b 11. Januar, 1982 in Bistritz (Rumänien)
lebt und arbeitet in Düsseldorf
STUDIUM
2005
Studium an der Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
bei Prof. Dr. h. c. Markus Lüpertz und Prof. Thomas Grünfeld
2008
Meisterschüler Prof. Dr. h. c. Markus Lüpertz.
2014
Abschluss: Akademiebrief (Diplom) bei Prof. Thomas Grünfeld
PRIVATSAMMLUNGEN
2024 Sammlung Reinhard Ernst, Wiesbaden
2009 Sammlung Reinhold Würth
2024. Film Marlon Red: https://youtube.com/watch?v=BM_0c-iaB3c&si=L128Aq4NGCKXjV81
PUBLIKATIONEN
2024. PAPER IS PATIENT. Museum der Bildende Künste Leipzig, curated by Tim Cierpiszewski
2012 MULTILAYER VISION 20/20 @ SKK Soest- Katalog
2021. INTERVIEW und Podcast:
Atelierbesuche. com, der Kunstblog von Dr. Elke Backes.
AUF DER JAGD NACH DER UNENTDECKTEN FORM
Auch als Podcast (Link s. Infos am Ende des Beitrages). Auf Deutsch und English
AUSSTELLUNGEN. AWARDS. PERFORMANCES
2024
SOLARIS. by Marlon Red. Galerie Torsten Obrist + Basement, Essen
Film Marlon Red, by Andreas Clarysse
2023
Edition #2, Galerie r8m, Köln
Solid Sides HYBRID by Marlon Red. Performance. Galerie Obrist collab. mit Foryouandyourcustomers, Essen
CROSSOVER. Galerie Obrist in Kollaboration mit Foryouandyourcustomers und Jürgen Pass, Essen
INTO THE Void. HUMAN. By Marlon Red. Art Residency, Art Project (Video, Sound, Performance). Lapidarium Museum, Novigrad. Croatia
SOLID SIDES. Dialogue. By Marlon Red. Performance, Düsseldorf, @artartist
Paracelsus Project. By Marlon Red. Mixed Media, Space Installation, @artartist, Düsseldorf
2022
SOLID SIDES by Marlon Red. Collab . mit Thomas Huy. Performance, Kunstpalast Museum Düsseldorf
SAW Sofia Art Week – Varna Art Week 2022 @ Aether Space Sofia Bulgarien
SOLID SIDES. By Marlon Red. Performance Marlon Red, Teil der Ausstellung Wild Horses. Galerie r8m, Köln
WILD HORSES. Solo Show. Galerie r8m, Köln
…and what did you do last summer? Galerie Floss & Schultz
Digital Dreamer. Video, Sound Installation. Performance in Collaboration. Project Mayhem, Düssedlorf
Künstlerstipendium von Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen
Anita Kontrek Foundation, Zagreb, Kroatien. Kuratiert von Galerie r8m, Köln
SCHAU FENSTER SCHAU, Galerie r8m, Köln.
2021
Künstlerstipendium von Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen
DER HIMMEL IST GLEICH ÜBERALL. (Video-Soundinstallation-Performance) in Kollaboration mit Kunstx, Riad Nassar, Borussia Mönchengladbach. Rede Elke Backes.
MULTILAYER VISION 20/20. Künstlerhaus Schloss Plüschow. (kuratier von Dr. Historiker Juliane Rogge und Ivo Ringe)
2020.
Künstlerstipendium von Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen
MULTILAYER VISION. RAUM SCHROTH im Museum Wilhelm Morgner
WINTERREISE. SPRACHKÖRPER. Kunst+Tonic, Düsseldorf
Wild Wild East. AEther Space in Den Haag, Netherlands
Winter Salon. Ulf Larsson Gallery, Cologne
2018
Nuc Nucule Nuc. Performance Bastion Studio. Düsseldorf
StefA Stipendium und Förderung. Cluj-Napoca. Rumänien
Photoweekend Düsseldorf. Dimensions of Dialogue. Kollaboration mit dem Museum Fototeca de Cuba in Havanna.
Performance OCEANS 21. Open Space. Dortmund
Japanese. Performance Collection Kessler, Wuppertal.
Perfect Stranger. Performance. Open Space. Düsseldorf
2017
SURROGATE, Galerie Matthias Temme, „Kö meets ART“, Düsseldorf
CORPUS, Kunst-Galerie Matthias Temme“Kö meets ART“, Düsseldorf
What’s the Problem? Everything is fine! Performance mit Cristiana Negoescu, Konstantinos Angelos Gavrias, Düsseldorf. Open Space Reiner Kaltenbach
DIMENSIONS OF DIALOGUE. Performance mit Cristiana Negoescu, Düsseldorf. Open Space R. Kaltenbach
ENCOUNTERS. Performance mit Cristiana Negoescu, Galerie Matthias Temme. Düsseldorf
CORPUS. Performance mit Cristiana Negoescu, Galerie Matthias Temme.
