Marc Brandenburg

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Marc Brandenburg (2018)

Marc Brandenburg (born July 18, 1965 in Berlin ) is a German artist .

Life

Marc Brandenburg was born in 1965 to a German and an Afro-American GI who worked for the US military . In 1968 he went to the USA with his family and returned to West Berlin in 1977 , where he came into contact with the punk scene at an early age . From 1983 to 1988 he worked as a bouncer in the Berlin discotheque Dschungel , where he had frequented since the late 1970s. Brandenburg, who was named by his mother after the former chief designer of Dior , Marc Bohan, began to work as a self-taught fashion designer himself in 1984 and collaborated with other designers again and again, such as Claudia Skoda , PLEZ and Tabea Blumenschein . He showed his designs in 1984 together with Claudia Skoda in the London club Heaven and in 1987 in the New York tunnel . In 1988 he appeared as a performer with Die Tödliche Doris in East Berlin .

Fashion would later remain part of his artistic work. In 1993, in response to the xenophobic riots in Rostock-Lichtenhagen in 1992, he showed Oceans of Violence (with Sabina Maria von der Linden ) in his first institutional solo exhibition at the Berlin Künstlerhaus Bethanien u. a. "Camouflage sweaters for foreigners" and a Burberry camouflage cap. In 2009 he collaborated on a collection with the designer Bernhard Wilhelm, in 2010 he designed undershirts for Schiesser , in 2016 he worked with Bless on the Daycation collection .

Marc Brandenburg lives in Berlin and Barcelona .

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In 1992, Brandenburg began to photograph people, situations and interiors in its surroundings and to draw these photos in every format with a pencil in great detail. In his early exhibitions he combined these snapshots with motifs drawn from porno magazines , fashion magazines, advertisements or from packaging and plastic toys. His picture book Picturebook appeared in 1994 , in which he depicts a fictional day in his Berlin circle of friends with drawings . 1996 began the artist, who referred to himself repeatedly as "human copy machine" so to his drawings at the copier or the computer to the negatives to pervert and distort optical, then emerge again at the printout. Brandenburg has been producing series of drawings since the mid-1990s, which he strung together to form film-like sequences and which incorporated cinematic effects such as zooms , camera pans and blurring in the individual drawings .

While numerous staged and performative self-portraits with masks were created, which Brandenburg photographed and then copied again, in his work he concentrated on role and body images, costumes and rituals that fall outside the social norm. Brandenburg's motives could be right-wing extremists , hooligans , costumed opponents of globalization, participants in raves and parades, homeless people or eccentrics. Central themes for him are "weariness, excess, addiction, abundance".

Since the beginning of his career, Brandenburg's work has repeatedly been placed in relation to pop culture of the 1960s and 1980s and Andy Warhol's artistic practice , or read  in a queer , anti-racist context due to Brandenburg's homosexuality and its multiracial origins . Brandenburg himself emphasized, however, that for him the formal and conceptual aspects of the drawing, the fundamental examination of representation , are more important than the motifs themselves: "This emptiness behind the images, the translucent white is important."

Since his solo exhibition at the MMK in Frankfurt am Main in 2005, on the occasion of the award of the Karl Ströher Prize , Brandenburg has often installed his negative motifs in darkened rooms under UV light, which has the optical effect of a photo laboratory. He himself described this as the "counterpart to the white cube". In 2002 he began to transfer his drawings onto stickers , screen prints and temporary tattoos in order to create independent works. In 2009, he realized a permanent screen print installation on glass for the Berlin Club Berghain and designed a kiosk there for a group exhibition in 2014 , where a tattoo sheet with motifs from the club was available - such as architectural details from the house, used condoms or the head of the doorman . In exhibitions such as Normex in the Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg (2012), Brandenburg designed entire rooms with sticker foils, which he ran along the walls as strips or arranged as transparent clusters on window panes so that the drawings were projected into the room in daylight.

Honourings and prices

  • 2002 Working grant from the Kunstfonds Bonn Foundation
  • 2005 Karl Ströher Prize from the City of Frankfurt, Senate grant from the City of Berlin, Artist in Residence, Villa Romana Florence, IT
  • 2016 Artist in Residence / Goethe-Institut, Wellington, New Zealand

Permanent installations

  • 2008 "UV / R", Grill Royal, Berlin
  • 2009 “Untitled”, Berghain / Panorama Bar, Berlin

Public collections

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1990 »Adieu«, Scheederbauer, Berlin
  • 1992 "Punk and Circumstance along the Yellow Brick Road - Lovesickness", Galerie Martin Schmitz, Kassel
  • 1993 "Marc Brandenburg & Attila Richard Lucas I", PLUG IN, Winnipeg, CA; "Marc Brandenburg & Attila Richard Lucas II", Gallery III, School of Art, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, CA
  • 1996 "The Dangling Conversation - from Electric Lane to Lavender Hill", Morris Healy Gallery, New York, USA
  • 1998 "Draw Stranger," PLUG IN, Winnipeg, CA
  • 2000 "White Rainbow", Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin; Paul Morris Gallery, New York; New Berlin Art Association, Berlin; Wolfsburg Art Museum
  • 2002 Kunstraum Bonn, Bonn
  • 2003 "Full Circle (Excerpts from Negrophobia)", Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck
  • 2004 Laura Mars Grp., Berlin; Kunstverein Frankfurt ; Gay Museum , Berlin; David Zwirner, New York
  • 2006 "Tilt", Gallery André Schlechtriehm Temporary, New York
  • 2010 "Bonkers", Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin; "German-American Friendship", Denver Art Museum , Denver; "Isolated Imagery", Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery , Salzburg
  • 2011 »Version«, OFF / SITE, New York; “Marc Brandenburg. Drawing «, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
  • 2012 »NORMEX«, City Gallery Wolfsburg
  • 2013 "Interior / Exterior", Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery, Paris
  • 2015 »Marc Brandenburg. Drawing I Sculpture I Performance «, Museums Stade, Stade
  • 2017 "Alpha St", Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery, Salzburg
  • 2018 "Camoufflage Sweater", Kunstraum Potsdam, Potsdam

