Christoph Kern

"Kern's paintings are an accumulated history of their own making. The paintings are worked up in many layers, beginning with the initial scenario under investigation, setting the scene. With each progressive layer the cubes' evolution, their growth, colour, position and movement in space as well as their realtionship towards each other is traced, the positions at which they arrive are tested and pushed towards a point at which the image can rest. This stage is documented before the painting process continues. Pentimenti and animated films show the different stages of one painting's transformation and are a way for the viewer to share in the painting's evolution." Nikola Irmer

1960 Born in Munich
1979-1981 Studies in Philosophy and History, Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich
1981-1988 Academy of Fine Arts, Munich. BFA, MFA.

Selected solo exhibitions

2011 Galerie Heufelder, Cubic Worlds red.
2009 stands for attitude, part I + II, locus lux gallery, brussels, amsterdam
2009 Play on Flatland, Galerie Heufelder, Munich
2008 Cubic Worlds,Filipp Rosbach, Leipzig
2008 The Diversity of the Painted Cube, Titanium Yiayiannos Gallery, Athens;
2007/2002 Ulysses Gallery, Vienna; John Sailer and Gabriele Wimmer
2004 The Evolution of the Painted Cube,KERN Prod. (DVD)
2003 U.I.G. Galerie, Berlin
2001 Würfelspiel, Galerie Stühler, Berlin
2000 Artenvielfalt, GBW, Munich (catalogue)
1998 The Uncertainty of the Cube, focus mediport, Berlin
1997 Storage, The Funeral Home, Boston, MA
1996 Bildsystem Bildbausatz, Neue Galerie Dachau (CD + catalogue)
1996 HART&weich, Städtische Galerie Neuburg (with W. Ellenrieder) (catalogue)
1989 Mit mir verglichen bin ich normal, Kunstverein DAH (catalogue)
1990 Stiegen, Galerie am Maxwehr, Landshut, (catalogue)

Selected group exhibitions

2012 Short Film Festival, Athens
2010 Grammar of Books, Radierverein, München
2009 Obsession 09, DEWILLEM3, Vlissingen, NL
2008 Bierlachen, werkschau galerie, Munich
2008 Dust Exterminator, filipp rosbach gallery, Leipzig
2008 Obsession, Neue Galerie, Lan...