Gilbert Brohl

Vita

2005-2006 Studied architecture and urban planning at the FH Potsdam
2006-2009 Studied painting with Ute Wöllmann at the Akademie für Malerei Berlin
2009-2011 Studied painting in the class of Andreas Amrhein
2011 Master student of Andreas Amrhein (Academy of Painting Berlin)

Solo exhibitions (selection)
2024 „Afterimages“ Michaela Helfrich Gallery, Berlin
2020 „Aint seen nothing“ Michaela Helfrich Gallery, Berlin
2018 „GENERALPROBE“ Producers I Gallery, Dresden
2016 „Hope“ Michaela Helfrich Gallery, Berlin
2014 Gallery Schloss Neersen, City of Willich
2013 „After Party“ Eichblatt Gallery Berlin
2012 „IN TIME“ by Fraunberg art gallery, Düsseldorf
2011 Public presentation, appointment as master student of Andreas Amrhein

Group exhibitions (selection)
2022 „Art Karlsruhe“ Michaela Helfrich Gallery Berlin
2020 „Artists of the Gallery“ Michaela Helfrich Gallery Berlin
2018 „Import/Export“ Gallery Axel Obiger, Berlin
2018 „NEUSTART“ Producers I Gallery, Dresden
2017 Gallery G18, Dortmund
2017 „Into the light“ Museumspark Rüdersdorf
2016 VANE gallery, UK
2016 „Art Market Budapest“ Michaela Helfrich Gallery Berlin
2015 „Private view“, Young Art Berlin
2015 „New World“, Young Art Berlin

2014 „TWO. TWO. DOS“ Michaela Helfrich Gallery Berlin
2013 Affordable Art Fair Hamburg/ Eichblatt Gallery Berlin
2012 Janine Bean Gallery, Berlin
2012 „SUMMERTIME“ - von fraunberg art gallery, Düsseldorf
2011 „Aesthetic Positions“, Berlin
2010 „neunundneunzig“ / In the name of space, Berlin

Statement about my work

In my paintings I explore the fragile relationship between man and his environment, memory and construction - and above all that moment when the figure steps out of its familiar structure and enters a field of light, colour and vibrating energy.

This hovering moment, in which the question of where we come from and where we are going is almost physically condensed, forms the core of my visual world.


Stylistically, I combine classic oil painting with a spray technique borrowed from graffiti and the use of stencils. The combination of precise, traditional painting and impulsive, breathy traces of colour creates a network of fine transitions, eruptive impulses and atmospheric disturbances.

This creates surfaces that appear both solid and fleeting at the same time, pulsating between contemplation and awakening.


The people depicted are not portraits, but travellers between worlds - figures on the threshold between inside and outside, between physical presence and a state of luminous permeability.

They often move in dystopian, surreal landscapes that appear like fragile projections of inner states. Water, artificial light, plant fragments and folded paper-like forms function as symbols of transition: as fragile markers for the search for orientation, transformation and the breaking up of familiar orders.


The superimposition of layers, blurring, gestural spray structures and calm figurative elements open up pictorial spaces that are less real places than inner landscapes - fleeting spheres in which memory, emotion and foreboding float into one another.

I'm fascinated by the point at which perception dissolves: when identity merges and the invisible takes shape for a moment.


My painting sees itself as an approach to this mysterious phase of transition - a quiet, intense condensation of light, soul and the enigma of our existence.

It invites you to continue the open narratives and to bring your own experiences and feelings into resonance with the figures and spaces.

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