Manfred Oberbauer

(He/him)
Address: 4 studio, Konghellegate 5 B, 0533 Oslo
Floor: 1. etasje
Room number: 1. floor
The studio is open Saturday 26 April from 12-17

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Since 25 years I am doing watercolors where ever I am moving about.They are a kind of documentarian stories of the environment which I experience. The daily live I am interested in. Sure I am also showing the big attractions because they show the culture and describes a nation and people. But also then I put it in a daily live context to shut out romantic feelings. streetlights, garbage pins, traffic signs, ventilation, cars, building sites, …the whole infrastructure is included.

My works have documental character, but are naturally subjective. I choose my motives to express a certain zeitgeist and environment.
In my works I am also interested in topography ( environmental situation, communication…), history and the political and social background.
Generally do I try to show « the feeling of a place».

painting watercolour - dokoments

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Untitled-from Sukkerbiten to Barkode 4.06.19 Manfred Oberbauer watercolour, 76x94cm,2025 Manfred Oberbauer

Untitled-mountain in Stardalen Vestlandet 7.04.21 Manfred Oberbauer Watercolour 76 x 95 cm 2024 Fotograf Manfred Oberbauer

old street in winter in the mountains of westerb Norway

Untitled-old street to Sogndal 24.03.22 Manfred Oberbauer watercolour, 42x54cm, 2022 Manfred Oberbauer

Untitled- the never finished building Croatia 6.09.24 Manfred Oberbauer watercolur, 76x94cm, 2024 Manfred Oberbauer

Planned projects and exhibitions

I am planing a bookprosject about my docoments from the last 15 years about Oslos
changes which was enormerous.
Further on I am working with a documentary about bulding flats “from tering down to a new building”.
And I am working with a new exhibition at my Galleri.

CV

Name:
Manfred Oberbauer
lives and works in Oslo
Education:
Chemistry ingeniør i Østerrike 1972 – 1977
Studies at Laura Ashley Art School in Sydney 1988 and 1989

Soloexhibitions:
Galleri Øst, Oslo – 1991
Renting empty shops, Oslo – 1992 og 1993
Albin Upp, Oslo – 1994, 1995 og 1997
Kværner Lysaker, Lysaker – 1997
Galleri Kampen, Oslo – 2008, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2 × 2020, 2023
Lørenskog Kunstforening – 2009 og 2014
Sommerutstilling 2021 på Stardalen sommerkafe i Jølster
Høyanger Kunstlag 2023

Kollektiv exhibitions:
Hotel Christiania, Oslo – 1996
Rådhusgalleriet, Oslo – 1999
Galleri Eleoni, Oslo – 2000
Østlandsutstillingen (bl.a. vist i Kunsthalle St. Annen, Lübeck (Tyskland) – 2008 og 2009
Torshov-bilder 2011
Sommer exhibition I Nordtrøndelag Fylkesgalleri – 2013
Nomination til Oslo Opens Hederspris 2020
Romeriksutstilling 2021

Innkjøpt:
Kunstmuseet Nordtrøndelag Namsos 2013
Høyanger Kunstlag 2023
Stipend:
Gunnar S-stipend 2022
Utsmykning:
Sintef – Oslo, 2010
Sintef / University – Oslo, 2011
Høyanger vidregående skole
Per A Øren AS
Hydro Høyanger

Medlemsskap:
LNM, NBK, BOA
Personalia:
Born in Austria and living in Oslo since 1990