1975 born in Alzenau/Wasserlos
1996-1999 study of communication of design on the Fachhochschule Darmstadt
1997-2000 works in the company »escape« (computer game developer) in Darmstadt/Frankfurt
1999-2003study of painting and graphic on the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Dresden
2003 further studies at Prof. Ralf Kerbach at the HfBK
2004 stipendium hegenbarth by the Stiftung Kunst und Kultur der Stadtsparkasse Dresden
2008 Residence od artist - fellowship by Kulturstiftung des Freisstaates Sachsen in Baumwollspinnerei Leipzig
solo exhibitions
2010 »Specchio«, Kunstverein Bautzen, Germany; »piccolo«, galerie baer, Dresden, Germany
2008 »Nascondiglio«, Kunststiftung Poll, Berlin, Germany
2007 Städtische Galerien Isarlohn, Germany; »casa parallela«, galerie baer, Dresden, Germany
2006 »carta comune«, RWE Systems, Essen, Germany; »Nachbilder«, Städtische Galerie, Dresden, Germany; »bianco puro«, Marinella Canale, Rom, Italy; »ballare«, galerie baer, Dresden, Germany
2005 »hinter fassaden«, galerie baer, Dresden, Germany; Kunstwoche Jesteurg, Hegenbarth-Stipentiaten in der Stadtsparkasse Dresden, Germany
participations
2009 »All about...Dresden«, whiteBOX e.V., Munich, Germany; »nei loro occhi«, Deutsch-Italienische-Kulturgemeinschaft (ACIT), Germany, »Tre x tre in tre«, Palazzo Albrizzi, Venedig, Italy; »Salon Melantrich«, Prague, Czech Republic; »unser haus ist euer haus«, Prague (Galerie Dolmen 2010), Czech Republic, Munich (DOMAGK), Germany, Dresden, Germany; »Listen to your eyes«, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany; »Nichts mit -ung«, Villa Eschebach, Dresden, Germany; »facebook between empathy and abstraction«, galerie baer, Dresden, Germany
2008 »pro figura«, Stadtmuseum Bautzen, Germany; »remarks on color_part II_german tendencies«, Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, New York, USA; »Frühjahrssalon«, geh8, Dresden, Germany
2007 »Web Biennal 2007«, Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum, Turkey
2006 »Nachbilder«, Städtische Galerie Dresden, Germany; »Story and Structure«, Marella Galerie, Milan, Italy; »Zeichnungen«, Marinella Canale, Rom, Italy
2005 »profile«, galerie baer, Dresden, Germany; Prague Biennale 2, Czech Republic
2003 »14 Tage«, Dresden, Germany
2002 »Seitenwechsel«, Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden, Germany; »training«, Senatssaal der Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden, Germany
2001 »screenings 8«, Museum Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt/Main, Germany 2000 »Frühlingssalon«, Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden, Germany
In his collages, paintings and drawings Eckehard Fuchs depicts human portraits, or rather human figures entangled within a net of associations. The figures are always fitted into the format and mostly look out of the painting, thereby interacting with the viewer. Having said that, they seem hopelessly lost in self-contemplation. The artist often employs the hideous and shocking in order to narrate morale and emotions. Only rarely does Eckehard Fuchs employ descriptive attributes in order to portray relationships and situations of his own observation. It is the drastic and subtle gestures and the representation of partly exaggerated interactions between the protagonists which transport the thoughts and episodes.
Eckehard Fuchs’ figures are stiffly placed within the picture in a manner reminiscent of the Romanesque period, possess partly oversized heads as in the gothic style and present the spectator with a mirror in a kind of veristic outcry. His collages consist of drawings, in an adaptation of a paintbrush or pencil stroke the plane grows strip by strip, only to be underlined by the painter with intensive, strong colours borrowed from the medial colour scale.