Paul Czerlitzki

Born in 1986 in Danzig, Pologne
Lives & works in Düsseldorf and Paris

Education

2013
Cité des Arts, Paris

2011
Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes

2009
Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Prof. Katharina Grosse

Group shows

2013
'Die (Un)beobachtbarkeit der Welt', Hans Peter Zimmer-Stiftung, Düsseldorf
'No time to paint', annex14, Zürich (zusammen mit Pavel Büchler).

2012
Rundgang der Staatlichen Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
Junge Positionen ? Städtische Galerie Villa Zander
annex14, Bern (zusammen mit Irene Schubiger), Kunstwerke Köln

2011
Schwerebeschleunigung Düsseldorf/Gerresheim
Paul Czerlitzki vs. Benedikt Gahl/Veit Kowald ? Gesellschaft für Streitorientierte Kulturforschung
Paul Czerlitzki vs. Jan Stieding - Gesellschaft für Streitorientierte Kulturforschung
Rundgang der Staatlichen Kunstakademie Düssedorf
Yourspace ? Zu Gast im Kunstverein Leverkusen:Kenneth Bergfeld und Paul Czerlitzki

« Czerlitzki focuses on painting and its physical components. He disassembles painting into its material and ideal elements, twisting and turning it in both the concrete and the metaphorical sense, and thereby revealing ever new and surprising views of the medium.
«I believe that, at worst, painting is merely a word the appearance of which is just incidentally circumscribed in images» says Czerlitzki.
The artist has therefore selected a methodological process with which he can repeatedly renegotiate, discover and critically examine painting?s material preconditions, i.e., the frame, the canvas and paint, and the objective, namely, to produce a (panel) painting. He dismantles existing orders by using the canvas as a membrane through which to apply or press colours. He also positions the canvas in relation to the space, as in an installation, or else removes it from the frame and mounts it again slightly off.
Although the artistic gestures often seem surprisingly simple or obvious, they have a complex intellectual and visual potential and enable the viewers, indeed almost force them, to perceive the works in a decelerated and differentiated way.»

Suzanne Friedli et Elisabeth Gerber