24 JANUARY – 13 FEBRUARY 2024 | GALLERY

JURGEN OSTARHILD: EXPANSIONS IN CHROMATIC REPRODUCTION

EXPANDED.ART is delighted to present EXPANSIONS IN CHROMATIC REPRODUCTION by Jurgen Ostarhild, his first solo show, at the gallery. On view will be selected works from his extensive oeuvre, spanning from photography to AI.


Jurgen Ostarhild’s 40-year career boasts an impressive resume of noteworthy gallery shows and portraits of cultural figures such as Kate Moss and Martin Kippenberger, fashion brands, and celebrities. Despite his roots in fashion photography, Ostarhild’s motivation for creating goes far beyond the lens of a camera. The artist has delved deep into dissecting the 0s and 1s that comprise a digital image. Through the reimagination of his imagery, be it with Photoshop manipulation, AI, or hex codes, Ostarhild pushes the boundaries of what exactly a photograph is. Blockchain, NFTs, and AI have driven his pursuit of digital art even further.


24 JANUARY – 13 FEBRUARY 2024
OPENING RECEPTION: 24 JANUARY | 6-9 PM CET
The artist will be present. 



Friedrichstraße 67, 10117 Berlin
Monday - Saturday: 11 AM - 6 PM CET

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POEMS FOR DAMIEN HIRST by Jurgen Ostarhild is a series of text images based on the spot paintings by Damien Hirst. Each color spot was assigned the corresponding hexadecimal code (hex code). The size, proportions, and titles of the originals have been retained. A special monospace font designed for this series allows the six alphanumeric characters that make up a hex code to be mapped as a circular area.
Eugen Gomringer, the father of concrete poetry, discovered a certain poetry in these code pictures and sees them as a continuation of his work. If one gave meaning to the individual characters, the images could be read as verses and poems. In 2019, Ostarhild was part of the exhibition PHÄNOMENE DER SPRACH-KUNST IN WORTBILDERN AUS LETTERN UND CODE curated by Eugen Gomringer at the Institute for Constructive Art and Concrete Poetry in Rehau: works in letters containing the hexadecimal code for color photography were presented.

JURGEN OSTARHILD | POEMS FOR DAMIEN HIRST

EXPANDED.ART presents the group show THE TEXT IS THE MESSAGE. AN EXHIBITION OF MIXED MESSAGES at the gallery in Berlin. What would Marshall McLuhan write today? Very likely text messages. The global village is now largely connected via messenger apps and social media. Life is closeness to strangers and friends, changing every second. Thoughts and feelings are shared as they are thought and lived. Artists: Joachim Bosse, Emily Edelman, Claudia Hart, Andy Kassier, Anika Meier, Skye Nicolas, and Jurgen Ostarhild.

THE TEXT IS THE MESSAGE. AN EXHIBITION OF MIXED MESSAGES

View the NFT (Tezos) on <a href="https://objkt.one/t/73">objkt.one</a>. ABOUT EXPANDED.ART x objkt.one All NFTs (1 of 1s) will be available via auctions on objkt.one on August 31, 6 PM CET.
ABOUT THE WORK "Landscape? No. It is a double work that Jurgen Ostarhild offers us here. A work of rereading a tradition, that of the landscape of German romanticism, first, but also a work of emotional neutralisation, of ironic distancing. It is in this in-between that the meaning is hollowed out through lyrical reference and critical derealization, as if the landscape were cut off from its sap and its flow of romantic feeling and emphasis. The theme then, as if vitrified, imperceptibly shifts. This shift therefore tends towards derealization and classification while at the same time working on oneself through asceticism and purification of all sentimentality and the work of the clerk of the real, of naturalistic codification, and of the constitution of series. A reflection on the act of photography and the constitution of reality." – Jean Charles Sabor

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Photographer Jurgen Ostarhild’s 40-year career boasts an impressive resume of noteworthy gallery shows and portraits of cultural figures, fashion brands, and celebrities. Despite his roots in fashion photography, Ostarhild’s motivation for creating goes far beyond the lens of a camera. The artist has delved deep into dissecting the 0s and 1s that comprise a digital image. Through the reimagination of his imagery be it with Photoshop manipulation or hex codes, Ostarhild pushes the boundaries of what exactly a photograph is. NFTs, blockchain technology, and the Web3 community have driven his pursuit of digital art even further and it seems that he has only just begun.

Blockchain and Post-Photography

JURGEN OSTARHILD: "CODE IS CONTEMPORARY TEXT"

EXPANSIONS IN CHROMATIC REPRODUCTION by Jurgen Ostarhild is his first solo show at the gallery. On view will be selected works from his extensive oeuvre, spanning from photography to AI.

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