TIM PLAMPER
Born in 1982.
Lives and works in Berlin (Germany).
Tim Plamper is a Berlin-based visual artist born in 1982. Evolving in the field of drawing and internet culture, his artistic work deals with mental states - with the dubious reliability of one's own existence. Claiming to be influenced by the German art historian Aby Warburg, Tim Plamper uses existing images from a variety of sources, periods and aesthetics to serve an open symbolic purpose, where the very composition of the image, complex and enigmatic, exhausts no interpretation, forming what he calls a mental sediment.
Catalog of the artist's works here
Image above : Void, 2024. Pencil on paper. 196 cm x 282 cm
A naked female body. A rocky ground. Two circular gaps like abysses... In this visual enigma with a poetic, perhaps or certainly political title, Tim Plamper's entire process of drawing composition is revealed: he fragments, assembles and superimposes images taken from a daily flow of images to produce a symbolic work, where it's a question of unconsciousness, myth and sedimented time.
The proximity between this extended Venus (or perhaps Europe, as evoked by the title of the work, the Phoenician princess of Greek mythology abducted by Zeus in the guise of a bull, giving her name to the Old Continent), and the abyss, this gaping hole that splits and brushes against her, raises questions: precipice towards oblivion or symbol of (re)birth? What does this rain wash away? Today, we imagine a resilient, young Europe, aware of the challenges that lie ahead. But in 100 years' time, Europa nach dem regen will enjoy a different light, a different resonant context, a different layer of time and, therefore, different meanings. As well as being virtuoso in its classical technique (pencil on paper), in its rendering of textures and light, Tim Plamper's work seems timeless.
Image above : Europa nach dem regen, 2017. Pencil on paper. 196 × 283 cm
EUROPA NACH DEM REGEN
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Born in 1982.
Lives and works in Berlin (Germany)
EXPOSITIONS PERSONNELLES / SOLO SHOWS
2022
Security IV (Event Horizon), Spazio ORR hosted at Culterim Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2021
Exit II (The Beloved Dies) (2021), curated by Pavel Kubesa, NOD, Prague, Czechoslovakia
2019
Security, Eduardo Secci Contemporary, Florence, Italy
Exit II (Prolog), Megamelange, Cologne, Germany
Reflection is a Wall (2019), Unttld Contemporary, Vienna, Austria
2017
Zone, Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve, Paris, France
2016
Atlas, Unttld Contemporary, Vienna, Austria
2015
Tim Plamper - Konformität und Verachtung, Kunstverein Eislingen, Eislingen/Fils, Germany
2013
Das Können weicht dem Fleisch, Egbert Baqué Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
2012
The Set, Drawing Now Paris, Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve, Paris, France
2011
The Night’s Heat / Awesome Noise, Egbert Baqué Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
2010
Ambitions / Circumstances, Egbert Baqué Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
2009
Fight the Metric System, Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve / Loft 19, Paris, France
Komm, ich zahl dir die Abtreibung, Baby!, John Doe Projects, Karlsruhe, Germany
2008
Gestürzte, Egbert Baqué Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
2007
Mein kalter Mund, Egbert Baqué Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
2006
Was darunter ist, Egbert Baqué Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
EXPOSITIONS COLLECTIVES / GROUP SHOWS
2024
TEXNO, curated by Nikolas Bernáth and Michal Stolarik, VUNU Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
The Pyramid, OOW Architects, Berlin, Germany
Art Paris, with Galerie Bacqueville, Paris, France
Zona Maco, Eduardo Secci, Mexico City, Mexico
2023
Mental Hot Spot, curated by Tim Plamper, OOW Architects, Berlin, Germany
A Tragedy in Three Acts, GROVE, Berlin, Germany
Video Art 12 05 23, MOLT, Berlin, Germany
Art Paris, Galerie Bacqueville, Paris, France
No Tears for the Monsters of the Night. No Tears, curated by Tim Plamper, Kultur Kiosk, Stuttgart, Germany
2022
SKIN, curated by Dorothee Diebold, Kimgo, Berlin, Germany
Drawing Wow 3, curated by Anna Gille, Philip Loersch, Sarah Petersen and Tim Plamper, Minuseins, Vienna, Austria
