(Photography: Ruppenentwien)
CONTACT:
Galerie Michael Heufelder, Munich
CV
ENA OPPENHEIMER
born in Waiblingen (DE) based in Munich (DE)
1992 Philosophy at Rupprecht-Karls Universität Heidelberg
1993 - 1999 State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart/ Germany
My artistic effort is the cutting point between art and science. With my conceptional work and paintings I try to fathom the frontiers of human perception to find out what lies in this moment when human cognition touches the invisible surrounding world.
I am interested in the areas that humans know from science but which cannot be reached through sensation. For example, cosmologists assume that 85% of all matter is invisible and cannot be experienced by humans. They call this „Dark Matter“ and recently also „The Invisible“.
The awareness that humans customarily only experience reality by sensory perception and the question how this conception of reality could be moved forward, were the considerations I worked with in my latest projects.
EXHIBITIONS
2021
SCHRÖDINGERS KATZE LEBT (solo)
GOLDBERGGALERIE / Munich
Galerie Michael Heufelder, Munich (19.03. - 17.04.2021)
2020
Galerie G O M, Munich (07.08.- 26 09. 2020)
ALEXANDER DEUBL / RUPPRECHT GEIGER / SIMONE OPDAHL / ENA OPPENHEIMER
10. Juli - 14. August 2020
Galerie Michael Heufelder, Munich
Tägliche Variationen (group show)
07 Februar – 31. August 2020 – after corona prolongued
SPHERES – Neue Arbeiten auf Papier (solo)
Gesellschaft für Gegenwartskunst Augsburg
2019
small is beautiful (group show)
Angelika Bartholl, Aram Bartholl, Joseph Beuys, Imi Knoebel, Christoph Schlingensief, Johannes Stüttgen, Ena Oppenheimer, Blinky Palermo
KUNSTRAUMBOGENHAUSEN, Munich
DARK SIDE (group show)
radical space, Munich
Pfeifer & Kreutzer / Philipp Messner / Ena Oppenheimer
NIGHT OF COLORS (group show)
VogelARTedition Showroom Munich
"HOMEOSTASIS", HEIT BERLIN
Carsten Becker, Ekaterina Burlyga, Luks Glinkowsky, Marianna Ignataki, Simon Mullan, Sonja Ofen, Ena Oppenheimer, Marco Schmitt
2018
CHANGE OF STATE (solo)
STEFAN VOGDT / Galerie der Moderne, München
ECLIPSE. Paintings made for Darkness
Cooperation with Lighting designer Tobias Reischle (Ingo Maurer)
Lichtwoche München, LIVALIKE
DARK MATTER – THE INVISIBLE (2018 - 2019)
Public Art Project on Billboards, Munich
VogelARTedition (group exhibition)
2017
Sammlung RADIKAL, München, (group exhibition)
ENTROPICAL ISLAND Kulturwerkstatt Haus 10, Fürstenfeldbruck, group exhibition
Galerie Orange, Tegernsee (solo)
One Year vogelARTedition (group exhibition)
2016
JELLY IN OUR HANDS Köşk München, mit Hannah Mitterwallner und Lukas Hoffmann
MACHINES DÉSIRANTES (solo)
Üblacker-Häusl Kulturelle Einrichtung des Kulturreferates der
Landeshauptstadt München
2015
IS TRANSFORMATION EVIDENCE OF LIFE? Färberei München, (solo)
CRAZYLAND II in der ersten reihe, Klenzestraße München, (solo)
KONTRASTMITTE I Köşk, München mit Michael Rösch und Jörg Loose
GLANZ + GLORIA Galerie der Künstler München (group exhibition)
2014
LEHEL BACKYARDS München, (group exhibition)
2013
RÖSCHKANTEENA: VEGETARIANS ATE MY BABIES
Sammlung RADIKAL, München, Gruppenausstellung
2012
40 JAHRE SAP, SAP Walldorf, (group exhibition)
CRAZYLAND Galerie Artikel 3 München, Einzelausstellung
PART OF THE COLLECTION OF THE EUROPEAN PATENT OFFICE (EPO)
FOCUS 04/2021
Text: Gabi Czöppan / Foto: RUPENENTWIEN
»Homeostasis«, 2019 Heit Berlin
http://www.heitberlin.de
curated by frontviews Berlin: Carsten Becker / Stephan Klee
https://www.frontviews.de
Carsten Becker, Ekaterina Burlyga, Lukas Glinkowski, Marianna Ignataki, Simon Mullan, Sonja Ofen, Ena Oppenheimer, Marco Schmitt
»DARK MATTER – THE INVISIBLE«,
2018 -19 Publicartproject / Munich
PARNASS MAGAZIN
UP & COMING SPECIAL 2017
Abendzeitung 13.02.2020
Text: Angela Bachmair / Foto: Mercan Fröhlich
ECLIPSE - PAINTINGS MADE FOR DARKNESS | LICHTWOCHE 2018 / MUNICH / ABENDZEITUNG
Darkness is the absence of light. Humans can only experience a small part of the whole light spectrum. Does the moon see colors? And how would it look like?
Change of State
or For information on risks and side-effects
Where textures meet surface, colours divide form, planes in space overlap, they are creating intervals rather than continuity. Frozen moments of attempts in classi cation, evoking impressions from natural science textbooks reload- ed with a dash of magical thinking. Like a future past cocktail constructed ...
Süddeutsche Zeitung, 11.01.2017
„Am Anfang war die Zelle“
Von Florian J. Haamann, Fürstenfeldbruck
Eine eindrucksvolle Ausstellung im Haus 10 zeigt die Werke von fünf Studenten und Absolventen der Kunstakademie. Sie geht dem Verhältnis von Mensch und Natur nach, ohne Klischees oder Erwartbares zu zeigen
ARTMAPP 07/18
AMREIS BLOG (TEXT / FOTOS: Amrei Heyne)
Galerie Stefan Vogdt, 08. März 2018
Bilder der Vieldeutigkeit
Ena Oppenheimer erkundet die formalen Aspekte der Gefühle
Von Stefanie Schwetz / Foto:Ruppenentwien
http://www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/ausstellung-bilder-der-vieldeutigkeit-1.3897399
CANDELILLA – CAMPING
Musicproject 2016
Jonas Ranks, ENA OPPENHEIMER: artistic direction for the album tour "CAMPING" (VÖ: 3.3.2017 via Trocadero / ZickZack Platten) of that wonderful ladies – Candelilla.
ALBUM Layout: Jonas Ranks / Artwork: Ena Oppenheimer
Photography: Oliver Mark
E--N--A, was ist "Crazyland"?
Interview von Stefan Siegfried, 2014
E--N--A, was ist „Crazyland“?
Das ist der Überbegriff für meine Arbeiten, für die Phase, in der ich mich gerade befinde. Der Begriff steht als Chiffre für eine Parallelwelt, die ab und zu zu uns durchbricht und versucht, mich ...
Something happened in 1976
Text: Ena Oppenheimer
I work with oils on canvas or wood. The material is a conscious decision because the question of how painting can represent the invisible realm of reality is at the centre...
Memories of 1976
(Ena)
i sit, a stone in the hand
inside is outside, outside becomes inside.
the stone loses its hardness, passes it to me.
my hand, my arm turn to stone,
then everything the other way around.
a change.
what is body, what is external?
i perceive the stone to be a part of me.
it’s part of my world because i’m holding it.
my world is in motion.
it’s pulsing.
to become and fade away.
the stone also lives. through me.
then i die and begin anew.