     |      |     | 01 Azadi Berlin (2007) 02 Azadi Berlin (2007) 03 Azadi Berlin (2007) 04 Isfahan Ornamentstudie(2004/05) 05 Isfahan Stadtansichten(2004/05) 06 Azadi Triptychon(2004/05) 07 Wintermärchen(2007) No 1-16 08 Unter den Linden(2005/6) 09 Matrose-Berlin(2005/6) 10 Matrose- Vita Brevis Ars Longa(2005/6) 11 Rosen und Pflaumen(2006) 12 Reisebücher, Skizzen, Fragmente 13 Reisebücher, Skizzen, Fragmente 14 Reisebücher, Skizzen, Fragmente |
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Alexis W. was born in Tabique, El Hierro (Canary Islands) and lives and works between El Hierro, Madrid and Berlin. A great part of his artwork deals with the body, personal relationships and the point of view. The body, the nude, usually his body and his nude have been a pivotal tool in his work, which give the pieces a special meaning, a kind of trademark. The selfportrait is another main subject between the documentary and work in progress. Love, relationships and commitment are also always present in his work, as a way of extending and communicating with the world outside. The anonymous and universal characters that live in his images are part of a personal story telling and are shown physically and emotionally naked.
 |  |  | 01 Sanssouci 1 02 Sanssouci 2 03 Sanssouci 3 |
 |  |  | 01 Helping Hand 02 Morning 03 Nightcrawlers |
    |    |    | 01 Körperrolle 02 Körperrolle 03 Körperrolle 04 St.Sebastian 05 Brazil Flower 06 Day and Night 07 Schweizer Geldkugel 08 Videograb 09 Schweizer Geldpyramide 10 Geldkubus |
  |  |  | 01 Tyger aus der Serie 02 Tyger aus der Serie 03 Tyger aus der Serie 04 Divine & Miss Piggy NYC 1976 |
  |   |  | 01 Ach wie gut, dass niemand weiss (2007) 02 Ein Mädchen steht im Walde (2007) 03 Strandgut (2007) 04 Madonna mit Kind (2006) 05 (2007) |
1958 born in Parsberg, Oberpfalz
1978-82 Member of the Artgroup „ENDART“ Berlin
1989 workingstipendium of the Belin Senat for cultural affairs.
1991 Filmstudy, to „BERLIN VOODOO, from Sylviane Phan Van,
Munich
1994 IG-Medien, Artprice for „Elektronische Fußfessel“
Symposium IG Medien, Bielefeld
„Sabotage virtueller Welten“
workingstipendium of the Belin Senat for cultural affairs
participation „Die Welt den Künstlern“
Freie Akademie, Moskau
1996 4. Biennale, St. Petersburg,
Bildgeschichte „Business with icons“
Sammlung Berlinische Galerie,
1990-99 Werkverträge Senat für kulturelle Angelegenheiten, Berlin
1999 Kunstwoche Schmerwitz
2000 Künstlerförderung des Bundespräsidialamtes
2003 Filmstudie der Akademie Film und Fernsehen von Andreas
Meyer über Ines Berger und ihre Arbeit
2004 Jahresdruck für die Sammlung Dr. Böckmann
Soloexhibitions
1988 Galerie Zindel und Grabner, Berlin
1989 Galerie Mora, Berlin, „spezial Guests“
1990 Villa Weiner, Ochtrup, “Ohne Worte”
1991 Boomtown, Berlin,Space Agency, Berlin
1992 Galerie Dirty Window, Berlin „Osterwunder“
1993 Galerie Boudoir, Berlin, „Handarbeiten für Mädchen“
1994 Galerie Bürgerhaus, städtische Galerie
