Harald-Alexander Klimek
SPEYER, Deutschland
Painter, draftsman, graphic artist, Collageur
1959 in Frankenthal, Germany, born
1979-82 Education Architectural Draftsman
1983-88 Technical College for design, Mathilde
Höhe, Darmstadt, studying communicationstionsdesign and graphics
1988 Fulbright Scholarship, United States
1988-90 Studium visual arts, prints and
Painting at Pratt Institute in New York.
Since 1998 Collaboration at several Art Books projects for
consumers in cooperation with the Berlin-Gale publishers Edition.
2000 Advancement Foundation Cultural Fund in Berlin
With access to the ironic-subversive the painter and graphic artist Harald-Alexander Klimek treated its wide range of topics. In his socially critical work, he understands it, to Provocate the viewer on its own sensitivities.
The figurative works are characterized by a funny, enigmatic and kaleidoscopic
„Picture language“. Klimek uses the history of art as a modular conception and
set pieces of different eras into a new visual and aesthetic context.
His pictures are ambiguous, with double bottom and without association and interpretation limitless.
The searching on his pictures gets symbolic and shows up mental err’s and a getting lost as well as finding the way back to the location from fallacies. Klimek has a special
Fondness for history and archeology.
Max Ernst defined Klimek’s collage technique as "the systematic
exploitation of accidental or artificially provoked coincidence from two or more
realities on an apparently unsuitable level - and the spark of Poetry that skips the these realities of convergence“.
Excerpts of Galeries Harald Alexander Klimek appeared:
2000 Kulturhaus am Thälmann-Park, Theater unterm Dach, Berlin (KB) (EA)
Büchergilde Gutenberg, Frankfurt (KB) (EA)
2000–2007Buchmesse Frankfurt/Main (KB) (M)
2001 Goethe Institut St. Petersburg, Russland (KB) (GA)
KunstKöln (KB) (M)
Buchmesse Leipzig (KB) (M)
Kunstpavillon Heringsdorf, Kunstverein Usedom (KB) (GA)
2002 Schloss Kleinniedesheim (Kat) (EA)
2003 PABA Gallery, New Haven (KB) (GA)
Kulturhof Flachsgasse, Städt. Galerie Speyer. (KB) (GA)
2004 Dean Clough Galleries, Halifax (KB) (GA)
2005 Goethe Institut, San Francisco (KB) (GA)
2006 Landesbibliothek Speyer (KB) (GA)
Herrenhof Mußbach (EA)
Museum Schloß Burgk (KB) (GA)
2007 Galerie Actéon, Brüssel (Kat) (GA)
