Tobias Lehner

Union Gallery , London

Gyration is a form of revolution in which the object's rotational point is set off centre. A complex state of balance is necessary to maintain the movement. The artist's forthcoming solo exhibition and the third solo show at the gallery.

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Union Gallery is pleased to announce a forthcoming solo exhibition by gallery artist Tobias Lehner. In his third solo show at the gallery, ‘Gyration’, Lehner will be presenting a new untitled series.

Gyration is a form of revolution in which the object’s rotational point is set off centre. With the object’s mass unbalanced centrifugal forces come into play, gravity exerts a tension and the structure integrity is pushed to its limits. A complex state of balance is necessary to maintain the movement.

Across Union Gallery’s four walls Tobias Lehner’s latest series of paintings generate a sense of this impending collapse; his art imagines the precarious moment where this fracture may occur, the image is frozen and the outcome unknown. Each of Lehner’s works includes a central motif, a vortex, gyre or symbol of explosive potential; all are only seconds away from unleashing their catastrophic energies. If the motion cannot be maintained, or the acceleration increases the image will rupture.

Breaking from the Leipzig tradition of figurative painting Lehner instead drawing upon music to create his abstract[ed] landscapes. Lehner creates parallels between the composition of an audio space and the two-dimensional field of painting. Within each piece Lehner has included multiple visual notes, each contending for domination over the pictorial space. In these environments of musical discordance solid forms struggle to hold their structure and painted matter seems to evaporate out of the pictures’ parameters. Lehner binds it all together under overarching celestial frameworks and geometric diagrams.

Through paint alone Lehner is able to bring to life a vision of future landscapes, places that combine organic materials, architectural geographies and a mass of digital information. His art is a careful choreography that confronts the viewer with synthetic, yet uncannily real world.

Artist Biography
Born in Regensburg, 1974. Lives and works in Leipzig, Germany.
2003-2005 Studio with Professor Sighard Gille  
1998-2003 BA and MA Fine Art, University of Graphic and Book Design

Solo Exhibitions
2013 Vertigo, Kunstverein Bamberg, Germany
Unintended consequences, Gallery Baton, Seoul, Korea
2011  Friction, Galería SCQ, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
2010  Radiation, Kunstverein Ravensburg, Ravensburg, Germany 
Pluton, Carbon 12, Dubai, United Arab Emirates 
Perihel, Union Gallery, London, UK 
2009  Anthrax, galerieKleindienst, Leipzig , Germany 1234YF, Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve, Paris, France 
2008  Multiplexor, Grim Fine Art, Amsterdam, Netherlands 
2007  Chromatic, Galerie Kleindienst, Leipzig, Germany 
2006  Full Speed Ahead, Suzanne Tarasiève, Paris, France 
Undeviating, Union Gallery, London
UK Art Fair, Brussels, solo presentation, Belgium 
2005  Neue Bilder, Galerie Kleindienst, Leipzig, Germany 
2004  Paintings, Union Gallery, London, UK 
2003  Malerei, Kunstraum B/2, Leipzig
Laden für Nichts, Leipzig, Germany

Group Exhibitions
2012  Art Cologne, Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve Paris, Cologne, Germany
German Now - From Leipzig - Seongnam Art Center, Seongnam City, South Korea
Triangel, Galerie Gegenwart, Karlsruhe
Tondo-Die Kunst ist rund, Kunst Galerie Fürth, Fürth, Germany/ Bavaria
2011 Focus / Abstraktion, ESSL Museum, Vienna, Austria
2010  1+1+1+1, Städtische Galerie Fürth, Fürth, Germany 
New Paintings, Grimm Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 
2009  Carte Blanche VI - EAST_for the record, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig
60/40/20. Kunst in Leipzig seit 1949, Museum der Bildenden Künste Leipzig, Germany 
Lubok original graphic picture books, Museum of Fine Arts, Leipzig
2008  Drawcula, Gallery Kleindienst, Leipzig, Germany 
Neue Leipziger Schule, Cobra Museum, Amstelveen, The Netherlands
2007  Passion for art, Museum Essl, Vienna, Austria 
The juddikes, London, UK 
Made in Leipzig, Sammlung Essl, Scholss Torgau, Germany 
2006  Leipzig Select, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA 
VNGart präsentiert: Neue Deutsche Malerei - Leipziger Kunst, Warsaw, Poznan, Krokowa, Katowice, Poland 
Story and Structure, Marella Gallery, Milan, Italy 
Artists from Leipzig, Arario Gallery, Beijing, China 
Made in Leipzig, Sammlung Essl, Kunst der Gegenwart, Vienna, Austria 
2005  Paintings, Produzentengalerie, Hamburg, Germany
Without hesitation, New Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany
Rainbow, Gallery Sfeir Semler, Beirut
Forbilder, Kunstverein Jena, Germany
Cold Hearts, Arario Gallery , South Korea
Malerei, Produzentengalerie, Hamburg, Germany 
Ohne Zögern, Olbricht Collection Part 2, Neues Museum, Weserburg, Bremen, Germany
2004  Eastory, Gallery Suzanne Tarasiève, Paris 
Plaza Suite, Union, London 
Clara-Park curated by Christian Ehrenhaut, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York Clara Park, Leipzig 
Alles muss raus!, B2, Leipzig  
Leipzig in Hamburg, Produzentengalerie, Hamburg  
2003  Art students exhibit, Art and exhibition hall, Bonn 
Emerging Artists 08, Galerie Kleindienst, Subversive, sexy and stylish, curated by Klara Wallner, M.J Wewerka Galerie Berlin
Kunststudenten stellen aus, Art and exhibition hall, Bonn, Germany 

Publications
2007 Tobias Lehner, Catalog, Kerber Verlag, 2007
Made in Leipzig, Ausstellungskatalog, Essel Collection, Schloss Hartenfels, Torgau
2006  “First open”, New York, Christies  
2005  Most wanted, Sammlung Ollbricht ”Cold hearts”, Arario, South Korea
”Cold hearts”, Arario, South Korea ”Tobias Lehner”, Matthias Kleindienst, Suzanne Tarsiéve and Jari Lager
2004  Coomer, Time Out, London, February

Collections
Arario Fundation, Chungman, Korea 
Fond National d’Art Contemporain, France 
Olbricht Collection, Hamburg, Germany 
The Sammlung Essl, Vienna, Austria 
Museum der binldenden Künste, Leipzig, Germany 
Essl collection, Klosterneuburg, Austria 
Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen, Germany 
Salsali Private Museum, Dubai, UAE 
Haus Konstruktiv, Stiftung für konstruktive und konkrete Kunst, Zürich, Switzerland 
Kunstmuseum Stuttgart - Galerie der Stadt Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

Opening Friday 6th December 2013 at 18 - 21h

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94 Teesdale Street, London
Open hours: from Wednesday to Saturday 12 - 18h
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