Schwabach, „Gedächtnislücken“
1995 Galerie Zörnig und Mock, Hannover
1996 Kunstverein GENTHINER ELF, Berlin, „Jeder ist eine Insel“
1997 Galerie Zörnig und Mock, Hannover
1998 Kunstverein GENTHINER ELF, „Good luck, Alice“
1999 Staatsoper UNTER DEN LINDEN, Berlin, Apollosaal, „ZWÖLF“
2000 Kunstverein GENTHINER ELF, Berlin, „JABBA“
2001 KUNST WERK, Herford
2002 Kunstverein Waldkirchen, Oberpfalz „WOLPERDINGER“
2003 STIFTUNG STARKE, Löwenpalais, Berlin, „Kopf an Kopf“
2004 KULTFABRIK, white box, München,
2005 WASCHHAUS, Berlin
Groupexhibitions
1979-82 Ausstellungen mit der Gruppe ENDART
1989 KATAKOMBEN; Berlin, Schmutzengel,
BERLINISCHE GALERIE, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin,
Arbeiten junger Künstler aus der Sammlung Berlinische
Galerie
HAUS AM LÜTZOWPLATZ, Berlin, AUSSCHAU, IG, Medien
1990 DA Gallery, Los Angeles, Berlin at the new Frontier
1991 BERLINISCHE GALERIE, Kunstszene Berlin
Haus BALTIC, Kühlungsborn, Alles was zählt ist nur der
Schein
HENNING, Berlin, Bilderschau
1992 PETROVSKY BOULEVARD, Moskau, Rauminstallation
Basement; Berlin; XXX-EXPLICID IMAGES
1993 PETROVSKY BOULEVARD, Moskau, Installation,
Schlangenholz
1994 ENDART, Berlin
NGBK, Neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, Berlin
1995 4.Biennale St. Petersburg, Bildgeschichte, Business with
icons
1996 BERLINISCHE GALERIE, Martin Gropius Bau BerliN
1997 GROßE KUNSTAUSSTELLUNG, Schmerwitz
KUNSTHALLE LINGEN, Genji Monagatori Projekt
1998 HAUS am KLEISTPARK, Berlin, dirty windows Galerie
Kunstverein GENTHINER ELF, 14 aus Elf
KUNSTVEREIN SPEYER
2000 Museum HEYLSHOF, Worms, Genji Monagatori-Projekt
2002 KUNSTPARTNER, Regensburg, Städt. Galerie LEEER BEUTEL
Kultfabrik, München, Galerie RAPHAEL VOSTELL
2003 KUNSTVEREIN WEIDEN
2004 STIFTUNG STARKE, Löwenpalais, Berlin
INNENMINISTERIUM, Berlin
2005 10 Jahre Verband Berliner Galerien, Galerie RAPHAEL
VOSTELL,
2007 Werkstattgalerie Berlin
  |  |  | 01 Unter der Dusche aus der Serie 02 Baubriegarde der Sportstudenten 03 Trainingsgespräch der Wasserballer aus der Serie 04 Freundschaftsphoto aus der Serie |
       |       |       | 01 Selbst mit Rose 02 BRD-Schwimmer 03 Königin Luise 04 Drei mal Sechs 05 Freiheit 06 Romeo: Carsten mit Messer 07 Erinnerung an Romeo und Julia 08 Romeo mit Gläsern 09 Das ganze Leben 10 Selbstportrait mit weißer Perücke 11 Weiterleben 12 CSD-Sunflowers 13 Moderne Kunst 14 Unruhen- Brandsatz 15 Markusplatz 16 Dogenfrage 17 Warum Kunst? 18 Martin von Ostrowski April 2008 19 Dieser Bereich wird überwacht |
Martin von Ostrowskis work is composed of performances, paintings, sculptures and installations. Since 1996 the question “Why art?” occupies the artist. He is not interested in “What is art?”, there are already so many statements about it, he is more asking why he himself makes art, why viewers look to art and are intensifying time with it. The artist got so many answers and also counterquestions, which he uses in his work.
