Adrian Ghenie

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• Publications

  → "The Fear of Now" (2023)

  → "The Hooligans" (2022)

  → "Paintings 2014-2018" (2020)

• Exhibitions

  → "Shadow Paintings" at Albertina, Vienna (Oct 2024 - Mar 2025)

  → "The Brave New World" at Pace, New York (Nov - Dec 2023)

  → "Time" at Tim Van Laere, Antwerp (Aug - Oct 2023)

  → "The Impossible Body" in Romania (Apr - Jul 2023) Galeria Plan B in Berlin (Jan - May 2023)

• Awards

• Links

Adrian Ghenie, Forest Landscape with Fire, 2018, Oil on canvas, Painting 200,5 x 290,2 cm, Frame 203,9 x 293,6 x 7 cm, Signed and dated on verso, Courtesy Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac-London/Paris/Salzburg

Adrian Ghenie, Hungry Lion 2, 2018, Oil on canvas, Painting 54,5 x 70,2 cm, Frame 56,7 x 72,4 x 3,5 cm, Signed and dated on verso, Courtesy Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac-London/Paris/Salzburg

Adrian Ghenie. “Street Scene With Crucifix” (2023). Oil On Canvas. 82.6x57”. Images Courtesy Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp-Rome.

Adrian Ghenie. “The Reader” (2023). Oil On Canvas. 33.5x47.2''. Images Courtesy Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp-Rome.

Adrian Ghenie. “Self-Portrait In Villa Borghese” (2023). Oil On Canvas. 94.5x78.7”. Images Courtesy Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp-Rome.

Adrian Ghenie Figure with Dog, 2019 Oil on canvas 240 x 210 cm

Adrian Ghenie Pie Fight Interior 12, 2014 Oil on canvas 284 x 350 x 6 cm

Adrian Ghenie The Drowning, 2019 Oil on canvas 190 x 295 cm

Pie Fight Study signed and dated 'Ghenie 2012' (on the reverse) oil on canvas 22 1/4 x 28 7/8in. (56.4 x 73.2cm.) Painted in 2012

Adrian Ghenie Self-Portrait Smoking, 2015 Oil on canvas 230 x 160 cm

Adrian Ghenie (Romanian, b.1977) is a Contemporary painter known for his multilayered images that take inspiration from news media, classic films, history, and social media. Born in the city of Baia Mare, he studied at the University of Art and Design in Cluj, and moved between there and Berlin, until 2013, when he finally settled in the German capital where he continues to live and work. Many of his pieces explore the traumatic history of dictatorship in Romania, and are often characterized by spontaneous and gestural brushstrokes. The faces in his works are frequently slashed or blurred, and are painted using a palette knife and stencils rather than a paintbrush. His favored subjects include infamous figures of the 20th century, particularly those connected to events of suffering and genocide. He has been the subject of solo exhibitions at institutions such as the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, the Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kuns, Ghent, and National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest. His work has also been featured in exhibitions at the Palazzo Grassi, François Pinault Foundation, Venice, the Tate Liverpool, the Prague Biennial, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, among others. Ghenie’s work is held in a number of public collections, including the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, the Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst in Antwerp, the SFMOMA, and the Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kuns. In 2005, Ghenie co-founded Galeria Plan B, a production and exhibition space for Contemporary Art.