SELECTED WORKS BY Thomas Helbig
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Thomas Helbig
Braune Welle
2001
oil on wood
185 x 250 cm |
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Thomas Helbig’s precisely composed, semi-abstract paintings provoke a feeling of confusion and fascination in the viewer. The soft, muted geometric shapes and colours that stretch and blur over the surface of his wooden panels look slightly adrift, as if in the process of emerging from a backdrop of uncertainty, rife with possibility. |
Thomas Helbig
Maschine
2005
Oil on canvas
250 x 185 cm |
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Helbig has said that his paintings ‘are about reduction to an unrecognisable state from which something new can then evolve. Concealing in order to reveal something, encrypting in order to make something visible.’ His ethereal brushwork, gauzy tones and subdued palette oscillate between hiding and unveiling familiar forms. Some of his paintings are rooted in teach-yourself art manuals, yet instead of focusing on precise copying he leaves the works unfinished, in a state of engagement with abstraction and a sort of larger-than-life open-endedness. |
Thomas Helbig
Rom
2005
oil on wood
155 x 125 |
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The real tension in Helbig’s paintings is that nothing is simply what it first appears to be. Though anchored around portraits, landscapes or art historical subjects, his compositions suggest an eerie, remote intangibility. Wilde Mit Spiegel (2004) echoes a traditional mirror-facing vanitas, but here it has been fleshed out through an abject model whose monstrosity seems to be disintegrating and shifting before our very eyes. |
Thomas Helbig
Seele
2005
oil on wood
195.5 x 150 cm |
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Maschine (2005) also deliberately plays with half-articulated meaning, as if delighting in teasing us with the idea of transition and pareidolia – the recognition of accidental anthropomorphic shapes in abstraction. Helbig’s subversion of the viewer’s expectations extends to his handmade frames, which are intentionally imperfect and
lead us to contemplate further the undefined and uncertain nature of what it is we are looking at. |
Thomas Helbig
Wilde Mit Spiegel
2004
oil on wood
200 x 160 cm |
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Thomas Helbig
Jungfrau
2005
diverse materials
85 x 85 x 90 cm |
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Thomas Helbig
Vater
2005
Mixed media
85 x 85 cm |
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Thomas Helbig's BIOGRAPHY
Born 1967, in Rosenheim
Lives and works in Berlin
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010
Jiri Swestka, Prague
Use Your Relatives, China Art Objects, Los Angeles
Galerie Guido W. Baudach
2009
Galeria Mário Sequeira, Braga, Portugal
Viper in Bosom, Vilma Gold, London
White,Galerie Rudiger Schottle, Munich
2008
Remote Pulse, Bortolami Gallery, New York
Complete Birth, Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens
Stern der Musen, Kunstverein Oldenburg (cat.)
2007
Futur, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich
Purgatory. Now., Galerie Diana Stigter, Amsterdam
Homo Homini Lupus II, Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin
Homo Homini Lupus, China Art Objects, Los Angeles
2006
Last World, Bortolami Dayan, New York
2005
Modern Art, London
Rom, Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin
Galerie Ruediger Schoettle, Munich
2004
Südseehausen, Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin
Galerie Ben Kaufmann, Munich
2002
Druidin, Menschenraum, Berlin
2001
Danke, Erwin, Galerie Nomadenoase (Golden Pudel Club), Hamburg
Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin
2000
Die Malerei der Heiden, Montparnasse, Berlin
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011
Gesamtkunstwerk: New Art From Germany, Saatchi Gallery, London
Gehirne, Kunstverein Heppenheim, Heppenheim
2010
Thomas Bambrilla Contemporary Art, Bergamo
Rod Bianco Gallery invites Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Rod Bianco Gallery, Oslo
Gegen Die Form: Informel 1954 -2010i, Cruise & Callas, Berlin
100th Exhibition, Autocenter, Berlin
Danke Frua Antje, Galerie Diana Stigter, Amsterdam
Amor Fati, Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin
2009
Collection Wilfried & Yannicke Cooreman, Dhondt Dhaenens
Go Sinnlich, Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athen
Crisscross, Wannieck Gallery, Brno, Tschechien
1999, China Art Objects Gallery/ Cottage Home, Los Angeles
Underclass Atavism, Gentili Projects, Prato (curated by Veit Loers), February
Berlin 2000, PaceWIldenstein, New York (March)
2008
Das Zweite Gesicht, Sammlung Südhausbau, Munich
Mare Humorum 1, Hiromi Yoshii Gallery, Tokyo
No Illusions, Kai 10 / Raum für Kunst, Düsseldorf
Emerson vs. Nietzsche, China Art Objects at Cottage Home, Los Angeles
Red Wind, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
Germania: New Art from Germany, The Saatchi Gallery, London
That’s The Way It Is, Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin (cat.)
