Boberg, Oliver

OLIVER BOBERG
Born 1965, Herten (Kreis Recklinghausen), Germany
Lives and works in Fürth, Germany
EDUCATION
1986-93 Studies in painting, art academy, Nürnberg
1985-86 Studies in history of art at the University of Wurzburg
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2003
Kunst Museum Hanover
Paul Morris Gallery, New York
Kunstverein Göttingen
2002
Musée de l´Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland
Conner Contemporary
L.A. Galerie, Lothar Albrecht, Frankfurt
Universidad de Salamanca, Centro de Fotografia, Spain
Kunstverein Weiden
2001
Paul Morris Gallery, New York
L.A. Galerie, Lothar Albrecht, Frankfurt
Galerie Karin Sachs, Munich, Germany
2000
Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Städtische Galerie, Erlangen
1999
Paul Morris Gallery, New York
L.A. Galerie, Lothar Albrecht, Frankfurt
Birner + Wittmann Galerie, Nuernberg
1998
L.A. Galerie, Lothar Albrecht, Frankfurt
1996
Galerie Licht/Schatten, Regensburg
Galeriehaus, Nürnberg
1995
Südklinikum, Nürnberg
1993
Galerie Paul Meier, Erlangen
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2004
“Sets and Structures,” Memphis College of Art
2003
CrossCurrents at Century’s End Traveling exhbition of selected works from
Neuberger Berman Art Collection
“Super Structures,” Untitled Space CT
“ Faking Real,” Columbia University, NY
“Constructed Realities: Contemporary Photography,” Orlando Museum of Art
2002
“Staging Reality Photography from the West Collection,” The University of the
Arts
“Paradise In Search of a Future, Part II”, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center
Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen
Kunstverein Weiden
“Seeing Things,” Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
“Landschaftsblicke,” artfinder – edition + kunsthandel, Hamburg
“Konstruktion / Illusion – Architektur und gebauter Raum in zeitgenössischen
Fotografien,” c/o Berlin, Germany
“Geschwindigkeit – Terrain der Zeit,” Fotografie – und Medienkunstpreis
Wiesbaden 2002, Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden
“Art Downtown,” Wall Street Rising, NY
“Constructed Realities,” Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO
“Asphalt,” Elias Fine Art, MA
2001
“It’s a Wild Party and We’re Having a Great Time,” Paul Morris Gallery, NY
“Urban Pornography,” Artists Space, New York, NY
“Paradise in Search of a Future,” CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY
“SuperNature,” Inman Gallery, Houston, TX
“Contemporary German Photography,” Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
“BOGUS: Issues of the Counterfeit in Art,” The College of New Rochelle, New
Rochelle, NY
“Wirklichkeiten,” Städtische Galerie, Schweinfurt
“True Fictions,” Museum Bad Arolsen
“Oliver Boberg, Nikki S. Lee and Zwelethu Mthethwa,” Museum of
Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
Galeria Helga de Alvear, Madrid, Spain
Galerie Farideh Cadot, Paris, France
“Bunter Strausse in blauer Vase – Students of Prof. Reuter,” Galerie Frankfurter
Kuntkabinett, Frankfurt
Galerie Karin Sachs
“The City: Prints and Photographs from 1930 to the Present” Brooke Alexander
Gallery, New York
“Photo-Synthesis,” Camino Real, Boca Raton, FL. Exhibition travels to:
Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts – exhibition traveled to Delaware
Center for the Contemporary Arts (DCCA), Wilmington
“Phigment,” Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA
“Rocks and Trees,” Photographic Resource Center, Boston University, MA
2000
“Summer Show,” Paul Morris Gallery, New York
“Architectural Constructs in Contemporary Photography,” Julie Saul Gallery,
New York
“Experiment,” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
“Staged,” Bonakdar Jancou Gallery, New York
“The Constructed Real: Photography of Non-Existent Places,” Elias Fine Art,
Allston, MA
“Codici Virtuali/Virtual Codes,” Salara, Bologna, Italy
“Zeitgenössische Positionen zue Architekturphotographie” Museum Ludwig,
Cologne
“Deutsche Architektur Fotografie,” Museum Ludwig, Cologne
“Dirty Realism,” Robert Paerre Gallery, Tucson, AZ, curated by Sima Familant
& Caitlan Masley
