Torben Giehler

Torben Giehler was born in 1973 in Bad Oeynhausen, Germany. He is a graduate of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. 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 has been awarded the Falkenrot Preis from the Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin

Contents

• Selected solo exhibitions
• Selected group exhibitions
• Literature
• References

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)

His work has been widely exhibited in many prominent galleries and museums around the world, including the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg and Wilhelm-Hack-Museum Ludwigshafen in Germany, the Centro de Salamanca in Spain as well as the Cleveland Museum of Art, PS 1/MOMA NY, New Orleans Museum of Art, the Carnegie Art Museum in Oxnard, CA and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. In 2005, Giehler was included in the Prague Biennale 2. His work can be found in the permanent collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, the Deste Foundation Centre For Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece, the Wolfsburg Museum, Wolfsburg, Germany, and Kunsthaus of Zurich, Switzerland.

Selected solo exhibitions

2012 Stephane Simoens Contemporary Fine Art, Knokke, Belgium

2011 "Lateralus", Leo Koenig Inc., New York

2009 "Devil In The Woods", Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve, Paris

2008 Falkenroth Preis, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (catalogue)

2007 "Invisible Limits", Martin Geier Galerie, Algund, Italy

2007 "Eis Hexe", Leo Koenig Inc., New York

2006 "Alphaville", Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve, Paris (catalogue)

2005 "Suspended Animation", Arndt & Partner, Zürich, Switzerland

2004 "Jpeg Twister", Leo Koenig Inc., New York

2004 "Sputnik Sweetheart", Arndt & Partner, Berlin

2003 Paolo Curti & Co., Milan

2003 Centro de Arte de Salamanca, Spain (catalogue)

2002 Leo Koenig Inc., New York (catalogue)

2002 Arndt & Partner, Berlin

2000 Leo Koenig Inc., New York (catalogue)

Selected group exhibitions

2012 "abstract confusion", Kunsthalle Erfurt, Erfurt, Germany (catalogue)

2012 "Berlin.Status(1)", Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, 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

2011 "I love ALDI", Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany (catalogue)

2011 "abstract confusion", Kunstverein Ulm, Ulm, Germany (catalogue)

2011 "A Sense Of Place: Landscapes from Monet to Hockney", Bellagio Gallery of Fine Arts, Las Vegas, NV

2011 "abstract confusion", B-05, Kunst- und Kulturzentrum Montabur, Germany (catalogue)

2010 "Changing Soil:Contemporary Landscape Painting (Za Fukei),Nagoya/Boston MFA, Nagoya, Japan (catalogue)

2010 "Celebration", curated by Dimitrios Antonitsis, The Museum Alex Mylona, Macedonian MOCA, Athens, Greece

2010 "Elements of Nature, Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation", Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, CA

2008 Uncoordinated: Mapping Cartography in Contemporary Art, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH

2008 Teaching An Old Dog New Tricks, Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen, Denmark (catalogue)

2008 Future Tense: Reshaping the Landscape, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY

2007 "Eclectic Eye: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation", Fine Art Center, Colorado Springs, Colorado

2007 "Grups", Hydra School Projects curated by Dimitris Antonitsis, Hydra, Greece

2007 "Like color in pictures", Aspen Art Museum, Colorado (catalogue)

2006 "Negotiating Reality: Recent Works from the Logan Collection", Denver University, Denver, Colorado (catalogue)

2006 “abstract art now - strictly geometrica”, Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany (catalogue)

2006 “Made in Germany”, gip international fine art, Burgdorf, Switzerland

2005 "Generation X: Young Art from the Collection", Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany

2005 Prague Biennale 2, Prague, Czech Republic (catalogue)

2005 “Greater New York”, PS1 New York (catalogue)

2005 "We Can Do It!", Gary Tatinsian Gallery, Moscow (catalogue)

2004 "Eclectic Eye: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation", New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana

2004 "Surface Tension", curated by Manon Slome, Chelsea Art Museum, New York

2004 "Treasure Islands", Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany

2003 "A New Modernism for a New Millenium: Abstraction and Surrealism are reinvented in the Internet Age", The Logan Collection, Vail, Colorado (catalogue)

2003 "Project 244: MetaScape", Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio

2003 "Painting Pictures",curated by Gijs van Tuyl, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany (catalogue)

2002 "Building a Collection: Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Art", Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts

2001 "Come on Feel the Noice", Asbaek Galerie, Copenhagen

2000 "Collector’s Choice", Exit Art, New York

1999 Traveling Scholarship Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (catalogue)

1999 Fifth Year Competition & Exhibition, School of the Museum of the Fine Arts, Boston

Torben Giehler is also the founder of Peloton Cyclin Club Berlin

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. ISBN 3-88375-825-6