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®artspace Hamburg
Heliumcowboy. Hachmannplatz 2. 20099 Hamburg. Germany
talk: +49 40 484 088 60 online: www.heliumcowboy.com
Multifunctional creative artspace in Hamburg.
Opening hours: Wednesday to Friday, from 11.00h to 19.00h.
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28.11.2009 - 31.12.2009
Victor Castillo presents a remarkable range of work including a mural, ten works on paper and around twenty canvases. In these, Castillo presents atmospherically luminous landscapes evoking the images of idyllic postcards. Once again, the appearance is deceiving: The postcard idylls embrace a tragic-comic portrait of childlike cruelty. They uncover a wild, uncivilized side of human behaviour, with aspects of politics, sex and religion also playing a part.
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17.10.2009 - 13.11.2009
Alex is back! In his 4th show with us since 2004, Alex Diamond presents his latest series of works, a project study titled "Being Alex Diamond". The experiment that is Alex Diamond enters the into next phase. Photography blends with painting and drawing, and the mask has moved into the center of attention. The series consists of approximately 40 photopaintings. Other new works include drawings ... and lots of tentacles.
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11.09.2009 - 09.10.2009
As a boarder crosser and being always critical of the society, Casey McKee again mingles photographic realism with pictorial illusionism in his HeliumCowboy show "End of Reason". His art always combines both the media: photography and painting but moreover always turns out to be the stage of an ironic discussion about the scurrile, actually illegitimate and sometimes even inhuman conventions and practices of our time and society. Thus – by looking at his works – it is easy to understand why his protagonists prefer to meet the pope with boxing gloves...
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20.06.2009 - 14.08.2009
International group exhibition in cooperation with NoNewEnemies, curated by Harlan Levey (NoNewEnemies) & Jörg Heikhaus (heliumcowboy artspace) featuring 56K, Alex Diamond, Chrisophe Lambert, Evie Haines, Ephameron, Invisible Heroes (Admir Jahic und Comenius Roethlisberger), Jon Burgerman, Nomad, Stephen Smith/NCC and Will Barras.
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02.05.2009 - 05.06.2009
Boris Hoppek's work still finds its roots in what could be described as urban culture and could be translated as “the here and now“. However, Boris Hoppek never fits into the category of the typical graffiti artist. Graffiti might be one of his artistic roots, but his work, his statements, his techniques and chosen material are too versatile and complex, and Boris Hoppek himself way too unimpressed by the art scene or average stilistic and lyrical means of his generation. What often looks lovable, cute or cuddly in his work, is seldomly meant for decoration or being loved: Bluntly and political incorrect, Hoppek’s imagery tells strories about (taboo-)issues such as violence, racism, prostitution or pornography. Despite of its beauty and pretended innocence and cartoon-like style, Boris Hoppek’s art is usually disturbing or kinky as the artist knows exactly how to combine cuteness with the hideous. After his last solo show “I won’t fuck with you tonight“ in 2007, Boris Hoppek is now returning to the heliumcowboy artspace for the fourth time. His upcoming exhibition is simply called “Popo“ – the German word for “butt“ – and will show Hoppek’s latest photographies, watercoulours, drawings, characters and a large sized installation.
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07.02.2009 - 27.03.2009
What was once born from financial need, today is her brand name: The scratch-technique of the young artist Lena Schmidt. About three years ago she started to collect old and used wooden boards on the street which she used as a base of her pictures – and which themselves all told their quite own material history. After the grained surface is coated with colour, the artist scratches her very own picture world into these findings and scrapes: Urbanscapes, urban sceneries which are somehow close to our every day life but at the same time also strange and unknown.
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13.12.2008 - 30.01.2009
After her exhibition "fox in the snow“ in 2005, the heliumcowboy artspace is presenting moki’s new work in her upcoming show in December. "Mume“, the title of the show, inspires our imagination and seems familiar at the same time, although you can never be sure if you have really ever heard the expression. Is it an animal? A mythical creature? Or a plant? What moki is really interested in is not the actual meaning of the expression itself, but the potential it holds to inspire us. Her imagery stands out due to her exhilitarting photorealistic style, while, at the same time, it emanates something magical and oniric.
In association with:
04.10.2008 - 28.11.2008
The aesthetic tradition of Antonio Santín is the Spanish Baroque, including his interest for the “sacred”, an interest derived from his religious upbringing, but also from his sculpting practices inspired by Andalusian imagery. The ideas of sacrifice, death, tales and symbolism are inherent in this imagery and, thereby, in Santín’s work. His use of violent contrast between figure and background is, in a way, also a reference for his passion for baroque aesthetics, but more so for his obsession with contrasting darkness and light, death and life.
