Installation shot - From Selfie to Self-Expression
Installation shot - From Selfie to Self-Expression
Installation shot - From Selfie to Self-Expression
Installation shot - From Selfie to Self-Expression
Installation shot - From Selfie to Self-Expression
The artist’s choice of subject riffs on his memory of the inhuman but fascinating spatial energy where he first encountered this imagery. “When I was young… the industrial area I lived in [Northern Germany] inspired a sculptural and mechanical outlook more than a painterly one. If I were to write a novel about this area I would call it ‘The Region’… At an early age I subconsciously perceived this industrial environment as sculptural”. Exploring the formal potential of the car and bending its natural anatomy, away from any predetermined functional sense, became a central preoccupation for the artist’s imagination.
Skreber obsessively painted cars wrapped around poles before moving onto the real thing. “Although I was satisfied with the paintings, I wanted to go closer to the material reality of my subject. I started thinking about a simulated crash, which was staged according to my sculptural vision… While making these works my concern was not at all about accidents but rather to use a massive and completely real transfer of energy as an opening door to a perspective on the flow of physical laws and metaphysical energies, loading and unloading, transforming and retransforming like batteries or spiritual bodies.”
Born in 1961, in Lübeck, Germany
Lives and works in Düsseldorf and New York
2013
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee
Petzel Gallery, New York
2012
Dirk Skreber: so so so motogo, Nanzuka, Tokyo
Dirk Skreber. NDAA - Der Na(h)tanz Hummer II, Leopold-Hoesch-Museum & Papiermuseum Düren, Germany
2010
Blum and Poe, Los Angeles
Exhibition No. 2, Graham Walker, Friedrich Petzel East, New York
2009
Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
Frans Halsmuseum Haarlem, Haarlem
Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Gent, Belgium
2008
Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf
Galerie Luis Campana, Cologne
Dirk Skreber. Blood Speed, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden
2006
Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
Was für ein Tag, Galerie Luis Campana, Cologne
2005
It Rocks us so Hard- Ho Ho Ho, The Aspen Art Museum, Aspen & Joslyn Art Museum,
Omaha, Nebraska
2004
Na(h)tanz Aspen Art Museum, Aspen
Muss et Sin Engholm Engelhorn Galerie, Vienna
Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
2003
Painspotting Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
2002
Kunstverein Freiburg, Freiburg
Galleria Gió Marconi, Milan (with Björn Dahlem) Galerie
Luis Campana, Cologne
Galerie Elba Betinez, Madrid (with Björn Dahlem)
2001
Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
Kerstin Engholm Galerie, Vienna
1999
Luis Campaña Galerie, Cologne
Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
1998
Portfolio, Vienna
1997
GalerieBochynek,Düsseldorf
Leopold-Hoesch-Museum, Düren
Luis Campaña Galerie, Cologne
2012
The Slide Show, FRAC (Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain) Auvergne, ClermontFerrand
Re-Encounters – Objects and Phenomena, 601Artspace, New York
Painting is a Painting is a Painting, Frank Cohen Collection, Wolverhampton
2011
The Shape of Things To Come, Saatchi Gallery, London
2010
Attitude, Initial Access, Frank Cohen Collection, Wolverhampton
2009
Inaugural Exhibition, Blum&Poe, Los Angeles
Claus Foettinger, Dirk Skreber, Galerie Engholm Engelhorn, Vienna
Reality Check – KölnSkulptur 5, Stiftung Skulpturenpark Köln, Cologne
Fabula Temporaria, Kunstmuseum Mülheim an der Ruhr, Mülheim/Ruhr
2008
Kunst Im Heim, Capitain Petzel Gallery, Berlin
You Did the Tunnel- I’ll Hide the Soil, White Cube (curated by Harland Miller and Irene
Bradbury), London
Red Wind, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
2006
The Ecstatic Truth - Werner Herzog's Quest, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
Deutsche Wandstücke, Museum für moderne und zeitgenössische Kunst, Bozen
2005
Present Perfect Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New
York
2004
Claus Föttinger, Hans Schabus, Dirk Skreber Sies
+ Höke,Düsseldorf
raumfürraum Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf
Now Is a Good Time Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York Art Chicago
2004, Chicago
2003
Jetzt und Hier Museum Kurhaus, Kleve 4ever Young
Sommer Gallery, Tel Aviv Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
2002
Permanent Collection, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt
Viewfinder Arnolfini, Bristol
2001
Far from us, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam
EU Stephan Friedman Gallery, London
Musterkarte Galerie Elba Benitez, Madrid
Without Hesitation Neues Museum, Weserburg, Bremen
2000
Hypermental Kuntshaus, Zürich
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
1999
Jeffrey Deitch Projects, New York
Kerstin Engholm Galerie, Vienna
1998
Galerie Bochynek, Düsseldorf
1997
Surprise II Kunsthalle, Nürnberg
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