Gert & Uwe Tobias

The twins Gert & Uwe Tobias work with a broad variety of media including woodcut prints, typewriter drawings, watercolors, gouaches and ceramics. Their artistic practice is mainly influenced by their Romanian heritage and the local myths, costumes, handcrafts and vernacular motifs associated with this area. The Tobias brothers combine these biographic elements with motifs from popular culture, abstract art and contemporary graphic design. The result is a diverse, yet highly personalized oeuvre that fluctuates between archaic cultural mythology and contemporary visual culture.

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BIOGRAPHY

Born in 1973 in Kronstadt, Brasov, Romania

Live and work in Cologne, Germany

EDUCATION

1998-2002

Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Braunschweig (Prof. Walter Dahn)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022

Not a Drop Left, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany

2021

Concordia discors, museum MARe Bucharest, Romania

2020

rodolphe janssen, Brussels, Belgium

All Your Secrets, Cassina Projects, Milan, Italy

2019

Black Wind Blowing, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany

ladder without tree, Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium

Enough Room To Swing A Cat, Nils Stærk, Copenhagen, Denmark

2018

Not enough room to swing a cat, Contemporary Fine Arts Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Auf, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Recklinghausen, Germany

Ben Brown Fine Arts, Hong Kong, China

2017

rodolphe janssen, Brussels, Belgium

2016

Gert & Uwe Tobias, Collagen, Sprengel Museum Hannover, Hannover, Germany

Grisaille, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany

Gert & Uwe Tobias, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany

Drawings and Sculptures, Team Gallery, New York, NY USA

2015

Gert & Uwe Tobias, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany

2014

Gert & Uwe Tobias, Maureen Paley, London, UK

Gert & Uwe Tobias, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium

Gert & Uwe Tobias, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium

2013

Gert & Uwe Tobias, Kunstmuseum Ravensburg, Ravensburg, Germany

Untitled ‘13, Team Gallery, New York, NY USA

Gert & Uwe Tobias, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK

Gert & Uwe Tobias, The Gallery at Windsor, Miami, FL, USA

2012

FRAC Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France

Der Kunstverein, seit 1817. , Hamburg, Germany

Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium

Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden Kupferstich-Kabinett, Dresden, Germany

2011

Kunstsaele Berlin, Germany

Jorg Grimm, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Maureen Paley, London, UK

Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany

Gemeentemuseum, Den Haage, The Netherlands

2010

Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany

Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK

Team Gallery, New York, NY USA

Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany

2009

Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany

Franz Gertsch Museum, Hannover, Germany

Burgdorf Kunsthalle Wien, Burgdorf, Germany

Projectspace, Wien, Germany

Die Mappe, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium

Griffelkunstvereinigung Hamburg St Pauli, Hamburg, Germany

Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy

la conservera, Ceuti/Murcia, Spain

The Breeder, Athens, Greece

2008

Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Team Gallery, New York, NY USA

2007

Projects 86, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY USA

Utstillingsplakater, Bergen kunsthall,gallery No. 5, Bergen-Norway

If you build it, they will come, Brukenthal Museum, Sibiu – Romania

Wohin der Hase läuft, Galerie Michael Janssen, Berlin, Germany

Nichts brennt an, nichts kocht über, Kunstverein Heilbronn, Heilbronn, Germany

Die Hora nimmt kein Ende, Sprüth Magers Projekte, Munich, Germany

2006

N.S.,K.A.,C.G.,O.R.,F.Y. Galerie Michael Janssen, Cologne, Germany

The Happy Lion, Los Angeles, CA USA

Hammer Projects, UCLA Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA USA

Welcome, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium

2005

Roswitha meets Dionysos, The Breeder, Athens, Greece

Servus, Galerie Eva Winkeler, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Peter Mertes Stipendium 2004 (with Robert Elfgen), Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany

2004

Come and see before the tourists will do - The mystery of Transylvania, Galerie Michael Janssen, Cologne, Germany

