Niels Sievers
„IT’S ALL WRONG“
Painting
May 2014
Niels Sievers – „IT’S ALL WRONG“ – Malerei / Painting
12. April – 10. Mai 2014 / April 12 – May 10, 2014
Vernissage / Opening: 11. April 2014 von 19.00–21.00 Uhr / April 11, 2014, 19.00–21.00
Niels Sievers,
Detail: „silence (may way home)“ , 2014,
Öl auf Leinwand / Oil on canvas, 110 x 80 cm
Zum Gallery Weekend: Ausstellungsrundgang mit Niels Sievers am Samstag, dem 3. Mai 2014 um 17.00 Uhr
To the Gallery Weekend: Talk with the artist on Saturday May 3rd at 17.00
Sonderöffnungszeiten zum Gallery Weekend 2. – 4. Mai 2014, Fr-Sa 11.00–20.00 Uhr, So 11.00–19.00 Uhr
Opening times during the Gallery Weekend May 2–4, 2014, Friday–Saturday 11.00–20.00, Sunday 11.00–19.00
Info
With “IT’S ALL WRONG” we are presenting a solo exhibition of paintings by Niels Sievers in Berlin. He studied painting at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf class Jörg Immendorff.
A twilight world, devoid of human life characterises the art of Niels Sievers. His luminous skies above dark forests, shimmering in silver moonlight are a recurrent feature of his work. A low-angled perspective makes these “enchanted forests” appear huge and forbidding, imparting an air of menace. The beholder finds themselves alone in the middle of a deep wood with only their own thoughts and feelings for company.
In his more recent work, Sievers adopts urban motifs such as night-time images of deserted streets and bus-stops, lit only by streetlights and other artificial sources of light. Here the viewer must face his own fears as he finds himself in situation of self-reflection.
In his work Niels Sievers takes as inspiration a state of mind beyond daytime, a liminal space between darkness and light. He experiments with classical media like oil, canvas and wood combined with more contemporary techniques using spraypaint, popular with street artists. Combining both in his unique, signature style, Sievers’ paintings, whether large or small, oscillate between Romanticism and Modernity, the Old Master and the graffiti artist.
| 1979 | geboren in Niebüll/born in Niebüll, Germany |
| 2002-2008 | Studium der Freien Kunst, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Klasse Jörg Immendorff/ studied painting at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf class Jörg Immendorff |
| 2008 | Meisterschüler bei/with Jörg Immendorff |
| lebt und arbeitet in Berlin/lives and works in Berlin | |
| Preise und Stipendien/Awards and scholarships | |
| 2013 | Publikumspreis/audience award, Kunstmuseum Solingen |
| 2009 | Erwine Steinblum Stipendium, Johannesburg/jozi-art-lap, artist residence award, Johannesburg |
| 2008 | Reisestipendium/travelling scholarship of NRW, Kunstverein Düsseldorf |
| Einzelausstellungen (Auswahl)/selected solo exhibitions | |
| 2014 | “it’s all wrong”, C&Kunterwegs Galerie, Berlin |
| „it`s all right“, Galerie Martin Kudlek, Köln | |
| 2012 | „antistar“, Galerie Kudlek van der Grinten, Köln |
| 2010 | „night on earth“, Kunstbeitrag „Das Plateau“, Radius Verlag, Stuttgart |
| 2009 | „all the world is green“, Galerie Geuer & Breckner, Düsseldorf |
| 2008 | „Boys don’t cry“, Galerie DUVE, Berlin |
| 2007 | „Back in Black“, acapulco, Düsseldorf |
| Gruppenausstellungen (Auswahl)/selected group exhibitions | |
| 2013 | „Stippvisite“, C & K unterwegs, Berlin |
| „Ida Gerhardi”, Ausstellung in der Städtischen Galerie Lüdenscheid, Lüdenscheid | |
| „67. Internationale Bergische Kunstausstellung“, Kunstmuseum Solingen, Solingen (Publikumspreis) | |
| 2012 | „Die Nacht die tausend Tagen Trotz kann sagen“, C & K unterwegs zu Gast in der Guardini Galerie, Berlin |
| „Salonlöwen im Kleinformat“, C & K unterwegs zu Gast im Luftraum, Berlin | |
| „escapes“, Kunstbeitrag „Das Plateau“, Radius Verlag, Stuttgartl | |
| 2011 | „sunbeam in the glasshouse“, Kunstverein 701, Düsseldorf |
| „inter deum et diabolum semper musica est“, Minken & Palme, Berlin | |
| „There is no end, my friend“, E105 studio, Bonn | |
| 2010 | „alles/nichts/oder“, Galerie Koal, Berlin |
| „hotmaschini kunstkanone“, Köln | |
| 2009 | „Werkschau 1“, Kunstraum Sylt-Quelle |
| „4falt“, Richard Haizmann Museum Niebüll, Kunstverein Niebüll | |
| 2008 | „Impulse 21“, Galerie Löhrl Mönchengladbach |
| „Unmodern Normalism“, Goethe Institut Rotterdam/Netherlands | |
| „Spiegelbild“, KIT, Düsseldorf | |
| „Project Flux“, art museum of Sichuan University Chengdu/China | |
| „dipmaster 2“, Wandergalerie Stephanie Bender, München | |
| 2007 | „Von Pferden und Affen“, Klasse/class Jörg Immendorff, Museum Ludwig Koblenz |
| Bibliografie/Bibliography | |
| 2014 | It’s all right, Galerie Martin Kudlek, Köln |
| 2012 | “Antistar”, Kudlek van der Grinten Galerie, Köln |
| Kunstbeitrag Niels Sievers, „Escpes“. Elf Bilder, in: Das Plateau, Die Zeitschrift im Radius Verlag, Nr. 129 (Februar 2012), Stuttgart | |
| 2010 | Kunstbeitrag Niels Sievers, „night on earth“, in: Das Plateau, Die Zeitschrift im Radius, Nr. 119 (Juni 2010), Stuttgart |