ANDREAS CHWATAL
* 1982 in Regensburg // based in New York City and Burglengenfeld, Germany
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Andreas Chwatal creates self-contained worlds of imagery in which references to art history merge withanalogies to pop culture, and personal perceptions amalgamate with social observations on largenarrations. Attractive and unfathomable at the same time, his works can be read as pensive commentarieson the contemporary world. At the heart of it all is the specific interest in beauty that drives Chwatal.Besides erotic moments and bodies, ornamental motifs and landscapes, one is also presented withscenes of the banal and the ugly. Human abysses, neuroses and fears are assimilated into works, existingin antagonism to the beauty of their presentation.
EXHIBITIONS
AVAILABLE WORKS
ABOUT THE ARTIST
EDUCATION
2006 - 2012 Painting class Prof. Markus Oehlen, Academy of Fine Arts Munich, Germany
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (selected)
2024 "The Pits of New York", JO VAN DE LOO, Munich
2023 "Kurios", Neue Residenz Bamberg (with guest artists)
2022 "Jardin de la Concorde", Villa Concordia Bamberg
2022 "Vermalung mit dem Meer", JO VAN DE LOO, Munich
2020 "Homme Fatal", JO VAN DE LOO, Munich
2017 "Die Demokratisierung der Götter", JO VAN DE LOO, Munich
2015 "Lieu de Dragee", JO VAN DE LOO, Munich
2013 Olympiapark, Galerie Andreas Grimm, Munich
2010 "Kino", Thon-Dittmer-Palais, Regensburg
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selected)
2024 "On the Sixth Day", JO VAN DE LOO, Munich — 2018 Abel Auer & Andreas Chwatal, Various Others, JO VAN DE LOO, Munich — 2016 „Favoriten III. Neue Kunst aus München“, Lenbachhaus, Munich — 2015 "PRN", La Galerie, Cité international des arts, Paris — 2014 "Gurlitt", Salon’d’argent, Munich — "Le Ping le Pong", JO VAN DE LOO Munich — 2013 Diplomausstellung, AdBK, Munich" — "Private View" V, Galerie Andreas Grimm, Munich — "Let me play among the stars", Lotte, Stuttgart — "Giftshop III", Bar Babette, Berlin — Jahresgaben, Kunstverein, Munich — 2012 "Private View IV", Galerie Andreas Grimm, Munich — "Park", Prince of Wales, Munich — "Fly me to the moon", Kunstarkaden, Munich — Jahresgaben , Kunstraum, Munich — Jahresgaben, Kunstverein, Munich — 2011 "Salon LoZoo #1", Munich — "Abendland", Galerie Andreas Grimm, Munich — "Let’s party for a piece of art", Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich — Jahresgaben, Kunstverein Munich — "Editionen", Prince of Wales, Munich — 2010 "Die Wildnis im Keller", Jour-fixe Munich — "There’s a tear in my beer", West-Germany, Berlin — "Erst Metzeln dann Oehlen", AdBK Munich — Jahresgaben, Kunstverein Munich — 2009 "Kleinere Arbeiten", Raum 500, Munich — "Weltraum" - Jahresüberblick, Lothringer 13, Munich — "Die Gilde der Beauftragten präsentiert das Pendel", Munich — Jahresgaben, Kunstverein Munich — 2008 "Zug fährt", Weltraum, Munich — "Frühaufsteher 02", Galerie koal, Berlin — "17072008", Galerie Andreas Grimm, Munich / Galerie Michael Zink, Munich — "Münchener II", Schwarzer Hund, Kallmünz — "Disentangle", Galerie Andreas Grimm, New York — Jahresgaben, Kunstverein Munich
Andreas Chwatal, LIEU DE DRAGUE, 2015, Exhibition view, JO VAN DE LOO
AWARDS / RECOGNITIONS
2022 Villa Concordia, Bamberg — Scholarship at the Centro Tedesco Di Studi Veneziani, Venice, IT — 2019 USA - Scholarship of the State of Bavaria — 2014 Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris. Fellowship of the Bavarian State — 2009 – 2013 Scholarship holder Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes
PUBLICATIONS
2023 "Ink Wash on Paper", Kerber Verlag