Eric Keller

www.EricKeller.net

The cityscapes of Eric Keller painted on wooden plates seem timeless. An undercooled film set, a different world, in which the few protagonists seem to be as inflexible as in film stills. Indeed Eric Keller’s images speak of anonymity, loneliness, the lack of communication and isolation. The cityscapes announce the sheer absence of human beings as if the world stands still. The strange, the aloofness, the eerie is underlined by the artist via the used pallet of colours. Put onto large surfaces, the earthy colours communicate from further away a supposed idyll, at a closer glance the colours seem to hide behind a fogbank. The eye is guided quickly towards a small but loud field of magenta or neon green, colours that are unnatural and thus make the viewer shiver. Nevertheless the depicted situations take hold oft he viewer and make him or her quiz why one cannot and does not want to escape this artificial world anymore.

	Solo exhibitions (selection)
2014	»Novemberkind«, galerie baer, Dresden, Germany
2013	»Eric Keller/Simon Rosenthal - Malerei und Zeichnung«, Galerie Poll, Berlin, Germany
2012	»Freizeittreff Fortschritt«, Galerie Irrgang, Leipzig, Germany »Von Nah und Fern«, Galerie der HfBK Dresden, Germany
2011	»Andreas Wachter und Eric Keller«, Galerie Irrgang, Berlin, Germany
	Participations (selected)
2014	»Startpoint Prize«, DOX, Prague, Czech Republic »Postcards from The East«, APT Gallery, London, Great Britain »Masters«, HfBK Dresden, Germany »Mensch werde wesentlich«, KV Freunde Aktueller Kunst, Zwickau, Germany »Dada TY«, HELLERAU – Europäisches Zentrum der Künste, Dresden, Germany »Landschaften«, Galerie Poll, Berlin, Germany »inner cities«, Galerie Irrgang, Berlin, Germany
2013	»Wintercollective II«, Galerie Irrgang, Leipzig, Germany »All Star Cast«, galerie baer, Dresden, Germany »Hype«, geh8, Dresden, Germany
2012	»Addition«, galerie baer, Dresden, Germany »Frühwerk«, F14, Dresden, Germany »Keine Bilder ohne Liebe«, Galerie Poll, Berlin, Germany »Kabinettausstellung«, Galerie Irrgang, Leipzig, Germany
2011	»Frühjahrssalon«, Galerie ZanderKasten, Dresden, Germany »Wintercollective«, Galerie Irrgang, Leipzig, Germany »Kellerausstellung« Group ZWANZIGZEHN, Dresden, Germany

	Vita
1985	born in Grimma, Germany
2006-2008	study of visual arts at the AdBK Nürnberg, Germany, with Prof. Rolf-Gunter Dienst
since 2008	study of painting and graphic arts at the HfBK Dresden, Germany, with Prof. Elke Hopfe and Prof. Ralf Kerbach
	lives and works in Dresden, Germany
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	www.EricKeller.net

Eric Keller

Solo exhibitions (selection)

Participations (selected)

Vita

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