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
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)
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)
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