REITER galleries

Hans Aichinger

»K.I.Z. Die logische Disziplin« 2022. Oil on canvas. 160 x 160 cm
»K.I.Z. Die logische Disziplin« 2022. Oil on canvas. 160 x 160 cm
untitled 2020. Oil on canvas. 80 x 120 cm
untitled 2020. Oil on canvas. 80 x 120 cm
»Kind of Blue« 2022. Oil on canvas, 40 x 30 cm
»Kind of Blue« 2022. Oil on canvas, 40 x 30 cm
»There is a light that never goes out 2« 2022. Oil on canvas, 60 x 50 cm
»There is a light that never goes out 2« 2022. Oil on canvas, 60 x 50 cm
»Die Rekonstruktion der Welt« 2021. Oil on canvas. 80 x 120 cm
»Die Rekonstruktion der Welt« 2021. Oil on canvas. 80 x 120 cm
»Welt ohne Gegenstände« 2020, oil on canvas , 210 x 230 cm
»Welt ohne Gegenstände« 2020, oil on canvas , 210 x 230 cm
untitled 2019. Water colour on paper. 68 x 93 cm
untitled 2019. Water colour on paper. 68 x 93 cm
»Die Hüterin« 2019. Oil on canvas. 160 x 200 cm
»Die Hüterin« 2019. Oil on canvas. 160 x 200 cm
»Prisma« 2020. Oil on canvas. 70 x 50 cm
»Prisma« 2020. Oil on canvas. 70 x 50 cm
exhibition view »Bilder von Tatsachen« REITER | Berlin prospect
exhibition view »Bilder von Tatsachen« REITER | Berlin prospect
»Das Zeichen« 2015, oil on canvas, 130 x 170cm
»Das Zeichen« 2015, oil on canvas, 130 x 170cm
»Die Geschichte des Begreifens« 2022. Oil on canvas, 111 x 151 cm
»Die Geschichte des Begreifens« 2022. Oil on canvas, 111 x 151 cm
»Immanenz« 2020. Oil on canvas. 80 x 120 cm
»Immanenz« 2020. Oil on canvas. 80 x 120 cm
»St. Sebastian« 2019, oil on canvas, 110 x 140 cm
»St. Sebastian« 2019, oil on canvas, 110 x 140 cm
»Das falsche Kleid« 2022. Oil on canvas, 75 x 60 cm
»Das falsche Kleid« 2022. Oil on canvas, 75 x 60 cm
»Der Prophet« 2019. Oil on canvas. 120 x 90 cm
»Der Prophet« 2019. Oil on canvas. 120 x 90 cm
»Die Heilige« 2019, oil on canvas, 55 x 75 cm
»Die Heilige« 2019, oil on canvas, 55 x 75 cm
»Eine Beschreibung« 2018, oil on canvas, 100 x 80cm
»Eine Beschreibung« 2018, oil on canvas, 100 x 80cm
exhibition view »Bilder von Tatsachen« REITER Berlin prospect 2018
exhibition view »Bilder von Tatsachen« REITER Berlin prospect 2018
»Hermeneutische Situation« 2018, oil on canvas, 130 x 160cm
»Hermeneutische Situation« 2018, oil on canvas, 130 x 160cm
»The man who sold the world« 2020. Oil on canvas. 130 x 90 cm
»The man who sold the world« 2020. Oil on canvas. 130 x 90 cm
»Die Familie. Eine Aufstellung« exhibition view  REITER | Leipzig 2013
»Die Familie. Eine Aufstellung« exhibition view REITER | Leipzig 2013
»Aaron« 2020. Oil on canvas. 100 x 130 cm
»Aaron« 2020. Oil on canvas. 100 x 130 cm
untitled, 2019, water colour on paper, 67 x 96cm
untitled, 2019, water colour on paper, 67 x 96cm
»Problem der Willensfreiheit II«  2015, oil on canvas, 90 x 70 cm
»Problem der Willensfreiheit II« 2015, oil on canvas, 90 x 70 cm
»Der Anarchist« 2013, oil on canvas, 140 x 100 cm
»Der Anarchist« 2013, oil on canvas, 140 x 100 cm
»Magische Kausalität« 2021. Oil on canvas. 50 x 40 cm
»Magische Kausalität« 2021. Oil on canvas. 50 x 40 cm

