ANDREAS EXNER | PEBEO STUDIO | AL’S OFFICE

January 19 - February 28, 2025

VIEW EXHIBITION

The current exhibition ANDREAS EXNER: PEBEO STUDIO KADMIUM ZITRONEN GELB VW GOLF 1.6 features eight photographs of site-specific installations of the APPLIED MONOCHROME PAINTING series, realized in Frankfurt (G), Bordeaux (F), Groningen (NL), Aschaffenburg (G) and Melbourne (AUS).

In his work, Andreas Exner merges the contemplation of painting with the perception of everyday life, transforming realms of art into ordinary living spaces and vice versa. Exner utilizes everyday objects in his search for color, consistently exploring the dialogue between painting and sculpture. The result is a body of work that decisively reinvents abstract painting, embedding it in public spaces, defining its relevance in the present.

In Exners APPLIED MONOCHROME PAINTING series  (with titles such as Matisse Emerald Triumph Herald, Carbon Black Porsche Carrera, Derivan Matisse Australian Blue Gum Citroën C3), the artist references key moments in art history and questions their legacy in the context of today’s consumer world—opening spaces for thought. “Often, these works create new meaning or evoke memory. Committed to the concept of ‘painting in the expanded field,’ Andreas Exner’s works oscillate between painting, sculpture, and context-based installation art. In these pieces, monochrome color fields are fitted into the side windows of cars and displayed in public spaces along roadsides, turning the vehicles into ‘monochrome supportive’ readymades,” explains Leni Hoffmann.

In his latest installation, LASCAUX MAGENTA OPEL ASTRA CARAVAN, presented in Trier, Germany, Exner once again incorporates the everyday object of the car into his installation, redefining the street space outside the gallery as part of the exhibition. The world beyond the large display windows facing Karl-Marx-Straße is visually integrated into the exhibition, just as the gallery space itself can become part of the field of vision for any passerby. It is we who, with our awareness of the transparent object that is the “window,” distinguish the interior from the exterior—and who assign meaning to the separation between inside and outside.

Andreas Exner studied painting at the Städel Academy of Fine Arts in Frankfurt and has exhibited internationally since 1990.