Created through intense processes of rubbing and erratic, sweeping line work, German artist Bottrop’s striking compositions combine discourses of contemporary painting with the artist’s own personal relationship to labor. Taking his artist name from the village of his birth, Bottrop’s name is a signal to the once-booming coal mining region in Nord Rhein Westphalia, known as the Ruhrgebiet. Throughout the 70’s and 80’s, the Ruhrgebiet saw the same decline and decay as America’s coal industry throughout Appalachia, with large communities quickly becoming depopulated ghost towns, their mines closed, and associated businesses shuttered. Nature’s following reclamation of the region over the past quarterly century is the central driving factor in Bottrop’s works, each painting is a form of psycho-cartography and an artifact of production that precariously navigates between the natural and the constructed.

Peppi Bottrop (b. 1986 in Bottrop, DE) lives and works in Los Angeles. Recent solo exhibitions of Bottrop’s works include Jungle Rapture (2021) at Pilar Corrias in London, schwarze schraube deutschland (2021) at PKM Gallery in Seoul, Going Deeper Underground (2020) at Galería Heinrich Ehrhardt in Madrid, Sabotage (2020) at Galerie Meyer Riegger in Berlin, and How Long is Forgotten (202) at Sies + Höke in Düsseldorf. Bottrop’s work has also been the subject of a number of recent institutional exhibitions including Jetzt! Junge Malerei in Deutschland (2019) at Kunstmuseum Bonn, Museum Wiesbaden and Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Line Packers (with Albert Oehlen) (2018) at the Marciano Art Foundation in Los Angeles, Hovel (2016) at Kunstverein Heppenheim in Heppenheim, Germany; and Fasi Lunari (2016) at Fondazione Carriero in Milan. In 2014, Bottrop graduated as Meisterschüler from Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, studying under Albert Oehlen, Andreas Schulze, and Jutta Koether.

PRESS

CURRICULUM VITAE

GALLERY EXHIBITIONS

January 21st to February 22nd 2022
PEPPI BOTTROP | ROBERT JANITZ

March 13th to May 16th 2020
2020

September 15th to October 27th 2018
ENCHANTING ESCAPADE

March 3rd to April 14th 2018
SKIP TRACER

SELECT EXHIBITIONS

April 26th - September 8th 2024
Abstraction (re)creation – 20 under 40
Le Consortium, Dijon, FR

May 3rd to July 24th 2024
Peppi Bottrop: Tropic Of Bottrop
Oldenberger Kunstverein

February 14th - September 6th 2020
Jetzt! Junge Malerei in Deutschland
Deichtorhallen Hamburg

March 1st - August 12th 2018
Line Packers: Peppi Bottrop and Albert Oehlen
Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles