Dennis Scholl

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Dennis Scholl (born December 9, 1980 in Hünfeld ) is a German artist . He lives and works in Berlin .

biography

Dennis Scholl grew up near Fulda . After graduating from the Wigbertschule in Hünfeld, he studied from 2002 to 2007 at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts with Franz Erhard Walther , Andreas Slominski and Michael Diers .

Curator Christoph Heinrich became aware of the then student back in 2005 . Several group exhibitions followed in the Hamburger Kunsthalle , as well as Scholl's participation in the Busan Biennale in South Korea in 2010. Today, his work is shown nationally and internationally in group and solo exhibitions in museums , galleries , art associations and art fairs . In addition, his pictures are represented in private and public collections worldwide. A drawing by the artist adorned the cover of the 16th issue of Dummy magazine . In the summer of 2018, Scholl worked with the Amrum Art Association.

He has been represented by Galerie Michael Haas in Berlin since 2014 and by Galerie Albertz Benda in New York City since 2017 .

Artistic work

In his black-and-white drawings, Scholl shows himself to be a master builder of stories, the fragments of which he carefully selects and put together like collages. Faces, bodies, plants and other organic elements, structures and materials are arranged in a highly condensed manner. Playing with sharpness and blurring makes the picture even more exciting. The focus is always on the human figure. In some drawings, Scholl's protagonists refer to literary historical or philosophical figures, and themes, symbols, figures from Christian iconography or church image tradition are often found . In addition, Scholl's art is related to historical models. The baroque epoch is just as important as the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan , the philosopher Georges Bataille and the poet Rainer Maria Rilke . Artists such as Hendrick Goltzius , Alberto Savinio and André Masson as well as Rilke's two foster sons, the draftsman Pierre Kłossowski and the painter Balthasar Kłossowski de Rola, known as Balthus , are also influential .

In the past few years of his artistic activity, Scholl's art has changed continuously. The world in which the characters move evolved from picture to picture and became more complex each time. The image format grew larger and larger over the years until the protagonists themselves were life-size.

In 2015 the artist introduced color into his work and slowly felt his way from red chalk drawings to pastel chalks to colored pencil. This added a new dimension to his work. If the pencil drawings give the appearance of black-and-white photographs of oil paintings , the colored pencil works have a much clearer graphic quality.

Scholl initiated a new phase in his artistic work in 2017. After almost 15 years in which the artist worked exclusively with pencils or later with colored pencils, he has since also been working in oil on canvas.

Solo exhibitions

  • 2019: Dangerous Games, Michael Haas Gallery, Berlin
  • 2019 : What the resourceful animals notice, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung , Berlin
  • 2017: The Book of Impure Intentions , Albertz Benda, New York
  • 2015: The shapes of the vessels , Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin
  • 2013: Les non-dupes errent , Aeroplastics Contemporary, Brussels
  • 2010: Melting participation , Galerie Arndt, Berlin
  • 2008: The Court of My Sick , Galerie Andreas Grimm, Munich
  • 2008: Early Stories , Institute for Modern Art, Nuremberg
  • 2007: Forever folding in the room of tears , Arndt & Partner, Berlin
  • 2006: Sinthom , Galerie Grimm / Rosenfeld, New York
  • 2004: Failed object occupation , Blue Ball, Hamburg

