JAN ALBERS

“Even if the attitude isthat painting is over, I still keep on working on the idea of doingsomething new, by avoiding oil paint on canvas.” – Jan Albers

HenryHurt vs. Holly Heal is about the opposed ingredients that one needs forstimulation, hurting and healing, destruction and fixing, and chaos andorder. All these contradicting binaries make one feel alive. Albers’“paintings” oscillate between sites of destruction and repair. JanAlbers was born in Wuppertal, Germany and grew up in Namibia. He livesand works in Düsseldorf, Germany. Albers was the recipient of the 2013Dahlmann Prize in conjunction with his solo exhibition at theLeopold-Hoesch-Musuem in Düren, Germany. Other recent soloexhibitions include Up & Down, Kunsthalle Giessen, Germany; parcOursmOrtale, Langen Foundation, Neuss, Germany; and Kollekte, two personshow with Jens Ullrich, cur. Stefanie Kreuzer, Museum Morsborich,Leverkusen, Germany. Selected group exhibitions include TransferKorea-NRW, Seoul, South Korea; The end of the line: attitudes indrawing, organized by Hayward Touring, UK; Optical & Visionary Artsince the 1960s, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX and MemorialGallery at the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY; and Non-stopbeautiful ladies, Marfa, TX. Jan Albers was also given the KaiserringStipened Award in 2007 from the Museum Moenchehaus in Goslar, Germany.