EVOL
Spray paint on cardboard, 78 x 79 cm, framed, 2012
Silk, aluminium, wood, cardboard, 103 x 72 x 10 cm, framed, 2012
Spray paint on cardboard, 73 x 88 cm, 2012
Spray paint on cardboard, 81 x 90 cm, 2012
Spray paint on cardboard, 83 x 93 cm, framed, 2012
EVOL
Spray paint on cardboard, 43 x 26 cm, framed, 2010
Spray paint on cardboard, 83 x 83 cm, framed, 2012
EVOL
Spray paint on cardboard, mdf, 30 x 30 x 101 cm, 2010
Spray paint on cut cardboard, 113 x 192 cm, framed, 2012
Spray paint on cardboard, 82 x 72 cm, framed, 2010
Spray paint on plywood, 120 x 57 cm, 2009
Spray paint on cardboard, 88,5 x 122 cm, 2010
Spray paint on cardboard, 108 x 114 cm, 2010
Spray paint on cardboard, 63 x 71 cm, 2010
Spray paint on cardboard, 92 x 53 cm, 2010
Spray paint on cardboard, 61 x 38 cm, 2010
Spray paint on cardboard, 98 x 81 cm, 2009
Spray paint on cardboard, 110 x 79 cm, 2009
Spray paint on cardboard, 143 x 208cm, 2009
Spray paint on cardboard, 84 x 113 cm, 2008
Spray paint on cardboard, 110 x 110 cm, 2007
Spray paint on board, 54 x 117 cm, 2007
Spray paint on plastic boxes, 100 x 80 x 30 cm, 2007
Silkscreen on cardboard, edition of 100, signed, 70 x 100 cm, 2010
Silkscreen on cardboard, edition of 100, signed, 70 x 100 cm, 2010
  • 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.
  • BIOGRAPHY
  • 2001
  • HFG Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany
  • 2000
  • Kuopio Acadamy of Arts and Crafts, Finland
  • Lives and works in Berlin, Germany
  • AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS
  • 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
  • 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)
  • 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