Marco Reichert

Marco Reichert (b. 1979, Germany)

Bender Gallery is pleased to be the US representation of international artist Marco Reichert. Marco Reichert constructs his own painting machines which are similar in function to a large plotter head. These machines paint bold marks with oil paint on loose canvas and although it’s digital, there are intentional imperfections in the way the paint is applied to the canvas, similar to human error when painting by hand.

These lines are paired with other layers made from the physical action of Reichert’s body. Sometimes he works on his hands and knees on the unstretched canvas, painting with oil, acrylic, spray paint, enamel, resin, and ink. Working wet into wet, brushes and spatulas are used to uncover and apply distinct gestural marks. This is the unique quality of Reichert’s work. He leaves behind his pronounced indexical mark by combining the immediacy of painting with the layering of paint machine streaks.

Let’s look at untitled S9.20. The crackling almost honey-like texture in the lower background is like the surface of a different planet. The black implied oval floats ominously with white chalky strokes of paint in the foreground. The mossy green feels like the air quality dispersing in this imagined planet. Each viewer will find their own interpretation of these expressive and bold works.

Reichert studied Information Technology before going on to earn his Master’s degree in Painting from Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin. With that in mind, his works are a combination of painting, graffiti, and computer art. He works with traditional processes like lithography, while also designing code to be used to create the textures on his canvas. His paintings juxtapose the seemingly randomness of abstract painting with the precision of technology. Reichert’s work is reflective of today’s society, a society that is increasingly dominated by computers and technology.

Reichert has taken part in solo and group shows in such prestigious international institutes and galleries as the RIBOT gallery, Milan, Kunstverein Weinheim, Collection Baumgärtner, Weinheim (2014); Herbert-Gerisch Stiftung, Neumünster (2014); Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlino (2011); Freies Museum Berlin, Berlin (2010); Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (2009), and many others. Reichert currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany.

Education

2001 Humboldt-University, Berlin, Information technology

2004 Kunsthochschule Berlin Weißensee,Fine Art, Painting

2009 Diploma, Fine Art , Painting, Class of Prof. Antje Majewski und Prof. Werner Liebmann?

2011 Master (Meisterschüler) Prof. Antje Majewski

Exhibitions

2022      Thank You For The Delay (group exhibition), CAI Gallery, Harelbeke, BE       

               Of Ants and Bees (solo exhibition), RIBOT Gallery, Milan, IT

               Hybrid (solo exhibition), Bender Gallery, Asheville NC

2021       Meta II (group exhibition), Circle Culture Gallery, Hamburg, DE         

               Too Soon, Too Much, Too Good, Circle Culture Gallery, Hamburg, DE          

               Man and Machine (solo exhibition), Bender Gallery, Asheville NC, US

2018       Wunderkammer (group exhibition), KH7 ARTSPACE, Aarhus, DK

2017       In Comparison (solo exhibition), RIBOT Gallery, Milan, IT 

               Product of Praxis (group exhibition), Kalashnikovv Galerie, Berlin, DE

               Consonance (group exhibition), Galleri Benoni, Copenhagen, DK

2016      Contemporary perception (group exhibition), Galleri Benoni, Copenhagen, DK

2015      Almost Abstract II (group exhibition), Galleri Benoni, Copenhagen, DK

2014     Person, Place and Thing (group exhibition), 68projects, Berlin, DE 

             Alles schön und gut?! (group exhibition), Herbert-Gerisch Stiftung, Neumünster, DE 

             Platz; wundern (solo exhibition), Kunstverein Weinheim – Collection Baumgärtner, Weinheim, DE

             Eberhard-Dietzsch-Kunstpreis (group exhibition), Gera, DE2013

             P.O.P. – In Progress (group exhibition), Galleray 215 Bowery, NY, US

             Silicon Valley (solo exhibition), JB gallery, Berlin, DE

2012       Figuring Abstraction (group exhibition), Galerie Favardin & de Verneuil, Paris, FR

2011       Hot Spot Berlin (group exhibition), Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin, DE        

               Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear (solo exhibition), JD gallery, Berlin, DE

2010       Cadavre Exquis – Nekromantik (solo exhibition), Freies Museum Berlin, Berlin, DE

2009        Förderprojekt Junge Kunst (group exhibition), Galerie Zulauf, Freinsheim, DE

                Ostrale (group exhibition), Ostragehege, Dresden, DE 

                Diplomausstellung (group exhibition), Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, DE

2008       Plötzlich (group exhibition), Uferhallen, Berlin, DE

2003       Echoloten. Suchbewegung im unbekannten Raum (group exhibition), Graphisches Kabinett, Solothurn, CH