Pressing Your Face In Wet Grass organized by Henning Strassburger
7. April bis 14. Mai 2017
April 7 to May 14, 2017












PRESSING YOUR FACE IN WET GRASS von/by Henning Strassburger mit/with Jan Zoeller, Aileen Murphy, Zoë Field, Anders Dickson, Maximilian Arnold, Elif Saydam, Stephanie Kösling
Dauer der Ausstellung: 17. April bis 14. Mai 2017
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PRIVATEOFFSPACE freut sich eine spannende Auswahl an Positionen junger Malerei und Skulptur von Studenten und Absolventen der Städelschule und Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe zu zeigen.
Willem de Kooning zeigte sich einst von einem Gemälde eines seiner Künstlerkollegen angetan, indem er seinen Eindruck mit “Pressing your face in wet grass” beschrieb.
Duration of the exhibition: April 7 until May 14, 2017
PRIVATEOFFSPACE is glad to present a group show with selected contemporary positions in painting and sculpture by students and graduates of Staedelschule and Academy of Arts Karlsruhe.
William De Kooning once likened a painting by a fellow artist to “Pressing your face in wet grass”.
Maximilian Arnold
Born 1987 in Heidelberg (D), lives and works in Frankfurt am Main (D) 2009-2013: AdBK Karlsruhe with Prof. Toon Verhoef
2013-2015: Städelschule Frankfurt am Main with Prof. Willem de Rooij
Solo and Two Person Shows
2017
Solo Show / Duve Berlin / Berlin (D) (Upcoming in April)
Zona Maco / Mexico City (MX) with Iris Touliatou
2016
Aware Of Being Naive / Basis Showroom / Frankfurt am Main (D) with Martin Kähler
2015
Reasonable Doubt / DUVE Berlin / Berlin (D) MiArt / Milan (IT) with Roman Liška
2014
At The End Of Days Zombies Are Crawling Up The Walls / Im Hinterzimmer Showroom / Karlsruhe (D) with Christian Falkner
The Show Must Go Wrong / Salon Kennedy / Frankfurt am Main (D)
2013
Tu, Io, Noi / V8 Showroom / Karlsruhe (D) with Henry Staschik
2012
Cannot See Straight / Kensington Gardens Square / London (UK) by Salon Kennedy
Selected Group Shows
2017
Painting Or Not / Kaviar Factory / Henningsvær (NOR) (Upcoming in May)
Pressing Your Face In Wet Grass / PrivateOffspace / Frankfurt (D) (Upcoming in April)
Tutti Meno Un Etto / Im Hinterzimmer Showroom / Karlsruhe (D)
2016
Shades Of Grey / Kunstraum Riehen / Riehen, Basel (CH) Encoding The Urban / Kunsthaus Baselland / Muttenz, Basel (CH)
My Third Wish Has Always Been Three More / Infinite Berlin / Berlin (D)
Von meinem iPhone gesendet / Alte Fleischmarkthalle Karlsruhe / Karlsruhe (D) Art Cologne / Cologne (D)
The Art Of The Matter / CAM St. Louis / St. Louis (US)
2015
Parked Like Serious Oysters / MMK Frankfurt am Main (D)
If it can’t burn us, can it still warm our hearts? / Mindscape Universe Showroom / Berlin (D) Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost / Villa Gellertstraße / Karlsruhe (D)
NADA / New York (US)
2014
Paint Me A River / Flur11 Showroom / Braunschweig (D) Flumen / Kunsthalle Mulhouse / Mulhouse (FR)
2013
Being Specific! / Kunsthaus Baselland / Muttenz, Basel (CH) 1985 / Sammlung Fiede / Schlachthaus Aschaffenburg (D) V8 Anniversary Exhibition / V8 Showroom / Karlsruhe (D)
2012
A Retrospective of Tomorrow’s Artists / Schillerpalais Showroom / Berlin (D)
2011
GVS Art Award for Young Artists / GVS Süddeutschland / Stuttgart (D)
