Torben Giehler (born 1973) is a German abstract artist. Giehler was born in 1973 in

Bad Oeynhausen Bad Oeynhausen () is a spa town on the southern edge of the Wiehengebirge in the district of Minden-Lübbecke in the East-Westphalia-Lippe region of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The closest larger towns are Bielefeld (39 kilometres southw ...

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. He is a graduate of the

School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston The School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University (Museum School, SMFA at Tufts, or SMFA; formerly the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) is the art school of Tufts University, a private research university in Boston, Massachusett ...

. In 1999, he attended the New York Studio Program. He is the recipient of the James William Paige Fund and the Clarissa Bartlett Scholarship. In 2008, he was awarded the Falkenrot Preis from the Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin Giehler is known for his geometric abstractions. "He is fascinated by virtual spaces which, even from the outset, always illustrate realities that are just possibilities – imaginary worlds floating between planning, construction, and unconstrained fiction." (Jens Asthoff, 2008) Giehler's work has been exhibited in the

Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg The Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg is an art museum in central Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony, opened 1994. It presents modern and contemporary art and is financed by the ''Kunststiftung Volkswagen.'' It takes up aspects of the industrial city of Wolfsburg, whic ...

and Wilhelm-Hack-Museum

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in Germany, the Centro de Salamanca in Spain as well as the

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, PS 1/MOMA NY,

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, the

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in Oxnard, CA and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. In 2005, Giehler was included in the Prague Biennale 2. Giehler's work can be found in the permanent collections of the

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, MA, the

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, the Deste Foundation Centre For Contemporary Art,

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, the

, Wolfsburg, Germany, and

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, Switzerland.

Selected solo exhibitions

* 2000 Leo Koenig Inc., New York (catalogue) * 2002 Arndt & Partner, Berlin * 2002 Leo Koenig Inc., New York (catalogue) * 2003 Centro de Arte de Salamanca, Spain (catalogue) * 2003 Paolo Curti & Co., Milan * 2004 "Sputnik Sweetheart", Arndt & Partner, Berlin * 2004 "Jpeg Twister", Leo Koenig Inc., New York * 2005 "Suspended Animation", Arndt & Partner, Zürich, Switzerland * 2006 "Alphaville", Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve, Paris (catalogue) * 2007 "Eis Hexe", Leo Koenig Inc., New York * 2007 "Invisible Limits", Martin Geier Galerie, Algund, Italy * 2008 Falkenroth Preis, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (catalogue) * 2009 "Devil In The Woods", Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve, Paris * 2011 "Lateralus", Leo Koenig Inc., New York * 2012 Stephane Simoens Contemporary Fine Art, Knokke, Belgium

Selected group exhibitions

* 1999 Fifth Year Competition & Exhibition, School of the Museum of the Fine Arts, Boston * 1999 Traveling Scholarship Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (catalogue) * 2000 "Collector's Choice", Exit Art, New York * 2001 "Come on Feel the Noice", Asbaek Galerie, Copenhagen * 2002 "Building a Collection: Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Art", Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts * 2003 "Painting Pictures",curated by Gijs van Tuyl, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany (catalogue) * 2003 "Project 244: MetaScape", Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio * 2003 "A New Modernism for a New Millenium: Abstraction and Surrealism are reinvented in the Internet Age", The Logan Collection, Vail, Colorado (catalogue) * 2004 "Treasure Islands", Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany * 2004 "Surface Tension", curated by Manon Slome, Chelsea Art Museum, New York * 2004 "Eclectic Eye: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation", New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana * 2005 "We Can Do It!", Gary Tatinsian Gallery, Moscow (catalogue) * 2005 "Greater New York", PS1 New York (catalogue) * 2005 Prague Biennale 2, Prague, Czech Republic (catalogue) * 2005 "Generation X: Young Art from the Collection", Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany * 2006 "Made in Germany", gip international fine art, Burgdorf, Switzerland * 2006 "abstract art now - strictly geometrica", Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany (catalogue) * 2006 "Negotiating Reality: Recent Works from the Logan Collection", Denver University, Denver, Colorado (catalogue) * 2007 "Like color in pictures",

Aspen Art Museum Founded in 1979, the Aspen Art Museum (AAM) is a non-collecting contemporary art museum located in Aspen, Colorado. AAM exhibitions include drawings, paintings, sculptures Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in thr ...

, Colorado (catalogue) * 2007 "Grups", Hydra School Projects curated by Dimitris Antonitsis, Hydra, Greece * 2007 "Eclectic Eye: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation", Fine Art Center, Colorado Springs, Colorado * 2008 Future Tense: Reshaping the Landscape, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY * 2008 Teaching An Old Dog New Tricks, Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen, Denmark (catalogue) * 2008 Uncoordinated: Mapping Cartography in Contemporary Art, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH * 2010 "Elements of Nature, Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation", Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, CA * 2010 "Celebration", curated by Dimitrios Antonitsis, The Museum Alex Mylona, Macedonian MOCA, Athens, Greece * 2010 "Changing Soil:Contemporary Landscape Painting (Za Fukei),Nagoya/Boston MFA, Nagoya, Japan (catalogue) * 2011 "abstract confusion", B-05, Kunst- und Kulturzentrum Montabur, Germany (catalogue) * 2011 "A Sense Of Place: Landscapes from Monet to Hockney", Bellagio Gallery of Fine Arts, Las Vegas, NV * 2011 "abstract confusion", Kunstverein Ulm, Ulm, Germany (catalogue) * 2011 "I love ALDI", Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany (catalogue) * 2011 "Forces of Nature: Selection from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation" curated by Milam Weisman, Louisiana Art and Science Museum, Baton Rouge, Louisiana * 2012 "Berlin.Status(1)", Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany (catalogue) * 2012 "abstract confusion", Kunsthalle Erfurt, Erfurt, Germany (catalogue) Torben Giehler is also the founder o
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Gallery

Literature

* Verena Ummenhofer: "Malerisch-virtuelle Geodäsie erdachter Welten", in KUNSTFORUM Band 206, 2010, S. 166 * Kerstin Kohlenberg: "Atelierbesuch: Alles in Bewegung", in DIE ZEIT, 23.10.2008 Nr. 44 * Roberta Smith: "Art in Review", in New York Times, October 4, 2002 * David Hunt: ''Torben Giehler'', in: Artext 78 (2002) S. 58-63. * Leo Koenig, Inc., New York (ed.): ''Torben Giehler''. Köln, König 2004.

External links

Official website

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Selected solo exhibitions

Selected group exhibitions

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See also

Literature

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