Adrian Ghenie | |
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 Portrait of Adrian Ghenie by Oliver Mark, Berlin 2014, Collection of the Bukovina Museum | |
| Born | 13 August 1977 Baia Mare, Romania |
| Nationality | Romanian |
| Known for | Painting |
Adrian Ghenie (Romanian pronunciation: [adriˈan ˈɡeni.e]; born 13 August 1977 in Baia Mare) is a contemporary Romanian painter, who lives and works in Berlin, Germany.[1]
Early life and education
The son of a dentist, he studied fine arts at the Arts and Crafts School in Baia Mare between 1991 and 1994.[2] He is a graduate of the Art and Design University of Cluj-Napoca (2001).[1]
Career
Ghenie lives and works in Cluj, Berlin, and London.[3] In 2005, he co-founded Galeria Plan B[4] in Cluj, together with Mihai Pop, a production and exhibition space for contemporary art.[5] In 2008 Plan B opened a permanent exhibition space in Berlin.[4]
His work has been widely exhibited in group and solo exhibitions, including at Tate Liverpool, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi in Florence.[3]
In June 2014 the oil on canvas painting "The Fake Rothko"[6] was sold for £1,426,000 ($2,428,140).[7]
In February 2016, the large oil on canvas painting "The Sunflowers of 1937"[8] inspired by Vincent van Gogh's famous "Sunflowers" was sold in London for £3,177,000 at a Sotheby's auction, marking it the most expensive painting sold by the Romanian artist.
Before the auction, the value of the painting was estimated between £400,000 and £600,000.[8] It belonged to the Galerie Judin[9] of Berlin, who had purchased it from the artist.
Collections
Ghenie's work is represented in numerous major museum and public collections including the Centre Georges Pompidou, the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Museum of Modern Art, Antwerp, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent.[3][7]
Style and technique
Ghenie does not use traditional tools of the painter or brushes, but a palette knife and stencils.[1] He paints portraits of 20th century figures, particularly those associated with genocide and mass suffering, that appear in his work gnawed and slashed, blurred and speckled.
His painterly style has been compared to that of Francis Bacon.[10]
Exhibitions
| 2015 | Adrian Ghenie: Darwin’s Room, Romanian Pavilion, 56th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia, Venice |
| Adrian Ghenie, Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | |
| 2014 | Adrian Ghenie, CAC Málaga, Malaga |
| Adrian Ghenie: Golems, Pace Gallery, London | |
| Adrian Ghenie: Berlin Noir, Galerie Judin, Berlin | |
| Adrian Ghenie, Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp | |
| 2013 | On the Road to … Tarascon (with Navid Nuur), Galeria Plan B, Berlin |
| Adrian Ghenie: New Paintings, Pace Gallery, New York, NY | |
| 2012 | Adrian Ghenie: Pie-Fights and Pathos, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO |
| 2011 | Adrian Ghenie, Haunch of Venison, London |
| Adrian Ghenie, Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp | |
| 2010 | Adrian Ghenie, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (S.M.A.K.), Ghent |
| Adrian Ghenie: The Hunted, Nolan Judin, Berlin | |
| Adrian Ghenie, Mihai Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | |
| 2009 | Adrian Ghenie, Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp |
| Adrian Ghenie: Darkness for an Hour, Haunch of Venison, London | |
| Adrian Ghenie, National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC), Bucharest | |
| 2008 | Adrian Ghenie: The Flight into Egypt, Nolan Judin, Berlin |
| Adrian Ghenie: Works on Paper, Galeria Plan B, Berlin | |
| Adrian Ghenie, Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp | |
| 2007 | Adrian Ghenie: Shadow of a Daydream, Haunch of Venison, Zurich |
| They said this place does not exist, Wohnmaschine, Berlin | |
| Dig and Hide, Chung King Project, Los Angeles, CA | |
| 2006 | If You Open It You’ll Get Dirty, Galeria Plan B, Cluj |
Selected group exhibitions | |
| 2014 | I will go there, take me home (with Pieter Hugo and Olaf Brzeski), Metropolitan Arts Centre (MAC), Belfast |
| Love Story: Anne & Wolfgang Titze Collection, Winter Palace and 21er Haus, Belvedere, Vienna | |
| A FEW GRAMS OF RED, YELLOW, BLUE: New Romanian Art, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw | |
| 2013 | Painting Forever, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin |
| Romanian Scenes, Espace culturel Louis Vuitton, Paris | |
| Hotspot Cluj: New Romanian Art, ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen | |
| Nightfall, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague | |
