Eberhard Havekost

Eberhard Havekost  (1967, Dresden, Germany - 2019, Berlin, Germany) studied at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden between 1991 and 1996 with Professor Ralf Kerbach (1956, Dresden) in the class of painting and graphic arts. He taught painting at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany, between 2010 and 2019. 

Hakevost belongs to a new generation of painters who have used digital and multimedia language as a starting point to manufacture the images of their paintings, from a selection of various sources: television and video, magazines and photographs. From his archives, Havekost edits the original images on a computer: subtly changing colours, shapes are slightly stretched or distorted, and then translated through the painting process. His paintings of human bodies and faces, urban and suburban architecture, and various types of motor vehicles show disturbing shadows and colours, as well as the cutting of the image and the position of the volumes, unexpected, which alter the perception of the observer in relation to the referent.

Among the solo exhibitions he held, the following stand out: Endless, Brandenburgischer Kunstverein, Potsdam, Germany(2012); Eberhard Havekost - Sightseeing Trip, Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai, Índia (2012); Eberhard Havekost, Sammmlung MAP — Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Austria (2012); Sightseeing Trip, Kerala Lalitha Kala Akademi, Durbar Hall Art Gallery, Ernakulam/Kochi, Kerala, India (2012); Ausstellung, Kunsthalle im Lipsiusbau, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Germany (2010); Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers, FL, and Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, Florida, USA (2007); Harmony 2: Schilderijen 1997 – 2005, Stedelijk Museum CS, Amsterdam, Holland (2006); Eberhard Havekost: 1996-2006 Paintings from the Rubell Family Collection, American University Museum, Katzen Arts Center, Washington, USA (2006); Lieu d’ Art Contemporain, Sigean Centre d’Art Contemporain, France (2003); Driver, Museu Serralves, Porto, Portugal (2001); Druck, Galerie für Zeitgenossische Kunst Leipzig, Germany (1999).

PS, dezembro 2020