»15MinFame«
| Edition | Original Art |
|---|---|
| Sujet | Portrait |
| Technique | Mixed Media |
| Height | 113.5 cm |
| Width | 83.5 cm |
| Length/Depth | 3 cm |
‘15MinFame’
Medium/Technique: Oil, charcoal and spray paint on canvas, stretched over a wooden frame within a custom-designed and built artist’s board frame tailored to the work.
Year of creation: 2024
–One-off–
‘15MinFame’ takes up the notion of a brief, intense moment of public attention and transforms it into a painterly scene set between the stage, the body and media visibility. Depicted is a figure from the cultural sphere, appearing in a moment of fame. The open curtain alludes to the stage of life and performance, whilst the figure’s posture and expression reveal an excess of joy, excitement and self-assurance.
Building on Warhol’s idea of ‘15 minutes of fame’, the motif is transposed into the present-day world of social media. The wooden frame, designed and constructed by the artist from dyed softwood, features milled-in Instagram icons for ‘Like’, ‘Comment’ and ‘Save’. As a result, the frame is not merely a mounting but a conceptual component of the work: it complements the painting by incorporating the system of digital attention.
In my works, I use exclusively highly pigmented artists’ paints, which possess high luminosity and lightfastness. For each work, I design and build an artist’s frame myself, aiming to achieve an overall effect through a combination of craftsmanship and conceptual care.
Shipping :
The work is shipped stretched onto a stretcher frame and an artist’s frame, which I have designed, conceived and crafted myself – including a certificate of authenticity, the corresponding catalogue number and a signature on the front.
Alexej Eisner
In his work, nostalgic, (post-)Soviet narratives are embedded within biographical elements of everyday life. In doing so, personal and collective memories of the traumas of Russian-German history are interwoven. Eisner presents figurative elements which, through expressive gestures, scraped surfaces and vivid colour schemes within a single composition, create alternating moments of clarity and decay, conveying a sense of authenticity and raw emotion.
Exhibitions (selection)
2025 – ‘What do we pass on and what do we keep to ourselves?’, Hase29 Gallery of Contemporary Art, Osnabrück.
2025 – ‘FATA MORGANA’, vanished Pop-Up Gallery, Osnabrück.
2025 – ‘skool session no. 17’, Alte Schule, Münster.
2025 – ‘good neighbours’, GALERIE ET, Versmold.
2025 – ‘PASSEN’, Contemporary Institute for Art and Thought, Berlin.
2025 – Annual Exhibition of Nominees, University of Osnabrück.
2024 – ‘My Horse Dog Doesn’t Want to Die – vanished’, Hase29 Gallery of Contemporary Art, Osnabrück.
2024 – ‘Beschreibendes’, Galerie Bel Étage, Gütersloh.
2024 – ‘Orte des Friedens #3’, Kulturbüro, Osnabrück.
2023 – ‘Working on the Future’, skulptur-galerie, Osnabrück.
2023 – ‘CAMPUS’, skulptur-galerie, Osnabrück.
2022 – ‘INDEX’, skulptur-galerie, Osnabrück.
2022 – ‘Artist’s Residence’, Atelierhaus Hasemauer, Osnabrück.
2021 – ‘3D’21’, skulptur-galerie, Osnabrück.
2021 – “European Media Art Festival”, Osnabrück.
2020 – “Grafikbörse”, Borken.
Awards/Scholarships
10.2025 – Germany Scholarship for outstanding achievement in the field of art at the University of Osnabrück
02.2025 – Nomination for the Ingeborg Siebert Art Prize in painting and printmaking
, October 2024 – Germany Scholarship for outstanding achievements in the field of art at the University of Osnabrück
, June 2024–May 2025 – Studio grant from the DaunTown art collective, Borgholzhausen.
2022–2024 – Studio grant, ‘Atelierhaus Hasemauer’, from the Felicitas and Werner Egerland Foundation, Osnabrück.
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