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Rainer Fetting |
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Biography
Rainer Fetting was a member of the ambitious group of artists 'Die Jungen Wilden' (the wild young ones), and the co-founder of the Gallery am Moritzplatz in Berlin. They used the isolated position of West Berlin in the 1970's and 1980's for their provocative an anarchic actions. He has received international recognition with his paintings and sculptures. His most famous work is certainly the 'Brandt' sculpture for the Willy Brandt House in Berlin. Less known is his early adaptation of photography and film as a medium for his artistic expression.
| 1949 | born in Wilhelmshaven
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| 1972 - 78 | Study of Painting at the University of Arts Berlin
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| 1977 | Co-Founder of the Galerie am Moritzplatz, Berlin together with Helmut Middendorf, Salomé, Bernd Zimmer, Anne Jud and Berthold Schepers
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| 1978 | DAAD-scholarship for New York |
| 1996 | Sculpture of Willy Brandt for the Willy-Brandt-House in Berlin |
| 2005 | Plastik von Henri Nannen für Henri Nannen Preis
Rainer Fetting lives and works in Berlin and New York |
Exhibitions [Selection]
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| 2006 | 'Faster! Bigger! Better!', ZKM, Museum für Neue Kunst und Medienmuseum, Karlsruhe
'Duett' Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg
'Deutsche Bilder' aus der Sammlung Ludwig, Schloss Oberhausen
| | 2005 | 'Rainer Fetting trifft Lovis Corinth' ('Rainer Fetting meets Lovis Corinth'), Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven
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'Private/Corporate III', DaimlerChrysler Contemporary, Berlin
'Wilde Jahre' - photographs from three decades, Peter Borchardt Gallery
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| 2004 | 'Berlin-Moskau Moskau-Berlin 1950 - 2000', Martin-Gropius-Building, Berlin
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| 2003 |
Blickachsen, Bad Homburg
'Expressiv!', Fondation Beyeler, Basel / Riehen
'Obsessive Malerei - Ein Rückblick auf die neuen Wilden' ('Obsessive painting - a retrospective towards the New Wild Ones'), ZKM Karlsruhe
'Go, Johnny, Go!', Kunsthalle Wien
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| 2002 |
Boukamel Contemporary Art Gallery, London
'Neue Wilde', Museum Ludwig, Koblenz (Martin Sanders Collection)
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| 2001 | Kunsthalle Emden, "Landschaften" ("landscapes")(Kat)
Peter Borchardt Gallery, Hamburg
'Modelle: Desmond, Ole, Andrea, Raoul, Slava' (Catalogue, 144 pages, ca. 150 pic.,text Dr. Daniel Spanke)
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| 2000 | ‘Neue Bilder - neue Skulpturen’ ('New paintings - newsculptures'),
Karl Pfefferle Gallery, Munich
Michael Schultz Gallery, Berlin (at Lamy Galleria, Heidelberg)
Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseum Schloss Gottorf, 'Männerbilder' ('paintings of men')
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| 1999 |
'Fifty Years', jubilee exhibition on the occasion of his 50th birthday, paintings and sculptures
'Paintings', Boukamel Contemporary Art Gallery, London (catalogue)
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| 1998 | 'Fotografie', Boukamel Contemporary Art Gallery, London (catalogue)
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| 1997 | Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal (catalogue)'heftige malerei - Figurative deutsche Malerei der sechziger bis neunziger Jahre in der Sammlung Würth' ('vigorous painting - figurative German painting of the 1960's to the 1990's in the Würth collection'), Museum Würth, Künzelsau
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| 1996 | Sculpture of Willy Brandt for the Willy Brandt House, Berlin
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| 1995 | 'Rainer Fetting und Zeitgenossen aus der Sammlung Martin Sanders' ('Rainer Fetting and contemporarians of the Martin Sanders collection'), Russian National Museum, St. Petersburg (catalogue)
Gallery Edition Copenhagen, Kopenhagen
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| 1992 | 'New Paintings from Berlin. Aus der Sammlung Martin Sanders',
Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
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| 1988 | 'Refigured Painting. The German Image 1960-1988'
Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio
Guggenheim Museum, New York (1989)
'Portraits, Stadtlandschaften, Wald, Skulpturen'
Raab Gallery, Berlin/London (catalogue)
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| 1987 | ‘Berlinart 1967-1987’,
Museum of Modern Art, New York;
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris
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| 1986 | Museum Folkwang, Essen (catalogue)
Kunsthalle Basel (catalogue)
‘New York Landscapes, Portraits and Sculptures’, Marlborough Gallery, New York (catalogue)
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| 1982 | ‘Zeitgeist’, International art exhibition Berlin 1982, Martin Gropius Building, Berlin
Anthony d’Offay, London (catalogue)
Mary Boone, New York (catalogue)
Paul Maenz, Cologne
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| 1981 | ‘A New Spirit in Painting’, Royal Academy of Art, London
Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich
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| 1980 | 'Heftige Malerei' ('vigorous painting'), Haus am Waldsee, Berlin
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| 1977 | 'Stadtbilder' ('city images'), Galerie am Moritzplatz, Berlin
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