Zeichnung der Gegenwart

Frank Badur, Hans Baschang, Joachim Böttcher, Jens Elgner, Horst Hussel, Jürgen Köhler, Rolf Lindemann, Pia Linz, Nanne Meyer, Malte Spohr, Sam Szembek

Exhibition opening at Galerie Parterre, Tuesday, July 15, 2014, at 8 PM

Speakers at the opening: Kathleen Krenzlin, curator of the exhibition, director of Galerie Parterre, and Dr. Michael Lailach, Art Library of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation

The exhibition "Drawing of the Present" brings together distinctive positions in contemporary drawing in a lively and correspondingly unexpected and unconventional manner. What unites all the positions is their focus on the free and consensual engagement with the means, possibilities, and limitations of the medium, showcasing works on paper. Curator Kathleen Krenzlin has purposefully united high-caliber artists—most of whom live and work in Berlin—with very different attitudes and perspectives. The exhibition features artists who exclusively draw alongside those for whom drawing constitutes a significant part of their overall work. It seeks to explore the individual origins of specific drawings and to include the direct lineage from figure, landscape, or other visible drawing prompts, as well as a conceptual framework that expresses itself through line, which does not primarily pursue mimetic intentions.

An accompanying publication, the IV. Working Notebook of Galerie Parterre Berlin, will feature introductory texts by Kathleen Krenzlin and Michael Lailach, contributions on Sam Szembek, Hans Baschang, and Rolf Lindemann by Inga Kondeyne, Lothar Romain, and Jens Semrau, current artist interviews with all other participants, biographies, and literature references.

The exhibition will be complemented by a program of events featuring Andreas Schalhorn, Annelie Lütgens, Eugen Blume, Manfred Zoller, Bettina Munk, Friedrich Dieckmann, Horst Hussel, among others.

For more information, visit: Galerie Parterre Berlin

This exhibition will also include our highly sought-after art education program in collaboration with Jugend im Museum e.V.

Short biographies:

Frank Badur (*1944 Oranienburg near Berlin)
1963-1969 studied painting at the State Academy of Fine Arts, Berlin
1973 established a permanent studio in Finland
1982 fellow of the Hand-Hollow Foundation of George Rickey, East Chatham, NY, working stay in the USA, DAAD scholarship
1984 TetraPak Art Prize, work scholarship from Kunstfonds Bonn
1985 appointed professor at the University of the Arts, Berlin
1993 member of the Academy of Arts, Berlin
2003 visiting professor at the China Academy of Art, Hangzhou
2007 visiting artist at Georgia State University, Atlanta
lives and works in Berlin and Finland

Hans Baschang (*1937 in Karlsruhe)
1957-1961 studied painting at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe under Herbert Kitzel and Fritz Klemm
1962 scholarship at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris
1966 Villa Romana Prize, Florence
1970 fellow at Villa Massimo in Rome
1971 teaching assignment, 1974 lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences for Design Pforzheim
1972-1973 visiting lecturer at the State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe
1975-2002 professorship at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich
since 1997 member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts in Munich
2002 Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class
lives and works in Munich and Neuburg an der Donau

Joachim Böttcher (*1946 Oberdorla/Thuringia)
1969-1972 studied painting and graphics at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden
1980–1983 master student at the Academy of Arts of the GDR under Werner Stötzer
2000 teaching assignment for sculpture at the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee
2003 fellow of the Kunstverein Röderhof e.V. in the Harz
2007 fellow of the Künstlerhaus Lukas, Ahrenshoop
2010 Brandenburg Art Prize of the MOZ for sculpture
lives and works in Stabeshöhe/Uckermark and Berlin

Jens Elgner (*1958 Blankenburg/Harz)
1979/80 studied architecture at the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee
1980-1984 studied painting there
1987 prize of the International Triennale of Painting and Graphics Hanoi
1991 working scholarship from the Kulturfonds Foundation
1992 promotion prize from the mayor of the state capital Magdeburg
1992/1994 working scholarship from the state of Saxony-Anhalt
1995 working scholarship in Ekely (Norway)
since 1996 in the artist promotion program of Deutsche Kreditbank AG
2000 1st Anhalt Art Prize from Stadtwerke Haldensleben
2001 working scholarship at the Künstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf of the Kulturfonds Foundation
lives and works in Blankenburg/Harz