Group exhibitions (selection)

  • 1995 "Summer Exhibition 1995", Paul Morris Gallery, New York 1995
  • 1998 "Draw, Stranger", PLUG IN, Winnipeg 1998
  • 1999 "Loveolution", XL Gallery, New York
  • 2000 "ANP at s & h de Buck", Gallery s & h de Buck, Gent, Belgium
  • 2003 "Man in Middle", Deutsche Bank, Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia
  • 2003 "Lifetime 14", Laura Mars Group, Berlin
  • 2004 "Seeds and Roots", The Harlem Studio Museum, New York
  • 2004 "Emotion Eins", Frankfurter Kunstverein, Kraichtal, Frankfurt
  • 2007 "Home as Utopia", Goethe-Institut Tokyo
  • 2007 “The eighth field - gender, life and desire in art since 1960”, Museum Ludwig, Cologne
  • 2008 »Just Different!«, Cobra Museum , Amstelveen
  • 2009 "The End of the Line: Attitudes in Drawing", MIMA Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Bristol, Liverpool, Middlesbrough
  • 2009 "Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection", The Museum of Modern Art, New York
  • 2010 »Wings. The Grand Piano in Contemporary Art «, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg
  • 2010–2011 "Collected", The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
  • 2011 »Compass. Drawings from the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York «, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin
  • 2012 »16th Line«, Rostov on Don, Russia; "Tender Buttons", September Gallery, Berlin
  • 2013 »Portrait Gallery«, Bavarian State Opera, Munich; »World tour / art from Germany on the way, works from the ifa art collection 1949 to today«, ZKM Museum for New Art, Karlsruhe; “Forever Young. On the Myth of Youth «, Kunsthalle Nürnberg; "Disaster / The End of Days", Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery, Paris
  • 2014 »10«, Berghain Berlin
  • 2015 »Disegno - Drawing Art for the 21st Century«, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden - Kupferstichkabinett Dresden; "Last year in Marienbad", Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen
  • 2016 »Last year in Marienbad«, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic; "The OPEN-Singapore International Festival of the Arts", Singapore; "Line Line Linea - Contemporary Drawing", Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand; "Drawing Rooms", Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg; “Zeitgeist-Arte da nova Berlin”, CCBB / Goethe-Institut, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

literature

  • Marc Brandenburg. White Rainbow 2ème édition drawing book. Vol. 20 Published by Maas Media Verlag, 2005, ISBN 978-3-9812127-2-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Through the night with: Marc Brandenburg . In: De: Bug Magazin . January 5, 2009 ( de-bug.de [accessed March 27, 2018]).
  2. ^ A b c Sebastian Preuss: Pop-Futurism: The Berlin draftsman Marc Brandenburg: The melancholy of everyday life . In: Berliner Zeitung . ( berliner-zeitung.de [accessed on March 27, 2018]).
  3. ↑ Bernhard Willhelm . In: Flash Art . May 8, 2016 ( flashartonline.com [accessed March 27, 2018]).
  4. ↑ The little white one | Monopol - magazine for art and life. Retrieved March 27, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Quynh Tran: Fashion labels from Berlin: Between Here and Everywhere . In: FAZ.NET . January 17, 2017, ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed March 27, 2018]).
  6. ^ Marc Brandenburg. Retrieved March 27, 2018 .
  7. ^ Marc Brandenburg | Hamburger Kunsthalle. Retrieved March 27, 2018 .
  8. ↑ GFDK - HBS Media Group GmbH: GFDK - Lifestyle magazine for lifestyle, art and culture. Retrieved March 27, 2018 .
  9. ↑ a b c d Oliver Koerner von Gustorf: "I'm not interested in beauty in the normal sense" - a conversation with Marc Brandenburg. In: ArtMag. Retrieved March 27, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Katja Engler: Kunsthaus Stade: As radical as Warhol . ( Abendblatt.de [accessed on March 27, 2018]).
  11. ↑ - Alienated Motives . In: Deutschlandfunk . ( deutschlandfunk.de [accessed on March 27, 2018]).
  12. ↑ Ulf Poschardt: Artist Marc Brandenburg: "Hopefully Obama will survive his term of office" . In: THE WORLD . November 10, 2008 ( welt.de [accessed March 27, 2018]).
  13. ↑ Gustav Seibt: What, you send people away? In: sueddeutsche.de . August 11, 2014, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed on March 27, 2018]).
  14. ↑ City Gallery Wolfsburg. Retrieved March 27, 2018 .
  15. ↑ Bernd Bauschmann: Marc Brandenburg in the master drawing room. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 28, 2018 ; accessed on March 27, 2018 .
  16. ^ Marc Brandenburg . In: @GI_weltweit . ( goethe.de [accessed on March 27, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Brandenburg, Marc
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin