Arvid Boecker (born 1964) in
Wuppertal
Wuppertal (; "''Wupper Dale''") is, with a population of approximately 355,000, the seventh-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia as well as the 17th-largest city of Germany. It was founded in 1929 by the merger of the cities and to ...
) is a German
painter
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and
curator
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. He is a representative of
concrete art Concrete art was an art movement with a strong emphasis on geometrical abstraction. The term was first formulated by Theo van Doesburg and was then used by him in 1930 to define the difference between his vision of art and that of other abstract art ...
and focuses on
color field painting.
Biography
Arvid Boecker studied from 1987 to 1989 at the
University of Trier
The University of Trier (german: Universität Trier), in the German city of Trier, was founded in 1473. Closed in 1798 by order of the then French administration in Trier, the university was re-established in 1970 after a hiatus of some 172 y ...
Art history
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, continuing his studies at the ''
Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Saar
The Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Saar or HBKsaar, (English: ''Saar College of Fine Arts'') is an art and design university in the German State of Saarland.
The degree course offers a choice of different topics: Fine arts, communication desi ...
'' in
Saarbrücken
Saarbrücken (; french: link=no, Sarrebruck ; Rhine Franconian: ''Saarbrigge'' ; lb, Saarbrécken ; lat, Saravipons, lit=The Bridge(s) across the Saar river) is the capital and largest city of the state of Saarland, Germany. Saarbrücken is S ...
. There he studied until 1994 with the professors
Jochen Gerz
Jochen Gerz (born 4 April 1940) is a German conceptual artist who lived in France from 1966 to 2007. His work involves the relationship between art and life, history and memory, and deals with concepts such as culture, society, public space, parti ...
,
Bodo Baumgarten
Bodo Baumgarten (born 25 November 1940) is a German painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and educator. He is a former professor at Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Saar (HBK) in Saarland.
Biography
Bodo Baumgarten was born on 25 November 1940 in ...
, and
Ulrike Rosenbach
Ulrike Rose Bach (born 1943) is a video artist from Germany. Rose Bach works with videotapes, installations and performances. . In the following years he was
Artist-in-residence
Artist-in-residence, or artist residencies, encompass a wide spectrum of artistic programs which involve a collaboration between artists and hosting organisations, institutions, or communities. They are programs which provide artists with space a ...
in
London
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(
Acme Studios
Acme, also styled ACME, is a charity based in London, England which provides affordable studio and living space, residencies and awards for visual artists. Its studios are known as Acme Studios. It formerly provided two gallery spaces, first the ...
, 1994-1995), in
Katwijk aan Zee
Katwijk aan Zee (literally, ''Katwijk-upon-Sea'') is a seaside resort located on the North Sea at the mouth of the Oude Rijn. It is situated in the municipality of Katwijk and the province of South Holland.
History
The Origin till the Gol ...
in the Netherlands (1995-1996), on the Isle of
Skye
The Isle of Skye, or simply Skye (; gd, An t-Eilean Sgitheanach or ; sco, Isle o Skye), is the largest and northernmost of the major islands in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. The island's peninsulas radiate from a mountainous hub dominated b ...
(2005), in
La Ciotat
La Ciotat (; oc, label= Provençal Occitan, La Ciutat ; in Mistralian spelling ''La Ciéutat''; 'the City') is a commune in the Bouches-du-Rhône department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in Southern France. It is the southeasternmo ...
in southern France in 2006, and in 2018 he went to
Paris
Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ...
for a residency at ''Factory49''.
Since 1996 Boecker has been a member of the ''Saarländischer Künstlerbund'' and since 2019 he is also a member of the ''Künstlerbund Baden-Württemberg''. He lives and works in
Heidelberg
Heidelberg (; Palatine German language, Palatine German: ''Heidlberg'') is a city in the States of Germany, German state of Baden-Württemberg, situated on the river Neckar in south-west Germany. As of the 2016 census, its population was 159,914 ...
, since 2018 he also has a studio in
Frankfurt am Main
Frankfurt, officially Frankfurt am Main (; Hessian: , "Frank ford on the Main"), is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse. Its 791,000 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located on its na ...
.
