Armin Boehm

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Armin Boehm (* 1972 in Aachen) is a german Maler. He lives and works in Berlin.

Life[edit]

Boehm initially attended the Kunstakademie Münster from 1995 and one year later transferred to the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where he was a student of Konrad Klapheck and a master student of Jörg Immendorff until 2001. In the meantime, Boehm received a scholarship for gifted artists from the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German National Academic Foundation) from 1998 and was able to take up residence at the Cité Internationale des Arts Paris for further training in 2001 with a scholarship from the State Art Academy Düsseldorf. Since then he has been represented at renowned galleries throughout Germany and abroad with solo and group exhibitions.

Work[edit]

Since 2007, Boehm has become known for a series of grim pictures of big city riots (Riots). The first of these images, Genua Riot, can be seen at the [Städel Museum]] in Frankfurt am Main.^[1] It was later followed by Tehran Riot (Ray 2010), Istanbul Riot (GEZI 2014), Riot Whattana (2014) and Bangkok Riot (DUSIT 2016), among others.^[2]

Since 2011, the paintings have become more colourful. The repertoire of figures in his more recent works pushes into restless feverish pictorial spaces prismatically composed of opaque layers of paint, pieces of paper and fabric, with highly subjective and cultural-historical references. Moments of night-walking, bohemian lifestyle with electrifying bar and club atmospheres determine his pictorial content just as much as body cult and esotericism, which he contrasts with fragile floral still lifes symbolising sexuality. The scenes, hypnotically charged with set pieces from the world of pop and fashion, are characterised by deep emotionality and a contemporary attitude to life. At the centre is the question of the current definition and location of contemporary man in the social context.

Boehm symbolises contemporary individualism not only with his formal language, but also by integrating historically relevant or subjectively fleeting references. References to fixed genre arts serve Boehm's investigations to build up relational networks of ciphers and symbols that serve him to integrate mechanisms of reception, from thematic complexes such as textile fashion, leisure pleasures or gender coding, into his cultural analysis, for which he also uses personal introspections, sentiment and motifs from past styles and epochs.

Single exhibitions (selection)[edit]

2016: 1, 2, 3 Soleil, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, LA^[3]
2015: Le style c’est les corps, Meyer Riegger, Berlin
2014: Inutile Eternité, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zürich
2013: Raumneurose, Harris Lieberman Gallery, New York
2012: WALD HOCHWALD HOLZFÄLLEN, Gallery Weekend, Meyer Riegger, Berlin
2011: Gehirne, mit Thomas Helbig, Kunstverein Heppenheim
2010: Chiffon Rouge, Francesca Minini, Mailand
2009: Die Leere und das gezeichnete Ich, Meyer Riegger, Berlin
2009: Der Böse Blick / The Evil Eye, Kunstverein Braunschweig
2009: Waldgänger, Meyer Riegger, Karlsruhe 2008
2007: Francesca Minini, Mailand
2006: Dark Dreams, Johnen Galerie, Berlin
2005: I remember nothing, Meyer Riegger, Karlsruhe
2004: Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, München (mit Martin Boyce)
2001: Paintball, Meyer Riegger Galerie, Karlsruhe

Group exhibition (selectionl)[edit]

2016: Der Zeit Angemessen Begegnen, Gruppenausstellung mit Lutz Braun and Thomas Grötz, Oldenburger Kunstverein, Oldenburg
2015: porn,porn,porn, Eigen + Art Lab, Berlin
2014: DuckRabbit, Anat Egbi, Los Angeles, CA
2013: Painting Forever! Keilrahmen, Kunst-Werke Berlin, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
2012: Group show, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zürich
2012: Hidden Stories, KAI 10 Raum für Kunst, Düsseldorf
2011: Secret Societies, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt
2010: Intensif Station, K21 – Kunstsammlung NRW, Düsseldorf
2009: Märchenwald, Sprengelmuseum Hannover
2008: Back to Black, Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover
2007: Made in Germany, Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover
2006: The Known and the Unknown, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Kopenhagen
2005: Trouble with fantasy, Kunsthalle Nürnberg
2004: Doku/Fiction Mouse on Mars Reviewed & Remixed, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
2003: Unheimlich, Städtische Galerie Delmenhorst

Weblinks[edit]

Einzelnachweise[edit]

↑ Kunst nach 1945; Armin Boehm im Staedelmuseum auf YouTube vom 27. August 2010
↑ Armin Boehm über die Londoner Krawalle Die Krise wird Dauerzustand, Interview bei Monopol dem Magazin für Kunst und Leben vom 10. August 2011
↑ David Pagel on Armin Boehm at Susanne Vielmetter, in: Los Angeles Times vom 13. April 2016

Kategorie:Maler (Aachen) Kategorie:Deutscher Kategorie:Geboren 1972 Kategorie:Mann Kategorie:Maler (Berlin)

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[1] Kunst nach 1945; Armin Boehm im Staedelmuseum auf YouTube vom 27. August 2010

[2] Armin Boehm über die Londoner Krawalle Die Krise wird Dauerzustand, Interview bei Monopol dem Magazin für Kunst und Leben vom 10. August 2011

[3] David Pagel on Armin Boehm at Susanne Vielmetter, in: Los Angeles Times vom 13. April 2016

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