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DAS KUNSTWERK DER ZUKUNFT
Upstream Gallery
April 2023
- Richard Wagner, 1849
The title of this show finds its inspiration in the thesis of Richard Wagner’s essay - Das Kunstwerk der Zukunft (1849): just as Mankind develops as the result of Nature’s conditions for the existence of Mankind - so too does Art develop as the result of the conditions mankind has set out for its manifestation.
Rudolph reflects on the current technological conditions set out by mankind for the existence and experience of art. As such, painting in VR - on the edge of presence and absence - is one of the core dichotomies of Rudolph’s work. The artist began using this medium as an exploration of the threshold between different realities, asking himself how one can create something that can be both present as well as absent at the same time. Painting in VR - and using AR to access these paintings - allows just that.
Once Rudolph paints something in VR with digital brush strokes, he looks for ways in which to give these digital brush strokes their materiality back, bringing them back to ‘our side’ of reality. The artist does this by painting details of the virtual works in a thick impasto technique with oil color, the physical results of which are at first glance abstract, but come alive as the AR-app recognizes the painting and the virtual painting appears at exactly the position where the artist painted the detail from. Only then do we, as the viewer, realize that the physical painting is part of a bigger digital whole.
The monumental painting Götterfries I (ATLAS Shrugged) forms the centerpiece of the exhibition. Using Rudolph’s AR-app, four figures from Greek mythology: Hermes, Europa, Atlas and Gaia (Rudolph’s Artificial Gods), appear out of the thick brush strokes on the screens of the visitor's phones. To the music composed by Dietrich Brüggemann the Gods perform a choreography. In his artwork Rudolph is appealing to all our senses and creating an immersive multi-sensory experience, combining oil paintings, augmented reality and music resulting in a Wagner-meets-Hollywood Gesamtkunstwerk.
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Dennis Rudolph
*1979, Berlin
lives and works in Berlin
*1979, Berlin
lives and works in Berlin
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1998 Language and Culture Institute Beijing,China
2000 Repin Academy, St.Petersburg, Russia
2000- 2004 Universität der Künste, Berlin
2012 - 2016 the portal project California City [website]
since 2014 founder and head of project space STATE OF THE ART BERLIN.
2000 Repin Academy, St.Petersburg, Russia
2000- 2004 Universität der Künste, Berlin
2012 - 2016 the portal project California City [website]
since 2014 founder and head of project space STATE OF THE ART BERLIN.
SOLO SHOWS (SELECTED)
— 2023
DAS KUNSTWERK DER ZUKUNFT, Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam
— 2021
THE 5 MINUTE APOKALYPSE, Oude Kerk, Amsterdam
— 2019
FALLEN ANGELS - Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam
— 2018
MESSENGERS OF THE Ai - Kunststiftung Poolhaus-Blankenese
— 2016
THE DARK SIDE OF THE PORTAL - Lily Robert, Paris
— 2015
THE PORTAL TV - TOMBOLA - Kunstverein Arnsberg (DE)
PERFORMANCE „PUBLIC APOLOGY“, PART OF A SPACE IS A SPACE - DAZ, Berlin
— 2014
CALIFORNIA DREAMING - Galerie Jette Rudolph, Berlin
GÉNÈSE DE L‘ENFER - Galerie Olivier Robert, Paris
— 2013 PARADISE LOST - Galerie Jette Rudolph, Berlin (D)
— 2012
PARADISE LOST feat. WHITE SUPREMACY, Concord, L.A.
WEGE IN DEN NIHILISMUS (with Mark Titchner) - Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam
— 2010 NEMESIS, DAS GROSSE GLÜCK + DIE FREUDEN DER FRANZÖSISCHEN REVOLUTION - Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam
— 2008
THE HOLY WAR, CHAPTER I, THE SACRIFICE OF YOUTH - Perry Rubenstein Gallery, NY
— 2004
DENNIS RUDOLPH, ÄSTHETISCHER FUNDAMENTALISMUS - Galerie Jette Rudolph, Berlin
— 2023
DAS KUNSTWERK DER ZUKUNFT, Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam
— 2021
THE 5 MINUTE APOKALYPSE, Oude Kerk, Amsterdam
— 2019
FALLEN ANGELS - Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam
— 2018
MESSENGERS OF THE Ai - Kunststiftung Poolhaus-Blankenese
— 2016
THE DARK SIDE OF THE PORTAL - Lily Robert, Paris
— 2015
THE PORTAL TV - TOMBOLA - Kunstverein Arnsberg (DE)
PERFORMANCE „PUBLIC APOLOGY“, PART OF A SPACE IS A SPACE - DAZ, Berlin
— 2014
CALIFORNIA DREAMING - Galerie Jette Rudolph, Berlin
GÉNÈSE DE L‘ENFER - Galerie Olivier Robert, Paris
— 2013 PARADISE LOST - Galerie Jette Rudolph, Berlin (D)
— 2012
PARADISE LOST feat. WHITE SUPREMACY, Concord, L.A.
