Rainer Fetting. The Armory Show

Rainer Fetting is one of the protagonists of the so-called "Junge Wilde", who at the end of the 1970s and beginning of the 1980s consciously turned to figurative, expressive, and color-intensive painting and thus opposed the abstract and conceptual tendencies prevailing in art at the time. While in the 1980s and early 1990s his two residences in Berlin and New York inspired his motifs, Rainer Fetting now commutes between the German capital and the island of Sylt.

Rainer Fetting (DE 1949) lives and works between Berlin and Sylt. Among others, he is represented in the collections of Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Berkeley Art Museum, CA, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Kunstmuseum Basel, Nationalgalerie, Berlin, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main and Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA. He is currently part of the group exhibitions "size matters" at Kunstmuseum Basel, CH and "Bilder, die wir lieben" at Kunsthalle Emden, DE. Among others, he had solo exhibitions at Vincent Van Gogh Huis, Zundert (2022), Dortmunder U (2021) and Kunstmuseum Ahrenshoop (2015). Recent group exhibitions included "Miettinen Collection: I Will Look Into the Earth" at Kunsthalle Helsinki, "Mostra Fragility - The Dance of Life and Death", at Spazio Per Arte, Olleggio, IT and "Nationalgalerie. A Collection for the 21st Century", at Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (all 2026).

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