Martin Eder

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Martin Eder (born August 31, 1968 in Augsburg ) is a German painter .

Career

Eder grew up in Batzenhofen . From 1986 he studied communication design at the Augsburg University of Applied Sciences and graduated in 1992. After that he worked for an advertising agency for some time. From 1993 to 1995 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg . From 1996 to 1999 he studied with Eberhard Bosslet at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts and was a master class student with Bosslet from 1999 to 2001 . Martin Eder is represented internationally by the EIGEN + ART Berlin / Leipzig gallery .

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Frequent motifs of Martin Eder's representational idylls in oil are pets such as kittens, rabbits, poodles or canaries as well as lasciviously draped women or girls' bodies ( lolita motifs). In the naive, kitschy views, there is usually a detail that irritates the viewer's eyes and is intended to induce thought. The paintings make use of the motifs of trash , eroticism and surrealism . They have a contrast between realistic, beautiful motifs and a pompous, surreal counter-mood. Kitsch and cliché are not “the subject of Eder's pictures, they are their visual tools”. By means of this, Eder subverts hopes and expectations of a supposed idyll in his illustrative productions, some of which are multi-figure groups. The scantily clad women, angora cats and Pierrots of his large-format canvases are to be understood as an allegory of a hypermedialized and hypervisual society.

In contrast to the earlier group representations, his most recent works, which were shown in the solo exhibition Ugly in Berlin in 2010, show individual figures in narrow image fields. In a series of half-portraits, the sitters present their flaws without any distance. The move away from the previously wide range of colors to almost monochrome compositions also leads to an increase in melancholy, sadness as the central subject of Eder's painting.

Since the early days of the medium, painters such as Gustave Courbet and Édouard Manet have used photography as a study. Martin Eder's paintings are also based on photographs and photo collages. But photography is also the artist's very own set of works. Larger than life and excessively fixed, Eder's photographs capture female nudes, whose physical damage is reminiscent of the physicality of Lars von Trier . The cool aesthetic of the photographs correlates with the sometimes depressing, at least always questionable atmosphere of the depiction, so that Eder's photographs are also an allegory of the melancholy of beauty.

Executed with meticulous fine painting, Eder's female figures, animals, Pierrots and self-portraits are presented to the viewer. But as in the theater, the real characters are in a different dimension, into which they have fled their own reality. With the substantive negotiation of the melancholy of beauty and the representation of human flaws in seemingly flawless painting and photography, "Eder [...] with his kitsch holds up a distorting mirror to the art world". In the age of conceptual painting, Eder reflects on the media-critical possibilities of contemporary painting. Whether as a “master of bad taste” or a master of the “ugly”, however critical one can view Eder's motivation / ambition, his art polarizes. Today Eder is considered one of the most important contemporary German artists.

As Ruin , Eder also appears as an experimental black metal musician. Martin Eder lives and works in Berlin .

Solo exhibitions

  • "Dystopia", EIGEN + ART gallery, Berlin, 2019
  • "PARASITES", Newport Street Gallery, London, 2018
  • "Martyrium", EIGEN + ART gallery, Leipzig, 2017
  • "La Vida es Sueno", Galeria Hilario Galguera, Mexico, 2016
  • Those Bloody Colors , EIGEN + ART gallery, Berlin, 2015
  • "Asymmetry", EIGEN + ART gallery, Berlin, 2012
  • "Ugly", EIGEN + ART gallery, Berlin, 2010
  • Hauser & Wirth London, London, England, 2009
  • The dark reason , Kunsthalle im Lipsius-Bau , Dresden, 2009
  • Kunsthalle Mannheim, 2008
  • "La Paix du Cul", Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, 2006
  • "The poor", EIGEN + ART gallery, Berlin, 2006
  • “Fade Away - Bad Alpha Animals”, Art Basel | Miami Beach 2004
  • "The Cold Force", Lingen Art Association, 2004
  • "Adult Fantasy", Kunstverein Potsdam, 2003
  • Frederick Freiser Gallery, New York, 2002
  • "Forever Isn't Very Long", Municipal Art Collections Augsburg, 2001
  • "BadStar", Office for Art, Dresden, 2001
  • "Something Slightly Different-From the Beginning After the End", Oktogon, HfBK Dresden, 2001
  • "P..P..Pipi-Paradiso, my favorite rooms", Studio House Gallery for Contemporary Art, Leipzig, 2000

