Background
Ghenie was born on August 13, 1977 in Baia Mare, Romania.
2013
Adrian Ghenie and Arne Glimcher at Pace Gallery Opening of Ghenie's exhibition.
2014
Berlin, Germany
Portrait of Adrian Ghenie by Oliver Mark.
Strada Aurel Vlaicu 17-19, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Ghenie graduated from the Art and Design University of Cluj-Napoca in 2001.
John Sbârciu and Adrian Ghenie
Ghenie was born on August 13, 1977 in Baia Mare, Romania.
Ghenie studied fine arts at the Arts and Crafts School in Baia Mare from 1991 to 1994. He graduated from the Art and Design University of Cluj-Napoca in 2001.
Ghenie split his time between Cluj and Berlin until 2013, when he finally settled in the German capital. He continues to live and work in Berlin. In 2005, Adrian co-founded Galeria Plan B in Cluj Napoca, together with Mihai Pop, a production and exhibition space for contemporary art. In 2008, Plan B opened a permanent exhibition space in Berlin.
Ghenie depicts figurative imagery in contrasting states of clarity, fluidity, and decay, dripping and pouring paint, scraping surfaces, and deploying strong chiaroscuro. He has had major solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art at Denver, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kuns and the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Bucharest. Adrian joined the Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac in 2015. Also he represented Romania at the 56th International Art Exhibition - Venice Biennale.
Untitled
2012Pie Fight Study 4
2008Duchamp
2009Dr. Mengele 2
2011The Blue Rain
2009Persian Miniature
2013DADA is Dead
2009Pie Fight Interior 8
2012Degenerate Art
2014The Ballroom
2006Pie Fight Study
2013Lidless Eye
2015The Bridge
2015Berghof
2012Burning Books
201427 July 1890
2015Tropical Sky
2015Elvis
2009Van Gogh
2015Christ
2000Ohne Titel (Blumen)
1997Zi de vară
1999Graceland
2009Landscape
2004Study for "The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute"
2011Self-Portrait as a Monkey
2010Pie Fight Interior 9
2013Ghenie's childhood had a profound effect on his painting, in particular, the stories his parents told him of their travels across Eastern Europe during the 1960s and 1970s. It is not specifically these stories that provide his artistic inspiration, but the differences he finds between his parents' accounts and his personal interpretations of them.
Ghenie's paintings are the result of the palette knifes and stencils that he uses to carve "staged accidents" onto and into his multi-layered painted canvases. His painterly style has been compared to that of Francis Bacon.