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I am located in Dortmund/Germany.
contact:
+49 179 75 8 9797
mail@clemensbehr.com
CV
- Born 20.10.1985 in Koblenz, Germany.
Education
- Currently studying Graphic Design at the
University of Applied Siences Dortmund, Germany.
- 2008/09 Universitat de Barcelona,
Facultat de Belles Artes, Spain.
Exhibitions
Solo
- Heimat Design Shop/Gallery Dortmund, Germany (2008)
- Galerie Seize Marseille, France (2009)
- Black White Everything (and me), Rojo Artspace Barcelona, Spain (2010)
- Avalanche, CPG Dortmund, Germany (2010)
Group
- Projekt Hartmut, Essen, Germany (2006)
- 247 Group Exhibition, Tableu Bochum, Germany (2007)
- Pottporus Festival Künstlerzeche Herne, Germany (2007)
- Uamo Art Festival Munich, Germany (2008)
- Systems and Patterns, Westbourne Studios London, England (2009)
- Trashismus, Museum of Sculptures Glaskasten Marl, Germany (2009)
- A cause for Celebration, Untitled Gallery Barcelona, Spain (2009)
- Stoke 01 Urban Art Fair, Munich, Germany (2009
- Boheme Precaire, Dormund, Germany (2009)
- Drap Art, CCCB Barcelona, Spain (2009)
- Concrete Playground / Essen, Germany (2010)
- Zukunft und Zerfall / Gengenbach, Germany (2010)
- Stroke 2.0 / München, Germany (2010)
- Outdoor and Outside / Recklinghausen, Germany (2010)
Upcoming exhibitions:
IBUG / Meerane, Germany (August 2010)
Your new home / Edinburgh Arts Center /Edinburgh, Scotland (27th August 2010)
Open Art Munich / Munich, Germany (September 2010)
Competitions and Prices
Swatch Mtv Playground Competition " Imagine time in the future":
1st Price Students
Publications:
IdN Book "the new twenties", USA
Rojo Magazine, Spain
Wad Magazine, France
Letsmotiv Magazine. France, Belgium
Shortlist Magazine, Uk
360 Design, China
Some blogs talking about my stuff:
Kanye Wests Blog
territoiredessens
Netdiver
Artmilk
Ambushu
Sneakhype
Montana Cans
Postfamily
Clear Mag
Graffart
Trends now
Brurel
Trendy girl
Good2be
A nice text found in the web:
German artist Clemens Behr uses the simplest materials to create complex ephemeral architectures, which fill gallery spaces with origami-like structures. Working with recycled materials and basic geometric forms, Behr dreams up installations that result in subtle confusions between 2D painting and 3D objects. Not content with the confines of gallery spaces, Behr has taken his work into the public sphere, building peculiar appendages in metro cars and erecting detailed miniature cities on street corners. At their best, his installations are feats of optical trickery, disorienting architectures reminiscent of German expressionist film sets. At their worst, they look like a creative kid ran amok with a bunch of moving boxes and a vat of paint. Behr belongs to a crop of artists, who take inspiration from childlike forms of expression, a naive, innocent aesthetic befitting a generation of Peter Pans...