Artists
Alexander Wolff Born in 1976 in Osterburg, Germany | Lives and works in Berlin
Alexander Wolff examines the manifestations, possibilities, and limits of painting. In doing so, his works range from formats like panel paintings, wall murals, pictures that explore their relationship to the space around them and how they influence it, and pictures that incorporate the surrounding space into one large-scale composition.
Many of his works appear from a distance as geometric structures, assembled from homogenous fields of color that are in part frayed at the edges. Through the use of a variety of materials, techniques, and perspectives, however, he develops exciting spatial relationships within the geometric patterns. He mixes paint with dirt, dust, and fabrics of various colors, as well as light and shadow, into abstract compositions. Parts develop an illusion of depth; other parts appear to project out into the room. The pictures fold themselves into and out of the wall. In such site-specific wall pieces, Wolff analyses the surrounding room in order to take up and recompose elements like surface textures and colors, shadows, structural shapes, and spatial compositions.
Solo exhibitions (selection)
2012 | Galerie Mezzanin, Wien |
2011 | Studio Sandra Recio, Genf |
2010 |
Anne Mosseri-Marlio Galerie, Zürich Federico Bianchi Contemporary Art, Mailand |
2009 | Galerie Ben Kaufmann, Berlin |
2008 | Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster |
2006 | Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles |
2004 | Galerie Johann Widauer, Innsbruck |
Group exhibitions (Auswahl)
2011 |
Flaca/Tom Humphreys, Portikus, Frankfurt Mind The Gap, Kai 10, Düsseldorf |
2009 | Ein Traum ist alles Leben..., Kunsthalle Lingen |
2008 | Zuordnungsprobleme, Galerie Johann König, Berlin |
2007 | The Four Colour Contingency, The Approach, London |
2006 | Société des nations, factice, et scindée en elle-même, circuit, Lausanne |
2005 | Liquid Crystal, Kunstraum Lothringer Str. 13, München |
2004 | Universal Outstretch, Flaca, London |
2003 | Kontext, Form, Troja, Secession, Wien |