Vivian Greven
Vivian Greven
Vivian Greven’s painting is based on an adept play with various notion of bodies, being and representation, with concepts of classical antiquity merging with pop art and digital image worlds. Vivian Greven’s painting is characteristic of our present times, which are shaped by the internet and social media and thus dissolve the hierarchies between original, reproduction and simulation. The art historical and contemporary historical nestling corresponds with Greven’s painterly treatment of surfaces. Parts of her painting rise as actual reliefs that encounter sprayed or painted fictions of bodies and space. The aesthetic of her pictures vacillates between the vocabulary of physical painting and the ethereal illusion of LCD windows.
Vivian Greven (DE 1985) lives and works in Düsseldorf. She is represented in internationally renowned museum collections such as Hamburger Kunsthalle, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, Long Museum Shanghai and Kunstmuseum Stuttgart. Recently the Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum in Bremen showed a dialogue between hers and Paula Modersohn-Becker´s works accompanied by a new publication. Other solo exhibition have been at Neue Galerie Gladbeck (2023), Kunstmuseum Langmatt, Kunstverein Heidelberg (both 2021) or Kunstpalais Erlangen (2020). In march 2025 she will be part of the exhibition MAMA at Kunstpalast Düsseldorf. Recent group exhibitions have included her work, such as „The Infinite Woman” at the Fondation Carmignac, Porquerolles, “The Bathers” at MORE Museum Gorssel, “New Presentation of the Collection” at Kunstmuseum Bonn, “Between Pixel and Pigment” at Kunsthalle Bielefeld/MartaHerford Museum (all 2024), “Touching Forms” at Alte Nationalgalerie Berlin (2023), “FourTimesFour” at Hamburger Kunsthalle (2022) or “Something Between Us” at Kunsthalle Nürnberg/Kai10 Düsseldorf (2020/21). On the occasion of her solo exhibition at Neue Galerie Gladbeck her recent catalogue has been published by Walther and Franz König, Cologne in 2023.
