Andreas Exner (artist)

Andreas Exner (* 1962 in Gelsenkirchen ) is a German painter and sculptor . From 1988 to 1993 he studied at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main . His “clothes” attracted attention in the 1990s, and he is currently known for his “Applied Monochrome Painting” installations.

life and work

Andreas Exner first completed an apprenticeship as a printer and studied painting with Franz Dank at the Cologne University of Applied Sciences. From 1988 to 1993 he studied with Jörg Immendorff and Raimer Jochims at the Städelschule. Committed to the concept of “painting in an expanded field”, Andreas Exner's works oscillate between painting, sculpture and context-related installation art . He is one of the few contemporary German artists whose works manifest the current ideas of the Italian Arte Povera .

Andreas Exner received a. a. 1995 a DAAD scholarship for a stay in Florence, 1996 the working scholarship of the Stiftung Kunstfonds , Bonn and 2003-2004 the London studio scholarship of the Hessische Kulturstiftung . Since 2006 he has been a lecturer at the Institute for Art Education at Goethe University , Frankfurt, in the field of sculpture and artistic spatial concepts. He has held masterclasses and seminars a. held at the École supérieure des arts décoratifs de Strasbourg (EADS) and at the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) in Melbourne. Together with the German-Australian curator Zylvia Auerbach, he founded the KANN publishing house for independent artist publications in 2000. Andreas Exner lives in Frankfurt am Main.

literature

Museum Marta (Ed.): Invisible Shadows - Images of Insecurity. Herford 2010.
Claire Jaquet (Ed.): Heidi in the country by Martin Kippenberger. FRAC Aquitaine Bordeaux. Monograph éditions, 2009, ISBN 978-2-916545-72-1 .
Barbara Glasner, Petra Schmidt (Ed.): Chroma - Design, Architecture and Art in Color. Birkhäuser Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-0346-0092-7 .
There is Desire Left (Knock, Knock) - Works from the Mondstudio Collection . Wiesbaden Museum and Bern Art Museum, 2008
Angelika Nollert (Ed.): Andreas Exner. Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-86560-242-8 .
Kasper König , Annette Tietenberg (Ed.): Frankfurter Kreuz - Transformation of the everyday in art. Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt , 2001, ISBN 3-7757-1062-0 .
On the verge of painting. Kunsthalle Bern , 1995, ISBN 3-85780-103-4 .
Martin Hentschel (Ed.): Menschenwelt. Portikus Frankfurt. Oktagon Verlag, Cologne 1993, ISBN 3-927789-62-3 .

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personal data
SURNAME	Exner, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH	1962
PLACE OF BIRTH	Gelsenkirchen