GROUP EXHIBITION

Stephan Ehrenhofer’s works seem like many things linked to summer—awnings, sun hats, wicker beach chairs—and open up space for our own associations. They celebrate the beauty of colour. Fabrics are painted with a brush and then sewn together, following the guiding principles of order and a modular system as the foundation of an aesthetics in the spirit of the Bauhaus. Colourful ribbons rolled up into ‘Coils’. The highly delicately structured objects created in this way are focussed on the centre, and from there they move into three-dimensionality. Combining different materials in surprising ways is one of the most important aspects of the work, which is informed by a conceptual approach.

Eric Cruikshank (born in 1975 in Inverness, Scotland) studied painting and drawing at the Edinburgh College of Art. He has received numerous prizes and awards, including the Pollock-Krasner-Award. His work can be found in important private and public collections like the Edinburgh Art Collection, Maggie’s Art Collection, the collection of the Santa Fe Institute and the U.T. Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. In addition to group shows, he has had solo shows at &Gallery, Edinburgh, Schack Art & Advisory Düsseldorf, Victor Lope Arte Contemporaneo Barcelona, RAUMX, London, the Holly Johnson Gallery in Dallas, and the Galleri Konstepidemin in Gothenburg.

Stephan Ehrenhofer (born in 1964 in Zurich, Switzerland) studied painting and graphics at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. He received fellowships from the Josef & Anni Albers Foundation USA and the Canton Zurich, and his work was shortlisted for André Edvard Prize for Concrete Art. Solo and group exhibitions have taken place at institutions like the Foundation for Constructive, Concrete, and Conceptual Art in Zurich, the Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning in Berlin,the Architectural Association School of Architecture, London, and the Museum Wilhelm Morgner in Soest. His works can be found in numerous private and public like the Joseph & Anni Albers Foundation USA, the J. Rogovin Collection USA, the McClellans Sculpture Park and Gallery in Melbourne, the Landesmuseum Burgenland Österreich, the Cocca Collection and the Collections Hiesmayer and Frech, Austria, the Foundation for Conceptual Art, the About Change Collection Berlin, the Chamber of Architects Berlin, and the collections Nagel, Th. Berger, Austria, und Vermeulen, Netherlands.