In eigener Sache – oder noch etwas Kaffee noch etwas Milch, Kunstgruppe e.V., Cologne, Germany

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022

Sisters & Brothers, Kunsthalle Tübingen, Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Contemporary Art Foundation Drawing Prize 2022, Daniel et Florence Guerlain Art Foundation at Drawing Now Art Fair, Paris, France

Strange Attractors, The Anthology of Interplanetary Folk Art, Vol. 3: Lost In Space, Apalazzo Gallery, Brescia, Italy

2020

Nur Nichts Anbrennen Lassen. New presentation of the collection, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany

2019

Rehang: Archives, Collezzione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy

2018

Daniel Guzmán, Michael Kvium, Gert & Uwe Tobias, Nils Stærk, Copenhagen, Denmark

2017

birds, cigarettes, guitars, eyes and trees, rodolphe janssen, Brussels, Belgium

Wahnsinn, Kunstgruppe, Cologne, Germany

Karin Sander: ZEIGEN. An audio tour through the collection of the GfZK Leipzig, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany

Ton Scherben Steine, Thomas Rehbein Galerie, Cologne, Germany

Elective Affinities, Arsenals Exhibition Hall of the Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga

2016

Made in Oven, rodolphe janssen, Brussels, Belgium

The Snoring Princess, Kunstgruppe, Cologne, Germany

collection with lose ends, Kunst aus NRW, Aachen, Germany

2015

Les Mondes Inversés, BPS22, Charleroi, Belgium

”Give a man a mask and he will tell you the truth” Oscar Wilde, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium

2013

Ruhe-Störung, Streifzüge durch die Welten der Collage, Museum MARTa Herford, Herford, Germany

Back to Earth, Herbert Gerisch-Stiftung, Neumünster, Germany

My kind of Disneyland, Märkisches Museum Witten, Witten, Germany

NUR HIER, Sammlung zeitgenössischer Kunst der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Andratx on Paper, Centro Cultural Andratx, Andratx / Mallorca, Spain

17 / 13, Kunstgruppe Kunstverein Köln, Cologne, Germany

Rien faire et laisser rire, curated by Bob Nickas, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium

Neue Editionen, Galerie Sabine Knust, Munich, Germany

Donation Florence et Daniel Guerlain, Centre Pompidou Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris, France

2012

Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Summer Project, Villa Knokke, Knokke Heist, Belgium

Print/Out, MoMA, New York, NY USA

Printin', MoMA, New York, NY USA

2011

Zaaien en Wieden, Cobra Museum, Amstelveen, The Netherlands

DEAD_Lines - Der Tod in Kunst - Medien – Alltag, Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal, Germany

DEAD_Lines - Der Tod in Kunst - Medien – Alltag, Galerie der Stadt Remscheid, Remscheid, Germany

Gesamtkunstwerk: New Art From Germany, The Saatchi Gallery, London, UK

Too Much, Kunstgruppe Kunstverein Köln, Germany

2010

Looking Back / The Fifth White Columns Annual, White Columns, New York, NY USA

Neues Rheinland, Die postironische Generation, Museum Schloß Morsbroich, Germany

Hareng Saur: Ensor and Contemporary Art, SMAK, Gent, Belgium

Collection Florence & Daniel Guerlain, dessins contemporains, Musée des Beaux-Arts et dÁrchéologie de Besançon, France

Säen und Jäten, Städtische Galerie Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany

Schnittstelle Druck, Galerie der Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst / Museum der bildenden KünsteLeipzig (HGB), Leipzig, Germany

Kunsthalle Athena, The Bar, Athens, Greece

Permanent Trouble - Aktuelle Kunst aus der Sammlung Kopp München KOG, Kunstforum Ostdeutsche, Galerie, Regensburg, Germany

Säen und Jäten, Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany

2009

Säen und Jäten, Städtische Galerie Ravensburg, Ravensburg, Germany

State of Mind, Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli, Turin, Italy

