Albert Oehlen
Albert Oehlen
One of the most respected painters today, Albert Oehlen (b. 1954) constantly questions the methods and means of painting to raise a sense of awareness of the medium, which he aims to reinvent and to reshape, always in opposition to traditional hierarchies. Albert Oehlen has been continually colliding various styles, orders or mediums since the 80’s, expanding the notion of painting to “what he wants to see”.
"Albert Oehlen long ago constructed the possibility of his own painting. Yet at the beginning the road seemed not merely a narrow alley, it looked like a dead end. What then? Give up and turn back? Or take a hammer and drive a tunnel through the solid amorphous mass before him? Albert Oehlen was one of the very few to take up that hammer. And when he started he struck mighty blows. It was in materials, expression, history and genre – in everything his immediate predecessors had progressively demolished with their hammers – that Oehlen stated his determination not to give in. His possibility of painting had to be built from the foundations. No gratuitous transgressions, no irony or cynicism – even if it is true that some used these terms to disparage his efforts to be free of artistic propriety. Instead Oehlen went looking where nobody else did, plunging into the piles of detritus abandoned by the wayside of an era. Then a final task remained: that of interweaving painting as history with the position of the painter and with the society out of which both painting and painter emerge in order to reflect on it.”
Anne Pontégnie, The history of abstraction seemed to be finished in Albert Oehlen, Galerie Max Hetzler and Holzwarth Publications, 2011
Image: Untitled, 2017, oil on canvas, 250 x 250 cm.; 98 3/8 x 98 3/8 in.
Solo Exhibitions
Carroll Dunham | Albert Oehlen
41 Dover Street, London
4 May – 16 June 2021
unverständliche braune Bilder
Bleibtreustraße 15/16, Berlin
April – July 2021
unverständliche braune Bilder
Goethestraße 2/3, Berlin
April – July 2021
Group Exhibitions
Selected Institutional Exhibitions
Biography
Videos
Publications
Albert Oehlen: Spiegelbilder. Mirror Paintings 1982–1990
Galerie Max Hetzler Berlin | Paris | London / Nahmad Contemporary / Holzwarth Publications, Berlin 2020
With an essay by Raphael Rubinstein
€ 45.00
True Stories. A Show Related to an Era – The Eighties
Galerie Max Hetzler Berlin | Paris | London / Holzwarth Publications, Berlin 2019
With texts by Peter Pakesch, Lutz Eitel and Wilhelm Schürmann and a conversation between Peter Pakesch, Max Hetzler and Hans Werner Holzwarth
€ 80.00
Albert Oehlen: Sexe, Religion, Politique
Gagosian / Galerie Max Hetzler Berlin | Paris | London, Paris 2018
€ 25.00
Albert Oehlen | Julian Schnabel
Galerie Max Hetzler Berlin | Paris | London / Holzwarth Publications, Berlin 2018
With texts by Glenn Brown and Christian Malycha
€ 45.00
Albert Oehlen | Julian Schnabel
Exhibition Poster
2018
€ 20.00
Albert Oehlen | Julian Schnabel
Exhibition Poster
2018
€ 20.00
Albert Oehlen: Works on Paper
Galerie Max Hetzler Berlin | Paris, 2016
With a poem by Howard Nemerov
€ 20.00
HALFTONE
Darren Almond, Tauba Auerbach, Mark Barrow & Sarah Parke, Jeff Elrod, John Houck, Navid Nuur, Albert Oehlen, Michael Raedecker, Tursic & Mille, Kelley Walker, Christopher Wool, Toby Ziegler
Galerie Max Hetzler Berlin | Paris 2014
With a text by Pierre-Nicolas Bounakoff
€ 15.00
Albert Oehlen
Galerie Max Hetzler Berlin | Paris / Holzwarth Publications, Berlin 2014
With a text by Jean-Pierre Criqui
REMEMBER EVERYTHING
Darren Almond, Glenn Brown, André Butzer, Rineke Dijkstra, Günther Förg, Mona Hatoum, Jeff Koons, Vera Lutter, Marepe, Beatriz Milhazes, Ernesto Neto, Frank Nitsche, Albert Oehlen, Yves Oppenheim, Richard Phillips, Michael Raedecker, Bridget Riley, Thomas Struth, Rebecca Warren, Christopher Wool, Toby Ziegler
Galerie Max Hetzler / Holzwarth Publications / Ridinghouse, Berlin and London 2014
With texts by Julie Sylvester and Jean-Marie Gallais
Edited by Jean-Marie Gallais
€ 45.00
Albert Oehlen: Interieurs
Albert Oehlen
Galerie Max Hetzler / Holzwarth Publications, Berlin 2013
With an essay by Michael Bracewell
€ 35.00
Albert Oehlen: h.a.t.
