Michael Laube

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Michael Laube (born March 17, 1955 in Coburg ) is a German painter and installation artist.

biography

  • Lives and works in Berlin

Awards

  • 1989: Prize of the Darmstadt Secession for Young Art
  • 1989: Zweibrücken Art Prize, Zweibrücken Art Association
  • 1995: Karl Hofer Scholarship, Berlin

Artistic work

The mural works by Michael Laube, created towards the end of the nineties, are influenced by color field painting . They show his endeavor to develop a spatial painting. He arranged colors on transparent acrylic glass in three dimensions and did not concentrate exclusively on the spatial color effect as Barnett Newman and Mark Rothko did.

Starting in 2000, his work, based on painting, has been shaped by the exploration of architecture. In this context, among other things, works were created that show representational fragments of architecture. The focus here was not primarily on the spatial theme. Rather, it was about making architecture legible. Michael Laube only followed this direction of development for a short time.

Since 2003 he has created works that have brought a whole new quality to his approach to architecture. In doing so, works were created that not only have the space as their theme, but also completely occupy it. Although these works were created for specific rooms and incorporate architectural references to the respective location, they are always autonomous works. They represent the formal examination of the space. In the work “Raum 9” (2005) Michael Laube created installations which now differ from architecture only in the lack of any functionality and practicality.

Like Donald Judd , in whose tradition the artist's work stands, Michael Laube defined space as his primary area of ​​action. And as with Donald Judd, the works are revealed not least through a change of perspective. Just as the viewer changes his point of view, his perspective on the object, the object changes in its relationship to the viewer.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from February 19, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Website Kuckei und Kuckei accessed December 11, 2007 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuckei-kuckei.de
  2. ↑ Room 9. Exhibition cat. Overbeck Society Lübeck, Berlin 2005

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • "Even / Bent", Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin 2016
  • "Room 14", Emsdetter Kunstverein, Emsdetten 2013
  • "Room 15", Kunstverein Münsterland, Coesfeld 2013
  • "Stray Light", Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin 2012
  • "Story", Lausberg Gallery, Düsseldorf 2011
  • "Space Reloaded", KunstHalle Cloppenburg 2010
  • "Michael Laube", Gallery Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin 2009
  • "the solo project", St. Jakobshalle Basel 2009
  • Lausberg Contemporary, Toronto 2008
  • Gallery Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin 2006
  • "Room 9", Overbeck-Gesellschaft , Lübeck 2005
  • Robert Drees Gallery, Hanover 2005
  • Gallery Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin 2004
  • "Room 7", Kunstverein Konstanz, Konstanz 2003
  • "Room 8", Kunstverein Friedrichshafen, Friedrichshafen 2003
  • Gallery Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin 2002

Group exhibitions (selection)

  • Gallery MP Visser, KL-S 'Hertogenbosch (NL) 2013
  • "Spiel-Zeuge", Freshfields, Bruckhaus, Deringer, Munich 2012
  • "KunstStoff", Gallery DIS, Maastricht (NL) 2012
  • "The Thaw", Lausberg Contemporary, Toronto (CAN) 2011
  • "Beyond Painting", Lausberg Contemporary, Toronto (CAN) 2010
  • "shifting", Galerie Robert Drees, Hannover 2009
  • The color colorful ", Lausberg Contemporary, Düsseldorf 2009
  • "Art in Small Format 2009", Overbeck Society, Lübeck 2009
  • "Best of Lausberg Contemporary", Bernd A. Lausberg Gallery, Toronto (CAN), 2009
  • "Objectless", Society for Art and Design e. V., Bonn 2008
  • "Tower / Lights", Kunstallianz 1, Berlin 2006
  • "Colors and Stripes", Galerie Drees, Hanover 2004
  • "Young Summer", Exner Gallery, Vienna 2004
  • "don", Chinati Foundation, Marfa-Texas 2002
  • Wolfsberg Art Salon , Zurich 2001
  • "Summer exhibition", Gallery Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin 2001

architectural art

  • "Mein Schiff 3", TUI Cruises, 2013
  • "Room of Silence", Marienschule Potsdam, 2013
  • "Haus Schneider", Hanover, 2011
  • "Haus Wittig", Zurich, 2010
  • Volksfürsorge, Hamburg, 2007
  • Kübler law firm, Dresden, 2006

literature

  • "Michael Laube: Space Reloaded" Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld / Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-7356-0326-5 .
  • "Michael Laube: In Between." Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern 2009, ISBN 978-3-7757-2514-9 .
  • Tower / Lights. Exhibition cat. Art Alliance 1 Berlin , Berlin 2006.
  • Room 9. Exhibition cat. Overbeck Society Lübeck, Berlin 2005.
  • Room 8. Exhibition cat. Kunstverein Friedrichshafen, Berlin 2003.
  • Room 7. Exhibition cat. Kunstverein Konstanz, Berlin 2003.
  • Michael Laube - pictures. Exhibition cat. Gallery Fourth Floor Berlin, Berlin 1997.
  • Look. Exhibition cat. Boecker Büro u. Object design GmbH, Karl Hofer Society, Berlin 1996.
  • Berlin / Glasgow - Glasgow / Berlin. Exhibition cat. An international exchange exhibition between the Hochschule der Künste Berlin and the Glasgow School of Art , with the support of the Karl-Hofer-Gesellschaft and the British Council, 1995–1996.

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personal data
SURNAME Arbor, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and installation artist
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Coburg