»Friedvolle Unzucht«
| Edition | Original Art |
|---|---|
| Sujet | Portrait |
| Technique | Painting – Acrylic on Canvas |
| Height | 108.5 cm |
| Width | 70.5 cm |
| Length/Depth | 5.5 cm |
Medium/Technique: Oil on canvas, stretched over a wooden frame in a custom-designed and built artist’s shadow-joint frame, tailored to the work.
Year of creation: 2023
–One-off–
‘Peaceful Fornication’ was created during a study trip organised by the university to Lake Maggiore, at the Casa Rossa artists’ residence run by a German-Italian art association. In the work, a seemingly contemplative landscape is juxtaposed with a physically unsettling figure. The person depicted sits on a balcony with their back to the viewer, gazing out at a tranquil, almost idyllic mountain landscape. At the same time, the body is depicted in an anatomically unusual posture: the legs are spread apart, almost twisted, and rise above the railing, creating a moment of physical disorientation.
A tension unfolds between tranquillity, intimacy and the blurring of physical boundaries, in which the title plays a central role.
Highly pigmented oil paints and glazing varnishes create an intense, almost physical effect of colour.
The handcrafted shadow-joint frame made of stained tropical wood transforms the painting into a deliberately designed object.
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, striving to achieve an overall effect through a combination of craftsmanship and conceptual care.
Shipping:
The work is shipped mounted on a stretcher frame and an artist’s frame – including a certificate of authenticity and the corresponding catalogue number. The work was exhibited by the City of Osnabrück during the permanent exhibition marking the 375th anniversary of the Peace of Westphalia and was only signed on the front afterwards.
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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