David Fletcher is an English artist who lives and works in Hamburg. His practice takes a multi-disciplinary approach but is rooted in a continued dialogue with painting, which he views as a ‘first choice among many – many being infinity’. His work draws on a tension between the biographic, the epic, the sincere and the stupid. He is interested in how material properties and processes can transform and extend into the metaphorical and linguistic realm – and thus alter perception and thought.
Solo Exhibitions
2022 Peeled off (Performance), Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Hamburg
_ Die Wiener Knäbchen, Studio 45, Künstlerhaus Wendenstraße, Hamburg
2021 Daddy in The Great War, Galerie Wassermühle Trittau, Trittau
2020 The Endless Rose, Kunstverein for Mecklenburg und Vorpommern, Schwerin
2018 Rivers of Germany, Mom Art Space, Hamburg
2017 Büro David Fletcher, Dorothea Schlueter, Hamburg
2015 The Carp of the Tench, Galerie Dorothea Schlueter, Hamburg
2012 David Fletcher, Dorothea Schlueter/DARE Magazine, Hamburg
Two Person and Group Exhibitions
2024 Love and Obstacles / Liebe und Hindernisse, David Fletcher und Franziska Opel, Stadtscheune Otterndorf
2023 Anywhere out of the world, Peter Boué und David Fletcher, 8.Salon, Hamburg
_ Hellblau, Lyra Raum, Hamburg
_ Kleine Gesellschaft für Untiefen, David Fletcher, Anna Lena Grau und Asana Fujikawa, Frise Künstlerinnenhaus, Hamburg
_ All you can´t eat, Hartikel zu Gast im Hinterconti, Hamburg
2022 Hamburg Stipendiat*innen 2020 2021, Sammlung Falckenberg der Deichtorhallen Hamburg
2021 All of this justifies Thinking of, Mom Art Space Hamburg curated by Dagmar Rauwald
_ Art Off, Hamburger Kultursommer, West Walk
2020 Brot und Sand, Nachtspeicher Hamburg
2019 Nominees, Kunsthaus, Hamburg
_ The Bone Sets the Tone, but the Tissue is the Issue, David Fletcher and Timo Roter, Hinterconti, Hamburg
_ Je Suis Une Galerist, David Fletcher and Nele Budelman, Hamburg
_ Talking to Walls, David Fletcher and Lawrence Power, , Frise, Hamburg
_ Kleine Gesellschaft für das geklebte Leben, Kleine Gesellschaft, Hamburg
_ Art Off Hamburg, Frappant Gallery, Hamburg
2018 Open Galaxy, Frise, Hamburg
_ Die neue Mona Lisa, Galerie Melike Belir, Hamburg
2013 David Fletcher and Simon Logan, Galerie Dorothea Schlueter, Hamburg
2011 The Fish Market, The Salon of the Vernacular, Northampton
_ Marmite Painting Prize, Nunnery Gallery, London, and travelling
_ Core Open, Core Gallery London
2010 David Fletcher and Paul Savage, Madame Lilly’s, London
2009 Shunt, Cluster, Berlin (with Roy Voss and Simon Logan)
2008 BALK, Trotoir, Hamburg
_ Civilization_Spurns_the_Leopard!, Blythe Gallery, London
_ The Mucalyd: Ben Birch and David Fletcher, Madame Lilly’s, London
2007 Jerwood Contemporary Painters, Jerwood Space, London and travelling
_ New Contemporaries, New Art Gallery, Walsall and travelling
_ Top 20, 39, London
Publications
2022 Hartikel Pocket Tales, ONE%ofONE Verlag, Hamburg
2021 Nature, Pfeil-Magazin, Montez-Press, Hamburg/London
2019 Love Story from the Distant Future, LCB, Berlin
2018 The Humane Toilet, ONE%ofONE Verlag, Hamburg
2006 New Contemporaries, Cornerhouse Publications, Manchester
_ Jerwood Contemporary Painters, Jerwood, London
Grants and Residencies
2020 Projektförderung durch den Hilfsfonds »Kultur hält zusammen« der Dorit & Alexander Otto-Stiftung und der Hamburgischen Kulturstiftung
_ Projektförderung "Kunst kennt keinen Shutdown" im Rahmen des Förderschwerpunkts Bildende Kunst der Hamburgischen Kulturstiftung
_ Hamburger Arbeitsstipendium
2018 Artist in Residence, Gängeviertel, Hamburg
2006 John Hansard Award for Painting, University of Southampton
Education
2004 — 2006 MA Painting, Royal College of Art London
2001 — 2004 BA Painting, Winchester School of Art
1999 — 2000 Foundation Art and Design, Salford College
Collections
Sparkassen-Kulturstiftung Stormarn
Kunstsammlung Schwerin