»Kapriziöse Pferde – Birkenwald«
| Edition | Original Art |
|---|---|
| Sujet | Other |
| Technique | Painting |
| Height | 64 cm |
| Width | 84 cm |
| Length/Depth | 3 cm |
‘Birch Forest’
Media/Technique: Oil, charcoal and spray paint on canvas, stretched onto a stretcher frame within a custom-designed and built artist’s shadow-joint frame, tailored to the work.
Year of creation: 2024
–One-off–
‘Birkenwald’ is part of the seven-piece series ‘Capricious Horses’, nominated for the 2025 Ingeborg Siebert Prize, which explores the tension between the will to live and the reality of having to die.
The series takes its starting point from a poem by the Soviet bard Vladimir Vysotsky, in which galloping horses appear as a metaphor for the inexorable march of fate.
In this painterly exploration, the poetic and political imagery of the song is decoded and translated into a Western visual language.
In ‘Birch Forest’, a wild horse pulls a figure through a dense birch forest. The forest represents not only nature, but also a space imbued with symbolism in Russian poetry, which repeatedly appears as a vessel for memory, longing and existential experience. The expressive painting style and the custom-built shadow-joint frames form part of the series’ conceptual framework.
The series consists of:
- Ride Back
- Birch Forest
- Loss of Control (Losing control)
- Leap
- Turning Point
- Baptism of Fire
- Utterly absurd
and is available for the first time in its entirety and exclusively at the Student Art Market.
In my works, I use exclusively highly pigmented artists’ paints, which possess high luminosity and lightfastness. For each piece, I design and build an artist’s frame myself, aiming to create a cohesive overall effect through a combination of craftsmanship and conceptual care.
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The work is shipped stretched onto a stretcher frame and mounted in an artist’s frame – including a certificate of authenticity, the corresponding catalogue number and the artist’s signature on the front.
Size without frame:
60 cm × 80 cm
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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