Presence of Düsseldorf and Leipzig
Jan Dörre l After the Dragonflies - 2021 Oil and egg tempera on MDF l 31 x 41 cm. Gallery Kerstin Leuenroth
Graduates of the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst (HGB) in Leipzig and the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf are represented in numerous galleries. The gallery owner Kerstin Leuenroth has created an extensive portfolio of Leipzig painters over the years. So also with Jan Dörrewho has been represented by the gallery since 2006. He composes familiar objects, birds and food into enigmatic still lifes. At the same time, porcelain ceramics by Beate Höing will be on display. In reference to the eponymous piece of music by Miles Davis, the title of the exhibition "Bye Bye Blackbird" reflects recurring motifs and poetry in both artists' oeuvres[BC1].
The olfactory installation "NEUWAGEN" by Christian Kölbl can be seen and smelled at Studio Michael Riedel.
The Frankfurt artist Michael Riedelwho maintains his studio in the Bahnhofsviertel and runs the Freitagsküche, has been a professor at the HGB Leipzig since 2017. His former student Christian Kölbl is now presenting an installation on its premises that deals with the olfactory semantics of new cars. It is a high-quality perfume produced and mounted in an installation that evokes the pristine interior of a new car with its flowery, leathery, metallic smell.
To mark the start of the Frankfurt gallery season, Galerie Hannah Bekker vom Rath is showing the painter Robert Klümpen (*1973) with his studio-fresh, large-format floral still lifes, which bring together the abstract and the figurative.
At the start of the season the Gallery Hanna Bekker vom Rath for the second time works by the painter Robert Klümpen in a solo exhibition. The artist, who trained at the Düsseldorf Academy under A. R. Penck and Dieter Krieg, has been a professor at the HBK Braunschweig since 2022.
Other artists represented from the Düsseldorf School are the painter Maximilian Siegenbruk at Monica Ruppert Gallery and the photographer and student of Bernd Becher Laurenz Berges at the Wilma Tolksdorf Gallery.
Room by Max, 2021, Laurenz Berges on view at Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf.