Artistic work
Arvid Boecker's theme as an artist is
color
Color (American English) or colour (British English) is the visual perceptual property deriving from the spectrum of light interacting with the photoreceptor cells of the eyes. Color categories and physical specifications of color are associ ...
itself. He uses
oil paint
Oil paint is a type of slow-drying paint that consists of particles of pigment suspended in a drying oil, commonly linseed oil. The viscosity of the paint may be modified by the addition of a solvent such as turpentine or white spirit, and varn ...
, which he manufactures himself from
pigment
A pigment is a colored material that is completely or nearly insoluble in water. In contrast, dyes are typically soluble, at least at some stage in their use. Generally dyes are often organic compounds whereas pigments are often inorganic compo ...
s and applies to canvas. Since priming the canvases requires long drying times, Boecker always creates entire rows of canvasses with the same dimensions, on which he then alternately works. He numbers the images and adds a
hash tag
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to them, for example: "#1103". He describes these series as "picture families". Arvid Boecker determines right at the beginning how he deals with the surface, dividing it up for certain color applications. His works are either
rectangular
In Euclidean geometry, Euclidean plane geometry, a rectangle is a quadrilateral with four right angles. It can also be defined as: an equiangular quadrilateral, since equiangular means that all of its angles are equal (360°/4 = 90°); or a par ...
or
square
In Euclidean geometry, a square is a regular quadrilateral, which means that it has four equal sides and four equal angles (90-degree angles, π/2 radian angles, or right angles). It can also be defined as a rectangle with two equal-length adj ...
. Since 2014 Boecker has concentrated on the format 20×16 inches, which he divides by a longitudinal line into two fields, which he then paints with different colors.
The color is applied in up to 40 layers, partly
wash
WASH (or Watsan, WaSH) is an acronym that stands for "water, sanitation and hygiene". It is used widely by non-governmental organizations and aid agencies in developing countries. The purposes of providing access to WASH services include achievin ...
, partly
impasto
''Impasto'' is a technique used in painting, where paint is laid on an area of the surface thickly, usually thick enough that the brush or painting-knife strokes are visible. Paint can also be mixed right on the canvas. When dry, impasto provide ...
. Arvid Boecker uses
squeegee
A squeegee or squilgee is a tool with a flat, smooth rubber blade, used to remove or control the flow of liquid on a flat surface. It is used for cleaning and in printing.
The earliest written references to squeegees date from the mid-19th cent ...
s to remove older layers of paint or applies new layers of paint with the
painting knife
A painting knife is an artist's tool with a flexible steel blade used to apply paint to the canvas.
It has a pointed tip, lowered or "cranked" like a trowel, suited for painting on canvas.
The blade can be of different lengths and shapes : tri ...
. This processing can take up to one year.
During this long period, his pictures ''mature''. Boecker often interrupts the work on a painting to give it time to dry. The painting of a piece for him thus becomes a process of reflection on the function of color and its effects. The artist reflects upon, how which effect is produced in the viewer, how the colors do interact with each other and to which result: "So wird der Maler manchmal zum Forscher in seinem eigenen Werk, indem er wie ein Archäologe alte Schichten und Zustände sucht und wieder zum Vorschein bringt. Er ist Schöpfer und Zerstörer in einem, lässt entstehen und löscht wieder aus, kreiert und verwirft. Aber nicht aus einer Laune heraus, sondern immer im Hinblick auf das Gelingen des Bildes als Ganzes." (in English: "Thus the painter sometimes becomes a researcher in his own work, searching for and revealing old layers and states like an archaeologist. He is creator and destroyer in one, lets arise and extinguishes again, creates and rejects. But not on a whim, but always with a view to the succeeding of the picture as a whole.") The painting created in such a long working process clearly shows the traces of its creation, e.g. through shadows - darker layers of paint were painted over by light ones – or through scratches, which allow views of the older layers of paint.
Boecker also designs entire room concepts, e.g. 2012 for the ''Städtische Galerie Neunkirchen''. For this exhibition he created 40 square works, which again were divided into smaller squares and painted with different colors. In addition, he structured the exhibition space with specially made colored
tuffet
A tuffet is a small grassy mound or clump of grass; or alternatively a low seat.
The word is now known overwhelmingly from the nursery rhyme " Little Miss Muffet" which was first printed in 1805. It was originally a variant of the word " tuft" ...
s and wall markings with colored
adhesive tape that stretched from the wall to the floor and formed a
rectangle
In Euclidean plane geometry, a rectangle is a quadrilateral with four right angles. It can also be defined as: an equiangular quadrilateral, since equiangular means that all of its angles are equal (360°/4 = 90°); or a parallelogram containi ...
