Dependance

Lucie Stahl

Esperanza — 2012-04-25T08:19:12Z

3 June - 25 June, 2012 - dépendance

Thilo Heinzmann

Esperanza — 2012-04-25T08:16:53Z

In 'Porcelain Paintings', Thilo Heinzmann's second solo exhibition at dépendance, the Berlin artist exhibits work that pushes the painter's pursuit of form-giving, extending it also into the zone in front of the canvas. Figures stand on the plane of the image, their intricately bent and swerving surfaces becoming the site where a palette of whites, from cold to warm, opens in twists, peaks and folds of these porcelain (...) - 2012

Leen Voet

Esperanza — 2012-04-12T15:08:12Z

04.04. - 12.04.2012

Between 2009 and 2010 Leen Voet realized 774 drawings based on the oeuvre of the painter Felix De Boeck (1898-1995). The complete series, originally drawn with pencil on A4 paper, is reproduced in the book called Felix.

Richard Aldrich

Esperanza — 2012-02-25T13:46:09Z

24.02 - 31.03.2012

press release

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Tavis Allison

Olivier Foulon

Esperanza — 2012-01-24T13:31:26Z

07.01. - 14.02.2012

Michaela Eichwald

Esperanza — 2011-11-03T11:42:13Z

Press Text

A landscape emerges after several months in your bed sheets. Parts grow with intentional and unintentional creativity, even - they want pure surrender, a reality TV show of ‘emotions' but you know there is no difference between one and the other, making the hierarchies repetitive, dysfunctional, futile.

Is there such a thing as absolute error? Is there a way out of regret? Once you refuse to do something, is there a way of turning back – to say, I was the one that didn't do this or that?

Parallel to actually doing what is necessary to make something out of the situation, one can relapse into a disjointed frame of mind in order to fill the deficit. Parallel to behaving antagonistically to a fundamentally platitudinous canvas wherein the inevitability of certain sociological superstructures form the most part of its identity e.g. in art history where artists such as Cy Twombly got a hand in first editions, one can instead ‘progress' in accomplishing what is considered a deeper more socially desirable ‘open mind'. Between these poles something happens; the further away these poles drift, the greater the offence.

There are some crummy artists who appear to be walking history. They say “this is me, I am walking history” and for the most part, all the others believe them except a few. Others, without being fully aware of themselves, overload absurdity, garbage paint, crayons, indecipherable texts, over-workings to create an appetite for a far graver question ‘why did you?' rather than a light-hearted and harmless ‘how could you?' A bit like Jean Pierre Brisset, people laughed at him, misinterpreting the temper entirely. They needed a buffering distance-cushion of belittlement to make them feel better.

Taslima Ahmed

Gnam

Esperanza — 2011-10-29T23:22:23Z

Solo Exhibitions

2012

Plankton, dépendance, Brussels

2011

Against Autonomy, Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart

White Leather, Dold Projects, St. Georgen Pressure and Perverse Flights to Familiarity, La Chaussette, Brussels

2010

Brussels Biennial, Sotoso, Brussels

2009

Monsieur la priètre figure: Finalement, je m'en fous (with Michael Callies), Etablissement d'en face, Brussels

2007

parsVival (with Benjamin Saurer), Schnittraum // Lutz Becker, Cologne Zebraparty – Apartheid, ECAM – le jardin, Gattières, France

2006

parsVival (with Benjamin Saurer), Kunsthalle Darmstadt

2005

Formalism Pur, Weser 5, Frankfurt/Main

Group Exhibitions

2012

Whitney Biennial (with The Red Krayola), New York Museum Biedermann, Donaueschingen

2011

Grand Opening, Mathew, Berlin Shop Window (with Taslima Ahmed and David Lieske), Galerie LaFayette, Berlin Andrei Koschmieder Puts, Real Fine Arts, New York Celluloid Brushes, Etablissement d'en Face, Brussels

2010

Novel (with Camp David), dépendance, Brussels Room Divider (with Camp David), Wilkinson Gallery, London,

2009

Bulletin Blvd., Pro Choice, Vienna Isomopolis, Etablissement d'en Face, Brussels

2008

Camp David, White Hotel, Brussels Ende 2008, Städel Museum Frankfurt/Main Boxer, Literaturhaus Frankfurt/Main Jana Euler und Andrei Koschmieder pendeln aus, Phil.-Theol. Hochschule St.Georgen, Frankfurt/Main

Publications

2012

Mark von Schlegell: “Dreaming The Mainstream” (with Sergej Jensen), Merve Verlag Ich wär gern eine Blume, aber ich kann leider nicht aufgehen”, Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg

2009

Après Crépuscule, Koelnischer Kunstverein, Afterall Magazine Trinity Animation, Phil.-Theol. Hochschule St.Georgen, Frankfurt/Main

2008

Michael Krebber: „Pubertät in der Lehre“, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König Martin Hoener: „Umformung von Realität“, Textem Verlag

2007

Kaffeerösterreich, mit Volker Strähle, proustwards Verlag

Other Projects

2006

Founder of Proustwards publishing

2006/07

Joint owner of Galerie Danziger Bellefleur, Frankfurt/Main

Sergej Jensen

Esperanza — 2011-09-15T07:39:55Z

10.09. - 15.10.2011

Saurer

Esperanza — 2011-07-27T11:23:43Z

Born 1977 in Offenbach, Germany

Lives and works in Berlin, Germany

Education

2003 – 2008 Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main

1999 – 2003 Geschichtsstudium in Freiburg

1997 – 2003 Kirchenmusikstudium mit Hauptfach Orgel in Rottenburg, Freiburg und Madrid

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2012

Fürstenberg foundation for contemporary art, curated by Moritz Wesseler

2011

abc Berlin, dépendance, Brussels, curated by Rita Kersting

doldprojects, Sankt Georgen

2010

Solo project, Art | Basel, Art Statements, Basel, Switzerland

Benjamin Saurer: 2001, Stanley Kuhblicks Odyssee im Weltraum, dépendance, Brussels

2009

Benjamin Saurer, Pilar Corrias Gallery, London

When the mood strikes... Wilfried & Yannicke Cooreman, Museum MDD, Deurle, Belgium

2008

Kornhäuschen Aschaffenburg

2007

parsvival, schnittraum Köln

2006

Kunstverein Rüsselsheim

Selected Group Exhibitions

2011

all cannibals, me collector´s room, Berlin, curated by Jeannette Zwingenberger

Public Private Paintings. 2000-2010: 10 jaar schilderkunst uit publieke en privécollecties in Vlaanderen en Brussel - Kunstmuseum Aan Zee, Oostende

2010

When the mood strikes... Wilfried & Yannicke Cooreman, Museum MDD, Deurle, Belgium

About Us - Johann König, Berlin

2009

BACK TO THE FUTURE - - COMA Centre for Opinions in Music and Art, Berlin (closed)

What is not but could be if (Part 2) - Neue Alte Brücke, Frankfurt/Main

2008

Turin Triennale T2 (g), Turin

Uferhallen, Berlin

Die Sammlung Rausch, kunstwerke Berlin

2007

Zebraparty” ECAM - le jardin, Gattières

Deutsche Botschaft London

2006

phonien Kunsthalle Darmstadt, Darmstädter Ferienkurse für neue Musik

Thomas Bayrle

Esperanza — 2011-06-22T11:06:44Z

10.06. - 15.07.2011