Sven Drühl

Sven Drühl (* 1968 in Nassau (Lahn) ) is a contemporary German artist and art scholar .

life and work

From 1991 to 1996 he studied art and mathematics at the University of Essen . Since 1997 he has been teaching and giving guest lectures at universities in Essen, Frankfurt am Main, Dresden and Leipzig. For the spring of 2011 he took over a visiting professorship at the Chinese-German Art Academy in Hangzhou (a joint project of the Berlin University of the Arts and the China Academy of Art Hangzhou).

In 2002 he had his first solo exhibition in a museum in Leverkusen. Since then, solo and group exhibitions have followed in the USA, Great Britain, France, Spain, Norway, China, Korea and Switzerland.

As an art historian, he received his doctorate in 2005 on the subject of "The unifomed artist" at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt and since 2000 he has published 12 volumes of the journal Kunstforum International as guest editor on topics as diverse as real time, violence, idyll, sport, Transgenic Art, the Magical and New Abstraction. Most recently, together with Christoph Tannert, he published the two-volume artist compedium "Berlin.Status", in which more than 100 national and international artists from the years 1973–1984 living in Berlin are presented.

Drühl works in the field of conceptual painting , remixing and transforming paintings from art history and contemporary art. The works are in the tradition of serial art and appropriation art . As an extension of the concept, large-format diptychs and triptychs as well as neon light works are created.

Sven Drühl is a member of the German Association of Artists . He lives in Berlin.

Scholarships and Awards

2003: Grant X. Rohkunstbau
2007: Falkenrot Prize, Berlin
2008: Grant from the Pollock Krasner Foundation, New York

Solo exhibitions (selection)

2002: The Excitement , Museum Morsbroich , Leverkusen (cat.) / Museum am Ostwall , Dortmund
2003: The victory of the trophy , artists' association Malkasten , Düsseldorf
2004: Pop suppliers , Flottmann-Hallen , Herne (with Stefan Wissel, cat.)
2005: Serial landscapes , Scharpf-Galerie / Wilhelm-Hack-Museum , Ludwigshafen
2006: artistic research , Zeppelin Museum , Friedrichshafen / Museum der Stadt Ratingen (cat.)
2007: Falkenrot Prize 2007, Künstlerhaus Bethanien , Berlin (cat.)
2008: Engineering Utopia , Michael Schultz Gallery, Berlin

Landscapism , Michael Schultz Gallery, Seoul, Korea (cat.)

Black Paintings , Gallery of the City of Remscheid

The Modernist , Gallery of the City of Backnang

2010: Shades of Gray , Galleri SE, Bergen, Norway (cat.)
2011: Dance of Death. Painting and sculpture , Hospitalhof Stuttgart (cat.)

Archiscapes , b-05, Montabaur

2012: Strategies against Architectures , LEVY Gallery, Hamburg (cat.)
2012: ArchScape , Alexander Ochs Galleries, Berlin
2013: Sven Drühl: Works 2001-2013 , Von der Heydt-Kunsthalle , Wuppertal (cat.)
2013: Interpretation , Kunstverein Schwäbisch Hall
2014: Shin-Hanga Prolog , Alexander Ochs Galleries, Berlin
2015: Sven Drühl: Shin-Hanga - Japanese Landscapes , Stadtgalerie Kiel , Kiel (cat.)
2015: Sven Drühl: Shin-Hanga - Japanese Landscapes , Museum DKM , Duisburg
2016: Sven Drühl: Shin-Hanga - Japanese Landscapes , Kallmann Museum , Ismaning
2016: Sven Drühl: Landscape Engineer , Galerie Conrads, Düsseldorf
2016: Sven Drühl: Simulations - Landscape Beyond Reality, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin
2017: Sven Drühl: Simulations - Landscape Beyond Reality, Kunsthaus Nürnberg
2017: Sven Drühl: Simulacra, Galerie Tony Wuethrich, Basel
2018: Sven Drühl: Painting Engineer, Neue Galerie Gladbeck, Gladbeck
2018: Sven Drühl: Mash-up, Kunstverein Coburg
2019: Sven Drühl: New Paintings, Galerie Conrads, Düsseldorf
2019: Sven Drühl: Floating Landscapes, St. Matthäus Foundation, Berlin
2020: Sven Drühl: New Landscape 4.0, Bluerider Art, Taipei, Taiwan

UPCOMING CATALOG:

"Sven Drühl: Apocryphal Landscapes", Lisa Felicitas Mattheis / Carola Schneider (Ed.), Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2020, 176 p., Hardcover

ONGOING SHOWS:

"SIGHT SEEING. The world as an attraction", Kunsthalle Emden, extended until 6.9.2020 (Cat.) Info

"SEE_Stücke | Facts and Fiction", Museum Art of the West Coast, Alkersum, extended until 10.1.2021 (Cat.) Info

"BestOf", A Pick Gallery, Torino, Italy, until 26.9.2020

"Frutti di Mare", Hartwich Gallery, Sellin on Rügen, until 9/11/2020

"Sven Drühl: New Landscape 4.0", Bluerider Art, Taipei, Taiwan

Museums and collections (selection)