Awards / Grants
2013-2015
Grant of the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)
2012
Awardwinner of Heinrich Hertz Grant at Annual Exhibition / AdBK Karlsruhe (D)
Publications
2014
Artist book for Tramp.The Edition Space, initiated by Ferial Nadja Karrasch / Members Exhibition at Badischer Kunstverein / Karlsruhe (D)
2013
Contribution in Cahier artist book #1, initiated by Nele-Marie Gräber, Simone Häfele and Julia Sinner /
Members Exhibition at Badischer Kunstverein / Karlsruhe (D)
Bibliography / Press
2016
Indechs Magazine and Independent Collectors, Field Trip 33-Studio Visit Maximilian Arnold
2015
MMK Frankfurt am Main, catalogue Parked Like Serious Oysters
KubaParis, Maximilian Arnold@DUVE Berlin
Sichtbeton, text Reasonable Doubt
Cultured Magazine, Fall Issue, article The Season in Art by Laura de Gunzburg
2014
Milan Ther, text Screen Culture: Open Paintings in a Closed System
Frankfurter Neue Presse, 17.02.2014, review about Städelschule Rundgang
2013
BZ Basel, 13.12.2013, review about the show Being Specific! kunst:art magazine, issue 34, review about the show Being Specific! Ferial Nadja Karrasch, text Bildversuche
Indechs Magazine, interview Young Painters-Maximilian Arnold
Writing
Text about the work of Martin Kähler, Why Not Hang With Painters?
Public Collections
Schufa Holding AG / Wiesbaden (D)
Anders Dickson
Wisconsin, USA, 1988
Studies
2014-2017 Staedelschule, Frankfurt am Main, DE, Prof. Amy Sillman and Monika Baer
2010-2014 Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Kuenste Karlsruhe, DE, Prof. Daniel Roth and Harald Klingelhoeller
2009-2010 Albert Ludwigs Universitaet, Freiburg im Breisgau, DE
2007-2009 University of Minnesota, Duluth and Twin Cities, USA, Philosophy department
Grants and prizes
2015 Kuenstlerhilfe Stipendium, Frankfurt am Main, DE
2013 Preistraeger der Rotary Club Karlsruhe fuer junge Kunst, DE
2012 Preistraeger der Jahresausstellung der Kunstakademie Karlsruhe, DE
Exhibitions (selection)
2016 Summertime Witchcraft, The Fort, US, (with Aileen Murphy)
Croissant, MMK 3 Zollamt, Frankfurt am Main, DE
Obscure Motions, Basis Project Room, Frankfurt am Main, DE, (with Lena Phillips)
Rundgang 2016, Staedelschule, Frankfurt am Main, DE
2015 Der Zweite Blick, Galerie Scharmann Laskowski, Cologne, DE, (group exhibition)
GO(O)D VIBRATIONS, Kunstverein Letschebach, Karlsruhe, DE, (with Xerxes Oakman)
Pentaposition, Orgelfabrik, Durlach, DE, (group exhibition)
Re:done (Ausstellung der Klasse von Daniel Roth), Ettlingen Kunstverein, Ettlingen, DE
Nachtwache, Ettlingen Kunstverein, Ettlingen, DE (with Marco Breu)
2014 Scheffelstrasse 14, Orgelfabrik, Durlach, DE, (group exhibition)
2013 Wood(s), Zwinger Gallery, Berlin, DE, (cur. by Lawrence Rickels
Zoë Field
(b. 1990, New York) is currently based in Frankfurt am Main where she is studying at the Städelschule with Prof. Judith Hopf. She received her BFA Sculpture from Pratt Institute (Brooklyn, NY) in 2012 and has also studied at Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. Some recent exhibitions include, It’s all Natural…, Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden (2016), EVA, Interstate Projects, Brooklyn (2016), Autotomy, The White Page, Minneapolis (2015).
