Martin Eder is a German

Germans

The Germans are a Germanic ethnic group native to Central Europe. The English term Germans has referred to the German-speaking population of the Holy Roman Empire since the Late Middle Ages....

 artist

Artist

An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...

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From 1986 until 1992, he studied at the Augsburg University of Applied Sciences, and from 1993 until 1995 continued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg

Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg

The Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg The art academy is situated in Nuremberg.In the classes for fine arts, sculpture, visual arts, painting, artistic concepts, art education, gold- and silversmithing, as well as graphic design, the professors and students carry out candid discussions...

, attending the University of Kassel

University of Kassel

The University of Kassel, founded in 1970, is one of the newer universities in the state of Hesse. The university is in Kassel, and as of September 2010 has about 18,113 students...

 in 1995 and 1996. From 1996 until 1999 he studied under Eberhard Bosslet

Eberhard Bosslet

Eberhard Bosslet is a German contemporary artist who has been producing site-specific art and architectural-related works, such as sculpture, installation and painting, both indoors and outdoors, since 1979...

 at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts and was a master student under Professor Bosslet from 1991 until 2001.
Eder lives and works in Berlin

Berlin

Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...

 and is represented by Eigen + Art Gallery and Hauser & Wirth

Hauser & Wirth

Hauser & Wirth is one of the world's leading contemporary art galleries. In addition to representing over 40 established and emerging artists, the gallery represents the estates of Eva Hesse, Allan Kaprow, Lee Lozano, Jason Rhoades, Dieter Roth and André Thomkins, as well as the Henry Moore Family...

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Works

Martin Eder paints representative Idyll

Idyll

An idyll or idyl is a short poem, descriptive of rustic life, written in the style of Theocritus' short pastoral poems, the Idylls....

s in oil. Recurring motifs are often house pets such as cats, rabbits, poodles or birds, as well as lasciviously semi-clad women's or girls' bodies (Lolita

Lolita

Lolita is a novel by Vladimir Nabokov, first written in English and published in 1955 in Paris and 1958 in New York, and later translated by the author into Russian...

 motifs). These naive-kitsch

Kitsch

Kitsch is a form of art that is considered an inferior, tasteless copy of an extant style of art or a worthless imitation of art of recognized value. The concept is associated with the deliberate use of elements that may be thought of as cultural icons while making cheap mass-produced objects that...

y views often conceal details which can irritate the viewers and are intended to lead them to further reflection.
The paintings avail themselves of the motifs of postmodern trash, the erotic and Surrealism

Surrealism

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. They show a contrast between realistically beautiful motifs and their bombastic, surreal antithesis.
Martin Eder's works had been primarily embraced outside of Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

, where he has had numerous successful exhibitions, before receiving widespread notice in his native land. Today Martin Eder is counted among the most important German contemporary artists.

In addition, Eder plays in his own experimental rock band under the name Richard Ruin et Les Demoniaques

Richard Ruin et Les Demoniaques

Richard Ruin is a German art rock band, which was founded in Berlin in 2003 and also goes under the names RUIN and Richard Ruin et Les Demoniaques. Current members are Richard Ruin , which is a music pseudonym for painter Martin Eder, Mike Strauss , Roderick Miller , Thomas Fietz and Jonathan Heine...

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Solo exhibitions (selection)

• "Martin Eder. Der dunkle Grund", Exhibition Hall in the Lipsius-Bau, Dresden, 2009
• "Martin Eder", Kunsthalle Mannheim
  Kunsthalle Mannheim
  The Kunsthalle Mannheim is a museum of modern and contemporary art, established in 1909 and located in Mannheim, Germany. The building designed by Hermann Billing was erected as a temporary structure to serve an "International Art Exhibition" of 1907, commemorating the 300th anniversary of the...
  
   2008
• Galerie EIGEN + ART, Berlin 2006
• Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York City 2006
• "fade Away – Böse Alphatiere", Art Basel
  Art Basel
  Art Basel is an international contemporary art fair held each June in Basel, Switzerland. Similar to the Venice Biennale, it has been called "the Olympics of the art world". Art Basel features nearly 300 leading galleries from North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia and Africa...
  
   | Miami Beach 2004
• "...the Afterlife", Galerie EIGEN + ART, Berlin 2004
• Kunstverein Potsdam 2003
• Galerie EIGEN+ART, Leipzig 2003
• Frederick Freiser Gallery, New York City 2002
• Galerie EIGEN + ART, Berlin 2002
• "Forever Isn’t Very Long", Städtische Kunstsammlungen, Augsburg 2001
• "BadStar", Büro für Kunst, Dresden 2001
• "Something Slightly Different-From the Beginning After the End", Oktogon, HfBK Dresden 2001
• "P..P..Pipi-Paradiso, my favourite rooms", Studiohaus Gallery of Contemporary Art, Leipzig 2000

