Milan ’s Dep Art Gallery opens on September 29 at 6 p.m. the exhibition Gerold Miller. Works, the first solo exhibition of German artist Gerold Miller hosted at the gallery’s Milan location. The exhibition, curated by Frank Boehm, will be open from September 30 to December 2025 and features a selection of twenty works created especially for the occasion. These works bear witness to the most recent developments in the production of Miller, an artist whose creative journey eludes conventional classifications and challenges the viewer’s perception and understanding.
Miller’s expressive language, while definable in a general sense as a reduced form, rejects sharp references to abstract modernism or Konkrete Kunst (Concrete Art), with which it shares only a certain historical proximity. As early as the 1980s, during his studies, the artist developed his work into groups and series based on radical conceptual principles, sometimes leaving room for spontaneous intuition. Looking at the evolution of his works reveals a plurality of approaches and an openness to the principles he himself defined. Miller’s works stand at the boundary between image and body. Working without romanticism, the artist uses techniques that can be classified as sculptural, while the formats and installations hark back to the tradition of panel painting, with emphasis on the margin and frame. The viewer is confronted with a paradox: works precisely positioned in space, rooted in the real and the present, evoke pictorial history and, at the same time, create an undefined and boundless visual space.
The exhibition includes recent works belonging to the wall series set, instant vision, Profil and Verstärker (amplifier), the latter placed freely in space. The design of the exhibition was carried out in close collaboration with the artist, and will be accompanied by a bilingual Italian-English volume collecting all the works on display and a text by curator Boehm, which comprehensively outlines the development of Miller’s work.
Gerold Miller, born in Altshausen, Germany, in 1961, studied sculpture at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Stuttgart. His early works are located in the vibrant Berlin art scene, where he made steel structures, sometimes combined with stone, also installed outdoors. His training and formative experiences coincide with a crucial period in European history: 1989, the year of the fall of the Berlin Wall. This phase marks an evolution of his art toward an interactive dialogue between the viewer and the surrounding space.
An early creative highlight is the 1990 series Anlagen (composition), works that combine sculpture and painting and challenge traditional artistic demarcations. The interplay of space, color and form is at the heart of Miller’s work, which over time has shifted the boundaries of perception and redefined the relationship between viewer and work. From the beginning, the artist has shown interest in the concept of the frame, understood as the demarcation between illusion and tangible reality, a central element even in his early creations and in the deconstruction of the image into its fundamental components. Miller’s works invite a direct confrontation with the space and temporal dimension of the work itself. Their placement in space, choice of materials, and relationship to light and the viewer’s perception contribute to a context in which painting and sculpture overlap seamlessly. The precision of the installations and their radical adherence to present reality allow them to evoke cultural and visual memories while leaving open an undefined visual space.
“An image is defined by size, proportion, materials, composition, density, foreground and background. All these elements are present in my work,” the artist claims.
Dep Art Gallery offers with this solo exhibition a broad and in-depth overview of Gerold Miller’s recent production, confirming the importance of his work in the field of contemporary European art. The exhibition allows a direct observation of the artist’s ability to reconcile conceptual rigor and expressive freedom, through works that dialogue with each other and with the surrounding space, presenting a complex and articulated perspective of his creative journey.
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