Clemens Kaletsch

Clemens Kaletsch was born in Munich in 1957. He studied at the University of Applied Arts Vienna with Oswald Oberhuber and at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Arnulf Rainer.

Most recently, works by him were on display in the Galerie Andrea Madesta Regensburg, in the Michael Horbach Stiftung and in the Kunstmuseum Mühlheim an der Ruhr. In 2018, his works have been on display in Galerie Ohse Bremen and Galerie Ernst Hilger in Vienna.

In the 1980s, Kaletsch belonged to the generation of successful painters who sought and found new ways for figurative painting. However, Kaletsch was never a member of a group, but pursued his very own path from the beginning. In view of the second large wave of paintings, his independent position developed over years is particularly clear. In large-format pictures, he formulates stories without falling into the concrete narrative.

His worksare neither abstract nor figurative. In each sequence, they maintain a peculiar, floating balance between readability and hint, between form finding and dissolution.

EXHIBITIONS

2008 Europe Tools, Galería Kewenig, Palma de Mallorca, Spain (solo)

          Dialog forms, Ceramic Workshop Margarethenhöhe, Essen, Germany (solo)

          Close, but far, Galerie Karl Pfefferle, Munich, Germany (solo)

          Clemens Kaletsch. Europe Feeling, Kunstmuseum Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany (solo)

          Europe feeling, Kunstmuseum Mülheim a. d. Ruhr, Germany

2007 Growing Up, Gallery Rhomberg, Innsbruck, Austria (solo)

          Growing up, fishing, polling (solo)

2005 Social Conditions, Bavarian Ministry of Social Affairs, Munich, Germany (solo)

2004 Large altarpiece for St. James, Miltenberg am Main, Germany (permanent)

2003 Raumsicht, Project room Chelsea, Cologne, Germany

2003 Casula antiqua - Casula nova, Fischerbau, Polling (group)

          Mittags ohne Schatten", Galerie Karl Pfefferle, Munich, Germany (solo)

2002 Orange. Clemens Kaletsch, rooms Herbert Fuchs, Innsbruck, Austria

2001 Gallery Fred Jahn, Studio Gallery, Munich, Germany (solo)

          Homage Michel Seuphor, Festival Borgerhout, Antwerp (group)

2000 Ceramic sculpture, Kunstforum Kirchberg, Bern, Switzerland (group)

          Border crossings in Niemandsland, Kunsthaus Lempertz, Berlin (group)

1999 Pictures/jewelry/device", Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne, Germany (group)

          Drawing II. In the view of the thought, Tyrolean Art Pavilion, Innsbruck, Austria

1998 Works on paper, Gallery Fred Jahn, Munich, Germany

          Sculptures, Gallery Fred Jahn, Munich, Germany

          Square cycle and sculptures 1980 - 1998, Polling

1997 Clemens Kaletsch. Drawings, reliefs, sculptures, gallery Rhomberg, Innsbruck, Austria (group)

          Tuchfühlung, Kunsthaus Langenberg, Velbert, Germany

1996 Museum of East Asian Art, Cologne, Germany (solo)

          Straight ahead, Private Art Spaces, Augsburg, Germany (solo)

          Constitution of the moment, Marmelsteiner Kabinett, Würzburg, Germany (solo)

1995 13 pictures, gallery Karl Pfefferle, Munich, Germany (solo)

          Images 1993-95, Gallery Heinz Holtmann, Cologne (solo)

1994 For F.N., Stiftung Weimarer Klassik Belvedere, Weimar, Germany (solo)

          Insights, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany

          Images 1987-94, Gallery Wolfgang Jahn, Landshut, Germany (solo)

          Transparent times, Gallery Borkowski, Hanover, Germany (solo)

1993 Myth Animal, 8. National of Drawing, Zeughaus Augsburg, Germany

          The abandoned shoes, Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn, Germany

          Vessels, Gallery Fred Jahn, Studio Gallery, Munich, Germany (solo)

1992 Casula, art station St. Peter, Cologne; St. Petri, Lubeck, Germany

          Symbols, Museum of Photography and Contemporary Art, Bremen, Germany

          Picture cycle Transparent time, Gallery Fahlbusch, Mannheim, Germany (solo)

          Time allocation, Kunstverein Heilbronn, Kunsthalle, Germany (solo)

          Vessels, Ceramic Workshop Margarethenhöhe, Essen, Germany (solo)

1991 Stunden Scheiben, Galerie Axel Holm, Ulm, Germany (solo)

          Relief pictures, Gallery Fred Jahn, Stuttgart, Germany (solo)

1990 Gallery Rhomberg, Innsbruck, Austria (solo)

          Exceeding - A cooperation, Gallery in the Taxispalais, Innsbruck, Austria (solo)

          Junction, Gallery Borowski, Hanover, Germany (solo)

1990 But that's really not what it looks like, Galerie Elke Zink, Baden-Baden, Germany (solo)