Group exhibitions (selection)

  • "Animals in Art", ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2020
  • Alex Katz - Martin Eder ", Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad, Switzerland, 2018
  • "New Black Romanticism", Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, 2017
  • "Body & Soul", Essl Museum - Contemporary Art, Klosterneuburg, Austria, 2016
  • "Painting, evil", Kunstverein Hamburg, 2015
  • "Is everything nice and good?", Gerisch Foundation, Neumünster, 2014
  • BubeDameKönigAss , Neue Nationalgalerie , Berlin, 2013
  • "Long live painting. Young art from the Essl Collection", Essl Museum - Contemporary Art, Schömer Haus, Klosterneuburg / Vienna, 2011
  • "FESTIVAL OF ANIMALS. An exhibition for children", Essl Museum - Contemporary Art, Klosterneuburg / Vienna, 2011
  • "Full House - Faces of a Collection", Kunsthalle Mannheim 2006
  • "Netherlands v. Germany 3-3", Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, Netherlands 2006
  • "VNG-art presents German painting", Muzeum Rzezby, Krolikarnia, Warsaw; Arsenal Municipal Gallery, Poznań, Poland 2006
  • Hauser & Wirth London, London, England, 2009
  • "After Cézanne", LA Moca, Los Angeles, USA 2006
  • The dark reason , Kunsthalle im Lipsius-Bau , Dresden, 2009
  • 2nd Prague Biennale , Prague 2005
  • Kunsthalle Mannheim, 2008
  • 25 Deutsche Bank Collection, Deutsche Guggenheim , Berlin 2005
  • "La Paix du Cul", Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, 2006
  • "Girls on Film", Zwirner & Wirth, 2005
  • "The poor", EIGEN + ART gallery, Berlin, 2006
  • "Portrait", EIGEN + ART gallery, Berlin 2005
  • “Fade Away - Bad Alpha Animals”, Art Basel | Miami Beach 2004
  • David Zwirner Gallery, New York City 2004
  • "The Cold Force", Lingen Art Association, 2004
  • "Coup de coeur / a sentimental choice", CRAC Alsace Altkirch 2003
  • "Adult Fantasy", Kunstverein Potsdam, 2003
  • "Group exhibition" Summer Contemporary Art, Israel 2003
  • Frederick Freiser Gallery, New York, 2002
  • Summer at EIGEN + ART, Berlin 2003
  • "Forever Isn't Very Long", Municipal Art Collections Augsburg, 2001
  • "Taboo", Roger Pailhas Gallery, 2003
  • "BadStar", Office for Art, Dresden, 2001
  • Art Prize Böttcherstrasse, Kunsthalle Bremen , 2003
  • "Something Slightly Different-From the Beginning After the End", Oktogon, HfBK Dresden, 2001
  • "Adieu avant-garde - welcome home", Ludwig Forum, Aachen 2003
  • "P..P..Pipi-Paradiso, my favorite rooms", Studio House Gallery for Contemporary Art, Leipzig, 2000
  • "Future" (with Thoralf Knobloch and David Schnell ), Sandroni Rey Gallery, Los Angeles 2003
  • "Split Points", National Gallery Prague, Prague 2002
  • "Anchor", annet gelink gallery, Amsterdam 2002
  • "GASAG Art Prize 2002", 2yk Galerie am Flutgraben, Berlin 2002
  • "Summer at EIGEN + ART", EIGEN + ART gallery, Leipzig 2002
  • "Without Consent", Center d'Art, Neuchâtel, Switzerland 2002
  • "Electric Dreams", Curve Gallery, Barbican Arts Center, 2002
  • "Over the Moon. Great feelings between staging and authenticity", Kunstamt Berlin-Kreuzberg, Berlin 2002
  • "Reality in contemporary painting", Städtische Galerie, Delmenhorst 2001
  • "Summer Show", D'Amelio Terras, New York City 2001
  • Museum of Modern Art / Main Customs Office, Frankfurt am Main 2000
  • EIGEN + ART gallery, Leipzig 2000
  • "alltomorrowsparties", LeRoy Niemann Gallery, Columbia University, New York City 2000
  • "Z 2000", Academy of Arts Berlin 2000
  • "I love You too, but ...", Gallery for Contemporary Art, Leipzig 2000
  • "Les Prochaines", Dorothea Deimann Gallery, Basel 1999
  • "W..Words Don't Come Easy II" (performance), Alte Pinakothek , Munich 1999
  • "W..Words Don't Come Easy I" (video screening), The Luxor Hotel, Las Vegas, USA 1999
  • "Pitstops", Esders department store, Dresden 1999
  • Novaphorm ™ label, WMF , Berlin 1999
  • Novaphorm ™ Textzone, Literaturhaus , Munich 1999
  • Novaphorm ™ beautystyle, Arndt & Partner Gallery, Berlin 1998
  • Novaphorm ™ aromastrip, Young European Artists, Espace des Arts, Chalon-sur-Saône 1998
  • Recycling Novaphorm ™ hotel, Hoffmann Collection , Berlin 1997
  • "heaven", PS 1, New York City 1997
  • Novaphorm ™ hotel, during documenta X , Kassel 1997
  • Novaphorm ™ electrolux lounge; Schwarzenberg House , Berlin 1997
  • Novaphorm ™ chill out, Voxxx Gallery, Chemnitz 1997
  • "Postwar Disasters s, m, l, xl", Gut Keferloh 1997
  • Novaphorm ™ disco, Gipsstr. 23, Berlin 1996
  • Eigen + Art gallery in the Taschenbergpalais , Dresden 1996
  • "Uptown Classics", Upart Gallery, Munich 1995
  • "Wood", LOFT Gallery, Augsburg 1993

