Mirko Schallenberg

Mirko Schallenberg's still lifes open up a world of things, where the eye can lose itself in a quiet interplay of balance and imbalance, symmetry and asymmetry, materiality and ephemerality.

Works

Mirko Schallenberg: Auflösung, 2021 — Auflösung, 2021, Oil on canvas, 50 × 50 cm

Mirko Schallenberg: Ex, 2021 — Ex, 2021, Oil on canvas, 50 × 50 cm

Mirko Schallenberg: Strömung, 2020 — Strömung, 2020, Oil on canvas, 125 × 130 cm

Mirko Schallenberg: Faktor X, 2022 — Faktor X, 2022, Oil on canvas, 50 × 50 cm

Mirko Schallenberg: Exil, 2021 — Exil, 2021, Oil on canvas, 175 × 165 cm

Mirko Schallenberg: Geometrie des Zufalls, 2021 — Geometrie des Zufalls, 2021, Oil on canvas, 160 × 170 cm

Mirko Schallenberg: Resonanz, 2020 — Resonanz, 2020, Oil on canvas, 165 × 160 cm

Mirko Schallenberg: Hausen, 2021 — Hausen, 2021, Oil on canvas, 165 × 151 cm

Mirko Schallenberg: Raummaß, 2016 — Raummaß, 2016, Oil on canvas, 175 × 175 cm

Mirko Schallenberg: Gewichtig, 2021 — Gewichtig, 2021, Oil on canvas, 145 × 130 cm

Mirko Schallenberg: Leuchtfeuer, 2019 — Leuchtfeuer, 2019, Oil on canvas, 50 × 50 cm

Mirko Schallenberg: Inwendig, 2021 — Inwendig, 2021, Oil on canvas, 50 × 50 cm

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Artist portrait

Artist portrait
Mirko Schallenberg

Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions

Grounding
Dec 2021

Nigredo
Mar 2019

Nov 2013

Group Exhibitions

art Karlsruhe 2024
Feb 2024

PRIVATE CHOICE
Nov 2022

Art Essences XXVIII
Jul 2022

Art Essences XXV
Jul 2021

15 Years of Galerie Friedmann-Hahn
Oct 2020

Art Essences XXI
Apr 2019

Art Essences XIV - Berlin Berlin!
Jul 2016

Apr 2016

Aug 2015

Feb 2015

Kunstessenzen IV
Jan 2013

Kunstessenzen - Sommer 2012
Jun 2012

still in motion
Nov 2011

Gruppenausstellung Sommer 2011
Jul 2011

Gruppenausstellung Frühjahr 2011
Mar 2011

Gruppenausstellung Oktober 2010
Oct 2010

Gruppenausstellung Juli/August 2010
Jul 2010

Gruppenausstellung Januar 2010
Mar 2010

Fairs

Art Karlsruhe 2022
Jul 2022

Feb 2020

Feb 2019

Feb 2018

Feb 2017

Feb 2016

Exhibition list

Awards

2012

"Losito Kunstpreis", Losito Kressmann-Zschach Foundation, Berlin, Germany

Solo Exhibitions

2022

"Geometrie des Zufalls", Galerie VON&VON, Nürnberg, Germany

2021

"Erdung", Galerie Friedmann-Hahn, Berlin, Germany

2020

"Zwischenwelten (mit Kathrin Rank)", Galerie Cyprian Brenner / Ecke Galerie, Augsburg, Germany

2020

"Malerei zwischen Wesenhaftigkeit und Konstruktion", Galerie ARTAe, Leipzig, Germany

2019

"Nigredo", Galerie Friedmann-Hahn, Berlin, Germany

Group Exhibitions

2022

"Totentanz und Glück", Galerie Cyprian Brenner, Hüttlingen-Niederalfingen, Germany

2021

"Bildergeschichten", Städtische Galerie Bad Reichenhall, Bad Reichenhall, Germany

2021

"Frohnaturen", Galerie Schmalfuss, Marburg, Germany

2020

"SweetNothingSweet", Kunstverein KISS, Abtsgmünd-Untergröningen, Germany

2017

"11 in 4", Galerie Von & Von, Nürnberg, Germany

Vita

Mirko Schallenberg has all the objects that feature so prominently in his works in his studio. It is in his very own cabinet of curiosities where he plays with the objects and the compositions until, as he says, each object is free of purpose and self-sufficient; until it can stand together with other objects that are self-sufficient, and a quiet conversation takes place. In his paintings, the objects are usually enlarged so that they almost take on the size of the human counterpart and are given a new, unusual physicality.

His 'Dingpyramiden' are reminiscent both of the great masters of Renaissance still life and, in their compositional abstraction and spirituality, of Piet Mondrian. Thus, in the often large-format works, one encounters pieces of grass inspired by Albrecht Dürer or fish hanging down on strings, reminiscent of the still lifes by the Spanish painter Juan Sánchez Cotán.

Lives and works in Berlin, Germany

1967

Born in Northeim, Germany

1989

Studies at the University of Fine Arts in Braunschweig, Germany

1995

Co-Founder of the artist group Konvention

1997

Diploma Fine Art

1998

Master student with Prof. Hermann Albert, scholarship in the artist house Meinersen

2000 - 2002