Torben Giehler

Torben Giehler (born 1973) is a German abstract artist.

Giehler was born in 1973 in Bad Oeynhausen, Germany. He is a graduate of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. In 1999, he attended the New York Studio Program. He is the recipient of the James William Paige Fund and the Clarissa Bartlett Scholarship. In 2008, he was awarded the Falkenrot Preis from the Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin

Giehler is known for his geometric abstractions. "He is fascinated by virtual spaces which, even from the outset, always illustrate realities that are just possibilities – imaginary worlds floating between planning, construction, and unconstrained fiction." (Jens Asthoff, 2008)

Giehler's work has been exhibited in the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg and Wilhelm-Hack-Museum Ludwigshafen in Germany, the Centro de Salamanca in Spain as well as the Cleveland Museum of Art, PS 1/MOMA NY, New Orleans Museum of Art, the Carnegie Art Museum in Oxnard, CA and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. In 2005, Giehler was included in the Prague Biennale 2.

Giehler's work can be found in the permanent collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, the Deste Foundation Centre For Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece, the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany, and Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland.

Selected solo exhibitions

2000 Leo Koenig Inc., New York (catalogue)
2002 Arndt & Partner, Berlin
2002 Leo Koenig Inc., New York (catalogue)
2003 Centro de Arte de Salamanca, Spain (catalogue)
2003 Paolo Curti & Co., Milan
2004 "Sputnik Sweetheart", Arndt & Partner, Berlin
2004 "Jpeg Twister", Leo Koenig Inc., New York
2005 "Suspended Animation", Arndt & Partner, Zürich, Switzerland
2006 "Alphaville", Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve, Paris (catalogue)
2007 "Eis Hexe", Leo Koenig Inc., New York
2007 "Invisible Limits", Martin Geier Galerie, Algund, Italy
2008 Falkenroth Preis, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (catalogue)
2009 "Devil In The Woods", Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve, Paris
2011 "Lateralus", Leo Koenig Inc., New York
2012 Stephane Simoens Contemporary Fine Art, Knokke, Belgium

Selected group exhibitions

1999 Fifth Year Competition & Exhibition, School of the Museum of the Fine Arts, Boston
1999 Traveling Scholarship Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (catalogue)
2000 "Collector's Choice", Exit Art, New York
2001 "Come on Feel the Noice", Asbaek Galerie, Copenhagen
2002 "Building a Collection: Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Art", Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
2003 "Painting Pictures",curated by Gijs van Tuyl, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany (catalogue)
2003 "Project 244: MetaScape", Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
2003 "A New Modernism for a New Millenium: Abstraction and Surrealism are reinvented in the Internet Age", The Logan Collection, Vail, Colorado (catalogue)
2004 "Treasure Islands", Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
2004 "Surface Tension", curated by Manon Slome, Chelsea Art Museum, New York
2004 "Eclectic Eye: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation", New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana
2005 "We Can Do It!", Gary Tatinsian Gallery, Moscow (catalogue)
2005 "Greater New York", PS1 New York (catalogue)
2005 Prague Biennale 2, Prague, Czech Republic (catalogue)
2005 "Generation X: Young Art from the Collection", Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
2006 "Made in Germany", gip international fine art, Burgdorf, Switzerland
2006 "abstract art now - strictly geometrica", Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany (catalogue)
2006 "Negotiating Reality: Recent Works from the Logan Collection", Denver University, Denver, Colorado (catalogue)
2007 "Like color in pictures", Aspen Art Museum, Colorado (catalogue)
2007 "Grups", Hydra School Projects curated by Dimitris Antonitsis, Hydra, Greece
2007 "Eclectic Eye: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation", Fine Art Center, Colorado Springs, Colorado
2008 Future Tense: Reshaping the Landscape, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY
2008 Teaching An Old Dog New Tricks, Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen, Denmark (catalogue)
2008 Uncoordinated: Mapping Cartography in Contemporary Art, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
2010 "Elements of Nature, Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation", Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, CA
2010 "Celebration", curated by Dimitrios Antonitsis, The Museum Alex Mylona, Macedonian MOCA, Athens, Greece
2010 "Changing Soil:Contemporary Landscape Painting (Za Fukei),Nagoya/Boston MFA, Nagoya, Japan (catalogue)
2011 "abstract confusion", B-05, Kunst- und Kulturzentrum Montabur, Germany (catalogue)
2011 "A Sense Of Place: Landscapes from Monet to Hockney", Bellagio Gallery of Fine Arts, Las Vegas, NV
2011 "abstract confusion", Kunstverein Ulm, Ulm, Germany (catalogue)
2011 "I love ALDI", Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany (catalogue)
2011 "Forces of Nature: Selection from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation" curated by Milam Weisman, Louisiana Art and Science Museum, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
2012 "Berlin.Status(1)", Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany (catalogue)
2012 "abstract confusion", Kunsthalle Erfurt, Erfurt, Germany (catalogue)

Torben Giehler is also the founder of Peloton Cyclin Club Berlin

Gallery

gollark: CC workflow for setting up a computer to do things:- (auto)craft computer- place computer- write code/download code onto computer as startupOC workflow:- figure out what cards/other components it needs- queue autocrafting for everything- wait a while while autocrafting runs, and possibly converts some coal into diamonds- pull autocrafted stuff out of ME network, put into computers, be sure to get the right items- find openOS disk, disk drive- install openOS- write/download code- either move code to `boot` or work out how `rc` works

gollark: I play on servers. I can't just edit the recipes.

gollark: Even with autocrafting I still have to queue up all the parts and fetch them from storage and install them every time I want a new computer.

gollark: I mean, personally I just find it less annoying than OC because I don't have to microcraft (or program AE recipes for) 89126871258 parts.

gollark: > feel free to unleash your wrath on CCNo, I like CC.

Literature

Verena Ummenhofer: "Malerisch-virtuelle Geodäsie erdachter Welten", in KUNSTFORUM Band 206, 2010, S. 166
Kerstin Kohlenberg: "Atelierbesuch: Alles in Bewegung", in DIE ZEIT, 23.10.2008 Nr. 44
Roberta Smith: "Art in Review", in New York Times, October 4, 2002
David Hunt: Torben Giehler, in: Artext 78 (2002) S. 58-63.
Leo Koenig, Inc., New York (ed.): Torben Giehler. Köln, König 2004. ISBN 3-88375-825-6

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