Horst Hussel (*1934 Greifswald)
1953/54 studied at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden
1954-1958 studied painting at the Hochschule für bildende und angewandte Kunst in Berlin-Weißensee, expelled during his diploma work for political reasons
1958 began a graphic study at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Berlin-Charlottenburg; interrupted due to the construction of the Wall in 1959
1959 3rd prize from the Federal Association of German Industry
since 1961 worked as a graphic designer, draftsman, book illustrator, writer, and publisher
1987 president of the Kurt Schwitters Society of the GDR
1990 retroactive awarding of the diploma by the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee
since 1990 member of the PEN Center Germany
1993 Jule Hammer Prize
1994 founded Dronte-Presse
lives and works in Berlin

Jürgen Köhler (*1954 in Halle/Saale)
1972-1976 studied civil engineering in Dresden
1976-1979 worked as a civil engineer and exhibition technician
1979-1984 studied painting at the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee
1986-1989 master student at the Academy of Arts of the GDR
1996 scholarship from the Kulturfonds Foundation
1997 scholarship from the Kunstfonds Bonn
2004 Egmont Schaefer Prize for drawing
lives and works in Berlin

Rolf Lindemann (*1933 Magdeburg)
1951-1961 studied painting at the Hochschule für bildende und angewandte Kunst Berlin-Weißensee
1980-1989 visiting lecturer at the vocational school for advertising and design in Berlin
1983 prizewinner of the exhibition 100 selected graphics
2000 Hellen Abbott Promotion Prize
lives and works in Berlin

Pia Linz (*1964 Kronberg/Taunus)
1983-1989 studied painting at the Städelschule in Frankfurt, master student of Christa Näher
1989/1990 Rome scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation
1999 working scholarship from the state of Rhineland-Palatinate at the Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral, Bad Ems
2000/2001 working scholarship from the Hessian Cultural GmbH
2003 working scholarship at Herrenhaus Edenkoben
2005/2006 London scholarship from the Hessian Cultural Foundation
2007 working scholarship from the Cultural Administration of the Berlin Senate
2010/2011 New York scholarship from the Berlin Senate Chancellery - Cultural Affairs
2013 working scholarship from the Berlin Senate Chancellery - Cultural Affairs
lives and works in Berlin

Nanne Meyer (*1953 Hamburg)
1974-1981 studied at the Hochschule für bildende Künste, Hamburg
1982/83 DAAD scholarship in London
1986/87 Villa Massimo Prize, Rome
1989 drawing scholarship, Nuremberg
since 1994 professor at the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee
1996 working scholarship from the Djerassi Artist Foundation in Woodside (California)
2003 support from Kunstfonds Bonn for the publication Luftblicke
2013 Women Artists Prize NRW for drawing (main prize)
lives and works in Berlin

Malte Spohr (*1958 Hamburg)
1984–1990 studied at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig, master student of Heinz-Günter Prager
1988-1990 scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation
1989-1990 study stay in Barcelona, Universidad de Bellas Artes
1991 scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation for stays in Crete, Malta, and Sicily
1992 first prize in the trophy competition at the Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten, Marl
1997 working scholarship from the Kulturfonds Foundation
2000 fellow of the Künstlerhaus Lukas, Ahrenshoop
2001 project funding from the Senate Administration for Science, Research, and Culture, Berlin
2004 scholarship from the Kunstfonds Bonn
lives and works in Berlin

Sam Szembek (*1953 Memmingen/Iller)
1974-1976 studied art history and philosophy at the University of Stuttgart
1975-1981 studied painting at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart
1979 and 1981 Oberschwäbischer Art Prize
1981-1986 teaching assignment at the University of Education Ludwigsburg
1986/87 city draughtsman of Nuremberg
1986 scholarship from the Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg
1994 Paris, scholarship from Cité Internationale des Arts
2001 scholarship from the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, Nebraska
2007 scholarship from the Bartels Fondation, Basel
lives and works in Kirchheim/Teck and Ebersbach/Fils