My art comes from an urge to explore. I like
the countryside. I like a good view. And once I’m face to face with a lovely scenery, I feel immediately tempted
to find out what it’s concealing. The dark goings-on behind the façade
of nature, you might say, or the hidden machinations of the animal kingdom.
To imagine and express this, I usually tap the lines linking religious
icon art, renaissance painting and comic culture. I am particularly thrilled
by the kind of spiritual terror you find expressed in the paintings of
the old Flemish masters, and I’m trying to find out what happens
when you apply that mood to the serene and harmless world of rural folk
art.
I am based in Hamburg, Germany, but my stuff has also been shown in such diverse
places as Estonia, New York, Paris, Saint Petersburg, Los Angeles, Seattle and
Chicago. When not busy with art or media work, I can usually be found painting
pictures with my 8-year-old-son.
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Photo by Alexander
Babic |
- 1968 born in Hamburg
- 2000 Diploma at the Hamburg University of Applied
Sciences faculty of illustration and design
Solo Shows
- 1997
Foyer for young Art of the Vereinsbank in Harburg
- 2001
“PXP-Guy presents: Black Lines” at the Gallery Hinterconti,
Hamburg
- 2004
"Legendae Aureae" at the German Culture Institute in Tartu/Estonia
(photos)
upcoming:
- 2009
"Stay Awake" at the Jack Fischer Gallery in San Francisco, CA
Selected Group Shows
- 1997
"Junge Hamburger" 3 man show together
with Henning Kles and
Till Gerhard at the Studio Gallery, Hamburg
- "Experiment Bilderbuch" at the City
Museum Oldenburg
- 1998
several shows together with Büchergilde
Gutenberg in Hamburg, Frankfurt and Berlin.
- 2001
"S.K.A.M.finale" at the S.K.A.M. Studio
in Hamburg
- “Kopfankopf in AUGENHÖHE” at
the Kunststück, Hamburg
- 2003
“Tag der Toten” 3 man show together
with Henning Kles and Till Gerhard at Feinkunst Krüger,
Hamburg (photos)
- 2005
"Territory #4" exhibition & release
party, OFR Publications, Paris
- "14 Illustratoren" at Galeria Pequena,
Frankfurt am Main (photos)
- "Spezialitäten" at Feinkunst Krüger,
Hamburg (photos)
- 2006
"Visual Residue" at CB's 313 Gallery,
New York (photos)
- "Winged Doom vs. Reeperbahn Rumble" with
Marcus Schäfer at Feinkunst Krüger, Hamburg
(45
photos 2,5MB )
- "Haare" at Galeria Pequena, Frankfurt
am Main (photos)
- "That New Dork Smell " at Toyroom, Sacramento
(photos)
- "Beasts" at Belle & Wissell, Seattle
(photos)
- "Don't Wake Daddy" at Feinkunst Krüger,
Hamburg, Germany (photos)
- "NeighborWOOD" at Compound Gallery,
Portland, OR (photos)
- 2007
"The Wurstminster Dog Show", Portland,
OR (photos)
- "Charity by Numbers", Los Angeles, CA
(photos, Vox11
News Clip)
- "Happily Ever After?" Seattle, WA (photos)
- "Art Dorks Collective" at Thinkspace Art Gallery,
Los Angeles, CA (video, photos, more
photos)
- "Art Dorks Squared" at The McCaig-Welles Gallery,
Brooklyn, NYC (photos, more
photos)
- "Rome is Burning/The New School" at The Foster Gallery
- Haas Fine Arts
Center in Eau Claire, WI (photos)
- "Don't Wake Daddy II" at Feinkunst Krüger & RAUM
21, Hamburg, Germany (photos)
- "Wishful Thinking" at The Project Gallery, Los Angeles,
CA (photos)
- 2008
"Deep Pop" at the Kenneth Chapman Gallery, New Rochelle,
NY (photos)
- "Pop Subversion" at Ad Hoc Art, Brooklyn, NY (photos)
- "A Cabinet Of Natural Curiosities" at the Roq La
Rue Gallery, Seattle, WA (photos)
- "The World of Urban Contemporary" Art at Intoxicated
Demons, Berlin, Germany (photos)
- "Enjoy it while it lasts" at the DVA Gallery, Chicago,
IL (photos)
- "4 Faces of Foofaraw" at Feinkunst Krüger, Hamburg, Germany (photos)
- "10 Jahre Feinkunst Krüger" at the Westwerk,
Hamburg, Germany (photos)
- "The Inaugural Show" at T & P Fine Art,
Philadelphia, PA (photos)
- "Don't Wake Daddy III" at Feinkunst Krüger,
Hamburg, Germany (photos)
- "X-MAS 08" at Galleri Christoffer Egelund, Copenhagen,
Denmark (photos)
- 2009
"Mixed Palette" at the Recoat Gallery, Glasgow,
Scotland (photos)
- "Superschool" (curated by Lola) at Copro Nason Gallery,
Santa Monica, CA (photos)
- "OCHO número atómico" at ROJO Artspace
Barcelona, Spain (photos)
- "Boarding Gat"e (curated by Alexandra Kollaros)
at K-art, Athens (photos)
- "Kunst im Tresor", Munich, Germany (photos, more
photos)
- "Urban Art" at Galleri Jan|Zen, Aalborg,
Denmark (photos)
- "Wanderlust 333", at Wanderlust Gallery and
Studio, Nothampton, UK (photos)
upcoming:
- 2009
- "Don't Wake Daddy IV" at Feinkunst Krüger,
Hamburg, Germany
- 2010
"
DEAD_lines" (curated by Prof. Dr. Birgit Richard & Dr.