| 2012 | Francis Bacon and the Existential Condition in Contemporary Art, Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence |
| The Castle in the Air: Séance of Imagination, Centre of Culture ZAMEK, Poznan | |
| Nightfall, MODEM Centre for Modern and Contemporary Arts, Debrecen | |
| Six Lines of Flight: Shifting Geographies in Contemporary Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA | |
| European Travellers: Art from Cluj Today, Műcsarnok Kunsthalle, Budapest | |
| Beaufort04, Triennial of Contemporary Art by the Sea, Middelkerke/Westende | |
| 2011 | One of a Thousand Ways to Defeat Entropy, La Biennale di Venezia, Arsenale Novissimo, Venice |
| The World Belongs to You, François Pinault Foundation, Palazzo Grassi, Venice | |
| The Art of Climbing Mountains, 303 Gallery, New York, NY | |
| Communism Never Happened, Charim Galerie, Vienna | |
| 2010 | The Crystal Hypothesis, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, Bergamo |
| 2009 | I’ve Watered a Horseshoe as if It Were a Flower, Mihai Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| Staging the Grey: 12 Romanian and Hungarian Painters, Prague Biennale 4, Prague | |
| Show Me A Hero, Calvert 22 Gallery, London | |
| Featuring 2, Galerie Chez Valentin, Paris | |
| The Punishment of Lust and Luxury, Mihai Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | |
| 2008 | Liverpool Biennial, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool |
| Days Become Nights, Galerie Hussenot, Paris | |
| Drawings & Other Works on Paper, Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp | |
| 2007 | Expanded Painting 2, Prague Biennale 3, Prague |
| Size Matters: XS – Recent Small-Scale Paintings, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY | |
| Across the Trees, David Nolan Gallery, New York, NY | |
| Eastern European Painting Now, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX | |
| Janis Avotins, Adrian Ghenie, Andrew Palmer, Galerie Rüdiger Schoettle, Munich | |
| Adrian Ghenie and Ciprian Mureșan, Kontainer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | |
| 2006 | Cluj Connection, curated by Jane Neal, Haunch of Venison, Zurich |
| Please Drive Slowly Through Our World, Kontainer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | |
| Small Wonder, Andreiana Mihail Gallery, Bucharest | |
Monographs and catalogues | |
| 2015 | Adrian Ghenie Darwin's Room. Edited by Juerg Judin and Mihai Pop. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz |
| 2014 | Adrian Ghenie. Essays by Fernando Francés and Francisco Calvo Serraller. CAC Málaga, Malaga |
| Adrian Ghenie: Golems. Essay by Jasper Sharp. Exh. cat. Pace Gallery, London | |
| Adrian Ghenie. Edited by Juerg Judin. Essay by Mark Gisbourne. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag | |
| Adrian Ghenie. Exh. cat. Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp | |
| 2013 | Adrian Ghenie: New Paintings. Essay by Nora Burnett Abrams. Exh. cat. Pace Gallery. New York |
| 2009 | Adrian Ghenie. Edited by Juerg Judin. Essays by Anette Hüsch and Matt Price. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag |
| Adrian Ghenie: Rainbow at Dawn. Essay by Jos Van den Bergh. Exh. cat. Tim Van Laere Gallery. Antwerp | |
| 2007 | Shadow of a Daydream. Edited by Juerg Judin. Essay by Martin Coomer. Exh. cat. Haunch of Venison. Zurich and London |
References
- 1 2 3 Wright, Karen (June 5, 2014). "Adrian Ghenie, painter: 'You cannot paint this with a brush. It's simply the result of an accident'". The Independent. Archived from the original on 2014-06-06. Retrieved July 28, 2014.
- ↑ "Ioan Sbârciu, atac la Şcoala de pictură băimăreană. A sbârcit-o!" (in Romanian). Gazeta de Maramures. March 19, 2013. Retrieved July 28, 2014.
- 1 2 3 "Adrian Ghenie". pacegallery.com. Archived from the original on September 24, 2015. Retrieved January 26, 2015.
- 1 2 "Galeria Plan B". Retrieved January 26, 2015.
- ↑ "Plan B Gallery at Liste Art Fair". Blip.tv. Archived from the original on August 6, 2015. Retrieved January 26, 2015.
- ↑ "The fake Rothko by AdrianGhenie". www.artnet.com. Retrieved Oct 25, 2020.
- 1 2 Milliard, Coline (June 30, 2014). "Sotheby's London Hits High Notes with £93 Million Sale". newsartnet.com. Retrieved July 28, 2014.
- 1 2 "Painting by Romanian Adrian Ghenie sold for 3.1 million GBP in Sotheby's auction". www.agerpres.ro. Retrieved Oct 25, 2020.
- ↑ "Galerie Judin". www.galeriejudin.com. Retrieved Oct 25, 2020.
- ↑ "Adrian Ghenie". hatjecantz.de. 2013. Retrieved January 26, 2015.
External links
Media related to Adrian Ghenie at Wikimedia Commons- www.nolan-judin.de