Andrey Klassen

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Andrey Klassen (* 1984 in Irkutsk ) is a Russian artist who lives and works in Dresden .

His work is characterized above all by large-format ink painting on paper with dream-like scenes with shadowy beings, people, hybrid beings, some of which are based on figures from pop culture, film icons and comic characters . He studied with Ralf Kerbach at the Art School in Irkutsk, Russia from 2001–2004 and at the Dresden University of Fine Arts from 2005–2010 . 2010–2012 he was a master student of Ralf Kerbach at the Dresden University of Fine Arts.

In 2015 Klassen was awarded the Marion Ermer Prize .

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions

  • 2019: HELDEN, Kunstverein Ulm , Ulm, DE (solo)
  • 2017: Double exhibition, Galerie Russi Klenner , Berlin (solo with Miriam Jonas) 
  • 2017: 1691, pavilion at the Milchhof, Berlin
  • 2016: at my place a devil plays, M1, Berlin
  • 2015: Seven Deadly Sins, Dresden City Gallery
  • 2014: New Works, fruehsorge contemporary drawings, Berlin
  • 2014: LA VIDA NO VALE NADA, Espace Despalles, Paris, (FR)
  • 2011: Café Raduga, Hamish Morrison Gallery , Berlin
  • 2012: When I'm not at home, Hamish Morrison Galerie , Berlin
  • 2009: Bad Things-Bad Things, Dresden University of Fine Arts , with Clemens Reinecke
  • 2008: Travelers, Galerie treibhaus, Dresden
  • 2007: Municipal Museum, Irkutsk (RU)
  • 2006: Rogal House Gallery, Irkutsk (RU)

Group exhibitions

  • 2019: PREPARING FOR DARKNESS, Galerie Römerapotheke, Zurich, CH (group)
  • 2019: Dark and Stormy, ESPRONCEDA Center for Art & Culture, Barcelona, ​​ESP (group)
  • 2018: Monster of Drawing, Galerie Feinkunst Krüger , Hamburg, DE (group)
  • 2017: New Black Romanticism, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, DE (group, cat.)
  • 2017: Neue Schwarze Romantik / New Black Romanticism, Muzeul Național de Artă al României , Bucharest (ROU)
  • 2016: Try Walking in my Shoes, with Stefan Krauth, Reiter Galerie , Berlin
  • 2016: Bittersweet Times - Baroque and Present - Edwin Scharff Museum, Neu-Ulm
  • 2015: The drawing continues, Galerie Poll , Berlin
  • 2015: GorbatSHOW IV (on Tour), Wiener Art Foundation, Vienna (AT)
  • 2015: JUST DROPPED IN, l'Amour, Paris (FR)
  • 2014: Bittersweet times, baroque and present, SØR Rusche Oelde / Berlin collection, Kunsthaus Stade , Stade
  • 2014: Building Building - TWO, Kunsthaus Utrecht (NL)
  • 2014: Building Building - ONE, Dresden-Utrecht-Exchange-Project, LAB, Dresden
  • 2014: Dada TY, European Center for the Arts Hellerau , Dresden
  • 2014: Drawing Now Paris, Le Carreau du Temple, by fruehsorge contemporary drawings (FR)
  • 2013: Plural project: immediacy, Atelierhof Kreuzberg, Berlin
  • 2013: Obscure, Villa Renata, Basel (CH)
  • 2013: Family Matters, Hamish Morrison Galerie , Berlin
  • 2013: One Third White, Art in the Tunnel , Düsseldorf
  • 2013: Animal pieces 2015, SØR Rusche Oelde / Berlin collection, Museum Abtei Liesborn, Wadersloh
  • 2012: No Pictures Without Love, Gallery Poll , Berlin
  • 2012: Responsibility, C. Rockefeller Center for the Contemporary Arts , Dresden
  • 2012: Upside down, master class students, Dresden University of Fine Arts
  • 2012: Seeing Red, Hamish Morrison Galerie , Berlin
  • 2011: S ....... XL, Galería adhoc, Vigo, (ES)
  • 2011: In the office, Hamish Morrison Gallery , Berlin
  • 2010: Diploma exhibition 2010, Dresden University of Fine Arts
  • 2010: U (DYS) TOPIA - Indonesia and Germany, Free Museum Berlin and Dresden University of Fine Arts
  • 2004: BIN 2004, International Biennial of Graphic Art, Saint Petersburg (RU)

Scholarships and Awards

Publications

  • 2015: Marion Ermer Foundation (ed.): Marion Ermer Prize 2015, Text: Holger Birkholz , cat. Dresden University of Fine Arts
  • 2015: Andrey Klassen, Showtime 02, text: Johannes Schmidt, Wald und Wiese Verlag Dresden
  • 2014: Blackout, Edition, solo ma non troppo, Paris (FR)
  • 2011: Café Raduga, text: Lisa Gelhard, Hamish Morrison Galerie, Berlin

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Marion Ermer Foundation (ed.): Marion Ermer Prize 2015, Andrey Klassen, cat. Dresden University of Fine Arts 2015, p. 11
  2. ^ Museums of the City of Dresden: Andrey Klassen. The seven deadly sins
  3. ^ Marion Ermer Prize 2015 , Marion Ermer Foundation
personal data
SURNAME Classes, Andrey
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Irkutsk