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Adrian Ghenie

Adrian Ghenie (Born 1977) is active/lives in Romania, Germany.  Adrian Ghenie is known for Abstract portrait and figural painting.

Adrian Ghenie was born in Baia Mare, Romania in 1977. In 2001, he graduated from the University of Art and Design, Cluj, Romania. He splits his time between Cluj and Berlin, spending the majority of his time in the German capital. In 2005, Ghenie co-founded Galeria Plan B in Cluj Napoca, a production and exhibition space for contemporary art.

Adrian Ghenie’s own work is gestural but unconventional in application. Opposed to the traditional tools of a painter, Ghenie’s paintings are the result of the palette knifes and stencils that he uses to carve staged accidents onto and into his multi-layered painted canvases.

His childhood had a profound effect on his painting, in particular the stories his parents told him of their travels across Eastern Europe during the ‘60s and ‘70s. It is not specifically these stories that provide his artistic inspiration, but the differences he finds between his parents’ accounts and his personal interpretations of them. In the broader sense,   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 4094 characters.]  Artist bio

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