Markus Oehlen is a German artist. He studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf

Kunstakademie Düsseldorf

The Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, formerly Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, is the Arts Academy of the city of Düsseldorf. It is well known for having produced many famous artists, such as Joseph Beuys, Gerhard Richter, Sigmar Polke, Thomas Demand, and Andreas Gursky...

 (Alfonso Hüppi

Alfonso Hüppi

Alfonso Hüppi is a Swiss painter.- Biography :Alfonso Hüppi could be trained from 1950 to 1954 in Lucerne for a silversmith and worked as a journeyman until 1954. From 1954 to 1958 he worked as a hammer in a hammer mill workers. Then he moved from 1958 to 1959 while traveling in the Middle East...

). His is formative participant of the German art movement Neue Wilde. He took part at the group exhibition Von hier aus – Zwei Monate neue deutsche Kunst in Düsseldorf

Von hier aus – Zwei Monate neue deutsche Kunst in Düsseldorf

Von hier aus – Zwei Monate neue deutsche Kunst in Düsseldorf is the title of an art exhibition . It was organised by the city of Düsseldorf and the Gesellschaft für aktuelle Kunst Düsseldorf e.V...

 in 1984.
Oehlen was founding member of the bands Mittagspause, Fehlfarben

Fehlfarben

Fehlfarben is a German post-punk band from Düsseldorf, Germany. The band name is from a German printing term referring to erroneous colors in prints: singer Peter Hein was in this line of work at Xerox while in the band...

, Flying Klassenfeind, Vielleichtors, and Van Oehlen. Since 2002 he is prof at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich

Academy of Fine Arts, Munich

The Academy of Fine Arts, Munich was founded 1808 by Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria in Munich as the "Royal Academy of Fine Arts" and is one of the oldest and most significant art academies in Germany...

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He is the brother of Albert Oehlen

Albert Oehlen

Albert Oehlen is a contemporary German artist. He graduated from the Hochschule für Bildende Kunst, Hamburg, in 1978. Closely associated with the Cologne art scene, he was a member of the Lord Jim Lodge, along with Martin Kippenberger among others...

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Collections

Austria

• Sammlung Essl - Kunsthaus, Klosterneuburg

Germany

• Kunstraum Grässlin, St. Georgen
• Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach
• Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe
• Museum Villa Haiss, Zell am Harmersbach
• Sammlung Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden
• Kunsthalle Weishaupt, Ulm
• Sammlung zeitgenössischer Kunst der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
  Bundeskunstsammlung
  The Bundeskunstsammlung - The Federal Collection of Contemporary Art, is a collection of modern works of art held by the government of the Federal Republic of Germany...
  
  , Bonn

USA

• Saint Louis Art Museum
  Saint Louis Art Museum
  The Saint Louis Art Museum is one of the principal U.S. art museums, visited by up to a half million people every year. Admission is free through a subsidy from the cultural tax district for St. Louis City and County.Located in Forest Park in St...
  
  , Saint Louis, MO

Turkey

• Proje4L / Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art
  Proje4L / Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art
  Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art is a private collection museum, founded by Dr. Can Elgiz.The museum opened in 2001, when there were no non-profit institutions in Turkey dedicated to contemporary art...
  
  , Istanbul

External links

• http://www.artfacts.net/index.php/pageType/artistInfo/artist/1609/lang/1
• http://www.haah.de/english/markus_oehlen/abbildungen.html
• http://www.galerie-graesslin.de/bilder/moehlen/moehlen-1neu.htm