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Madeleine Boschan (born 1979) is a German artist.

Biography

Madeleine Boschan studied at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig from 2000 to 2006, where she was taught by John Armleder.

Since 2010 she has participated in numerous institutional exhibitions throughout Europe and North America focusing on: artistic strategies dealing with preconditioned role-models and relationships of people and architecture, as well as new tendencies of Abstract art, contemporary art from Berlin or Germany, and the interdisciplinary impact of the cabinet of curiosities on contemporary thinking, science and exhibition practice.

She lives and works in Berlin, Germany.

Practice

Starting in 2008, Madeleine Boschan built her sculptures from found material. These first objets trouvés were modified, reassembled and brought into relation with each other by colour interventions. The different components lost their common value of utilization. With their machine-like appearance these sculptures seem to suggest expedience, still, they inhere in a kind of defunctionalised dissociation – as do desolate and disused apparatus.

In 2013 and 2014, she revised and reconsidered her primary pictorial vocabulary: standing, reclining, towering, tilting, arching as well as expansion, contraction, colour, form, measure, and positioning. Furthermore, Madeleine Boschan has inseparably incorporated "Technicolor's" base colours (red, blue, green, yellow, magenta, cyan, + black and white) into her forms. Colour is, thus, not just appended or appliquéd to her sculptures; rather, the specific chromaticity, being an immediate part of the sculptural operation, originates its very own specific forms.

In the years following, a most elementary question, Roland Barthes' final enquiry constituted the basis of her practice: "How to live together?" As she herself stated: "The earlier sculptures were linear, for sure, intrinsic and averted, withdrawn from us. And after some years, I simply longed to make them more planar, to give them more surface, realign them towards the surrounding space and relate them closer to us. If you like as a broadside at the beholder. And honestly, to me they are still all the same. Not visually, of course, but they all pose the same existential question of spatial corporality, of how a body gains its own stand, finds its appropriate place and holds up this position."

After 2016, "pieces dwelling on the concept of 'spaces within space' and, at the same time, of passage or transition" emerge, "fictive and functionless artefacts" which "retain the utopian ideas that are contained in the architectural strategies she references": Brazilian Tropicália, Jorge Ben, Astrud Gilberto, and Oscar Niemeyer, or James Cameron's cinematic use of the L.A. River-bed, Blade Runner's electric billboards, the topic of a ruinous antiquity, and the pastel colours of 1980's Miami.

In 2018 and 2019, Madeleine Boschan boldly turned the negative void space of the open passages and walk-through situations of her previous portals into positive shapes or entities. The beholders are confronted with a new corporeality. Accordingly, the surrounding walls and spaces associate themselves with these planar objects, conveying both their given objecthood as well as their potential pictorialness.

Solo exhibitions (selected)

2022

Lying on stony ground the fragments, Kirche St. Getrud, Cologne
it´s just a kiss away, Galerie Bernd Kugler, Innsbruck, Austria

2019

In twilight these ridiculous and exquisite things descendingly move among the people, gently and imperishably, Sunday-S Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Tulips and chimneys, Galeria Maior, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
the enormous room, Galerie Bernd Kugler, Innsbruck, Austria

2017

BB 105/146, Galerie Lange und Pult, Zurich, Switzerland
What lays bare in me, Collectors Agenda, Vienna, Austria
Partance, Galerie Bernd Kugler, Innsbruck, Austria

2016

in which its gaze, bent merely on itself, upholds and gleams, Hezi Cohen Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

2015

Escapement (with Andy Hope 1930), Neue Galerie Gladbeck, Germany
Galerie Bernd Kugler, Innsbruck
what´s wrong with your eyes, Larry, Berlin, Germany

2014

Technicolor: a) Feld, b) Fläche, Marburger Kunstverein, Marburg, Germany
Capri, Vitamin, Reutlingen, Germany
Deal with ´em, Jagla, Köln, Germany

2013

Closed Space Stories, Hezi Cohen Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Don't you wonder sometimes 'bout sound and vision, Kunstverein Heppenheim, Heppenheim, Germany
Say a body. Where none. Say a place. Where none. For the body. To be in., Kunstverein Ulm, Ulm, Germany
Scope = immeasurable, Einraumhaus, Mannheim, Germany
Anwesenheit unerreichbarer Bezugspunkte, Galerie Bernd Kugler, Innsbruck, Austria

