30 August 2008 – 26 October 2008

Carte Blanche III: Brigitte and Arend Oetker

Curated by Brigitte Oetker, Christiane Schneider

Artists: Richard Artschwager, Fikret Atay, John Baldessari, Alighiero Boetti, William Copley, Peter Fischli & David Weiss, Dan Flavin, Ellen Gallagher, Isa Genzken, Wade Guyton, Mike Kelley, Martin Kippenberger, Takehito Koganezawa, Hanno Otten, Jorge Pardo, Blinky Palermo, Andreas Schulze, Rosemarie Trockel, Franz West, David Zink Yi.

Brigitte and Arend Oetker show works from their collection. Arend Oetker began by collecting works from the early classical modern period with pieces ranging from George Grosz to Otto Dix. This emphasis, however soon shifted towards artists from Gugging such as Johann Hauser, Art Brut and the Swiss artist Adolf Wölfli, early works from Günter Brus, Hermann Nitsch, Arnulf Rainer and later Franz West.

In the 1980s Brigitte Oetker met artists such as Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Günther Förg, Isa Genzken, Martin Kippenberger, Hanno Otten, Thomas Struth, Wolfgang Tillmans, Andreas Schulze, Marcel Odenbach, Rosmarie Trockel, Franz West, who at the time were just beginning their art careers. Her work was closely related to the art scene in Cologne in the 1980s and 1990s.

The range of their interests is not just on a national level, but also on internationally shaped artists such as Richard Artschwager, John Baldessari, Alighiero Boetti, Mike Kelley, Louise Lawler and Jorge Pardo. Later artists include Ellen Gallagher and Wade Guyton. Both Brigitte & Arend Oetker are interested also in the work of artists like Richard Wright, Jeppe Hein, David Zink Yi, Tue Greenfort, Bojan Sarcevic, Takehito Koganezawa and Fikret Atay.

Their collection also includes some of the artists of the early classical modern period such as Max Beckmann, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Paula Modersohn-Becker and Max Ernst.

Address

Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst
Karl-Tauchnitz-Strasse 11
04107 Leipzig
phone +49 341 14 08 10
http://www.gfzk.de

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Tuesday-Sunday 12 p.m. - 7 p.m., closed on Monday.

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