DIE GROSSE Kunstausstellung NRW 2017- Museum Kunstpalast. Düsseldorf
2016
„If you wash up, I´ll dry up“, Galerie Roozbeh Golestani, Düsseldorf
DIE GROSSE Kunstausstellung NRW 2016- Museum Kunstpalast. Düsseldorf
2015
„LA SUITE – From the Collection“, Setareh Gallery, Düsseldorf
„IN BETWEEN“, Galerie Felix Ringel, Düsseldorf (E)
„Don’t ask Marlon Red what her paintings are about. Could they be abstracted retinal memory, like of the shimmering surfaces of the Bistritz river in a sunny day? Maybe. Or maybe it’s the Broadway Boogie Woogie of big city life in Düsseldorf? Possibly. Or rather, a diary of engaging with the history of modern art, since Hilma af Klint and the Albers to contemporary dance. It most likely is that, to some extent. But how about just random perceptions and feelings, maybe reveries and dream states? I am certainly reminded of writers who woke up from their dreams with an audio recorder next to their bed, to (barely coherently) document what they remembered. Well, probably a bit of all it doesn’t matter. Or rather, I think it matters, but in a different way. You’ll know she loves the music of Claude Debussy. It’s not just that she finds delectation in listening to it like you and me, but she engages with it as with a source material for her own process. He, well, just truly didn’t like hearing his music described as such reflections of things. Impressions. He hated it. Impressionism! He took offence at that classification… all while paradoxically titling his music so that it would set its audiences in the direction of notions of nature: afternoon, nocturne, moonlight, reflections in water… And called it „musique en plein air“. When in a good mood, he would play abstract piano improvisations to his guests to see if they could truly „feel“ the rain falling on forest leaves and then the movement of sea waves that he told them they are supposed to hear… only to later tell them it had been the same music for both. If there is to be value in concrete associations for abstract art, I think it has to reside in the process of remembrance rather than the memories themselves. As audiences, we should acknowledge the hints left by the artist, but then leave them behind. Like feeling the sound and texture of a place, and then having it disappear from our conscience. Feeling the volume and the quality of a space, and then letting it turn dark. A bit like the helpless theologians who would resort to defining divinity by patiently enumerating all the things it is not in the hope that this would circumscribe somehow its unspeakable, undefinable greatness and maybe even make it present. Similarly, I think, the imprints these concrete associations leave on us after they are gone is what makes the experience of abstract art. A composition of certain absences. Nobody put it better than Debussy himself: „Who knows the secret of musical composition? The sound of the sea, the curve of a horizon, the wind in the leaves, the cry of a bird leave in us multiple impressions. And, suddenly, one of these memories breaks away out of us and expresses itself in musical language. It carries within itself its own harmony. Whatever we try, we’ll never be able to find something more right or more sincere. […] I want to write down my musical dream with the most complete detachment from myself. I want to sing my inner landscape with the naïve innocence of a child.“1
Or, like his friend Mallarmé more succinctly put it: „la poésie sans les mots“2 (poetry without the words).
The metaphors of transgression of language and of cross-translation come off rather evidently in the materials one can revise about the emergence of modern art. The Renaissance vision was of disegno interno which meant the artists, scrutinizers and contemplaters of the Ideas (eternal forms) imprinted in him, used their inventio to translate them by the craft of their hand into concrete forms and recognizable representations. The moderns took the opposing path, starting from tangible cues on their linguistic 3 / mediumistic way to Reason or, respectively, to „whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.“4 The trouble, then, with the art of Marlon Red is that it refrains from either pointing you where to start at and also from suggesting where you could possibly arrive with it. It is up to you to anchor her rectangular patterns to a forest you remember as a child, or the misty darkness of her most recent
series of graphic works to a certain dream you once had. It is up to you to assign the ultimate signification of some paintings or installations as being about the beauty of abstract forms or maybe a disguised political manifesto on the liberation of the bodily self. Or even to reject these all. She will not approve or disprove of any of the ways you will approach her work. A language with neither
a written vocabulary nor a set of semantic rules feels like a pure game, but then, a game can be the most serious of things Claude Debussy certainly thought so. By projecting it onto her own body and performing it, the game of abstraction as a form of translation of the indefinables comes to life, vibrant or eerie like an electronic soundscape or a piano rêverie. If writing about music is,
proverbially, like dancing about architecture, then that’s exactly what Marlon Red, too, is doing. A most worthwhile of endeavours if you ask me.“
Alexandru MIRCEA
September 22, 2022, Paris.
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1 Conversation with Henri Malherbe, published 1911.
2 „Plaisir sacré“, published 1897.
3 „Transcoding“ was the word used by composer Gérard Pesson in an 1988 text on Mahler and Debussy.
4 The famous philosopher who wrote this shall remain uncredited.
„Meine Arbeit mit dem „Spezifischen Objekten“ gelingt es mir durch Einschnitte und Streifen, Raum in das Bild zu bringen, durch Multiplikation kam die dritte Dimension ins Spiel.
Ich will Kunstwerke, die die Bewegung des Betrachters im Raum und die räumliche Wirkung von Objekten kombinieren.
Ebenso wichtig für die Entwicklung der Rauminstallationen sind für mich die Performances, die die Rolle des Betrachters in der Kunst verändern, sowie eine neue Sichtweise des Raumes als gesellschaftspolitischer Gestaltungsraum, der nicht von den Menschen getrennt werden kann (Soziale Skulptur, Situationismus), sind Teil meines Kunstlerischen Prozesses.
In der zeitgenössischen Rauminstallation leben die Grundideen der Minimal Art und Concrete Art die Verschmelzung von Kunst und Alltag, Manipulation des Betrachters und Reduktion der Formen, neu interpretiert und in andere Zusammenhänge gesetzt, weiter.
Rauminstallationen sind für mich raumgreifende Installationen, in denen die Materialien in einem bestimmten Beziehungsgefüge zueinander angeordnet sind. Räume können dabei mit speziellem Licht ausgeleuchtet sein (Licht-Raum-Installation) oder aber mit Klängen bzw. mit Licht und Klang kombiniert sein, aber auch durch Bewegung des Körpers ( Body in Motion) neu definierbar seien können.“
Marlon Red