Dates: October 21, 2016–February 5, 2017
Curator: Petra Joos
- Artistic freedom, identified by the artist as his main subject matter, is evident in the way he fearlessly approaches each canvas, using techniques with old vocabularies to create the uncanny, paradoxical sensation of familiar novelty
- In his work Oehlen fuels the ongoing debate begun in the second half of the 20th century about the death of painting, and he does so precisely by using painting as an expressive medium
- The show explores the extent to which we are capable of seeing. Although the series are formally different at first glance, they have a common core that unites and connects them, generating a network of interrelationships
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao presents Albert Oehlen: Behind the Image, a powerful artistic statement by one of the most influential painters of recent decades and one of the most controversial artists of postwar Germany.