Holger Bear

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Holger Bär (* 1962 in Wuppertal ) is a German artist .

Life

Bär's first “digital paintings” were created during his studies at the University of Wuppertal from 1986 to 1989 with Michael Badura , painting department.

From 1987 to 1989 he planned and programmed his first painting machine. In 1994 a mobile, pneumatic robot was developed. 1996–1997 he developed a pneumatic painting machine with three separate brush heads. Bär worked on the development of six-legged autonomous small robots with "their own intelligence".

Digital painting

For many years, Holger Bär has been concerned with automating the creation process of painting. He relies entirely on the possibilities offered by robotics : His technology - "digital painting" - uses digital templates that are transferred to the canvas by machines he has developed - pixel by pixel. Like a monitor, his works of art are created from numerous pixels.

Holger Bär's artistic concept counteracts conventional artistic criteria such as painterly talent and craftsmanship. Already in the 20s with Duchamp and in the 60s with Andy Warhol a radical dewauratization of art took place. Holger Bär's pictures question the uniqueness of artistic authorship and have icons of everyday life as a common motif common to pop artists .

Holger Bär is a painter of the 21st century and expresses himself in this context with contemporary means. Personality and apparatus merge in his work. Contrary to what the high-tech process suggests, painterly expressive panel paintings (oil on canvas) are created with a “digital-pointillist” style and authentic recognizability.

Bär sees himself as a painter and creator of a contemporary painting technique. His formal approach leads strictly to his artistic content. In the context of today's communication age, the question of the truth of information and the interpretation of reality arises.

Exhibitions / trade fairs (selection)

Legend: (G) - group exhibition, (E) - solo exhibition, (K) - catalog

  • 1992 - Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum, Hagen, "Trivial machines" (G, K)
  • 1993 - Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf, "Digital paintings" (E)
  • 1993 - Gallery CULT, Vienna, "Digital paintings" (E)
  • 1994 - Art Association ACUD, Berlin (G)
  • 1994 - Trench Art Festival Sfântu Gheorghe, Romania (G, K)
  • 1995 - art multiple, special stand, Düsseldorf (E)
  • 1995 - Art 95, Zurich (E)
  • 1995 - Galerie Rössler, Munich, "Figurative Positions" (G)
  • 1996 - Galerie David, Bielefeld (E)
  • 1996 - Suermondt Ludwig Museum, Aachen (G, K)
  • 1997 - Galerie Incontro, Eitorf, "The small format" (G)
  • 1997 - Städtische Galerie, Paderborn, "Terminals" (G, K)
  • 1997 - Galerie Raab, Berlin, "Portrait in the 20th Century" (G)
  • 1997 - Hanover Fair with FESTO (E)
  • 1997 - Galerie Deschler, Berlin, "Digital painting" (E)
  • 1998 - Galerie Deschler, Berlin, "Space" (K, E)
  • 1998 - Galerie David, Bielefeld, "Full house" (G)
  • 1998 - Galerie Rössler, Munich, "Icons of Painting" (E)
  • 1998 - Art Association Bad Salzdethfurth (G)
  • 1999 - Art Association Bad Oeynhausen (G)
  • 1999 - Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen (E)
  • 2000 - Galerie Deschler, Berlin, "How machines see people" (K, E)
  • 2000 - Museum Bochum, "How machines see people" (K), (E)
  • 2000 - Galerie Deschler, Berlin, "Freedom of Choice", -KEHL- & Bär (K, G)
  • 2001 - Art Frankfurt, Art Bodensee (G)
  • 2001 - Harburger Kunstverein, Hamburg (K, G)
  • 2001 - Galerie im Park, Bremen (G)
  • 2001 - Hoffmann Gallery, Paris (E)
  • 2002 - New Museum Weserburg, Bremen "Art after Art" (G)
  • 2002 - Art Frankfurt (G), Art Forum Berlin (G)
  • 2002 - Galerie Michael, Rottach-Egern, "Tradition and Modernity"
  • 2003 - art-fair, Cologne, Galerie Deschler (G)
  • 2003 - Art Frankfurt, Galerie Deschler (G)
  • 2003 - Galerie Deschler, "EndlichUnendet" with Michael Badura and Wolfram Odin (G)
  • 2004 - Galerie Deschler, Berlin, Holger Bär & Salomé - "567 pictures" (G)
  • 2004 - BERLINERLISTE, Berlin (G)
  • 2004 - FIAC, Paris (G)
  • 2005 - ART COLOGNE, Berlin Pictures (G)
  • 2005 - "10 Years - Artists of the Gallery", Galerie Deschler, Berlin
  • 2006 - Galerie Deschler, Berlin, "Prussian Blue Berlin" (K, E)
  • 2006 - German Museum of Technology Berlin, "Playing with Technology" (K, G)
  • 2006 - Galerie Deschler, "This Ball Is Square - Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Football" (G)
  • 2006 - art Karlsruhe, one-man-show
  • 2006 - Preußisch Blau Berlin, Galerie Deschler, Berlin
  • 2010 - Parks and Landscapes, Galerie Deschler, Berlin
  • 2012 - Absolute Art Space, Barcelona
  • 2013 - Glück, Galerie Deschler, Berlin
  • 2013 - Parks & Castles, Kniphausen Castle Foundation
  • 2014 - Holger Bär's art machine. Machine painting since 1989, Efficiency House Plus with electromobility, Berlin

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personal data
SURNAME Bear, Holger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Wuppertal