Michael Laube’s artistic development has its basis in painting. With his turning to acrylic glass as a carrier medium, he has transcended and broadened the familiar boundaries of the painterly to include spatiotemporal perspectives, which thus permit him more radical forms for his examinations of the themes of light, movement, color, and space. In his works, colorful structures interact in sequences of solid-colored stripes or rings, which then undergo, in part radical, alterations with a change in the viewer’s position. Beginning with a basis layer, he mounts differently designed intermediate layers, so that a moving “in front of and behind” arises as a result of this layering. The monograph Space Reloaded provides insights into Michael Laube’s artistic work of the last five years.
140 pages
24,50 × 30,50 cm
Kerber Verlag, 2016
ISBN 978-3-7356-0326-5
Euro 38,00
Michael Laube (*1955 in Coburg) transgresses the boundaries of traditional painting in his own unique way, opening them up to different dimensions of space and time. Although the color in his acrylic glass objects and installations remains captured in the surface, it still seems dematerialized, disembodied, and never concretely localized. It becomes part of the surrounding space, woven into a dynamic, variable system of forces that is formed from light.
The refractions, reflections, and highlights of the painted acrylic glass sheets, which are often arranged in layers, transform space into a multidimensional event that can be described anew again and again as one walks past it, thereby ruling out any absolute perception of Laube’s works. They challenge the viewer to change perspective and do not conform to the definition of pure objectuality. This is the first comprehensive publication to present the Berlin-based artist’s oeuvre.
180 pages
24,8 × 32,6 cm
Hatje Cantz, 2009
ISBN 978-3-7757-2514-9
Euro 39,80
The catalogue was published on occasion of Michael Laubes solo show at the Overbeck-Gesellschaft Lübeck.
36 pages
21 × 23 cm
Overbeck-Gesellschaft Lübeck, 2005
Michael Laube was born in Coburg in 1955.
He studied from 1986 until 1994 at the Hochschule der Künste Berlin.
He lives and works in Berlin.
Scholarship of the Karl-Hofer-Gesellschaft, Berlin
Award of the Darmstädter Sezession für junge Kunst, Darmstadt, Germany
Art Award Zweibrücken, Kunstverein Zweibrücken, Germany
Michael Laube, Kuckei + Kuckei Showroom Palma, Palma, Spain
about polygons, Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin, Germany
The world unseen, Laura Rathe Fine Art, Houston, TX
Eye Candy, Laura Rathe Fine Art, Houston, TX
even/bent, Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin
Illusion, Laura Rathe Fine Art, Dallas, TX
Raum 15, Kunstverein Münsterland, Coesfeld, Germany
Raum 14, Kunstverein Emsdetten, Emsdetten, Germany
Stray Light, Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin
Geschichtet, Galerie Bernd A. Lausberg, Düsseldorf, Germany
Space Reloaded, Kunsthalle Cloppenburg, Cloppenburg, Germany
Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin
New Work, Lausberg Contemporary, Toronto, ON
Raum 10, Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin
Objekte und Installationen, Galerie Robert Drees, Hannover, Germany
Raum 9, Overbeck – Gesellschaft, Lübeck, Germany
Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin
Raum 8, Kunstverein Friedrichshafen, Friedrichshafen, Germany
Raum 7, Kunstverein Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin
30 Meter, Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin
Galerie Op Art Company, Karlsruhe, Germany
Neue Arbeiten, Galerie vierte Etage, Berlin
Galerie Op Art Company, Karlsruhe, Germany
Investitions Bank Berlin, Berlin
Sehstücke, Schering Kunstverein, KunstRaum Berlin, Berlin
Vorsicht frisch gestrichen, Galerie vierte Etage, Berlin
sub rosa, Galerie Buschgraben, Berlin
Galerie Broschwitz, Berlin
zwei.mal.raum, Galerie Robert Drees, Hannover, Germany
