Frank Nitsche

Frank Nitsche

Frank Nitsche - Galerie Max Hetzler

Frank Nitsche (b. 1964) has developed a sophisticated visual language, overlapping layers of paint on top of each other, intersecting lines and creating specific forms. Geometric figures, lines and shapes are composed to abstract formations which could remind of construction plans, technical models, design, calligraphy or computer programs. To work on his abstract compositions, Frank Nitsche makes use of a large visual archive taken from media, pop and consumer culture which he arranges, selects and condenses into his own pictorial idiom; his “albums” being published as artists books or exhibited next to the paintings.

"Nitsche exclusively develops his typically distorted and intertwined planar formalisations during the painting process - without any computer assistance, but nevertheless intentionally including a general aesthetic of medialisation in the paintings. In his opinion "all aspects of social life are designed. I understand my work", says Nitsche, "as the resume and essence of all design, so to say, the deformed design of the zeitgeist, the over-design and the distortion of the over-design." In this respect the scintillatingly compact, evocatively synthetic character of the paintings also harbours social-critical reflections. [...] Nitsche applies a unique pictorial logic to the development of every one of his paintings. For him there is no seriality; not even the formats are standardised. He enters the painting process completely: positioning a form, reacting to it in subsequent steps, obliterating existing parts, overpainting, complementing, erasing further parts, overpainting again, and so on. He continues this until a structure exists with the desired tension, rigour and dynamics."

Jens Asthoff, Into the Green in Frank Nitsche: Green, Galerie Max Hetzler, 2006

Image: AZO-29-2015, 
2015, 
oil on canvas
, 54 x 51 cm

个展

Frank Nitsche - Galerie Max Hetzler

HAPPY DAYS IN MEXICO

Bleibtreustraße 45, Berlin

6 June – 18 July 2015
Frank Nitsche - Galerie Max Hetzler

PROFESSIONAL SMILE

(Artist's book: "A IV–X")

Oudenarder Straße 16-20, Berlin-Wedding

12 January – 16 February 2013
Frank Nitsche - Galerie Max Hetzler

DROPS

Zimmerstraße 90/91, Berlin-Mitte

2 May – 14 June 2008
Frank Nitsche - Galerie Max Hetzler

GREEN

(catalogue)

Zimmerstraße 90/91, Berlin-Mitte

29 October – 10 December 2005
Frank Nitsche - Galerie Max Hetzler

Die Unvereinbarkeit von Newtons Gravitationstheorie und der speziellen Relativitätstheorie

Zimmerstraße 90/91, Berlin-Mitte

10 January – 14 February 2004
Frank Nitsche - Galerie Max Hetzler

Frank Nitsche

Zimmerstraße 90/91, Berlin-Mitte

13 April – 18 May 2002

群展

REMEMBER EVERYTHING - Galerie Max Hetzler

REMEMBER EVERYTHING

40 Years Galerie Max Hetzler
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
(catalogue)

Oudenarder Straße 16-20, Berlin-Wedding

10 November – 21 December 2013
Summer Group Show - Galerie Max Hetzler

Summer Group Show

Arturo Herrera, Michael Landy, Marepe, Reinhard Mucha, Ernesto Neto, Frank Nitsche, Thomas Struth, Rebecca Warren

Zimmerstraße 90/91, Berlin-Mitte

1 – 26 July 2008
Always There - Galerie Max Hetzler

Always There

Part 1
Haluk Akakçe, Günther Förg, Mark Grotjahn, Sarah Morris, Frank Nitsche, Yves Oppenheim, Anselm Reyle, Kelley Walker (catalogue)

Zimmerstraße 90/91, Berlin-Mitte

8 – 29 March 2008
Carbonic Anhydride - Galerie Max Hetzler

Carbonic Anhydride

Haluk Akakçe, Darren Almond, Shannon Bool, André Butzer, Terry Haggerty, Mona Hatoum, Arturo Herrera, Ulrich Lamsfuß, Won Ju Lim, Vera Lutter, Marepe, Sarah Morris, Ernesto Neto, Frank Nitsche, Yves Oppenheim, Thomas Struth, Kara Walker (catalogue)

Oudenarder Straße 16-20, Berlin-Wedding

28 September – 11 November 2006
Works on Paper - Galerie Max Hetzler

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 (catalogue)

Zimmerstraße 90/91, Berlin-Mitte

6 May – 25 June 2005
Lila, weiß und andere Farben - Galerie Max Hetzler

Lila, weiß und andere Farben

A Summer Group Show

Zimmerstraße 90/91, Berlin-Mitte

10 August – 7 September 2002

机构展览

FRANK NITSCHE

NN

Kunstsammlung Neubrandenburg, Neubrandenburg

14 December 2017 – 4 March 2018
Frank Nitsche

Hello China!

Brandenburgischer Kunstverein, Potsdam

4 December 2011 – 25 March 2012

简介

Show Vita
Show Selected Bibliography

出版物

REMEMBER EVERYTHING - Galerie Max Hetzler

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

Leaf through book
Frank Nitsche: A IV–X - Galerie Max Hetzler

Frank Nitsche: A IV–X

Artist's book, 2013
Edition of 300, signed and dated by the artist

Always There - Galerie Max Hetzler

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

Carbonic Anhydride - Galerie Max Hetzler

Carbonic Anhydride

Haluk Akakçe, Darren Almond, Shannon Bool, André Butzer, Terry Haggerty, Mona Hatoum, Arturo Herrera, Ulrich Lamsfuß, Won Ju Lim, Vera Lutter, Marepe, Sarah Morris, Ernesto Neto, Frank Nitsche, Yves Oppenheim, Thomas Struth, Kara Walker

Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin 2006

€ 35.00

GREEN - Galerie Max Hetzler

GREEN

Frank Nitsche

Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin 2005
With a text by Jens Asthoff

€ 30.00

Works on Paper - Galerie Max Hetzler

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

媒体文章

Kunstforum International 2019

Berliner Zeitung 2013

Frieze 2012

Der Tagesspiegel 2010

Frieze 2004