{"id":5892,"date":"2018-07-10T12:19:01","date_gmt":"2018-07-10T10:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cundkgalerie.de\/?p=5892\/"},"modified":"2018-11-29T17:09:38","modified_gmt":"2018-11-29T16:09:38","slug":"niels-sieversillusionmai-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cundkgalerie.de\/en\/niels-sieversillusionmai-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"NIELS SIEVERS<br>&#8220;ILLUSION&#8221;<br>MAI 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row row_type=&#8221;row&#8221; use_row_as_full_screen_section=&#8221;no&#8221; type=&#8221;full_width&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; css_animation=&#8221;&#8221;][vc_column][vc_column_text]<br \/>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<br \/>\nNiels Sievers<br \/>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;12px&#8221;][vc_tabs style=&#8221;boxed&#8221;][vc_tab tab_id=&#8221;09a540a1-2fd4-8&#8243;][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]<br \/>\nNiels Sievers &#8211; Illusion<\/p>\n<p>2. Juni &#8211; 7. Juli 2018\/June 2 \u2013 July 7, 2018<br \/>\nVernissage: Freitag, 1. Juni 2018, 19-21 Uhr\/Opening: Friday, June 1, 2018, 7-9pm<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5625\" src=\"https:\/\/cundkgalerie.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/600px_NielsSieversEinladungCK-illusion-Kopie.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"263\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cundkgalerie.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/600px_NielsSieversEinladungCK-illusion-Kopie.jpg 263w, https:\/\/cundkgalerie.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/600px_NielsSieversEinladungCK-illusion-Kopie-132x300.jpg 132w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 263px) 100vw, 263px\" \/><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Niels Sievers, Time Travel VI (Detail), 2018<br \/>\n\u00d6l, Spr\u00fchlack auf Leinwand\/oil, spray paint on jute, 70 x 53 cm<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tab][vc_tab title=&#8221;IMAGES&#8221; 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           }          }        });      }    <\/script>    <\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tab][vc_tab title=&#8221;INFO\/PRESS&#8221; tab_id=&#8221;1485970087389-2-6&#8243;][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>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 &#8220;Time travel&#8221; 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: &#8220;Tell me where, I`ll meet you there&#8221;, is another picture title.<\/p>\n<p>1979 born in Nieb\u00fcll, Germany; 2002-2008 he studied at Kunstakademie D\u00fcsseldorf, Klasse J\u00f6rg Immendorff; 2008 Meistersch\u00fcler with Immendorff; 2013 Audience award Kunstmuseum Solingen; 2009 Erwine Steinblum scholarhip, Johannesburg; 2008 Travel grant NRW, Kunstverein D\u00fcsseldorf; lives and works in Berlin.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>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 &#8220;Time travel&#8221; 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: &#8220;Tell me where, I`ll meet you there&#8221;, is another picture title.<\/p>\n<p>1979 born in Nieb\u00fcll, Germany; 2002-2008 he studied at Kunstakademie D\u00fcsseldorf, Klasse J\u00f6rg Immendorff; 2008 Meistersch\u00fcler with Immendorff; 2013 Audience award Kunstmuseum Solingen; 2009 Erwine Steinblum scholarhip, Johannesburg; 2008 Travel grant NRW, Kunstverein D\u00fcsseldorf; lives and works in Berlin.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>PresseEcho<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cundkgalerie.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Niels-Sievers.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Der Tagesspiegel, Mehr Berlin, Niels Sievers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tab][vc_tab title=&#8221;BIOGRAPHY&#8221; tab_id=&#8221;1485970106888-3-0&#8243;][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]\n<table id=\"tablepress-7\" class=\"tablepress tablepress-id-7 tbody-has-connected-cells\">\n<tbody class=\"row-hover\">\n<tr class=\"row-1\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">1979<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">geboren in Nieb\u00fcll\/born in Nieb\u00fcll, Germany<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-2\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">2002-2008<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Studium der Freien Kunst, Kunstakademie D\u00fcsseldorf, Klasse J\u00f6rg Immendorff\/studied painting at Kunstakademie D\u00fcsseldorf class J\u00f6rg Immendorff<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-3\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">2008<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Meistersch\u00fcler bei\/with J\u00f6rg Immendorff<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-4\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">\u00a0<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">lebt und arbeitet in Berlin\/lives and works in Berlin<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-5\">\n\t<td colspan=\"2\" class=\"column-1\"><strong>Preise und Stipendien\/Awards and scholarships<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-6\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">2013<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Publikumspreis\/audience award, Kunstmuseum Solingen, Germany<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-7\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">2009<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Erwine Steinblum Stipendium, Johannesburg\/jozi-art-lap, artist residence award, Johannesburg, S\u00fcd-Afrika\/South Africa<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-8\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">2008<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Reisestipendium\/travelling scholarship of NRW, Kunstverein D\u00fcsseldorf, Germany<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-9\">\n\t<td colspan=\"2\" class=\"column-1\"><strong>Einzelausstellungen (Auswahl)\/selected solo exhibitions<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-10\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">2021<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">\"La  