Relief, Loop – Raum für aktuelle Kunst, B-Part Exhibition, Berlin, Germany
more than minimal, Collectors Room Hamburg im Pavillon, Bad Gastein
Pure – Phänomene des Betrachtens II, Galerie Bernd A. Lausberg, Dusseldorf, Germany
Color Story: Michael Laube & Paul Rousso , Laura Rathe Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Here We Are, MPV Gallery, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands
from dawn till dusk // update, Galerie Robert Drees, Hannover, Germany
Invited by:, Galerie Robert Drees, Hannover, Germany
Celebrating 20 years, Laura Rathe Fine Art, Houston, TX
EINSNULLNULL, Galerie Robert Drees, Hannover, Germany
Rorschach – an Experiment,Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin
Michael Laube / Gavin Rain, Laura Rathe Fine Art, Dallas, TX
Vanguard, Laura Rathe Fine Art, Houston, TX
Psychedelic, JanKossen Contemporary Art Gallery, New York City, NY
Michael Laube / James Verbicky, Laura Rathe Fine Art, Houston, TX
zwei.mal.raum, Galerie Robert Drees, Hannover, Germany
Exhibition Kobe, Galerie Mark Peet Visser. ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Belgium
Winter Group Exhibition, Lausberg Contemporary, Toronto
Spiel-Zeuge, Freshfields, Bruckhaus, Deringer, München, Germany
KunstStoff, Galerie DIS, Maastricht, Netherlands
Upstairs Downstairs, Lausberg Contemporary, Toronto, ON
Occasion, galerie remixx, Graz, Austria
Winter Thaw, Lausberg Contemporary, Toronto, ON
Beyond Painting, Lausberg Contemporary, Toronto, ON
shifting, Galerie Robert Drees, Hannover, Germany
Die Farbe Bunt, Galerie Lausberg, Düsseldorf, Germany
Kunst im kleinen Format, Overbeck-Gesellschaft Lübeck, Germany
Best of Lausberg Contemporary, Lausberg Contemporary, Toronto, ON
gegenstandslos, Gesellschaft für Kunst und Gestaltung, Bonn
German Wave, Karin Weber Gallery, Hong Kong
Tower/Lights, Kunstallianz 1 Berlin, Berlin
personal structures: schwarzweiss als farbe, Galerie Bernd A. Lausberg, Düsseldorf, Germany
Konstruktiv, galerie remixx, Graz, Austria
STRIPES – LINES – COLORS, Galerie Wolfgang Exner, Wien, Austria
JUNGER SOMMER 2004 – OBJEKTE – FOTOGRAFIE – MALEREI, Galerie Wolfgang Exner, Wien, Austria
SET -Ein Werkstattbericht, Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin
Colors & Stripes, Galerie Robert Drees, Hannover, Germany
don, Chinati Foundation, Marfa TX
Kunstsalon Wolfsberg, Zürich, CH
Sommerausstellung, Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin
Stadtkunstprojekte, Berlin-Köpenick, Berlin
Sommer 1999, Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin
Werkschau 6, Neues Kunstquartier, Berlin
Galerie Schrade, Schloss Mochental
Stipendiaten der Karl-Hofer-Gesellschaft, Kunstamt Kreuzberg-Bethanien, Berlin
Investitionsbank Berlin, Berlin
Biennale internationale d’art miniature, Salle Augustin-Chenier inc., Quebec, Canada
Fax-Art: Hommage an Heidelberg, Ottheinrichsbau, Heidelberg, Germany
Blick!, Haus der Boecker GmbH, Berlin
Nachtraum, eine Ausstellung im Dunkel, Internetprojekt, Berlin
100, Galerie Broschwitz, Berlin
Fünf Berliner Künstler, Galerie Kinter, Remshalden-Geradstetten, Germany
Per Versand, Galerie Kinter, Remshalden-Geradstetten, Germany
Fünf Berliner Künstler, Galerie vierte Etage, Berlin
Berlin – Glasgow, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, GB
Arbeiten auf Papier, Galerie vierte Etage, Berlin
Auszug, Waldenser Ateliers, Berlin
Zweitakt, Kunst aus Berlin-Ost und Berlin-West, Ausstellungszentrum am Alexanderplatz, Berlin
Preis der Darmstädter Sezession für junge Kunst, Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt, Germany
Kunstpreis Zweibrücken, Kunstverein Zweibrücken, Germany
Musikschule Marzahn, Berlin
HTWK – Hochschule für Technik, Wirtschaft und Kultur Leipzig
Chapel at Marienschule Potsdam
Mein Schiff 3 – Große Freiheit Bar & Coffeehouse, Royal Caribbean Cruises
Deutscher Bundestag, Berlin
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Berlin
NORD/LB Hannover
Volksfürsorge Hamburg