Gregor Podnar
Untitled
2020
Oil, egg tempera, acrylic on cotton
80 x 65 cm
© Photo: Marcus Schneider
Pile
2021
oil, egg tempera, acrylic on cotton
180x140 cm
© Photo: Marelene Zoe Burz
Anne Neukamp
‘Neukamp plays with communication and understanding, deliberately choosing symbols in print and type that for the last century have symbolized an absolutist conveyance of information. Equally at play in her work are ubiquitous symbols, like the on and off button symbol, that hover like shadows of the actual objects they represent (hardly existing in their original form any longer). Neukamp renders these very “black and white” signs and logos that once signified a kind of road-map to clarity ineffective by amputating, oversizing, or super-abstracting them or just turning them on their head. She uses a confidence in painting in combination with more mechanical forms of production and duplication, such as stenciling and playing with computer generated images, the diverse techniques underscoring her invitation to the viewer to contemplate shifts in meaning rather than nailing them down. The figurative associations, the meanings both historical and implied, don’t ask for definition, they ask you to completely recondition the means by which you seek definition. Her images are not a game of catch, but an invitation to contemplate, to return to the quickening (away from the confirmation, illusory or otherwise) that realization can bring.’
Johanna da Rocha Abreu, A Quickening: Paintings by Anne Neukamp, 2019.
Biography
Düsseldorf, 1976. Lives and works in Berlin
Since 2020 Professor for Painting at Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Dresden, DE
Solo Exhibitions
2020 Pitching Pennies, Linn Lühn, Düsseldorf, DE
2019 Alt-Moa-Bit, Gregor Podnar, Berlin, DE
2018 The Prop Master, Rosenwald-Wolf-Gallery, University of the Arts Philadelphia, US
2018 Gamberge, Galerie Valentin, Paris, FR
2017 L‘objet familier, Galerie Greta Meert, Brussels, BE
2017 The familiar object, Marlborough Contemporary, New York, US
2015 Afloat, Towards at Jr. Projects, Toronto, CA
2015 Faux Amis, Gregor Podnar, Berlin, DE
2014 Galerie Greta Meert, Brussels, BE
2014 Galeria Agustina Ferreyra, San Juan, PR
2014 tl;dr, Galerie Valentin, Paris, FR
2013 Circuit, Oldenburger Kunstverein, Oldenburg, DE
2012 mit oder ohne, Galerija Gregor Podnar, Berlin, DE
2011 Rebound, Galerie Chez Valentin, Paris, FR
2009 I no longer love the colours of your sweaters, Galerie Chez Valentin, Paris, FR
2006 Panorama, ostra20, Dresden, DE
Group Exhibitions (Selection)
2020 Win/Win, Ankäufe der Kulturstiftung desFreistaates Sachsen 2020, Halle 14, Leipzig, DE
2019 Eight Ball, Martos Gallery, New York, US
2018 Doors of Pradise, Union Pacific Gallery, London, UK
2018 Recollection, Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City, MX
2017 Late Breakfast, Künstlerhaus Bregenz, Bregen
2016 Prix Jean-Fancois Prat, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR
2014 Jo Baer, Diane Simpson, Anne Neukamp, Mitchell Innes & Nash, New York, US
2013 Painting forever!, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, DE
2011 Based in Berlin, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, DE
2009 Want, Galerie Arratia, Beer, Berlin, DE
2007 Der Pinselhieb…, KIT – Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, DE
2007 Kunststudenten stellen aus, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, DE
2004 Schule der Malerei, Dombergmuseum Freising, DE
Gregor Podnar
Gregor Podnar is a contemporary art gallery established in 2003. It started its activities in an abundant industrial space of the small town of Kranj surrounded by the picturesque landscape of the Carniolan Alps in Slovenia. The gallery moved in 2005 to the city centre of Ljubljana and since 2007 it is based in Berlin, Germany. As curator, Gregor Podnar has been working internationally since the mid 90s and the gallery’s program has developed out of his endeavours in the curatorial field of contemporary art. Beginning with an European focus over the last decade the gallery reached out to a wider international context (the Americas), and directed a strong part of its mission also to art of the modernist past, highlighting a natural link between contemporary and modern art. In this framework the city of Zagreb in the 60s represents a meaningful forgotten nucleus of international exchange of modern and neo-avant-garde art, and our aim is to reestablish those links. We follow, for instance, the historical and aesthetic relations between Brazilian and Croatian art of the 50s and 60s, to present compelling artistic exchanges from the past and better understand the flow of the art of today. Art of importance has always transcended beyond national borders and we believe that the art market is just one element among others to grasp this wonderful and evasive subject.