macchina\", Julia Ritterskamp, D\u00fcsseldorf, Germany<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-11\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">2020<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">\"Last Nite\", Galerie Martin Kudlek, K\u00f6ln\/Cologne, Germany<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-12\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">2019<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">\"...and the whole damn place goes crazy twice\", Richard-Haizmann-Museum,<br \/>\nKunstverein Nieb\u00fcll (mit Paul Maciejowski) Kunstverein Nieb\u00fcll, Nieb\u00fcll, Germany<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-13\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">2018<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">\u201eIllusion\", C&amp;K Galerie, Berlin<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-14\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\"><\/td><td class=\"column-2\">\u201eIt's a kind of magic\", Galerie Martin Kudlek, K\u00f6ln\/Cologne, Germany<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-15\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\"><\/td><td class=\"column-2\">\u201eafter drowing\u201d, Julia Ritterskamp, D\u00fcsseldorf, Germany<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-16\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">2016<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">\u201ein bloom\u201d, C&amp;K Galerie, Berlin<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-17\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\"><\/td><td class=\"column-2\">\u201emy flowers bloom in a dark room\u201d, Galerie Martin Kudlek, K\u00f6ln\/Cologne, Germany<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-18\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">2014<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">\u201eit\u2019s all wrong\u201d, C&amp;K unterwegs Galerie, Berlin<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-19\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\"><\/td><td class=\"column-2\">\u201eit`s all right\u201c, Galerie Martin Kudlek, K\u00f6ln\/Cologne, Germany<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-20\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">2012<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">\u201eantistar\u201c, Galerie Kudlek van der Grinten, K\u00f6ln\/Cologne, Germany<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-21\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">2010<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">\u201enight on earth\u201c, Kunstbeitrag \u201eDas Plateau\u201c, Radius Verlag, Stuttgart, Germany<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-22\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">2009<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">\u201eall the world is green\u201c, Galerie Geuer und Breckner, D\u00fcsseldorf, Germany<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-23\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">2008<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">\u201eBoys don\u2019t cry\u201c, Galerie DUVE, Berlin<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-24\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">2007<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">\u201eBack in Black\u201c, acapulco, D\u00fcsseldorf, Germany<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-25\">\n\t<td colspan=\"2\" class=\"column-1\"><strong>Gruppenausstellungen (Auswahl)\/selected group exhbitions<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-26\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">2022<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">\u201eEnter Nature\", Galerie im K\u00f6rnerpark, Berlin<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-27\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\"><\/td><td class=\"column-2\">\u201eHigh Noon, colleagues zu Pferd\", ehemalige Klasse Immendorff der Kunstakademie D\u00fcsseldorf, D\u00fcsseldorf, Germany<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-28\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">2021<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">\u201eDIE 4 ELEMENTE Feuer \u2022 Wasser \u2022 Erde \u2022 Luft\u201c, Galerie L\u00f6hrl, M\u00f6nchengladbach, Germany<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-29\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">2020<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">\u201cR\u00fcckzug und Aufbruch - Neue Arbeiten aus der Quarant\u00e4ne\", C&amp;K Galerie, Berlin <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-30\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">2019<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">\u201cDie haben einen Vogel - Die Vogelm\u00e4nner von Istanbul\" 30 Jahre Galeristin, eine Jubil\u00e4umsausstellung von Christiane B\u00fchling-Schultz, C&amp;K Galerie, Berlin <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-31\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\"><\/td><td class=\"column-2\">\u201eOutdoors\u201d, C&amp;K Galerie, Berlin<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-32\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">2017<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">\u201eSchwarz Wei\u00df\u201d, Galerie L\u00f6hrl, M\u00f6nchengladbach, Germany<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-33\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">2015<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">\u201eMixed Pickles\u201d, C&amp;K unterwegs Galerie, Berlin<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-34\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\"><\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Jubil\u00e4umsausstellung der Galerie L\u00f6hrl, M\u00f6nchengladbach, Germany<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-35\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">2014<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">\u201eMythos Wald\u201d, Neue Galerie im Haus Beda, Bitburg, Germany<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-36\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">\u00a0<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">\u201eThe beautiful changes\u201c, RH