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New York has been the first stop in America for numerous German literates, philosophers and artists. In celebration of their contributions in New York and in the spirit of promoting artistic exchange worldwide, Agora Gallery is pleased to present “Contemporary German Art: The New York Experience.” The exhibition is an exciting collection of contemporary fine art, offering New York art enthusiasts insight into the art movement in Germany today.
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Zoran Gavric
 
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I have been painting since I was a child and have always loved artwork. I have been influenced and inspired by many Western artists, including Picasso, Da Vinci, Dali and Kandinsky. However, I have also been much influenced by growing up in a Communist country, albeit one with a non-aligned stance. The tension between state and religion when I was growing up produced conflicts which emerge in my work as strong passions. As I paint, I try to portray individual emotions of sadness, fear, disappointment and hope - especially since the recent conflict during the break up of Yugoslavia which had a significant impact on my life. I hope that I can express some of this through my art - the pain, the suffering, the joy and the hope. These are recurring themes for me and I want to share them with others.
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Beruhre Meine Hand
"Beruhre Meine Hand"
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Sis Zum Ende
"Sis Zum Ende"
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CC Johnson
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In the act of creation, one transcends the visible reality. Every true painting is the beginning of a new reality. This is an extreme change, like the transition between life and death, between the visible and the invisible. I am in a dream dimension, but a Dream as real as the Visible I left behind. The dream returns to be a part of a macrocosm: I meet people flying, birds speaking, trees reaching out with their branches to embrace – they are all my friends. The translation of my experience into a material representation is what takes an enormous amount of work. The painting takes form: the colors replace my blood, form my thought. I love oil and pigments. I work with multiple techniques. I use watercolors, egg tempera, gouache, pieces of paper woven into the background, and, sometimes, an embedded leaf. A painting grows like a tree.
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The Lovers
"The Lovers"
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Uppsala
"Uppsala"
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Brigitte Martha Keller
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Emotions are images. I photograph them and translate them into paintings that capture Moments. My paintings are visual statements. I tempt and seduce the viewer with this visual language - just as I am tempted, seduced and moved by what I photograph and paint. In the creative process, I break away from the photographic logic so my work becomes no longer a record, but an event in and of itself. In this creative process, an image, free of its original source, becomes a connection between reality and imagination. My images begin in the realm of “collective memory” but I inseminate them heavily with "art-historical memory". In the end my DNA is all over my final images. My paintings mirror my mind, blood, and body. This process is a product of my creative orgy and my most sublime and orgasmic ecstasy. In my work, my flesh and blood, my life and my visions become and stay immortal.
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Children's Room #1
"Children's Room #1"
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Children's Room #2
"Children's Room #2"
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Christiane Lohrig
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My paintings are counted as experimental art, color-focused and largely abstract. The origins of my paintings are my experiences, adventures and memories, often related to nature and expressed in my own individual pictorial language. My creative process is protracted and very complex, because the mostly large-sized paintings on canvas or wood are developed in many different stages. Step by step, I apply acrylic, sand, collagen, paper rags or rusty steel with brushes or spatulas, rollers, sponges and even my hands. Later I use spray paint and stencils, followed by gentle repainting. Characters and figures are carved into the wet color or applied with ink to appear out of the depths of the pictorial ground. The mix of materials, sculptural character and secret hints included in the images mean that the paintings take viewers on an enthralling voyage of discovery into the world of the unconscious and the emotions.
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Wandbild
"Wandbild"
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Manege Frei
"Manege Frei"
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Linde Unrein
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To me, paintings represent empty spaces, in which things can recreate themselves. So there arise on canvas, paper or foil my very own adaptations of myths which have ripened throughout the centuries. By doing this, I consciously come face to face with coincidence, which I experience as something very uplifting. It can offer so much more than I could ever come up with alone. By being courageous enough to jump into emptiness, one can find a very profound beauty. Using drawings and pigments, I try to oscillate between control and delimitation. When I paint, I try to give structure to something which is chaotic and unfathomable. I try to transform it as a picture into a thing with the illusion of timelessness and the possibility, at the same time, of being graspable.
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Daphne flieht II – Die Mülldaphne
"Daphne flieht II – Die Mülldaphne"
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Name des Vaters II (Part 1, 2 & 3)
"Name des Vaters II (Part 1, 2 & 3)"
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