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30.08.2008 - 26.09.2008
UK artist Jon Burgerman has built a strong reputation through his unique and colourful doodle-artworks of swooping, intertwining lines and hyper-emotional characters. Working across a variety of media that includes drawing, painting, print, animation, large scale murals and toy design, his art retains a hand-made, hand-drawn quality. A sense of self-deprecation, dry humour and modern-day anxiety, along with a humble enthusiasm for salads, imbues his work.
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12.07.2008 - 15.08.2008
After almost 50 exhibitions, the heliumcowboy artspace celebrates its 5th anniversary this summer. We want to commemorate this accordingly – with a huge group exhibition featuring almost 30 regional and international artists that we have worked with closely in the past, and who all belong to the heliumcowboy family. This anniversary exhibition gives us the opportunity to present the work of our artists and the gallery to a large audience. In order to achieve this, the location needs to be up to the task. Consequently, the temporary space we will move into for the duration of the show is as unconventional as our gallery: the former Broadway movie teatre, close to the central train station (Bieberhaus).
The 1.400 square meter large venue, by now stripped from all walls and in the state of a construction site, is directly situated in Hamburg’s City Centre, a mere stone throw away from the Art Museums and the Schauspielhaus (theatre). It will be a creative playground and open installation space for he participating artists. At the heliumcowboy artspace we prefer the breach with conventions and enable our artists to re-invent the concept of exhibiting. Over the past years we have proven to being able to create unique, usable and stable environments within our gallery rooms, at fairs/projects and beyond. Seizing the opportunity we provide them with, our gallery has been converted into diverse "habitats" many many times by different artists.
This freedom and the lust to experiment will be the guiding idea of the anniversary show. The aim is to create a common world that is mesmerizing, inventive and inspirational at the same time, and to enrich Hamburg’s exhibition-culture in order to offer something innovative to the art-enthused visitor. Not only requires this venture a large degree of visionary power, courage, passion and no fear of hard work, but also a great deal of megalomania. Here, at the Ranch of the heliumcowboy’s, we possess enough of all that.
Featuring: 56k, Akane Kimbara, Alex Diamond, Alexej Mirnij, Antonio Santin, Blami, Boris Hoppek, Casey McKee, Christophe Lambert, Jim Avignon, Jon Burgerman, Kingdrips, Karen Koltermann, Ki Yoon Ko, Lena Schmidt, Luiza Mogosanu, Lui Roq, Mike Swaney, moki, Stephen Smith/Neasden Control Centre, Nina Braun, Pandarosa, Patrick Farzar, Rinzen, Thomas Markus Schumann, Victor Castillo, Rai Escale, 4000.
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24.05.2008 - 04.07.2008
Nina is immersed in an analogue world, where the obsession with material and her devotion to each individual object emerges from her very personal imagery. Her approach to materials like wool and fabric are the base for her sometimes child-like and naive objects that result from an intensive working process. Considering that we are living in a digital era where economical aspects of the working process prevail and thoughts and images can be infinitely reproduced, Nina Braun’s approach to work is quite revolutionary.
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18.04.2008 - 16.05.2008
Heliumcowboy artspace and Modart magazine present new work by Microbo, BO130, Morcky and TheBoghe. These artists belong to a generation of creative producers whose working area is quite hard to define. Their artistic background, the diversity of cultural influences working on them range from several disciplines, forms of expression and visual languages. If you try to retrace their aesthetic roots, you have to find the right track first. The influences and the visual places that serve as playground for these artists are extremly diverse, but they do have something in common: their passion for street painting and a wide exploration of media aesthetics that has led to a series of successful shows all around the globe.
Vernissage: Friday 18.04.2008 starting at 20.00h
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29.03.2008 - 11.04.2008
We've been planning this exhibition with the Australian duo since 2005 and they finally make it! The Pandas will show their Artworks in Hamburg for the first time. Ariel Aguilera & Andrea Benyi develope their very own perspectives of thinking, feeling and researching in their illustrations. They show the possibility of a tight coexistance between design and art.
Vernissage Saturday 29.03.2008 starting at 20.00h
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16.02.2008 - 14.03.2008
Christophe Lambert can´t only be seen as a traditional artist. He´s much more than that, and has not only roughed up the artscene: he has worked as an illustrator and comicdrawer for several english, spanish, french, italian, belgium and swiss magazines. His extense work even comprises film releases. Therefore, it´s almost impossible to ascribe a certain technique to his work, he employs and manipulates everything that seems appropiate for his work progress.
He´s a punk who doesn´t shrink away from anything, not even stuffed animals, and he builds altars that reveal and tematize the chaos our world has become. And he does this in a very rigorous and outspoken way.
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30.11.2007 - 18.01.2008
Alex Diamond exhibited twice in Heliumcowboy Gallery with large monothematic shows, in 2004 with Alex Diamond’s "Strange Sofa" and in 2005 with "Gold, Kinder!" His new large solo show, "Love me with a gun to my head" features installations, paintings, collages, drawings and performance. It's finissage opens the parnership for Heliumcowboy to become ROJO®artspace Hamburg.
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