Lovay Fine Arts is delighted to announce its participation in Paris Internationale 2025 with Oliver Coran (b.1992 in Philadelphia, lives in Berlin).
The booth coincides with the artist’s current exhibition at our Geneva gallery. It presents Oliver Coran’s recent works on paper, plastic, canvas, or combinations of these surfaces.
Coran has been painting on plastic for ten years, a technique whose references are wide-ranging—from digital screens to 19th-century Japanese reverse glass painting. He has developed a method of painting on both sides of the transparent surface, producing multiple overlapping foregrounds and backgrounds. The see-through surface is not just a support but part of the image itself. It catches light, mirrors, and introduces a delay—something you have to look through. Painting on plastic suspends the image within shifting, disorienting effects that reflect his exploration of perception, recognition, and the slippages between them.
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Education:
Städelschule, Frankfurt
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2024- 25 Lars Friedrich Gallery, Berlin
2024 bbberlin and Twin Gallery Present Oliver Coran, Berlin
2023 Oliver Coran, Twin Gallery, Chicago
2019 Collage, Graf von Westphalen, Frankfurt am Main
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 Art isn’t Fair, Clementine Seedorf, Köln
2022 The Venusians, Come Again!, Berlin
2022 EBM, Bauer Verlag in Collaboration with Filmclub FFM, Lisbon
2021 Oliver Coran and Julian Tromp, Neue Alte Bruecke, Frankfurt am Main
2020 Oliver Coran and Paul Levack, Kammer Rieck, Berlin
Awards
2020 Künstlerhilfe Frankfurt Stipendium, Frankfurt am Main
2019 Art on Top, Graf von Westphaelen, Frankfurt am Main
Publication
Strip Club Book for Leah Jolie, Oliver Coran and Kevin Killian, published by Publication Studio, 2022
Curatorial
2013–2016 Co- founder and co- director of Night Club, Chicago