CONTACT
Sootboern 22
22453 Hamburg
hallo(at)alexanderproepster.com
EXHIBITIONS
2024
Aus dem Koffer · Kunsthaus Hamburg (G)
Vampire Bat · Galerie Wassermühle Trittau (S)
Floating States · Studio 55 Münster (G)
Everyone but Caspar · Gallery Sootboern Hamburg (G)
2023
Run Into Yourself · mit Miriam Zadil · Galerie Carolyn Heinz Hamburg (G)
Accrochage · mit Katja Pudor und Johannes Regin · Galerie Carolyn Heinz Hamburg (G)
Everyone Eating Everybody Else · Mattatoio, Rom (S)
Lovestorys · 30 Jahre Künstler*Innenhaus Sootbörn Hamburg (G)
2022
Neun Positionen der jungen Malerei · Lippisches Landesmuseums Detmold (G)
Vom Rand zur Mitte mit S. Hehemann und S. Ringer · PostKultur Hamburg (G)
2020
Heute ist morgen vorbei · Galerie Feinkunst Krüger Hamburg (G)
Jetzt! Junge Malerei in Deutschland · Deichtorhallen Hamburg (G)
2019
Jetzt! Junge Malerei in Deutschland · Kunstmuseum Bonn, Museum Gunzenhauser Chemnitz, Museum Wiesbaden (G)
Krawall im All 2019 · Künstlerhaus Meatzel Hamburg (G)
2018
Straight, Crooked, Shaped. Über die Linie · Galerie Marstall Ahrensburg (G)
Krawall im All 2018 · Künstlerhaus Meatzel Hamburg (G)
2017
Salon der Gegenwart · Kontorhaus am Großmarkt Hamburg (G)
7 Walks in the Woods · Gesellschaft für zeitgenössische Konzepte, Struxdorf (G)
Sandale · Galerie 21 Hamburg (G)
Import-Export · Galerie K34 Kiel (G)
2016
Vögel und Steine · HFBK Hamburg (S)
anfangen pt.1 · Elektrohaus Hamburg (G)
Betonale · Galerie 21 Hamburg (G)
2015
Hiscox Kunstpreis · Kunsthaus Hamburg (G)
Karl Heinz Ditze Begabtenstipendium · HFBK Hamburg (E)
Eselssruder · Galerie 21, Hamburg (S)
NoNoNale · Galerie 21, Hamburg (G)
2009–2015
Annual exhibitions at the Academy of Fine Arts Hamburg
AWARDS, SCHOLARSHIPS
2022 Artist in Residency Sootboern Hamburg
2021 Arbeitsstipendium Stiftung Kunstfonds
2021 Hamburger Zukunftsstipendium
2020 Arbeitsstipendium Neustart Kultur Stiftung Kunstfonds
2015 Hiscox Kunstpreis
2015 Begabtenstipendium Karl Heinz Ditze
2013 Artist in Residency Vorwerkstift Hamburg
ALEXANDER
Alexander Pröpster has developed a minimalist, yet emotionally highly charged, artistic character system that serves as a memory aid and reflection. At the starting point of his painting is a search for a trace, which refers to events from his personal world. Research results and finds are put into a new context and placed on the scene using a cryptic-looking form of vocabulary.
PRÖPSTER
Although his works are among the more silent and reserved, the combination painting, photography and topography produce an intense energy. They tell a story. A search for something that lies in the unknown and seems difficult to grasp. We meet a fox, a deer with shining eyes, a creeping badger and a rather silly hedgehog.
What is the artist looking for? Some of his paintings stand for his obsession, something manic that drives him and the tenacity of seeking and also deal with the non-finding. His work is a documentation of the duration, the effort and the expression of the search. The artist has translated the fragments of this search into painting. Some works reveal a system, a kind of topography of traces and tracks. But they also tell of encounters and strange, remote beauty. His photographs cover the whole thing and the obsession in it a bit further. They testify to a sense of humor as a means of distance. A distancing from what you do.
What is the real background? Alexander had a dog. He ran away and the artist went to look for him. For two years. But his paintings do not tell this story. Rather, they translate his obsession, the strained, long-standing path into a complex, hermeneutically intensive work.
In the tension field of documentation and fiction, a personal organization chart emerges that can only be checked for its coherence and not for its truth content. In a very impressive way, direct requests to the artist lead into a “forest of fictions”. Regardless of the relationship between truth and fiction, the interrelation of research results and attempts to safeguard the viewer and invites the viewer to clarify the sensitive interrelationship between art, reality, and fiction.