Christian Bär

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Biography

born 1989 in Stuttgart
lives and works in Leipzig

Exhibitions


Solo & Duo

2024


Angst und Familie, Galerie b2_, Leipzig

2023


love is not love, Galerie Burster, Berlin

2022


words, mom art space, Hamburg
Nowadays, Galerie Burster, Karlsruhe
Lazy Load, Flamingo Artspace, Reutlingen
Endlich keine Freunde Mehr, Galerie b2_, Leipzig (C)

2020


wwww.wwwwwww, sonneundsolche, Düsseldorf

2019


5 Paintings in Athen, CK_Offspace, Athen
NEED NEW FLAT, Atelier Scheune Rixdorf, Berlin (with Norbert Reissig)
Codec Romantic, NEW NOW, Frankfurt

2018


Friendly Symbols, Storage Capacite (with Manuel Schneidewind)
Green Exile, Bistro 21, Leipzig (with Manuel Schneidewind)

2017


New Benefits of Planting a Rose Garden, BB–Labor, Leipzig (with Lydia Wahrig)
Jasmin, KASKL Gallery, Berlin (with Manuel Schneidewind)
New Fantasies, Bistro 21, Leipzig (with Manuel Schneidewind)

2016


I love you babe, Bistro 21, Leipzig

2015


Diplom., Leipzig

2013


Luci Luci, Internationaler Projektraum für Druckgrafik, Leipzig

Group Shows & Fairs


2024


February Painting, Galerie Hafemann, Wiesbaden
strive thrive arrive, Galerie Burster, Berlin

2023


Cocktail to go, Galerie Parkhaus, Darmstadt
New friends in color, Evelyn Drewes Galerie, Hamburg
Parallel Vienna, Galerie Tassilo Usner, Vienna
anything left to do, Galerie b2_, Leipzig (C)
Chating with Demons, Berlinskej Model, Prag

2022


All I Want, Galerie Burster, Berlin
la suée , Galerie b2_, Leipzig
Dont Know Why – 15 Jahre Ortloff, Ortloff, Leipzig
Art Karlsruhe with Galerie Burster, Karlsruhe
A5, AS__EM, Leipzig
Herberge, Spriten kunsthall, Skien, Norwegen (C)
Neuzugänge zeitgenössischer Kunst im Kunstfonds 2020/21, Vertretung des Freistaates Sachsen beim Bund, Berlin

2021


Skulpturen Park Neutstadt, Leipzig(C)
Parallel Vienna, Galerie Tassilo Usner, Vienna
Nothing´s gonna change my world?, gr_und, Berlin (C)
Drei, Spinnerei, Leipzig
Win/Win, Halle 14, Leipzig
Chow Chow at Werkschau, Werkschauhalle, Leipzig

2020


THESE DAYS ARE JUST PACKED, THE POOL, Istanbul
Canny Family, Vunu Gallery, Slovakia

2019


at the car dealer, Leipzig (C)
Friendly Waves, tête, Berlin
I ain't though, Ortloff, Leipzig

2018


Facing Repetition, AO Kunsthalle, Leipzig
Tone Bone Kone, Berlin (C)
that´s all right mama, XXY, Berlin
American Hanging, Kommunalka, Leipzig

2017


Black Sugar, Kunstmuseum Spendhaus, Reutlingen (C)
SUPERVISION, Lange Straße 31, Frankfurt

2016


Ich dachte, Sie wären nur ein armer Schlucker, Kommunalka, Leipzig
Un Salon Sous Le Pont #1, U2 Gleisdreieck, Berlin
Belgrade Encounters, Jan Arnold Gallery, Vienna
Belgrade Encounters, Faculty Of Fine Arts, Belgrade

2015


back on, top soon, Lindenow Festival, Energiekombinat, Leipzig
8th International Printmaking Workshop, Faculty Of Fine Arts, Belgrade
Diplomausstellung, Leipzig

2014


&, Werkschauhalle Leipzig
Nominierung, Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes, Berlin

2013


LEIPZIG & BREMEN, Galerie der HfK Bremen
Luci Luci, Internationaler Projektraum für Druckgrafik, Leipzig
Prints made in Leipzig, Budapest

Education

2015


Academy of Fine Arts (HGB), Leipzig
Prof. Ingo Meller

Diploma with distiction, Academy of Fine Arts (HGB), Leipzig

Public Collections

Sammlung Hildebrand, G2 Kunsthalle, Leipzig

Staatliche Kunstsammlung Dresden

Kunstmuseum Reutlingen

Scholarships/ Prices

2021


Ankäufe des Freistaates Sachsen

2020


Neustart, BBK Bundesverband
Kulturförderung des Freistaates Sachsen

2017


Kulturförderung der Stadt Leipzig

Projects

since 2015 Bistro 21

since 2008 part of Klasse 3h

After receiving a link of Christian Bär’s new paintings, I began scrolling to understand what was in front of me. It certainly felt natural seeing them through the screen and it never even dawned on me that anything could be different in real life. It appeared like he was convincing me that every-thing is, everything felt and shouted exactly how he portrayed it.

In his new Exhibition ‘Angst und Familie’, one can be found driving through a gamified memory lane, where all of the elements are condensed to their purest, most concrete form - an outline of a unicorn, a violet whimsical flower or an electric peach fracture that seemed to resemble a glimpse of Bär’s paint tab from a time when The Trip, The beach, The Escape, The Dispute or The Fear happened. All of these titles are translated into a new visual vocabulary, a palette once influenced by the daily life of a German boy from the 2000s – it’s like Disney Channel meets MTV Viva, but now entirely surrounded by the contemporary online.

The copy/paste motifs, overlays and strokes overlap on the canvas, threads of burgundy red pump through royal blue flowers while vector graphics protrude between rebellious turquoise lines, describing an intimate yet universal experience.

The showcased pieces feature minimalist backgrounds that successfully support Bär’s continuous recompositioning, initiated on his iPad and then transferred to canvas. Within these backgrounds, one can discern the artist’s childhood friends, confessions, and references, reflecting his admiration for contrasts and juxtapositions. Fear and Family is about get-ting older, resisting to fully settle down but enjoying the order that was carefully created.

Tamara Knežević, 2024