Daniel Thurau

1972 born in Köthen/ Anhalt

1993-96 studies law, philosophy and sociology at the Martin-Luther-Universität in Halle/ Wittenberg

1994-98 night school at the Hochschule für bildende Kunst und Design, Burg Giebichenstein, Halle/ Saale

1999/2000 travels to New York, London, Prag, Griechenland, Spanien, Italien, Marokko, pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostella

2001 moves to Berlin, where he lives and works as a free painter

Daniel Thurau is as much influenced by his philosophical , sociological and and legal studies as by the desire not to consider painting as isolated, but rather as a comprehensive work of art. This thinking goes back to the Bauhaus ideas and as well to the Brücke movement at the beginning of the 20^th century in Dresden. It as one of the reasons why in 1998 Daniel Thurau found the group »KG Eiland« together with Morea ( Peter Rühle) and Oran, after ideas of Aldous Huxley expressed in his novel »Island«.

When Huxley published »Island« thirty years after »Brave New World« , he thought of an idealized reply to »Brave New World » and the affluent society he had criticized there. Furthermore the young artists of »KG Eiland » are pleased by Huxley's principle of anarchistic order in »Island«, that is familiar to them as well because of A.R.Penck . An island is not only a retreat to a small piece of landscape surrounded by water, that you percieve from a distance An island offers as well the possibility of an independant way of life. Here the artists can build up a surrounding where they can formulate their ideas without constraint. The idea behind KG Eiland is to reject existentialistic and nihilistic philosophies in favor of a positive, artistic view of the world defined by the arts.

Ausstellungen

1998 Stadt und Kreissparkasse Halle

2001 Tacheles, Berlin

2002 Sagemarket, Berlin

2002 absolut respectless-respectless, Berlin

2002 morphio, mit Sebastian Hempel, Galerie Oran, Dresden

2003 Backfabrik, Berlin

2003 Immer nur das Eine, Frauenbilder, Raab Galerie Berlin