Within the Mülheimer Freiheit group, Gerard Kever is praised as the “wildest of the wild”. There is always something dark in his work; he fundamentally rejects content in the traditional sense. Kever’s search for intellectual friction led him to the New York film scene after training as an art glazier in 1971 and studying fine art. In the class of the Cologne filmmaker Robert van Ackeren (*1946) at the Cooper Union in New York, Kever found inspiration for his anarchic attitude of rejection.
Kever’s work includes painting, Super-8 films, graphics and literature. As part of the group’s activities, Kever’s works can be seen in numerous exhibitions, for example in 1982 at the Museum Folkwang in Essen. In 2003/2004, his works were shown in the collective exhibition “Obsessive Painting – A Review of the New Wild Ones” in Karlsruhe and in 2022 at the Center of Contemporary Art, Toruń/Poland in the retrospective “Mülheimer Freiheit – made in Cologne”.
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Galerie Michael Haas
Niebuhrstraße 5
10629 Berlin
Galerie Michael Haas
Niebuhrstraße 5
10629 Berlin
Kunst Lager Haas
Lise-Meitner-Straße 7-9
10589 Berlin
Kunst Lager Haas
Lise-Meitner-Straße 7-9
10589 Berlin
Phone: +49 (0) 30 88 92 91 0
Mail: contact@galeriemichaelhaas.de
Phone: +49 (0) 30 88 92 91 0
Mail: contact@galeriemichaelhaas.de
1971 Trained as an art glassesmith at the glass school in Rheinbach near Bonn
1976 Studied fine art/film at the Cologne Werkschulen. Postgraduate studies in free graphics and new media/video at the Cooper Union in New York
1979 Member of the artist group Mülheimer Freiheit
1994 Studies at the OSHO Mystic School of Visual Arts in the USA
2019 Book publication “The decoding of the Sistine Madonna”
2021 Book publication “Inside Mülheimer Freiheit: The wild painting of the 80s”
2024
Mülheimer Freiheit, Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin
2023
Mülheimer Freiheit. Made in Cologne, Ketterer Kunst, Cologne
2022
Painting Tumult. Mülheimer Freiheit – Made in Cologne, Centre of Contemporary Art, Toruń
2003
Obsessive Malerei. Ein Rückblick auf die Neuen Wilden, ZKM / Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe
1985
Adamski. Bömmels. Dahn. Dokoupil. Kever. Naschberger, Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin
1984
… von hier aus, Messehallen Düsseldorf
Sammlung Metzger. Zeitgenössische Malerei aus der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Kunsthalle Budapest/Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere/Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
1983
Mülheimer Freiheit – Proudly Presents the Second Bombing, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh; Institute of Contemporary Art, London
Supermix, Galerie Paul Maenz, Cologne
Expressionisten – Neue Wilde, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund
1982
Autos und Sex. Mülheimer Freiheit, Kunstverein Wolfsburg
Mülheimer Freiheit, Galerie Swart, Amsterdam
12 Künstler aus Deutschland, Kunsthalle Basel; Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam
10 junge Künstler aus Deutschland, Museum Folkwang, Essen
1981
Mülheimer Freiheit. Die Seefahrt und der Tod, Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven
Die heimliche Wahrheit – Mülheimer Freiheit, Kunstverein Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau
Der grüne Hühnerficker ist endlich traurig, Galerie Paul Maenz, Cologne
Bildwechsel. Neue Malerei aus Deutschland, Akademie der Künste, Berlin
Mülheimer Freiheit. Nieuwe Duitse Kunst, Groninger Museum, Groningen
1980
Mülheimer Freiheit & Interessante Bilder aus Deutschland, Galerie Paul Maenz, Cologne
Finger für Deutschland, Atelier von Jörg Immendorff, Düsseldorf