Jan Albers (artist)

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Jan Albers (* 1971 in Wuppertal ) is a German artist who is best known for relief sculptures and drawings.

life and work

Albers, who grew up in Namibia , studied from 1992 to 1998 at the Düsseldorf Art Academy , among others with Jan Dibbets . In 1996 he exhibited his own works for the first time in the Lukas & Hoffmann gallery in Cologne. Between 1997 and 2005 he received scholarships from the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, the Kunststiftung NRW and the Derik-Baegert-Gesellschaft . In 2003 the first institutional solo exhibition of his works took place under the title “Transistor” in the Museum Het Valkhof in Nijmegen . Since then, there have been other exhibitions in museums and galleries at home and abroad, including an exhibition on the occasion of the award of the Dahlmann Prize in the Leopold Hoesch Museum in Düren , which has added its entire photo archive to the collection for further collaboration. From March to June 2015, the Von der Heydt-Kunsthalle in Wuppertal was also devoted to Alber's work in a comprehensive solo exhibition that went to the Kunstpalais Erlangen in the same year . The Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven presented Albers in 2016. Jan Albers has been represented by VAN HORN in Düsseldorf since 2005.

Prizes and awards

  • 1997: Travel grant from the Düsseldorf Art Academy
  • 2002: Scholarship from the Kunststiftung NRW
  • 2003: Scholarship from the Derik-Baegert-Gesellschaft, Schloss Ringenberg
  • 2005: Scholarship from the Kunststiftung NRW
  • 2006: Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award, New York
  • 2007: Kaiserring scholarship from the city of Goslar
  • 2012: Participation in the art and artist exchange program Korea - NRW, Seoul
  • 2013: Artist in Residence, Centro Cultural Andratx , Mallorca
  • 2013: Dahlmann Prize, Leopold Hoesch Museum & Paper Museum Düren
  • 2016: Artist in Residence, Further On, Amagansett, Long Island, US

Public collections

Exhibitions (selection)

2016

  • "Eversion", Kunstraum Bogenhausen, Munich, DE
  • "flOtatiOn", 1301PE, Los Angeles, US (solo)
  • "Artists against Aids", Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, DE (cat.)
  • "Collection presentation", Museum Kunstpalast Foundation, Düsseldorf, DE
  • "Further On", Amagansett, Long Island, USA (solo)
  • "HaLLuZinOgen", Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven, Wilhelmshaven, DE (cat.) (solo)
  • "Le Souffleur", Schürmann meets Ludwig, Ludwig Forum, Aachen, DE (cat.)

2015

  • "hallOfzinOgen", VAN HORN, Düsseldorf, DE (solo)
  • "Sal. Oppenheim", Düsseldorf, DE (solo)
  • "Artist against Aids", Bundeskunsthalle Bonn, DE (cat.)
  • "l'oiseau prèsente: be abstract", Kunstverein Schwäbisch Hall, DE
  • "Jan Albers, Fiona Connor, Philippe Parreno, John Reynolds, Jessica Stockholder, SUPERFLEX, Diana Thater", 1301PE, Los Angeles, US
  • "cOlOny cOlOr", Kunstpalaus Erlangen, DE (cat.) (solo)
  • "cOlOny cOlOr", Von der Heydt-Kunsthalle, Wuppertal, DE (cat.) (solo)
  • "l'oiseau prèsente: be abstract", Ballhaus Ost, Berlin, DE
  • "Le Souffleur", Schürmann meets Ludwig, Ludwig Forum, Aachen, DE (cat.)

2014

  • "Small Is Beautiful", Drawing Room, Hamburg (group)
  • "Henry Hurt vs. Holly Heal", 1301PE, Los Angeles

2013

  • "Transfer Korea-NRW", Seoul, Korea, in collaboration with National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea, Arko Art Center, Seoul and Loop, Korea as well as Kunstmuseum Bonn, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf and Osthaus Museum Hagen (group, cat.)
  • "cOmeclOse", Leopold Hoesch Museum, Düren
  • "sOme cOlOr", JaLiMa Collection, Düsseldorf
  • "Up & Down", Kunsthalle Giessen, DE

2012

  • "The HokusaidawnRaiders", VAN HORN, Düsseldorf, DE
  • "Urban Research Project", Seoul Art Space Geumcheon, Seoul, Korea (Group, cat.)
  • "parcOurs mOrtale", Langen Foundation, Neuss

2011

  • "Revolutionary Sympathies", Malkasten, Düsseldorf (group, cat.), Edited by Katja Stuke
  • "Entropia", Philara Collection, Düsseldorf (group)

2010

  • "New Rhineland. The post-ironic generation", Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, DE (group, cat.)
  • "Rudolf Steiner and contemporary art", Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, DE in collaboration with Kunstmuseum Stuttgart (group, cat.)

