Markus Oehlen
Markus Oehlen ( b. 1956 in Krefeld ) is a contemporary artist (painting, objects, installations, music ( punk and New Wave ) ).
Life
Markus Oehlen, the brother of Albert Oehlen, born in Krefeld in 1956. His father, Adolf Oehlen, is a graphic designer and cartoonist. From 1971 to 1973 Oehlen completed an apprenticeship as a draftsman. From 1976 to 1982 he studied at the Art Academy in Dusseldorf, where he was a master student of Alfonso Hüppi.
Oehlen is part of the environment of the Ratingen court. In 1977, he became acquainted with Martin Kippenberger. Markus Oehlen was a member of the punk band Charley 's Girls as well as lunch and incorrect colors. Mainly as a drummer, he was involved in music projects Flying class enemy, Vielleichtors, Thoughtful conscripts and Van Oehlen. He worked as a DJ in Ratingen yard.
In 1981 he formed the "Church of Ununterschiedlichkeit ", together with Werner Büttner and his brother Albert Oehlen. In the same year he exhibited at Rundschau Germany. In 1984 he was on the show from here - represented two months new German art in Dusseldorf. In 1987 he received the Berlin Art Prize. In 1993 he exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York together with Georg Herold, the exhibition " Project 39". Since 2002, Oehlen has been a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich.
Work
Oehlen is one of the main representatives of the new savages. The work is a commentary on the standardized value standards of bourgeois ideas. They revolted in the often dark-toned images against the wealth- induced apathy of the 1980s. In the tradition of Dada and Fluxus were working on the dismantling of the traditional concept of art.
Characteristic of his images is a superposition of different motifs in dense impasto style of painting, as well as bonds from pop culture. The various techniques lay the comparison with the sampling close in contemporary music. Besides painting, he also developed sculptures from polystyrene bodies.
Public collections
Germany
- German Federal Bank Art Collection, Frankfurt am Main
- Kunsthalle Weishaupt, Ulm
- Art Space Grasslin, St. Georgen
- Abbey Museum Mountain, Mönchengladbach
- Museum of Modern Art, Frankfurt am Main
- Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe
- Morsbroich Museum, Leverkusen
- Museum Villa Haiss, Gengenbach
- Collection Frieder Burda, Baden -Baden
- Collection Alison & Peter W. Klein, Eberdingen
- Collection Bayer, Leverkusen
- Collection Hanck, Dusseldorf
- Collection of contemporary art of the Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn
Austria
- Sammlung Essl - Kunsthaus, Klosterneuburg
Spain
- Centro Cultural Andratx, Andratx / Mallorca
Turkey
- Proje4L/Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art, Istanbul
USA
- Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO
Discography
- Flying Class Enemy, The * - The Flying class enemy, Line Records, 1982
- Markus Oehlen, Albert Oehlen, Immendorff, Werner Büttner, Martin Kippenberger and AR Penck - Revenge of memory, zigzag - ZZ 205 1984
- Markus Oehlen - Beer Is Enough, What's So Funny About .., 1985