Norbert Prangenberg: Norbert Prangenberg
Galerie Karsten Greve AG, St. Moritz
Monday - Saturday: 10 am – 1 pm / 2 pm – 6.30 pm
Opening
on Saturday, March 29, 2025, from 5pm to 7pm
Galerie Karsten Greve St. Moritz is pleased to present its first exhibition dedicated to Norbert Prangenberg (1949–2012) at this location, featuring a selection of significant works from various stages of his career. Prangenberg gained international recognition in 1982 as a participant in documenta 7 in Kassel. His diverse oeuvre encompasses painting, drawing, and sculpture, reflecting his profound and evolving exploration of material, form, and color. Since the early 1980s, he devoted himself intensively to ceramics, developing a distinctive formal language that established him as one of the leading figures in contemporary German art. His works, characterized by a sensitive balance between spontaneous gesture and compositional rigor, captivate with their tactile quality and expressive intensity.
The exhibition places a particular focus on Prangenberg’s sculptures and paintings, which stand out for their dynamic materiality and distinctive formal language. In his paintings, he employs thick, impasto layers of paint, creating relief-like textures that imbue the paintings with a sculptural presence. His small-format oil paintings impress with their powerful gestural texture and subtle color transparency. In his sculptures, Prangenberg explores the interplay of volume and structure, often drawing inspiration from archaic forms. His ceramic works feature irregularly modeled surfaces, incorporating incisions and fingerprints that lend them a unique, handcrafted character.
In addition to sculptures, the gallery presents paintings and works on paper. His color-intensive paintings captivate with their gestural texture and transparency. As a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, Prangenberg influenced a new generation of artists. Today, his works are included in prestigious museum collections such as the Museum Ludwig in Cologne and the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich, as well as in major private collections.
This exhibition showcases Prangenberg’s multifaceted artistic vision and his lifelong pursuit of new expressive possibilities. It demonstrates how he pushed the boundaries between painting and sculpture, ultimately developing a unique visual language. Accompanying catalogs will be available, offering a deeper engagement with his work.