The viewer sees always that what he is able to see, what he wants to see, what he has experiences in his life. So art has much to do with misunderstandings and irritations between the artist and the viewer and that can be so fruitful.
In 1994 Ostrowski used his semen as pigment for paintings, he just masturbed on grey coloured canvases. Since 2003 he collects his own semen and the semen of friends to paint male portraits and figures on dark coloured canvases. The semen can be seen as a transparent shining varnish on the black background.
From 2003 he made of this own produced organic material selfportaits with a positive meaning like his semenpaintings: I exist as I do digest, as I do produce semen. The artist is free to use his very personal material to paint with it, to show that he is part of the organic world. In semen the genes of the artits are kept for reproducing a human being together with a female egg. In his shit, microorganisms the artist lives in symbiosis with, and the digestion of food are conseved, the artist needs for his life. The artist is part of a great incalculable complex organic world, he is almost lost in it, is searching for a reason why he produces art. Martin von Ostrowski stands in the tradition of the German romantic movement, broken with irony and he sums up his work as aggressive romanticism.
Solo Exhibitions
1983 Self, Galerie Muthesiusstraße, Berlin
1985 Project for a grave of Queen Luise, Gras fressen, Berlin
1988 Galerie Nikolaus Sonne, Berlin (catalog) Art Jonction, Nizza
(catalog)
1989 Villa Arson, Nizza (catalog)
Take a new view, Galerie Nikolaus Sonne, Berlin (catalog)
1992 Galerie Nikolaus Sonne, Berlin
1993 Prussian Baroque, Galerie Nikolaus Sonne, Berlin
Narcissist - the whole life, Anderes Ufer, Berlin
1994 Galerie Erhard Witzel, Offenbach
1995 Burn baby, burn, with Florian Trümbach, Gleditsch 45, Berlin
1996 Romeo and Juliet, Galerie Nikolaus Sonne, Berlin
1997 Aggressive Romanticism - Ideal Faces, Kulturbauerei, Berlin
Paintings and sculptures, Galerie Erhard Witzel, Wiesbaden
Aggressive Romanticism, Kultours, Kassel
1998 Gehag Forum, Berlin
1999 Galerie Klaus Friese, München
Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Studio I, Berlin
2000 Why Art? My Prussia! Movin’ Art Gallery, Berlin (catalog)
2001 Your Prussia too?, Schloss Ludwigsburg, Ludwigsburg
2002 Childhood in S., Studio Paul Revellio, Sachsenheim, (catalog)
2004 “Why Art?”, Installation Gehag Forum, Berlin
2005 Stiftung Starke, Berlin
KioskShop berlin, Berlin
Group Exhibitions
1988 Montreal - Berlin 88-89, Galerie Lavalin, Montreal (catalog)
1989 “DER KONGREß”, Galerie des Deutschen Künstlerbundes, Berlin
(catalog)
Vollbild Aids (2), Bern, Lausanne
1991 “DER KONGREß”, Kunstverein Göttingen (catalog)
Interferenzen, Kunst aus Westberlin, 1960-1990, Riga,
St. Petersburg (catalog)
1992 “DER KONGREß”, Galerie EIGEN & ART, Leipzig
1994 Material Gips, Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden, (catalog)
1997 1+1, Galerie Erhard Witzel, Wiesbaden
2000 Ausbrüche, Galerie im Pferdestall, Kulturbrauerei, Berlin
Finale 2000, Galerie Lüttinghaus-Hoessrich, Kronberg
2003 Überindividuell, zusammen mit Gerhard Haug, Hans-Peter Klie,
Marianne Stoll,Toni Wirthmüller, Haus am Kleistpark, Berlin
