Niels Sievers
Niels Sievers´ subjects convey a proclivity for romantic and distant absentmindedness, which never completely loses itself in morbidity, but which is exaggerated and counteracted through a sometimes naïve, sometimes violent handling of paint. The focus of his works lies on nature.
In his pictures, he especially creates snapshots of an overwhelming, seemingly menacing atmosphere that is dominated by darkness and punctuated with glaringly incident rays of light. Abandoned snow houses built on unsteady ground, clumps of trees threatened with collapse, gloomy seascapes and the swift ride over deserted streets - all of these aspects belong to Sievers´ steadily recurring inventory that encrypts a foray in uncontrollable places, an oscillation between one?s own human vulnerability and juvenile recklessness. (Sabine Gottfried)
born in Niebüll
Düsseldorf Arts Academy, Immendorff class, master pupil
travel grant of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Kunstverein Düsseldorf
Lives and works in Berlin.
"sonntags malen wir nicht", Kunstverein Hilden
"Malerei", Goethe Institute Düsseldorf
"Elektopopclub", Galerie Kronika, PL
"Back in Black", acapulco Düsseldorf
"Von Pferden und Affen - Klasse Immendorff", Museum Ludwig Koblenz
"Boys Don´t Cry", DUVE Berlin
"Unmodern Normalism", Goethe Institute Rotterdam
"Dipmaster 2", Galerie Stephanie Bender, München
"Spiegelbild", KIT, Düsseldorf
IMPULSE 21, IMPULSE GALERIE Christian Löhrl
"4falt", Kunstverein Niebüll