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Gallery Weekend arrives just as the first green leaves appear to relieve the city’s relentless gray.
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David Lieske is a satirist and a nihilist. Such was the powerfully bleak sense of ennui that emanated from his exhibition ‘Imperium in Imperio’
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Just one year before the Artist David Lieske (b. 1979) opened Mathew, a contemporary Art-Gallery in Berlin, he theatrically declared his lack
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I now live in an ugly high rise in some kind of an artist flatshare. Today is the big day. One of the artists will make a new large-scale piece with
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David Lieske was born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1979, and currently lives and works in Berlin. In 2006, Lieske was awarded the Jürgen Ponto-Stiftung. Lieske was featured in several publications, including Frieze, Artforum, Time Out New York, Elephant, Art Limited, New York Times, and more.
Lieske's selected solo exhibitions
include "Deformation Professionelle", VI, VII, Oslo (2013);
"Platitude Normale", CAPC Musée d'Art Contemporain de Bordeaux,
Bordeaux 92013); "Style and Subversion 1979-2012", Corvi-Mora,
London (2012); "A Greater Administration of Lower Interests",
Tobias Naehring, Leipzig (2011); "Adequate", Sommer Contemporary
Art, Tel Aviv (2011); "Imperium in Imperio", Alex Zachary, New York
(2010); "Der afrikanische Stuhl von Marcel Breuer und Gunta Stoelz
aus der Anfangszeit des Bauhauses 80 Jahre verschollen geglaubt nun
aufgefunden und erstmals praesentiert", Corvi-Mora, London
(2009);
"A means to an end – to make ends meet", Rowley Kennerk Gallery,
Chicago (2009); "New Work", Midway Contemporary Art,
Minneapolis (2008); "Everything that doesn’t happen today doesn’t
happen", Daniel Buchholz, Berlin (2008)
Selected group exhibitions include
"Crystal Flowers", Mathew, Berlin (2012); "No Colour In Your
Cheeks Unless The Wind Lashes Your Face", An Online Exhibition
curated by Timothée Chaillou (2011); "V€RSUS; David Lieske vs
Carsten Jost", Deo Records, Frankfurt (2011);
"Another Kind of Vapor", White Flag Projects, Saint Louis (2011);
"This and That II ", Corvi-Mora, London (2010); "Blood of a Poet",
Thierry Goldberg Projects, New York (2010); "The Secret Life of
Objects", Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis (2009);
"Quodlibet II", Daniel Buchholz, Köln (2009) "Whole Lotta Love",
Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin (2008); "This is Not a Void",
Galeria Luisa Strina, Sao Paulo (2008)
For additional information about this artist, visit Mutual Art