(catalog)
Marylin Monroe - Life Of a Legend, County Hall Gallery, London
2004 Überindividuell, new installation, Justus-Liebig-Haus, Darmstadt
Marylin - Una Vida De Leyenda, Reales Ataranzanas, Valencia
1. Berliner Kunstsalon, Arena Berlin
Marylin - Bir Efsanenin Yasami, Vakko, Istanbul
2005 lebenslang liebens:würdig, 12 positions about getting older,
c.p. art - Galerie am Buttermarkt, Cologne
2. Berliner Kunstsalon, Arena Berlin
Artistic Career
1958 born in Bietigheim-Bissingen, a town close to Stuttgart, Germany
1981 move to Berlin, start to work as artist,
paintings and performances
1983 co-founder of the gallery “Muhesiusstraße”, later called
gallery “Gras fressen”
1988 French State Award “Villa Arson”
1989 co-founder of the group “DER KONGREß”
1990 Dissertation in History of Art at the Free University Berlin:
"German Monumental Fountaines 1813 - 1871"
2004 Foundation of the artist group OPEC together with Hans-Juergen
Esch and Susanne Pomrehn
The artist lives and works in Berlin
  |   |   | 01 Slava Mogutin and Brian Kenny on the roof(2006) 02 Slava Mogutin and Brian Kenny sitting on the roof(2006) 03 Brians Ass(2006) 04 Change!?(2008) 05 Rosa Akt(2008) 06 Rosa Akt(2008) |
  |   |   | 01 Dakini mit Surfbrett 02 Geborgen im Nichts 03 Dämonen füttern 04 Plankton und Krill 05 Hinsehen 06 Mesaoo Wrede |
   |    |   | 01 West & Ost 02 Landscape at dusk 03 A set of six most improbable toast 04 Two in harmony 05 A moment of beauty 06 Little beauty shower 07 Little beauty shower 08 What are you thinking about? |
Born in 1972 in Rhade, Nord Rhein Westfalen, Germany. Lives and works in Herne (Germany) and Sydney. Started painting in 1996.
Single exhibitions:
2007-August Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Waterloo, Sydney
2007-May Goethe Institut, Sydney
2006 Kunsthaus Samoticha, Bochum
2006 Galerie E – Damm 13, Hannover
2006 Galeria Arte Trece, Madrid
2006 Galerie Schollbrockhaus, Herne
2005 Galerie Wort + Bild, Vienna
2005 Galerie Lindquist, Castrop Rauxel
2004 Kunsthaus Samoticha, Bochum
2002 Galerie Lindquist, Castrop Rauxel
2006 Feria International de Arte, Art Madrid
Collective exhibitions:
2007 December, Malkasten, Dusseldorf
2007 September, Werkstatt Galerie, Berlin
2005 Galerie Schollbrockhaus, Herne
2005 Galería Faustino Aizkorbe, Pamplona, Spain
Sold works:
Anwaltskanzlei Lippmann, Hannover – Laatzen
Spanisches Generalkonsulat, Hannover
Goethe Institut, Sydney
Seniorenwohnsitz Harkortbogen, Dortmund
Galerie Robert Drees, Hannover
Galerie Wort + Bild, Vienna
Collection Julián Coca, Madrid
Collection Prince Mubarak Al Sabah, Kuwait
Collection Carlo D’Amelio, Rome
Collection Olga Caputi, Rome
Collection Esperanza Aubert, Barcelona
Collection Enrique Sardá-Valls, Sydney
Collection Keith and Marie Wherry, Sydney
Collection Magí Sardá-Valls, Barcelona
Collection David Mickler, Ibiza
and many other private collections.
   |    |   | 01 The Party 02 Out of the blue 03 Boxer 04 Hurrikan Bar 05 Confession 06 Coffee Time 07 Mann-Akt 08 Gigolo am Fenster |
  |   |  | 01 Die Peinigung(2007) 02 Verrat(2007) 03 Eisenacher Strasse(2005) 04 Seestück(2008) 05 Maurizio und Francesco(2008) |
  |   |   | 01 Strandfreunde 02 Cowboys 03 Das hätte damals ja keiner gedacht 04 Brighton |
