The exhibition ‘Computer Paintings’ explores Oehlen’s series of the same name. The artist began making Computer Paintings in the early 1990s, with a second series following in the early 2000s. The aesthetic dictated by the technology with its typical staircases and squares became a starting point for a body of work that oscillates between cool sparseness and exuberant, divergent forms.

The first Computer Paintings by Albert Oehlen were created in the early 1990s, a second series in the early 2000s. Beginning with a laptop purchased in 1990, the first digital drawings were made and then transferred onto canvas by the painter. The idea of producing art with the help of a computer seems thrillingly contemporary in light of current debates on artificial intelligence. Even more so, if one takes Oehlen’s artistic conclusion from his preoccupation with computer art seriously: “It has to be completed by the human hand”.