“Do You Hear What We Hear?” Paul Morris Gallery, New York
“Nobodies Home,” Kunstbunker Nürnberg
“Was geschiecht gestimmt der Ort” L.A.C. Lieu d’art Conemporain, Sigean,
France
“Supermodels,” MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
“Über die Wirklichkeit,” Erzbischöfliches Diözsesanmuseum, Cologne
1999
Art Cologne, Förderkoje, Cologne
“Constructed Reality,” L.A. Galerie – Lothar Albrecht, Frankfurt
“Re-Structure,” Grinnell College Art, Fall 1999
“Views From the Edge of the World,” Marlborough Gallery,
New York
Group Show, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York
Group Show, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
Group Show, James Kelly Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
Group Show, Galerie Wolf, Berlin
Group Show, Galerie Haus Schneider, Ettlingen
“Inventional” Angles Gallery, Los Angelos, CA USA
“On Site,” Bard College, Fall 1999
“Tagebuch Oder die Irritation der Erfahrung,” Brecht Haus, Berlin
“Zeit,” Light installation piece in public space, Nuernberg
1998
“Zeichnung und Raum,” Kusthaus, Nürnberg
Bethmann Bank, Frankfurt
“Photo-Concept,” Book-Fair, Frankfurt
Paul Morris Gallery, New York
1997
Galerie der Künstler, München
1994
“Raus,” Akademie der bildenden Künste, Nürnberg
BIBILIOGRAPHY
2003
Chang, Chris.“Oliver Boberg,” Film Comment, April 2003
2002
“Kansas City: Review,” Art Papers, July /August 2002
“Gallery Review: Oliver Boberg, Himmel,” Washington City Paper, May 31 –
June 6, 2002
Oli“Arquitectureas ficticious,” Exit “Imagen y Cultura”, Numero 6, May 2002
Spain
Eschbach Andrea, “Die inszeniert Wirklichkeit: Eine Ausstellung zur
Architekturphotographie in Karlsruhe,” Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zürich, March 5,
2002
McGraw, Hesse. “Fiction and History: A Science of Disputed Signs” Review.
May/June 2002. p. 38-39.
“Gone When Police Got There,” Harper’s Magazine, February 2002, pp. 27-30
“In Szene gesetzt, Architekltur in der Fotografie der Gegenwart,” Exhibition
Catalogue, Museum für neue Kunst, ZKM Karlsruhe
“Photography Transformed,” The Metropolitan Bank and Trust Collection,
Essay by Klaus Kertess
“True Fictions, Inszenierte Foto-Kunst der 90er Jahre,” Exhibition Catalogue,
Ludwig Forum für internationale Kunsdt, Aachen
Throson, Alice. “Everything Here is Not What it Seems,” The Kansas City Star,
May 3, 2002
2001
Klaasmeyer,Kelly, “The Not-So-Great Outdoors,” Houston Press, August 16-25,
2001
“Previews: exhibition at L.A. Galerie,” CVA, January 2001, p. 85
Homes, A.M. “Fanfair,” Vanity Fair, April 2001
Dr. Erich Schneider (Edit.) “Oliver Boberg Wirklichkeiten,” Exhibition
Catalogue, Städtische Galerie Schweinfurt.
Nägle, Georg, “Nebenan und anderswo,” kunstmarkt.com July 2001
Andrews, Max. “Oliver Boberg” Contemporary Visual Arts. London January
2001.
“Arts of Deception.” Vanity Fair, London. April 2001
Busse, Gundel-Maria, “Himmell aus Watte,” Main-Echo, Bayern
Rothe, Wilhelm, “Heute zu den Wolken von Oliver Boberg,” Frankfurter
Rundschau Frankfurt, 28 February 2001.
Peschke, Marc, “Endlosigkeit aus Watte und Farbe” Frankfurter Allgemeine
Zeitung. Franfurt, 6 March 2001.
Morineau, Camille, “ Images du soupcon: photographies de maquettes” Art
Press 264 Paris.
Zoom, Rome. Italy, July-August 2001
Peschke, Marc. “Was war da? – Oliver Bobert konstruiert die Realität”
Kunsttermine.de. Oktober 2001.
Kramer, Christine. “Im Bann des grauen Alltags” Art: das Kunstmagazin
December 2001, Hamburg.
“Fotografie.” D. Weidmann, München.
2000
Aletti, Vince, “Voice Choices,” The Village Voice, July 25, 2000
Loke, Margaret, “Manipulated Images With Facets of What Is,” The New
York Times
Griffin, Tim, “Art Reviews: Architectural Constructs in Contemporary
Photography,” Time Out New York, July 13-20, 2000, p. 60.
Boyce, Roger, “Unreliable Narrator,” Art New England, June/July 2000, pp. 1819, 75.
Drutt, Matthew, “Contemporary German Photography: The Era of an A era,”
www.onview.com.
Peschke, Mark, “Aussichtsplattform Ohne Aussicht,” Frankfurter Allgemeine
Zeitung, 28 November 2000.
Mangini, Elizabeth, “Supermodels,” Fictions, April 2000, pp. 50-53.
Means, Amanda, “Oliver Boberg,” Bomb, Summer 2000, pp. 48-50.
