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Oliver Kunkel


„Bluecoast”, 2008
www.bluecoast.de.vu

BLUECOAST stands for secure investments in the future. The company made its mission to confront contemporary pessimism (...).The company builds on positive effects of upcoming climate change, which it actively helps to create. (...)

Oliver Kunkel’s imaginary company BLUECOAST intimates an idyllic landscape. According to expert calculations, we can expect a rise of the sea level of 70 meters due of the melting of both the polar caps and Greenland’s ice. (...) This work (...) like most of his works – does not want to educate; rather, it wants to analyze and offer metaphors that can be applied to other parts of life. Kunkel is more overarchingly interested in psychological issues than in specifically staged or imitative scenarios.

Vita

Geboren/born 1973 in Frankfurt am Main

Lebt und arbeitet/lives and works in Köln

Education

2004 - 2006 Gast bei Rosemarie Trockel - Kunstakademie Düsseldorf

2001 - 2007 Studium - Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln - Valie Export, Peter Zimmermann, Marcel Odenbach und Juergen Klauke

Solo Exhibitions (Selection)

2008 „SLEEPING BEAUTY SYNDROME I“ / KJUBH Kunstverein Köln

2007 „WELCOME to SAGACITY“ / Galerie Dieter Reitz / Berlin

2006 „WELCOME to SAGACITY” / Moltkereiwerkstatt / Köln

2004 „Slumber“ / Galerie Rachel Haferkamp / Köln

2003 „IVAGINATIONS“ / Projetdeux / Köln

Group Exhibitions (Selection)

2008 „Walkmühle“ / Wiesbaden

2007 PROP – Magazin / nüans / Düsseldorf, „PATHOS“ / Kassel, Pasinger Fabrik / München

2006 Kunstwerke / Berlin, „Smells like Cologne” / Galerie Zolla Lieberman / Chicago, USA, „EMAF” / Osnabrück, „Satellite of Love” / Witte de With / Rotterdam, Netherlands

2005 „Monitoring” / Kassel, Kunstfilmbiennale / Köln, touch me festival / Zagreb, Croatia, „I Will“ - mit Rosemarie Trockel u.a. / Schauspielhaus / Düsseldorf

2004 „Rheinschau“ / Köln, „be clean“ / Musée d’Histoire / Luxembourg, „arcart04” / kunstforening / Tromsø - Norway

2003 „beyond media 03” / Florenz, Italia, Break 2.2 Festival / Ljubljana, Slovenia


Participants 2008 A-Z