Hans Aichinger's works (painting, oil on canvas) are filled with concentration: firstly in the way he uses it to paint the highly accurate figures, and through the tension that is placed in the minds of the characters themselves. This concentration does not reveal its object as it lies outside of the frame - without reference - in the open. Thus, Aichinger creates a harmony between figuration and abstraction, and at the same time, he makes the legibility of the images possible and impossible.

The figures are performing on a minimalist stage, no portraits, mostly soloists without concrete opponents - but with counter-stands, or resistances: a wooden stick, stuffed animals, pebbles, toys or, even more, reduced, with a physical gesture - as an expression of internal compression. We are confronted with mainly adolescents still on the way to the acceptance of one's appearance, with naive self-assurance and openness. Background and space are strangely indefinite and speechless, and in the medium format, the figures appear almost life-size at eye level with the viewer.

The ambivalence of works such as »Abnehmendes Licht« (»diminishing light«) or »Unruhe« (»unrest«) have an explicit yet undefined side, it is here where the works begin to assert their abstraction. The indefinite "assumption of form" in Aichinger’s works presents the protagonist on the one hand, but same time the pictorial content is both objective and abstract. This suspicion is supported in Aichinger's precise accuracy, which goes beyond any realism and where the form begins to dissolve.

These elements, which are almost microscopically alien to the detail, have no specific meaning but are there to direct our perception. Thus the abstraction comes into the work subtly by taking short detours along the way. His inclination towards the non-representational ideal image comes from Aichinger surprisingly close - albeit from an unexpected direction.

09-26-2020 – 12-19-2020 | R E I T E R Leipzig

Hans AichingerStephan HuberPer KirkebyThomas TaubeIbrahim Mahama

The Inner Land

Ibrahim Mahama . untitled 2018
Ibrahim Mahama . untitled 2018
09-26-2020 – 12-19-2020 | R E I T E R Leipzig

Hans AichingerStephan HuberPer KirkebyThomas TaubeIbrahim Mahama

The Inner Land

For most city dwellers, a landscape is a space more often experienced as a state of mind, rather than an embodied experience. We carry with us topographies into which we can project ourselves. These spaces, both…

04-28-2020 – 07-11-2020 | R E I T E R Leipzig

Hans AichingerClemens TremmelCarsten GoeringChristian HolzeSebastian NeebSebastian SchraderThomas SommerJames NizamClaus Georg Stabe

everchanging group show

»away from keyboard«
»away from keyboard«
04-28-2020 – 07-11-2020 | R E I T E R Leipzig

Hans AichingerClemens TremmelCarsten GoeringChristian HolzeSebastian NeebSebastian SchraderThomas SommerJames NizamClaus Georg Stabe

everchanging group show

Our group show »AFK« (Away From Keyboard) marks the time when art returns from virtual to physical space. It is an ever-changing exhibition with a varying and evolving artist participation. In this way, different…

04-06-2019 – 06-15-2019 | R E I T E R Leipzig Plus

Hans AichingerMatthias Kanter

¾ verstanden

04-06-2019 – 06-15-2019 | R E I T E R Leipzig Plus

Hans AichingerMatthias Kanter

¾ verstanden

Looking back at the last six decades, Hans Aichinger has invited a long-standing friend, fellow artist Matthias Kanter, for a joint exhibition. Since the working methods of the two painters could hardly be more…