Son of..., Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tourcoing, Tourcoing
Depletion. Works from the Doron Sebbag ArtCollection, ORS Ltd., Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
Hedwig, Baronian_Francey, Brussels
Daydreams & Dark Sides, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
Yellow Snow, La Maison Jaune (Patricia Low Contemporary), Gstaad
2007
Euro-Centric. Part 1, Rubell Family Collection, Miami
XXS (Extra Extra Small), Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
return to forever, forever and a day Büro, Berlin
Looking up, Galeria Mário Sequeira, Braga / Portugal
Imagination Becomes Reality, ZKM Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe (cat.)
Die Macht des Dinglichen – Skulptur heute!, Georg-Kolbe-Museum, Berlin (cat.)
Kommando Friedrich Hölderlin Berlin, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin (cat.)
Heretic & Co. – The Golden City, Jiri Svestka, Prague
Gallery swap with Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Hotel, London
2005
Papier, Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin
Nicht mit Steinen werfen…, Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt
Alan Michael and Thomas Helbig, Modern Art Inc., London
2004
Guido W. Baudach, Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin
Kommando Pfannenkuchen, Daniel Hug Gallery, Los Angeles
Maschenmode, Galerie Karl-Heinz Meyer, Karlsruhe
2003
Im Helbo, Brotherslasher, Cologne
Hands up, baby, hands up!, Oldenburger Kunstverein
Painting on the roof, Museum Abteiberg, Moenchengladbach
2002
Tiere, Elternhaus Thomas Palme, Immenstadt im Allgaeu
Friede, Freiheit, Freude, Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin
Große Kunstausstellung Sommer 2002 im Pazifik, Pazifik, Berlin
Urwald, Privatwohnung Hajo von Gottberg, Berlin
Schoene Aussicht, Herr Schweins, Galerie Otto Schweins, Cologne
Druidin, Menschenraum, Berlin
2001
Viva November, Staedtische Galerie Wolfsburg
Brown, The Approach, London
Montana Sacra (Circles 5), ZKM, Karlsruhe
Im Wandel der Liebe su uns selbst und des Gesichtssinns im allgemeinen (Deutsch-Britische Freundschaft – DBF) Maschenmode, Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin
Cover Versions, The Trade Apartement, London
2000
Die Gefahr im Jass (DBF), Kuenstlerwohnung Strassburger Strasse, Berlin
1999
26 Heteros, Galerie Lind, Cologne
Heart & Soul Group Show, Long Lane Studios, London
The proactive seizure of eternity, The Trade Appartement, London
1998
Humdrum Blue, The Trade Appartement, London
Show me the money 3, 8 Dukes – Mews, London
Surfacing – contemporary drawing, ICA, London
Nobody helps anybody(DBF), Unit 6/7, London
Printemps (DBF), Unit 6/7, London
1997
The Powderroom, Port Betald, Rotterdam
1996
Precept, Kuenstlerwerkstatt Lohringer Strasse, Munich
1994
Kunstverein Munich
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2004
Guido W. Baudach, Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin
Kommando Pfannenkuchen, Daniel Hug Gallery, Los Angeles
Maschenmode, Galerie Karl-Heinz Meyer, Karlsruhe
2003
Im Helbo, Brotherslasher, Köln
Hands up, baby, hands up!, Oldenburger Kunstverien
Painting on the roof, Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach
2002
TIERE, Elternhaus Thomas Palme, Immenstadt im Allgäu
FRIEDE, FREIHEIT, FREUDE, Maschenmode, Berlin
Große Kunstausstellung Sommer 2002 im Pazifik, PAZIFIK, Berlin
Urwald, Privatwohnung Hajo von Gottberg, Berlin
Schöne Aussicht, Herr Schweins, Galerie Otto Schweins, Köln
Druidin, Menschenraum, Berlin
2001
Viva November, Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg
Brown, The Approach, London
Montana Sacra (Circles 5), ZKM, Karlsruhe
Im Wandel der Liebe zu uns selbst und des Gesichtssinns im, Maschenmode, Berlin
Conversations, The Trade Apartment, London
2000
Die Gefahr im Jazz, Künstlerwohnung Straßburger Straße, Berlin
1999
26 Heteros, Galerie Lind, Köln
Heart & Soul Group Show, Long Lane Studios, London
The proactive seizure of eternity, The Trade Apartment, London
1998
Humdrum Blue, The Trade Apartment, London
Show me the money 3, 8 Dukes - Mews, London
Surfacing - contemporary drawing, ICA, London
Nobody helps anybody, Unit 6/7, London
Printemps, Unit 6/7, London
1997
The Powderroom, Port Betald, Rotterdam
1996
Precept, Künstlerwerkstatt Lohringer Straße,
1994
Kunstverein München
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