Tatjana Doll
Tatjana Doll (born 1970, in Burgsteinfurt) is a contemporary German painter.
Life
Tatjana Doll graduated in 1998 from the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf under the master Dieter Krieg. From 2005 to 2006, she was a guest professor for painting in the Kunsthochschule Weißensee Berlin. After residing in New York, Istambul, and Rome in Villa Massimo, Casa Baldi Olevano Romano, she now lives and works in Berlin. 2009 she was appointed as art professor at the State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe and works, since then, at the external campus Freiburg.
Artistic work
Doll's pictures often show diverse everyday objects, which structure and influence our lives in the way we are often not aware of. Cardboard cups, suitcases, electronic devices, lorries or cars are depicted in large, realistic paintings and are subjects to a detailed analysis by the means of art. The focus on a single object allows taking a distance from the automatic way of seeing it, to look at it from a different point of view and to recognize social and political contexts behind it. "Doll's painting begins with social reality as well as with the question of images and symbols to represent the processes of this reality and their subjective assimilation.".[1]
Technique and material
In her works, Tatjana Doll investigates the possibilities and the borders of painting as well as "its potential to disclose social processes and our perception of them".[2] The predominantly realistic style appears even stronger due to the oversized formats. The artist often works with the same motive across a series of pictures and therefore lets the moment of accident integrate the pictorial interplay. Tatjana Doll finds the way to express the confrontation of perfection and failure, integrity and breach. The material plays a great role – the artist works with enamel, the shiny surface of which frequently gets cracks, paint puddles, and waves.
Selected solo exhibitions
- 2015 The Pharaoh Is Coming, Galerie Gebr. Lehmann, Berlin
- 2014 DOLL vs. HAVEKOST, Neue Galerie Gladbeck (with Eberhard Havekost)
- 2013 Recession II, Cristina Guerra, Lissabon
- 2013 Raster Image Processing – Balthus, Beckmann, Delacroix, Kirchner & Douanier Rousseau, Galerie Jean Brolly, Paris
- 2013 SILENT RUNNING (Get off Facebook), Nanzuka Underground Gallery, Tokio
- 2012 Enigma, The Essential Collection, Zürich
- 2011 Hang 'Em High, Galerie Gebr. Lehmann, Berlin
- 2011 Girls (Used to) Wait, Galerie Klaus Gerrit Friese, Stuttgart
- 2010 Tel Lie Vision, Corsoveneziatto, Milano
- 2010 Camp, Museum Junge Kunst, Frankfurt (Oder)
- 2010 Reventon, Nanzuka Underground Gallery, Tokio
- 2010 Toxic Chemicals,Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen
- 2009 Container Ship, Art Unlimited, Basel
- 2009 Der Lügner unter Betrügern (West End Girls), Galerie Gebr. Lehmann, Berlin
- 2009 Im Westen Nichts Neues, Galerie Gebr. Lehmann, Dresden
- 2008 Recycling Containers, Galerie Jean Brolly, Paris
- 2008 Recession, Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lissabon
- 2008 Institutional and poetic violence (mit Anne-Lise Coste und Erik van Lieshout), Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto
- 2007 Vigliance Proprete, Galerie Jean Brolly, Paris
- 2006 100 Bilder aus der Sammlung Schleich, Galerie Gebr. Lehmann, Dresden
- 2005 Bier für Öl (+ Ein blinder Passagier), Kunsthalle Bremerhaven
Selected group exhibitions
- 2015 Berlin Artists Statement, BWA Contemporary Art Gallery, Katowice
- 2015 A Man Walks into A Bar, me Collectors Room, Berlin
- 2014 Mensch werde wesentlich, KV Freunde Aktueller Kunst, Zwickau
- 2013 Black & White, 5 Artists 4 Cities, Patrick Painter Gallery, Los Angeles
- 2013 My Kind of Disneyland, Märkisches Museum Witten
- 2013 The Legend of the Shelves, Autocenter, Berlin
- 2012 Salon der Gegenwart, Hamburg
- 2012 Deja-Vue, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe; Sammeln fuer die Zukunft. Kunst von 1952 bis 2012, Staatliche Kunsthalle Orangerie, Karlsruhe
- 2012 Œuvre sur papier, Galerie Jean Brolly, Paris
- 2012 False Optimism, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork City, Ireland
- 2011 Deutsche Dinge (with Eberhard Havekost and Anton Stankowski), White Block Gallery, Seoul, Korea
- 2011 The Last First Decade, Art Centre, Ellipse Foundation, Alcoitao, Cascais, Portugal
- 2011 Things are queer. Highlights der Sammlung UniCredit, Marta Herford, Herford
- 2010 If not in this period of time – Contemporary German Painting, Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Brasilien
- 2010 Schwarz, Märkisches Museum Witten, Witten
- 2010 platinum metre, aschenbach&hofland galleries, Amsterdam
References
- ↑ Reinhard Spieler (2010), Wilhelm-Hack-Museum Ludwigshafen, ed., "Toxic Chemicals" (in German), Tatjana Doll. Toxic Chemicals (Ludwigshafen am Rhein): pp. 24, ISBN 978-3-86828-133-0
- ↑ Reinhard Spieler (2010), Wilhelm-Hack-Museum Ludwigshafen, ed., "Preface" (in German), Tatjana Doll. Toxic Chemicals (Ludwigshafen am Rhein), ISBN 978-3-86828-133-0