»Melancho-lost«
| Edition | Original Art |
|---|---|
| Sujet | Portrait |
| Technique | Painting |
| Height | 88 cm |
| Width | 73 cm |
| Length/Depth | 2.8 cm |
‘Melancho-lost’
Medium/Technique: Oil, acrylic and spray paint on canvas, stretched onto a stretcher frame within a cross-laminated wooden frame designed and built by the artist to complement the work.
Year of creation: 2024
– One-off –
‘Melancho-lost’ depicts a portrait of the painter Jakob Schöning, created during a period when they were both in residence at the scholarship artists’ studio house. The starting point was a series of conversations about a painter’s melancholy and artistic sensibility in general.
The painting distils this mood into a quiet, introspective moment poised between reflection, weariness and presence. The subdued colour palette is contrasted by the red tulips, which lend the work a fragile vitality. The black-stained, cross-laminated softwood frame was made specifically for this piece and transforms the painting into a deliberately designed object.
Size of the canvas without frame:
75 cm × 60 cm
In my works, I use exclusively highly pigmented artists’ paints, which possess high luminosity and lightfastness. For each unique piece, I design and build an artist’s frame myself, aiming to achieve a cohesive overall effect through a combination of craftsmanship and conceptual care.
Shipping:
The work 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 and back.
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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