Christoph Primm's strength is the tension between colour and structure. He layers them into complex compositions and makes the painterly itself the object of contemplation.
At first glance, Christoph Primm's paintings are gestural abstractions. At second glance, one can discover equally symbolic elements in the pictures.
The artistic focus is on the painting process, the unconscious or spontaneous expression of psychological states. This applies to Christoph Primm when he says that he is in the picture or that the picture gives him the title or that he reacts directly to the shapes and colours.
In Primm's work, we find ourselves ... in an intermediate realm of representational and informal pictorial space, reminiscent of the paintings of the CoBrA group. And it is no coincidence that Primm counts the Danish painter Asger Jorn, a founding member of the CoBrA group, among his role models.
Christoph Primm's pictures are not about recognition, not about a narrative. It's all about the sound of the colours and how the juxtaposition and overlapping of the colours makes the shapes dance.
My painting grows in layers. Liquid paint at the beginning, then oil paint, applied undiluted with palette knives. Areas of colour are created through drying and renewed layering, and lines are created through their convergence, but not from the observation of reality. Form follows colour. The same colour tones in series or diptychs, almost always square and rectangular. My painting does not want to limit itself to a single picture format, a single picture space. I paint on the floor, from all sides. A depth of colour space is created, not a perspective that could be derived from what I have seen before, forms that cannot be pinned down to any particular objectivity. Two picture formats that respond to each other in the interplay of their colour tones. The viewer is free to ask questions.
1947 born in Berlin
2006-2011 Studied painting at the Akademie für Malerei Berlin in the class of Ute Wöllmann
2011 Master student of Ute Wöllmann
2011 – 2014 Member of the ROOT producers' gallery at Savignyplatz
Since 2014 Christoph Primm is represented as an artist by the ROOT Gallery
He lives and works in Berlin.
Solo exhibitions
2011 Solo exhibition with lecture at the end of his studies, Akademie für Malerei Berlin
2011 Gallery ROOT at Savignyplatz. Berlin
2013 "velivoli - the art of taking off" with Eva Erbacher, Galerie ROOT am Savignyplatz, Berlin
2014 "over & under" with Marita Czepa at the ROOT gallery on Savignyplatz, Berlin
2015 "freiflug" with Ulrike Buhl, ROOT Gallery, Berlin
2018 "Stroke of luck" at Kunstraum Reuter, Berlin
2019 "formed - moved" with Susanna Niederer, ROOT Gallery, Berlin
2023 "Zuwachs" with Manuela Tirler Gallery ROOT Berlin
2025 "Shift Change" with Bettina Lüdicke, ROOT Gallery Berlin
Group exhibitions
2006-2010 "Students exhibit", Academy of Painting Berlin
2008 "Berlin Sketches", exhibition at the KulturhausSpandau
2010 Participation in the exhibition "Five Years of the Berlin Academy of Painting"
2012 Special exhibition for the presentation of Ute Wöllmann's textbook "Über die Kunst, erfolgreich Malerei zu studieren" and the panel discussion "Was ist gute Kunstlehre?" with Prof Dirk van der Meulen and Eduard Beaucamp, Galerie ROOT am Savignyplatz, Berlin | Exhibition "Weiterbilder", Galerie ROOT am Savignyplatz, Berlin
2013 Group exhibition with Ingeborg Rauss, Barbara Salesch, Mechthild Wendt | "ROOT @ pack of patches" in Jena
2014 Galerie Hoffmann @ ROOT | "Viriditas" Galerie ROOT | Master student exhibition at the Akademie für Malerei Berlin as part of the art festival "Kunst am Spreeknie" in Berlin | Group exhibition at the Mianki Gallery and the Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur Berlin for the fifth art auction in favour of the Telefonseelsorge Berlin in the rooms of the KPM
2015-18 Group exhibition of the ROOT Gallery on Hot Sunday
2019 Carls Art 78 Eckernförde + ROOT Berlin "ROOT on the road"
2020 Group exhibition ROOT
2021 Carls Art 78 Light, Colour, Space with Irmgard Bornemann, Juliane v. Arnim, Katrin Hosterbach
2022 ECHOLOT Sternberg town church
2022 ROOT on the road "In the footsteps of Gustav Klimt" in Schörfling am Attersee and exhibition at the Aichergut
2023 ROOT on the road "Drought" in Brandenburg and exhibition at the Ruine der Künste in Reichenow
2024 ROOT on the road "Interwoven Realities" in Bielefeld and exhibition at the "TOR6" gallery in Bielefeld
2025 ROOT on the road "Artists without shelter" in Berlin and exhibition at the ROOT Gallery, Berlin
2021 - Acrylic, oil on canvas, 120 × 100 cm
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