WEGE IN DEN NIHILISMUS (with Mark Titchner) - Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam
— 2010 NEMESIS, DAS GROSSE GLÜCK + DIE FREUDEN DER FRANZÖSISCHEN REVOLUTION - Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam
— 2008
THE HOLY WAR, CHAPTER I, THE SACRIFICE OF YOUTH - Perry Rubenstein Gallery, NY
— 2004
DENNIS RUDOLPH, ÄSTHETISCHER FUNDAMENTALISMUS - Galerie Jette Rudolph, Berlin
GROUP SHOWS (SELECTED)
— 2023
BEHIND THE SCREENS, CODA Museum Apeldoorn
SPIRITUAL URGENCY, Stedelijk Schiedam
— 2022
KARACHI BIENNALE, Pakistan
— 2021
FLOW, Museum Ratingen, cur. by Wilko Austermann
THE GATE, Hamburg cur. by Ellen Blumenstein
— 2020 SGABELLO COLLECTION: In Search of the Miraculous - Project Space On The Inside, Amsterdam
— 2019 DEPENDING ON POSITIONS with Sam Mattacot and Tristan Schulze; inititiated by Office Impart and STATE OF THE ART BERLIN
— 2018
OUT OF OFFICE - Museum der Arbeit Hamburg
— 2018 SEINERZEIT - 30 Jahre Kunstverein Arnsberg
— 2017
THE MUSEUM HAS ABANDONDED US - State of the Art, Berlin, curated by Bob Bicknell-Knight_isthisit?
STATE OF THE ART - Lily Robert, Paris
— 2016
JUMP!, CAC Brétigny
— 2015
A SPACE IS SPACE IS A SPACE - DAZ, Berlin TRANSFORMER – Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam
— 2014 MOSCOW INTERNATIONAL BIENNALE FOR YOUNG ART, Moscow
— 2013
PAINTING FOREVER! - KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
— 2011
WAKING THE DEAD - Autocenter, Berlin
— 2009
BLACK HOLE - Kunsthalle Andratx, Mallorca cur. by Friederike Nymphius
— 2008
DER AUTORITÄT - Kunstverein, Arnsberg
— 2007
BERLIN NOIR - curated by Felix Ensslin, Perry Rubenstein Gallery, NY
MÄNNERFANTASIEN - curated by Ellen Blumenstein, Chung King Project, Los Angeles
SPEAKERS - Aeroplastics, Brüssel
— 2023
BEHIND THE SCREENS, CODA Museum Apeldoorn
SPIRITUAL URGENCY, Stedelijk Schiedam
— 2022
KARACHI BIENNALE, Pakistan
— 2021
FLOW, Museum Ratingen, cur. by Wilko Austermann
THE GATE, Hamburg cur. by Ellen Blumenstein
— 2020 SGABELLO COLLECTION: In Search of the Miraculous - Project Space On The Inside, Amsterdam
— 2019 DEPENDING ON POSITIONS with Sam Mattacot and Tristan Schulze; inititiated by Office Impart and STATE OF THE ART BERLIN
— 2018
OUT OF OFFICE - Museum der Arbeit Hamburg
— 2018 SEINERZEIT - 30 Jahre Kunstverein Arnsberg
— 2017
THE MUSEUM HAS ABANDONDED US - State of the Art, Berlin, curated by Bob Bicknell-Knight_isthisit?
STATE OF THE ART - Lily Robert, Paris
— 2016
JUMP!, CAC Brétigny
— 2015
A SPACE IS SPACE IS A SPACE - DAZ, Berlin TRANSFORMER – Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam
— 2014 MOSCOW INTERNATIONAL BIENNALE FOR YOUNG ART, Moscow
— 2013
PAINTING FOREVER! - KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
— 2011
WAKING THE DEAD - Autocenter, Berlin
— 2009
BLACK HOLE - Kunsthalle Andratx, Mallorca cur. by Friederike Nymphius
— 2008
DER AUTORITÄT - Kunstverein, Arnsberg
— 2007
BERLIN NOIR - curated by Felix Ensslin, Perry Rubenstein Gallery, NY
MÄNNERFANTASIEN - curated by Ellen Blumenstein, Chung King Project, Los Angeles
SPEAKERS - Aeroplastics, Brüssel