Berend Bode
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
GALERIE BOLLHAGEN,
WORPSWEDE