Playgrounds

Opening on Friday, 26 June 2009 at 7 pm
Speaker: Prof. Klaus Siebenhaar

Artist talk and introduction to the exhibition “Playgrounds” on 2 July 2009 at 7 pm

Artist talk and introduction to the exhibition “Playgrounds” on 31 July 2009 at 7 pm

Patrick Lemke worked at the Stiftung Starke as an Artist in Residence from 2007 to 2009. In the exhibition “Playgrounds” he shows paintings with motifs of oversized playing fields and archaeological sites. The picture backgrounds recall illustrations of game boards or statistical diagrams; circles from scientific depictions of sound waves appear. In his paintings, Patrick Lemke plays with forms and figures that seem to move freely within the pictorial space. He works the canvas with lacquer and turpentine until he has achieved an unusually strong perspectival background, on which real objects appear to be set floating.
Patrick Lemke: born in Montreal (Canada) in 1972; 1992–1994 support scholarship from the Bundesverband der Raiffeisenbanken; 1994–1996 studied at the Hochschule der Künste Berlin; 1996–2001 studied at the Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, master-class student (Meisterschüler); 2000 travel scholarship from the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf; 2001 Markus Lüpertz Prize; 2003 Art Prize of the Boston Consulting Group, Munich; 2006 lectureship in painting and drawing at the Kunstschule Wegberg; 2007–2009 Artist in Residence, Starke Foundation, Berlin; 2008 studio scholarship, Cuxhaven