RJ Cherry

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RJ Kirsch (* 1959 in Kirchen / Sieg ) is a German painter and conceptual artist .

Life

Kirsch studied painting at the Cologne factory schools with Franz Dank . The encounter with the American Fluxus artist Al Hansen in the early 1990s gave rise to an intensive examination of action and performance art . In 1991 he founded the art magazine “Der Standstand”, which he is still editor of today. Between 1994 and 1998 he regularly participated in projects of the ASA-European , in particular “Die Gabe”. As a freelance curator, he organized and designed performance events such as “100 Performances in the Urania Theater 1995” or “Graz Performances 2003”. RJKirsch is a member of the Cologne performance organization PAERSCHE.

Kirsch lives and works in Cologne.

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Kirsch's painterly work develops as a permanent process of appropriating found visual worlds. A separate artistic cosmos of scientific and technical images, satellite images and phantom drawings emerges from the fragments of media image streams, in the case of his shadow sculptures from actual fragments, which he created in the nineties.

In “Rhythm of Statistics”, a series with accident scenes involving airplanes, ships or trains, on which Kirsch has been working since 2002, this staging captures the accelerated object. The stringing together of these mostly small-format works creates a panorama of the failure of high-tech means of transport. The translation of kinetic deformations into a painterly style makes the out of control movement energies visible.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1999 PHANTOM, Museum Albstadt, catalog
  • 1999 Goethe-Institut, Brussels / Evere, Belgium
  • 2001 SK Cologne Collection
  • 2003 The Merry Waitingroom, opening event, Capital of Culture Graz
  • 2003 Stay at home, installation, Moltkerei workshop, Cologne
  • 2004 Status Quo, Galerie Murata & friends, Berlin
  • 2004 Temporary Bell Tone Laboratory, pilot project Gropiusstadt, Berlin
  • 2004 Feet first, Galerie vd Milwe, Aachen
  • 2005 cars and races, Galerie Foert / Garanin, Berlin
  • 2006 Rhythm of Statistics, Rachel Haferkamp Gallery, Cologne
  • 2006 Rhythm of Statistics, Abel Neue Kunst, Berlin
  • 2007 Gropius Stories, Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin
  • 2008 In the subjunctive of things, Galerie Jürgen Kalthoff, Essen
  • 2008 Passagen, Galerie Abel Neue Kunst, Berlin
  • 2008 Still Life Pieces, Art Galerie 7, Cologne
  • 2009 Resuscitation, Galerie Jürgen Kalthoff, Essen
  • 2010 Leerlauf, together with Max Scholz, Bellevuesaal Wiesbaden
  • 2011 Hot Spot Berlin, Georg Kolbe Museum Berlin, catalog
  • 2012 The localized desire, Friedrichshain fire station, Berlin
  • 2012 Abstracts, Art Galerie 7, Cologne
  • 2013 Subversion and Abyss, Spor Klübü, Berlin
  • 2013 The painter in the dark, Kunstverein Viernheim , catalog
  • 2013 OSTRALE - International Exhibition of Contemporary Arts, catalog
  • 2014 phantoms, Kunstverein Bayreuth / Kunstmuseum Bayreuth
  • 2014 Watercolors, Artgalerie7, Cologne
  • 2015 MOTO PARK, Art Association Eisenturm Mainz
  • 2017 “Glanz und Gloria” | Artist of the gallery, Art Galerie 7, Cologne

Awards and grants

  • 2001: Otzenrath Scholarship, House Museum Otzenrath

Publications

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "The Standstill"
  2. ↑ "The Gift"
  3. ↑ 100 performances in the Urania Theater 1995
  4. ^ Graz Performances 2003
  5. ↑ PAERSCHE ( Memento of the original dated December 6, 2013 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.paersche.org
  6. ↑ PHANTOM ( Memento of the original from December 16, 2015 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. lichtbar, Clemens Ottnad, MA @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.koelnlink.de
  7. ^ Peter Gerlach: Rhythm of Statistics. 2006.
personal data
SURNAME Kirsch, RJ
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kirsch, RJ
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and conceptual artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Churches / victory