JIRI GEORG DOKOUPIL

About the artist

Selected works

Exhibitions

Catalogue

Jiří Georg Dokoupil

*1954 Bruntal/Czech Republic – lives in Berlin, Prague, Madrid and Rio de Janeiro

Dokoupil was co-founder of the Cologne artistic group “Mülheimer Freiheit” in 1979, whereby he would soon became the protagonist of the “Neue Wilde”. He has developed about 100 different techniques. As a result, a particularly broad and fascinating spectrum of artistic forms of expression has been created. He has constantly reinvented himself, experimented and worked towards perfection for as long as is needed to achieve complete mastery and singularity in the applied technique.

His participation in the documenta 7 in 1982 marked a breakthrough for him on an international level: since then he has participated in several international exhibitions such as the Venice Biennale (1987/1993) and renowned museums are still presenting his works in solo exhibitions. In 2012 he was awarded the Lovis Corinth prize.

Selected works

Reinhard Pods, Ohne Titel (will), 1981, Oil on canvas, 200 x 220.3 cm

Jiří Georg Dokoupil
Yellow Leopard

2018
soot and paint on canvas
105 x 140 cm

Reinhard Pods, Ohne Titel (will), 1981, Oil on canvas, 200 x 220.3 cm

Jiří Georg Dokoupil
Untitled

2013-2016
soapsuds and pigments on canvas
95 x 125 cm

Reinhard Pods, Ohne Titel (will), 1981, Oil on canvas, 200 x 220.3 cm

Jiří Georg Dokoupil
Jongleure

around 1991
soot on primed canvas
97 x 130 cm

Reinhard Pods, Ohne Titel (will), 1981, Oil on canvas, 200 x 220.3 cm

Jiří Georg Dokoupil
Untitled

2013-2016
soapsuds and pigments on canvas
200 x 145 cm

Exhibitions

16 January – 20 February 2020

Jiří Georg Dokoupil

Restarts

Jiří Georg Dokoupil  was born  1954 in the Czech Republic, which then still was Czechoslovakia. After the Russian invasion in 1968, he fled at the age of 14 with his family to Germany.

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Catalogue

Excerpt

“As well as the candle pictures that made him famous, Dokoupil has also garnered much attention with his soapsuds pictures. Here, too, he began experimenting early on and it took him quite some time and many attempts before he was able to confidently transform the technique into pictures.”

Erika Schlessinger-Költzsch

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