Marc Gumpinger - oil paintings of algorithmic aesthetics

Allianz Art Collection, Munich

180 cm × 240 cm, Oil on canvas

Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen

170 cm × 300 cm, Oil on canvas

Material Goods, New York

170 cm × 300 cm, Oil on canvas

Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich

130 cm × 100 cm, Oil on canvas

Porsche AG, Zuffenhausen

Various works, Oil on canvas

Private Collection, Germany

140 cm × 100 cm, Oil on canvas

HGContemporary, New York

280 cm × 200 cm, Oil on canvas

Exhibition, London

89 cm × 64 cm, Oil on canvas

Private Collection, Germany

6× 40 cm × 30 cm, Oil on canvas

Corporate Exhibition, Germany

75 cm × 58 cm, Oil on lead

Exhibition, San Francisco

Various sizes, Oil on canvas

Deutsches Museum, Munich

Corporate Collection, Germany

3× 130 cm × 100 cm, Oil on canvas

Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst

Various sizes, Oil on canvas

Private Collection, Germany

100 cm × 130 cm, Oil on canvas

Phillips Auction, New York

100 cm × 75 cm, Oil on canvas

Allianz Art Collection, Germany

140 cm × 100 cm, Oil on canvas

Exhibition, Bamberg

275 cm × 170 cm, Oil on canvas

Private Collection, Austria

37 cm × 25 cm, Oil on lead

Private Collection, Germany

100 cm × 100 cm, Oil on canvas

Private Collection, Austria

24 cm × 32 cm, Oil on rendering

Private Collection, Germany

130 cm × 100 cm, Oil on canvas

Private Collection, Germany

Various sizes, Oil on rendering

Private Collection, Germany

130 cm × 100 cm, Oil on canvas

Private Collection, Germany

24 cm × 18 cm, Oil on lead

Private Collection, Germany

Various sizes, Oil on rendering

Private Collection, Germany

120 cm × 90 cm, Oil on lead

Private Collection, Germany

2× 20 cm × 20 cm, Oil on canvas laid on board

Private Collection, Germany

30 cm × 20 cm, Oil on canvas

Private Collection, Germany

3× 60 cm × 75 cm, Oil on canvas

Private Collection, Germany

170 cm × 300 cm, Oil on canvas

Private Collection, Germany

130 cm × 100 cm, Oil on canvas

Private Collection, Paris

100 cm × 140 cm, Oil on canvas

Porsche AG, Zuffenhausen

Light Installation, Barcelona

900 cm × 300 cm

Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich

Allianz Art Collection, Munich

Material Goods, New York

State Ministry of Science and Art, Munich

HGContemporary, New York

Collections (selection)

Allianz Art Collection
Bavarian State Painting Collections
Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen
Hypo-Kulturstiftung

Coverage (selection)

Aviso Magazin
Damaged Magazine
Frame Magazine
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Handelsblatt
Hedonist
Hohe Luft
International Journal for Digital Art History
Monopol
Süddeutsche Zeitung
Weltkunst
Zeit

Shows (selection)

State Ministry for Science and Art, Munich
Staatsministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst, München
German Museum / 1E9, Munich
Deutsches Museum / 1E9, München
The Unit, London
If so, what?, San Francisco
Art Wynwood, Miami
HGContemporary, New York

Talks (selection)

BlueYard Venture Capital
Center for Digital Technology & Management, CDTM
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG, SPP „Das digitale Bild“
Friedrich Ebert Stiftung
HeartHouse
HypoVereinsbank UniCredit
Institut für Kunstgeschichte, LMU München
Lion's Club
MK@Hauck Aufhäuser
Plug & Play Tech Center
Target Partners Venture Capital

About

Marc Gumpinger's work is characterized by the search for new forms of representation that result from the abstract construction spaces of programming. The central element is the discrepancy between the technologies that are so precise on the one hand and the simultaneous unpredictability of the results. This vagueness is due to the special procedure in which Marc Gumpinger does not create his motifs by hand with digital tools, but rather writes algorithms through which the motifs are created procedurally. He thereby develops sets of rules, whose motivic characteristics are essentially defined by chance, which results from the use of noise algorithms and is therefore no longer in his hand. He plans his work meticulously in advance in order to often take a completely different path after a few steps, which is much more shaped by the inherent logic of the resulting motifs than by the technological tools.
After all, Marc Gumpingers works provide insight into the vastly emerging field of generative aesthetics which is set to become the “New Pop” given that our visual life is set to be dominated by this new aesthetic — from architecture to product design to gaming to visual effects.