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HE NDRIK BEIKRIC H (1 974, GERMA NY)
Hendrik Beikirch was born in Kassel in 1974 and attained international attention for his black and white portraits covering huge buildings.
The intensity of the foreign faces’ power to call up familiarity can be experienced in places all over the world. Beikirch‘s studies of humanity are artistic results of his own travels, where he meets the people and sketches them. After that he imbeds these portraits into new contexts and raises the question of personified life and identity.
Scarred by life the monochrome faces lost the sleekness of youth long ago and allow us with the depth of their furrowed counte-nance to get access to their story.
Initially, this high degree of intimacy seems to be at odds with the large-scale rendition on canvas and walls, but driven by our lon-ging for a point of contact in city landscapes ever becoming more anonymous it leads to coherent symbioses.
Homepage: www.hendrikbeikirch.com
( S E L E C T E D ) S O L O E X H I B I T I O N S
2017 Treasures, Galerie Droste, Wuppertal, DE
2015 Waiting, ruttkowski;68, Cologne, DE
Tracing Morocco, Jardin Rouge, Marrakesh, MA
2014 Monochrome matters, Galerie Wolfsen, Aalborg, DK
2013 Transsib-Geryhound, ruttkowski;68, Cologne, DE
2011 Between, ruttowski;68, Cologne, DE
2009Under the paving stones, Glanzkinder Gallery, Cologne, DE
Einen Sommer, Pretty Portal, Düsseldorf, DE
2007 Feeling blue, Gallery n2o, Lyon, FR
(SELECTED) GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019Chronicles, Galerie Droste, Wuppertal, DE
2018 art is where the heart is, Galerie Droste, Paris, FR
2015 Trend’15, Galerie Wolfsen, Aalborg, DK
Past & Future, Kolly Gallery, Zurich, CH
2014 Behind the red wall, Foundation Montresso, Marrakech, MA
Scope New York, Galerie Wolfsen, New York City, US
2013 After the dark, Unit44, Newcastle, UK
Pieves of the sky, Galerie Wolfsen, Aalborg, DK
2012 Graffuturism, Soze Gallery, Los Angeles, US
Urban void, Platoon Kunsthalle, Seoul, KR
Tallest mural in Asia/Busan, Busan cultural foundation,Busan, KR
Vom Leben gezeichnet, Kunstverein Friedberg, Friedberg, DE
Counterparts, Forum Kunst Rottweil, Rott-weil, DE
German grafiti avant-garde, Goethe-institute, Bangalore, IN
Paintopia, Lauritz, Aarhus, DK
2011 Expression beyond, Rizzordi Art Foundation,St. Petersburg, RU
Urban script continues, Kunstencentrum Signe, Heerlen, NL
Urban art graffiti 21, Museum Völkinger Hütte, Saarbrücken, DE
Scope Art Basel Miami, 101exhibit, Miami, US
Art Wynwood, 101exhibit, Miami, US
Between night and day, 101exhibit, Miami, US
2010 Zerfall und Zukunft, Aliseo Art Projects, Gengenbach, DE
xll, Gallery Progres, Belgrade, RS
2010 World expo Shanghai, reading village – painting city,
dafen art museum, Shenzhen, CN
Artworks Asphaltkultur, Glassworks, Amsterdam, NL
Graffiti handmade, Kunstkreis Hameln, Hameln, DE
Hallenkunst, Chemnitzer Markthalle, Chemnitz, DE
Stroke, Munich, DE
2009 D’raw, Schunck Glaspalais, National Gallery Heerlen,Heerlen, NL
Public Provocations, Carhartt gallery, art basel side event, Weil am Rhein, DE
2008 Galerie d’Art Atelier 9, Grenoble, FR
2007 Carhartt Gallery, Weil am Rhein, DE
2006 Balcan Express, Galerija Collegium Artisticum, Sarajevo, BA
2005 Graffiti war gestern zwei, Reithalle Klenzepark,Ingoldstadt, DE
2004 Everwanting streets, Röda, Sten, Gothenburg, SE
( S E L E C T E D ) P R O J E C T S
2014 st.art dehli, tallest mural in india, New Dehli, IN
2012 busan cultural foundation, tallest mural in asia, Busan, KR
2011 scope art basel miami, 101exhibit Miami, US
art wynwood, 101exhibit, Miami, US
2010 commissioned mural, NYC, US
stenograffia, commissioned mural for the city ofyekaterinburg, RU
2009 commissioned murals in moscow, omsk and irkutsk, RU
eurocultured, life performance, Dublin, IE
2008 eurocultured, commissioned mural for the city ofmanchester, UK
G A L E R I E D R O S T E W U P P E R T A L