Museum of Asian Art, Berlin
Berlinische Galerie - Museum for Modern Art, Berlin
Museum DKM, Duisburg
Art gallery Emden
Märkisches Museum Witten
Franz Gertsch Museum, Burgdorf, Switzerland
Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen
Situation art, Bochum
Museum of the City of Ratingen
City Gallery Kiel
From the Heydt Museum, Wuppertal
ZKM Museum for New Art, Karlsruhe
City of Essen
Backnang Municipal Gallery
State government of Baden-Württemberg
Allianz Forum, Berlin
Basler Insurance, Bad Homburg
Cardia Collection, Porto, Portugal
COROPLAST collection, Wuppertal
Deutsche Bank Collection
E.ON Art Collection, Düsseldorf
HypoVereinsbank, Munich
Kerber Collection, Bielefeld
Leinemann Foundation, Berlin
Willi Michel Collection, Bern, Switzerland
Novartis, Basel, Switzerland
Philara - Collection of Contemporary Art, Düsseldorf
SØR Rusche
Corporate Collection of UTM, Luxembourg
Zhang Zhenqingn Collection, Shanghai, China

literature

Sven Drühl: The uniformed artist. Aspects of Uniformity in the Art Context. 2006, ISBN 3-938025-84-0 .
Sven Drühl: The comic in ancient art. 2008, ISBN 978-3-86678-137-5 .
Sven Drühl / Christoph Tannert (eds.): Berlin.Status (1) 2012, ISBN 978-3-86206-167-9
Sven Drühl / Christoph Tannert (eds.): Berlin.Status (2) 2013, ISBN 978-3-86206-245-4

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Members "D" / Sven Drühl (accessed on March 21, 2016)
↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from January 25, 2012 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. (accessed on May 5, 2011) @1@ 2

↑ http://www.artnet.de/magazine/sven-druhl-falkenrotpreis-2007/ (accessed on May 5, 2011)

↑ http://www.pkf-imagecollection.org/html/artistresults.asp?artist=2680&testing=true (accessed on May 5, 2011)

↑ Sven Drühl: Die Aufregung , 2002, ISBN 3-925520-63-5 .

^ Sven Drühl - Artistic Research by Oliver Zybok, 2006, ISBN 3-938025-55-7 .

↑ Sven Drühl: Falkenrot Prize 2007 , 2007, ISBN 978-3-939983-15-6 .

^ Sven Drühl - Dance of Death by Helmut A. Müller, 2012, ISBN 978-3-86206-162-4 .

↑ Sven Drühl - Strategies against Architectures. by Thomas Levy, 2012, ISBN 978-3-86678-639-4 .

↑ Sven Drühl Works 2001-2013 by Gerhard Finckh, 2013, ISBN 978-3-89202-086-8 .

↑ Sven Drühl Shin-Hanga - Japanese Landscapes by Rasmus Kleine and Wolfgang Zeigerer, 2015, ISBN 978-3-7356-0111-7 .

↑ Katja Blomberg (Ed.): Sven Drühl: Simulations - Landscape Beyond Reality . Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2016, ISBN 978-3-96098-018-6 , p. 80 .

↑ cubus Berlin | www.cubusmedia.com: TONY WUETHRICH GALLERY. Retrieved August 30, 2017 .

↑ 【台北 · 敦仁】 Sven Drühl 首個展 -New landscape 4.0 2020.07.11-2020.08.30-Bluerider ART. Retrieved July 11, 2020 .

personal data
SURNAME	Drühl, Sven
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German artist and art scholar
DATE OF BIRTH	1968
PLACE OF BIRTH	Nassau

[1] uenstlerbund.de: Members "D" / Sven Drühl (accessed on March 21, 2016)

[2] Archived copy ( memento of the original from January 25, 2012 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. (accessed on May 5, 2011) @1@ 2

[3] ttp://www.artnet.de/magazine/sven-druhl-falkenrotpreis-2007/ (accessed on May 5, 2011)

[4] ttp://www.pkf-imagecollection.org/html/artistresults.asp?artist=2680&testing=true (accessed on May 5, 2011)

[5] Sven Drühl: Die Aufregung , 2002, ISBN 3-925520-63-5 .

[6] Sven Drühl - Artistic Research by Oliver Zybok, 2006, ISBN 3-938025-55-7 .

[7] Sven Drühl: Falkenrot Prize 2007 , 2007, ISBN 978-3-939983-15-6 .

[8] Sven Drühl - Dance of Death by Helmut A. Müller, 2012, ISBN 978-3-86206-162-4 .

[9] Sven Drühl - Strategies against Architectures. by Thomas Levy, 2012, ISBN 978-3-86678-639-4 .

[10] Sven Drühl Works 2001-2013 by Gerhard Finckh, 2013, ISBN 978-3-89202-086-8 .

[11] Sven Drühl Shin-Hanga - Japanese Landscapes by Rasmus Kleine and Wolfgang Zeigerer, 2015, ISBN 978-3-7356-0111-7 .

[12] Katja Blomberg (Ed.): Sven Drühl: Simulations - Landscape Beyond Reality . Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2016, ISBN 978-3-96098-018-6 , p. 80 .

[13] ubus Berlin | www.cubusmedia.com: TONY WUETHRICH GALLERY. Retrieved August 30, 2017 .

[14] 【台北 · 敦仁】 Sven Drühl 首個展 -New landscape 4.0 2020.07.11-2020.08.30-Bluerider ART. Retrieved July 11, 2020 .