Tino Geiss
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Tino Geiss
Tino Geiss "Otium" GALERIE SUPPER 2023
Tino Geiss (*1978, Jena) has studied at the Royal Academy of Arts in London and at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig with Arno Rink and Neo Rauch.
His colorful interiors are reminiscent of painting's emancipation from the authority of illusionistic dipiction. Dynamic tension, abstracted perspektives, and overdrawn or inverted colors refer to multiple art historian ancestors like the Fauves, the Expressionists, and the Cubists. But Tino Geiss goes one step further by not only putting in question formal criteria, but also materiality. He creates his interiors, bouquets, and everyday objects by means of masking tape, which bears traces of paint. Usually constructed as living or working spaces, Geiss' rooms seem enlivened while being devoid of people. The invisble human presence is only indicated by its traces; shifted chairs, tables, piles of paper, a white canvas.
Being a collector, Geiss keeps and archives single strips of his colored masking tape in order to translate a few of them into the medium of painting. His series "Stripes" depicts those strips, proudly floating before white backgrounds.The way Tino Geiss hereby confuses materialities, points out how illusion and abstraction constitute each other rather than being competitors.
Biography
Artist: Tino Geiss
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Chronological file.
Tino Geiss
- 1978 ¬
- Born in Jena
- 2001-03 ¬
- Studies of communications design at HKD Burg Giebichenstein Halle/ Saale
- 2003-08 ¬
- Studies of painting at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig (HGB)
- 2008 ¬
- Diploma with Prof. Neo Rauch
- 2008-09 ¬
- Postgraduated studies with Prof. Ingo Meller, Leipzig
- 2009 ¬
- Studies of fine arts at the royal academy of arts London, UK
- 2010 ¬
- Graduation as meisterschüler of Prof. Neo Rauch, Leipzig
Scholarships and Awards
- 2022 ¬
- Foundation Kunstfond
- 2020 ¬
- Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony
- 2015 ¬
- 4th print symposium "edition carpe plumbum" BBK
- 2012 ¬
- Casa Baldi residency of the Deutsche Akademie Rom, Olevano Romano, Italy
- 2010 ¬
- Project grant of Free State of Thuringia for publication and project fundus
- 2009 ¬
- 1st prize of Jungen Akademie award (with Franziska Junge and Martin Rapp)
- 2007 ¬
- Stipend of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
- 2006 ¬
- Travel grant of DAAD ‘Hiwar Fanni’ Kairo, Egypt
Solo Exhibitions (selection)
- 2026 ¬
- Galerie Brockstedt, Berlin
- 2025 ¬
- The Grass is Greener, Leipzig
- 2024 ¬
- The Grass is Greener, Leipzig
- Galerie Stefanie Boos, Heidelberg
- 2023 ¬
- GALERIE SUPPER, Baden-Baden
- Galerie Brockstedt, Berlin
- 2022 ¬
- The Grass is Greener, Leipzig
- 2020 ¬
- Galerie Brockstedt, Berlin
- GALERIE SUPPER, Baden-Baden (with Anja Warzecha)
- Galerie Schwarz, Greifswald
- 2019 ¬
- The Grass is Greener, Leipzig
- 2018 ¬
- Galerie Brockstedt, Hamburg
- 2017 ¬
- GALERIE SUPPER, Baden Baden
- The Grass is Greener, Leipzig
- Lineg, Kamp-Lintfort
- 2016 ¬
- Galerie Brockstedt, Berlin
- OMS Pradhan, Brüssel, Belgium
- The Grass is Greener, Leipzig (with Jörg Ernert)
- 2015 ¬
- Grazie, Villa Rosenthal, Jena
- Kunstkreis, Hameln
- The Grass is Greener, Leipzig
- D21 Window Display Show, Leipzig (with Franziska Junge)
- 2014 ¬
- OMS Pradhan, Brüssel, Belgium
- Galerie Brockstedt, Hamburg (with Hans Scheib)
- iconotop, Weimar (with Stefan Lenke)
- 2013 ¬
- Galerie Queen Anne, Leipzig (with Elena Kozlova)
