseldorf und Alexander Ochs Private, Berlin
Sven Drühl, SDWT, 2016, 110 x 110 cm , Lack auf Leinwand
Foto: Lepkowski Studios, Berlin, © Sven Drühl, Courtesy: CONRADS, Düsseldorf und Alexander Ochs Private, Berlin
The exhibition's title „Permutation“ indicates the guiding principle of Sven Drühl's work – he creates new works of art by combining multiple elements from a given number of landscape motives, among them quotations from paintings by Caspar David Friedrich, André Derain, Edward Theodore Compton, from Japanese woodcuts of the 1920ies, from photographies by Alfred Renger-Patzsch, Sebastião Salgado or Wolfgang Tillmans, and recently also from digital computer graphics. Due to the use of particular means such as silicon, oil or lacquer, a new artificial nature appears. Landscapes are mostly reduced to their outlines, natural colourfulness is abandoned in favour of diachronic pictures, e.g. in black and white, or monochrome night images, where only contours stand out against a black background.
Sven Drühl studied Art and Mathematics at the University of Essen. He was visiting lecturer in Essen, Frankfurt a. M., Dresden, Leipzig, and in 2011 guest professor in Hangzhou, China. Among the prizes he was awarded, is the Grant of the Pollock-Krasner-Foundation, New York. Besides, he received a PhD in Fine Arts and distinguished himself as theoretician and curator. Since 2005, he has dedicated himself to painting exclusively. Sven Drühl lives and works in Berlin.
Sven Drühl
Foto: Marie Schempershofe, Essen, © Sven Drühl
Biography
1968
born in Nassau, Germany
1991-96
Art and Mathematics, Universität GH Essen
2002-04
Grant of Volkswagen-Stiftung Hannover
2003
Grant of X. Rohkunstbau, Berlin
2005
Thesis Dr. phil.
2007
Falkenrot-Price for Painting, Berlin
2008
Grant of Pollock-Krasner-Foundation, New York
2016
Fellowship of Honor, Künstlerhaus Lukas, Ahrenshoop
1997-99
Teaching Universität GH Essen
1999-02
Teaching Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
2004
Lecture Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden
2008
Lecture Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig
2011
Guest-Professor for Painting CDK Hangzhou, China (Cooperation with UdK Berlin)
Sven Drühl lives and works in Berlin
Solo exhibitions
2017
Simulationen. Landschaft jenseits der Wirklichkeit, Kunsthaus Nürnberg
Permutation, Caspar-David-Friedrich-Zentrum, Greifswald
2016
Simulationen. Landschaft jenseits der Wirklichkeit, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin (Cat.)
Shin Hanga - Japanische Landschaften, Kallmann-Museum, Ismaning
Landscape Engineer, CONRADS, Düsseldorf
2015
Shin Hanga - Japanische Landschaften, Stadtgalerie Kiel (Cat.)
Die Erfindung der Landschaft, WIMMERplus, Prien (with Hiroyuki Masuyama)
Shin Hanga - Japanische Landschaften, Museum DKM, Duisburg
2014
Shin-hanga Prolog, Alexander Ochs Galleries Berlin
Architekturen, Haus am Lützowplatz zu Gast im IG Metall-Gebäude, Berlin
2013
Werke 2001-2013, Von der Heydt-Kunsthalle, Wuppertal, (Cat.)
Interpretation, Kunstverein Schwäbisch-Hall
2012
ArchScape, Alexander Ochs Galleries, Berlin
Neon, Galerie Hartwich, Sellin auf Rügen
Strategien gegen Architekturen, LEVY Galerie, Hamburg (Cat.)
Strategien gegen Architekturen II, Nord LB Gallery, Hannover
2011
Totentanz. Bilder und Skulpturen, Hospitalhof Stuttgart (Cat.)
Archiscapes, B-05 Kunst- und Kulturzentrum, Montabaur
My War, Gloria, Berlin
2010
Shades of Grey, Galleri S.E., Bergen, Norway (Cat.)
2008
Engineering Utopia, Galerie Michael Schultz, Berlin
Landscapism, Michael Schultz Gallery, Seoul, South Korea (Cat.)
Black Paintings, Galerie der Stadt Remscheid
blackscapes, Schultz Gallery Beijing, Beijing, China (Cat.)
The Modernist, Galerie der Stadt Backnang
2007
Falkenrot-Preis 2007, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (Cat.)
Undead, FS.Art, Berlin
2006
artistic research, Zeppelin-Museum, Friedrichshafen
artistic research, Museum der Stadt Ratingen (Cat.)
Alpenterror, Städtische Galerie Waldkraiburg
coloured and black, Galerie Clara Maria Sels, Düsseldorf
2005
Serielle Landschaften, Scharpf-Galerie/Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen
Reload, gip contemporary, Zürich, Switzerland
Poplieferanten Zwei, Gesellschaft der Freunde junger Kunst, Baden-Baden (with Stefan Wissel)
2004
Poplieferanten, Flottmann-Hallen, Herne (with Stefan Wissel, Cat.)
Chimären, galerie im park, Burgdorf, Switzerland
2003
Der Sieg der Trophäe, Künstlerverein Malkasten, Düsseldorf
bastard paintings, büro für kunst, Dresden (Cat.)
2002
Die Aufregung, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen (Cat.)
Die Aufregung, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund
Remix, Fassbender Stevens Gallery, Chicago, USA
Group exhibitions
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