CAT, selected by Contemporary Artist Things, Soft Power, Berlin, Germany
Autonomous Fragments, curated by Pierre Granoux and Samuel Henne, Lage Egal, Berlin, Germany
Hoch-Zeit, curated by Christian Kölbl, Projektraum 145, Berlin, Germany
Photo Basel, CLAIRbyKahn, Basel, Switzerland
Feierabend, curated by Elisa Lohmüller, Noemi Strittmatter, Leandro Cultraro, Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design,
Stuttgart, Germany
Collaborations I, invited by Oliver Mark, Guardini Stiftung, Berlin, Germany
2021
Benefit Auction 2021, NAK Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, Germany
HYPERWOUND, curated by Giulia Ottavia Frattini and Tim Plamper, Demo Working Group, Cologne, Germany
CHARTA #2 – Identity and Narration, curated by Jan-Philipp Fruehsorge and Stephan Klee, Frontviews at HAUNT, Berlin, Germany
Kunst für Alle, Kultur Kiosk, Stuttgart, Germany
Summer Time Rolls, curated by Amir Fattal, Am Tacheles, Berlin, Germany
A Rolling Stone Gathers No Moss, Bark Berlin Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Очумелая Выставка – Krasnoyarsk Museum Biennale, curated by Thibaut de Ruyter, Museum Center Ploshchad Mira,
Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Parallel Editions, Untitled Projects, Vienna, Austria
Portal II, curated by Anna Nezhnaya, Galeria Luigi Solito, Naples, Italy
2020
Portal, curated by Anna Nezhnaya, Schaufenster, Berlin, Germany
Freitod, curated by Michael Müller, Kunstsaele, Berlin, Germany
Drawing Wow 2, curated by Anna Gille, Philip Loersch and Tim Plamper, Kunstsaele, Berlin, Germany
The Green Panther Party, curated by Thomas Draschan, Schaufenster, Berlin, Germany
Frieze New York, Cardi Gallery, New York, USA
Dallas Art Fair, Eduardo Secci Contemporary, Dallas, USA
Zona Maco, Eduardo Secci, Mexico City, Mexico
Investec Cape Town, Eduardo Secci, Cape Town, South Africa
Entkunstung, curated by Felipe Duque and Maximilian Mauracher, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
Salon Hansa: InterINTIMES_AutoPORTRAIT, curated by Hansa Wißkirchen, Lachenmann Art, Frankfurt, Germany
2019
Art Verona, Eduardo Secci, Verona, Italy
Expo Chicago, Eduardo Secci, Chicago, USA
Drawing Wow, curated by Anna Gille, Philip Loersch, Tim Plamper and Milen Till, BCMA, Berlin, Germany
Art Cologne, Suzanne Tarasieve, Cologne, Germany
Looking for Dick, curated by Hansa Wißkirchen and Jan Kage, Schaufenster, Berlin, Germany
Inside Out, Galerie Zimmermann Kratochwill, Graz, Austria
Box Four, curated by Jonas Schenk and Patrick C. Haas, Megamelange, Cologne, Germany
2018
Not dark yet, curated by Roman Grabner, Kunsthaus, Muerz, Austria
Editions #3, frontviews, Berlin, Germany
Speak, Memory, curated by Stefan Draschan, Schau Fenster, Berlin, Germany
Works On Paper, curated by Lisa Tiemann und Max Roedel, Gussglashalle, Berlin, Germany
Ball Paradox, curated by Lea Pagenkemper and Fabian Seyd, Café Keese, Berlin, Germany
Spinnerei Gallery Tour, with Unttld Contemporary, hosted by Galerie Jochen Hempel, Leipzig, Germany
2017
Undecided Paradigms, Contemporary drawings in Germany, Goethe-Institut, Paris, France
Crosswords 3, curated by Pierre Granoux and Jordan/Seydoux, Berlin, Germany
Art Brussels, Unttld Contemporary, Brussels, Belgium
Art Cologne, Suzanne Tarasieve, Cologne, Germany
Drawing Now, Suzanne Tarasieve, Paris, France
Blush, curated by Susi Hinz, Sarah Lüttchen and Lea Pagenkemper, Berlin, Germany
2016
Lʼoeil du collectionneur - The Mairet Collection, Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg, France
Drawing Now Paris, Carreau du Temple, Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve, Paris, France
Art Cologne, Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve, Cologne, Germany
Beauty Rules, Apartment Draschan & instant edition, Vienna, Austria
Silk, Monat Off Berlin, Germany (Curators: Andreas B. Krueger)
Blanks, Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin, Germany
Groß, Schau Fenster, Berlin, Germany (Curators : Stefan Draschan)
2959, Berlin, Germany (Curator : Damien Cadio and Thibaut de Ruyter)
True Mirror, Espace Commines, Paris, France
Rheingold, Kunstbezirk, Stuttgart, Germany (Curator: Manuela Beck)
2015
Der Raum der Worte ist nicht der Raum der Bilder, Galerie Wagner + Partner, Berlin, Germany
Um Fleisch auf die Nerven zu bekommen!, Kunstverein Familie Montez, Frankfurt, Germany (Curator: Hansa Wisskirchen)
