Alexander Esters

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Alexander Esters (* 1977 in Bad Kreuznach ) is a German artist and art teacher at a grammar school. His work includes painting , sculpture , drawing and stained glass .

“Heat view, the tunnels at the end” relief in the Museum Baden by Alexander Esters

biography

Esters studies fine arts, philosophy and art history at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz , most recently painting and fine arts in the Friedemann Hahn class . From 1998 to 2000 he worked as an assistant to the artist Lore Bert . In 2001 he took on a tutoring position for the orientation level of the visual arts department and, at the same time, the post of academic assistant to Prof. Friedemann Hahn. In 2002 Esters received a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation, switched to Albert Oehlen's class at the Düsseldorf Art Academy and completed his art studies in 2004 as his master's student with an academy certificate. For two years, he and Cornelius Quabeck published the magazine “Der Atom” in their own RedmotA publishing house. In 2006, Esters presented large-format canvases in painting and linocut in his first solo exhibition at the Van Horn gallery in Düsseldorf. Various solo and group exhibitions followed in the Van Horn Gallery, numerous international trade fair participations, for example in the Museum HVCCA, NY (2007), Yvon Lambert Gallery, NYC, in the Schwerte Art Association, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf , Sculpture V in the Sculpture Park Cologne , slow painting in the Museum Morsbroich , Leverkusen and in the Museum Düren. In 2009 he won the Graphic Prize NRW and headed the November issue of K-West-Kultur-Magazin. 2010 he shows u. a. Works in the Ana Cristea Gallery in New York and in the Kunstverein Langenhagen. Documentary film material by Ralf Goertz can be seen in the exhibition “From Beuys to Bill Viola” in the NRW-Forum Düsseldorf. Since the beginning of 2011 he has been working as a teacher of fine arts at a grammar school in Bad Sobernheim ( Emanuel-Felke-Gymnasium ).

The atom

In 2002 Esters founded the artist magazine "Der Atom" and "RedmotA Verlag" together with Cornelius Quabeck . A total of over 40 publications have been published by the company to date. Initially, the project was funded twice by the Kunststiftung NRW . Lectures, readings, performances, bars and concerts are organized under the label “RedmotA Verlag”.

“Ausleben”, 2006 PVC print and oil paint on canvas
"Student", 2008

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 2000: genre painting, G7, Berlin / North – West / Passage 2, Lüdenscheid city museums
  • 2002: The Golden Ratio, Atelier Immendorff , Düsseldorf
  • 2003: About the New Part Three, Düsseldorf (with Cornelius Quabeck)
  • 2005: Sunflower Titanic, kjubh Kunstverein, Cologne
  • 2005: Red motA - Der Atom, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf (with Cornelius Quabeck)
  • 2007: Size Matters: XXL, HVCCA - Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, USA
  • 2008: Imaginationland, Schwerte Art Association
  • 2009: Slow Paintings, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen
  • 2009: Museum Baden , Solingen
  • 2010: KölnSkulptur 5
  • 2010: From Joseph Beuys to Bill Viola, films by Ralf Goertz & Werner Raeune, (IKS), NRW Forum, Düsseldorf
  • 2010: Armor Parvi, Kunstverein Langenhagen curated by Oliver Tepel
  • 2011: Satt und Verliebt, Galerie FeldbuschWiesner, Berlin
  • 2012: Head with revolving door, Leopold Hoesch Museum , Düren and German Glass Painting Museum , Linnich

Awards

Works in collections (selection)

  • Graphic Collection Museum Folkwang, Essen
  • Art from NRW, Aachen-Kornelimünster
  • Art Museum, Bonn
  • Museum Ludwig Forum, Aachen
  • Graphic collection of the Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main
  • Marc and Livia Straus Collection, NYC
  • Leopold Hoesch Museum, Düren
  • Private collections in Germany, USA, Israel, Australia, Switzerland, France, Italy, England and the Netherlands

literature

  • Slow Paintings 160 pages, published by Verlag für Moderne Kunst Nürnberg, 2009 ISBN 978-3-941185-99-9
  • Diffusion without end - Red motA: Transfer rituals in the new millennium , by Renate Goldmann, in Inbetween / The mediation of art . Dietrich Reimer Verlag 2005. ISBN 3-496-01337-0


Web links

Commons : Alexander Esters  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Press release from the State of North Rhine-Westphalia ( Memento from January 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Esters, Alexander
ALTERNATIVE NAMES LexMagic
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Kreuznach