Gan-Erdene Tsend

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Gan-Erdene Tsend , Mongolian Цэндийн Ган-Эрдэнэ, (born January 4, 1979 in Mörön , Mongolia ) is a German-Mongolian artist whose painterly work represents a symbiosis of Mongolian homeland and German reality.

Life

Gan-Erdene Tsend is the eldest son of Tsend and Sarangerel Vaanchig, four daughters followed him. During his parents' academic years in Ulaanbaatar , Gan-Erdene Tsend lived with his grandmother until the age of seven, who, as a nomad, moved around the stone and sand deserts of the Gobi with her sheep, goats, horses, cattle and camels following the seasons, and only them Winter months spent in permanent quarters. It was also she who taught Gan-Erdene Tsend the traditional fairy tales and Buddhist legends.

From 1986 to 1996 Tsend went to elementary school in Ulaanbaatar. There followed a visit to the so-called 86th Talent School, where he studied traditional Mongolian painting and drawing for four years. In 1996 he enrolled at the University of Culture and Art in Ulaanbaatar, where he was taught manual skills as well as classical and decorative painting from professors Nasantengel and Narangerel.

In 2001 Tsend came to Germany to study at the Münster Art Academy . After two preparatory years, he was a member of Hermann-Josef Kuhna's painting class from 2003 to 2010 , and in 2007 he became his master student. In 2010 he received the academy letter 'with distinction'. Since then he has lived as a freelance artist in Münster. Tsend is married and has two daughters.

Create

The early landscape impressions from the vast landscape of Mongolia determine the artist's visual worlds to this day. His pointillist landscape motifs are determined by distant, high horizons that thematize the barren, often stony ground. Occasionally individual figures with Mongolian facial features or groups of horses populate the desert. When Gan-Erdene Tsend adds landmarks of Germany's sprawled cultural landscape, such as beach houses on stilts, to the boundless nature of Mongolia, he combines the basic themes of his two home countries in his paintings. In his surreal figurative works, too, Gan-Erdene Tsend joins things together that cannot exist at the same time. He uses reflections that only reflect part of reality and shadows that follow their own logic in order to link different levels of reality with one another and to create works that are reminiscent of dreams and thoughts.

"Insel", 2013, 80 × 120 cm, oil on canvas
"Carousel", 2015, 100 × 150 cm, oil on canvas
"Brooklyn Bridge", 2018, 120 × 100 cm, oil on canvas

Awards

  • 2006 2nd prize for young art, "Kuboshow" Herne
  • 2012 Art Prize Wesseling, topic “Point of no return”, Kunstverein Wesseling eV
  • 2014 Award as “Best Mongolian National Talent” by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science of Mongolia

Exhibitions (selection of solo exhibitions)

  • IN ANOTHER LIFE , Kunsthaus Klüber, Weinheim 2018
  • NEW WORKS , Galerie Hovestadt, Nottuln 2017
  • DONE TWICE , Galerie kunst @ work, Mannheim 2017
  • TWO WORLDS , Franz-Wärme-Haus, Münster 2016
  • I WILL BE YOUR MIRROR , Kolvenburg, cultural center of the Coesfeld district, Billerbeck 2016
  • PAINTING , Galerie Gering, Frankfurt am Main 2016
  • USE YOUR ILLUSIO , N Galerie Klose, Essen 2016
  • LANDSCAPES , Galerie Son, Berlin 2016
  • TODAY AFTER TOMORROW , Greskewitz-Kleinitz-Galerie, Hamburg 2015
  • BETWEEN , Gallery Haleh, Berg am Starnberger See 2015
  • EXISTENT-NON EXISTENT , Galerie Hovestadt, Nottuln 2015
  • MODERN TRANSFORMATIONS-NEW IDENTITIES , Embassy of Mongolia, Berlin 2015
  • ENCOUNTERS , District Government of Münster 2014
  • REFLECTION , Gallery Klose, Essen 2014
  • CLOSER TO THE SUN , 976 Art Gallery, Ulan Bator, Mongolia 2014
  • TWO WORLDS , Kunstverein Wesseling e. V. 2013
  • SPIEGELUNGEN , Wohn + Stadtbau GmbH, Münster 2013
  • REFLECTIONS , Galeria Nolte, Porto Colom (Spain) 2012
  • STILL ON THE WAY , Galerie Michael Nolte, Münster 2011
  • PAINTING , Galerie Hoffmann, Rheda-Wiedenbrück 2011
  • EXHIBITION , Dülmener Kunstverein eV 2010
  • EXHIBITION , Galerie-Kabuth, Gelsenkirchen 2010
  • WAYS TO ETERNITY , Galerie Michael Nolte, Münster 2009
  • ON WAYS , Precise Myer's Hotel Berlin 2009
  • PICTURES OF COLOR AND LIGHT , Gronauer Kunstkreis eV 2008
  • EXHIBITION , Dülmener Kunstverein eV 2008
  • PICTURES FROM THE DISTANCE , Kultur Verein Alte-Brennerei-Schwake, Ennigerloh 2007

literature

  • Exhibition catalog: Gan-Erdene Tsend. "I will be your mirror" , Kolvenburg in Billerbeck. March 20 - May 17, 2016
  • Exhibition catalog: Gan-Erdene Tsend “Two Worlds” , Kunstverein Wesseling eV, July 26 - August 21, 2013, ISBN 978-3-00-042264-5
  • Exhibition catalog: "Traces". Gan-Erdene Tsend, Namkhaitseren Luvsansharav, Enkhjin Tsultem , on the occasion of the exhibition at Allianz, Berlin April 3 - June 30, 2009. Introductory text in German, Mongolian and English
  • Burkhard Richter: Striking and provocative , in: Exhibition catalog "Here and Now", Gustav-Lübcke-Museum Hamm 16 March - 18 May 2008
  • Exhibition catalog: "Ganz privat - Familie" , Städtische Galerie Lüdenscheid September 29, 2012 - January 13, 2013
  • Catalog for the exhibition: Painting 07 Students of the Art Academy Münsterin in the Kunstverein Siegen eV, Museum for Contemporary Art November 18, 2007 to January 6, 2008

Collections

  • Art Collection Benetton Group, Treviso (Italy)
  • Mathias Spital - Private Rights Foundation, Rheine
  • Von Bodelschwingh Hospital, Ibbenbüren
  • UKM - Münster University Hospital
  • Becker & Knawek Collection, Münster
  • District Administrator Coesfeld
  • Kolvenburg, cultural center of the Coesfeld district, Billerbeck
  • Embassy of Mongolia, Berlin
  • as well as many private collections

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ [Unpublished manuscript, personal interview with Gan-Erdene Tsend, February 11, 2019]
personal data
SURNAME Tsend, Gan-Erdene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Mongolian artist
DATE OF BIRTH 4th January 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Mörön , Mongolia