KIK four, Kino International, Berlin, Germany (Curator : Amir Fattal)
Private Public Partnership, Lust Gallery, Vienna, Austria
Art Cologne, Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve, Cologne, Germany
2014
Bento Box - Collagierte Gegenwart, Galerie Anja Rumig, Stuttgart, Germany
Kentucky Karaoke, DMNDKT, Berlin, Germany
Squatting, Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, Germany
def, DMNDKT, Berlin, Germany
Blue Monday, Senatsreservenspeicher, Berlin, Germany (Curator: Kanta Kimura)
2013
3 days in Paris, Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve, Paris, France
Take a walk on the wild side, Egbert Baqué Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
Der Nebel und das Glas, curated by Johannes Weiß, Infernoesque, Berlin, Germany
WWIIRR, Gloria, Berlin, Germany
SSIIEE (one two three), Berlin, Germany (Curators : Betty Böhm, Selket Chlupka, Philip Loersch and Tim Plamper
Berlin. Status 2, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
Art Cologne, Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve, Cologne, Germany
Hauptstraße - David Bowie, (The Berlin Years 1976 – 1978), Egbert Baqué Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
2012
Art Colone, Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve Paris, Cologne, Germany
There is no end - A Tribute to Jackson Pollock, Egbert Baqué Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
Zeichnen ohne Grenzen, 5. Biennale der Zeichnung, Kunstverein, Eislingen, Germany
Saeuseln tilgt Lust, curated by Tim Plamper, Egbert Baqué Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
CTM.12 – SPECTRAL - Das Geschehen, a project by Nik Nowak and Moritz Stumm, Berghain, Berlin, Germany
2011
Art Brussels, Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve, Brussels, Belgium
Strich um Strich - Zeitgenössische Zeichner im Dialog mit der Sammlung, Städtische Galerie, Böblingen
Sixpack, Egbert Baqué Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
Sammlung Thibaut de Ruyter (with J. Queiroz, G.Salaün, W. Vostell), Babette, Berlin, Germany
2010
Niemand - Das Archiv, Kunsthalle, Göppingen, Germany
Jens Braun / Tim Plamper – Das verworfene Firmament, Egbert Baqué Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
STATE: Cohort Now, Freies Museum, Berlin, Germany
4 play (with Betty Böhm, Sabeth Drumheller, Menja Stevenson), Infernoesque, Berlin, Germany
2009
Portfolio, Egbert Baqué Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
Salon Du Dessin Contemporain, Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve, Paris, France
BOB – A Tribute to Bob Dylan, Egbert Baqué Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
BEST OF, Egbert Baqué Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
2008
Salon Du Dessin Contemporain, Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve, Paris, France
Eigenrauschen, Galerie pro arte, Freiburg, Germany
STATE, Shoreditch Townhall, London, UK
2007
Augenweite, Kunstverein Das Damianstor, Bruchsal, Germany
Und ewig lockt die Malerei III, Galerie Rainer Wehr, Stuttgart, Germany
Free Hand 2, Egbert Baqué Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
2006
Free Hand, Egbert Baqué Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
Augenweite, Städtische Galerie Donzdorf, Germany
2004
Lange Nacht der Museen, Stuttgart Raum12, Berlin, Germany
Muse heute ?, Städtische Galerie im Buntentor und Kunsthalle, Bremen, Germany
BIBLIOGRAPHIE / BIBLIOGRAPHY (sélection)
2022
Safelight Paper - Issue 1 - Youth, published by Nicolas Blanchadell and Safelight, Berlin, Germany
2021
Interviews (2021), published by Andreas van Dühren, Berlin, Germany
2019
Entkunstung (2019), published by Kulturverein Entkunstung, Vienna, Austria
Transit (2019), published by Unttld Contemporary, Vienna, Austria
2017
Tim Plamper – Zone, published by Suzanne Tarasieve, Paris, France
2014
Das Können weicht dem Fleisch, published by Egbert Baqué Contemporary Art, Berlin
2013
Berlin Status (2), published by Sven Drühl and Christoph Tannert, DruckVerlag Kettler
2012
Zeichnen ohne Grenzen - 5. Biennale der Zeichnung, published by Kunstverein Eislingen
2010
Niemand - Das Archivb, published by Kunsthalle Göppingen, Verlag Kunsthalle Göppingen
2009
Fight the Metric System, published by Suzanne Tarasieve, Paris