Contemporary Art, New York<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-37\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">2013<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">\u201eStippvisite\u201c, C&amp;K unterwegs, Berlin<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-38\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">\u00a0<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">\u201eIda Gerhardi\u201d, Ausstellung in der St\u00e4dtischen Galerie L\u00fcdenscheid, L\u00fcdenscheid, Germany<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-39\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">\u00a0<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">\u201e67. Internationale Bergische Kunstausstellung\u201c, Kunstmuseum Solingen, Solingen (Publikumspreis), Germany<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-40\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">2012<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">\u201eDie Nacht die tausend Tagen Trotz kann sagen\u201c, C&amp;K unterwegs zu Gast in der Guardini Galerie, Berlin<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-41\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\"><\/td><td class=\"column-2\">\u201eSalonl\u00f6wen im Kleinformat\u201c, C&amp;K unterwegs zu Gast im Luftraum, Berlin<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-42\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\"><\/td><td class=\"column-2\">\u201eescapes\u201c, Kunstbeitrag \u201eDas Plateau\u201c, Radius Verlag, Stuttgart, Germany<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-43\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">2011<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">\u201esunbeam in the glasshouse\u201c, Kunstverein 701, D\u00fcsseldorf, Germany<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-44\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\"><\/td><td class=\"column-2\">\u201einter deum et diabolum semper musica est\u201c, Minken und Palme, Berlin<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-45\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\"><\/td><td class=\"column-2\">\u201eThere is no end, my friend\u201c, E105 studio, Bonn, Germany<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-46\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">2010<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">\u201ealles\/nichts\/oder\u201c, Galerie Koal, Berlin<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-47\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\"><\/td><td class=\"column-2\">\u201ehotmaschini kunstkanone\u201c, K\u00f6ln\/Cologne, Germany<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-48\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">2009<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">\u201eWerkschau 1\u201c, Kunstraum Sylt-Quelle, Sylt, Germany<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-49\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\"><\/td><td class=\"column-2\">\u201e4falt\u201c, Richard-Haizmann-Museum Nieb\u00fcll, Kunstverein Nieb\u00fcll, Nieb\u00fcll, Germany<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-50\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">2008<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">\u201eImpulse 21\u201c, Galerie L\u00f6hrl, M\u00f6nchengladbach, Germany<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-51\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\"><\/td><td class=\"column-2\">\u201eUnmodern Normalism\u201c, Goethe Institut Rotterdam, Niederlande\/The Netherlands<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-52\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\"><\/td><td class=\"column-2\">\u201eSpiegelbild\u201c, KIT, D\u00fcsseldorf, Germany<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-53\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\"><\/td><td class=\"column-2\">\u201eProject Flux\u201c, art museum of Sichuan University Chengdu\/China<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-54\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\"><\/td><td class=\"column-2\">\u201edipmaster 2\u201c, Wandergalerie Stephanie Bender, M\u00fcnchen\/Munich, Germany<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-55\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">2007<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">\u201eVon Pferden und Affen\u201c, Klasse\/class J\u00f6rg Immendorff, Museum Ludwig Koblenz, Koblenz, Germany<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-56\">\n\t<td colspan=\"2\" class=\"column-1\"><strong>Bibliografie\/Bibliography<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-57\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">2021<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">La macchina, hrsg.\/ed. Julia Ritterkamp, D\u00fcsseldorf<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-58\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">2019<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Die haben einen Vogel - Die Vogelm\u00e4nner von Istanbul 30 Jahre Galeristin, eine Jubil\u00e4umsausstellung von Christiane B\u00fchling-Schultz, hrsg.\/ed. Christiane B\u00fchling-Schultz <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-59\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">2016<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Kunstbeitrag Niels Sievers, \u201cMoonlight Drive\u201d. Zw\u00f6lf Arbeiten auf Vinyl, in: Das Plateau, Die Zeitschrift im Radius-Verlag, Nr. 157 (Oktober 2016), Stuttgart<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-60\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">2014<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">It\u2019s all right, Galerie Martin Kudlek, K\u00f6ln<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-61\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">2012<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">\u201cAntistar\u201d, Kudlek van der Grinten Galerie, K\u00f6ln<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-62\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\"><\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Kunstbeitrag Niels Sievers, \u201eEscpes\u201c. Elf Bilder, in: Das Plateau. 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