09-28-2018 – 01-18-2019 | R E I T E R Berlin prospect

Hans Aichinger

Bilder von Tatsachen

09-28-2018 – 01-18-2019 | R E I T E R Berlin prospect

Hans Aichinger

Bilder von Tatsachen

When we take a closer look at his work, what catches our attention is a collar, an ear, the opulent drapery of an ordinary contemporary textile or a slightly mannered hand. Hans Aichinger's usually youthful…

01-14-2017 – 04-01-2017 | R E I T E R Leipzig

Hans AichingerMary BauermeisterManuele CeruttiPhilipp FürhoferSteffen JunghansPhilipp ModersohnSebastian NeebNik NowakSebastian SchraderThomas SommerWanda StolleElisa StrozykMarie von Heyl

Fountain of Youth

exhibition view »Fountain of Youth« REITER | Leipzig
exhibition view »Fountain of Youth« REITER | Leipzig
01-14-2017 – 04-01-2017 | R E I T E R Leipzig

Hans AichingerMary BauermeisterManuele CeruttiPhilipp FürhoferSteffen JunghansPhilipp ModersohnSebastian NeebNik NowakSebastian SchraderThomas SommerWanda StolleElisa StrozykMarie von Heyl

Fountain of Youth

2017 is the 100th anniversary of Marcel Duchamp’s coup, a piece of sanitary ware presented as a work of art. This early method of conceptual art had encouraged other artists to explore this theme which resulted in an…

04-30-2016 – 08-13-2016 | R E I T E R Leipzig

Hans Aichinger

Der Teufel im Detail

Hans Aichinger »Der Teufel im Detail« exhibition view .  maerzgalerie Leipzig
Hans Aichinger »Der Teufel im Detail« exhibition view . maerzgalerie Leipzig
04-30-2016 – 08-13-2016 | R E I T E R Leipzig

Hans Aichinger

Der Teufel im Detail

Aichingers work is filled up with concentration – for one, it is the one used for painting the high-grade figures as accurate as possible and on the other hand the mental tension the figures themselves sense in a…

05-04-2013 – 08-03-2013 | R E I T E R Leipzig

Hans Aichinger

Die Familie. Eine Aufstellung

Hans Aichinger »Die Familie. Eine Aufstellung« exhibition view. maerzgalerie Leipzig
Hans Aichinger »Die Familie. Eine Aufstellung« exhibition view. maerzgalerie Leipzig
05-04-2013 – 08-03-2013 | R E I T E R Leipzig

Hans Aichinger

Die Familie. Eine Aufstellung

„Paintings that fascinate and distance themselves at the same time - because they are immensely clear, yet inscrutable as Aichinger always goes the whole hog and does not spare himself. Aichinger drops the anchor on…

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1959
born in Leipzig
1982 - 1986
studies under supervision of Prof. Bernhard Heisig at the Academy of Visual Arts. Leipzig
1992 - 1997
teaching activities at the Academy of Visual Arts. Leipzig
1999
working sojourn at Casa Alejandro de Humboldt. Havana. Cuba
1999
guest lecturer at the Emory University, Atlanta. USA
Hans Aichinger lives and works in Leipzig.

Publications

2013
»Hans Aichinger. Truth or Duty« Monograph. Hirmer Verlag Munich
2012
»Melancholia« Klinger Forum. Leipzig
2012
»BILD SEIN« Art Foundation of Saxony Anhalt. Halle (Saale)
2006
»Zurück zur Figur - Malerei der Gegenwart« Catalogue. Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung. Munich
2005
»BESSER ALS NICHTS« Exhibition catalogue
»Die Frage nach dem Ding« maerzgalerie. Leipzig
2001
»Schrei nach Liebe« maerzgalerie. Leipzig / De Lifters Gallery. Tokyo. Japan
»Blick in die Sammlung« Bestandskatalog. Kunsthalle der Sparkasse. Leipzig
1999
»Ambos Mundos« Catalogue. Casa Alejandro de Humboldt. Havanna
1997
»Form und Funktion der Zeichnung heute« Catalogue. Frankfurt am Main
1996
»Ein Jahr voller Montage« Catalogue. ARTCO Galerie. Leipzig
1994
»Für F.N. - Nietzsche in der bildenden Kunst der letzten 30 Jahre« Catalogue. Schloss Belvedere. Weimar
»Demokratie und Fußbodenheizung« Catalogue. ARTCO Galerie. Leipzig
1992
»Turning Points« Catalogue. Northern Centre of Contemporary Art. Sunderland. Great Britain

