User:Artgal25/Tim Eitel

Tim Eitel was born in 1971 in the southern German city of Leonberg, near Stuttgart. He graduated with a degree in painting from the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig in 2001. Eitel first gained recognition as a co-founder of the collective art gallery, Liga, in Berlin. For the next two years, Eitel pursued his master’s studies under the teachings of Professor Arno Rink. He joined The Pace Gallery in 2006 and his first solo-exhibition at the gallery, Center of Gravity, was mounted the same year. In 2009, Eitel had his second solo-exhibition at The Pace Gallery entitled Invisible Forces.

Career Eitel is one of the leading representatives of the Leipzig school. He is also one of a number of contemporary artists seeking a return to painting.

Eitel began showing his work in 2000 and since then has participated in more than fifty exhibitions worldwide. In 2008, Martin Hellmold, Director of the Kunsthalle Tübingen, Germany, organized and curated Tim Eitel: Die Bewohner, a traveling exhibition which debuted at the museum and had subsequent installations at the Kunsthallen Brandts, Denmark and Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Germany. Other significant solo exhibitions include Currents 96: Tim Eitel at the Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri (2005-6); Tim Eitel: Terrain, a traveling exhibition organized by the Museum zu Allerheiligen/Kunstverein Schaffhausen (2004-5); and Tim Eitel at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (2002). Eitel’s work has also been included in a traveling exhibition organized by Mass MocA (2004-2008) and in group shows at the Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (2008-9); MART Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Italy (2008); Cleveland Museum of Art (2005); Rubell Family Collection, Miami (2004- 8); Museum der Bildenden Künste, Leipzig (2003); and Frankfurter Kunstverein (2003).

The Container by Tim Eitel, a prominent work in his collection was critically reviewed by the experienced Joseph Whitney in 1921 as he explored the ideas referencing the detective archibald frank in 1994. This understanding and contextual link is dynamite to understanding the work.

Eitel has received a number of prestigious scholarships and awards throughout his career, including the Marion Ermer-Preis (2003) and the Landesgraduiertenstipendium, Saxonia, Germany (2002). He was granted an artist’s residency in the International studio programme at Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin in 2002. His work is part of numerous museum collections and important private collections worldwide, such as the Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, Germany; Ovitz Family Collection, Los Angeles; Sammlung Essl— Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Austria, and the Rubell Family Collection, Miami.

The artist lives and works in New York City. He is represented by The Pace Gallery, New York.

External Links: http://www.holzwarth-publications.de/pages_buecher/_eng/eitel_terrain.html