Peter Schloer in October

From October 11 to November 9 Obrist Gallery will exhibit selected works by renown Mannheim-based photo artist Peter Schlör. His recent works have a pictorial approach. The artist uses natural phenomena like the sea, clouds, mountains or forests, to achieve a painterly surface in his pictures: the different structures and consistencies assemble to abstract picture …

David Lynch At Berliner Liste

From Wednesday, 18 September, 2013, we will be showing a One-Artist-Show with lithographies by American artist and film maker David Lynch at “Berliner Liste – Fair for Contemporary Art”. Booth# G0.01 Berliner Liste Opening Reception Wednesday, Sep. 18, 15-22h Opening Hours Sep. 19-22, 13-21h, Sunday until 19h Location: KRAFTWERK Berlin Köpenicker Straße 70, 10179 Berlin

Dieter Kränzlein and Till Augustin

From the 6th of September to the 5th October Galerie Obrist is exhibiting selected pieces by the two renowned sculptors Dieter Kränzlein and Till Austin. The artists use materials that appear static, solid and motionless by nature. Nevertheless, both artists succeeded in inverting the properties of the materials and turned them into light, flexible and …

Opening Reception Hanakam and Schuller

Until the 3rd of August, we will be showing the current art project “Interface” by Markus Hanakam and Roswitha Schuller in Dusseldorf. At yesterday’s opening reception Prof. Dr. Ferdinand Ullrich, director of the Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, conducted a conversation with the Vienna-based artist couple. Aside from that the artists gave an introduction into their work by …

Hanakam and Schuller in Düsseldorf

From the 25th of July to the 3rd of August, we will show the current art project “Interface” by Markus Hanakam and Roswitha Schuller in Dusseldorf. The opening on the 25th of July 2013 includes a discussion with Hanakam & Schuller lead by Prof. Dr. Ferdinand Ullrich, as well as a short presentation by the …

Exhibition Julia Willms

Until 24 August, 2013, we show the exhibition A WORLD by Julia Willms and Andrea Bozic. In the center of the Essen exhibition is the work “The Avantgarde Never Gives Up”. Julia Willms: A World. 21-29 June, 2013 Galerie Obrist@EY5, Mutter Ey-Straße 5, 40213 Düsseldorf 29 June – 24 August, 2013 Galerie Obrist, Kahrstraße 59, …

Julia Willms: Prologue in Düsseldorf

[nggallery id=15] Until 29 June Julia Willms and Andrea Bozic will be showing their work “A WORLD” at Mutter Ey-Straße 5 in Düsseldorf, a manifest, which changes its shape, depending on the context of its placement. At EY5 it is an audiovisual space installation for a visitor and an empty gallery space with an outside …

Press Release Julia Willms

Utopia of the art space In a two-parted exhibition media artist Julia Willms presents current works from 21. to 29. of June at EY5 in Düsseldorf and from the 29. of June to 24. of August at Obrist Gallery in Essen. Entitled „A World“ the exhibition shows works, which were created in collaboration with choreographer …

Martin Schwenk in Schwaebisch Gmuend

From 14 June Martin Schwenk will be showing a solo exhibition at Museum Galerie im Prediger, Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany. Martin Schwenk. Affentellerschraubenblockbaumbuster. 14 June – 1 September, 2013 Opening Reception Friday 14 June, 2013, 7 p.m. Galerie im Prediger, Johannisplatz 3, D-73525 Schwäbisch Gmünd www.museum-galerie-fabrik.de

Exhibition Julia Willms in June

In a two-part exhibition we show work by Amsterdam based artist Julia Willms: At EY5 Dusseldorf we present the audio installation “A WORLD”, which has been conceptualized together with Andrea Bozic. – Again the gallery space is subject to a radical inquiry. On the occasion of the Opening Reception Sabine Maria Schmidt, curator at Kunsthalle …

Press Release Wiebke Bartsch

Munster based artist Wiebke Bartsch shows her new solo exhibition „I Could Barely Understand Myself“ at Galerie Obrist until 15 June. With her paintings, drawings and plastic works Bartsch is concerned with questions of identity, role models, physicalness and sexuality, which she comments laconically, often with a humorous punchline. Vollständige Pressemitteilung auf OpenPR Wiebke Bartsch: …

Martin Schwenk in Dusseldorf

After our 2012 solo exhibition “Commander Mulroy” we now give a further insight into the work of Martin Schwenk in Düsseldorf. The clear and well-proportional space of the gallery at Mutter-Ey-Straße 5 will be a “walk-in display cabinet” for his few precise positings. CV Martin Schwenk… Martin Schwenk 10-21 April, 2013 Opening Reception: 12 April, …

David Lynch. Transient.

David Lynch became popular with movies such as “Blue Velvet“, “Wild at heart“ or the series “Twin Peaks“. What many don’t know about him: he began his career as a fine artist so that many movies contain processes derived from his education. Lynch (*1946, in Missoula, Montana) went to Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts …

Art Karlsruhe 2013

10 years of Art Karlsruhe, and for the 10th time Obrist Gallery will be participating! Over this period the fair has become one of the most important artfairs in the German-speaking world: Congratulations to the administration of the fair! This year the gallery has moved to hall 2. With its emphasis on current contemporary positions …

WAZ Article on Jürgen Paas

In the WAZ Westdeutschen Allgemeinen Zeitung of 22 January, 2013, there is a very good review of our current exhibition SPUTNIK by Jürgen Paas, text by Martina Schürmann, photograph Kerstin Kokoska. Jürgen Paas: Sputnik II. 23. Januar – 9. Februar 2013. Galerie Obrist @ EY5 – Mutter-Ey-Straße 5, 40213 DüsseldorfJürgen Paas: Sputnik I. 19 Januar …