Rupert Eder

Following the tradition of modernist non-objective painting, Rupert Eder's works are created without a theoretical superstructure, without any model from real life, as pure work and progress with painting, in which painterly interests are mixed with the experience of nature and light.
The production of his paint material is very time-consuming, as it is his own mixtures of a multitude of pigments and various admixtures of metal powder, mother-of-pearl, soot and chalks. This forms that body of colours which, renouncing any figurative representation and narration, appears as colour material in fullest intensity and saturation. The knowledge of the history of painting, of the mixing of colours, their effects and meanings, forms the foundation and a historically far-reaching resonance space for Eder's work. But his works also stand in relation to more recent art, especially 20th century colourfield painting, which he takes up and continues in his own way.
Many of his paintings are based on a clear, almost grid-like pictorial structure, created from combinations of vertical and horizontal colour bands.  While these paintings tend to follow a formal rigour, another group of works shows a playful handling of forms by taking the pictorial space for itself in movement, thus creating a network of lines.
The brushstroke is always visible on the surface of the painting. By superimposing several layers of paint, a rich, translucent colourfulness emerges, iridescent in its nuances, and the surface takes on a haptic quality.
Eder continues his artistic development with impressive consistency and constant expansion, so that over the years a richly branching cosmos of works has emerged. There is as little standstill in his work as in his works themselves, and so liveliness, dynamism and colourfulness make viewing the pictures a sensual event.

He was born in Bad Aibling in 1968, lives and works in Dießen am Ammersee. From 1991 to 1995 he studied at the Jesuit College of Philosophy in Munich.

Born 1968 in Bad Aibling. Lives and works in Dießen/Ammersee.

1991-95

Jesuits University of Philosophy, Munich (M.A.)

2004-05

Lecturer at the Summer Academy in Neuburg a.d. Donau


Public and Private Collections / Promotions

The Exchange, Penzance, UK
Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Munich
Bayerische Staatsregierung, Munich
Allianz Kulturstiftung, Munich
LfA Förderbank Bayern, Munich
DELO Industrie Klebstoffe GmbH & Co. KG, Landsberg
RIGGTEK GmbH Laboratory Instruments, Munich
ING-DiBa, Frankfurt
Deutsche Factoring Bank, Bremen
Stern-Wywiol Gruppe, Hamburg
Sammlung Dr. Guido Schlimbach, Cologne
Po Kim Foundation, Manhattan, New York     

Solo exhibitions

2021Galerie Fenna Wehlau, Munich
2020Kapriolen (with Christian F. Kintz), Neue Galerie Landshut
the space between (with René Dantes) Galerie Ulf Larsson, Cologne
Rupert Eder - Orbit, Galerie Nanna Preußners, Hamburg
2018Hommage an den Raum (mit Rudolf Wachter), Galerie Ulf Larsson, Cologne
newlyn blue I Rupert Eder, Galerie Fenna Wehlau, Munich
Heimleuchten, Projektraum Streitfeld, Munich
2017

Hommage an den Raum, Museum Neues Schloss Kißlegg, Stiftung Rudolf Wachter (cat.)
Zoom, Galerie Claudia Weil, Friedberg

2016Imago, Galerie Nanna Preußners, Hamburg
Silent Watcher, Dirk Halverscheid Galerie, Munich (cat.)
2014

A Painting is a Painting is a Rose, Galerie Nanna Preußners, Hamburg (cat.)
Rotor, Katholische Akademie Bayern, Munich

2012

Voyager, Galerie König, Hanau/Frankfurt

2011

Flip Flop, Schaltwerk Kunst, Hamburg (now: Galerie Nanna Preußners)

2010

Blickwechsel, Galerie Julia Garnatz, Cologne (with Nikola Irmer, cat.)

2009

The Light Inside Us, Galerie Ulf Larsson, Kunstkontor, Cologne
The Light We See, Galerie MultiArt International, Bonn
Black Book, Schaltwerk Kunst, Hamburg (now: Galerie Nanna Preußners)

2008

Neue Galerie Landshut (with Jon Groom)
Galerie König, Hanau/Frankfurt

2004

The Rotor Works, Galerie Florian Trampler, Dießen/Ammersee (cat.)


Group exhibitions

2021Editions and small formats, Galerie Nanna Preußners, Hamburg
Summer in the City, Galerie Nanna Preußners, Hamburg
Trio (with Ivo Ringe and Jo Schöpfer), Städtische Galerie Speyer
2020PAPER JAM, Künstlerhaus Frise, Hamburg
Color painting (with Christian F. Kintz and Rolf Rose), Galerie Nanna Preußners, Hamburg
2018Structured Residency, Newlyn Art Gallery, Newlyn, UK
20 Jahre Galerie König, Hanau/Frankfurt
2017

Painting Black, Raum Schroth im Museum Wilhelm Morgner, Soest (cat.)
Lieblingsstücke, Galerie König, Hanau/Frankfurt
Ductus 2.0, Dirk Halverscheid Galerie, Munich

2016

RE:STRUCTURED, The Exchange, Penzance, UK
The Pattern Reveals Itself, Galerie Claudia Weil, Friedberg

2015

Framed, Holland Tunnel Gallery Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York City, USA

2014

Galerie König, Hanau/Frankfurt
Painting Black, The Sylvia Wald and Po Kim Art Gallery, New York City, USA

2013

Who’s Afraid of Colour? – Farbmalerei heute, Hamburg Art Week
Best Of, Künstler der Galerie, Galerie Nanna Preußners, Hamburg

2012Papier, Galerie Julia Garnatz, Cologne
2011

About Painting, The Sylvia Wald and Po Kim Art Foundation, Manhattan, New York (with Joe Barnes, Jon Groom, Ivo Ringe)

2010

Arbeiten auf Papier - Works on Paper: Jon Groom, Christian F. Kintz, Ian McKeever, Ivo Ringe, Schaltwerk Kunst, Hamburg (now: Galerie Nanna Preußners)

2009

Delft Blues, Holland Tunnel Gallery Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York, USA

2008

The Essence of the Moment, Kulturforum in Herz Jesu, Cologne (with Joe Barnes, Jon Groom, Ivo Ringe, cat.)
Galerie Ulf Larsson, Kunstkontor, Cologne (with Joe Barnes, Jon Groom, Ivo Ringe)
Uno Spazio su Misura, Marina Wolff, Milan

2007

Verkopft, Schaltwerk Kunst, Berlin (now: Galerie Nanna Preußners)
Watercolours, Galerie König, Hanau/Frankfurt

2000

Jahresausstellung, Städtische Galerie Rosenheim