Sławomir Elsner
Sławomir Elsner (* 1976 in Wodzisław Śląski ) is a German-Polish artist .
Life
From 1995 to 2002 Sławomir Elsner studied fine art at the Art Academy in Kassel and in 2001 was a master class student with Norbert Radermacher . In 1999 Elsner received a study grant from the Cusanuswerk . His works are in the collection of the Deutsche Börse Frankfurt a. M., in the Kupferstichkabinett of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden , in the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München , in the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art (North Carolina, US), in the Rubell Family Collection (US), in the me Collectors Room Berlin, in the Museen Böttcherstraße ( Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum and Ludwig Roselius Museum ) and in the Märkisches Museum in Witten .
Sławomir Elsner lives and works in Berlin.
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In his work Elsner deals with the effect of different media and the stories they tell. He questions the representational character of pictures and encourages the viewer to critically examine his own viewing experiences. In doing so, he always investigates the question of whether images reflect reality or deform it.
Photographs
In 1999 he created a twenty-part photo series “Sławomir”, for each of which he took on different jobs for the moment it was taken. Each production took place in an authentic environment. The small-format, framed photos look like souvenir pictures that are traditionally considered proof of identity and belonging to a group.
In the seven-part photographic series “Wedding Photo” (2002), a festively dressed family served seven different bridal couples as a backdrop. The couple shared the intimate moment of the first admission as a married couple with a completely strange family. However, this inner dissonance was not visible, at some point one even believed to see similarity in facial features.
Drawings and painting
Elsner is internationally known for his naturalistic painting and his abstract watercolors. Above all, however, he is famous for his virtuoso colored drawings. His technique of colored pencil drawing is as fascinating as it is unique, and Elsner uses it in an innovative way to create paintings. Typical works by him in this technique are the extraordinary, confusing, blurry-looking, but sharply drawn with colored pencils adaptations of famous pictures from art history. Photographs usually serve as the basis for his drawings and paintings. His first large group of works “Untitled” from 2004 was created after the photographs in which he documented Poland, which was changing after the end of socialism: the inhabitants embellished the cityscape, which was dominated by concrete gray, with bright colors. Elsner transferred these interventions in the urban-suburban living space onto canvas with the help of painting and showed both the comforting and symbolic joy of color, as well as the absurdity and superficiality of such decoration in relation to the architectural form.
For his abstract watercolor works, such as the "Just Watercolors" series from 2015, the artist applies up to one hundred monochrome layers. The only thing that he controls is the time between the application of the layers and the relationship between water and color: “The rest happens by itself. The structures do not arise because I paint them, but because the colors and the paper form a connection with each other. "
Sławomir Elsner mostly works in series. The individual subjects make use of a wide range. Many groups of works deal with unpleasant, terrible, not well-attended subjects, which he allows the viewer to look at with "enjoyment" through a clever aestheticization in painting or drawing.
Solo exhibitions (selection)
- 2020: Coverboy , Galerie Gebrüder Lehmann, Dresden
- 2018: Uneven (with Stephan Balkenhol), Galerie Coucou, Kassel
