In the face of new media, Marc Brandenburg, born in 1965 in Berlin, decided with pencil and paper to pave the way for drawing. In an almost old-fashioned way, his works force us to take a closer look, which puts him in good company with Dürer, Menzel, and Richter. Brandenburg's works are in collections such as MoMA (New York), Deutsche Bank, or the Kupferstich Kabinett (Berlin). In 2005 he received the renowned Karl Ströher Prize.
His research tool is the camera, and with it Brandenburg finds his motifs in his immediate urban surroundings, capturing them with the camera. His work's detail and magnificence, on the other hand, are the antithesis of his snapshots. Self-portraits, protests, thickets, or hustle and bustle – his drawings looks like the afterimages burnt into the retina after being blinded by blazing brightness. In their negative reversal, white becomes gray like ash, shadows become light.
For these plates, Brandenburg created two self-portraits as reflected in water and launches the series of art editions LUMAS is developing with Rosenthal Porcelain.
In the 1950s Rosenthal porcelain manufacturer was the first in Europe to develop a creative new beginning. Based on the realization that "originals of the times" would maintain their worth, exciting projects were undertaken with prominent artists such as Günter Ferdinand Ris, Victor Vasarely, Henry Moore, and Lucio Fontana to create unique art editions. Salvadore Dali, HAP Grieshaber, and other well-known artists painted, for example, the surfaces of main pieces in the famous "Suomi" series service after their own designs, overruling the artistic division of art and function. Above all, the collaboration with various artists made these Rosenthal pieces appealing to art collectors.
LUMAS has now again coupled with this tradition to develop this edition with Marc Brandenburg and Rosenthal. Brandenburg's design was digitized and adapted by an elaborate reproduction process so that it can later be converted to the three-dimensional porcelain pieces. Through such a process is it able completely to retain the artist's hand and the character of the original. The plate originates from Rosenthal's "TAC 1" collection. Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius designed "TAC 1" in the late 1960s in collaboration with The Architects' Collaborative (TAC), a group of young, avant-garde architects.
| 1965 | born in Berlin, Germany |
| lives and works in Berlin, Germany |
| 2005 | Karl Ströhler Prize Frankfurt, Germany |
| Senate's fellowship Berlin, Germany | |
| Artist in Residence/Villa Romana, Florence, Italy | |
| 2002 | Working fellowship, Kunstfonds Bonn e.V., Germany |
Solo Exhibitions (Selection)
| 2007 | Galerie Ropac, Salzburg, Austria |
| Underground, Metro Station Berlin Alexanderplatz (Exhibition of the Neuen Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst), Berlin, Germany | |
| 2006 | TILT, Galerie Crone, Berlin, Germany |
| TILT, André Schlechtriem temporary, New York, USA | |
| 2005 | Marc Brandenburg, Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany |
| 2004 | Tiergarten, Galerie Crone, Berlin, Germany |
| Marc Brandenburg, Kunstverein Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany | |
| 2003 | Hirnsturm, Galerie Ascan Crone, Andreas Osarek, Berlin, Germany |
| Full Circle (Excerpts from Negrophobia), Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria | |
| 2002 | Chelsea Kunstraum, Cologne, Germany |
| Kunstraum Bonn, Bonn, Germany | |
| Hirnsturm, Gallery Paul Morris, New York, USA | |
| 2001 | Full Circle, Laura Mars Group, Berlin, Germany |
| 2000 | White Rainbow, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany |
| 1999 | Meddle, XL Gallery, New York, USA |
| 1998 | Draw Stranger, PLUG IN, Winnipeg, Canada |
| 1996 | The Dangling Conversation – from Electric Lane to Lavender Hill, Morris Healy Gallery, New York, USA |
| 1995 | A Bonnie Situation, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany |
| 1994 | Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Teenage Topics and Metal Gurus, Galerie Martin Schmitz, Kassel, Germany | |
| Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany | |
| 1993 | The House of deep essential Shit and Disco Therapeutics, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany |
| Ocean of Violence (with Sabina Maria von der Linden), Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany | |
| Marc Brandenburg & Attila Richard Lucas, I, Plug In Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada | |
| Marc Brandenburg & Attila Richard Lucas, II, Gallery III, School of Art, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada | |
| Close to you, The Spectrum, Winnipeg, Canada | |
| 1992 | Punk and Circumstances along the Yellow Brick Road - Liebeskummer, Galerie Martin Schmitz, Kassel, Germany |
| 1991 | Zehn Tage im Leben, Kumpelnest 3000, Berlin, Germany |
| Entwine, Palais de Chaillot, Paris, France | |
| 1990 | Adieu, Schneederbauer, Berlin, Germany |
| 1989 | Elf der legendären Gute Nacht Bilder, Schneederbauer, Berlin, Germany |
| 2008 | Just different!, Cobra Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Gegen den Strich – Experimentierfeld Zeichnung, Bielefelder Kunstverein, Bielefeld, Germany | |
| 2007 | Great Expectations, Union Gallery, London, UK |
| 10 Jahre Weltempfänger, Galerie der Gegenwart, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany | |
| Gegen den Strich, Künstlerhaus Bethanien GmbH, Berlin, Germany | |
| very asherbovenkerkerkbrandenburgvaneedenpalmesalic, Wetering Galerie, Amsterdam, Netherlands | |
| 2006 | Abgebrannt, Kunstbank in der Berlinerischen Galerie, Berlin, Germany |
| Das achte Feld – Geschlechter, Leben und Begehren in der Kunst seit 1960, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany | |
| Heimat als Utopie, Goethe Institut Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan | |
| 2004 | Emotion Eins, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal-UÖ, Germany |
| Emotion Eins, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany | |
| Happy days are here again, David Zwirner Gallery, New York | |
| Contemporary Art from Germany, European Central Bank, Frankfurt, Germany | |
| Roots, The Harlem Studio Museum, New York, USA | |
| 2003 | Lebenslänglich 14, Laura Mars Group, Berlin, Germany |
| Blick aufs Ich, Kunstverein Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany | |
| Blick auf Ich, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany | |
| 2002 | Man in Middle, Deutsche Bank, Eremitage, Saint Petersburg, Russia |
| Summer Show, Laura Mars Group, Berlin, Germany | |
| 2001 | Group Show, Paul Morris Gallery, New York, USA |
| 2000 | Ortsbegehung 6 – paper marks, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany |
| ANP at s&h de Buck, Gallery s&h de Buck, Gent, Belgium | |
| Paper marks, Kunstverein Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany | |
| 1999 | German Open, Deutsche Gegenwartskunst, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany |
| Loveolution, XL Gallery, New York, USA | |
| Gallery Swamp, Contemporary Fine Arts at Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK | |
| 1998 | Draw, Stranger, PLUG INN, Winnipeg, Canada |
| Infected Culture, CUBITT GALLERY, London, UK | |
| 1997 | Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, North Carolina, USA |
| 1995 | Summer Exhibition 1995, Paul Morris Gallery, New York, USA |
| Toms Erben, Schwules Museum, Berlin, Germany | |
| 1994 | Jonge Duitsers, Fons Welters, Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Corpus Imperfectus, Montgomery Glasoe Fine Art, Minneapolis, USA | |
| 1993 | Multiple und Originale, Galerie Martin Schmitz, Kassel, Germany |
| 1992 | Die Hormone des Mannes, Schwules Museum, Berlin, Germany |
| Galerie der Glücklichen, Galerie Martin Schmitz, Kassel, Germany | |
| Hausgeist, NGBK, Berlin, Germany |
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