For full CV please contact the gallery.
Stephanie Kösling
*1991 in Ulm
studies
2011-2016 Kunstakademie Karlsruhe, P. Meuser and Henning Strassburger
2016-2017 Kunstakademie Karlsruhe, P. Ulla von Brandenburg
shows
2014 Jahresausstellung Kunstakademie Karlsruhe 2015 Jahresausstellung Kunstakademie Karlsruhe 2015 „Pentaposition“, Orgelfabrik Durlach
2015 „Self titled“, Ciao offspace, Karlsruhe 2016 Jahreausstellung Kunstakademie Karlsruhe
2016 “von meinem Iphone gesendet”, Fleischmarkthalle, Karlsruhe 2016 „Hold the line“ (solo) at Kunstverein Rastatt
2016 „I am a golden god“, curated by Henning Strassburger, Fiebach, minninger, Cologne
2016 exhibition prize of the art academy Karlsruhe
Aileen Murphy
1984, Ireland
Lives and works in Frankfurt am main
Education:
2014-2018: HFBK Städelschule, (class Amy Sillman/Monika Bär), Frankfurt am main
2007: BFA Painting, NCAD, Dublin
2006: Erasmus exchange, HGB, Leipzig
Selected Exhibitions:
2016:
Jahresgaben 2016/2017, Düsseldorf Kunstverein, Düsseldorf
Comfort, One Foot In Door, Frankfurt am main
Summertime Witchcraft, The Fort, New York
Opals, Galleri Opdahl, Stavanger
Die Marmory Show III, Guilty Pleasures, Deborah Shamoni, Munich
The Limited Sphere, 321 Gallery, New York
Hands Laid On, (with Kathy Tynan), Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin
2015:
Stuffing, (with Bradley Davies) Johan (Staedelschule), Frankfurt am main
Stranger Shores, Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast
Panorama, Pallas Projects, Dublin
2014:
Patient Staring, The Wexford Arts Centre, Co. Wexford
Elif Saydam
1985 in Calgary, CANADA
Lives and works in Berlin, GERMANY
EDUCATION
2016 Meisterschülerin, Monika Baer/Amy Sillman Painting Class, Städelschule Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künst, Frankfurt am Main, GERMANY
2009 Bachelor of Fine Arts with Distinction, Concordia University, Montréal, CANADA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017 No R.E.M. (Upcoming) Ashley, Berlin, GERMANY
2016 Matador
Kunstverein Albrecht Dürer Gesellschaft, Nürnberg, GERMANY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017 IMPURE FICTION PRESENTS . . . CCC (Upcoming)
MADE IN GERMANY, Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover, GERMANY
Pressing your face in wet grass
PRIVATEOFFSPACE, Frankfurt am Main, GERMANY
Fifi CC My Playground
OCD Studios, Berlin, GERMANY
Young Positions
Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, GERMANY
Full Moon in Cancer presents . . . Friday the 13th
Cave 3000, Berlin, GERMANY
2016 Jahresgaben
Kunstverein Albrecht Dürer Gesellschaft Nürnberg, GERMANY
IMPURE FICTION PRESENTS . . . The Misanthrope
Montréal Biennale 2016, Montréal, CANADA
31 Women
Philipp Pflug Contemporary, Frankfurt am Main, GERMANY
Croissant
MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, GERMANY
Marianne-Defet-Malerei-Stipendium
Kunsthalle Nürnberg, GERMANY
2015 FookBair (with Pure Fiction)
Frankfurt am Main, GERMANY
Romeo and Juliet (with Pure Fiction) Frankfurt am Main, GERMANY
RANDOM RULES
Black Flagg, Aschaffenberg, GERMANY
Let me see you see me
AtelierFrankfurt, RAY International Photography Festival, Frankfurt am Main, GERMANY
