Events/Openings

Opening reception:
Friday, July 6, 2012, 7 pm

Duration of the exhibition:
July 7 - September 1, 2012
Tuesday - Saturday, 12 - 7 pm

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Summer break: July 28 - August 17, 2012
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We are pleased to announce the fifth solo exhibition 'Boulevard' by the Leipzig artist Sebastian Gögel of his most recent mid- and large-format paintings.

Corresponding to the real boulevard as a place of social interconnections and entanglement, Gögel's 'Boulevard' accommodates a cosmos of social prototypes in a telling display. Stylized portraits make their appearance next to abstract figurations. Radical attitudes and hierarchies are claimed and abandoned in his work. With hazardous intent, grotesquely morbid grimaces are united with blithely humorous elegance in a circus of crumbling beauty made up of urban facades.

Welcome!

Sebastian Gögel, born in Sonneberg, Thuringia, Germany, in 1978, lives and works in Leipzig. From 1997 to 2002, he studied painting/graphic arts at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig. From 2002 to 2005, he pursued his post-graduate studies with Prof. Sighard Gille.

Collections (selection): Arario Collection, Korea; Gemeentemuseum, The Hague; Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam; Sammlung Hildebrand, Leipzig; Sparkasse Leipzig; Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Kunstfonds; Zabludowicz Art Trust.

Solo exhibitions (selection): 2011: Galerie Laurent Mueller, Paris; Parrotta Contemporary Art, Stuttgart; Kunsthalle Erfurt; 2010: Galerie Emmanuel Post, Leipzig; Galerie Adler, Frankfurt/Main; 2008: GEM, Museum of Contemporary Art, The Hague.

Group exhibitions (selection): 2012: Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam; Seong-Nam Arts Center, Seoul; Galerie Rothamel, Erfurt; Gemeentemuseum, The Hague; PrintRoom, Rotterdam; 2011: Galerie Emmanuel Post, Berlin; Galerie Kleindienst, Leipzig; Kunsthalle der Sparkasse Leipzig; 2010: ‹THE DISASTERS OF PEACE›, Umspannwerk Berlin-Tiergarten, Berlin; Zabludowicz Collection, London; Fourteen30 Contemporary, Portland; Charlie Smith, London; 2009: Post Fine Arts, Freiburg/Br.; Cobra Museum of Modern Art, Amstelveen; 2007: Gemeentemuseum, The Hague; 2006: Arario Gallery, Cheonan, Korea; 2004: Union Gallery, London.

The exhibition 'The Collection. German Art from Kiefer to Henning' at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, runs until September 30, 2012. The exhibition 'GERMAN NOW; from Leipzig' at the Seong-Nam Arts Center, Seoul, Korea, ends on September 2, 2012.