NIELS SIEVERS
“ILLUSION”
MAI 2018

Niels Sievers

Niels Sievers – Illusion

2. Juni – 7. Juli 2018/June 2 – July 7, 2018
Vernissage: Freitag, 1. Juni 2018, 19-21 Uhr/Opening: Friday, June 1, 2018, 7-9pm

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Niels Sievers, Time Travel VI (Detail), 2018
Öl, Sprühlack auf Leinwand/oil, spray paint on jute, 70 x 53 cm

Niels Sievers, Good afternoon, 2018, Öl, Sprühlack auf Jute/oil, spray paint on jute, 130 x 170 cm
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In his third solo exhibition in our gallery we show current works by Niels Sievers, which were made after serious disruption to his art production in the year 2016. A flood which destroyed much of his oeuvre and made his studio unusable, forced him to rethink his position as a painter.

With consistency and newly achieved freedom, Sievers explored his painting techniques and the classical genre of painting and further perfected his experimental approach using a combination of oil, egg tempera and graffiti spray paint. A highlight in the truest sense of the word is the magical light that he creates with it. The pictures shine out of themselves and, depending on the observer’s point of view, the brightness and intensity of the composition change. Striking in this new series of paintings are the increasing colourfulness which replaces his dark night pictures, the meticulously attuned shades, special primers, the use of jute as a base which provides for more organic structures, the scratching out of certain elements and the tension between silvery-shiny and crusty looking colour parts.

The artist dissolves concrete landscape elements more and more into abstraction and at the same time blurs the boundaries between illusion and reality. The image titles in the series “Time travel” indicate that the artist has consciously embarked on a journey into other worlds and time zones. The result is an independent artistic cosmos, which requires a less and less concrete location in reality. The viewers are also invited to enter this intermediate world, which releases them from romance into an inner space: “Tell me where, I`ll meet you there”, is another picture title.

1979 born in Niebüll, Germany; 2002-2008 he studied at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Klasse Jörg Immendorff; 2008 Meisterschüler with Immendorff; 2013 Audience award Kunstmuseum Solingen; 2009 Erwine Steinblum scholarhip, Johannesburg; 2008 Travel grant NRW, Kunstverein Düsseldorf; lives and works in Berlin.

In his third solo exhibition in our gallery we show current works by Niels Sievers, which were made after serious disruption to his art production in the year 2016. A flood which destroyed much of his oeuvre and made his studio unusable, forced him to rethink his position as a painter.

With consistency and newly achieved freedom, Sievers explored his painting techniques and the classical genre of painting and further perfected his experimental approach using a combination of oil, egg tempera and graffiti spray paint. A highlight in the truest sense of the word is the magical light that he creates with it. The pictures shine out of themselves and, depending on the observer’s point of view, the brightness and intensity of the composition change. Striking in this new series of paintings are the increasing colourfulness which replaces his dark night pictures, the meticulously attuned shades, special primers, the use of jute as a base which provides for more organic structures, the scratching out of certain elements and the tension between silvery-shiny and crusty looking colour parts.

The artist dissolves concrete landscape elements more and more into abstraction and at the same time blurs the boundaries between illusion and reality. The image titles in the series “Time travel” indicate that the artist has consciously embarked on a journey into other worlds and time zones. The result is an independent artistic cosmos, which requires a less and less concrete location in reality. The viewers are also invited to enter this intermediate world, which releases them from romance into an inner space: “Tell me where, I`ll meet you there”, is another picture title.

1979 born in Niebüll, Germany; 2002-2008 he studied at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Klasse Jörg Immendorff; 2008 Meisterschüler with Immendorff; 2013 Audience award Kunstmuseum Solingen; 2009 Erwine Steinblum scholarhip, Johannesburg; 2008 Travel grant NRW, Kunstverein Düsseldorf; lives and works in Berlin.

 