- 2018: Slawomir Elsner: The Bishop Portrait , Dreikönigskirche (Dresden)
- 2018: Equinox (with Uwe Wittwer) , Galerie Gisela Clement, Bonn
- 2017: Cranach² , Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum + Ludwig Roselius Museum, Böttcherstraße museums, Bremen
- 2017: Narcissus and Echo , Lullin + Ferrari, Zurich
- 2016: The Girl with the Fan , Coucou Gallery, Kassel
- 2016: Two things fill the mind , Clement & Schneider, Bonn
- 2016: Copper-Silver-Gold , Gallery Gebr. Lehmann, Dresden
- 2015: Nothing is what it seems , Hospitalhof, Stuttgart
- 2014: Framed , Galerie Gebr. Lehmann, Berlin
- 2014: Duet , Galerie Haas, Zurich
- 2014: Muse , CCA Andratx, Mallorca (with Bernhard Brungs)
- 2013: Pano-Rama , Rondo Sztuki, Kattowicze
- 2012: Séances , Galerie Gebr. Lehmann, Berlin
- 2012: Color pencil drawings , Künstlerhaus Bethanien , Berlin
- 2011: Collecting Images , Marc Jancou Contemporary, New York
- 2011: Slawomir Elsner , Hussenot Gallery, Paris
- 2011: Painting / drawing , Marburger Kunstverein , Marburg
- 2010: Paris-Berlin-Warszawa , Polish Institute, Berlin
- 2010: Invisible , Kunsthalle Krems / Factory, Krems
- 2009: Trans-Location , Gallery Gebr. Lehmann, Dresden
- 2008: Young Talent , Art Brussels, Brussels
- 2008: Windows on the World , Galerie Johnen, Berlin
- 2008: Night After Night , Marc Jancou Contemporary, New York
- 2007: deux couleurs , Sutton Lane c / o Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris
- 2007: Las Golden , Gallery Raster, Warsaw
- 2006: Between the gates , Museum Dhont-Daenens, Deurle
- 2006: Panorama , Sutton Lane, London
- 2005: Schöne Aussicht , Johnen + Schöttle, Cologne
- 2004: Goscinna , Gallery Gebr. Lehmann, Dresden
Group exhibitions (selection)
- 2020: The Second Me , Galerie Renate Kammer, Hamburg
- 2019: POSTCARD RELOADED , European Art Association and Art Space Potsdam c / o Waschhaus
- 2019: comeback. Art historical renaissance in contemporary art , Kunsthalle, Tübingen
- 2019: Rembrandts Line , Kupferstich-Kabinett , Staatliche Kunstsammlungen , Dresden
- 2019: FEELING CALLED LOVE. Collection of an Idiot , Kunstmuseum Bochum, Bochum
- 2018: Painting Still Alive , Centrum Sztuki Współczesnej, Toruń, Poland
- 2018: Duo Show , Galerie Feldbusch Wiesner Rudolph, Berlin
- 2018: And What About Your Good Morning, New World? Kassel Dokfest as Guest , SIMA / CCA, Hangzhou, China
- 2018: DARK WAS THE NIGHT. Works from the Artists-in-Residence , CCA, Andratx, Mallorca
- 2018: Redystrybucja , Galeria Duża Scena UAP, Poznan
- 2017: doing identity , The Reydan Weiss Collection, Art Museum, Bochum
- 2017: Frank, dramaturgy: Tulga Beyerle , Galerie Gebr. Lehmann, Dresden
- 2017: sleep. A productive waste of time , Böttcherstraße museums, Bremen
- 2017: MISSING The tower of the blue horses by Franz Marc , Pinakothek der Moderne, State Graphic Collection, Munich
- 2016: Life on earth? / David Bowie , Rondo Sztuki, Katowice
- 2016: I prefer life, Reydan Weiss collection , Weserburg, Museum of Modern Art, Bremen
- 2016: Berlin train station , CCA, Andratx, Mallorca
- 2015: Falling Fictions , me Collectors Room, Berlin
- 2015: Kolekcja dra Wernera Jerke. Wybór , Atlas Sztuki, Łódź
- 2014: A Private View presents: The ROCCA Foundation , Autocenter, Berlin
- 2014: People become essential , KV Friends of Current Art, Zwickau
- 2013: Migrations / Creations , Emigration Museum, Gdynia
- 2013: Landscape after 2000 , Kunsthalle, Osnabrück
- 2013: BrandSchutz // Mentalities of intolerance , Romantikerhaus, Jena
- 2012: The future lasts forever , Interalia, Seoul
- 2011: 3348 and 1 night. 13 years young art in Essen , Folkwang Museum, Essen
- 2011: Role Models - Role Play , Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Salzburg
- 2011: East Ex East , Brand New Gallery, Milan
- 2011: Phantoms , Uferhallen, Berlin
- 2010: Erodere , Märkisches Museum Witten, Witten
- 2010: Passions Fruits picked from the Olbricht Collection , me Collectors Room Berlin
