HOANTZN 2016 Ona B.
Adrian Buschmann WEINGLAS, 2016Oil on paper, 56 x 42 cm
Adrian Buschmann , WIE MAN ÜBER DINGE NACHDENKT How Thinking About Things, 2016, oil on paper
JENE GEBILDE Ona B., Adrian Buschmann
Pictures and installations.
Opening by Henriette Horny and Roman Grabner, head of BRUSEUM and curator, Joanneum.
The artist, performer and authoress ONA B. started her career 1980 in Vienna. Her OEuvre covers painting, installations, sculptures, designs, films and performances, texts, concepts and music.
She is a member of the „DIE DAMEN“, „Phoenix Production“ and she currently works with the „Andelsbuch-Gang“ to heir large land-art-performances. ONA B. has participated in international exhibitions like the Biennial, Ankara 1990 – first prize for DIE DAMEN, the Venice Biennial in 1993 – „Böse ist besser“ with DIE DAMEN, the Cairo Biennial in 1997 with Tone Fink (film „Roll Over“), the Biennial of Valencia 2001 – with Norbert Brunner (film „Sembon Dorii“) and she was invited with her installation images „Secret Life“ to the Biennial in Beijing and with the film „Under-Cover-Red“ (together with Beofilm)to SIM51 Festival in Beijing in 2008.
A number of museums have dedicated asolo – show to ONA B.: 1993 Museum of Modern Art in Prague „Jsem jen oko“, 1994 Museum of Modern Art in Passau „Zanshin“, 1996 Dum Umeni-Brno „Dark Mirror“, 2004 Shanghai Art Museum „Red Planet“, 2006 Vienna Künstlerhaus „Dream“ and NAMOC in Beijing „Red Happiness“ , 2009 Museum of Natural History in Maastricht „Red Animal“. 2010 she was be represnting in Egon-Schiele-Art-Centrum and 2012 at the Castle Klatovy /Klenova – CR and at the Palais Yeniköy-Istanbul- TR
Adrian Buschmann: Born in Kattowitz, Poland. Lives and works in Berlin, Vienna and Vallebona.
Education: Studies painting at the Art Academy (UDK), Berlin at Prof. Leiko Ikemura and Daniel Richter.
Buschmann creates paintings that alternate between abstraction and representation while conflating styles from different eras with ironic comments on the contemporary art scene. A continuous, up-to-date and joyful challenge which exiles the artist in his solitary and inner search.In 2013, he won the Strabag Artaward International.
Adrian Buschmann describes his images as emotional painting, by which he refers primarily to
his visual themes and motifs. The subjective, emotional aspect of his work, which is attended by
something irrational and subconscious, is contrasted by the extremely precise composition of
what is depicted. The reduction bordering on denial produces an unusual awareness of what has
not been painted. Ephemerality and a feeling of extreme decisiveness lie side by side. Lightness
oscillates with sharpness to generate an underlying duality. The artist pursues the concept that
ideas are not self-contained, completed forms. According to Buschmann, ideas are based less on
the idea of creativity than on a procedural structure.
Or, as Francis Bacon said in conversation with David Sylvester (Munich 1982): “I attempted to depict
a bird […] but suddenly the lines I had drawn suggested something quite different, and the image
arose from this suggestion. I never intended to make the picture this way, I never imagined it in
this way.” Henriette van der Werff, Berlin, 2012
Exhibitions (selection)
2016 Mirrors – Galerie DUVE Berlin, Berlin In Formation – Sexauer Gallery, Berlin
2015 Parallel Vienna 2015, Wien / Vienna
Der Champagnerkäfig, Galerija VARTAI, Vilnius, Lettland / Vilnius, Lithuania
New Needs, Groupshow, Haus Wittmann by Johannes Spalt, Etsdorf/Kamp, Niederösterreich / Lower Austria
Time to fill up the Glass, Galerie Crone, Berlin
Destination Vienna 2015, Kunsthalle Wien / Vienna
Painting The Sky Blue, Stefan Lundgren Gallery, Mallorca, Spanien / Mallorca, Spain
Adrian Buschmann, Mia Marfurt, Henning Strassburger, Tyra Tingleff, Studiolo, Mailand,
Italien / Milano, Italy
To define and Punish, Galleri Jacob Bjørn, Aarhus, Dänemark / Aarhus, Denmark
2014 Paint me paint me everywhere, Galeria Bunkier Sztuki, Krakau, Polen / Krakow, Poland
Eye Know curated by Amir Shariat, Vienna
Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles
Gegenwart der Moderne, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna
2015 ADRIAN BUSCHMANN Sentimiento Nuovo, Gabriele Senn Galerie, Wien / Vienna
2013 Courtesy of, HHDM, Vienna, A
2012 PINSEL, EINE Galerie, Berlin, D
2012 Make me like it, Etablissement Gschwandner, Vienna, A
2012 Der Grieche at Flutgraben, Flutgraben, Berlin, D
2012 The Unblinking Eye, Kavi Gupta Galerie, Berlin, D
2012 Erste Bank Ausstellung Berlin, Der Grieche, Berlin, D
2011 2004 – 2012, Der Grieche, Berlin, D
2011 10 Jahre Straßburger Buschmann, Infernoesque, Berlin, D
2011 La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, I
2011 Duchamp und seine Erben, Halle 14, Leipzig, D
2010 Coming Soon, kunstGarten, Graz, A
2010 Schimmeliges Brot, Schlechtriem Brothers, Berlin, D
2010 Say Hello to the Palmtreeman, Fiebach & Minninger, Cologne, D
2010 Mehr Lohn, weniger Arbeit, Ve.Sch, Vienna, A
2009 Die neuen Schnellen, Ve.Sch, Vienna, A
2010 ‘Coming Soon’ Adrian Buschmann, kunstGarten / Graz
2009 Menschenbilder 1620 / 2009 – Zeitgenössische Bildnisse begegnen alten niederländischen
Portraits, Museum Abtei Liesborn, Wadersloh, D
2008 Accrochage!!, Klara Wallner Galerie, Berlin, D
2007 Adrian Buschmann & Marcin Zarzeka, A4 Club, Bratislava, SK
2007 Daniela, Swinger, Wien, ABlau Rot Gelb eine Mélange bitte, Swinger, Vienna, A
2006 Morgen Früh im Winter, Klara Wallner Galerie, Berlin, D
2006 Heute Morgen Gestern Auch, Parismoskau, Leipzig, D
2006 With peppermint you are my prince, Christina Wilson, Copenhagen, D
2006 KFarewell Berlin, Brun, Düsseldorf, D
2005 Adrian Buschmann, Klara Wallner Galerie, Berlin, D