After his studies at the Städelschule in Frankfurt, Gerhard Naschberger went to New York to attend Hans Haacke’s class at the Cooper Union. Here he continued his education in art history and theory, plunged into the bubbling New York art scene, and became intensively involved with the ubiquitous conceptual art.
Naschberger belongs to a generation of artists who, at the beginning of the 1980s, are driving an exciting awakening of the visual arts in Germany. The general disillusionment that followed the progressive postwar years gave way to a fresh interest in painting. In fixed groups and loose groupings, the young generation of painters discusses, experiments and works.
After returning to Germany, Naschberger moves to Cologne and joins the Mülheimer Freiheit. Here he begins to paint conceptually. After the dissolution of the group in 1982, he continues to work in Cologne until he finally moves to the USA at the end of the 80s. Naschberger experimented with different styles, always dictated by the content, which he continually reinvented. His work is characterized by the use of proven, symbolic motifs from popular culture.
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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
1973-1978 Studied at the Städelschule in Frankfurt with Thomas Bayrle and Raimer Jochims
1978 Studied at the Cooper Union, New York with Hans Haacke
1979 Moved to Cologne and joined the loose artist group Mülheimer Freiheit
1989 Moved to New York
2023
Gerhard Naschberger, Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin
2015
In Memoriam, Galerie Brigitte Schenk, Cologne
2005
Gerhard Naschberger. Paintings 1989, Galerie Brigitte Schenk, Cologne
1993
L.O.K. Gallery, New York
1987
Gerhard Naschberger, Galería Miguel Marcos, Madrid
1985
Gerhard Naschberger, Galería Leyendecker, Santa Cruz de Tenerife
1984
Gerhard Naschberger, Vereinigung voor het museum van hedendaagse kunst te Gent [today Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (S.M.A.K.)], Gent
1983
Gerhard Naschberger, Galerie Heinz Holtmann, Cologne
Galerie Jurka, Amsterdam
2024
Mülheimer Freiheit, Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin
2023
Mülheimer Freiheit. Made in Cologne. Adamski Bömmels Dahn Dokoupil Kever Naschberger, Ketterer Kunst, Cologne
Painting Tumult 1979-1984. Mülheimer Freiheit – Made in Cologne, Tumult Foundation, Centre of Contemporary Art, Toruń
2016
Die neuen Wilden. German Neo-expressionism from the 1980’s, Groninger Museum, Groningen
2015
Die 80er. Figurative Malerei in der BRD, Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main
2010
Consider the Oyster, James Graham & Sons, New York
The 80s Revisited. 1 – Sammlung Christina und Bruno Bischofberger, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld
2003
hot needle (graphic works of the 1980s), Prague City Gallery, Prag, 21.10.2005 – 8.1.2006
Obsessive Malerei. Rückblick auf die Neuen Wilden, Museum für Neue Kunst, ZKM Karlsruhe
1987
Mülheimer Freiheit Group, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee
1985
Primer Salon Irrealista, Galería Leyendecker, Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Adamski. Bömmels. Dahn. Dokoupil. Kever. Naschberger, Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin
1984-1985
Sammlung Metzger. Zeitgenössische Malerei aus der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Kunsthalle Budapest / Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere / Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
1983-1984
Mülheimer Freiheit Proudly Presents the Second Bombing, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh / Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
1983
Neue Bilder, Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin
Rest Risiko. Marlene Dumas, Floor van Keulen, Arno van der Mark, Gerhard Naschberger,
Dieter Teusch, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht
Expressionisten – Neue Wilde, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund
1982
La Giovane pittura in Germania = Die junge Malerei aus Deutschland, Galleria de Arte Moderna, Bologna
Tendenzen 82, Ulmer Museum, Ulm
Neue Malerei aus Italien, USA und Westdeutschland, Galerie Ariadne & Thomas Netusil Kunsthandel, Vienna
10 junge Künstler aus Deutschland, Museum Folkwang, Essen
12 Künstler aus Deutschland, Kunsthalle Basel / Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Mülheimer Freiheit, Galerie Swart, Amsterdam
Autos und Sex. Mülheimer Freiheit, Kunstverein Wolfsburg
Die neue Künstlergruppe. Die wilde Malerei, Im Klapperhof 33, Cologne
1981
Nieuwe Duitse Kunst 1. Mülheimer Freiheit, Groninger Museum, Groningen
Mülheimer Freiheit. Die Seefahrt und der Tod, Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven
Der grüne Hühnerficker ist endlich traurig, Galerie Paul Maenz, Cologne
Bildwechsel. Neue Malerei aus Deutschland, Akademie der Künste, West-Berlin
Die heimliche Wahrheit. Mülheimer Freiheit in Freiburg, Kunstverein Freiburg
1980
Finger für Deutschland, Atelier Jörg Immendorff, Düsseldorf
Mülheimer Freiheit & Interessante Bilder aus Deutschland, Galerie Paul Maenz, Cologne