EVOL
- EDUCATION
- Berlin based artist EVOL creates impossibly realistic paintings of architectural structures common in the former East using stencils and spray paint, the typecast tools of graffiti writers and agitprop street artists.
- Painting in the public sphere on defunct East Berlin electrical cabinets, or found concrete blocks in an abondoned Dresden slaughterhouse, EVOL miniaturizes the low-income appartment buildings ofthe Post-Soviet-Bloc that remain iconic monuments of the Iron Curtain’s socialist failings. His work is thus a eulogy for the individualism and inspiration suffocated by attempts at urban utopia and, who inject poignant meaning into otherwise lifeless slabs of concrete and stone.
- EVOL was selected to be the first solo exhibition in the German Pavilion at the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai. He w&as also recently nominated for the Lissone Prize and will be featured in an exhibition at the Museo d’arte contemporaneo in October 2010. His work has been published in numerous anthologies dealing with contemporary architecture and urban art executed in the public sphere.
- 2001
- HFG Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany
- 2000
- Kuopio Acadamy of Arts and Crafts, Finland
- Lives and works in Berlin, Germany
- 2012
- Teresa Bulgarini Prize (n), Salzburg, Austria
- 2010
- ARTE PRIZE at SLICK Art Fair, Paris, France
- Premio Lisssone Prize (n), Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Lissone, Italy
BIOGRAPHY
AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
- 2012
- Galerie Bodson-Emelinckx, Brussels, Belgium
- Repeat Offender, Jonathan LeVine Gallery, New York, USA
- 2011
- VOLTA NY, presented by WILDE Gallery
- 2010
- EVOL, Galerie Bodson-Emelinckx, Brussels, Belgium
- Breakable Products, Galerie Brötzinger Art, Pforzheim, Germany
- Balancity, German Pavilion, World Expo, Shanghai, China
- 2009
- EVOL- New Work, WILDE Gallery, Berlin, Germany (catalogue)
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GROUP EXHIBITIONS
- 2012
- Quarter, Szpitalna /Chmielna /Bracka /Zgoda, Warsaw, Poland
Vues sur Mur - l'imprimé dans l'art urbain, Centre de la Gravure et de l'Image Imprimée, La Louviere, Belgium
Art Brussels, presented by Bodson&Emelinckx Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Fragments of Architecture, Gist Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands - 2011
- 4th Moscow Biennial, Russia. Curated by Peter Weibel, Director of the Center for Art and Media (ZKM), Karlsruhe, Germany
Dockville Kunstfestival, Hamburg, Germany
De Stad 3D, Museum Hilversum, Netherlands
Graffiti 21, Museum Weltkulturerbe Völklinger Hütte, Germany
Berlin Next!, La Gaite Lyrique, Paris, France
Diocesan Museum of Milan, Italy - 2010
- Pubic Viewing: Recent photographs by EVOL and JUST, WILDE Gallery, Berlin, Germany (European Month of Photography highlight, catalogue)
Lissone Prize 2010, Museum of Contemporary Art, Lissone, Italy
Re-Imagining Architecture. Between Fact and Fiction, curated by Lukas Feireiss, AedesLand, Berlin, Germany
NUART Street Art Festival, Stavanger, Norway
Summer Invitational, Jonathan LeVine Gallery, New York, USA
Constructed Spaces, Gist Galerie, Amsterdam, The Netherland
Balancity, German Pavilion, World Expo, Shanghai, China (solo)
Art Chicago, Chicago, USA
Scope NY, New York, USA - 2009
- ARTotale - Leuphana Urban Art Project, Lueneburg, Germany
Ostrale, Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Dresden, Germany
Street/Studio, Irvine Contemporary, Washington DC, USA
EVOL- New Work, WILDE Gallery, Berlin, Germany (solo, catalogue)
Berliner Unkraut, curated by Gabe Scott and Jay Howell, 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Papertrail, curated by Steven Perelman, Judi Rotenberg Gallery, Boston, USA
Scope Miami, presented by Wilde Gallery, Miami, USA
Preview Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Scope NY, New York, USA
- 2008
- CTINK, EVOL & PISA73, Galerie Iterrance, Paris, France
OFF THE WALL – From Vandalism to Urban Art, WILDE Gallery, Berlin,
Germany
"Walden im U.F.O.", projekthaus, Galerie Walden, Berlin, Germany - 2007
- "Ct’ink", with pisa73, Basementizid, Heilbronn, Germany
- 2006
- "Secret Showroom", with pisa73, d-cide, deerbln, undenk; Cologne, Berlin, Barcelona
"Absolute Search", with mark jenkins, thundercut, influenza, niels post and other artists, Centrum Beeldende Kunst, Rotterdam, Netherlands
"From where I stand", with pisa73, onno poeisz, karski, connor harrington, mark mccoullough, Arttrail, Cork, Ireland - 2005
- "Ct’ink", with oisa73, Ronin Gallery, Nürnberg, Germany
"A world of influence", with pisa73, lesley reppeteaux, nick walker, logan hicks, Urbis Artrium Gallery San Francisco, USA
"Ct’ink", with pisa73, Supalifekiosk, Berlin, Germany - 2004
- "Urban act 1", with pisa73, pax paloscia, logan hicks, mackplakt, ephameron, give em hell, Studio14, Rome, Italy
"Ekstreetart battle", with senor b, spair, 56k, gould, influenza, erosie, fruhstuck, oles, bfree and other artists, De Punct, Tilburg, Netherlands
"Urban art factory", with pisa73, undenk, btfsf, layer1:1, Berliner Kunstsalon, Berlin, Germany
"Sneakers", with pisa73, dave white, tom langlands, the london police, bill mcmullen and other artists, CBK, Rotterdam, Netherlands
"Urban Acts” with pisa73, pax paloscia, urban medium, thomas schostok, anthony skirvin, fremantle, Studio14, Rome, Italy
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