Berthold Bock

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Berthold Bock (born October 9, 1967 in Salzburg ) is an Austrian painter and filmmaker . He lives and works in Berlin .

Life

After completing school in Salzburg, Bock moved to Berlin in 1989, where he studied history and philosophy at the Free University of Berlin . In 2001 he completed his studies in fine arts at the Dresden University of Fine Arts with a diploma in painting and film. In 2003 Bock was a master student with Lutz Dammbeck . Various artistic residency grants took him to Rome , Budapest and Meran, among others .

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In his artistic career, Bock has always worked across genres. In the last 30 years his occupation ranged from expressive painting, experimental film and experimental music to landscapes and classic surreal feature films. While earlier work groups are still characterized by geometrically strict architectural forms and lonely people in anonymous "living sarcophagi", Bock has been dealing with a state of uncertainty in his paintings and films since 2010: we are at the end of modernity and at the beginning of a new one Romance? No longer lost people in anonymous houses can be seen, but wild nature in large format, instead of gray architecture, bright green colors, brightly colored natural spectacles shine. For Bock, the subject of “nature” is more virulent than ever - not only as a reference to the discussion on climate change or the deforestation of the rainforest, but also as a reference to the aggressive use of the last human refuge. The artistically portrayed nature becomes - as in the first romanticism - a place of longing, a symbol for another world.

Colonna, short film 2018

In his films, Bock works with actors such as Robert Seethaler , Jens Roth , Arno Frisch , Christine Hoppe , Ingo Huelsmann , Guntbert Warns and Martin Brauer, as well as with the musician Sven Helbig . In his cinematic work, Bock has been interlacing his paintings directly with the level of action for several years.

As a side project, Bock has also appeared as the bassist of the Berlin post-rock band ZURICAT since 2012 , whose albums are published in the art edition liane by Heinz Havemeister .

Quotes

About the fall of the Berlin Wall after he moved to West Berlin in August 1989:

“The wall came up and I have to honestly say that it was a kind of liberation for me too. I was very impressed by the people I met there. Don't think about tomorrow about this openness, about this 'just living in the day'. That was the opposite of this western view of life of thinking in cycles and saying: Now I have to do this, now I have to do it, then I can do it, and so on. "

About his work as a filmmaker:

“The main reason I do this with the film is that it's the only chance I get my interest in narration . Because for me, with the invention of film, painting no longer has the task of telling me a story. "

About his artistic positions on people in modern times:

“There could be a feeling of being lost, but I want it to exude a sense of security. Modernism as a fairy tale. That's exactly what I'm working on. These are fairy tales about modernity. "

Filmography (selection)

  • 2018 Colonna, short film, 4K, 35 min.
  • 2013 Dans la tête de l'artiste, short film, full HD, 15 min
  • 2011 Lost is in me, short film, full HD, 12 min
  • 2008 Beyond the Lake, short film, 35 mm, 15 min
  • 2001 Zero, feature film, 35 mm, 75 min with Frauke Menzinger

Exhibitions (selection)

2019

  • “Lantschaft”, Galerie Alte Schule Adlershof, Berlin
  • “Hoffmaniana”, Galerie AG, Schwerin “en bloc”, CODEX, Berlin

2018

  • "Dark Sun", Galerie Alte Schule Adlershof, Berlin
  • “Paperworks”, CODEX, Berlin “New Black Romanticism”, Gallery of the City of Backnang
  • “New Black Romanticism”, Palais Turn und Taxis, Bregenz

2017

  • “Passeggiare”, Gallery of the City of Salzburg
  • “New Black Romanticism”, Museum of Arts, Bucharest, Romania
  • "Face a face", Lorient, France
  • “New Black Romanticism”, Künstlerhaus Bethanien

2016

  • “La vague desparate”, pavilion at the Milchhof, Berlin
  • "Liason", Uferhallen, Berlin

2015

  • “Rome of the North, Rome of the South”, Mondrian Suite Gallery, Rome
  • Austrian Cultural Forum, Budapest
  • "Ice Palace", pavilion at the Milchhof, Berlin

