Projects

Tina Oelker, Elternhaus auf Zeit, eine Autobiografie

Temporary parental home

„Elternhaus auf Zeit“, an Autobiography
What good is money if you keep it… my grandmother used to say. In 2018, Tina wrote about money, which turned into an autobiographical piece. Since there are more topics that belong to the journey, she will continue in this narrative style and start by keeping things rather brief.

Tina Oelker, Next stop Synchronicity

Veracity report

Accompanying project to Topia as a newsletter
Twice a month, Tina Oelker writes and records the ‚Veracity Report.‘ This lyrical and philosophical journey offers insights into her working methods and perspectives. You can subscribe to the newsletter, which includes these reports, free of charge.

Tina Oelker, Topia starts now

Topia / 25 Colours Stockhom

Topia (τοπία) = Landscapes
25 oilpaintings, each 150 x 150 cm, form the path. They form a composite picture and reveal the 7.5 x 7.5 m map. Each individual picture is both an independent module and a module that belongs together. The journey itself will be documented and will begin at the end of August 2024 with the Veracity Report.

Ongoing

Tina Oelker, Karteikartenbox

Tagessätze / Daily sentences

Since 2017, this has comprised a collection of ideas, insights and aphorisms that are recorded on numbered and signed index cards. These sentences often emerge in the flow of painting or during spontaneous walks. In 2023, a selection was published in “Arbeitsnotizen einer Malerin”, which offers insights into her artistic thinking.

Die Kryptiker

The Cryptics

A group of artists co-founded and curated by Tina Oelker since 14.12.2022 / The first Salon took place in April 2023 at the Redoute in Bonn, Salon 24 at the Artartist in Düsseldorf and Salon 25 is already planned for 11.1.2025 at the Künstlerforum Bonn. Tina will do another silent performance.

Tina Oelker, Gesellschaftsabende

Social Evenings

The social evenings, to which Tina Oelker invites 3 – 4 per year, blur the boundaries between artist, work and audience. They create a space for informal creative exchange and embody Oelker’s vision of art as an interactive, lively experience. These happenings are an introduction to the world of abstraction and her „Art Lab“.

Sekretariat Oelker

Secretariat Oelker

The “Sekretariat Tina Oelker” is a temporary and mobile installation with which the Hamburg artist draws on her repertoire of aphorisms and lyrical texts as well as reacting to the vibrant surroundings with drawings and an interdisciplinary approach.

Tina Oelker, Time

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Conceptual “Art on demand” project consisting of square oil paintings with the word “Time” as motif and content.

1000 Hasen, Original seit 2007

1000 Hasen / 1000 Hares

Multidimensional concept since 2007, which has consisted of thousands of originals, short films, texts, happenings and installations since 2014. A complete exhibition is still being planned. Another book is in the works for 2025, which will show the first third of the pictures.

Past

Tina Oelker, Such therapie zentrum a.v.B.

Search Therapy Center

The addiction therapy center a.v.B. is a room installation “outside of Berlin” in which the visitor is received, treated and then released by actors according to a complex set of rules.

Tina Oelker, Die Bank in Worms, 2021

The Bank

Interior painting in a former bank branch in Worms, temporary since 2021 Temporary wall painting since July 2021, interior painting in a former bank branch in Worms, Germany

Tina Oelker, Magazineforthearts

Magazineforthearts

The two magazines, in which Tina Oelker used graphics as an artistic stylistic device for the first time to combine her painting with her texts, were published in 2017 and 2018.

Tina Oelker, Timos Mixer

Palingenese

A series of objects and readymades that were installed in connection with the picture series and later photographed individually. Parts of these photos were subsequently processed into gifs or accompany the lyrical texts in the publications such as “Von Hasen und Göttern”.

Tina Oelker, Banquet of the 7 wise men

Banquet of the 7 wise men

Predecessor of the social evenings, interdisciplinary happening with a total of 7 performers at Alte Münze (Spreewerkstätten), Berlin, 2016

Foto: Christian Angl

Schützenfest Reloaded

Shooting festival reloaded

The “Schützenfest Reloaded” at Hafentor 7 was a three-week series of events that opened in December 2014 with the premiere of the experimental film of the same name. With daily exhibitions and happenings (except on Mondays, when it was a closing day), Tina Oelker, with the support of her Schütze colleague Xenia Peeck

Tina Oelker, das Wartezimmer

The waitingroom

Upon entering the exhibition, visitors are directed to a waiting area. There they will find a guide – a “recipe for perception” – which prepares them for the upcoming artistic experience. At the end of the reading, guests are asked to leave the waiting room and enter the other rooms of the exhibition.

Tina Oelker, das Leporello

The leporello

The lyrical texts have been part of all projects since 2014. The film marks the first time Tina Oelker has published her texts, which have been written since 2003. In 2023, a large part of the poems and an excerpt of her daily sentences were published in the book “Arbeitsnotizen einer Malerein”.

Hafentor7

Hafentor7

From October 2010 to January 2015, Tina Oelker curated monthly interdisciplinary exhibitions with over 200 students and established artists in the old brick building on the Landungsbrücken. The building was home to the Hasenmanufaktur Hamburg, where the 1000th bunny was celebrated on December 1, 2014.

Tina Oelker, City Hares

City hares

Tina Oelker guides the Daily Bunny through Hamburg, Munich, London and New York. “If you buy art, you don’t have to keep hunting for trophies in city centers.”.

Tina Oelker, The Weddingplan

The Weddingplan

Series of pictures, poems, short film and performance on the subject of „High Time“ („Hochzeit“ = Wedding), 2006

Tina Oelker, Silent Performance

Silent Performance

Tina Oelker first presented her ‚Silent Performance‘ at the 23 cr Gallery in London in 2004 and used it again in 2006. She writes intuitive and atmospheric sentences on a blackboard or the floor

Tina Oelker, 11 meter shooting

11 meter shooting

Installation with slide show for “Ball of Fame”, curated 2006 by Lara Brekenfeld (Further information will follow)

Tina Oelker, Deer Devine

Deer Devine

Group performance, Luna Landing, City Nord, 2006 (Further information will follow)

Tina Oelker, Galerie Durchgang, Schützenfest

Gallery Durchgang

In September 2003, Tina Oelker and Suxdorf Studios opened the gallery Durchgang at Milchstraße 21 A with a shooting party. The hunting license served as an invitation. (Further information will follow)

Tina Oelker, b-present, 2003

b-present

Interdisciplinary exhibition, Pinasberg, Hamburg, 2003 (Further information will follow)

Tina Oelker, Live Painting

Live Painting

Tina Oelker is known for her live painting, which she presented in various locations between 1996 and 2007. (Further information will follow)

Tina Oelker, Artvent

Artvent

In 2000, “24 brennt” was the first installed art event calendar in which visitors were involved in opening the packages. (Further information will follow)