2014 PATINA OVERHANG
Klondike Institute of Art and Culture, Dawson City, CANADA
This Area is Under 23 Hour Video and Audio Surveillance
Jackman Humanities Institute, University of Toronto, CANADA
Chips in the Night
Whippersnapper Gallery, Toronto, CANADA
2013 Effects of a Room
G Gallery, Toronto, CANADA
RESIDENCIES
2017 Berlin Program for Artists (with Angela Bulloch, Simon Denny and Willem de Rooij; Berlin, GERMANY
2016 Marianne-Defet-Malerei-Stipendium; Nürnberg, GERMANY
2012 Samband Islenskra Myndlistarmanna / The Association of Icelandic Visual Artists; Reykjavik, ICELAND
The Banff Centre Spring Thematic – LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL STOP PLEASE ALLOW FEATURES ASSUME EXPRESSION INDICATIVE OF AMUSEMENT JOY PLEASURE BENEVOLENCE STOP…(with
Angie Keefer, Isla Leaver-Yap, Will Holder and Robert Snowden); Banff, CANADA
DISTINCTIONS, GRANTS AND AWARDS
2017 Berlin Program for Artists Production Grant
2016 Marianne-Defet-Malerei-Stipendium, Da Vinci Pinselfabrik / Kunstverein Nürnberg Albrecht Dürer Gesellschaft
Linklaters LLP Preis, Staedelschule Rundgang
2012 Professional Development Award, British Columbia Arts Council Spring Thematic Financial Assistance Grant, Banff Centre Artist Grant, Vermont Studio Center
2009 The Betty Goodwin Award in Studio Arts, Concordia University
Prix du centre des arts et des fibres du Québec, Concordia University / Diagonale Centre des arts et des fibres du Québec
Jan Zoeller
*1992 Haslach i. Kinzigtal (DE)
lives and works in Karlsruhe
2012 -2014: Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe with Prof. Marijke van Warmerdam
since 2015: Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe with Prof. Leni Hoffmann
2016: Ecole nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts Paris with Prof. Jean Marc Bustamante, Atelier P2F and Prof. Götz Arndt
SELECTED SOLO SHOWS
2016 OPULENCE//Geschwisterraum, Karlsruhe (DE)
2015 I saw People Smoking Krack on Holidays//Mucharaum, Karlsruhe(DE)
2014 100% Pure Kokain//Mucharaum, Kunstakademie, Karlsruhe (DE)
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2017 THE SAID EVERYTHING WHAT IS REPEATED IS BORING//Max Power Karlsruhe (upcoming)
2016 Jahresausstellung//Kunstakademie Karlsruhe (DE) curated by Prof. Julia Müller, Prof. Marcel von Eeden and Prof. Ulla von Brandenburg
2016 MODUS OPERANDI//E.N.B.A Paris
2016 MY THIRD WISH HAS ALWAYS BEEN THREE MORE//Berlin Offspace
2016 Watching Motorsports in Times of Foodball (together with Max Huckle)//Mucharaum Karlsruhe (DE)
2016 Von meinem iPhone gesendet//Fleichmarkthalle, Karlsruhe, DE
2016 Beat Farming Area 23_ Für Wolf Pehlke Ateliers Hinterm Hauptbahnhof, Karlsruhe (DE)
2015 Cosi Fan Tutti//Galerie Ciao, Karlsruhe
2015 Jahresausstellung//Kunstakademie, Karlsruhe curated by Prof. Leni Hoffmann, Prof. Karin Linden and Prof. Julia Müller
2015 LAF – Leerstand als Freiraum//Pforzheim (DE)
2014 Im in Love with the Coco//Mucharaum Karlsruhe
2014 Jahresausstellung//Kunstakademie, Karlsruhe curated by Prof. Karin Lindena, Prof. Marcel Eden and Prof. Erwin Gross
2013 Jahresausstellung//Kunstakademie, Karlsruhe curated by Prof. Tatjana Doll, Prof. Marijke von Warmeidam and Prof. Toon Verhoef