Group exhibitions (selections)

• "Landschaft", Galerie EIGEN + ART, Berlin 2006
• "Full House - Gesichter einer Sammlung", Kunsthalle Mannheim
  Kunsthalle Mannheim
  The Kunsthalle Mannheim is a museum of modern and contemporary art, established in 1909 and located in Mannheim, Germany. The building designed by Hermann Billing was erected as a temporary structure to serve an "International Art Exhibition" of 1907, commemorating the 300th anniversary of the...
  
   2006
• "Netherlands v. Germany 3-3", Gemeentemuseum Den Haag
  Gemeentemuseum Den Haag
  The Municipal Museum is an art museum, located in The Hague, Netherlands.The museum was built by the Dutch architect H.P. Berlage. It is renowned for its large Mondrian collection, the largest in the world...
  
  , Netherlands 2006
• "VNG-Art presents German painting", Museum Rzeby, Krolikarnia, Warsaw
  Warsaw
  Warsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River, roughly from the Baltic Sea and from the Carpathian Mountains. Its population in 2010 was estimated at 1,716,855 residents with a greater metropolitan area of 2,631,902 residents, making Warsaw the 10th most...
  
  ; Städtische Galerie Arsenal, Poznan, Polen 2006
• "After Cézanne", Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
  Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
  The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles is a contemporary art museum with three locations in greater Los Angeles, California. The main branch is located on Grand Avenue in Downtown Los Angeles, near Walt Disney Concert Hall...
  
  , USA 2006
• 2. Prague Biennale, Prag 2005
• 25 Sammlung Deutsche Bank, Deutsche Guggenheim
  Deutsche Guggenheim
  The Deutsche Guggenheim is an art museum, located in the ground floor of the Deutsche Bank building, a sandstone building constructed in 1920 on the Unter den Linden boulevard in Berlin, Germany....
  
  , Berlin 2005
• "Girls on Film", Zwirner & Wirth, 2005
• "Portrait", Galerie EIGEN +ART, Berlin 2005
• David Zwirner Gallery, New York City 2004
• "Coup de couer/ a sentimental choice", CRAC Alsace Altkirch 2003
• "Gruppenausstellung" Sommer Contemporary Art, Israel 2003
• Sommer bei EIGEN + ART, Berlin 2003
• "Taboo", Galerie Roger Pailhas, 2003
• Kunstpreis Böttcherstrasse, Kunsthalle Bremen
  Kunsthalle Bremen
  The Kunsthalle Bremen is an art museum in the Hanseatic City Bremen, Germany.The Kunsthalle was built in 1849 and enlarged in 1902 by architect Eduard Gildemeister....
  
  , 2003
• "Adieu Avantgarde – Willkommen zu Haus", Ludwig Forum, Aachen 2003
• "Zukunft" (mit Thoralf Knobloch
  Thoralf Knobloch
  Thoralf Knobloch is a contemporary German painter based in Dresden. His studies at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden he completed in 1994 under Prof. Ralf Kerbach. In 2003 Knobloch received the Vattenfall Europe art award. In 2005 he among others represented Germany at the Prague...
  
   und David Schnell), Sandroni Rey Gallery, Los Angeles 2003
• "Split Points", National Gallery Prague, Prague 2002
• "Anker", annet gelink galerie, Amsterdam 2002
• "GASAG Kunstpreis 2002", 2yk Galerie am Flutgraben, Berlin 2002
• "Sommer bei EIGEN+ART", Galerie EIGEN+ART, Leipzig 2002
• "Without Consent", Centre d`Art, Neuchâtel, Schweiz 2002
• "Electric Dreams”, Curve Gallery, Barbican Arts Centre, 2002
• "Over the Moon. Große Gefühle zwischen Inszenierung und Authentizität", Kunstamt Berlin-Kreuzberg, Berlin 2002
• "Wirklichkeit in der zeitgenössischen Malerei", Städtische Galerie, Delmenhorst 2001
• "Summer Show", D'Amelio Terras, New York City 2001
• Museum für Moderne Kunst
  Museum für Moderne Kunst
  The Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt am Main was founded in 1981. The museum was designed by the Viennese architect Hans Hollein. Because of its triangular shape, it is called "piece of cake"....
  
