Venue: Zacheta Gallery, Pl. Małachowskiego 3, View Map
Date: until May 15th
Tickets: 15PLN normal, 10PLN discounted, Thursdays free admission
The Neo Rauch exhibition in the Zachęta National Gallery of Art is the first full overview of the paintings of the artist who is an outstanding phenomenon of the German and European scene. This show will also be one of the relatively few presentations of German art in Poland over recent years.
To mark the occasion of Neo Rauch’s 50th birthday, two simultaneous exhibitions dedicated to his work were held from April in the Museum der Bildende Künste Lepizig and also in the Pinakothek der Moderne in Münich. With reference to these, a retrospective of the painter’s work will be held in Zachęta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw. The exceptional quality of Neo Rauch’s painting has not been presented in Poland from such a wide perspective as will be the case in Zachęta. up until now The exhibition encompasses several dozen works made from 1993 to today.
Rauch’s paintings, principally maintained within a bright colour-scheme, present most often figurative scenes playing themselves out on several superimposed surfaces. In his paintings an influence is visiable of two traditions in German painting: expressionism and symbolism. Neo Rauch’s exceptional position on the art scene is created by the fact that, by drawing on the specificity of German realism, he always succeeds in discovering in European mythology the image of a person and developing it in many diverse ways. He succeeds in connecting concrete contemporary issues with those of fundamental human conditions.
The exhibition under the patronage of Prof. Władysław Bartoszewski, the Minister for International Dialogue of the Polish Prime Minister’s Office and the German Ambassador in Poland, Mr. Rüdigera Freiherr v. Fritscha.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a richly illustrated Polish-English catalogue with essays by the curator and Mathias Flügge – well-known German art-critic specialized in the Middle-Eastern European art.
NEO RAUCH. BIOGRAPHY
1960 born in Leipzig
1981–1986 studies painting at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig with Professor Rink
1986–1990 master student (Meisterschüler)
1993–1998 Assistant at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig
2005–2009 Professorship Painting/Graphics at Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig
since 2009 Honorary Professor at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig
Lives and works in Leipzig.
Awards:
2010 Award by Foundation Bibel und Kultur, Germany
2005 Art Award Finkenwerder, Germany
2002 Vincent van Gogh Bi-annual Award for Contemporary Art in Europe, Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht, The Netherlands
1997 Art Award by Leipziger Volkszeitung, Germany
Solo-Exhibitions (selection):
2011 Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, Germany
Begleiter, Nationalgalerie Zacheta, Warsaw, Poland
2010 Palais Beauharnais, Deutsche Botschaft Paris, France
Begleiter, Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig; Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
2009 Schilfland, Galerie EIGEN + ART, Berlin, Germany
2007 para, Max Ernst Museum, Brühl, Germany
para, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Neo Rauch. Neue Rollen. Rudolphinum, Prague, Czech Republic
2006 Neo Rauch. Neue Rollen. Bilder 1993 bis heute, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
Der Zeitraum, Galerie EIGEN + ART, Leipzig, Germany
2005 CAC, Malaga, Spain
Sammlung der Leipziger Volkszeitung, Honolulu Academy of Arts
2004 Neo Rauch, Albertina Wien, Vienna, Austria
2003 Currents, The Saint Louis Art Museum, USA
2002 Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, The Netherlands
2001 Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany
2000 Randgebiet, GfzK, Leipzig/ Haus der Kunst, München/ Kunsthalle Zurich, Switzerland
1997 Art Award, Leipziger Volkszeitung, Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig, Germany
1993 Galerie EIGEN + ART, Leipzig, Germany
Group-Exhibitions (selection):
2010 Das versprochene Land, Albertinum Dresden, Germany
German Contemporary Painting, MASP - Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Die Bilder tun was mit mir..., Einblicke in die Sammlung Frieder Burda, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, Germany
Galerie EIGEN + ART, Leipzig, Germany
Luc Tuymans: Blick auf Zentraleuropa, Brugge Centraal, Bruges, Belgium
2009 Bilderträume. Die Sammlung Ulla und Heiner Pietzsch, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany
Realismus in Leipzig, Drents Museum, Assen, Netherlands
60 Jahre 60 Werke. Kunst aus der Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1949–2009, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany
2008 Life After Death: New Paintings from the Rubell Family Collection, MASS MoCA, North Adams; SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico; Katzen Arts Center Museum, Washington D.C.; Frye Art Museum, Seattle; Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, Utah; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, USA (until 2008)
Living Landscapes. A Journey through German Art, National Art Museum of China, Peking, China
2007 Visit(e). Werke aus der Sammlung zeitgenössischer Kunst der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Palast der Schönen Künste, ING-Kulturzentrum am Kunstberg, Brussels, Belgium
The Present – Acquisition Monique Zajfen, Stedeliijk Museum Amsterdam, Netherlands
2006 Made in Leipzig. Bilder aus einer Stadt, Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg, Austria
Tokyo Blossoms. Deutsche Bank Collection Meets Zaha Hadid, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
After Cézanne, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
2005 Generation X. Junge Kunst aus der Sammlung, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
Contemporary Voices: Works from the UBS Art Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Gegenwärtig: Geschichtenerzähler, Kunsthalle Hamburg, Germany
2004 Not Afraid, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, USA
Aus deutscher Sicht, Meisterwerke aus der Sammlung Deutsche Bank, Staatliches Puschkin-Museum für bildende Künste, Moscow, Russia
Territorio Livre, 26th Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil
2003 Die Erfindung der Vergangenheit, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
OUTLOOK, International Art Exhibition Athens, Greece
2002 Cher Peintre, peins-moi/ Lieber Maler, male mir/ Dear Painter, Paint Me, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
Eight Propositions in Contemporary Drawing, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
2001 Plateau of Mankind. La Biennale di Venezia, Italy
Squatters, Museu Serralves, Porto, Portugal / Witte de With, Rotterdam, Netherlands
