Michael Gerngroß

Michael Alexander Gerngroß (born October 20, 1977 in Ulm ) is a contemporary German artist of abstract color painting , best known for his large-format oil paintings.

Life

As a former member of the Regensburger Domspatzen , after graduating from high school, Gerngroß studied art and art history at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and then for a year at the Art Academy in Naples as part of an Erasmus grant . There he worked as a photo assistant at Massimo Velo Sass, responsible for Bene Culturali , Napoli. From 2006 he is a student of Professor Jerry Zeniuk in Munich . He finished his studies in 2009 with a diploma from the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and the Bavarian State Examination for Art Education. Gerngroß lives and works in Grafrath am Ammersee . Since 2015 he has been teaching at the Dominikus-Zimmermann Gymnasium in Landsberg am Lech .

Since 1999, he has been presenting his work to a broad public in Germany and abroad in solo and group exhibitions. He concentrates on so-called color space painting , which among other things corresponds to similarities with the early work of Frank Stella or Joan Mitchell , the American abstract expressionism of the 50s / 60s. His works deal with opposites, light and shadow, strong structures and balanced surfaces. This will be taken to extremes by the use of aluminum foil from 2009. From 2010 the painter reduced the colors and concentrated more on the composition and structure of his pictures. Here, too, he is always looking for a dialogue with Minimal Art artists . In many ways his work is a reflection of art history and at the same time an experiment with new materials, colors and shapes, which he uses in the sense of a reduced, abstract visual language. The paintings slowly develop into works with an almost sculptural character that sometimes leave the two-dimensionality. This step finally paved the way for him to develop the “Horizontal Structures” group of works. Since 2012 the "constructions", three-dimensional wall objects that now reach into the real space, have been created.

Exhibitions (selection)

2014 Galerie Thomas, Munich “Guest performance”
2013 Braun-Falco Gallery, Munich “Young Abstracts”
2013 Monument Art Gallery, Jettingen “Between stele and structure”
2012 Art & Space “Lichtblicke Part I”, Munich
2011 Monument Art Gallery, Munich "Michael Gerngroß and Clemens Heinl"
2011 mbf-kunstprojekte “Ferrago 2011”, Munich
2010 Monument Art Gallery, Jettingen-Scheppach "Michael Gerngroß and Brad Howe"
2009Modern Art Gallery, Bavarian Show, Los Angeles, USA
2009 Lothringer 13, Space Annual Review, Munich
2008 Galerie Noah, Augsburg
2008 Gutes Amerika - Böses Amerika - Painting, Galerie Noah , Augsburg
2008 Gallery in Motion, Landshut and Munich
2007 We show almost everything 2 - painting, art pavilion Munich
2007 We show almost everything 1 - painting, Koloss-Saal Academy of Fine Arts Munich
2005 The creation, painting, Hercules Hall of the Munich Residence
2004 Televisione Distrazione di Massa - Painting, Casina Pompeiana Napoli (in collaboration with the Goethe Institute in Naples)
2004 Hortus Obscurus, painting Staatliche Antikensammlungen Munich and also
2003 in the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli
1999 undated, painting, Instituto Articianelli, Venice

Solo exhibitions

2012 Bürgerhaus Unterföhring, "Constructions and Structures"
2011 Gallery Haleh, Berg, "Horizontal Structures"
2010 Catalog presentation and solo exhibition, "Traces", mbf-Kunstprojekte, Munich
2008 o. T. - Painting, Catholic university community of the LMU Munich
2005 Fermata Napoli - Painting, Galerie Kunst Office Berlin

Public collections

Collection "Contemporary Art" of the BMW Group Munich.
Carlo Rendano Association, Naples

supporting documents

Web links

Website of the artist: www.michaelgerngross.de

personal data
SURNAME	Gladly, Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Gerngroß, Michael Alexander (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter of color space painting
DATE OF BIRTH	20th October 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ulm