»Kapriziöse Pferde – Upsprung«
| Edition | Original Art |
|---|---|
| Sujet | Other |
| Technique | Painting – Acrylic on Canvas |
| Height | 64 cm |
| Width | 84 cm |
| Length/Depth | 3 cm |
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–
‘Upsprung’ 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 ‘Upsprung’, a moment of counter-movement becomes visible. A figure prepares to leap and evades the charging horses, which appear in the series as symbols of an unstoppable cycle of life and death. Here, movement is interpreted as an existential attempt to resist the pull of fate. The expressive painting style and the custom-built shadow-joint frames form part of the series’ conceptual framework.
The series comprises:
- Ride Back
- Birch Forest
- Loss of Control (Losing control)
- Leap
- Turning Point
- Baptism of Fire
- Deeply Absurd
In my works, I use exclusively highly pigmented artists’ paints, which possess high luminosity and lightfastness. For each work, I design and construct an artist’s frame myself, aiming to achieve an overall effect through a combination of craftsmanship and conceptual care.
:
The artwork is stretched onto a stretcher frame and dispatched 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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