literature

  • Visual 25. Twenty-five Years of the Deutsche Bank Collection , Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin 2005, p. 80.
  • Martin Eder: Die Kalte Kraft , ed. v. Kunstverein Lingen Kunsthalle, Hatje Cantz Ostfildern-Ruit 2004, ISBN 3-7757-1474-X .
  • Martin Eder. Memoirs of My Nervous Illness , ed. v. Brandenburg Art Association Potsdam, 2003.
  • 2003 Art Prize of Böttcherstraße in Bremen , ed. v. Circle of donors for the Böttcherstraße Art Prize in Bremen, Bramsche 2003.
  • The Undead (on the occasion of Martin Eder's solo exhibition), 2001.
  • Something Slightly Different / From The Beginning After The End ... ed. v. Phillip Morris New York Scholarship
  • The Return Of The Anti-Soft , ed. v. Städtische Kunstsammlungen Augsburg (on the occasion of the Eder exhibition "Forever isn't Very Long"), Augsburg 2001.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jens Asthoff, Martin Eder. In: Uta Grosenick (Ed.): Art Now. Vol. 2, Cologne 2005, p. 132.
  2. ↑ a b Helmut Ziegler, studio visit Martin Eder , in Zeitmagazin , on January 3, 2008, pp. 40–42.
  3. ↑ Simone Reber, Ugly. In: Tagesspiegel , April 30, 2010, p. 27.
  4. ↑ Le Phare, No. May 5-July 2010.
  5. ↑ See Sebastian Preuss, 'Between Heroin Chic and Wasserleiche', in: Berliner Zeitung, April 8, 2010.
  6. ↑ See Simone Reber, 'Ugly', in: Tagesspiegel, April 30/1. May 2010, p. 27.
  7. ↑ "I knew I didn't want to die" - Ijoma Mangold , in Zeitmagazin , No. 2/2010, on January 7, 2010
  8. ↑ Martin Eder ( Memento from May 7, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) (English) - he himself probably mainly on Ruin ; first published 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Eder, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH augsburg