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Die Welt ist das, was in Bewegung ist

Tina Oelker

Hamburg

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Conceptual art, Painting, Text • Born in Hamm-Westfalen • Studied at New York City / USA , Hamburg/Germany

Published  25/06/2019   |   Updated  28/06/2023

DIE WELT IST EINE ANANAS, UND IN IHR WOHNT EIN HASE.

In her youth she learned nude drawing and modern painting, in her 20s she studied in New York City at SVA and The Art Students League. She completed her studies at HAW in Hamburg in 2004 with the motif of the hare. With “ 25 Farben (Colours) Stockholm" and "12.5 Farben Florenz (Colours Florence)“, Tina Oelker has returned to abstraction. She became known with her oeuvre "1000 Hasen", which is still in its entirety under lock and key. In...

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In her youth she learned nude drawing and modern painting, in her 20s she studied in New York City at SVA and The Art Students League. She completed her studies at HAW in Hamburg in 2004 with the motif of the hare. With “ 25 Farben (Colours) Stockholm" and "12.5 Farben Florenz (Colours Florence)“, Tina Oelker has returned to abstraction. She became known with her oeuvre "1000 Hasen", which is still in its entirety under lock and key. In spring 2021, her first illustrated book "Von Hasen und Göttern (Of Hares and Gods)" was published, which summarizes 20 years of her work. Prose, such as the "1000 Theses" and lyrical texts from her "Leporello", complement her work in an abstract way without explaining it themselves, and have also been a main component of her performances and social evenings since 2016.


Tina Oelker is fundamentally concerned with the question of the possibility of freely combining verbal opposites. She questions, for example, a separation of nature and man, male and female, animal and divine or real and abstract always with the attitude of an eternal student of a complex world. For her, things are what they are, and at the same time she always questions them. Her working method can be assigned to the viewer by recurring elements such as stripes, the motif of the hare, contents of hunting and Greek mythology, but rather by her strong ductus and her vital compositions of form and colour. What actually constitutes her intense and vibrant paintings, installations and happenings can only be said, or even more so, in the encounter with the artwork itself.

Tina Oelker
Königskobra, 2022, oil on canvas, 100 x 80 cm / Kallisto & Co sequenz / 25 Farben Stockholm

Königskobra, 2022, oil on canvas, 100 x 80 cm / Kallisto & Co sequenz / 25 Farben Stockholm

Hydra, 2022, oil on canvas, 100 x 80 cm / Kallisto & Co sequenz / 25 Farben Stockholm

Hydra, 2022, oil on canvas, 100 x 80 cm / Kallisto & Co sequenz / 25 Farben Stockholm

Die Welt ist das, was in Bewegung ist, 2022, oil on canvas, 8 x 120 x 100 / 240 x 400 cm  @ Künstlerforum Bonn

Die Welt ist das, was in Bewegung ist, 2022, oil on canvas, 8 x 120 x 100 / 240 x 400 cm @ Künstlerforum Bonn

Suchtherapiezentrum a.v.B., 2021 / Therapy room

Suchtherapiezentrum a.v.B., 2021 / Therapy room

Zu Tisch N° 11, 2012, oil on canvas, 160 x 210 cm @ Hafentor 7

Zu Tisch N° 11, 2012, oil on canvas, 160 x 210 cm @ Hafentor 7

Heracles, 2018, oil on canvas, 153 x 153 cm

Heracles, 2018, oil on canvas, 153 x 153 cm

Strudel Orange (ARES), 2021, oil on vanvas, 200 x 200 cm

Strudel Orange (ARES), 2021, oil on vanvas, 200 x 200 cm

Veracity report (NIX FÜR PUSSIES), 2017, oil on canvas, 180 x 250 cm

Veracity report (NIX FÜR PUSSIES), 2017, oil on canvas, 180 x 250 cm

Tageshase # 0851, 2014, oil on canvas, 195 x 130 cm

Tageshase # 0851, 2014, oil on canvas, 195 x 130 cm

Tageshase # 0576, 2014, oil on canvas, 60 x 40 x 5 cm

Tageshase # 0576, 2014, oil on canvas, 60 x 40 x 5 cm

Tageshase # 0570, 2014, oil on canvas, 60 x 40 x 5 cm

Tageshase # 0570, 2014, oil on canvas, 60 x 40 x 5 cm

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

Abstracts 2012

@ 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 paint, and in the last 20 years I have been able to intensify the variations, expression and compositions of colors in my painting.

What themes do you pursue?

I use the theme of hunting in its ambiguity, the natural interplay of male and female, returned to Greek mythology via the hare, and again intend to let painting itself become the subject.

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


EXHIBITIONS

SOLO

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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GROUP

2023

Krypiker (Gründungsmitgleid der Gruppe und Kuration), Salon an der Redoute, Bonn

2022

Die Kunst ist eine Angelegenheit des Geistes, Künstlerforum Bonn

2014

Macht, (Kuration), Kunsthaus Hamburg

PUBLICATIONS

AWARDS

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

Buy artworks by Tina Oelker

HYDRA | Tina Oelker | available artwork

Tina Oelker

HYDRA, 2022

100,0 x 80,0 x 2,0 cm | 39,4 x 31,5 x 0,8 inch

8.200,00 € excl. VAT

KÖNIGSKOBRA | Tina Oelker | available artwork

Tina Oelker

KÖNIGSKOBRA, 2022

100,0 x 80,0 x 2,0 cm | 39,4 x 31,5 x 0,8 inch

8.200,00 € excl. VAT

Tageshase # 0570 | Tina Oelker | available artwork

Tina Oelker

Tageshase # 0570, 2014

60,0 x 40,0 x 5,0 cm | 23,6 x 15,7 x 2,0 inch

4.900,00 € excl. VAT

Tageshase # 0147 | Tina Oelker | available artwork

Tina Oelker

Tageshase # 0147, 2008

60,0 x 40,0 x 5,0 cm | 23,6 x 15,7 x 2,0 inch

4.900,00 € excl. VAT

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