Jan Albers, Fiona Banner, Uta Barth, Fiona Connor, Petra Cortright, Judy Ledgerwood, Philippe Parreno, Diana Thater & Rirkrit Tiravanija
9 July - 29 July 2017
Albers belongs to a young generation of conceptual artists who develop their work beyond the periodically supposed end of painting and is widely considered as one of the central positions of abstract contemporary art. Following Albers' critically acclaimed solo exhibitions at the Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven and the Von Der Heydt-Museum Wuppertal in Germany, this exhibition presents new wedge pieces, 'chainsaw massacres,' as well as his hydraulically pressed automobile pieces.
Jan Albers, John Baldessari, Fiona Banner, Fiona Connor, Kirsten Everberg, Jorge Mendez Blake, Liliana Moro, Jorge Pardo, Jessica Stockholder, SUPERFLEX, Kerry Tribe, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Paul Winstanley & Pae White
Re/Production
12 July - 2 August , 2014
Jan Albers
Fiona Banner
Fiona Connor
SUPERFLEX
Pae White
Jan Albers (b. 1971, Wuppertal, Germany) grew up in Namibia and studied at the Kunstakademie Duesseldorf. Albers’s image-works are engendered through what is, on occasion, a considerable exertion of strength, a process the artist calls “constructing”. Albers integrates heavy materials like metal or ceramics, with metal tubing needing to be cut and bent to appropriate size and holes drilled into ceramic pieces. He then assembles, or collages, the prepared materials into image-objects and even frequently attaches objects. The finished works are placed in protective Plexiglas boxes.
Major solo exhibitions have been held at the Bundeskunsthalle Bonn (2019); Sharjah Art Museum (2019); Hamburger Kunsthalle (2017); Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven (2016); Kunstpalais Erlangen; Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal (both 2015); Leopold-Hoesch-Museum; Dueren; Kunsthalle Giessen (2013); Langen Foundation, Neuss (2012). Selected group exhibitions include Transfer Korea-NRW, Seoul, South Korea; The end of the line: attitudes in drawing, organized by Hayward Touring, UK; Optical & Visionary Art since the 1960s, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX and Memorial Gallery at the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY; and Non-stop beautiful ladies, Marfa, TX. Albers was awarded the 2006 Pollock Krasner Foundation Award. His work is included in such collections as the Kunstmuseum Bonn, Museum Kunstpalast Duesseldorf or the Deutsche Bank Collection.
Jan Albers
cOlOny cOlOr
This catalog accompanies the exhibition "cOlOny cOlOr" at Von der Heydt-Museum Wuppertal and Kunstpalais Erlangen
Published by Verlag Kettler, Dortmund 2015
ISBN: 978-3-86206-455-7
Hardcover, 176 pages
Catalogue for Jan Alber's 2013 exhibition cOmeclOse Jan Albers at the Leopold-Hoesch-Museum and the Papiermuseum Duren.
Publisher: Verlag Kettler
ISBN: 978-3-86206-297-3
Jan Albers: The Energetic Grid
Maybe it was the garden-like quality of Jan Albers work that first attracted Sean to it. In his recent Henry Hurt vs. Holly Heal series (seen below) the skewed squares seem to have the character of a flower, like gridded petals blowing in the wind.
The pieces in the series have a dimensionality that expands as the as the viewing angle changes. As constructions, they're ingeniously engineered. Their texture radiates a kind of kinetic energy, seeming to move before your eyes. Their structure is both flower-like and architectural, like something made by bees in a kaleidoscope. The references to Cubism are hard to deny. The pieces are built from polystyrene (the stuff packing peanuts are made from) and/or wood and then covered in spray paint, or as in the gray piece above, graphite.