Michael Goller

Vita

Michael Goller developed a gestural, immediate painting that is supplemented by schematic perspectives. The lyrical compositions are sometimes intense and at the same time balanced in color. In many pictures he uses his own font, which looks like runes.

Goller’s images consist of nested levels of gestural and graphic elements. Access to his pictures is an “optical oscillation in the resonant frequency of the picture”. He works on individual pictures for up to a year, “allows the painting to congeal in time”, which does not contradict the intuitive gestures.

Since 2012, after a phase of personal upheaval, a completely new phase of the artist’s work has been in the making. The levels of perception no longer merge in a single image, but have taken on a threefold form. The temporal levels that are internal to us humans, the feeling for memory, the feeling for the future and in between the present as a snapshot of the ongoing time are now presented individually in a triad that the artist calls image-text-context.

In 2003 he co-founded the artists’ group Querschlag and, together with Peter Piek, the artists’ initiative Malfront (2003-2007). After solo and group exhibitions in Germany and Europe, he has already received initial recognition.

Exhibitions

2000 “Modulations”, Museum “Old Vicarages”, Mittweida

2001 “Entrée”, Gallery Weise, Chemnitz with Michael Knauth

2002 “5×5 Young Art from Saxony”, New Saxon Gallery, Chemnitz (participation)

2002 “Large Art Exhibition”, Villa Kobe, Halle/Saale (participation)

2003 “Labyrations”, Gallery+Edition Erata, Leipzig

2005 “The Dark Room”, PPZK Leipzig with Peter Piek

2005 “Paintboxes”, Art for Chemnitz e.V. artist group Querschlag

2005 “Walk to the Malfront”, Voxxx Gallery, Chemnitz with Peter Piek

2006 “Pictures”, Kunstverein Heidenheim

2006 “Feasts”, Gallery Carstensen, Hamburg

2007 “Feast on Mars”, Gallery Weise, Chemnitz

2007 Galeria Szyb Wilson, Katowice/Poland artist group Querschlag

2008 GAM Gallery Obrist at the Museum, Essen

2008 Gallery Tazl, Weiz/Austria

2008 “Feast in the Museum”, art cabinet in the Bayreuth Art Museum

2008 “Prometheus and the Eagle”, Kunstverein Husum

2009 “Picture painted in July”, GAM Obrist Gingold Gallery, Essen

2009 “On the docking of the boat in the intermediate space”, Sybille Nütt Gallery, Dresden

2010 “Apostrophe”, Gallery Weise, Chemnitz

2010 Ostrale’010 (participation)

2011 Ostrale’011 (participation)

2012 “Cyclopean Banquet”, Cathedral Gallery Merseburg

2012 Art space Gepard 14, Bern/Swizzerland

2014 “Nowhere is one”, Gallery Weise, Chemnitz

2015 “Light air, boundless”, art gluchowe art association Glauchau

2015 “Dragonfly Green”, AC Gallery Claus-Dieter Tholen, Herford

2015 “and beyond”, Gallery Sybille Nütt, Dresden

2016 Ostrale’016 (participation)

2016 “MONOCHROME”, e.artis contemporary, Chemnitz

2017 Ostrale-Biennale O17 (participation)

Publications

Monochrome. With texts by Konstanze Wolter, Jutta Moster-Hoos and Ludwig Seyfarth. e.artis contemporary 2016, ISBN 3-923167-27-X

There is nowhere. With texts by Thomas Bauer-Friedrich, Diana Kopka and Peter Piek. PPZK Leipzig 2014

“[aquarius]”. Figure pictures, written experiment and a text. With an introduction by Peter Piek. PPZK Leipzig 2012

“Room with flowers”. New pictures and a text. PPZK Leipzig 2011

With Mike Wassermann: Concrete forgetting. poems and drawings. Leipziger Literaturverlag, Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-86660-076-8

Rumpelstiltskin. With a text by Torsten Obrist. Saarland Artists’ House Saarbrücken 2008, ISBN 978-3-940517-07-4

banquets. With introductory texts by Dr. Ina Gille, Alexander Stoll and Klaus Sobolewski. Publisher The ThinkFactory Chemnitz 2007, ISBN 978-3-00-020701-3

With Mike Wassermann: Labyrinths. With an interview by Viktor Kalinke. Edition Erata, Leipzig 2003, ISBN 3-934015-52-2

Painting. With a foreword by Peter Piek. Passage Verlag, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-938543-03-5

With Peter Piek: The Puppeteers. Leipziger Literaturverlag 2011, ISBN 978-3-86660-112-3

With Peter Piek: The Coloring Book. Edition Erata, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-934015-89-1

Can you hear colors?, Peter Piek / Michael Goller, from 2004, published in 2005 in issue 14 of the Werkstatt Wort series of the Leipzig University of Applied Sciences (HGB)