"Substation"

Martin Conrad, Painting
Bettina Lüdicke, Sculptures made of copper wire

Vernissage on Thursday, 30 August 2018 at 8 pm
Exhibition duration: 31 August - 12 October 2018
Artist talk with both artists on Thursday 11 October 2018 at 7 pm

Martin Conrad offers the following course at the Akademie für Malerei Berlin:
The picture and its layers Sat 20 Oct + Sun 21 Oct 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. + 3 p.m. - 7 p.m.
Registration / Info under Tel.: 45086100

The exhibition "Substation" presents two artists who each juggle with modular set pieces in their work. Martin Conrad uses his extensive compendium of drawings around which he composes his pictorial worlds. Bettina Lüdicke combines lines of bronze wire to create wide, permeable spaces and forms that constantly reassemble themselves. In this way, both artists create fragile but stable structures whose components are in an energetic balance. The sculptural lines in the space and the drawn lines in the pictorial space each create a dialogue within the work and with each other in the exhibition context "Substation".

Martin Conrad has built up his own cosmos of images over the years of his artistic career. The centrepiece is his graphic research card index of our everyday lives. He draws on this extensive compendium of drawings, which is constantly updated on a daily basis, for his pictorial compositions and masterfully juggles with the resulting constellations. He transfers his drawings into his pictures like a matrix using a transfer printing process. Like in a kaleidoscope, the things in his world view are constantly rearranged, always exciting, always surprising.

1954 born in Grünstadt/Pfalz | 1974-80 Visual Communication at the Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach a. M. | 1976-79 Fine Arts at the Städelschule Academy of Fine Arts Frankfurt a. M. (guest student) | 1981-88 Fine Art with Gotthard Graubner at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Hamburg // Prizes and scholarships: 1983 guest studio Künstlerhaus Rome, working stay | 1984 Eduard Bargheer Scholarship | 1988 working scholarship from the City of Hamburg | 2004 Deutscher Spielraum Prize // Teaching: since 1994 teaching assignments for painting and drawing: Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften Hamburg, visiting professor (Pentiment) | Bildkunst Akademie Hamburg | Akademie für Malerei Berlin | Studiencolleg im Photo.Kunst.Raum.Hamburg | Kunstakademie Salzburg // Exhibitions: 2017 and 2018 art KARLSRUHE, Galerie ROOT // Exhibitions: Solo and group exhibitions in Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Italy, USA, Russia, Japan // Collections: Allianz Karlsruhe | Federal Ministries Berlin Federal Republic of Germany | Deutsche Bank Frankfurt a. M. | Eduard-Bargheer-Stiftung Hamburg | Emslandmuseum Schloss Clemenswerth | Hamburger Kunsthalle | Hypo Vereinsbank Hamburg | Kulturbehörde Hamburg | Volksfürsorge Hamburg | Mandarin Oriental Prague | Museum Schloß Wernigerode | Firmensammlungen USA

Lives and works in Hamburg
www.martinconrad.com

Bettina Lüdicke processes industrial bronze and copper wire into corporeal yet transparent spatial sculptures. The millimetre-thin, linear material is used in the artistic process by Lüdicke winding it many times, crossing it and fixing the points that form into knots. This results in almost dematerialised spatial structures, which on the one hand create the most diverse forms of "lightness" and on the other hand enclose the space. Inside and outside are thus placed in relation to each other and intertwined. A sculptural space is formed in the viewer's imagination. Colour, light and shadow expand into a network in and around the object.

Born in Darmstadt in 1958 | 1979 - 1985 Studied design at Coburg University of Applied Sciences/ Münchberg department, diploma with Prof. Schröter | 1994 - 1997 Studied textile design at Berlin University of the Arts with Prof. Erdmann | 1999 - 2004 Berlin Senate studio scholarship | 2011 Technologies of Drawing Symposium, University of Huddersfield/ UK. | 2013 Jury Prize for Sculpture, LebensArt Foundation, Cologne // Solo exhibitions (selection) : 2017 ...in den Raum gedacht, Galerie Petra Knopf, Munich | 2015 Innere Strukturen, Galerie ARTAe, Leipzig | 2014 Transparenz und Leichtigkeit, Galerie Petra Knopf, Munich | 2013 Lichter Raum, Kunstverein Oerlinghausen | 2012 Raumforscher, Kunstverein Rhein-Sieg, Siegburg/ Bonn | 2012 Voids and Colour, Kunstverein Ribnitz- Damgarten| 2012 Kugelbau und Farbkuben, Kunstverein Hockenheim | 2011 Kontinuum, Galerie ARTAe, Leipzig | 2011 Skulpturen aus Linien und Punkten, Galerie Netuschil, Darmstadt| 2011 Galerie an der Pinakothek der Moderne, Barbara Ruetz, Munich | 2009 Präsenz und Freiraum, Galerie ARTAe, Leipzig | 2007 Turm & Zelle, Galerie ARTAe, Leipzig | 2005 Kernkörper, Galerie ARTAe, infern*, Erfurt | 1997 Krypta/ Brandenburger Dom, Brandenburg // since 1996 numerous group exhibitions in Germany, Denmark and Sweden

Lives and works in Berlin

www.bettinaluedicke.de

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