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BORIS BORN
I am a German and Britsh painter and live and work in London. I started my artistic career in the early 1980s in Hanover. From 1978 - 1982 I worked as an assistant and practitioner at the studio of the German artist Leiv Warren Donnan's. After completing an MA in Philosophy and German Literature at the Freie Universität Berlin in 1988, I decided to focus on my art. I am an abstract painter in the broadest sense. I usually work in series that pursue a specific topic. In the painting process, I often use surrealist or automatic techniques such as frottage, collage, decalcomania, grattage or stamping techniques. Popular materials are varnish, ashes, sand, fabric, pigment, pastel, Chinese ink, emulsion, and acrylic on a wide variety of bases such as wood, felt, roof slate, rice paper or conventional canvases. The pictures are often ‘semiabstract’, i.e. they have an organic, dystopian or planetary ductus (figurative reference). Solo Exhibitions (selection) 2024 'Curiosities, Remnants and Communication Problems', Pictorem Gallery, London 2022 'The Senses of Plants', Pictorem Gallery, London 2018 'New Pictures from Alleland', Pictorem Gallery, London 2017 'Pictures from Alleland', Stone Space Gallery, London 2015 'Trip to Galicia' and 'Discontinuity', Pictorem Gallery, London 2014 'Paintables', Stone Space Gallery, London 2013 'Unblind Ambitions', Curated by Tara Aghdashloo, The Invisible Line (TIL) Gallery, London 2010 'The Schnellzeit Project' Oxford House Gallery, London 2005-10 Bishopsgate Institute, London: Series 'Moons of Saturn' at the Great Hall (2005 - 2010) Soloshows Corridor (2005 & 2007), Foyer (2005 & 2006) 2003 Rivington Gallery, London Pavilion Gallery, Colne (Lancashire) Meinhold and Reucker Gallery, Berlin 2002 Ars Nova Gallery, Berlin 2000 Rivington Gallery, London 1999 Hanging Space Gallery, London 1998 Möller Gallery, Warnemünde 1997 Pfefferberg Gallery, Berlin 1996 Speicher Nr.1 Gallery, Waren (Müritz) 1995 Aufzeit Gallery, Berlin Münsterland Gallery, Berlin Pommersfelde Gallery, Berlin 1994 Expo 88 Gallery, Moscow 1991 LightBand Gallery, Berlin 1990 Das Dasein an sich Gallery, Dortmund Das Dasein an sich Gallery, Berlin 1988 Das Dasein an sich Gallery, Berlin
Group Exhibitions (selection) 2020 Southwark Park Galleries 36th Annual Open 2019 Barbican Arts Trust, ArtWorks Open, selected by Emma Talbot and Alex Schady 2014 GRÜN…GRÜN…GRÜN, Friendly Society Gallery, Berlin 2013 'The Discerning Eye' Exhibition 2013, Mall Galleries, London 2006 Künstler der Galerie, Gallery Friendly Society, Berlin 2005 'Horizonte', Friendly Society Gallery, Berlin 2004 'Kunst im Quadrat', Friendly Society Gallery, Berlin 2002 Funkhaus MDR, Magdeburg (Ars Nova Gallery, Berlin) 2000 'Zwischenstation', City Carré, Magdeburg 1999 Grand Machè, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg (Ars Nova Gallery, Berlin) 1997 Kunstmarkt Dresden (Pommersfelde Gallerye, Berlin) 1996 Kunst statt Werbung, Underground Gallery, U2 Alexanderplatz, Berlin 1994 Dom Twortschestwa, (Russian Artist's Group), Tschiljuskinskaja, Russia 1993 Kulturraum Rathaus, Rathaus Schöneberg, Berlin 1990 'Der Riss', Kunstverein Lichtenberg, Berlin
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