Black cat (One way), 2023

Oliver Zabel  

Born in 1969, Oliver Zabel is a time traveler, a wandering artist born in the 1960s from object art. Its history encompasses a wide range of expressive strategies, ranging from the absurd-poetic material montages of Dadaism to the material events and assemblages of Pop Art to the spatial installations of today.

A graduate in plastic arts with a specialization in sculpture Oliver is also a curator of plastic artists on international projects.

For his installations, Oliver finds and collects mundane, seemingly worthless objects and places them in a contemporary context. In his works, he rearranges the everyday beauty of found objects into a new aesthetic unity. By changing perception, they become poetic and ironic stagings of everyday life.

Oliver Zabel is part of the tradition of Marcel Duchamp who, in 1913, for the first time raised an everyday object to the rank of a work of art, thus marking the term "ready-made". He thus raises the question of the understanding of art and at the same time lays the groundwork for the development of object art.

Oliver Zabel lives and works in Bremen, Germany.