Markus Oehlen

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Markus Oehlen (* 1956 in Krefeld ) is a contemporary artist (painting, objects, installations, music ( punk and new wave )).

Life

Markus Oehlen, Albert Oehlen's brother , was born in Krefeld in 1956. His father, Adolf Oehlen , is a graphic artist and cartoonist. From 1971 to 1973 Oehlen completed an apprenticeship as a technical draftsman. From 1976 to 1982 he studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy , where he was a master student of Alfonso Hüppi .

Oehlen belongs to the environment of the Ratinger Hof . In 1977 he made the acquaintance of Martin Kippenberger . Markus Oehlen belonged to the punk band Charley’s Girls as well as lunch break and Fehlfarben . Mainly as a drummer, he worked on the music projects Flying Klassenfeind , Perhapsors , Thoughtful Conscripts and Van Oehlen . He worked as a DJ in the Ratinger Hof. With the song “One & One Is One” (original by the band Medicine Head ), Oehlen was part of the Hamburg video magazine “For a handful of D-Mark” produced in 1984. In 2018 the music video was exhibited as a contribution to the exhibition “Doppelleben” in the Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien (mumok).

In 1981 he formed the “Church of Indifference”, together with Werner Büttner and his brother Albert Oehlen. In the same year he exhibited at Rundschau Germany . In 1984 he was represented at the exhibition From Here - Two Months of New German Art in Düsseldorf . In 1987 he received the Berlin Art Prize . In 1993 he showed the exhibition "Projects 39" together with Georg Herold at the Museum of Modern Art , New York . Oehlen has been a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich since 2002 .

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Oehlen is one of the main representatives of the new savages . The works are a commentary on the standardized value standards of bourgeois ideas. People revolted in punk style in the often dark-toned pictures against the prosperity-related apathy of the 1980s and minimalism . In the tradition of Dada and Fluxus , work was carried out to dismantle the traditional concept of art.

Characteristic for his pictures is the overlaying of different motifs in a dense, impasto painting style, as well as borrowings from pop culture . The diverse working techniques and the layered image structure suggest a comparison with sampling in contemporary music. In addition to painting, he also develops sculptures from styrofoam bodies .

Discography

Exhibitions

Markus Öhlen has presented his works in many exhibitions at home and abroad since 1977; a detailed list and collections can be found on the website kunstaspekte.de.

literature

Movies

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Exhibition: Double Life - Artists Make Music , Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Vienna (June 23 to November 11, 2018)
  2. ↑ List of Oehlen's solo and group exhibitions
personal data
SURNAME Oehlen, Markus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Krefeld