Only a week left of my exhibition ‘in all weathers’! Thanks again to Alex and all the @nosbaum.reding team. I apologies for my crappy cheesy reel! Shot by the wonderful @annanosslin Also gotta thank @sashabogojev for the great write up! Cheers everyone!
#artist #williamgrob #exhibition #collectingart
River Crossing from last year (150 X 160cm) . There's something about an infinite meandering bend of a river that leads us somewhere near or somewhere far, to open water or further up the hill. From a series that is looking at the liminality. The saying 'the grass is greener on the other side' is something i feel we all deal with today. And more than we did yesterday.
A generation(s) of the near-total digitalisation, we all for some reason feel it could be better. here or there, now or then. These paintings are kinda my inner working 'character' beckoning me to either stay still or swim across the river.
#williamgrob #grassisgreenerontheotherside #liminality #kunst #berlinartist
SPOTLIGHT - William Grob
@williamgrob (UK/CH) is a Berlin-based painter. He took part in our exhibition 2012 Never Happened (2023), where a selection of his works from his series Lost Millenials was presented.
Developed during the global outbreak of coronavirus, the series portrays a generation that is collectively present yet fundamentally isolated, navigating conditions shaped by consumer society and emotional dislocation.
Unable to express himself verbally until the age of seven, Grob developed an early reliance on visual language. The use of colour and form as a means of articulating emotional states remains central to his practice. His work often borders between reality and absurdity within everyday scenes, often depicting the loneliness of the human condition, at times underscored by a subtle sense of satire.
Working primarily in oil, his practice moves between figuration and dreamlike abstraction, shaped by an intuitive process where memory, imagination, and atmosphere converge.
Grob graduated with a BA in Photography from Falmouth University in 2014 and has since exhibited internationally, with shows in Berlin, London, Brussels, and Luxembourg, including presentations at @luisacatucci_contemporary , @frieze.london and @nosbaum.reding
We spoke with him over email and Instagram to reflect on his recent work and artistic process.
watery scenes are kind of dominating my painting these days. I love trying to fake the texture of water, oily, turp’d paint moves like water but sets on its own accord.
Watery scenes are kind of dominating my painting these days. I love trying to fake the texture of water, oily, turp’d paint moves like water but sets on its own accord.
My figures stand at the edge of water, always on the wrong side. The paintings divide like a river divides — two banks, two worlds, and the painter not knowing which one he belongs to. Certainly not a problem to solve.
#kunst #emergingartist #artist #williamgrob
'Where do we go from here?'
(top right image) showed me how much joy I can find by imagining how light hits water. And now for the last year, water has become my protagonist.
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(top right image) showed me how much joy I can find by imagining how light hits water. And now, for the last year, water has become my protagonist.
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#kunst #water #dream #oilpainting #artiststudio #berlinartist
'Wading through the River' is a piece that has many layers (planned and unplanned) Rivers and an unknown time of day seem to be the beating pulse of this current series.
I'm reading a Juliette Levy book 'Wanderers in the New Forest' and I'm in love with the idea of a forest gypsy. figures who moved through the world in trust, guided by the land beneath their feet.
#RiverMythologies
#LandscapeAsMemory
#PainterlyTime
‘ chicken of the woods ‘ This was one of the last paintings I finished last year. It’s painting with a boy in a forest holding his chicken. For some reason, chicken is a lot of things. The men in my life, my brother and my dad have pet chickens which have lived very long lives. Treating like family except they’re in a coop at the end of the vegetable garden. After after years of keeping them only three are left. One of these three has survived three fox extinction events her name is chicken lick’n. Chicken for me, sorry to all the vegetarians, is a communal event, a roast brings everyone to the table. Every part of the bird has always used and I got a lot of time for chicken. On a side note I just planted 50 plugs of chicken of the woods around their coop. Let’s see. If you’re still here I thought I’d start to treat these captions more like a rolling ramble, with a dictaphone. Because Fuck it xxx
Beyond the Clouds, 2025. Happy christmas, you lovely bunch of joy givers.
this painting comes from the love the hills, standing on top and feeling the world is below. swimmers, boats, mist and mountains. endless roads (in this case river) that lead to nowhere. everything illuminated by some unknown.
What do you think?
xx
The Strange spectacle of dignity, 2025.
A lot of my work has fallin into some imagined pagan realm of trying to understand spirituality without joining a cult. imagining what times where like in the past when some weird bloke invited you into the woods to do some pagan things. fires, smoke, red glows, weird chants that hypnotise, calm peace as fires burn, smell of the woods, laughter in roar. Nature still, as the only footsteps heard are yours.
The last of the self-portraits (that I'm sharing :) Anyone that kknows me knows that I have gangly hands that float in the air when i'm idol. I've edited that here*
#lifedrawing #selfportrait #kunst #oilpainting #berlinartist #figurativeart
