Artist: Jan Albers
Works at: Seoul Art Space_GeumCheon
Stays in: 2012
Genre: Visual Arts
Profile:
Education
1992-98 Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
Exhibitions
2012
Kunsthalle Gießen, DE (S)(Cat.)
Renania Libre, Helga de Alvear, Madrid, E (G)
VAN HORN, Düsseldorf, DE (S)
Transfer Korea-NRW, Seoul, Korea (G)(Cat.)
Art Foundation Mallorca Collection - Special Edition, CCA Andratx, E (G)
parcOurs mOrtale, Langen Foundation, Neuss, DE (S)(Cat.)
Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, DE (G)(Cat.)
2011
Revolutionary Sympathies, Malkasten, Düsseldorf (group, cat.), edited by Katja Stuke
Gewaltig (II), Sammlung Dahlmann, Kunstraum Hafencity, Hamburg (G)
Arbeiten aus dem Bleistiftgebiet, kuratiert von Gregor Hildebrandt, VAN HORN, Düsseldorf, DE (G)
Entropia, Sammlung Philara, Düsseldorf, DE (G)
Rudolf Steiner und die Kunst der Gegenwart, DOX, Prague, (G)(Cat.)
Local Host, Ausstellungshalle für zeitgenössische Kunst, Münster, DE (G)(Cat.)
Drawing 2011, Biennial Fundraiser, The Drawing Room, London, UK (G)
Rudolf Steiner und die Kunst der Gegenwart, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, in Collaboration mit Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, DE (G)(Cat.)
2010
Neues Rheinland, die postironische Generation, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, DE (G)(Cat.)
Konstruktiv, Beck & Eggeling, Düsseldorf, DE (G)
International Contemporary Art Triennial PORTIZMIR2 Silence_Storm,
French Cultural Centre and K2-Contemporary Centre, Izmir, Turkey (G)(Cat.)
UN-Campus Bonn, Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und Reaktorsicherheit, Berlin (G)
Optical & Visionary Art since the 1960s, Memorial Gallery at the University of Rochester, USA (G)(Cat.)
Curie Cabinet, VAN HORN, Düsseldorf, DE (G)
?Katalog?, Schön Studio, Düsseldorf, DE (G)
Rudolf Steiner und die Kunst der Gegenwart, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, travels to Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, DE (G)(Cat.)
Retour de Paris, Von der Heydt-Museum, Sammlungspräsentation, Wuppertal, DE (G)
Von Joseph Beuys bis Bill Viola, Filme von Ralph Goertz & Werner Raeune,
Institut für Kunstdokumentation und Szenografie (IKS) im NRW Forum, Düsseldorf, DE (G)
Rotation #4, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, US (G)
Curie Cabinet, Kunstverein Schwerte, DE (G)(Cat.)
Gewaltig, Kunstraum Hafencity, Hamburg, DE (G)
?Katalog?, Künstlerhaus Sootbörn, Hamburg, DE (G)
Global Studio, The Bluecoat, Liverpool, UK (G)(Cat.)
Awards
1997 Reisestipendium/Travel Grant, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
2002 Stipendium/Grant der Stiftung Kunst und Kultur NRW
2003 Stipendium/Grant der Derik-Baegert-Gesellschaft, Schloß Ringenberg
2005 Stipendium/Grant der Stiftung Kunst und Kultur NRW
2006 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award
2007 Kaiserringstipendiat / Kaiserring Award, Museum Mönchehaus, Goslar
Works:
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JAN ALBERS
Ever since Jan Albers—taken quite literally—appeared upon the pictorial surface, he has struck a self-confident note which clearly indicates that he does not intend to content himself with being carried along by the powerful current of what has already been thought and done. And he achieves this intention in the medium of painting and the picture, upon a terrain which, because of the battles that have raged upon it over the centuries, bristles with an exceptional number of mines. But Jan Albers seems to view this situation, not as an obstacle, but in fact as a stimulation. His works strive for an encounter with what is already present in order to create through friction that heat which allows him to free himself from the oppressive burden of the grand art-historical tradition without at the same time ignoring it. The friction is, as it were, the fuel for the self-ignition which propels the oeuvre of this artist.
-Dr. Stephan Berg (Kunstmuseum Bonn)
