Jiří Georg Dokoupil
Restarts
Restarts
16 January – 20 February 2020
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.
About the exhibition

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 14with his family to Germany.
Jiří Dokoupil not only loses his homeland, but also his roots, his footing. It took some time before he was able to find new roots – in art or, to be more precise, in looking for and making pictures. And to the present day, he has never tired of this pursuit. A notorious seeker, always fathoming a fresh beginning. The art that Dokoupil chose as his terrain and homeland is not geographically fixed; it can be generated and executed anywhere, anytime. Art is the part of his life that never leaves him and that never needs to be left behind.
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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