Armin Boehm

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Armin Boehm (* 1972 in Aachen ) is a German painter . He lives and works in Berlin .

Life

From 1995 onwards, Boehm first attended the Münster Art Academy and one year later switched to the Düsseldorf Art Academy , where he was a student of Konrad Klapheck and a master student of Jörg Immendorff until 2001 . Meanwhile Boehm received since 1998 from the studienstiftung a gifted and could in 2001 with a grant from the Dusseldorf Art Academy in the des Arts Paris Cité Internationale for training in Paris quartered. Since then he has been represented nationwide and abroad at renowned galleries with solo and group exhibitions.

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Since 2007, Boehm has been known for a dark series of pictures about city riots. The first of these pictures, Genua Riot , can be seen in the Städel Museum in Frankfurt am Main . Later the pictures Teheran Riot (Ray 2010), Istanbul Riot (GEZI 2014), Riot Whattana (2014) and Bangkok Riot (DUSIT 2016) followed.

Since 2011 the pictures have become more colorful. The repertoire of figures in his more recent works is squeezed into restless, feverish, prismatic pictorial spaces composed of opaque layers of paint, pieces of paper and fabric with very subjective and cultural-historical references. Moments of nightwalking, bohemian lifestyle with an electrifying bar and club atmosphere determine his image content as well as body cult and esotericism, which he contrasts with fragile and sexual symbolizing floral still lifes. The scenes, hypnotically charged with set pieces from the pop and fashion world, are characterized by deep emotionality and a contemporary attitude towards life. The focus is on the question of the current definition and positioning of contemporary people in the social context.

Boehm epitomizes contemporary individualism not only with his formal language, but also through the integration of historically relevant or subjectively fleeting references. References to defined genre arts are used by Boehm's investigations to build networks of relationships from codes and symbols, which serve him to integrate mechanisms of reception, from topics such as textile fashion, leisure activities or gender codes, into his cultural analysis, for which he also takes personal insights, sentiment and motives of bygone styles and eras.

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 2016: 1, 2, 3 Soleil , Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, LA
  • 2015: Le style c'est les corps , Meyer Riegger, Berlin
  • 2014: Inutile Eternité , Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich
  • 2013: Raumneurose , Harris Lieberman Gallery, New York
  • 2012: WALD HOCHWALD HOLZFALLEN , Gallery Weekend, Meyer Riegger, Berlin
  • 2011: Gehirne , with Thomas Helbig, Kunstverein Heppenheim
  • 2010: Chiffon Rouge , Francesca Minini, Milan
  • 2009: The void and the drawn self , Meyer Riegger, Berlin
  • 2009: Der Böse Blick / The Evil Eye , Kunstverein Braunschweig
  • 2009: Waldgänger, Meyer Riegger, Karlsruhe 2008
  • 2007: Francesca Minini, Milan
  • 2006: Dark Dreams , Johnen Gallery, Berlin
  • 2005: I remember nothing , Meyer Riegger, Karlsruhe
  • 2004: Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle , Munich (with Martin Boyce)
  • 2001: Paintball , Meyer Riegger Gallery, Karlsruhe

Group exhibitions (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Art after 1945; Armin Boehm in the Staedelmuseum on YouTube on August 27, 2010
  2. ↑ Armin Boehm on the London riots The crisis becomes permanent , interview with Monopol, the magazine for art and life from August 10, 2011
  3. ↑ David Pagel on Armin Boehm at Susanne Vielmetter , in: Los Angeles Times of April 13, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Boehm, Armin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen