Albert Oehlen is a German artist known for his radical exploration of painting and its boundaries. Emerging from the neo-expressionist movement of the 1980s, Oehlen continually challenges conventions of composition, color, and gesture. His work fuses abstraction and figuration, often incorporating digital manipulation, collage, and overpainting. Through deliberate imperfection and conceptual tension, Oehlen reflects on the process of image-making itself — oscillating between chaos and control..
Selected Collections
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) (New York)
Tate Modern (London)
Centre Pompidou (Paris)
Museo Reina Sofía (Madrid)
Kunsthaus Zürich (Zurich)