- 2012 ¬
- Galerie Krätz, Kassel
- Stadtwerke Jena
- Hannover gallery, Hannover
- 2011 ¬
- Galerie Brockstedt, Hamburg
- Raumrinde, Emmanuel Post, Leipzig (with Sebastian Rug)
- 2010 ¬
- Galerie Brockstedt, Berlin (C)
- Geraer Kunstverein, Gera (C)
- 2009 ¬
- Galerie Brockstedt, Berlin
Group Exhibitions (selection)
- 2026 ¬
- salondergegenwart, Kunstraum Potsdam I The Grass is Greener, Leipzig I art Karlsruhe, Galerie Stefanie Boos
- 2025 ¬
- Drents Museum, Assen, Netherlands I Baumwollspinnerei, Leipzig I The Grass is Greener, Leipzig I GALERIE SUPPER, Baden-Baden
- 2024 ¬
- Kurhaus Warnemünde I GALERIE SUPPER, Baden-Baden I art Karlsruhe, GALERIE SUPPER I Stroke, Munich, GALERIE SUPPER
- Positions Berlin, Galerie Brockstedt
- 2023 ¬
- Künstlerhaus Göttingen I The Grass is Greener, Leipzig I Sammlung Glampe, Berlin I Baubüro Jena I art Karlsruhe, GALERIE SUPPER
- Positions Berlin, Galerie Brockstedt
- 2022 ¬
- The Grass is Greener, Leipzig I Galerie Eigen & Art, Leipzig I Werkschauhalle, Baumwollspinnerrei, Leipzig I GALERIE SUPPER, Baden-Baden
- art Karlsruhe, GALERIE SUPPER
- 2021 ¬
- Kunstverein Gera I The Grass is Greener, Leipzig I Galerie Dessers, Hasselt I STROKE, Munich, GALERIE SUPPER
- 2020 ¬
- The Grass is Greener, Leipzig I GALERIE SUPPER, Baden-Baden I art Karlsruhe, GALERIE SUPPER
- 2019 ¬
- GALERIE SUPPER, Baden-Baden I art Karlsruhe, GALERIE SUPPER I Stroke, Munich, GALERIE SUPPER
- 2018 ¬
- GALERIE SUPPER, Baden-Baden I art Karlsruhe, GALERIE SUPPER I ARTMUC Spring, Munich, GALERIE SUPPER
- ARTMUC Autum, Munich, GALERIE SUPPER
- 2017 ¬
- BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt, Berlin I The Grass is Greener, Leipzig
- 2016 ¬
- On the other Side, St.Paul-de-Vence, France I Stiftung Christliche Kunst, Wittenberg (C)
- 2015 ¬
- Museum für Druckkunst, Leipzig I KTR, Leipzig I Spinnerei, Leipzig
- 2014 ¬
- Museum Burg Posterstein
- 2013 ¬
- Galerie Leuenroth, Frankfurt am Main I Galerie Baer, Dresden I Potemka, Leipzig I Drewag, Dresden
- 2012 ¬
- Kunstsammlung Gera I Galerie Baer, Dresden I Parrotta Contemporary Art, Stuttgart I Strzelski Galerie, Stuttgart I Emmanuel Post, Leipzig
- 2011 ¬
- Salon der Gegenwart, Elbhof, Hamburg I Strzelski Galerie, Stuttgart I artlab 21, Kokerei Hansa, Dortmund (C)
- 2010 ¬
- Galerie Baer, Dresden I Blauer Block, Magdeburg I Städtisches Kaufhaus, Leipzig I Kunstpreis für Malerei, Geraer Bank eG (C)
- Bestehornpark, Aschersleben (C)
- 2009 ¬
- Marburger Kunstverein, Marburg (C)
- 2008 ¬
- Kunstmuseum Walter, Augsburg (C) I Werkschauhalle Spinnerei, Leipzig (C) I Technische Universität, Berlin I Galerie Noah, Augsburg
- 2007 ¬
- Kunsthöfe, Berlin I Galerie Baer, Dresden I Kunstraum am See, Markkleeberg I Haus des Handwerks, Murmansk
- 2006 ¬
- Galerie der Stadt Wels, Austria I Ausstellungsraum ehemalige Unibuchhandlung, Leipzig
Gallery 2024
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Gallery 2023
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Gallery 2022
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Gallery 2021
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Gallery 2020
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Gallery 2019
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Gallery 2018
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Gallery 2017
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Gallery 2016
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Gallery 2015
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Gallery 2013
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