Month: December 2008

KRISTOFFER AKSELBO WINNER OF DOROTHEA VON STETTEN ART PRIZE 2008


KRISTOFFER AKSELBO WINNER OF DOROTHEA VON STETTEN ART PRIZE 2008

Kirkhoff is proud to announce, that Kristoffer Akselbo is the winner of the prestigous Dorothea Von Stetten Art Prize 2008.

Since 1984, the Dorothea von Stetten Art Prize has been awarded every two years to an artist under the age of 37. Five independent curators, closely familiar with the younger art scene, select five participants. Anders Kold, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark selected Kristoffer Akselbo.

The majority of the independent jury voted for Kristoffer Akselbo, appreciating his artistic attitude and the ideas and concepts, with which he meets the world: “With lightness and glimpse in the eye his precise and truly contemporary works unfold between nature, technology and culture; between glamour and monotony. He reflects on both the uncontrolled and the controlled, and this is done without pathos, but with a lot of ironic distance.”

The winner receives EUR 10,000 and the prize is furthermore connected with a group exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Bonn showing all the five participants’ works. Two new works by Kristoffer Akselbo can thus be seen at the exhibition Dorothea Von Stetten-Kunstpreis 2008 Until February 15th 2009, at Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany.

Kirkhoff

Mark Wallinger’s ‘Underworld’


Vane is delighted to announce it able to offer the last few available editions of the Mark Wallinger print ‘Underworld’. The print was produced to accompany the multi-screen video work, ‘Underworld’, commissioned by Newcastle-based Locus+ and first shown at the city’s Laing Art Gallery in 2004. Wallinger has represented Great Britain at the Venice Biennale (2001) and won the prestigious Turner Prize (2007).

‘Underworld’ is a limited edition A4 giclée print using archival inks on Somerset 250gsm velvet enhanced paper. Produced in an edition of 150, unframed, signed by the artist and numbered.

UK price is £150 including postage & packaging. Please contact us for prices for delivery outside of the UK.

Vane


Ulf Puder


Ulf Puder :

Kavi Gupta is pleased to announce the solo exhibition of the Leipzig-based painter Ulf Puder.

Ulf Puder’s latest series of paintings describes the artist’s unique imaginary world of desolate and haunting environments populated only by abandoned architecture and rendered in his signature muted palette. Tents, mobile homes, churches, train cars and other recreational spaces that should be occupied are left emptied and silent. Bungalows float on makeshift platforms within flooded streets; other structures seem to be in the midst of a storm. Natural disasters come to mind – places that have recently seen the unthinkable and have been left uninhabitable.

Verwerfung (Rejection, 2008) depicts what reads as a church flanked by an elevated roadway that has been split in half – a locomotive wagon is seen above looming over the edge. The imagery spells out a horrifying scenario, though the artist paints the seen teetering from abstraction to representation. The space is beautiful, the sky is blue without evidence of what has occurred or perhaps in this case what is about to occur. When one encounters another image in the exhibition titled Hub the structures collapse even further re-emphasizing the ongoing decay and fragility of these enigmatic places.

Ulf Puder was born in Leipzig, 1958 where he currently lives and works. Puder belongs to the first tier of famous graduates from the Leipziger Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst (Academy of Visual Arts) and along with his peer, Neo Rauch, he was on the forefront of painters creating a new vocabulary that combined the neo-realism prevalent in the former Eastern Germany with a surrealistic bent. Ulf Puder has had solo exhibitions at Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg, Dogenhaus Galerie Leipzig, Torch Gallery, Amsterdam and Artcore Gallery, Toronto. He has also been included in group exhibitions including Future Tense at the Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY; Archipeinture at Le Plateau, Paris and at the Camden Art Centre, London; The Painter of Modern Life, Museum de Paviljoens, Almere, NL; Kunsthaus Dresden; Museo Municipal de Malaga; and New German Painting at the Prague Biennale 2.

Kavi Gupta