Oliver Zybok,
Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany
- "Tag der Toten II" at Feinkunst Krüger,
Hamburg, Germany
Art Fairs
- 2007
Fountain New York, NYC
- Scope Basel, Switzerland (photos)
- Red Dot Fair, Miami, FL
- Fountain Art Fair, Miami, FL
Selected Publications
- 2002
Lodown
#34 (Berlin)
- 2003
Elegy #12/03 (Paris)
- 2004
1x1
Pixel-Based Illustration & Design (Barcelona)
- Freewave (Booth
Clibborn Editions, London)
- 2005
Freistil
2 - Best of European Commercial Illustration
- Defrag #7 (Italy)
- Territory
#4 - The Mood of Gothic (BigBrosWorkshop, Malaysia)
- 2006
The
Darkening Garden (Payseur & Schmidt, Seattle)
- Beasts! (Fantagraphics,
Seattle)
- 2007
dpi
Magazine (Taiwan)
- LOW Magazine (Germany)
- a5 Magazine
- Fantasy issue (Israel)
- LetGo Magazine (Los
Angeles, CA)
- Paper
Tiger Comix #4 (Paper Tiger, UK)
- Empty Magazine (Australia)
- Castle
Magazine #11 (Germany)
- ISM Autumn
Issue v. 04 i. 03 (Los Angeles, CA)
- ARGH! (Valencia,
Spain)
- Jitter
Magazin (Berlin)
- Cimaise -
Ceci est un magazine d'ars (Paris)
- Belio
Magazine (Madrid)
- D/Zines (LANDA
Designer, Münster)
- 2008
Stirato (Rome)
- Underground
Culture from all Parts of the World (Shoeisha, Japan)
- NOVUM (Munich)
- Heiko
Müller - Stay Awake (ROJO, Barcelona)
- Pep! (Hungary)
- Good vs
Evil #1 (London)
- AURORA
Artzine #1 (Germany)
- Color-Ink-Book Comic-Con
Edtion by The Brothers Washburn (Oceanside, CA)
- Proteus
Mag #5 (PDF magazine)
- Spooky
Calendar 2009 by Die Gestalten Verlag (Berlin)
- Pocketful
#1 (Istanbul)
- The
Upset: Young Contemporary Art by Die Gestalten Verlag (Berlin)
- Color-Ink-Book
#1 APE Edtion by The Brothers Washburn (Oceanside, CA)
- Good vs.
Evil #2 (London)
- 2009
VIZIOmag #3 (E-Zine)
- a5 Magazine
- Childhood issue (Israel)
- La Cruda #2 (Barcelona,
Spain)
- Juxtapoz #98 (San
Francisco, USA)
- 6M1P #11 (Toulouse,
France)
- BG Magazine
#41 Animal issue (Ecuador)
- ROJO,
Project OCHO, Número Atómico (Barcelona, Spain)
- Boarding
Gate Catalog, (Athens, Greece)
- Jitter
Magazin (Berlin, Germany)
- Semi
Permanent 2009 (Sydney, Australia)
- DODOS (Seoul,
Korea)
- Almost
Art #2 (Nürnberg, Germany)
- La Cruda #3 (Barcelona,
Spain)
- W Korea - Green
issue (Korea)
- Fat Chunk
#2 (London, UK)
- O2 Magazine #1 (Beijing, China)
upcoming:
- 2009
- a5 Magazine
- Hero issue (Israel)
- Rainbow
Birds by Foi Jimenez Jurado and Charles Glaubitz
(Tijuana, Mexico)
- The
Ark (by DGPH, Argentina)
- Good vs.
Evil #3 (London, UK)
- Chimera (Los
Angeles, USA)
- GRIMM #1 (Hamburg/Berlin,
Germany)
- O2 Magazine - Magic Box (Beijing, China)
- Los Colores del Underground. Más allá del Surrealismo
Pop by Joan S. Luna (Barcelona)
- 2010
DEAD_Lines Catalog, (Goethe Universität Frankfurt)
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