Exhibition opening Friday, May 9, 2025, 7 p.m. Exhibition runs until June 21, 2025. In their first joint exhibition, Düsseldorf-based sculptor and draftsman Ulrike Kötz and Mannheim-based photo artist Peter Schlör enter into dialogue at the Galerie Obrist. From May 9 to June 21, 2025, the theme is the house, the apartment, and the sense …
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Preview February 4, 2024, 3-6 p.m. Exhibition duration: February 4th – March 16th, 2024 The Düsseldorf artist Dieter Nuhr is showing his fifth solo exhibition at Galerie Obrist. While the photographic aspects of his artistic work were previously the focus, new elements are now being added: Nuhr works with digital brushes, combining them with photographic …
With works by WIEBKE BARTSCH – MARCELA BÖHM – (E.) TWIN GABRIELSIMONE HAACK – ANNEGRET SOLTAU Even today, women artists who become mothers have to grapple with the question of how motherhood is presented to the outside world. Because it almost seems to be a flaw: making art and being a mother is unthinkable for …
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Our exhibition is a tribute to the great French artist Christian Boltanski, who passed away last July. We show selected editions in which various aspects of his work come to light. The art of Christian Boltanski, who was born in Paris in 1944, is shaped by memories of the Holocaust and the reconstruction of his …
Announcement: ILKA HELMIG – Phase Space. Opening Friday, March 25, 2022, 7 p.m. Duration of the exhibition: March 26 – April 30, 2022
THOMAS ZIKA – Sovereign Fruits Opening Friday, 11 February, 2022, 7 p.m. Duration: 12 February – 19 March, 2022
Dieter Nuhr Neue Fotografien Until 7 March, 2020
Obrist Gallery is happy to announce the fourth solo exhibition by Dieter Nuhr. Most of the shown pictures were taken in 2019 and are now presented fo the first time. Since the recent exhibition two years ago Nuhr went on long-distance journeys for several times, and made his subtle discoveries in Georgia and Iran among …
Peter Schlör. Transforming Landscape. Opening Reception Friday, 6 September, 2019, 7 p.m. Exhibition 7 September – 5 Oktober, 2019 Catalogue available.
Pictures of our current exhibition. CV Dieter Nuhr Dieter Nuhr. Photographs. 17 February – 7 April, 2018
Obrist Gallery is happy to announce the third solo exhibition by Dieter Nuhr. Since the recent exhibition two years ago Nuhr went on long-distance journeys for several times, and made his subtle discoveries in Moldavia, Georgia and Mexico among others, like the East German province. In big sized photographs Nuhr opens windows to a graceful …
On March 17 we opened the exhibition “Light Fall” by Peter Schlör. Here are some images of the evening.
Photographs in our current exhibition with Peter Schlör. Peter Schlör. Light Fall. March 18 – May 6, 2017. CV Peter Schlör
“I am fascinated by images which are inexplicably deep and incomprehensible – also for me – and which throw the audience off balance. In reality, the view of things is more important than the actual things. When I’m working with the camera, it’s always the echo of inner images which guides my view of a …
Gallery Obrist is happy to show new photoworks by Shinichi Tsuchiya from recent years. The Japanese photo artist – who has been called to be a Master Student of Thomas Ruff in 2006 and who has received the Akademiebrief of the Düsseldorfer Kunstakademie in 2008 – has been living in Japan again since 2011: In …
Gallery Obrist is happy to announce the second solo exhibition by Dieter Nuhr, called “Foreign Terrain“. While the artist is known to many as a comedian and, with that, for his use of words, the medium of photography allows for a different form of expression. He studied fine arts at the former Folkwang School in …
One year after our first exhibition with Dieter Nuhr we now show the announced second part of “Foreign Terrain”. While in 2015 urban motives were the focus of the exhibition, we now present landscapes. Dieter Nuhr Foreign Terrain II 27 February – 23 April, 2016 Opening Reception 26 February, 2016, 6.30 p.m.
One year after our first exhibition with Dieter Nuhr we will soon show the announced second part of “Foreign Terrain”. While in 2015 urban motives were the focus of the exhibition, we will now present landscapes. Dieter Nuhr Foreign Terrain II 27 February – 23 April, 2016 Opneing Reception 26 February, 2016, 6.30 p.m.
At the same time to his upcoming exhibition at Museum Folkwang Obrist Gallery shows works by German photographer Detlef Orlopp (*1937). Orlopp was a student of Otto Steinert in Saarbruecken, and he moved with Steinert to Folkwangschule Essen in 1959. Nevertheless he is only partly a supporter of Steinert’s “Subjektive Fotografie”, because of its formative …
“Each form has its own means of expression. With language I can be ironic, but through the pictorial language the world seems more serious to me.”, says well-known humorist Dieter Nuhr about the two great creative poles in his life. Beyond the stage world he devotes his time to photography. His work does not represent …