Jochen Proehl

Jochen Proehl (* 1958 in Lübeck ) is a contemporary German artist who lives and works in Berlin and Istanbul (TR).

Career

Jochen Proehl spent his childhood and youth in Istanbul. From 1982 to 1988 he studied painting with Klaus Fußmann at the HdK Berlin (today: UdK). Between 1996 and 2001 he held lectureships and a professorship at the Muthesius Academy of Art (Kiel) and at the Christian Albrechts University (Kiel). From 2003 he continued his artistic teaching activity in Turkey. He has taught at Marmara University, Yıldız Technical University, Okan University and Işık Universityand in Izmir at the Ege University. From 2013 to 2016 he was the founding curator of the BAUART gallery and director of the Istanbul-Berlin Art Bridge at the Bahçesehir University in Istanbul. He has been their artistic director since 2017. Since 2013 he has been teaching at the Faculty of Communication at the same university.

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Jochen Proehl's works, which oscillate between abstraction and objectivity, can be divided into three groups. First of all, there are the landscapes, in which he refers to traces of human intervention in the ground. These can be excavation tracks, masses of earth on spoil heaps or just the imprint of a shovel in the sand. Above all, it is about the cultural-historical connotations of this complex of topics. Then still-life works from the “In-Situ” series, the starting point of which is found situations during archaeological excavations. Finally, there are the “Urban Anatomies”. With the latter, Jochen Proehl uses urban and architectural structures as the basis of his pictorial inventions. The work is based on observations on concrete landscapes, shapes and objects, but he does without any indications of reality such as people, vegetation or topographical details. Rather, for him imagery means above all the organization of brush strokes and hatching on the surface. This creates general spaces and constellations that are independent of the view and reflect the unchangeable anatomy of the original motif. In parallel to painting and drawing, Jochen Proehl works with a camera obscura . Here he sometimes uses landscape models made of sand and earth, which he makes himself beforehand. In these works, too, he is concerned with an anonymization and generalization of landscape.

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions

2020: Urban Anatomies, CAM Galeri, Istanbul
2019: The Past of a Future, Kunsthalle Dresden
2019: Biriktirilmiş Zaman (Accumulated Time), Mysia Fotoğraf Müzesi, Nilüfer, Bursa / Turkey
2016: Ripped Landscape, Galerie Michael Schultz, Berlin
2012: UNEARTHED - Istanbul without Istanbul, CDA Projects Gallery, Istanbul
2011: Signs and Traces: Stratifications [Istanbul] - Painting and Photography, Galerie Seitz & Partner, Berlin
2010: Anatomy of Landscape I Anatomy of Landscape, Galerie Seitz & Partner, Berlin
2008: Berlin - İstanbul I İstanbul - Berlin, Galerie Seitz & Partner, Berlin
2006: yeralaltı - yerüstü I above the earth - below the earth, Municipal Gallery in Borbeck Castle, Essen

Group exhibitions (selection)

2019: Geçiş - Transition, Eldem Sanat Alanı (Eldem Art Space), Eskişehir / Turkey
2019: The ride through eternity, Hotel Mond, Berlin
2019: Final Painting Now, Galerie Michael Schultz, Berlin
2018: Zamanın Ötesinde / Beyond Time, Galata Rum Okulu, Istanbul
2018: Painted Images, Sanatorium Gallery, Istanbul
2018: Distortion, Milli Reasürans Sanat Galerisi, Istanbul
2017: Autumn Leaves, Galerie Michael Schultz, Berlin
2017: "... objective ...", insights into the art collections of the Sparkassenstiftung Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel
2015: Transform Galerie Seitz & Partner, Berlin
2015: YARALARIMIZ, TÜRKÜLERİMİZ (our wounds, our songs), Art On Gallery, Istanbul
2014: TECHNICAL ECSTASY, KUAD Gallery, Istanbul
2014: "... entbegrenzt ...", insights into the art collections of the Sparkassenstiftung Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel

Press (selection)

Bettina Paust and Jochen Proehl: Jochen Proehl. Drawings.
Bernd Brandes-Druba and Gabriele Bremer: Jochen Proehl. Organ landscapes. Ars Borealis. Kiel 2005
Jochen Proehl and Martin Westphal: excavations. Rendsburg 1996
Hubertus von Amelunxen, Yesim Demir and Jochen Proehl: Unearthed. D-GB-TR, Istanbul 2012

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personal data
SURNAME	Proehl, Jochen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German artist
DATE OF BIRTH	1958
PLACE OF BIRTH	Lübeck