Gaby TERHUVEN
• Born in 1960 in Oberhausen, Germany
• 1982-84: studied costume design at the International School of Art and Design in Cologne, Germany.
• 1984-89: studied painting at the International School of Art and Design in Cologne, Germany
• First staff exhibition at the Kunstverein Münsterland art center (Germany)
• Living and working in Düsseldorf
Gaby Terhuven’s compositions are based on geometric systems that she developed for the first time in drawing.
Two glass panels are painted on both sides with oil paint and then placed one behind the other with a small space in between, so that a three-dimensional impression appears.
Extension and compression, separation and coming together – in relationship between the line and the plane as well as between the pictorial layers and their intermediate spaces – leads to a vibration which contrasts with the clear forms. Therefore, it is impossible for viewers to gain a firm and understanding grip on the work despite its rational structure. In fact, they experience multiple views and an indescribable aura. This paradox combines with others which are specific to the paintings of Gaby Terhuven, of which mainly the oscillation between pure materiality and ephemeral dissolution in light, between stability and variability, robustness and fragility, clarity and delicacy, autonomy and openness. It is precisely by working with the means and principles of Constructed Art that Gaby Terhuven reveals the limits of the concrete postulate of rationality and understanding and highlights the specific truth content of painting, which is closely linked to the powers color, light and subjective perceptions.
Personal Exhibitions
- 2024 “In Motion”, AKM Künstlerhaus Metternich, Koblenz (with Ulrich Westerfrölke)
- 2023 “WHO IS WHO”, by the Fraunberg art gallery, Düsseldorf
“Parallel Views II”, Galerie Gudrun Spielvogel, Munich - 2022 “In Motion”, Forum Alte Post, Pirmasens Art Association (with Ulrich Westerfrölke)
“Parallel views”, Carlernst Kürten – Foundation, Unna (K) - 2021 Art – Cabinet, Galerie Gudrun Spielvogel, Munich
“Regard” 2020 + period, Heidelberg University Hospital - 2018 “Between the spaces”, Gelsenkirchen Art Museum (with Edda Jachens) (K) 2017 “Lichtungen”, Murnau Castle Museum (K)
“Clairées”, Galerie Gudrun Spielvogel, Munich - 2016 “New works”, Galerie Feurstein, Feldkirch (A) (with Edda Jachens)
- 2015 “Ein–sichten”, Galerie Lausberg, Düsseldorf (with Edda Jachens)
- 2013 “Wechselseiten”, Kunstverein Oerlinghausen (K)
- 2012 Galerie Gudrun Spielvogel, Munich
- 2011 “by the way? “, Gelsenkirchen Art Museum (K)
- 2010 “Change of perspective”, Galerie Hoffmann, Friedberg (with Achim Zeman)
“By the way?”, Beckum Municipal Museum - 2009 “By the way?”, Siegburg Municipal Museum
- 2007 “Sfumato”, Galerie Ucher, Cologne
“vis à vis”, art from North Rhine-Westphalia, former imperial abbey, Aachen-Kornelimünster (with Sybille Pattscheck) “Tides”, Galerie Lausberg, Düsseldorf (with Nora Schattauer) - 2006 “Sequences II”, Galerie Gudrun Spielvogel, Munich (K)
- 2004 “Intervalles”, Galerie Lausberg, Düsseldorf
- 2003 “Sequences”, Galerie Ucher, Cologne
- 2002 Society for Art and Design, Bonn
- 2001 Association for Contemporary Art / Ruhrgebiet e.V., Oberhausen (with Harald Schmitz-Schmelzer)
- 2000 Alte Post Art Museum, Mülheim/R. (with Gabriele Stirl and Peter Vogel) (K)
“Surface Contrasts”, Galerie Gudrun Spielvogel, Munich (with Felicitas Gerstner
and Karin Radoy) - 1999 Kunstverein Münsterland e.V., Coesfeld (with Gabriele Stirl and Peter Vogel)
Group Exhibition
- 2024 “Blind Date” Liaunig Museum, Austria
“art Karlsruhe” from the Fraunberg Art Gallery, Düsseldorf - 2023 “art Cologne” Galerie Hoffmann, Friedberg
Large art exhibition NRW, Düsseldorf (K) - 2022 “PURE – Phenomena of Viewing ll”, Galerie Lausberg, Düsseldorf
- 2021 “30 years, an anniversary”, Galerie Gudrun Spielvogel, Munich
- 2020 “2-gather”, New Art Association Aschaffenburg
“Careful, glass!” Reverse glass painting from August Macke to today”, Clemens Sels
Neuss Museum (K) - 2019 “Living with art”, Villa Zanders Art Museum, Bergisch Gladbach
“In view”, Osthaus Museum, Hagen (K) - 2018 “Petersburg Konkret”, Galerie Gudrun Spielvogel, Munich
- 2016 25 years of the Gudrun Spielvogel Gallery, Munich
- 2015 Retrospective “25 years at the Municipal Museum”, Siegburg Municipal Museum
- 2014 “NEW GIERIG”, Galerie Feurstein, Feldkirch (A)
“Color bodies / image objects”, Galerie Feurstein, Feldkirch (A)
“You and your exhibitions”, 20 years of exhibitions for the art of North Rhine-Westphalia, former imperial abbey, Aachen-Kornelimünster - 2012 Winter group exhibition, Galerie Lausberg, Toronto
- 2011 “Concrete Abstraction”, Galerie Lausberg, Düsseldorf
- 2010 “Frauenzimmer” Galerie Sacksofsky, Heidelberg;
“Country Party”, Association of West German Artists, Liesborn Abbey Museum (K)
“beyond painting”, Lausberg Gallery, Toronto - 2009 “The Color Colorful”, Galerie Lausberg, Düsseldorf
“4 Positions”, Sacksofsky Gallery, Heidelberg - 2008 “Not applicable”, Society for Art and Design, Bonn
- 2007 “hand + foot and other secrets”, Galerie Hoffmann, Friedberg
- 2006 “privatissime”, art from the private collection Bergisch Gladbach, Municipal Gallery Villa Zanders,
Bergisch Gladbach - 2005 Association of West German Artists, Museum Gelsenkirchen (K)
- 2004 “Inspect”, Galerie Hoffmann, Friedberg
“Light-Space-Color”, Galerie Ucher, Cologne
2002-05 Annual exhibition Galerie St.Johann, Saarbrücken - 2002 “Querblick”, Cologne City Museum
Association of West German Artists, Museum Bochum (K) - 2000 “Color and shadow”, Galerie Ucher, Cologne
Association of West German Artists, city. Galerie Lüdenscheid (K) - 1999 “Contrasts”, Galerie Ucher, Cologne
- 1998 Association of West German Artists, Flottmannhallen, Herne (K)
- 1997 “Klangbilder”, Heidelberg Art Association