. This three–dimensional installation was intended to enable the viewer to reflect on how he perceives the works of art in the room. In 2016 Boecker created a
triptych
A triptych ( ; from the Greek language, Greek adjective ''τρίπτυχον'' "''triptukhon''" ("three-fold"), from ''tri'', i.e., "three" and ''ptysso'', i.e., "to fold" or ''ptyx'', i.e., "fold") is a work of art (usually a panel painting) t ...
for the ''Stiftskirche Sunnisheim'' in
Sinsheim
Sinsheim (, South Franconian: ''Sinse'') is a town in south-western Germany, in the Rhine Neckar Area of the state Baden-Württemberg about south-east of Heidelberg and about north-west of Heilbronn in the district Rhein-Neckar.
Geograph ...
, consisting of three pictures of the same format, which were created especially for this room.
Boecker sees himself as a "travelling observer".
[Helga Köbler-Stählin: ''Bunte Schichten mit Eigenleben. Atelierbesuch bei Arvid Boecker''. In: Mannheimer Morgen 2012, 4th of April] His stays abroad, e.g. 1995 in
Katwijk aan Zee
Katwijk aan Zee (literally, ''Katwijk-upon-Sea'') is a seaside resort located on the North Sea at the mouth of the Oude Rijn. It is situated in the municipality of Katwijk and the province of South Holland.
History
The Origin till the Gol ...
in the Netherlands, 2005 on the Isle of
Skye
The Isle of Skye, or simply Skye (; gd, An t-Eilean Sgitheanach or ; sco, Isle o Skye), is the largest and northernmost of the major islands in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. The island's peninsulas radiate from a mountainous hub dominated b ...
and 2006 to
La Ciotat
La Ciotat (; oc, label= Provençal Occitan, La Ciutat ; in Mistralian spelling ''La Ciéutat''; 'the City') is a commune in the Bouches-du-Rhône department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in Southern France. It is the southeasternmo ...
he perceives as research expeditions concerning light and colors. Katwijk has already had an international
artists' colony in the 19th century. La Ciotat in southern France has also always attracted artists, because of the sharply defined contrasts in the southern light conditions by the sea, and the harbor atmosphere, which fascinated the artists already at the beginning of the 20th century. The Isle of Skye is famous for its foggy coastline, which often makes the light diffuse and shimmer.
Boecker assimilates all these impulses and experiences in his works: "Was ich auf meinen Bildern male, sind Erinnerungen" (in English: "What I paint in my canvases are memories")
However, not memories in the sense of landscape pictures, but memories that every artist carries with him unconsciously or consciously and that influence his art. The long duration of the creation of his artworks allows Arvid Boecker a kind of ''meditative'' approach. In the months until the completion of a work he can reflect extensively on the effects of the application of paint, he can put his piece away for a while and continue to work on another, he can constantly look at and work on the canvases with squeegees and spatulas until they reflect exactly the expression he wants to achieve. Viewed from a distance, they sometimes almost look like
monochrome
A monochrome or monochromatic image, object or palette is composed of one color (or values of one color). Images using only shades of grey are called grayscale (typically digital) or black-and-white (typically analog). In physics, monochrom ...
works and only when one goes closer one recognizes the multitude of different layers that the artist realized in the work. Thus, not only does the production of his art take a lot of time, but the viewer is also required to take his time to perceive all aspects of the works: "Boeckers Werke strahlen Ruhe und Kraft aus – und auch wenn er bewusst jeden Anschein alles Bildhaften vermeidet, bieten sie dennoch eine Projektionsfläche für eine Vielzahl an Assoziationen." (in English: "Boeckers' works radiate calmness and strength – and even if he consciously avoids any appearance of anything pictorial, they nevertheless offer a projection screen for a multitude of associations."
Solo exhibitions (selection)
* 1996: ''unentwegt'', Forum Kunst Rottweil,
Rottweil
Rottweil (; Alemannic: ''Rautweil'') is a town in southwest Germany in the state of Baden-Württemberg. Rottweil was a free imperial city for nearly 600 years.
Located between the Black Forest and the Swabian Alps, Rottweil has nearly 25,000 in ...
