Art Calendar – Current Exhibitions in Germany

Expressive, vehement, and passionately committed to painting – this sums up the style of the “Neue Wilde”. The Neue Wilde were active in the early 1980s in Düsseldorf and Berlin, and one of their exponents was Albert Oehlen.

Now an artist is exhibiting works in Berlin who, as he professes in the title of the exhibition, would love to be a friend of Albert Oehlen: Jörg Lohse, born in Leipzig in 1967 and now living on Chiemsee, where he creates expressive, vehement oil paintings and wood cuts. The pictures are a good two by two metres large and sometimes signed with an easily visible “Herr Lohse” or, perhaps as tribute to his adopted home of Bavaria, with “Schorsch”.

The organizers of Galerie Berlin Art Projects, where the exhibition is taking place, interpret this as, on the one hand, playing with the idea of the role of the artists and see in it, on the other hand, an indication of the seriousness and intensity with which Lohse defines himself as a painter amongst painters.