2012

An open Field, a Factory, a By-pass, Gloria, Berlin, Germany

2011

Kayfabe, Galerie Bernd Kugler, Innsbruck, Austria
RoidRage, Kwadrat, Berlin, Germany
Niteflix, Autocenter, Berlin, Germany

2010

Kalt, modern und teuer, Kwadrat, Berlin, Germany
Cosmic Camping, Appartement, Berlin, Germany

Group exhibitions

2020

31:women. (Exhibition after Marcel Duchamp, 1943)., Daimler Art Collection, Berlin, Berlin
Jubeljahr, Städtisches Museum Schloss Salder, Salzgitter Salzgitter
Intermezzo, Galerie Bernd Kugler, Innsbruck, Austria Innsbruck

2019

some trees, Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Comrades of time IV, Whatspace c/o Hardspace, Basel Basel
Avanti, Michael Horbach Stiftung, Cologne Cologne

2018

Junge Kunst / Junge Künstler, Skulpturenpark Heidelberg, Heidelberg
Light in / as image, Daimler Art Collection Stuttgart-Möhringen [de]

2017

Zehn Jahre Zürich, Galerie Lange + Pult, Zurich, Switzerland
Lob des Schattens (Italienischer Raum), Marc Strauss Gallery New York City, US
Modern sculpture, Galería Casado Santapau, Madrid, Spain
Artists´Books for Everything, Weserburg | Museum für Moderne Kunst, Bremen
Berlin-Klondyke, Umetnostna Galereija Maribor, Maribor, Slowenia
Three, two, one, Abbot Kinney, Venice, US
The Gift Collection, Galerie Bernd Kugler, Innsbruck, Austria

2016

Enea, Jona, Switzerland
Moby Dick Filets, Secession, Vienna, Austria
Welt am Rand, Kunsthaus Erfurt
bedsitter, Mirante, Vienna, Austria
Still Still Life, Galerie Bernd Kugler, Innsbruck, Austria

2015

Wo ist hier?# 2: Raum und Gegenwart, Kunstverein Reutlingen, Germany
Enea, Jona, Switzerland
18, Galerija Contra, Zagreb, Slovenia
Vanitas extended, Stedelijk Museum, Ypres, Belgium
Standard International – Post Spatial Devices No. II, Geisberg, Berlin, Germany
Berliner Edition, Salon Dahlmann, Berlin, Germany
Leipziger Edition, Kulturforum Altenkamp, Schloss Holte–Stukenbrock, Germany
Caritatis, Semperdepot, Vienna, Austria

2014

Luggage and observations, Galerie Klaus Gerrit Friese, Stuttgart, Germany
Psycho Killer, qu'est-ce que c'est?, Galerie Börgmann, Mönchengladbach, Germany
Present, Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien, Berlin, Germany

2013

Publications, Galerie Bernd Kugler, Innsbruck, Austria
Berlin Klondyke, Hipp Halle, Gmunden, Austria
Novecento mai visto. Highlights from the Daimler Art Collection. From Albers to Warhol to now, Museo di Santa Giulia, Brescia, Italy
The Legend of the Shelves, Autocenter, Berlin, Germany

2012

Accelerating toward Apocalypse (Private / Corporate VII), Daimler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
Gare de l'Est, Esslinger Kunstverein, Villa Merkel, Esslingen, Germany
En désordre, Philara – Sammlung zeitgenössischer Kunst, Düsseldorf, Germany
Berlin Klondyke, Neuer Pfaffenhofener Kunstverein, Pfaffenhofen, Germany
Gentle Giants II, Kwadrat, Berlin, Germany
Abstract confusion, Kunsthalle Erfurt, Erfurt, Germany
Status. Berlin (1), Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
Black Oriental, Galerie Bernd Kugler, Innsbruck, Austria
Eine Frau, ein Baum, eine Kuh, Museum für Konkrete Kunst Ingolstadt, Ingolstadt, Germany

2011

Based in Berlin, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany
Berlin Klondyke, Art Center, Los Angeles, U.S.
Synecdoche, Bourouina Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Abstract confusion, Kunstverein Ulm, Ulm, Germany

Private and public collections

  • Daimler Art Collection, Stuttgart, Germany
  • Philara – Sammlung zeitgenössischer Kunst, Düsseldorf, Germany
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