2014

  • Glade 2, Pohl Collection, Sylt
  • Come into my boat, pavilion at the Milchhof, Berlin
  • Berliner Salon, Kunstverein Melle
  • Brought back, Cité des Arts, Paris
  • Focus on painting, Palais Lichtenstein, Feldkirch

2013

  • Berliner Salon, Kunsthaus Meiningen
  • In Situ-Ex Situ, Pro Arte Gallery, Hallein
  • Focus on painting, Traklhaus, Salzburg

2012

  • Art purchases by the State of Salzburg 2010–2012, Traklhaus, Salzburg

2011

  • Is lost in me / Beyond the lake, gallery in Getreidegasse, Salzburg

2010

  • Crime scene, Beisteiner collection, Nussdorf am Attersee
  • Everything is to be doubted, Galerie im Kamphus, Kampen / Sylt

2009

  • 45 × 16 × 6.6 m, Uferhallen, Berlin
  • Beyond the lake, museum pavilion, Salzburg

2008

  • Beyond the lake, Galerie Baer, ​​Dresden
  • Melle, Art Association Melle
  • “An organ is raging up there”, Schwerin Film Festival

2007

  • APEX Art Association, Göttingen
  • Car park Recall, Galerie Alte Schule Berlin

2006

  • Home cinema, Luckenwalde art gallery

2005

  • Röhr-Jenschke Gallery, Berlin
  • Reserve worlds, Galerie Baer, ​​Dresden
  • Faistauer Prize for Painting, Galerie im Traklhaus, Salzburg
  • Once Upon a Time in the West ..., Kunstverein Soest

2004

  • New home, Maierhof / Benediktbeuern monastery
  • Color +, Kunsthaus Essen

2003

  • Painting, Melle Art Association
  • All in white, Galerie Weißer Elefant, Berlin

2002

  • Movement ... tectonic, Galerie Anette Röhr, Osnabrück
  • Gallery Capri, Berlin

2001

  • Art students exhibit, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn

Publications (among others)

  • 2019 lantschaft, Galerie Alte Schule Adlershof, Berlin
  • 2018 Dark, Sun, Galerie Alte Schule Adlershof, Berlin
  • 2017 New Black Romanticism, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
  • 2013 Dans la tête de l'artiste, Galerie im Traklhaus / Palais Lichtenstein, ISBN 978-3-9503205-6-5
  • 2012 Art purchases from the state 2010–2012, gallery in the Traklhaus
  • 2011 Lost is in me / Beyond the lake, incl. DVD, Beisteiner collection, moonfilm GmbH, Kerber Verlag, ISBN 9783-86678-513-7
  • 2010 Everything is to be doubted, with a novella by Oliver M. Pohl, Galerie im Kamphus, Kampen / Sylt, Parkwart Verlag, ISBN 978-3-00-031760-6
  • 2008 An organ is raging up there, a catalog for the Schwerin Film Festival
  • 2007 Multi-storey car park recall, Alte Schule gallery, Berlin
  • 2005 once upon a time in the west ..., with a story by Kai Schubert and photographs by Frauke Menzinger, Kunstverein Soest, Parkwart Verlag, ISBN 3-00-016477-4
  • 2004 New home, Maierhof, Benediktbeuern monastery
  • 2003 painting, with texts by Axel Schöpp, Kunstverein Melle

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Berthold Bock. September 4, 2019, accessed September 4, 2019 .
  2. ↑ https://www.welt.de/print-wams/article127641/Die-neue-Romantik-in-der-Kunst.html
  3. ↑ Berthold Bock. September 4, 2019, accessed September 4, 2019 .
  4. ↑ https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/moderner-maerchenerzaehler.1153.de.html?dram:article_id=182646
  5. ↑ - Modern storyteller. Accessed September 4, 2019 (German).
  6. ↑ - Modern storyteller. Accessed September 4, 2019 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Bock, Berthold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter and filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Salzburg