ARTISTS / Contemporary art
Christoph M. Gais

Christoph M. Gais photographed by Lawrence Caroll

1951	Born in Stuttgart
1971	Abitur at the Eberhard-Ludwigs Gymnasium, Stuttgart
1972-78	Studies of art history and empirical cultural sciences at the University of Tübingen
1974-78	Various internships in painting technique with Diplomrestaurator Dr. Ingenhoff, Tübingen
1978-81	Studies of painting at the State Academy of Fine Arts, Stuttgart with Prof. K. R. H. Sonderborg
1979	Foundation of the artist gallery "in situ
1980-81	Part-time teaching position as art teacher at the Georgii Gymnasium, Esslingen
1981-83	Studied painting at the Hochschule der Künste, Berlin with Prof. R. Girke, graduating as master student
1984	Karl Hofer scholarship
1988	Working scholarship of the Berlin Senate
1990-96	Board of the German Artists' Association as treasurer
1992	Berlin Art Prize, Award for Fine Arts of the Academy of Arts, Berlin
1994	Teaching at the Summer Academy, Berlin
1995-96	Visiting professor at the Johannes-Gutenberg-University, Mainz
since 1996	several Kunst am Bau projects including the design of the Louise Schroeder Hall in the Rotes Rathaus, Berlin
2005	three-month study residency in Berlin
since 2007	co-organizer "Atelier Aperti", Orvieto, Italy
	lives and works since 1994 near Orvieto, Italy and Berlin
	Solo exhibitions (selection)
2013	Gallery Nothelfer, Berlin
2010	Atelier Aperti, Torre San Severo, Italy
2009	Atelier Aperti, Le Velette, Orvieto, Italy
2008	Atelier Aperti, Torre San Severo, Orvieto, Italy
	Gallery at the main square, Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany
2007	Gallery Schlichtenmaier, Stuttgart, Germany
2005	Gallery Heimeshoff, Jochen Krüper, Essen, Germany
	Gallery at the main square, Fürstenfeldbruck
2004	Gallery Seitz & Partner, Berlin (with Jo Schöpfer)
2003	Gallery at the main square, Fürstenfeldbruck
2002	Palazzo Chigi, Viterbo, Italy
2000	Gallery Borkowski, Hanover
	APC Gallery, Cologne
1999	ornamenti, Gallery Grossinski & Brümmer, Karlsruhe, Germany
1998	Gallery Ecke, Augsburg
	Gallery Heimeshoff, Jochen Krüper, Essen
1997	APC Gallery, Cologne
1995	Gallery Borkowski, Hanover
	APC Gallery, Cologne
	Gallery Volker Diehl, Berlin
1994	Zeche Zollverein, Essen (with Rolf Julius)
	Rag Environment, Bottrop
1993	Gallery Sander, Darmstadt
1992	Gallery Heimeshoff, Jochen Krüper, Essen
	Gallery Volker Diehl, Berlin
1991	Kunstverein Bruchsal
	Kunstverein Hamburg
1990	Eisenhalle, Berlin
	Art Station St.Peter, Cologne
	Group exhibitions (selection)
2013	Galerie Nothelfer, art fairs Madrid, Karlsruhe, Cologne, Basel
2010	Museo Faina, Orvieto, Italy
2008	Gallery Schlichtenmaier, Art Cologne, Cologne
	MKM Duisburg - Permanent exhibition
2006	Gallery Schlichtenmaier, Castle Dätzingen, Stuttgart
2005	Gallery Seitz & Partner, Berlin
	The small format, Gallery Schlichtenmaier, Castle Dätzingen, Stuttgart
2004	Kupferstichkabinett, Art Forum Berlin
	Schlichtenmaier Gallery, Stuttgart
2003	Gallery Noah, Augsburg
	Gallery at the main square, Fürstenfeldbruck
2002	Gallery Inga Kondeyne + Gallery Seitz & Partner, Berlin
1999	Praga d'oro, Palazzo dei Sette, Orvieto, Italy
1998	Artisti stranieri in Umbria, Perugia, Italy
	Gallery Grosskinski & Brümmer, Karlsruhe, Germany
1996	German Artists' Association, Rostock
	Art after 1945 from the Lühl Collection, Chemnitz Municipal Art Collection
	Retrospect and Outlook, Gallery Grosskinski & Brümmer, Karlsruhe
1995	Sundial, Sundial, Berlin
	Berlin studio. Works on paper, Press and Information Office Berlin, Potsdam
1994	Gallery Volker Diehl, Berlin
1993	abstract, Deutscher Künstlerbund, Dresden
1992	Deutscher Künstlerbund, Aachen
1991	Interferences, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin
	Deutscher Künstlerbund, Darmstadt
	Kultrum Munich
	Art Association Lingen
1990	Altarpiece. Mind and Body, Museum of German History, Berlin, GDR
	Deutscher Künstlerbund, Berlin

Gais' work is based on the tradition of a gesture-object-free painting. The search for the lasting leads to serial paintings: Breathing, structures float as color appearance above the layered color pigments and are permeated by them. Harmony in rest and movement, chance and structure, color matter and color appearance, variety and unity are the hallmarks of the painterly conception of his "ornamenti". For him, image means "that the color takes on a form of appearance that has an inner meaning, a logic". The current works thematize the relationship between surface and space, stillness and movement. Mosaic-like ornaments become geometric shapes that jump out of the picture in perspective and add another layer to the iridescent background and foreground.
 

Untitled, 2000-2012
40,5 × 30 cm   →

Untitled, 2014
30 × 40 cm   →

Untitled, 2017
45 × 100 × 33 cm   →

Untitled, 2017/8/20
116 × 106 cm   →

Untitled, 2018
69 × 73 cm   →

Untitled, 2020/21
120 × 100 cm   →

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