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BORIS BORN
I am a German 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 sometimes ‘semiabstract’, i.e. they have an organic,
dystopian or planetary ductus (figurative reference).
Solo Exhibitions (selection)
2017 'Pictures from Alleland', Stone Space Gallery, London
2014 'Paintables', Stone Space Gallery, London
2013 'Unblind Ambitions', Curated by Tara Aghdashloo, The Invisible Line (TIL) Gallery, London
2005-10 Bishopsgate Institute, London:
Series 'Moons of Saturn' at the Great Hall
2003 Rivington Gallery, London
Meinhold and Reucker Gallery, Berlin
2002 Ars Nova Gallery, Berlin
2000 Rivington Gallery, London
1999 Hanging Space Gallery, London
1997 Pfefferberg Gallery, Berlin
1995 Aufzeit 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)
2014 GRÜN…GRÜN…GRÜN, Friendly Society Gallery, Berlin
2006 Künstler der Galerie, Friendly Society Gallery, Berlin
2005 'Horizonte', Friendly Society Gallery, Berlin
Group Show, Rivington Gallery, London
2004 'Kunst im Quadrat', Friendly Society Gallery, Berlin
2003 Group Show, Rivington Gallery, London
2002 Artists' Books, Saltburn Art Gallery, Saltburn
Funkhaus MDR, Magdeburg (Ars Nova Gallery, Berlin)
2001 Frankfurter Bookfair for Art Books, Frankfurt (represented by Eagle Gallery, London)
2000 'Zwischenstation', City Carré, Magdeburg
1999 Grand Machè, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg (Ars Nova Gallery, Berlin)
1997 The Blue Gallery, London
Pommersfelde Gallery, Berlin
AUFZEIT Gallery, Berlin
Kunstmarkt Dresden (Pommersfelde Gallery, Berlin)
1996 Kunst statt Werbung, Underground Gallery, U2 Alexanderplatz, Berlin
Accrochage, Artforum Gallery, Hanover
'Painting, Collages, Found Objects', Gleditsch 45 Gallery, Berlin
Schmolling Gallery, Wedemark
1995 Accrochage, Artforum Gallery, Hanover
1994 Dom Twortschestwa, (Russian Artist's Group), Tschiljuskinskaja, Russia
1994 Hohmann Gallery, Walsrode
Broschwitz Gallery, Berlin
1993 ACUD Gallery, Berlin
1993 Kulturraum Rathaus, Rathaus Schöneberg, Berlin
1990 'Der Riss', Kunstverein Lichtenberg, Berlin
Nikita Ogurcov & Boris Born, "Das Dasein an sich" Gallery, Berlin
'Auswahl', LightBand Gallery, Berlin
1981 Ballhof Gallery, Hanover
1980 Ballhof Gallery, Hanover
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