Andreas Breunig

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Andreas Breunig analytically dissects his material. In distinct settings, he puts calculated gestures, textures, velocities and varying degrees of dissolved representationalism to the test. In constant permutations, the painterly ›codings‹ and relations of the specific elements shift visibly. Breunig moves between flat pictorial spaces and installative »spatial images.« Nonetheless, his painting always includes a focussed examination of the immaterial digitality. In face of post-natural, artificial light (displays, filters etc.), his chromatic scale ranges between a brisk and overdriven palette as well as a manifold and differentiated choice of color. Working with oil, acrylic, graphite and charcoal, instead of reduction, it’s all about the maximization of expressive possibilities. Due to the simultaneity of such surface phenomena, the boundaries of painting / photography / print become just as blurred as the attributions of original / copy / reproduction.

Andreas Breunig, born 1983 in Ebersbach, lives and works in Düsseldorf. 2002–2008 Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (class of Albert Oehlen). Selected exhibitions: 2022 & 2021 Galerie Bärbel Grässlin, Frankfurt/ Main (s); 2022 Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles & Brussels (s); 2022 H2 Zentrum für Gegenwartskunst im Glaspalast, Augsburg (g); 2021 Kunsthaus NRW, Aachen-Kornelimünster (g); 2020 Kunstverein Heppenheim (s); 2020 Galerie Bärbel Grässlin, Frankfurt/Main (g); 2020 Deichtorhallen, Hamburg (g); Galerie Sabine Knust, Munich (s); 2019 Kunstmuseum Bonn (g); 2019 Kunstmuseum Wiesbaden (g); 2019 Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz (g); 2019 Sauvage, Bonn (s); 2019 Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles (s); 2018 Aishti Foundation, Beirut (g); 2018 Kunstverein Heppenheim (with Jana Schröder); 2018 Kunstverein Reutlingen (g); 2017 Warhus Rittershaus, Cologne (with Clemens Rathe); 2016 Fondazione Carriero, Milan (g); 2014 Haus der Kunst St. Josef, Solothurn, CH (g); 2012 Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, Cologne (g); 2011 KIT – Kunst im Tunnel, Düsseldorf (g); 2008 Villa de Bank, Eschede (s); 2008 Kunsthaus Sootbörn, Hamburg (g).

Vita

1983

born in Eberbach, Odenwald. Lives and works in Düsseldorf.

2002—2008

Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Prof. Albert Oehlen

Selected Solo Shows

2024

PREDICTION / ANALYSIS(background) – Jahn und Jahn, Munich

2023

L’informazione e i suoi apparati – Alfonso Artiaco Gallery, Naples

2022

Completely incomplete EXTANT (extended) – Galerie Bärbel Grässlin, Frankfurt

Adaptability (PRO) – Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles

Adaptability (CONTRA) – Nino Mier Gallery, Brussels

2021

inscrutable glade & cleaning projects (Full circle) – Galerie Bärbel Grässlin, Frankfurt

2020

The Big XI, – Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles

PLAY ME HAVE NO PROBS – Kunstverein Heppenheim

2019

Body Possibility – Knust Kunz Gallery, Munich

Copy & Waste – Sauvage, Bonn

The Windowing System – as a (hyperstatic) problem – Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles

2018

VOTE, (+ Jana Schröder) – Kunstverein Heppenheim, Heppenheim

2017

Hi>°<LoRes (+ Clemens Rathe) – Warhus Rittershaus, Cologne

2016

happy wife – happy life (with Seb Koberstädt) – Warhus Rittershaus, Cologne

...aus Liebe zur Natur (with Matthias Schaufler) – Jagla Ausstellungsraum, Cologne

2015

Shut down – Warhus Rittershaus, Cologne

2014

Ihr doch auch. – Gagarin, Düsseldorf

He got Frame – Kunst Schaefer Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden

2013

P.o.W. presents Breunigga – The Windowing System, Prince of Wales, Munich BAERTIG, BOCKIG & BESCHEIDEN – SIGHTFENSTER, Cologne Soon – Avantrash, Munich

2012

The Head-On Collision, ANDREAS BREUNIG & RM Collected – Resy Muijsers Contemporary Art, Tilburg

2011

A-stage [simulated] – Warhus Rittershaus, Cologne

2011

Brainfreezer – Warhus Rittershaus, Cologne

2009

Brainfreezer – Warhus Rittershaus, Cologne

2008

Der vereinende Ast, Villa de Bank, Enschede

2007

Martin Weidemann – Andreas Breunig (with Martin Weidemann), Kunstraum acapulco, Düsseldorf