, Germany
* 2005: ''Milch und Honig'', Heidelberger Kunstverein,
Heidelberg
Heidelberg (; Palatine German language, Palatine German: ''Heidlberg'') is a city in the States of Germany, German state of Baden-Württemberg, situated on the river Neckar in south-west Germany. As of the 2016 census, its population was 159,914 ...
, Germany
* 2006: ''Kilmuir Walk'', Villa Goecke,
Krefeld
Krefeld ( , ; li, Krieëvel ), also spelled Crefeld until 1925 (though the spelling was still being used in British papers throughout the Second World War), is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located northwest of Düsseldorf, i ...
, Germany
* 2007: ''Studio La Ciotat'', Galerie Robert Drees,
Hannover
Hanover (; german: Hannover ; nds, Hannober) is the capital and largest city of the German States of Germany, state of Lower Saxony. Its 535,932 (2021) inhabitants make it the List of cities in Germany by population, 13th-largest city in Germa ...
, Germany
* 2012: ''Take your time'', Städtische Galerie Neunkirchen,
Neunkirchen, Germany
* 2015: ''Surfaced from his dive'', Galerie Ursula Grashey,
Konstanz
Konstanz (, , locally: ; also written as Constance in English) is a university city with approximately 83,000 inhabitants located at the western end of Lake Constance in the south of Germany. The city houses the University of Konstanz and was th ...
, Germany
* 2016: ''Insomnia'', Stout Projects,
New York City
New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the List of United States cities by population, most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the L ...
, United States
* 2016: ''On a clear Day'', Factory 49,
Sydney
Sydney ( ) is the capital city of the state of New South Wales, and the most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Sydney Harbour and extends about towards the Blue Mountain ...
, Australia
* 2018: ''Watching paint dry'', Kunstverein Brackenheim,
Brackenheim
Brackenheim () is a town in the ''Landkreis'' Heilbronn in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. It is southwest of Heilbronn.
With of vineyards, it is the biggest grape-growing municipality of Württemberg.
Geography
Geographical positio ...
, Germany
* 2019: ''Free'',
(This exhibition was divided into two parts, firstly a solo exhibition of the artist (''Free''), secondly a group exhibition curated by him as part of his project ''boeckercontemporary'' (''Breathe'').
* 2020: ''Arvid Boecker: Malerei'', Forum Kunst Rottweil, Rottweil, Germany
Group exhibitions (selection)
* 1990: ''Promotion award for young artists'',
Wilhelm-Hack-Museum,
Ludwigshafen
Ludwigshafen, officially Ludwigshafen am Rhein (; meaning " Ludwig's Port upon Rhine"), is a city in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, on the river Rhine, opposite Mannheim. With Mannheim, Heidelberg, and the surrounding region, it form ...
, Germany
* 1995: ''Work Art'',
Kunstmuseum Stuttgart
The Kunstmuseum Stuttgart is a contemporary and modern art museum in Stuttgart, Germany, built and opened in 2005.
Description
The cubic museum building with 5000 m2 of display space was designed by Berlin architects Hascher and Jehle. During ...
,
Stuttgart
Stuttgart (; Swabian: ; ) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is located on the Neckar river in a fertile valley known as the ''Stuttgarter Kessel'' (Stuttgart Cauldron) and lies an hour from the ...
, Germany
* 1996 ''Artifizielle Natur'',
Städtische Galerie,
Böblingen
Böblingen (; Swabian German, Swabian: ''Beblenga'') is a town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, seat of Böblingen (district), Böblingen District. Sindelfingen and Böblingen are Geographic contiguity, contiguous.
History
Böblingen was found ...
, Germany
* 1998: ''Zeichnung'',
Dominican museum Rottweil,
Rottweil
Rottweil (; Alemannic: ''Rautweil'') is a town in southwest Germany in the state of Baden-Württemberg. Rottweil was a free imperial city for nearly 600 years.
Located between the Black Forest and the Swabian Alps, Rottweil has nearly 25,000 in ...
, Germany
* 2000: ''Expo 2000: Weltausstellung'',
Von der Heydt-Museum
The Von der Heydt Museum is a museum in Wuppertal, Germany.
The Von der Heydt Museum includes works by artists from the 17th century to the present time.
History
The museum is housed in the former city hall of Elberfeld, which in 1902 became a ...
