Jan-Ole Schiemann

Jan-Ole Schiemann is a Cologne-based artist whose work builds on and challenges traditions of painting through collage-based techniques, constructing images that are at once sophisticated and playful. Schiemann's practice is grounded in gestural abstraction and the history of 20th century animation.

With his paintings, Schiemann often begins with a collection of references, including cut-outs of vintage cartoons and his own drawings, which he collages onto transparent slides and visually projects onto an unprimed canvas. Guided by the cast shadows and silhouettes of handmade stencils, Schiemann employs black ink to delineate contours in a mode that recalls classic cartoon production and meticulously applies thin layers of acrylic paint. Additional strokes of charcoal and oilstick create new spatial relationships between the pictorial background and foreground. The interplay of tonal gradations and overlapping elements lends itself to the distinct sense of kinetic energy and illusionistic depth that are hallmarks of Schiemann's work. Schiemann's drawings further demonstrate the artist's technical prowess as a draftsman. Using only graphite pencil, Schiemann simultaneously renders and erases to create compositions that are strikingly nuanced and architecturally complex. With his recent work, Schiemann continues to oscillate between figuration and abstraction while developing an idiosyncratic visual vocabulary that is recognizably the artist's own.

Jan-Ole Schiemann was born in 1983 in Kiel, Germany and is a graduate of the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf under Albert Oehlen and Andreas Schulze (2007-2013). In 2019, Kasmin presented Schiemann's first solo New York exhibition, which debuted the artist's lauded Kavex series.

Born in 1983, Kiel, Germany

Lives and works in Cologne, Germany

EDUCATIONS

2005 Kunsthochschule Kassel with Jürgen Meyer

2007 – 2013 Kunstakademie Düsseldorf with Albert Oehlen and Andreas Schulze

2013 Akademiebrief and Meisterschüler at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf with Andreas Schulze

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2021

Les fleurs du mal à la tête, Almine Rech, Brussels
Jan-Ole Schiemann: Are you relevant my friend?, Salon Nino Mier Cologne

2020

Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
Zeichnen, Kunstverein Heppenheim
Mantis Mannequins, WENTRUP, Berlin
Paintings have Feelings too, Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles, California

2019

A Different Pose, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York

2018

Synthetic Horizons, CHOI&LAGER Gallery, Seoul

2017

Can you show me the way to Paradise Road, MIER GALLERY

2015

Why don’tcha use fresh ink when you draw me? I’ve got no more pep than a snail under ether, Half Gallery, New York; NY
Mys / Mos, MIER, Los Angeles, CA

2013

Abschlusspräseantation, Rundgang, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
pilot projekt_15, pilot projekt für kunst e.v., Düsseldorf (together with Johannes Tassilo Walter)

2010

Jan-Ole Schiemann im NKD, NKD, Berlin

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022

FLOWER, CHOI&CHOI Gallery, Seoul

2021

Inaugural Exhibition, Nino Mier Brussels
Wentrup am Feenteich, Wentrup, Hamburg

2020

Zoom in Zoom out, Wentrup, Berlin

2019

Wer kann, der soll, Salon Schmitz, Cologne
Leikela, Michael Horbach Stiftung, Cologne
Loft, Studio 2.63, Cologne

2018

Early 21st Century Art, Almine Rech Gallery, London
Lodgers #15 [Bau034], Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp
Cliché, Almine Rech Gallery, New York, NY

2017

Abstract/Not Abstract, Curated by Jeffrey Deitch and Larry Gagosian, Moore Building, Miami, Florida
L.A. should die for Glueck, Just Married, Los Angeles, California
Asiplastique, Acephale, Cologne
chaque wind-GenÄir8töZ Bild is sense de la vie = 6+3+2, Body & Soul, Geneva
The Curators‘ Egg, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY

2016