- 2010: The little improvisation. Polish Art Today , Stadtgalerie Kiel
- 2009: Slawomir Elsner, Joanna M. Wezyk, Martin Mannig, Kukje Gallery, Seoul
- 2009: 3rd Photo Festival Mannheim Ludwigshafen Heidelberg
- 2009: We Berliners , Märkisches Museum, Berlin
- 2009: Gala , Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig
- 2008: Red Eye Effet / Efekt czerwonych oczu… , Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
- 2008: Go for it !, Olbricht Collection (a sequel) , Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen
- 2008: Comme des Bêtes , Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne
- 2007: Back to the figure. Contemporary painting , Kunst Haus Wien
- 2007: Terug naar de figuur , Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam
- 2007: Very Abstract And Hyper Figurative , Thomas Dane Gallery, London
- 2007: Freshly painted. Painting from the Willi Michel collection , Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf
- 2007: Made in Germany , Sprengel Museum, Kestnergesellschaft, Kunstverein, Hanover
- 2006: This Land is My Land , NGBK, Berlin
- 2006: Sculpture, installation, painting from Poland , Kunstverein Nürnberg
- 2006: Sculpture, installation, painting from Poland , Bielefelder Kunstverein, Bielefeld
- 2006: painting. Collection and new purchases , Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
- 2005: Poles Apart , Rubell Family Collection, Miami
- 2005: YES YES YES YES. Difference and repetition in pictures from the Olbricht Collection , Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen
Publications (individual catalogs)
- 2017 Cranach² , Text: Frank Schmidt, Ed .: Frank Schmidt, Museen Böttcherstraße ( Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum , Ludwig Roselius Museum ) Bremen
- 2017 Tatjana Doll, Slawomir Elsner missing. The tower of the blue horses by Franz Marc. Contemporary artists in search of a lost masterpiece, text: Katja Blomberg, Michael Hering, Hortensia Völckers, Alexander Farenholtz, Christian Welzbacher, Stefan Koldehoff, ed .: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König
- 2014 Duet (Slawomir Elsner & Francis Picabia) Text: Jean-Christophe Ammann , Ed .: Galerie Haas, Zurich
- 2012 colored pencil drawings , text: Natalie de Ligt , Chris Lünsmann, Karin Pernegger, Dr. Esther Ruelfs, Raimar Stange, Christoph Tannert, ed .: Künstlerhaus Bethanien GmbH, Berlin ISBN 978-3-941230-17-0
- 2008 Slawomir Elsner, Panorama , text: Łukasz Gorczyca, ed .: Galerie Gebr. Lehmann and Dumont ISBN 978-3-8321-9098-9
- 2005 Slawomir Elsner , text: Lukasz Gorczyca u. Tan Morben, Ed .: Kunsthaus Essen / Rotary Clubs Essen ISBN 978-3-931201-23-4
Web links
- Gallery Gebr. Lehmann
- Interview GALO Magazine
- Entry on artnet.com
- Slawomir Elsner - Virtual Existence - Deutsche Börse Group
- Sławomir Elsner in the Johnen Gallery
Individual evidence
- ^ Paulina Dylewicz: Slawomir Elsner. Nothing is as it seems . Ed .: Hospitalhof Stuttgart. Stuttgart 2015, p. 4 .
- ↑ Jean Christophe Ammann: On closer inspection . Ed .: Westend Verlag. Frankfurt 2007, ISBN 978-3-938060-21-6 , pp. 296 .
- ↑ cf. Lukasz Gorczyca: Forms and Uniforms . In: Kunsthaus Essen / Rotary Clubs Essen (ed.): Slawomir Elsner . Essen 2005, ISBN 978-3-931201-23-4 , pp. 72 .
- ^ Exhibition "Slawomir Elsner - Drawing as Painting". Retrieved June 12, 2018 .
- ^ Jean Christophe Ammann: Slawomir Elsner and Francis Picabia . In: galerie Haas (ed.): Slawomir Elsner. Duet . Zurich 2014.
- ↑ Martin Engler: Slawomir Elsner . In: estnergesellschaft, Kunstverein Hannover, Sprengel Museum Hannover, Hantje Cantz Verlag (ed.): Made in Germany. Current art from Germany . Hannover 2007, ISBN 978-3-7757-1985-8 , pp. 344 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Elsner, Sławomir |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Polish artist |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1976 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Wodzisław Śląski |