In 2019, OSTER+KOEZLE were given the opportunity to host a solo exhibition to mark the celebrations of '100 years of Bauhaus'. This  took place at Altes Straßenbahn Depot in Jena and was the largest and most prestigious exhibition of the artist duo to date, covering nearly 700 m² and featuring more than 90 new and existing works. 

Several Bauhaus monuments in Jena, Weimar and Apolda were therefore photographed and the results of the following  artistic transformation, meeting the spirit of OSTER+KOEZLE were presented. 

Further photos were taken in Bauhaus monuments in West Germany, so that the pictures, which were exclusively directly related to Bauhaus buildings, became a collection of their own, called 'bauhaus suite'.

bauhaus suite

Specifications of different work series are fused to new and surprising pictorial solutions without leaving the path of a continous developping of OSTER+KOEZLE's artistic principles.

hybrids

OSTER+KOEZLE's series of works 'a r c h i t e c t u r e s'  looks at parts of completely photographed rooms through the cut-outs of a digitally and virtually erected monochrome colored 'wall' standing in front of it. Their colors and the shapes of the cut-out are freely chosen, the space itself or, more precisely, the visible parts of it remain untouched (except for toning, curves and blotches) in photographic tradition. As a result, the perception of these parts of the room 'turns' into a sculptural-looking form against a colored background.

a r c h i t e c t u r e s

This collection shows parts of a work series of 52 pieces, that were created during and under the influence of pandemic between 2020 and 22. It has gratefully been funded by the State of NRW (D) to support artists in these difficult times.
Not suspecting that the problems from the pandemic could be surpassed in the immediate aftermath by possibly even more terrible events, this series remains more present and current than ever believed. After all, it deals with creating a visual realization of the idea, that there is always a glimmer of hope. 
The reduction to the light itself (or the luminous body) with massive neglect of all the oppressive obscurities around us, is symbolic for this human way of thinking.

BLACK LIGHTS or Light At The End Of The Tunnel

This series of works is one of the most playful variants of OSTER+KOEZLE - but at the same time one of the most minimalist. The simpler the artistic intervention is, the more astonishing is its effect on the perception of possible
perspectives.
By adding one (or more) solid colored areas, perspective 'twists' are created in an Escherian
sense.

perspectives

This series is about the play between the recognisability of a room or room detail and an artificially added color field, that disturbs the visual reception of perspective, foreground or background. The b&w pieces additionally display a wonderful richness of several gray tones and deepest blacks.

irritations

Since 1999 continuously developed series of works, which deals with rooms, identifible as architectural photographs that are irritated by artificially added solid color panes.

Oster Koezle - Sg Koezle - Artist Duo