,
Wuppertal
Wuppertal (; "''Wupper Dale''") is, with a population of approximately 355,000, the seventh-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia as well as the 17th-largest city of Germany. It was founded in 1929 by the merger of the cities and to ...
, Germany
* 2003: ''Form und Struktur. Wege zur Abstraktion II'', Kunstverein Schloss Plön,
Plön
Plön (; Holsatian: ''Plöön'') is the district seat of the Plön district in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, and has about 8,700 inhabitants. It lies right on the shores of Schleswig-Holstein's biggest lake, the Great Plön Lake, as well as on ...
, Germany
* 2005: ''Tangenten'', Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken,
Saarbrücken
Saarbrücken (; french: link=no, Sarrebruck ; Rhine Franconian: ''Saarbrigge'' ; lb, Saarbrécken ; lat, Saravipons, lit=The Bridge(s) across the Saar river) is the capital and largest city of the state of Saarland, Germany. Saarbrücken is S ...
, Germany
* 2005: ''Amber Room Society'', (The ''Amber Room Society'' consisted of Arvid Boecker, Jürgen Jansen and Uwe Esser),
Augsburg
Augsburg (; bar , Augschburg , links=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swabian_German , label=Swabian German, , ) is a city in Swabia, Bavaria, Germany, around west of Bavarian capital Munich. It is a university town and regional seat of the ' ...
, Germany
* 2007: ''Tysk Samtids Kunst'', Galleri Tonne, Oslo
* 2008: ''Landeskunstausstellung Saar: Dein Land macht Kunst'',
Saarland Museum
The Saarland Museum is an art museum in Saarbrücken, Saarland, Germany. It is spread across three sites, each with a different specialism.
Museum in the Palace Church
The Museum in the Palace Church (''Museum in der Schlosskirche'') special ...
,
Saarbrücken
Saarbrücken (; french: link=no, Sarrebruck ; Rhine Franconian: ''Saarbrigge'' ; lb, Saarbrécken ; lat, Saravipons, lit=The Bridge(s) across the Saar river) is the capital and largest city of the state of Saarland, Germany. Saarbrücken is S ...
, Germany
* 2010: ''Geheimnisvolle Zwischenwelten'',
Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern,
Kaiserslautern
Kaiserslautern (; Palatinate German: ''Lautre'') is a city in southwest Germany, located in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate at the edge of the Palatinate Forest. The historic centre dates to the 9th century. It is from Paris, from Frankfur ...
, Germany
* 2015: ''Abstract Strategies'', Galerie Mirta Demare,
Rotterdam
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, The Netherlands
* 2016: ''An einem Tisch – Zeitgenössische Positionen geometrischer Abstraktion'', Galerie Robert Drees,
Hannover
Hanover (; german: Hannover ; nds, Hannober) is the capital and largest city of the German States of Germany, state of Lower Saxony. Its 535,932 (2021) inhabitants make it the List of cities in Germany by population, 13th-largest city in Germa ...
, Germany
* 2016: ''Sandwiches. Presented by the Talent Agency'', Cartel Artspace,
Bangkok
Bangkok, officially known in Thai language, Thai as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon and colloquially as Krung Thep, is the capital and most populous city of Thailand. The city occupies in the Chao Phraya River delta in central Thailand and has an estima ...
, Thailand
* 2017: ''Trans'', Raygun Projects,
Toowoomba
Toowoomba ( , nicknamed 'The Garden City' and 'T-Bar') is a city in the Toowoomba Region of the Darling Downs, Queensland, Australia. It is west of Queensland's capital city Brisbane by road. The urban population of Toowoomba as of the 2021 C ...
, Australia
* 2018: ''Arvid Boecker – Malerei; Boris Doempke – Installation; Christiane Gruber – Malerei'', Verein für aktuelle Kunst/Ruhrgebiet e.V.,
Oberhausen
Oberhausen (, ) is a city on the river Emscher in the Ruhr Area, Germany, located between Duisburg and Essen ( ). The city hosts the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen and its Gasometer Oberhausen is an anchor point of the European Rout ...
, Germany
* 2018: ''4ABSTRACT2NOT'', Quadrart Dornbirn,
Dornbirn
Dornbirn () is a city in the westernmost Austrian state of Vorarlberg. It is the administrative centre for the district of Dornbirn, which also includes the town of Hohenems, and the market town Lustenau.
