Madeleine Boschan facts for kids

Madeleine Boschan (born 1979) is a German artist. She creates sculptures and installations that make you think about how we live and interact with the spaces around us.

About Madeleine Boschan

Madeleine Boschan studied art at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig (Braunschweig University of Art) from 2000 to 2006. She learned from the famous artist John Armleder.

Since 2010, her art has been shown in many big art places across Europe and North America. Her work often explores how people relate to buildings and their surroundings. She also looks at new ideas in Abstract art and how old collections of strange and wonderful things (called "cabinets of curiosities") still inspire art and science today.

Madeleine Boschan lives and works in Berlin, Germany.

Her Art Style

Early Sculptures

Since 2008, Madeleine Boschan has made her sculptures from things she finds. These "found objects" (also called objets trouvés) are changed, put back together, and given new life with bright colors. The parts she uses lose their original purpose. Even though her sculptures sometimes look like machines, they don't actually do anything. They are like old, broken machines that just sit there.

Exploring Color and Form

In 2013 and 2014, she started to rethink her art. She focused on basic ideas like standing, leaning, and expanding. She also began to use the main colors from "Technicolor" films – red, blue, green, yellow, magenta, cyan, plus black and white. For her, color isn't just painted on; it's a key part of how the sculpture is made and how it gets its shape.

How We Live Together

After 2016, Madeleine Boschan's art started to ask a very important question: "How to live together?" She explained that her earlier sculptures felt a bit distant. She wanted to make them more open and connected to the space around them, and to us. She feels all her artworks, even if they look different, ask the same big question: how does a body find its place and stand strong in the world?

Her later works explore "spaces within space." These are like imaginary, non-working objects that still hold hopeful ideas from architecture. She gets ideas from places like Brazilian art and architecture (like Oscar Niemeyer's designs), and even movies like Blade Runner with its bright billboards and the pastel colors of 1980s Miami.

In 2018 and 2019, she changed how she used empty spaces in her art. What used to be open pathways in her sculptures became solid shapes. This makes viewers feel a new connection to the art. The walls and spaces around her flat artworks now seem to connect with them, showing both their solid form and their potential to be like a painting.

Art Shows

Madeleine Boschan has shown her art in many places around the world. Here are some of her solo and group exhibitions:

Solo Exhibitions (selected)

• 2022: Lying on stony ground the fragments, Kirche St. Getrud, Cologne
• 2022: it´s just a kiss away, Galerie Bernd Kugler, Innsbruck, Austria
• 2019: In twilight these ridiculous and exquisite things descendingly move among the people, gently and imperishably, Sunday-S Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
• 2019: Tulips and chimneys, Galeria Maior, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
• 2017: BB 105/146, Galerie Lange und Pult, Zurich, Switzerland
• 2017: What lays bare in me, Collectors Agenda, Vienna, Austria
• 2016: in which its gaze, bent merely on itself, upholds and gleams, Hezi Cohen Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
• 2015: Escapement (with Andy Hope 1930), Neue Galerie Gladbeck, Germany
• 2014: Technicolor: a) Feld, b) Fläche, Marburger Kunstverein, Marburg, Germany
• 2013: Closed Space Stories, Hezi Cohen Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
• 2013: Say a body. Where none. Say a place. Where none. For the body. To be in., Kunstverein Ulm, Ulm, Germany
• 2012: An open Field, a Factory, a By-pass, Gloria, Berlin, Germany
• 2011: Kayfabe, Galerie Bernd Kugler, Innsbruck, Austria
• 2010: Kalt, modern und teuer, Kwadrat, Berlin, Germany

Group Exhibitions (selected)

• 2020: 31:women. (Exhibition after Marcel Duchamp, 1943)., Daimler Art Collection, Berlin, Berlin
• 2019: some trees, Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles, Los Angeles
• 2018: Junge Kunst / Junge Künstler, Skulpturenpark Heidelberg, Heidelberg
• 2017: Zehn Jahre Zürich, Galerie Lange + Pult, Zurich, Switzerland
• 2017: Modern sculpture, Galería Casado Santapau, Madrid, Spain
• 2016: Moby Dick Filets, Secession, Vienna, Austria
• 2015: Wo ist hier?# 2: Raum und Gegenwart, Kunstverein Reutlingen, Germany
• 2015: Vanitas extended, Stedelijk Museum, Ypres, Belgium
• 2014: Luggage and observations, Galerie Klaus Gerrit Friese, Stuttgart, Germany
• 2013: Novecento mai visto. Highlights from the Daimler Art Collection. From Albers to Warhol to now, Museo di Santa Giulia, Brescia, Italy
• 2012: Accelerating toward Apocalypse (Private / Corporate VII), Daimler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
• 2012: Abstract confusion, Kunsthalle Erfurt, Erfurt, Germany
• 2011: Based in Berlin, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany
• 2011: Abstract confusion, Kunstverein Ulm, Ulm, Germany

Art Collections

Madeleine Boschan's artworks are part of important private and public collections, including:

• Daimler Art Collection, Stuttgart, Germany
• Philara – Sammlung zeitgenössischer Kunst, Düsseldorf, Germany