Artist
Adrian Ghenie
b. 1977, Baia Mare, Romania · Romanian · Based in Berlin, Germany & Cluj-Napoca, Romania
- University of Art and Design Cluj-Napoca (2001)
- Painting
- Palette Knife Oil
- Pie-in-the-Face Portraits
- Historical Nightmares
Adrian Ghenie paints historical figures, dictators, artists and anonymous bodies through scraping, smearing and collage-derived distortion. Images from archives and mass media are reworked until portraiture becomes unstable.
Painting; collage
Gallery Representation
Artist Films
Adrian Ghenie started a gallery because he was a “failure”
San Francisco Museum of Modern ArtOfficial source ↗ (opens in a new window)
Works in Collections
Charles Darwin as a young man, 2014, oil on canvas, 49 cm x 32.5 cm x 4.5 cm (19-5/16" x 12-13/16" x 1-3/4") unframed, 52.5 cm x 36 cm x 4.5 cm (20-11/16" x 14-3/16" x 1-3/4"
Major Works
- 2008Pie Fight Study
- 2009The Collector 4
- 2008Nickelodeon
- 2014The Sunflowers in 1937
- 2015Darwin’s Room
- 2016Self-Portrait as Vincent van Gogh
- 2016Degenerate Art
- 2016The Lidless Eye
- 2013On the Road to Tarascon 2
- 2010The Dada Room
Museums & Public Collections
Interviews & Writing
- Museum-quality video search →RESEARCH QUEUEvideo
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