The installations and drawings from Böhler & Orendt address the aspiration of humans to categorize, transform, subdue, and overpower the work around them. Often in an absurd, exaggerated and humorous way, the artist duo examines contemporary concepts such as efficiency, flexibility, innovation and creativity. Through their comprehensive, intermedial use of drawing, set design, model making or performative techniques, the artists create a complex cluster of different installative stories in their works that function as three or four dimensional snapshots. Deriving from reality, situations, people and objects are enlarged, distorted, deformed and re-located in an often ironic context.
Böhler & Orendt
September 2019
KALA HET DIWAI oder der Baum der Wissbegier
Bayrisches Landesamt für Statistik
Nürnberger Str. 95
D-90762 Fürth
25.08.2019 – 13.10.2019
Composing the Universe
B-05 assiciation e.V.
Im Stadtwald 2
D56410 Montabaur
15.08.2019 – 27.10.2019
Licht, Luft und Scheiße
Museum Konkrete Kunst Ingolstadt
Königin-Louise-Str. 6-8
D-14195 Berlin
31.03.2019 – 29.09.2019
Gemalte Diagramme
Museum Konkrete Kunst Ingolstadt
Tränktorstraße 6-8
85049 Ingolstadt
from 06.02.2018
Give us, Dear
Neues Museum Nürnberg
Luitpoldstraße 5
90402 Nürnberg
Nomination for the art price by the Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin
04.11.2018 – 10.02.2019
Magie und Ritual
Museum Villa Rot
Schlossweg 2
88483 Burgrieden
30.07.2018 – 30.09.2018
The Carrion Cheer
Kunsthalle Göppingen
Marschallstraße 55
73033 Göppingen
Against all the Cares of the World – A Reference Companion
published in German / English
2018
Softcover
227 pages
Texts by Stefanie Heckmann and Christoph Platz
ISBN: 3903228540
Published by Verlag für moderne Kunst
Böhler & Orendt – Carrion Cheer
Published in English and German
2018
Softcover
104 pages
ISBN 978-3-903269-11-8
Published by VfmK
Böhler & Orendt – Rest on the Escape from the Confrontation with the fucked-up-ness of the Status quo
Published in English German
2017
Softcover
64 pages
ISBN 978-3-00-057945-5
Matthias Böhler – Aspiration and Aspirin
Published in English and German
2017
Softcover
80 pages
ISBN-13: 9783903153844
Published by VfmK
Encyclothek – Ausgewählte Objekte aus der Sammlung Fukuro
published in German
2012
Hardcover
160 pages
Texts by Böhler Matthias; Hein Sebastian; Orendt, Christian
ISBN: 9783980881296
Published by Graf Verlag
