Berend Bode

* 1942

In Bode's paintings, there is no sense of a leisurely engagement with time; rather, it is experienced as a destructive force, acting like an aggressive animal, a beast.

The experience of time is not contemplative, suspended in a kind of timelessness; instead, all living beings are subjected to its inescapable flow.

Nothing is permanent or can be held onto.

The material world literally slips through our fingers.

Bode's works document this everyday experience, even though the artwork, as a solidified essence in color, is also removed from time.

Bode sees the pictorial production as being caught in this maelstrom: the image is torn away like a piece of fabric. The flow of time is symbolically captured in objects that dissolve, as already explored by Surrealism, particularly by Salvador Dali. A kind of blur painting captures the entire surface of many new images, placing the material world in a state of ambiguity – they begin to dissolve. It’s as if one were to throw a stone into a clear water surface, where the material world is reflected, causing the spreading waves to distort the appearance of all things.

Current Exhibitions

2016
KODEX GALERIE BREMEN
NAIMOON GALLERY WUHAN CHINA

2015
PREISTRÄGER AUSSTELLUNG
SYKER VORWERK,
ZENTRUM FÜR ZEITGENÖSSISCHE KUNST
KODEX GALERIE

2014
ROTTERDAM ART FAIR
KODEX GALERIE

2013
POOL ART FAIR NEW YORK
BROADWAY GALLERY
NEW YORK

2012
ART EXPO VENEDIG,
STUDIO ARTE CARAPOSTOL, VENICE
KREISMUSEUM, SYKE

2011
GALLERY EPIREO ARTE,
ROME
HISTORICAL MUSEUM
SANTA CROCE, ROME
BROADWAY GALLERY
INTENATIONAL ARTIST ABROAD
NEW YORK
ART SPACE GALLERY BEIJING
BEIJING-COLLECTION 2011
PRE-BIENNALE 2011
VENEDIG
STUDIO ARTE CARAPOSTOL
VENEDIG
ART TIME IN VENICE
STUDIO-ARTE CARAPOSTOL

2010 ICO-GALLERY
ICOSAHEDRON
NEW YORK, MANHATTAN
GALERIE ART-COOPERATION
HAMBURG
KODEX ART GALERIE
BREMEN

2009 GALERIE ART-COOPERATION
HAMBURG

2008 NEUSTADTHALLE

2007 KREISMUSEUM
SYKE

2006
FOCKEMUSEUM
BREMEN SENATORLINE

2005
NEUSTADT HALLE,
GALERIE KNUT OSPER,
KÖLN

2004
STÄDTISCHE GALERIE,
BREMEN

2003
PLANNAGE BREMEN,
VILLA ICHON
BREMEN

2002
GALERIE KÜHN,
BERLIN/ DAHLEM
KREISMUSEUM,SYKE
GALERIE KÜHN, Lilienthal

2000
KREISMUSEUM,SYKE

1999
RATHAUS STUHR

1997
VILLA ICHON,
BREMEN