Robert Lucander

Robert Lucander (* 1962 in Helsinki ) is a Finnish painter , draftsman , graphic artist and professor at the Berlin University of the Arts .

life and work

Lucander was born in Helsinki in 1962. In 1982 he passed his Abitur at the Gymnasiet Lärkan in Helsinki. Lucander has lived and worked in Berlin since 1988 . He studied from 1989 to 1995 at the Berlin University of the Arts with Marwan Kassab-Bachi . There he dealt with constructivist painting, with Piet Mondrian and Kasimir Malewitsch , next to Gerhard Richter and Blinky Palermo . His works in this phase are abstract , until 1997 he mainly used a geometric design language. From 1995 motivic details appear in his works, from 1996 then central representations of people. His work is characterized by a complexity in the choice of materials as well as in the topics. Lucander likes to use pencils and acrylic on wooden panels. At the same time, he uses large canvases. His work is about a mental state that is captured artistically, but can only be seen for a moment.

From 2007 to 2010 Lucander was initially visiting professor at the Berlin University of the Arts, and since 2010 he has held a professorship for painting there. Since the 1990s he has participated in various solo and group exhibitions in Scandinavia and Germany . His works are also represented in numerous contemporary art museums in Finland , Germany and other countries.

Works in public collections

• Deutsche Bank Collection , Frankfurt am Main, Germany
• Doris and Helmut Lerchner Collection, Berlin, Germany
• Falckenberg Collection , Hamburg, Germany
• DA2 – Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca, Spain
• Amos Anderson Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
• Helsinki Art Hall , Helsinki, Finland
• Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Gothenburg, Sweden
• Malmo Konstmuseum, Malmo , Sweden
• Horsens Art Museum, Horsens , Denmark
• Tom Cugliani Collection, New York, USA
• Franz Gertsch Museum , Burgdorf, Switzerland
• Art Museum Muelheim an der Ruhr , Muelheim an der Ruhr, Germany
• Oulun taidemuseon , Oulu, Finland

Solo exhibitions

• 2013: Ink , Galerie Mikael Andersen, Copenhagen, Denmark
• 2013: Die Waende 5.0 , Salon Dahlmann, Berlin, Germany
• 2013: Robert Retro 5.0 , Forsblom Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
• 2013: 2 for 1 , Gallery Kalhama & Piippo Contemporary, Helsinki, Finland
• 2010: My tapete , Kunstverein Schwäbisch Hall Galerie am Markt, Schwäbisch Hall, Germany
• 2009: Rojekti: bar 9 , Café Bar No 9, Helsinki, Finland
• 2009: China Ink , Suzanne Tarasiève, Paris, France
• 2008: Woodoo , Gallery Kalhama & Piippo Contemporary, Helsinki, Finland
• 2008: Doubles , Galerie Haas, Zurich, Switzerland
• 2007: Sugar Shack , Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin

Participation in exhibitions

• 2014: Architect - Busdriver - Two Bridges, 20 years of the Society for Modern Art in Dresden , Germany (including Karl-Heinz Adler , Claudia Angelmaier , Armando , Georg Baselitz , Monika Brandmeier , Markus Draper , Marlene Dumas , Norbert Frensch , Günter Fruhtrunk , Rupprecht Geiger , Raimund Girke , Hermann Glöckner , Beate Gütschow , Eberhard Havekost , Matthias Hoch , Candida Höfer , Olaf Holzapfel , Johannes Kahrs , Petra Kasten , Ralf Kerbach , Konrad Klapheck , Jürgen Klauke , Thoralf Knobloch , Peter Krauskopf , Martin Mannig , Frank Nitsche , Sigmar Polke , Egon Pukall , Gerhard Richter , Thomas Scheibitz , Katharina Sieverding , Florian Thomas , Albrecht Tübke , Luc Tuymans , Rémy Zaugg )
• 2013: Blumen / Flowers / Blomster , Galerie Mikael Andersen, Berlin, Germany (with Christian Achenbach, Nobuyoshi Araki , Maxime Ballesteros, Lars Bjerre, Fritz Bornstück, Uwe Boschen, Eva Steen Christensen, Jesper Christiansen, Paula Doepfner, Erik A. Frandsen , Philip Grözinger, Julius Hofmann, Søren Jensen, Karin Lorentzen, Luzia Simons, Lucy Teasdale, Aiko Tezuka, Elisabeth Toubro, Elmar Vestner, Kathrine Ærtebjerg)
• 2013: Figurative art from Scandinavia , Die Galerie, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (with Egill Jacobsen, Ejler Bille, Carl-Henning Pedersen , Asger Jorn , Mogens Balle, Per Kirkeby , Olav Christopher Jenssen , Timo Jakola, Susanne Johansson, Kathrine Ærtebjerg, Maria Nordin)
• 2012: Flying , Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
• 2012: Charade Rochade , Haubrok, Berlin, Germany
• 2012: North east of heaven , Galerie Hartwich Rügen, Sellin , Germany
• 2012: Löytöjä - taidetta kampuksilta , Helsinki University Museum, Helsinki, Finland
• 2011: I am a Berliner - Eighteen Positions in Berlin HDLU HDLU - Croatian Association of Artists, Croatian Biennial, Zagreb, Croatia
• 2011: 17 days later, exhibition class Lucander , 129 Gallery, Berlin, Germany

Web links

• Robert Lucander on kunstaspekte.de
• Literature by and about Robert Lucander in the catalog of the German National Library
• Robert Lucander at artfacts.net
• Cocktail Internacional - Robert Lucander. DA2 Domus Artium 2002, 2006, accessed January 23, 2017 . 
• Robert Lucander on the Heinrich Böll Foundation website
• Robert Lucander on cfa-berlin.com
• Psycho - Ena Swansea and Robert Lucander Deichtorhallen Hamburg , 2012

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j} Jürgen Bartz: Lucander, Robert. In: General Artist Lexicon. KG Saur, 2016, accessed on January 27, 2017 (access requires license). 
2. ^ Robert Lucander at the Berlin University of the Arts. Retrieved November 6, 2016 . 
3. ↑ Robert Lucander. (PDF) In: The gallery. Retrieved January 27, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Architect - Busdriver - Two Bridges. 20 years Society for Modern Art in Dresden. (No longer available online.) Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden , archived from the original on January 22, 2017 ; accessed on January 22, 2017 . 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.  
5. ↑ BLUMEN / FLOWERS / BLOMSTER, May 24 - August 31, 2013. Accessed January 27, 2017 . 
6. ↑ Rolf E.Maas: The Gallery at Grüneburgweg presents figurative art from Scandinavia. In: kulturexpress.de. February 9, 2013, accessed February 5, 2017 .