Andreas Golder shows us a controversial view of the world by using influences from different periods of painting and combining them with a styled attitude to life. His work is inspired by what he has found in the center of Berlin.
Golder’s artwork features subjects that oftentimes appear as slightly distorted figures — on the one hand seeming to live an entertaining life, while on the other hand they are fading away into their surroundings. Sometimes, they actually perish in their environment.
In one painting, you might see posing youngsters seemingly step through the canvas. In other works of art, his figures float in the pictorial space, doubling in their existence or stumbling on a staircase. Illustrating elements in his work — meet abstract forms and become a united space.
Golder’s work doesn’t indulge in a formal way. His paintings are pure, as he gives his private universe a form that affects unsuspecting viewers in a very provocative way. Golder knows what he wants — as a painter, he paints things that are ineffable. The lifestyle of credent people and simple failure of urban actions are his reoccurring themes.
He mostly works with photographic material in combination with found materials, which he’s reducing to the minimal. In the process of painting, he then changes it dramatically. Often, he uses his friends and himself as models.
Golder was born in 1979 in Ekaterinburg, Russia, and has been painting since six years of age. He lives and works since 1997 in Berlin. He has studied painting at the University of Arts in Berlin.