Dead_Lines. Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany

Germania, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK

2008

Wunderkammer, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY USA

50 Moons of Saturn, T2 – Triennale d’Arte Contemporanea, Torino, Italy

In Holz geschnitten: Werke von Edvard Munch bis heute, Kunsthalle Emden, Emden, Germany

Abstrakt, Museum Moderner Kunst Kärnten MMKK, Klagenfurt, Austria

I bought the Brooklyn Bridge. Zehn Jahre Erwerbungen der Graphischen Gesellschaft zu Berlin, Kulturforum Potsdamer Platz, Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin, Germany

2007

Idylle. Traum und Trugschluss, Galerie der Stadt Remscheid, Remscheid, Germany

Sublime: Experiences and Perceptions in Contemporary Sculpture, Pilar Parra & Romeo, Madrid, Spain

Ceramics, Gladstone Galllery, New York, NY USA

Made in Germany. Aktuelle Kunst aus Deutschland, Kestnergesellschaft, Sprengel Museum und Kunstverein, Hannover, Germany

50° 06’ 36, 40’ N; 8° 40’ 42, 24’ O. (with Jürgen Krause) ,Galerie Eva Winkeler, Frankfurt a. M., Germany

Blood Meridian (curated by David Hunt), Galerie Michael Janssen, Berlin, Germany

Return to Form (with Thomas Kiesewetter, Tal R, Thomas Scheibitz), Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad, Switzerland

2006

MASH* (curated by David Hunt), Cottelston Advisor/Michael Sellinger, Miami, FL USA

Tauschgeschäft, Galerie Eva Winkeler, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Idylle, Traum und Trugschluss. Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg, Germany

Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, (with George Condo, Wim Delvoye, Kendell Geers, Mrzyk & Morceau and Thomas Palme), Brussels, Belgium

I love my country but I think we should start seeing other people (with Dr. Lakra, Julio Morales, Djordje Ozbolt, Muhammad Imran Qureshi), Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, CA USA

Boisterous! Andersen-S Contemporary Art, Kopenhagen, Denmark

Motion on Paper, Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, UK

The Monty Hall Problem (curated by Slater Bradley) Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA USA

Loveless (with David Ratcliff, Lane Twitchell), Team Gallery, New York, NY USA

2005

10 Years! Galerie Michael Janssen, Cologne, Germany

Künstlerbrüder – von den Dürers zu den Duchamps (curated by Dr. León Krempel), Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany

7 (with Thea Djordjadze, Robert Elfgen, Daniel Man, Gerda Scheepers, Martin Wöhrl), Sprüth Magers Lee, London, UK

dead/undead, Galerie Six Friedrich & Lisa Ungar, Munich, Germany

La Beauté de l’Enfer, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium

Skulls. Images in the Face of Death, Schönewald Fine Arts, Xanten, Belgium

Der Kunst ihre Räume, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany

Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium

2004

Werke, die wir schon lange (wieder) einmal sehen wollten, Elisabeth Kaufmann Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland

2003

Nur vom Feinsten, Galerie der HBK Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany

Foreplay, Ritter/Zamet, London, UK

Identität schreiben, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany

Bis ans Ende der Welt, Kunstverein Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany

Malerei II Ausstellung Nulldrei, Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne, Germany

2002

X-Wohnungen, Theater der Welt, Duisburg, Germany

2001

Neue Besen kehren gut, Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany

Enter, Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart, Germany

Heimaten, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany

Germania, Palazzo delle Papesse Centro Arte Contemporanea, Sienna, Italy

AWARDS

2007

Cologne Fine Art Preis, Bundesverband deutscher Galerie und Editionen, Germany

HAP-Grieshaber-Preis der VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn Kunstpreis, Germany

Deutscher Kunstverleger e.V., Frankfurt a. M, Germany

2004

Peter Mertes Stipendium, Bonn, Germany

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

MoMa, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY USA

UCLA, Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA USA

Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany

FRAC Auvergne, Clermont Ferrand, France

Kupferstich-Kabinett Dresden, Dresden, Germany

Kupferstichkabinett Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Sammlung Goetz, München, Germany