About

Volker Huller

Born in 1976 in Forchheim, Germany; Hüller now lives and works in Berlin, Germany and Brooklyn, NY. He graduated with diploma from The Academy of Fine Arts Hamburg (with Prof. Norbert Schwontkowski) after attending 2003-2008. Hüller is one of Germany’s rising stars - an artist of decorative beauty whose work is full of dark undercurrents. His work concentrates on portrait and landscape prints, made from a process of acid etching and hand application of faded watercolor and shellac. They look at once contemporary in their fragmented, mixed media surfaces and witty cultural references, and historically resonant in echoes of German expressionist uses of the medium. Hüller’s large-format collaged canvases and smaller handcolored etchings engulf the viewer in a world where shapes and meaning are fragmented and interconnected to present an eerily abstract sense of portraiture. The monochromatic patchwork and the washed out tones of geometric figuration articulate a strange tension with figuration created and sustained by the bstract patterned shards cutting through the visual ground. His works are included in prominent collections internationally, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York and The Saatchi Gallery, London, UK Recent solo exhibitions include: Grimm Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands and 11R, New York, NY (2016); White Hum, Loushy Art & Projects, Tel Aviv, Israel (2015); Timothy Taylor Gallery London, UK (2013); Ahnen, Grimm Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands and Arsen, Produzentengalerie, Hamburg, Germany (2012); Eleven Rivington, New York, NY (2011); and Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK (2010).