°1936, Cologne (DE) – lives and works in Aachen (DE) and Stäfa (CH)
Joachim Bandau belongs to an important group of German artists, along with Gerhard Richter, Joseph Beuys, and Imi Knoebel, who came out of the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in 1961. Since the late 1960s, Bandau created a series of mobile sculptures, which resemble a hybrid of man, machine, and design-object. In his following sculptures, he continued to refer to the human condition and form, along with Germany’s complex post-WWII re-invention. Another important part of Bandau’s artistic practice is his lacquer works and his black watercolour paintings, both exploiting the principle of layering.
Joachim Bandau has had numerous solo exhibitions, including shows at Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Neues Museum, Nürnberg; and M HKA, Antwerp. His work has also been shown in several major group exhibitions at venues such as the SculptureCenter, New York; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; and Haus der Kunst, Munich. He has also shown several works at Documenta 6 in Kassel in 1977.
Bandau’s work is present in many important public collections, such as Kunstmuseum, Basel; Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden; and Museum Ludwig, Cologne.
Joachim Bandau is represented by the following galleries;
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Galerie Thomas Fischer, Berlin
Super Dakota, Brussels
Galerie Mark Müller, Zürich
Patricia Sweetow Gallery, Oakland
artmark galerie, Wien / Spital am Pyhrn
Sebastian Fath Contemporary, Mannheim
Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto
Two Rooms, Newton Auckland
Galerie Maubert, Paris
You can also find more works by Joachim Bandau on his own website.