exhibitions

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019
»Liebe und Genauigkeit« Galerie Löhrl. Mönchengladbach
»¾ verstanden« mit Matthias Kanter. REITER | Leipzig
2018
»Bilder von Tatsachen« REITER | Berlin prospect
2016
»Der Teufel im Detail« maerzgalerie. Leipzig
2015
»Die Entdeckung der Kontingenz« maerzgalerie. Berlin
2014
»Hans Aichinger« Kunstverein Lippe. Lippische Gesellschaft für Kunst. Detmold
»Der weiße Anfang« Kunsthalle Bremerhaven. Bremerhaven
2013
»Die Familie. Eine Aufstellung« maerzgalerie. Leipzig (K)
2012
»Wahrheit oder Pflicht« maerzgalerie. Berlin
2010
»Ein Missverständnis« maerzgalerie. Berlin
2009
»Von Natur aus falsch« maerzgalerie. Leipzig
2007
»Impossible Germany« Moti Hasson Gallery. New York City. USA
2005
»Die Frage nach dem Ding« maerzgalerie. Leipzig (K)
2003
»Das wissende Feld« maerzgalerie. Leipzig
2001
»Schrei nach Liebe« maerzgalerie. Leipzig (K)
»Schrei nach Liebe« De Lifters Gallery. Tokyo. Japan (K)
1992
»Holzschnitte« Galerie Schwind. Frankfurt am Main
2000
Galerie Prinz. Madrid. Spain
1999
Emory University. Atlanta, USA
1998
ARTCO Galerie. Leipzig
1996
»Formen missglückten Daseins« Galerie VOXXX. Chemnitz
1995
Galerie Peters – Barenbrock. Braunschweig
»Arbeit besiegt alles« Galerie Schuster. Offenbach
1993
Reg Vardy Gallery. Sunderland. UK
1992
Reg Vardy Gallery. Sunderland. UK
1990
Städtisches Theater Solothurn. Switzerland
Galerie Plume. La Chaux des Fondes. Switzerland
1987
»Akzente« Duisburg
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
»Leipzig: a universe of images. 1905 – 2022« Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig
2020
»The Inner Land« REITER | Leipzig
»AFK« REITER | Leipzig
2019
»Feelings. Kunst und Emotionen« Pinakothek der Moderne. Munich
»Das Kollegium« Grafikstiftung Neo Rauch. Aschersleben
»New Acquisitions-Hildebrand Collection« G2 Kunsthalle. Leipzig
2018
»Zeigen und Sagen« kuratiert von Hans Aichinger . Deutsche Bundesbank Geldmuseum . Frankfurt
»MdbK meets G2. Malerei aus Leipzig nach 2000« Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig
»Fountain of Youth« Goethe Institut Lille . Galerie La Passerelle. R
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Hans Aichinger News

Hans Aichinger in the exhibition catalogue "From Bonnard to Klemke
04-27-2023 – 09-24-2023

  • Hans Aichinger

Participation in the exhibition "From Bonnard to Klemke" at the Grassimuseum für angewandte Kunst in Leipzig. The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue, edited by Olaf Thormann, with contributions by Julia Blume, Karoline Schliemann, Bernd Schultz and Olaf Thormann.

www.grassimak.de


Hans Aichinger
07-10-2022 – 11-06-2022

  • Hans Aichinger
  • Matthias Kanter

DAS GROSSE ETWAS - Hans Aichinger und Matthias Kanter | Malerei
Kunsthaus Salzwedel