Maria Betegon
+49 30 259 346 51
Anne Neukamp
‘Neukamp plays with communication and understanding, deliberately choosing symbols in print and type that for the last century have symbolized an absolutist conveyance of information. Equally at play in her work are ubiquitous symbols, like the on and off button symbol, that hover like shadows of the actual objects they represent (hardly existing in their original form any longer). Neukamp renders these very “black and white” signs and logos that once signified a kind of road-map to clarity ineffective by amputating, oversizing, or super-abstracting them or just turning them on their head. She uses a confidence in painting in combination with more mechanical forms of production and duplication, such as stenciling and playing with computer generated images, the diverse techniques underscoring her invitation to the viewer to contemplate shifts in meaning rather than nailing them down. The figurative associations, the meanings both historical and implied, don’t ask for definition, they ask you to completely recondition the means by which you seek definition. Her images are not a game of catch, but an invitation to contemplate, to return to the quickening (away from the confirmation, illusory or otherwise) that realization can bring.’
Johanna da Rocha Abreu, A Quickening: Paintings by Anne Neukamp, 2019.
Biography
Düsseldorf, 1976. Lives and works in Berlin
Since 2020 Professor for Painting at Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Dresden, DE
Solo Exhibitions
2020 Pitching Pennies, Linn Lühn, Düsseldorf, DE
2019 Alt-Moa-Bit, Gregor Podnar, Berlin, DE
2018 The Prop Master, Rosenwald-Wolf-Gallery, University of the Arts Philadelphia, US
2018 Gamberge, Galerie Valentin, Paris, FR
2017 L‘objet familier, Galerie Greta Meert, Brussels, BE
2017 The familiar object, Marlborough Contemporary, New York, US
2015 Afloat, Towards at Jr. Projects, Toronto, CA
2015 Faux Amis, Gregor Podnar, Berlin, DE
2014 Galerie Greta Meert, Brussels, BE
2014 Galeria Agustina Ferreyra, San Juan, PR
2014 tl;dr, Galerie Valentin, Paris, FR
2013 Circuit, Oldenburger Kunstverein, Oldenburg, DE
2012 mit oder ohne, Galerija Gregor Podnar, Berlin, DE
2011 Rebound, Galerie Chez Valentin, Paris, FR
2009 I no longer love the colours of your sweaters, Galerie Chez Valentin, Paris, FR
2006 Panorama, ostra20, Dresden, DE
Group Exhibitions (Selection)
2020 Win/Win, Ankäufe der Kulturstiftung desFreistaates Sachsen 2020, Halle 14, Leipzig, DE
2019 Eight Ball, Martos Gallery, New York, US
2018 Doors of Pradise, Union Pacific Gallery, London, UK
2018 Recollection, Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City, MX
2017 Late Breakfast, Künstlerhaus Bregenz, Bregen
2016 Prix Jean-Fancois Prat, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR
2014 Jo Baer, Diane Simpson, Anne Neukamp, Mitchell Innes & Nash, New York, US
2013 Painting forever!, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, DE
2011 Based in Berlin, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, DE
2009 Want, Galerie Arratia, Beer, Berlin, DE
2007 Der Pinselhieb…, KIT – Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, DE
2007 Kunststudenten stellen aus, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, DE
2004 Schule der Malerei, Dombergmuseum Freising, DE
Gregor Podnar
Gregor Podnar is a contemporary art gallery established in 2003. It started its activities in an abundant industrial space of the small town of Kranj surrounded by the picturesque landscape of the Carniolan Alps in Slovenia. The gallery moved in 2005 to the city centre of Ljubljana and since 2007 it is based in Berlin, Germany. As curator, Gregor Podnar has been working internationally since the mid 90s and the gallery’s program has developed out of his endeavours in the curatorial field of contemporary art. Beginning with an European focus over the last decade the gallery reached out to a wider international context (the Americas), and directed a strong part of its mission also to art of the modernist past, highlighting a natural link between contemporary and modern art. In this framework the city of Zagreb in the 60s represents a meaningful forgotten nucleus of international exchange of modern and neo-avant-garde art, and our aim is to reestablish those links. We follow, for instance, the historical and aesthetic relations between Brazilian and Croatian art of the 50s and 60s, to present compelling artistic exchanges from the past and better understand the flow of the art of today. Art of importance has always transcended beyond national borders and we believe that the art market is just one element among others to grasp this wonderful and evasive subject.