Tjorg Douglas Beer: PRINCESS UTOPIA

In Produzentengalerie Hamburg's new Berlin location (ph-projects), Beer shows new work. On the balcony of the yard building, an outside sculpture; inside, an installation made from ceramics, paintings and collages.

In his installations Beer mixes ceramics cast from sick/pale looking children, shop window puppets that he paints and combines with contemporary materials like clothes and weapons, e.g. pilot jackets, flags or machine guns. They are representatives of a stagnated youth movement and utopic way of thinking. Additionally, Beer shows large sized new works on fabric—combinations of painting and collage.

Tjorg Douglas Beer was born 1973 in Lübeck and raised in Hamburg. He studied in Hamburg at Hochschule für Bildende Künste. Since then his work has been shown internationally in museums and galleries e.g. at Kunstverein Hamburg, Weserburg, Museum für Moderne Kunst Bremen, Kunsthalle Wien, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, Tate Modern, London, X-Initiative, New York, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo. Beer has had solo exhibitions e.g. at Kunsthaus Hamburg, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Stadsgalerij Heerlen, Contemporary Art Institute Sapporo, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York. Besides his own artistic work he has appeared initiator of projects like GALERIE IM REGIERUNGSVIERTEL BERLIN, THE FORGOTTEN BAR und AYRAN & YOGA - The 1st Berlin Kreuzberg Biennale 2010. His installations, sculptures, collages and paintings always refer to a specific situation. He generates different scenes and approaches topics without moralising them and associates himself with topics such as war, politic s, poverty, social problems.

By exaggerating, Beer creates a distance between the viewer and the object. This war, fragility, poverty do not appear as shocks—they meander in an often grotesque mix of cartoon, graffiti, and mise-en-scène through the white cube.

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Tjorg Douglas Beer