Painting since 1947 reconsidered, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Galerie der Gegenwart, 04. Sep 2020 – 05. Sep 2021 Paintings are always an expression of their time and their creators’ individuality. Once they have made it to the museum wall, they begin to shape the image of their era. Paintings become iconic when they unerringly reflect a certain […]
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Hamburger Kunsthalle, Galerie der Gegenwart, Hamburg
04.09.2020 – 07.03.2021
Lüde in VII Ekcten, Room installation by Dana Greiner
“Abstract forms, glowing colours and dynamically flowing video projections dominate the space. Dana Greiner (b. 1988 in Munich, lives in Munich) challenges us with static objects that yet seem to undergo metamorphoses, sounds that materialise […]
“I myself prefer to describe my work as the large-scale expansion of painting. I urge a steady condensation, expansion and intensification of my work. Although the classic canvas plays an important role in my work, the picture is growing ever more frequently into space supplemented by projections, light, text, aspects of a stage-like performance situation, […]
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The vigilance with which Dana Greiner examines the characters of form, material and color, is a crucial characteristic of their artistic work. They are multilayered Realities created through the use of various painting techniques and often by yourself manufactured painting materials, including wax, acrylic media, oil, graphite, lacquer, resins and unbound pigment, come to the fore and enable various pictorial inventions. The different, processed image carriers, such as wood, canvas or Plexiglas, as well their carrier properties themselves come to light again and again. In search […]
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With the exhibition project Now! Painting in Germany Today, the Kunstmuseum Bonn, the Museum Wiesbaden,the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz –Museum Gunzenhauser and the Deichtorhallen Hamburg are engaged in an endeavor to determine the current status of the medium. The goal is to present a valid cross section of the painting produced in Germany by young artists, while giving consideration […]
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Material, shape, color and light are essential components in Dana Greiner’s work. Although her vivid paintings and objects stand on their own, the artist urges to explore and expand the viewing possibilities in exhibition rooms. She works out multi-layered geometrical compositions on various image carriers, which, with the help of a large variety of materials, […]
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