  / Hauptzollamt, Frankfurt am Main 2000
• Galerie EIGEN+ART, Leipzig 2000
• "alltomorrowsparties", LeRoy Nieman Gallery, Columbia University, New York City 2000
• "Z 2000", Akademie der Künste
  Akademie der Künste
  The Akademie der Künste, Berlin is an arts institution in Berlin, Germany. It was founded in 1696 by Elector Frederick III of Brandenburg as the Prussian Academy of Arts, an academic institution where members could meet and discuss and share ideas...
  
   Berlin 2000
• "I love You too, but...", Gallery of Contemporary Art, Leipzig 2000
• "Les Prochaines", Galerie Dorothea Deimann, Basel 1999
• "W..Words Don't Come Easy II" (Performance), Alte Pinakothek
  Alte Pinakothek
  The Alte Pinakothek is an art museum situated in the Kunstareal in Munich, Germany. It is one of the oldest galleries in the world and houses one of the most famous collections of Old Master paintings...
  
  , Munich 1999
• "W..Words Don't Come Easy I" (Video screening), The Luxor Hotel, Las Vegas, USA 1999
• "Pitstops", Kaufhaus Esders, Dresden 1999
• Novaphorm™ Label, WMF Club, Berlin 1999
• Novaphorm™ Textzone, Literaturhaus, München 1999
• Novaphorm™ beautystyle, Galerie Arndt & Partner, Berlin 1998
• Novaphorm™ aromastrip, Young European Artists, Espace des Arts, Chalon-sur-Saône 1998
• Recycling Novaphorm™ hotel, Sammlung Hoffmann, Berlin 1997
• "heaven", PS 1, New York City 1997
• Novaphorm™ hotel, während der documenta X, Kassel 1997
• Novaphorm™ electrolux lounge; Haus Schwarzenberg, Berlin 1997
• Novaphorm™ chill out, Voxxx Galerie, Chemnitz 1997
• "Postwar Disasters s,m,l,xl", Gut Keferloh 1997
• Novaphorm™ disco, Gipsstr. 23, Berlin 1996
• Galerie Eigen+Art im Taschenbergpalais
  Taschenbergpalais
  Taschenbergpalais is a grand hotel in Taschenberg, Dresden, Germany. It is located near Dresden Castle and Zwinger.-History:The building was built from 1705 to 1708 by Johann Friedrich Karcher as a palace for countess Anna Constanze von Hoym. It was destroyed in 1945 by The Second World War and it...
  
  , Dresden 1996
• "Uptown Classics", Galerie Upart, München 1995
• "Wood", L.O.F.T. Galerie, Augsburg 1993

Literature

• "Visuell 25. Fünfundzwanzig Jahre Sammlung Deutsche Bank", published by the Deutsche Guggenheim (as part of the exhibition commemorating the 25th anniversary of the collection, April 30 - June 19, 2005), Berlin 2005, S. 80.
• "Martin Eder: Die Kalte Kraft", published by the Kunstverein Lingen Kunsthalle (as part of the exhibition of the same name of the Kunstverein Lingen Kunsthalle, August 15, 2004 – October 10, 2004), Ostfildern-Ruit 2004, ISBN 3-7757-1474-X.
• "Martin Eder. Memoirs of My Nervous Illness", published by the Brandenburgischen Kunstverein Potsdam e.V (as part of the exhibition: Martin Eder "Phantasie der Erwachsenen," Brandenburgischer Kunstverein, February 14, 2003 - March 14, 2003), Potsdam 2003.
• "2003 Kunstpreis der Böttcherstraße in Bremen", published by the Stifterkreis für den Kunstpreis der Böttcherstraße in Bremen (as part of the exhibition "Kunstpreis der Böttcherstraße in Bremen," March 2, 2003 – April 13, 2003), Bramsche 2003.
• "The Undead" (part of the solo exhibition of Martin Eder), 2001.
• "Something Slightly Different/ From The Beginning After The End...", published by the Phillip Morris New York Foundation.
• "The Return Of The Anti-Soft", published by the Städtische Kunstsammlungen Augsburg (as part of the Eder exhibition "Forever isn't very long"), Augsburg 2001.

External links

• http://www.artfacts.net/index.php/pageType/artistInfo/artist/7770
• Biography
• Works
• http://www.hauserwirth.com/artists/44/martin-eder/biography/Biography at Hauser & Wirth
  Hauser & Wirth
  Hauser & Wirth is one of the world's leading contemporary art galleries. In addition to representing over 40 established and emerging artists, the gallery represents the estates of Eva Hesse, Allan Kaprow, Lee Lozano, Jason Rhoades, Dieter Roth and André Thomkins, as well as the Henry Moore Family...
  
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• Richard Ruin