Detlef Aderhold

Detlef E. Aderhold’s painterly oeuvre is impressive not only because of its scope, but because of its great rigour, reflectiveness and intensity. Any attempt to locate his painting within a conceptual system leads to the recognition that Aderhold’s work cannot be subjected to ordinary categorizations. With a stimulating ambiguity, he walks a fine line between figurative and abstract painting, between artistic intentionality, experimental openness and chance.
Dr. Gabriele Himmelmann
I am searching for a visual vocabulary to symbolize disorder and order, cacophony and silence, ferocity and gentleness! By constructing startling colour combinations, shapes, figurative elements and passages of patterns and collaged materials, I try to externalize a pre-representational world and bring you, the viewer, with me into the act of painting. I start by instinctively sketching my subconscious ideas on paper and then, over time, I transition into composing more dynamic and expressive marks and images onto the canvas. Objects, numbers, symbols, text, faces, or abstract daubs of paint emerge on the surface, the result of mood, unconscious ideas or chance in the moment of creation and comprehension. However, I must step back to contemplate at l...

2014 Summer Residency Program, School of Visual
Arts, New York, NY, USA
2013 International Summer Academy, Venice, Italy
2011 Freie Akademie der bildenden Kuenste, Essen,
Germany

Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 FLUX Exhibition London, U.K.
ON THE EDGE, Federation of Canadian Artists
CAFA+ Members, Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts, U.S
2022 Member Miniatures Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, USA
Limitless 2022, Federation of Canadian Artists, Vancouver
Kirsten Keagli Show Off, Kirsten Keagli Art Consulting,
Zurich, Switzerland
Christmas Exhibition, LDXArtodrome Gallery Europe
MoCA LI Museum of Contemporary Arts Long Island USA
2021 Artworks from the Twilight, Moon Art Hamburg, Germany
Art Climate Change Novum Basel
Senlis Sacred Art Festival, Senlis, France
Neue Zeichen setzen, LDXArtodrome Gallery
Abstract Aesthetics, The FLUX Review, London, U.K.
CAFA+ Members, Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts, U.S.
Gallery Weekend Berlin LDXArtodrome Gallery Europe
Green Oasis Exhibition, Museum Lueneburg, Germany
Member Miniatures, Monmouth Museum Lincroft, NJ, U.S.
2019
PERSONAL STRUCTURES, ECC, Palazzo Bembo, 58. Venice Art Biennale, It...