Patrick Cierpka
German
Patrick Cierpka was born in 1967 in Giengen, Germany. He began studying visual communications in 1991 at the University of Pforzheim, and from 1996 he began a second degree in painting at the acclaimed Berlin University of Arts. Five years later he completed his studies with a Master of Fine Arts under the tutelage of Professor Hödicke. Cierpka’s work has been exhibited in Berlin in the GEHAG Forum, Neues Deutschland, and the Kunstmuseum Heidenheim where he also received the 2003 Hans Helmut Baur Prize. His works are included in international collections including the Federal Ministry for the Environment and the AXA Nordstern in Cologne. The artist currently works and lives in Berlin.
ARTIST STATEMENT
A glance into the light changes our perception. In a sense, you go blind for a brief moment. The afterimages that appear on the retina come from the delayed reaction of the eye to the stimulus of light. When you look around at your surroundings, shapes dissolve, motifs overlap, and new forms are created.
“With colourfully glaring landscapes overpowered with light, contours dissolve and structures blur in front of our eyes. It’s as if one had stopped and looked into the bright sun or into the light for too long. This is an experience that everyone has had before. To get out of this ‘overexposed’ state and to reduce glare, we naturally squint or blink. This experience, the fleeting moment when contours and colours dissolve and reappear, is captured in my paintings.” – Patrick Cierpka
Awards
2003 | Hans-Helmut Baur-Award, Art museum, Heidenheim |
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2014 | TAGNACHT, Galerie Jarmuschek+Partner, Berlin, Germany |
2011 | ICH WAR KURZ BLIND, Galerie Jarmuschek+Partner, Berlin, Germany |
2009 | DIORAMA, Galerie Jarmuschek+Partner, Berlin, Germany |
VOLTA NY – Solo Show, Galerie Jarmuschek+Partner, New York, USA | |
2005 | HEAVEN KICK, Galerie Jarmuschek+Partner, Berlin, Germany |
2003 | HEIMSPIEL, Ausstellungshalle, Giengen, Germany |
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018 | PAPERPOSITIONS BERLIN, Galerie Jarmuschek+Partner, Berlin, Germany |
2017 | SALON DER GEGENWART, Hamburg, Germany |
MOMENT, Galerie Jarmuschek+Partner, Berlin, Germany | |
POSITIONS BERLIN, Galerie Jarmuschek+Partner, Berlin, Germany | |
PAPERPOSITIONS MÜNCHEN, Galerie Jarmuschek+Partner, Berlin, Germany | |
CODEX – The Groupshow, Projektraum Berlin, Germany | |
2016 | LES MINIATURES, Galerie Nicole Gnesa, München, Germany |
PROSPECT, Galerie Jarmuschek+Partner, Berlin, Germany | |
POSITIONS BERLIN, Galerie Jarmuschek+Partner, Berlin, Germany | |
2015 | POSITIONS BERLIN, Galerie Jarmuschek+Partner, Berlin, Germany |
2014 | ART BODENSEE, Dornbirn, Austria |
CODEX PAINTING SHOW, Projektraum, Berlin, Germany | |
2013 | DISMANTLING, Galerie Jarmuschek+Partner, Berlin, Germany |
EDGE AND SURFACE, Projektraum, Berlin, Germany | |
VOLTASHOW 9, Galerie Jarmuschek+Partner, Basel, Switzerland | |
PREVIEW BERLIN, Galerie Jarmuschek+Partner, Berlin, Germany | |
SWAB BARCELONA, Galerie Jarmuschek+Partner, Barcelona, Spain | |
2012 | VOLTASHOW8, Galerie Jarmuschek+Partner, Basel, Switzerland |
PREVIEW BERLIN, Galerie Jarmuschek+Partner, Berlin, Germany | |
2011 | SWAB BARCELONA, Galerie Jarmuschek+Partner, Barcelona, Spain |
2010 | TAPE MODERN NR. 13, Tape Club, Berlin, Germany |
THE FORGOTTEN BAR – The best of dimension 5, Galerie im Regierungsviertel, Berlin, Germany | |
ZWISCHENRAUM, Galerie Dina4 Projekte, München, Germany | |
SWAB BARCELONA, Barcelona, Spain | |
VOLTASHOW 6, Galerie Jarmuschek+Partner, Basel, Switzerland | |
PREVIEW BERLIN, Galerie Jarmuschek+Partner, Berlin, Germany | |
2009 | AFTER DARK, MY SWEET, Galerie Oechsner, Nürnberg, Germany |
VÄTER UND SÖHNE, Galerie Brusberg, Berlin, Germany | |
2008 | EIN FOTOKÜNSTLER – ein Maler, Galerie Brusberg und Anna Augstein, Berlin, Germany |
PREVIEW BERLIN, Galerie Jarmuschek+Partner, Berlin, Germany | |
SWAB BARCELONA, Galerie Jarmuschek+Partner, Barcelona, Spain | |
2007 | ZWISCHENRAUM, Galerie Jarmuschek+Partner, Berlin, Germany |
KONTRASTE I, DSV-Kunstkontor, Stuttgart, Germany | |
2006 | P.C., M.P., J.R., Galerie Naumann, Stuttgart, Germany |
JUNGE KUNST AUS OSTWÜRTTEMBERG, Kunstmuseum Heidenheim, Germany | |
YEAR_06, Galerie Jarmuschek+Partner, London, United Kingdom | |
2005 | TOUCHÉ, Klasse K.H, Hödicke an der Udk, Berlin, Germany |
QUINTESSENZ 6, Jarmuschek + Partner, Berlin, Germany | |
ART COLOGNE, Köln, Germany | |
ART FRANKFURT, Frankfurt, Germany | |
PREVIEW BERLIN, Galerie Jarmuschek+Partner, Berlin, Germany | |
2004 | QUINTESSENZ 5, Jarmuschek+Partner, Berlin, Germany |
2003 | HEIDENHEIMER DREIECK, Kunstmuseum Heidenheim, Germany |
NEUES DEUTSCHLAND, Projektraum, Berlin, Germany | |
2002 | NEUES DEUTSCHLAND, Projektraum, Berlin, Germany |
2001 | AUSGEZEICHNET, Stiftung Starke, Berlin, Germany |
1999 | HOLIDAYS IN PARADISE, Galerie Michael Schultz, Berlin, Germany |
BERLIN 2000, AXA Nordstern Art Versicherung, Köln, Germany | |
HEIDENHEIMER DREIECK, Kunstmuseum Heidenheim, Germany |