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Monday, October 12th, 2009During the international art fair Art Forum Berlin, Hamburg-based gallery White Trash Contemporary used a temporary showroom at Strausberger Platz 19, to present part of the gallery’s program in Berlin. White Trash Contemporary is run by Nils Grossien. In this video he provides us with a short introduction to his program. In Berlin he showed [...]
Erwin Wurm: Retrospective / Deichtorhallen Hamburg / part 2/2
Tuesday, July 31st, 2007With more than 400 drawings, videos, photographs, and sculptures, the Erwin Wurm retrospective at the Deichtorhallen Hamburg / Germany shows the most expansive show of the artist’s work to date. “Particularly for the Deichtorhallen Erwin Wurm created a spectacular new work, which resumes to the Viennese work of 2006 “House Attack”: The world 9 x [...]
Erwin Wurm: Retrospective / Deichtorhallen Hamburg / part 1/2
Monday, July 30th, 2007Erwin Wurm (born in 1954 in Bruck an der Mur, Austria) is one of the most successful contemporary Austrian artists. The retrospective show at Deichtorhallen Hamburg presents for the first time, and on such a large scale, Erwin Wurm’s comprehensive oeuvre, which includes all forms of media and systems of reference. Deichtorhallen Director Dr. [...]
Nik Nowak: Double Back / White Trash Contemporary
Wednesday, June 20th, 2007“Nik Nowak rocks: This young German artist with a MD in Fine Arts from Berlin University UdK, who studied with Prof. Lothar Baumgarten, creates dialogues between painting and music, drawing and object. His sculptures are high tech hermaphrodites: toy tanks posing as mobile boom boxes and sound machines on motorcycle wheels are producing robust beats, [...]
Playtime at White Trash Contemporary
Thursday, April 5th, 2007Ten artists and artist groups present playful installations and drawings, miraculous dadaistic boxes and satirical light-sculptures at White Trash Contemporary, Hamburg / Germany. Participating: New York artist Jeff Lutonsky, artist group MFSW from Berlin, Lilli Kuschel and Anna Fiedler (Berlin), Peter Lynen (Hamburg), Prinz (Berlin), Oliver Ross (Hamburg), Ben Hübsch (Freiburg), Tim Kubach (Hamburg) and [...]
Oliver Ross / White Trash Contemporary / Interview
Friday, October 6th, 2006Interview with Oliver Ross about his work at the booth of White Trash Contemporary, Hamburg. Oliver Ross, born 1967 in Munich, has a Masters degree from the University of Fine Art in Hamburg. He studied with Prof. Bernhard J. Blume and has had several solo shows, i.e. at the Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum in Duisburg. Preview [...]
Oliver Ross at White Trash Contemporary
Friday, May 19th, 2006White Trash Contemporary (WTC) Hamburg presents Oliver Ross, “Emergentia Multiplex”: paintings and installation. For his first solo show at WTC artist Oliver Ross (born 1967 in Munich) transforms the gallery space into an elaborate labyrinth of “deco-rational paravants”. Esthetically Ross’s work oscillates between the humorous collage art of Dada artists and the manic production power [...]
Jonathan Meese / Mama Johnny / Deichtorhallen Hamburg / part 3
Thursday, May 4th, 2006“Whereas Meese is well-known for his extraordinary performances, the fusion of “grand” theatre and exhibition is new terrain for the exceptional multimedia artist. In invariably overextravagant scenery settings made out of pictures, texts, emblems, signs and symbols, objects, and word-creations that deal with every imaginable person of power, myth and historical greatness of mind, stars [...]
Jonathan Meese / Mama Johnny / Deichtorhallen Hamburg / part 2
Thursday, May 4th, 2006Jonathan Meese (born 1971 in Tokyo) grew up near Hamburg where he studied at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste. He lives and works in Berlin and Hamburg. With “Mama Johnny” he is now presenting his first extensive exhibition in his home town. At the center of the exhibition is an 8 meter high, 20 meter [...]
Jonathan Meese / Mama Johnny / Deichtorhallen Hamburg / part 1
Thursday, May 4th, 2006Jonathan Meese belongs to the German elite of younger artists who currently find international recognition. The current show at the Deichtorhallen in Hamburg is the first comprehensive display of Jonathan Meese’s work in Germany. On around 2500 sqm the exhibition “Mama Johnny” comprises a total of 150 paintings, sculptures, photographic works and installations. On April [...]
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