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until 29.03. | #4599ARTatBerlin | Galerie Inga Kondeyne – Raum für Zeichnung shows from 21st February 2025 a solo exhibition by the artist Alexander Klenz in the backstage of the gallery.
Upon entering backstage, visitors will recognize a stable, precisely placed structural order, accompanied by special plays of color.
A rectangle, drawn on a vertical sheet of paper, seemed for a long time to be a typical template within Alexander Klenz’s works. He filled it with basic shapes, using them to create an imaginary network of tension. The rectangle has disappeared as a drawing in the new works. Shifts that move beyond the self-imposed boundaries expand Alexander Klenz’s work system in an exciting way.
Surprisingly, in the new drawings, thickened, often hook-shaped colored lines grow through the balanced compositions, in which square, deep black areas can still be found. The lines connect the fields, lead beyond them or challenge an interplay.
Interrelated leaf sequences are waiting to be discovered.
1974 born in Bützow
1995 – 2001 studied at the KH Berlin Weißensee with Hanns Schimansky and Dieter Goltzsche; 2002-2003 master student with Hanns Schimansky; 2012 nominated for the Rostock Art Prize for Graphics, Rostock; since 2018 co-initiator of the exhibition series “Focus on Abstraction” (FOA), Berlin
Solo exhibitions: 2024 “Alexander Klenz”, – Galerie Inga Kondeyne, Berlin; 2021 “Zwischen Tür und Angel”, with Lawrence Power, – Pavillon am Milchhof, Berlin ;2019 “Backstage”, Galerie Inga Kondeyne, Berlin; 2018 “Sub Divo”, Pavillon im Milchhof, Berlin; 2014 “Zusammen – Klenz and Friends” ,Pavillon am Milchhof, Berlin, collaboration ; 2013 “Schwarz ist kein Geräusch”, Galerie Inga Kondeyne, Berlin; 2012 “AEIOU” , Galerie im Turm, Berlin ; 2011 “Ali Husayn”, with Lawrence Power, Logenhaus, Hamburg; 2007 “Go after them”, Wendt + Friedmann Galerie, Berlin ; 2005 “Jeder Tag okay”, Wendt + Friedmann Galerie, Berlin; 2003 “Malerei”, with Kai Feldschur, Galerie Weißer Elephant, Berlin
Group exhibitions: 2024 “20 Jahre glue”, glue, Berlin; “Focus On Abstraction” – raumimpuls, Waidhofen/ Ybbs, Austria; “dead or alive”, Tennis- Elephant, Galerie Brotfabrik, Berlin 2023 “strange forward” – GE 59, Berlin; “Von Blatt zu Blatt” – Galerie Parterre, Berlin; ‘Fluidum # 2’ – Via Farini, Milan – 2022 ‘highbungalow’ – Pavillon im Milchhof, Berlin; ‘foyou’ – Marienburg, Berlin; 2021 ‘Land in Sicht’ – Kunstmuseum Ahrenshoop; ”scribble – scap trace: a drawing exhibition” – Marxhausen Gallery, Seward, US – 2020 ‘en bloc’ – Galerie Lachenmann, Konstanz; ‘Schulterblick 40’ – Galerie Inga Kondeyne, Berlin – 2019 ”T. E. & Freunde” – Galerie Pankow, Berlin; ‘Modification’ – glue, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin; ”4: 4” – Galerie Inga Kondeyne, Berlin; ‘Interintimes Autoportrait’, Salon Hansa – Galerie Lachenmann, Frankfurt/M – 2018 ‘Echoes’ – es74 Gallery, Sidney / Rosalux, Berlin – 2017 ‘Out of the lines’ – Galerie Rosalux, Berlin; “Echoes” – RK Galerie, Berlin / – HAW/ CONTEMPORARY, Kansas City, US; ‘Drawing performance’ – Galerie Inga Kondeyne, Berlin / – Marxhausen Gallery, Seward, US – 2016 ‘Papier collés und zwei, drei Ausnahmen’ – Galerie Parterre, Berlin; ‘Drawing performance’ – Tugboat Gallery, Lincoln, US – 2015 “Um Fleisch auf die Nerven zu bekommen” – Kunstverein Fam. Montez,Frankfurt/M. – 2014 “Die Basis von Babel” – Galerie Alte Schule, Berlin; “Zum Bleistift – Zeichnung” – Galerie Inga Kondeyne, Berlin – 2013 “X” Tennis Elephant – Galerie Parterre, Berlin; “Salon Hansa”- Kreuzbergpavillon, Berlin – 2012 “Zwischenspiel” – Galerie Parterre, Berlin; “Rostocker Kunstpreis 2012” – Kunsthalle Rostock, Rostock
Title image caption: no title, 50×45 cm, Mixed media on cardboard, 2024
Exhibition Alexander Klenz – Galerie Inga Kondeyne | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
