Published by Kerber. Text by Helmut Middendorf, Michael Stoeber.
During the 1970s and ’80s, German painter Helmut Middendorf (born 1953) lived in the SO 36 district of Berlin’s Kreuzberg. This catalog presents a wide selection of his works from that era, many of which were inspired by the neighborhood’s famous music venue, also called SO 36.
Published by Kerber. Text by Francesco Bonami, Catherine Cafopoulos, Marina Fokidis, Helmut Middendorf, Jürgen Weichardt.
Since the 1990s, German “Neuen Wilden” painter Helmut Middendorf (born 1953)—renowned for his expressive paintings and drawings, photography and collage—has spent time living and producing experimental works in Athens. This book presents a selection of Middendorf’s works created in his Athens studio, including a number that are previously unpublished.
Published by Kerber. Text by Wolfgang Max Faust, Heinrich Klotz, Helmut Middendorf, Walter Grasskamp, et al.
This publication documents the exhibitions of large-scale paintings by German artist Helmut Middendorf (born 1953), from the late 1970s into the 1980s. Archival photographs and previously unpublished images help provide a glimpse into the art scene in Berlin and New York at that time.
Since the mid-1980s, Helmut Middendorf (born 1953) has created collages, sketchbooks and paintings that satirize the enormity of contemporary media waste, from magazines and newspapers to digital downloads. This publication documents a selection of work made between 1994 and 2012.
Helmut Middendorf incorporates found images from comic strips, tabloids and art history in his layered, frenetic paintings. In an interview included in this catalogue of works from the last ten years he lists some of his artistic inspirations: Schwitters, Rauschenberg, Guston and Warhol, and also the novelist Bret Easton Ellis, a line of whose he has employed as a title of several paintings: "We slide on the surface of things."