Caroline von Grone / Mobiles Museum Studio: "Ichs am Potsdamer Platz"
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Caroline von Grone paints observations. The exhibition is the process of painting presented as a situation. Von Grones public studio, grants the visitor the possibility to participate in the creation of the paintings. A relationship evolves between the painter and the model (often a volunteer from the general public), which due to the public arena is far more intense than in the usual closed studio enviroment. Not only can one observe the progress of a painting, but also be an observer in the making of a painting. In the first week, Caroline von Grone will occupy the MM Studio as her open studio.
Draft for MM-Studio: "Ichs am Potsdamer Platz" 
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"Ichs am Potsdamer Platz" Foto: Ulli Lindenmann |
For one week in the MM-Studio/Preformance Museum, Caroline von Grone will temporarily open her studio to the public. With a glass pane, easel and painting utensils, she will mirror the surroundings and willing passers-by, through painting. Volunteers wishing to be temporary models can write to Mobile Museen in advance - please include a photograph.
Projects
"ecce homo, Marienplatz", 9. Februar - 3. März 2001
lothringer13/halle, München
The exhibition "Offensive Malerei", lothringer13/halle, München, takes place in the S-Bahnhof "Marienplatz" where an half nude model was painted. The temporary studio situation with model was a provocative 'construction site' on the busy train platform.
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"ecce homo, Marienplatz" am Entstehungsort, München, 2001, Bildmaße 150 x 290 cm, Öl/Leinwand) |
"Frankfurts Judas-kiss"("germanpaintingtwothousandthree")
Frankfurt/Main, 10. - 18. Januar 2003
"deutschemalereizweitausenddrei" Exhibition at the Frankfurter Kunstverein
An Happening for the Vernissage "deutschemalereizweitausenddrei" at the Frankfurter Kunstverein. Caroline von Grone placed two half naked male models and a reflecting glass in the shop window of the Frankfurter Kunstverein. "Judaskuss" is the painting created from the glass reflection of the two models in the window. From the outside, one can only see the two models in the window, but from inside, one observes the whole picture - that of the models, their reflection and the act of painting itself. The outside situation is stationary, the inside situation is active. These two parrallel situations - one outside, one inside was produced as a film together with Martin Kreyssig and later shown at the end of the exhibition.
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"Judaskuss" mit Modellen am Entstehungsort, Bildmaße 84 x 105 cm, Öl/Leinwand) |
CV
| 1963 | born in Hannover |
| 1984-86 | Studied an der GH Kassel (Freie Kunst) |
| 1987-88 | HBK Braunschweig |
| 1988-92 | Art Academy Düsseldorf under Prof. Klaus Rinke and Prof. Jan Dibbets (Meisterschüler) |
| 1996-97 | Teaching position for painting at the FH für Gestaltung in Pforzheim |
| 1999-02 | Teaching position for painting at the Hochschule für Gestaltung, Karlsruhe |
Lives in Kiel
| 1991 | Travelling scholarship from the Art Academy Düsseldorf in the USA |
| 1995 | Catalogue sponsorship by the "Sparkassenstiftung zur Förderung des rheinischen Kulturguts", Düsseldorf |
Exhibitions (selection)
| 2002 | "Gezählt, gewogen... (und für zu leicht befunden)" - Project at SCIl, München |
| 2001 | "Sternschanze, Ecce homo und andere" - Galerie Dörrie Priess, Hamburg |
| 1998 | "Staatsgalerie" - Künstlerhaus Stuttgart |
| Galerie Hammelehle und Ahrens - Stuttgart | |
| 1997 | "Porträtsalon" - Künstlerhaus Stuttgart |
| "Nach Modell" - Galerie Dörrie*Priess, Hamburg | |
| 1992 | "Portraetmalen" - Städtische Galerie Kaarst ( catalogue) |
| Galerie Bach & Gayk, (with Michael Bach) Bochum |
Group exhibitions
| 2003 | "deutschemalereizweitausenddrei", Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt/M. |
| 2002 | "Wunschbilder", Museen der Stadt Nürnberg im Kunsthaus Nürnberg |
| "Engel & Teufel", Galerie Dörrie * Priess, Hamburg | |
| 2001 | "Offensive Malerei", Lothringer 13/halle, München |
| 2000 | "I Believe In Dürer", Kunsthalle Nürnberg |
| 1999 | "To the people of the city of the Euro", Frankfurter Kunstverein |
| 1998 | "Danach zu Hegel", Parabolic Spaces, Berlin-Mitte |
| "Kuckucksei" bei Norbert Kricke, Sammlung für Konkrete Kunst, Otterndorf | |
| 1997 | "Saldo", Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf, Ehrenhof |
| 1996 | "Malerei III", Galerie Monika Sprüth, Köln |
| Melitta- Förderpreis-Ausstellung, Minden (catalogue) | |
| 1995 | "Malerei", Galerie Dörrie*Priess, Hamburg |