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