2009

  • "Die Pein", VAN HORN, Duesseldorf, DE (solo)
  • "Optical & Visionary Art since the 1960s", San Antonio Museum of Art, US (travels to different museums inside the US) (group, cat.)

2008

  • "Collection", Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, DE (two-person show with Jens Ullrich, cat.) Curated by Stefanie Kreuzer

2007

  • "E. Kunz Portal to Robben Island", Mönchehaus Museum Goslar, DE (solo, cat.), Curated by Bettina Ruhrberg
  • "Sunlight", VAN HORN, Duesseldorf, DE (solo)
  • "Hair", Blindarte Contemporanea, Naples, Italy (solo)

2006

  • VAN HORN, Artforum Berlin, special presentation with Jens Ullrich, DE

2005

  • "Aux Mystéres Dormants", Forum d´Árt Franco Allemand, Cháteau de Vaudrémont, F (solo, cat.)
  • "Imagine this Woman", VAN HORN, Duesseldorf, DE (solo)

literature

  • Helga Meister (Ed.): Neue Düsseldorfer Kunstszene in 70 portraits, Wienand Verlag, Cologne 2016. ISBN 978-3-86832-371-9
  • Viola Weigel (Ed.): HaLLuZinOgen, Brune-Mettcke, Wilhelmshaven 2016. ISBN 978-3-941929-68-5 (publication on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name in the Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven, with text by Belinda Grace Gardner)
  • Gerhard Finckh / Amely Deiss (eds.): COLOny cOLOr, Kettler Verlag, Dortmund 2015. ISBN 978-3-86206-455-7 (publication on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name in the Von der Heydt Kunsthalle Wuppertal and the Kunstpalais Erlangen)
  • Renate Goldmann (Ed.), Jan Albers: cOmeclOse Verlag Kettler, Bönen 2013. ISBN 978-3-86206-297-3 (publication on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name in the Leopold-Hoesch-Museum Düren)
  • Ute Riese (Ed.): UP & DOWN JAN ALBERS. Distance Verlag, Berlin 2013. ISBN 978-3-95476-013-8 (publication on the occasion of the exhibition "UP & DOWN JAN ALBERS" in the Kunsthalle Gießen, with texts by Ute Riese and Stephan Berg.)
  • Jan Holger Arndt (Ed.), Jan Albers: sOmecOlOr. JaLiMa Collection, Düsseldorf. (Publication on the occasion of the exhibition "sOmecOlOr" JaLiMa Collection, Düsseldorf, with a text by Kay Heymer.)
  • Christiane Maria Schneider (Ed.), Jan Albers: parcOurs mOrtale. Distance Verlag, Berlin 2012. ISBN 978-3-942405-79-9 (publication on the occasion of the Jan Albers exhibition, "parcOurs mOrtale" in the Langen Foundation, Neuss, with texts by Christiane Maria Schneider, Kay Heymer, Vanessa Joan Müller, Stefanie Kreuzer and Brigitte Kölle.)
  • Heinzelmann, Markus (ed.), New Rhineland: the post-ironic generation. Distance Verlag, Berlin 2010. ISBN 978-3-942405-20-1 (publication on the occasion of the exhibition "New Rhineland: the post-ironic generation" in the Leverkusen City Museum, Schloss Morsbroich from November 28, 2010 to February 13, 2011.)
  • Bettina Ruhrberg (Ed.), Jan Albers: E. Kunz Portal to Robben Island. Revolver Verlag, Frankfurt 2007. ISBN 978-3-86588-438-1 (Publication on the occasion of the Jan Albers exhibition, "E. Kunz Portal zu Robben Island" and the award of the Kaiserring Scholarship in the Mönchehaus Museum Goslar. With texts by Bettina Ruhrberg, Barbara Hess and Brigitte Kölle.)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ [1]
  2. ^ Report by the Aachener Zeitung on Albers' exhibition in 2013 in Düren
personal data
SURNAME Albers, Jan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Wuppertal