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@ The Space, Hamburg 2023
Tina Oelker
Hamburg
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@ The Space, Hamburg 2023
Hamburg
Tina Oelker is a painter whose practice is developed through long-term Painting Programmes.
Her practice is cyclical: she returns to forms, motifs and experiences from shifting positions, allowing them to expand, distil and transform through renewed perception. Within precisely defined fields, structure creates space for intuition and unexpected shifts. Painting itself is her field of inquiry. Over more than three decades, she has...
Tina Oelker is a painter whose practice is developed through long-term Painting Programmes.
Her practice is cyclical: she returns to forms, motifs and experiences from shifting positions, allowing them to expand, distil and transform through renewed perception. Within precisely defined fields, structure creates space for intuition and unexpected shifts. Painting itself is her field of inquiry. Over more than three decades, she has pursued an independent and rigorously structured practice, rooted in experience and sustained attention.
Oelker brings a precise and assured command of composition, colour and form to her work, grounded in analytical thinking, acute observation and a deep understanding of visual perception. Personal experience becomes a starting point for examining recurring human qualities, tensions and contradictions, giving the work an archetypal dimension. Across her Painting Programmes, individual works remain autonomous while entering into new relationships within an evolving artistic field.
Tina Oelker (born 1973 in Westphalia) is a German painter based in Hamburg whose practice has developed since the early 1990s through long-term Painting Programmes. These provide conceptual frameworks for an organically evolving exploration of colour, form and composition. Her programmes include 1000 Hasen, 25 Colours Stockholm and TOPIA. Oelker spends time in Italy and maintains close ties to New York. Her work is represented in private and public collections.
Artist Statement:
EVERYTHING IS PAINTING.
From early abstraction and figurative drawing to 1000 Hasen, 25 Colours Stockholm and TOPIA, my work is rooted in one field: painting as a dynamic interplay of colour, form, composition and archetypal forces, continuously unfolding through reflection, repetition and the reworking of its own motifs.
Zu Tisch N° 12, 2015 (At table N° 12), oil on canvas stretched on a handcrafted wooden frame ,145 x 200 cm (57 x 78.7 in)
SUCH THERAPIE ZENTRUM a.v.B., 2021
Search therapy center outside Berlin | Installation and interactive performance concept
The search therapy center is a spatial installation in which the visitor is received, treated and dismissed by performers according to a complex set of rules. The old post office building on the „Postopia“ site in Elmshorn/North Germany was revived for a limited period in Novermber 2021 with the help of several interventions and extensions. Trough visual modification, sound and spatial installation and targeted performance, visitors were integrated into the game. Visitors were thus guaranteed insight into the history and spatial aesthetics of the building, before it was torn down the following year.
SCHÜTZENFEST RELOADED, 2014
Idee, Konzept, Cast, Kostüm, Text: Tina Oelker
Kamera, Schnitt, Sounddesign: Monika Anna Wojtyllo
Sprache: Marie Biermann
Jäger: Simone Brühl, Eva Gabriel-Jürgens,Tina Oelker, Xenia Peeck, Monika Anna Wojtyllo
Sprachaufnahme: Niko Grunert
Musik: Sascha Demand + Hannes Wienert / Aus dem Album „Sirenen & Blüten“
und Benjamin Page / Aus dem Album „Elite Barbarian“
Eine Produktion der Berliner Sonderschule © 2014
@ HAFENTOR7, producer gallery Hamburg, 2012
What is it about your studio space that inspires you?
The old, tactile materials of the studio, the freedom and the time I can live in the middle of the city.
What sounds, scents and sights do you encounter while in your studio?
The smell of fresh oil color with hints of turpentine and fresh espresso
What is your favourite material to work with? How has your use of it evolved throughout your practice?
I use oil paints, balsamic turpentine, cotton fabric, linen, several brushes, rags and the use of hand cream has probably increased immensely in the last 20 years.
What themes do you pursue?
Chronologically: Greek mythology, the interaction of male and female, hunting, the hare, since 2015 the detachment from certain themes, abstraction, colour and form as the subject of painting
What advice has had the biggest impact on your career?
Create yourself!
If you could install your art absolutely anywhere, where would that be?
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
If you could only have one piece of art in your life, what would it be?
Lass mal den Affen, der geht!
If you weren´t an artist, what would you be doing?
Psychology and farming
What are your favourite places besides your studio?
Wherever I can ride my racing bike
2022
Pandora´s box / Glaselefant, Maximilianpark, Hamm-Westf.
IKONEN / Galerie O B E N, Cramer Wohnvilla, Hamburg
2021
Pandora´s box / Galerie O B E N, Cramer Wohnvilla, Hamburg
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2025
Kryptiker, Vier Jahreszeiten , Künstlerforum Bonn (curator)
2024
Transitions, The Space, Hamburg
Kryptiker, Art Artist Düsseldorf (curator)
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Sammlung Falckenberg, 2010 (Tageshase # 0261 (1000 Hasen), 2009, Öl auf Leinwand, 60 x 40 x 4,5 cm)
2022, 2nd EDITION I ART EMPIRE AWARD, 1st price, virtual exhibition
2010, Design Preis, Noble Project, Hamburg
2008, Art Award AIR, Artist in residence, Gershwin Art Hotel NYC
