Nicholas Bodde
About 25 years ago, the artist Nicholas Bodde began painting stripes – parallel lines of various thicknesses in contrasting and complementary colors – and he never looked back. What has changed over the years is the form taken for his two-and threedimensional abstractions, which touch on themes of European constructivism and Color Field painting. The overall feeling of his work is one of rampant cheerfulness and joy, with its vibrant colors shining like a new car factory, and sometimes even including a touch of sparkly automotive paint. The combination of scale, color palette and geometric form creates enough variety that the repetition of stripes never seems to get old.
One of Bodde’s newer trends is his play on perspective, where the stripes escape the static parallels to venture out to an unseen great beyond.
Born 1962 in New York. Lives and works in Bremen.
| 1982-89 | Academy of Fine Arts Bremen as a student under Prof. Karlheinz Greune and Prof. Wolfgang Schmitz |
| 1991 | Grant by the Land Schleswig-Holstein in Künstlerhaus Selk |
Awards and Projects
| 2004/05 | Design contract for Rosenthal AG, Selb |
| 1999 | Project Konkreter Fries, Museum Gegenstandsloser Kunst, Studio a, Otterndorf |
| 1997 | Frist prize to embellish the artistic concept of the new-build Institute for East-European Studies, Bremen |
| 1994 | German art prize awarded by Volks- und Raiffeisenbanken (5. prize) |
Solo exhibitions
| 2019 | Colour Vibe - Nicholas Bodde, Gallery Yeh, Seoul, Korea |
| 2018 | Sense and Sensibility, Galerie Tristan Lorenz, Frankfurt |
| 2016 | Color Rhythm, Gallery Sonja Roesch, Houston, USA |
| 2015 | Streifzüge, Galerie Contemporanea, Trier |
| 2014 | Im Rhythmus des Farbklangs, Galerie und Kunstkabinett Corona Unger, Bremen |
| 2013 | Performing Color I Farbikonen, Kunstbüroberlin, Berlin |
| 2011 | Parallelen, Haus Paula Becker, Bremen |
| 2010 | Die neue Generation 2, Galerie Konkret Martin Wörn, Sulzburg (with Siegfried Kreitner) |
| 2009 | Club des arts, European Council, Strasbourg |
| 2008 | Krammig & Pepper Contemporary, Berlin |
| 2007 | Kunstverein Speyer |
| 2006 | Galerie der Stadt Remscheid |
| 2005 | Galerie Art Academy, Dresden |
| 2004 | Galerie Wosimsky, Gießen |
| 2003 | Yeh Gallery, Seoul, Korea |
| 2002 | Deus es Proportio? Kunst und Konstruktion, Kunstraum Drochtersen-Hüll |
| 2001 | Galerie Paul, Bremerhaven |
| 2000 | Deutsches Konsulat, New York City, USA |
| 1999 | Sparkassenhalle am Brill, Bremen |
| 1998 | Dialogart 6, Galerie Altes Rathaus, Worpswede |
| 1996 | Kunstverein Achim |
Group exhibitions
| 2020 | Punkt und Linie zur Fläche frei nach Kandinsky, Galerie Renate Bender, Munich |
| 2019 | small matters - Kunst im kleinen Format, Galerie Nanna Preußners, Hamburg embodying colour V, RAUM SCHROTH at Museum Wilhelm Morgner, Soest |
| 2018 | Alleando – Collage der Künste zum Jahreswechsel, Galerie Corona Unger, Bremen |
| 2017 | Hellweg Konkret, Wilhelm Morgner Museum, Soest |
| 2016 | Im Winter – Ein Rendezvous der Künste, Galerie und Kunstkabinett Corona Unger, Bremen |
| 2015 | Farben Wahn Sinn, Galerie Günter Feuerstein, Feldkirch |
| 2014 | Sommerimpressionen III, Galerie und Kunstkabinett Corona Unger, Bremen |
| 2013 | Best Of, Künstler der Galerie, Galerie Nanna Preußners, Hamburg |
| 2012 | New Things We Like (with Mark Evans, Andrew Mezvinsky, Andy Moses, William Wahlgren, Suzan Woodruff), Toomey Tourell Fine Art, San Francisco |
| 2011 | Konkret / System, galeria xs, Kielce (with W. Ebener, G. Hotter, J. Kuhn, W. Luczaj, J. Pamula, J. Röder, J.-P. Viot, M. Wörn) |
| 2010 | Yeh Gallery, Seoul, Korea (with Jonathan Lasker, Alex Katz, Julian Opie) |
| 2009 | Grenzgänger der Konkreten Kunst Künstlerverein Walkmühle, Wiesbaden |
| 2008 | Galerie Linde Hollinger, Ladenburg (with Dieter Balzer, Jürgen Paas, Michael Reiter) |
| 2007 | Triptyque, Manifestation d'art contemporain, Angers |
| 2006 | Musee Tavet-Delacour, Pontoise |
| 2005 | Au Tour du Blanc, Mardi Museum, Dellas, Texas, USA |
| 2004 | Leepa-Rattner Museum, Tarpon Springs, Florida, USA |
| 2002 | Farbe & Aluminium, Kunstverein Grevenbroich |
| 2001 | Un Parcours, Sammlung Lahumiere, Arithmeum, Bonn |
| 2000 | Un Parcours, Sammlung Lahumiere, Städtische Galerie, Bremen |
| 1999 | CHhronologic, The planat art gallery, Cape Town, SA |
| 1998 | Topoil Kunstprojekt Schwachhausen, Focke Museum, Bremen |
| 1997 | Aktuelle Kunst aus Bremen, Galeria Akademii Sztuk, Gdansk, Poland |
| 1994 | Deutscher Kunstpreis der Volks- und Raiffeisenbanken, Haus der Kunst, Munich |
| 1991 | Lichthaus, Internat. Künstlersymposium, Bremen |