Pagel, David, “Photos Create Drama Out of Urban Solitude,” Los Angeles
Times, 28 January 2000, pp. F28-F29.
Erzbischöfliches Diözsesanmuseum, Cologne. Über die Wirklichkeit
Maxwell, Douglas F., Exhibition Catalogue. Camino Real Gallery, Boca Raton,
Florida and Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts (DCCA), Wilmington,
De.
Rubbini, Allice: Prof. Peter Weiermair, “Codici Virtuali” Exhibition Catalogue.
SALARA, Bologna, Italy.
Harper’s Magazine. New York, USA, August 2000.
Mangini, Elisabeth. “Supermodels” Photofile, 59, April 2000, Sydney, Australia.
“Was geschieht bestimmt der Ort/Le lieu determine ce qui arrive” Exhibition
Catalogue. Lieu d’art contemporarin (L.A.C), Sigean, France.
Schütt, Ernst Christian. “Chronik” 1999, Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag, München.
“Über die Wirklichtkeit,” Exhibition Catalogue Joachim M. Plotzek,
Erzbischöfliches Diözesanmueum, Cologne.
“Zeit, Künstler in der Auseinandersetzung mit alten und neun Orten ihrer
Stadt” Exhibition Catalogue Kulturring der Stadt Fürth, Fürth.
Mangini, Elisabeth. “Supermodel” Exhibition Catalogue. Museum of
Contemporary Art, North Adams/Massachusetts.
1999
Art – Das Kunstmagazin, Hamburg, July 1999
Ani, “Oliver Boberg,” Frankfurter Rundschau, November 26, 1999.
Johnson, Ken, “Art in Review: Oliver Boberg,” New York Times, November 19,
1999
Hesse, H.E., “Realtität und Fiktion Urbane Seh-Stücke,” Photo Technik
International, München, September- October 1999, p.5.
Journal North, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 4 Nov. 1999, p.6
Mangini, Elisabeth, Renate Puvogel, “Oliver Boberg,” Eikon, Sonderheft, Wien
Morris, Paul,” Fake,” V Magazine, Sept/Oct 1999, p. 16.
Peschke, Mark, “Aussichten ins Nichts,” Deutsche Bauzeitung, Stuttgart, 1999,
p.11.
Peschke, Mark, “Aussichten ins Nichts,” Journal Frankfurt, 1999, p.23.
Russex, Andra, “Oliver Boberg,” Onsite, Fall 1999, pp. 6-9.
Turner, Grady, “Fall Colors:Oliver Boberg,” The Advocate, New York, 28
Sept.1999, p.81.
1998
Adamopoulos, Konstantin, “Oliver Boberg,” Artist Kunstmagazin, Bremen,
1998, p.37.
“Boberg, Oliver,” Journal Frankfurt, Frankfurt, May 1998.
Busse, Gundel-Marie, “Orte mit fahlem Licht und ohne jede Spur vom Leben,”
Main-Echo, Offebach, 20 June 1998.
Danicke, Sandra, Sandspuren im Schmuddelschnee, Frankfurter Rundschau,
Ferankfurt, 5 June 1998.
Peschke, Marc, “Das ist nicht die Wirklichkeit,” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung,
Frankfurt, 15 August 1998.
Puvogel, Renate, “Oliver Boberg,” Eikon, Wien,1998/1999, pp. 26-27.
Puvogel, Renate, “Zwischen-Räume und Un-Orte,” Eikon, Wien, 1998, p.25.
AWARDS
1998
Scholarships for Cite des Arts, Paris, 1998/99 of the Bavarian State
1997
Bavarian Prize for Young Artists, Department Photography
1991
Scholarships LIONS Club, Nürnberg
1989
Public Prize of the city of Lauf
GRANTS
1998
Paris/Scholarship, The Frankreich Stipendium, of the Bavarian State to attend
the Cité des Artes
1997
Award of the Bavarian State for the Advancement of Young Artists, special field
photography
COMMISSIONS
1997
Bayerische Vereinsbank Munchen fur den Neubau in Furth
COLLECTIONS
Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
Guggenheim Museum, New York
Erzbischoöfliches Diözsesanmuseum, Cologne
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Sammlung DG-Bank, Frankfurt
Collection E. Berg, Miami
Neuberger Bermann, New York
Collection F. Dittmer, Chicago
Collection Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt
Collection Loulakis, Frankfurt
Collection M.Z. Marguilies, Florida
Sammlung Künne, Hannover
Sammlung Dr.S. Löscher-Lorenz, München
Collection Yoshii, New York
Collection J.K. Brown, New York
Collection Jake and Ruth Bloom
Norton Museum of Art, Florida
REFCO, Chicago
LAC, Geneve, Switzerland