Claus Georg Stabe is an artist who currently lives and works in Leipzig. Stabe moves between points of the sacred, transcendent, demonic and nondescript through the media of painting, drawing, installation and performance. The artist unites the ideas of the collective and individual biography while locating the dissimilar that emerges through the process of repetition.

Tabula shows the ascent of a black eagle from a candle-lit desk, suggesting the animation of a trophy – in this case, Germany’s imperial eagle. Das Unfertige claims to be unfinished but appears quite complete as a dark landscape saturated with painted contrasts and texture. Illusion appears more pronounced in Grau Roter Abend that focuses on two pink thistles growing in front of large house, seen burning in the background. Collider shows only a closed wooden box against a black background that suggests contemporary, wooden sarcophagi. Each of these paintings reveal a metamorphosis between the inner and outer world such as fiction finding place within presence and the process of history. Stabe’s paintings are then futuristic relics.

Claus Georg Stabe was born in 1984 in Lauchhamer, Germany. From 2004 to 2009 Stabe studied painting at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig with Neo Rauch. From 2009 to 2010 he also studied at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, Poland and again at Leipzig’s Academy of Visual Arts with Heribert C. Ottersbach. He completed art school in 2014. During the past year Stabe’s art was included in a two-person show title Das törichte Feuer that took place at the Kunstverein Plauen. His art also appeared in i am a numeral that took place at the GFZK in Leipzig. Stabe participated in the 21st Leipziger Annual Exhibition that was hosted by the Kunst- and Kulturverein at Hohenaschau.