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin 2012
Edition of 300
Albert Oehlen
Galerie Max Hetzler / Holzwarth Publications, Berlin 2011
With a text by Anne Pontégnie
€ 35.00
D.I.E
Rainald Goetz, Albert Oehlen
Galerie Max Hetzler / Holzwarth Publications, Berlin 2010
Artist's book with drawings by Albert Oehlen and texts (in German) by Rainald Goetz
Edition of 300, numbered
Albert Oehlen 1991 2008
Galerie Max Hetzler / Holzwarth Publications, 2008
With an interview with Albert Oehlen by Max Dax
Always There
Haluk Akakçe, André Butzer, Günther Förg, Mark Grotjahn, Arturo Herrera, Sarah Morris, Frank Nitsche, Albert Oehlen, Yves Oppenheim, Richard Phillips, Michael Raedecker, Anselm Reyle, Kay Rosen, Kelley Walker, Christopher Wool
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin 2008
With a text by Gudrun Inboden
€ 40.00
Kommando Friedrich Hölderlin Berlin
Werner Büttner, André Butzer, Björn Dahlem, Günther Förg, Thilo Heinzmann, Thomas Helbig, Georg Herold, Andreas Hofer, Erwin Kneihsl, Albert Oehlen, Markus Selg, Thomas Struth, Thomas Zipp
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin 2007
With a text by Katrin Wittneven and a conversation between Max Dax and André Butzer
€ 35.00
Albert Oehlen
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin 2006
With a text by Katja Hesch
Works on Paper
Franz Ackermann, Haluk Akakçe, Darren Almond, André Butzer, Günther Förg, Ellen Gallagher, Mona Hatoum, Arturo Herrera, Mike Kelley, Martin Kippenberger, Graham Little, Marepe, Beatriz Milhazes, Frank Nitsche, Albert Oehlen, Yves Oppenheim, Richard Phillips, Chloe Piene, Jorge Queiroz, Kara Walker, Christopher Wool
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin 2005
With a text by Kirsty Bell
€ 35.00
Spiegelbilder / Mirror Paintings
Albert Oehlen
Galerie Max Hetzler / Holzwarth Publications, Berlin 2005
Edited and text by Katja Hesch
€ 35.00
Spezialbilder
Jonathan Meese, Albert Oehlen
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin / Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin / Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2004
€ 35.00
Gemälde Paintings 1980-1982
Albert Oehlen
Galerie Max Hetzler / Holzwarth Publications, Berlin 2002
With texts by Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen and Martin Prinzhorn (German / English)
€ 35.00
Luckenwalde
Albert Oehlen
Galerie Max Hetzler / Holzwarth Publications, Berlin 2000
With a text by Christoph Tannert (German)
Inhaltsangabe (Summary of Contents/Sumario)
Albert Oehlen
Galerie Max Hetzler / Holzwarth Publications, Berlin 2000
With texts by Albert Oehlen and André Butzer (German / English / Spanish)
€ 50.00
Gemälde
Albert Oehlen
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin 1995
€ 20.00
Robert Gober, On Kawara, Mike Kelley, Martin Kippenberger, Jeff Koons, Albert Oehlen, Julian Schnabel, Cindy Sherman, Thomas Struth, Philip Taaffe, Christopher Wool
Galerie Max Hetzler, Cologne 1992
With texts by Jean-Christophe Ammann and Jerry Saltz (German / English)
Gemälde II
Albert Oehlen
Galerie Max Hetzler, Cologne 1992
Donald Baechler, Günther Förg, Georg Herold, Martin Kippenberger, Jeff Koons, Albert Oehlen, Julian Schnabel, Terry Winters, Christopher Wool
Galerie Max Hetzler, Cologne 1990
€ 20.00
Gemälde
Albert Oehlen
Galerie Max Hetzler, Cologne 1988
With a text by Martin Prinzhorn (German / English)
3 Paintings
Ross Bleckner, Albert Oehlen, Julian Schnabel
Galerie Max Hetzler, Cologne 1987
Das Geld
Albert Oehlen
Galerie Max Hetzler, Cologne 1986
With a text by Albert Oehlen (German)
Lacque des Hommes
Werner Büttner, Martin Kippenberger, Albert Oehlen, Markus Oehlen
Broschüre zu einem Grafik-Portfolio,
Galerie Max Hetzler, Cologne 1983
Über sieben Brücken mußt Du gehen: mußten wir auch
Ina Barfuß, Werner Büttner, Georg Herold, Martin Kippenberger, Albert Oehlen, Markus Oehlen, Thomas Wachweger
Galerie Max Hetzler, Stuttgart 1982