PresseEcho

Der Tagesspiegel, Mehr Berlin, Niels Sievers

1979geboren in Niebüll/born in Niebüll, Germany
2002-2008Studium der Freien Kunst, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Klasse Jörg Immendorff/studied painting at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf class Jörg Immendorff
2008Meisterschüler bei/with Jörg Immendorff
 lebt und arbeitet in Berlin/lives and works in Berlin
Preise und Stipendien/Awards and scholarships
2013Publikumspreis/audience award, Kunstmuseum Solingen, Germany
2009Erwine Steinblum Stipendium, Johannesburg/jozi-art-lap, artist residence award, Johannesburg, Süd-Afrika/South Africa
2008Reisestipendium/travelling scholarship of NRW, Kunstverein Düsseldorf, Germany
Einzelausstellungen (Auswahl)/selected solo exhibitions
2021"La macchina", Julia Ritterskamp, Düsseldorf, Germany
2020"Last Nite", Galerie Martin Kudlek, Köln/Cologne, Germany
2019"...and the whole damn place goes crazy twice", Richard-Haizmann-Museum,
Kunstverein Niebüll (mit Paul Maciejowski) Kunstverein Niebüll, Niebüll, Germany
2018„Illusion", C&K Galerie, Berlin
„It's a kind of magic", Galerie Martin Kudlek, Köln/Cologne, Germany
„after drowing”, Julia Ritterskamp, Düsseldorf, Germany
2016„in bloom”, C&K Galerie, Berlin
„my flowers bloom in a dark room”, Galerie Martin Kudlek, Köln/Cologne, Germany
2014„it’s all wrong”, C&K unterwegs Galerie, Berlin
„it`s all right“, Galerie Martin Kudlek, Köln/Cologne, Germany
2012„antistar“, Galerie Kudlek van der Grinten, Köln/Cologne, Germany
2010„night on earth“, Kunstbeitrag „Das Plateau“, Radius Verlag, Stuttgart, Germany
2009„all the world is green“, Galerie Geuer und Breckner, Düsseldorf, Germany
2008„Boys don’t cry“, Galerie DUVE, Berlin
2007„Back in Black“, acapulco, Düsseldorf, Germany
Gruppenausstellungen (Auswahl)/selected group exhbitions
2022„Enter Nature", Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin
„High Noon, colleagues zu Pferd", ehemalige Klasse Immendorff der Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
2021„DIE 4 ELEMENTE Feuer • Wasser • Erde • Luft“, Galerie Löhrl, Mönchengladbach, Germany
2020“Rückzug und Aufbruch - Neue Arbeiten aus der Quarantäne", C&K Galerie, Berlin
2019“Die haben einen Vogel - Die Vogelmänner von Istanbul" 30 Jahre Galeristin, eine Jubiläumsausstellung von Christiane Bühling-Schultz, C&K Galerie, Berlin
„Outdoors”, C&K Galerie, Berlin
2017„Schwarz Weiß”, Galerie Löhrl, Mönchengladbach, Germany
2015„Mixed Pickles”, C&K unterwegs Galerie, Berlin
Jubiläumsausstellung der Galerie Löhrl, Mönchengladbach, Germany
2014„Mythos Wald”, Neue Galerie im Haus Beda, Bitburg, Germany
 „The beautiful changes“, RH Contemporary Art, New York
2013„Stippvisite“, C&K unterwegs, Berlin
 „Ida Gerhardi”, Ausstellung in der Städtischen Galerie Lüdenscheid, Lüdenscheid, Germany
 „67. Internationale Bergische Kunstausstellung“, Kunstmuseum Solingen, Solingen (Publikumspreis), Germany
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, Stuttgart, Germany
2011„sunbeam in the glasshouse“, Kunstverein 701, Düsseldorf, Germany
„inter deum et diabolum semper musica est“, Minken und Palme, Berlin
„There is no end, my friend“, E105 studio, Bonn, Germany
2010„alles/nichts/oder“, Galerie Koal, Berlin
„hotmaschini kunstkanone“, Köln/Cologne, Germany
2009„Werkschau 1“, Kunstraum Sylt-Quelle, Sylt, Germany
„4falt“, Richard-Haizmann-Museum Niebüll, Kunstverein Niebüll, Niebüll, Germany
2008„Impulse 21“, Galerie Löhrl, Mönchengladbach, Germany
„Unmodern Normalism“, Goethe Institut Rotterdam, Niederlande/The Netherlands
„Spiegelbild“, KIT, Düsseldorf, Germany
„Project Flux“, art museum of Sichuan University Chengdu/China
„dipmaster 2“, Wandergalerie Stephanie Bender, München/Munich, Germany
2007„Von Pferden und Affen“, Klasse/class Jörg Immendorff, Museum Ludwig Koblenz, Koblenz, Germany
Bibliografie/Bibliography
2021La macchina, hrsg./ed. Julia Ritterkamp, Düsseldorf
2019Die haben einen Vogel - Die Vogelmänner von Istanbul 30 Jahre Galeristin, eine Jubiläumsausstellung von Christiane Bühling-Schultz, hrsg./ed. Christiane Bühling-Schultz
2016Kunstbeitrag Niels Sievers, “Moonlight Drive”. Zwölf Arbeiten auf Vinyl, in: Das Plateau, Die Zeitschrift im Radius-Verlag, Nr. 157 (Oktober 2016), Stuttgart
2014It’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
2010Kunstbeitrag Niels Sievers, „night on earth“, in: Das Plateau, Die Zeitschrift im Radius-Verlag, Nr. 119 (Juni 2010), Stuttgart