Michael Krebber is a Cologne-based German artist whose pra ctice incorporates painting\, drawing\, installation\, critical writing and bookmaking. He has taught a painting class at the Städelschule in Frankfur t since 2002. His critical writing has been published in Texte zur Kuns t and Artforum.
“For several decades Krebbe r has investigated painterly issues\, but his praxis is far from the bravur a and self-assurance that formalist painting has traditionally represented. Instead of attacking – with full force\, so to speak – selected painterly issues\, Krebber takes a far more subtle\, careful approach where strategie s like deferral\, hesitation and even artistic failure are applied. Through out his highly influential career Krebber has maintained a relatively limit ed production and has constantly avoided pigeonholing within a particular s tyle or mode of production. His whole oeuvre takes the form of a long succe ssion of digressions or evasive actions\, where the lack of focus and stabi lity may seem to be the only unifying criterion one can find.
The sel f-reflexivity we are talking about here is of course something quite differ ent from the modernist medium-specificity where the painting became self-re flexive in the light of a particular view of what were and what were not th e medium’s own defining qualities. On the contrary\, Krebber’s art is perha ps the best example of how painting is woven into an intricate system of ex ternal references. In most cases these references are not directly apparent in the works themselves.”
— Excerpt from Gambaroff\, Krebber\, Q uaytman\, Rayne\, Bergen Kunsthall 2010.
As part of the Distinguished Visiting Artist Program at UBC’s Department of Art Histo ry\, Visual Art and Theory\, Krebber will talk about or around concepts con cerning the dandy in relation to representations of painting.
Michael Krebber was born in Cologne and currently lives in Cologne and Frankfurt. His publications include Alien Hybrid Creatures\, (2005) including the essa y “Puberty in Painting”\; ICAL KRBBR PRDLY PRSNTS GART JAS\, JON KLSY\, JOS F STRA (2006)\; Puberty in Teaching (2008)\; and Respekt Frischlinge/ Je su is la chaise/ London Condom (2008).
Artforum: Daniel Birnbaum on Michael Krebber - http://artforum.com/inprint/id=9499
Contemporary Art Daily: Mic hael Krebber at Maureen Paley - http://www.contemporaryartdail y.com/2011/02/michael-krebber-at-maureen-paley/
Notes on Looking: Krebber at Richard Telles - ht tp://notesonlooking.com/?p=1162
Contemporary Art Daily: Michael K rebber at Galerie Daniel Buchholz - http://www.contemporarya rtdaily.com/2010/07/michael-krebber-at-daniel-buchholz/
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