Group exhibitions

  • 2019: Drawing Wow, Berlin con mucho arte (BcmA), Berlin
  • 2019: Head to head, Sparkassenstiftung art gallery, Lüneburg
  • 2018: doing identity. The Reydan Weiss Collection, Bochum Art Museum
  • 2018: Painting still Alive , Center of Contemporary Art, Toruń
  • 2017: Body Electric , Gallery Sandra Buergel, Berlin
  • 2016: Sternstunde , Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin
  • 2016: I prefer life , Reydan Weiss collection, Weserburg Museum for Modern Art , Bremen
  • 2016: Speed , Helmholtz Center Berlin , Berlin
  • 2016: like.ness , Albertz Benda, New York City
  • 2015: Silent Service , Galerie Genscher Park, Hamburg
  • 2015: The Nude in the XX & XXI Century , Sothebys S2 , London
  • 2015: Ngorongoro , Artist Weekend, Berlin
  • 2014: L'Avventura - Those who play with love , Palazzo Guaineri delle Cossere, Brescia
  • 2014: The Thoughts of Artists , Galerie Miro, Prague
  • 2014: Full House , Aeroplastics Contemporary, Brussels
  • 2013: Between the Lines , All Visual Arts, London
  • 2013: Berlin.Staus (2) , Künstlerhaus Bethanien , Berlin
  • 2012: Peace Support Operation , Galerie Hermann Breker, Kassel
  • 2012: Everywhere and Nowhere , works from the Reydan Weiss collection, Villa Jauss , Oberstdorf
  • 2012: Connection: London / Berlin , Center for Recent Drawing, London
  • 2011: Nadine Fraczkowski, Jonas Jensen, Dennis Scholl , Bernhard Knaus Fine Art, Frankfurt
  • 2011: mémoires du futur - la collection Olbricht , La Maison Rouge, Paris
  • 2011: Deadwood , Loyal Gallery, Malmö
  • 2010: Busan Biennale , South Korea
  • 2010: Deceptively Real - Illusion and Reality in Art , Bucerius Kunst Forum , Hamburg
  • 2010: Lust for Life & Dance of Death , Kunsthalle Krems
  • 2009: MAN SON 1969 - On the horror of the situation , Kunsthalle, Hamburg
  • 2009: Radiate yourself , Galerie Samuelis Baumgarte, Bielefeld
  • 2009: The Hawaiian Collection (Dennis Scholl and Jörn Stahlschmidt) , Hafen und Rand, Hamburg
  • 2008: You call it Hamburg , Kunstverein Hamburg
  • 2007: Weltempfänger , Kunsthalle Hamburg
  • 2007: Friends forever , Bonner Kunstverein , Bonn
  • 2006: Full House , Kunsthalle Mannheim
  • 2006: Alles im Fluss , Altonaer Museum , Hamburg
  • 2005: Storyteller , Kunsthalle Hamburg

Works in collections

Scholarships and Awards

Curatorial projects

  • 2013: Méduse & Cie , Figge von Rosen, Berlin
  • 2010: Tyche & Automaton , Infernoesque, Berlin

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Artist's page Galerie Michael Haas. Retrieved December 19, 2018 .
  2. ^ Nicola Petek: Dennis Scholl . In: Tumult Foundation (Ed.): PAINTING still ALIVE ... on the way to modernity . Toruń 2018, ISBN 978-83-61580-24-9 , p. 573 .
  3. ↑ Thorsten Albertz: A Journey to Arcadia . Ed .: Art Asia Pacific Magazine. No. 100 , p. 143 .
  4. ↑ Busan Biennale 2010. Art Map, accessed December 19, 2018 .
  5. ↑ i . In: Dummy magazine. Retrieved December 19, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Cup # 4. In: Amrum Art Association. Retrieved December 19, 2018 .
  7. ^ Artist's page Galerie Michael Haas. Retrieved December 19, 2018 .
  8. ^ Artist page Gallery Albertz Benda. Retrieved December 19, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Ariane Müller: If you follow Dennis Scholl a few steps out of the world ... Ed .: Galerie Michael Haas. Berlin 2014.
  10. ^ Dennis Scholl - Selected Works. In: All Visual Arts London. Retrieved December 20, 2018 .
  11. ↑ ARTIST OF THE MONTH - DENNIS SCHOLL. In: EKD Institute for Church Building and Church Art of the Present. Retrieved December 19, 2018 .
  12. ↑ Dennis Scholl. The Book of Impure Intentions. Retrieved December 19, 2018 .
  13. ^ A b Nicola Petek: Dennis Scholl . In: Tumult Foundation (Ed.): PAINTING still ALIVE ... on the way to modernity . Toruń 2018, ISBN 978-83-61580-24-9 , p. 574 .
  14. ↑ a b Thorsten Albertz: A Journey to Arcadia . Ed .: Art Asia Pacific Magazine. No. 100 , p. 144 .
personal data
SURNAME Scholl, Dennis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Hünfeld