Dornbirn is the largest city in Vorarlberg ...
, Austria
* 2018: ''Sydney Paris Sunrise'', Galerie Abstract Project,
Paris
Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ...
, France
Awards
* 1990: 2nd prize, Young Artists Award, Saar Ferngas, Saarbrücken, Germany
* 1994: Art Award of the City of
Landau
Landau ( pfl, Landach), officially Landau in der Pfalz, is an autonomous (''kreisfrei'') town surrounded by the Südliche Weinstraße ("Southern Wine Route") district of southern Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is a university town (since 1990 ...
, Germany
* 1994: Promotion award of the city of
Groß-Gerau
Groß-Gerau () is the district seat of the Groß-Gerau district, lying in the southern Frankfurt Rhein-Main Region in Hesse, Germany, and serving as a hub for the surrounding area. In 1994, the town hosted the 34th Hessentag state festival.
Geogra ...
''GG-Perspective''
Projectroom in Heidelberg
Since 2015 Arvid Boecker has a project room in Heidelberg - boeckercontemporary. Boecker's intention is to establish a "place of encounter with contemporary art" in Heidelberg. Each year, four to six exhibitions of "internationally established positions in non-objective painting" are to be organized. To this end, he collaborates with independent curators worldwide, but also curates several exhibitions himself. The goal of the project space also is to provide more networking in the region and thus to contribute to an active exhibition life. Since 2017, he also realizes exhibitions curated by him at various venues, such as the Galerie Oqbo in Berlin (2017, ''Better late than ugly'') and the Museum St. Wendel (2019, ''Breathe'').
Exhibitions
* 2016: Gruppenausstellung ''Systems of Compliance'', (with Christoph Borowiak, Jin-Kyoung Huh, Yoon Jung Kim und Line Krom), 19. to 21. September, curated by Aline von der Asse
* 2016: ''Douglas Witmer (Philadelphia): Naranja'', 22. July to 19. August, curated by Arvid Boecker
* 2017: ''Better late than ugly'', OQBO Gallery,
Berlin
Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constitue ...
, Germany
* 2017: ''Black Box(es)'',
Metz
Metz ( , , lat, Divodurum Mediomatricorum, then ) is a city in northeast France located at the confluence of the Moselle and the Seille rivers. Metz is the prefecture of the Moselle department and the seat of the parliament of the Grand E ...
, France (This exhibition was also shown in April 2018 at the Künstlerhaus Saar as well as from 12 April to 4 June 2018 at the Casino Luxemburg Forum d'art contemporain. In 2019 the travelling exhibition was to be seen at La 'S' Grand Atelier, in
Vielsalm
Vielsalm (; wa, Li Viye Såm) is a municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Luxembourg, Belgium. The town is part of the Arrondissement of Bastogne. It is the place of origin of the House of Salm.
On 1 January 2018 the municipality ha ...
in Belgium from 5 May to 21 June 2019.
* 2017: Groupexhibition ''In Good Shape'', (with Michael Bause, Christian Bilger, Frank Eltner, Dirk Lebahn,
Seraphina Lenz, Julia Ziegler), 4. March to 7. April, curated by Arvid Boecker
* 2017: Groupexhibition ''Timelines Non Objective Art from Australia'', (with Emma Langridge, David Weir, Louise Blyton, Terri Brooks, Giles Ryder, Billy Gruner, Sarah Keighery, Richard van der Aa, Kyle Jenkins, Matthew Allen), 21. April bis 19. May, curated by Arvid Boecker
* 2018: Groupexhibition ''Absolute'',
(with Matthew Allan, Emma Langridge, Steven Baris, Stan Van Steendam, Nicholas Szymanski, Mary Bucci McCoy, Kenichi Fujiwara, Robert Dunne, John Tallman)
* 2019: ''Free'',
(This exhibition was divided into two parts, firstly a solo exhibition of the artist (''Free''), secondly a group exhibition curated by him as part of his project ''boeckercontemporary'' (''Breathe'').
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References
External links
Arvid Boecker at kunstaspekte.artWebseite of Arvid Boecker
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20th-century German painters
20th-century German male artists
21st-century German painters
21st-century German male artists
Concrete art
Minimalist artists
German male painters
Artists from Wuppertal
1964 births
Living people
Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Saar alumni
University of Trier alumni