SELECTED WORKS BY Bjorn Dahlem
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Bjorn Dahlem
The Milky Way
2007
Wood, neon lamp, bottle of milk
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Bjorn Dahlem
Homunculus Samurai (Sinn Ninja)
2006
Mixed media
180 x 60 x 60 cm |
 
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Bjorn Dahlem
Schwarzes Loch (M-Sphären) (and 4 details)
2007
Wood, lamps, light bulbs and neon lamps
540 x 730 x 360 cm |
 
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Bjorn Dahlem
Cathedral
2008
Wood, lightbulbs, glacier cherries, red wine, varnish
191 x 60 x 60 cms |
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ARTIST INFORMATION
OTHER RESOURCES
artfacts.net
Additional information and images - Björn Dahlem
artists.org
Modern and contemporary art and artists – Björn Dahlem
artnet.com
Various and images - Björn Dahlem
alisonjacquesgallery.com
Representing gallery, London - Björn Dahlem
nytimes.com
Bjorn Dahlem is not a zany madman, but he does a good job of playing one. With the skills of an inept handyman, Mr. Dahlem, a young German sculptor, has cobbled out of raw lumber, packing tape and ordinary electric lights a sprawling, hovering model of what he calls a ''galactic supercluster.'' Suspended in the main gallery are great wobbly ovals made by joining lengths of wood end to end, with glowing fluorescent lights attached. The ovals encircle a crystalline polyhedron studded with round light bulbs, and within that is a pyramidal frame, painted silver. And at the very center of this celestial matrix is a symbol of the life force: a hot dog, preserved in a bottle of clear liquid.
hammer.ucla.edu
Berlin-based artist Björn Dahlem creates imaginary models of the cosmos and illustrates abstract principles of astrophysics using discarded materials such as untreated lumber, industrial neon light tubes, dustbusters, or carpet remnants. At turns earnest and wryly humorous, these constructions subvert the viewer's expectations of precise scientific models and question the mythological and narrative qualities of scientific theories as they develop within popular culture.
engholmengelhorn.com
Representing gallery, information on past exhibitions and additional images
petzel.com
Information about the artist including past exhibitions and press releases
hannover.de
In his installations bearing such titles as “Im Homunculus”,” Solaris”, “Schwarzes Loch” or “Utopia Planitia”, Björn Dahlem attempts nothing less than to give form to the non-representable. His conglomerations of roof boarding, carpet remainders, Styrofoam and neon lights do not conceal their components and cohere into frightening, madly proliferating material-assemblages which thrust themselves into the exhibition space as a combination of trial arrangement and temporary structure. Dahlem transfers scientific models into the sphere of art or draws inspiration for his works from philosophy.
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Other artists in ABSTRACT AMERICA: NEW PAINTING AND SCULPTURE 2
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