ART & DESIGN

Photos: Albert Oehlen: The Change Artist

by Sean O’Hagan

Albert Oehlen

Shifting from one style to the next and back again, the maverick painter Albert Oehlen is hard to pin down—which is just how he likes it.

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Oehlen, 2012. Photograph by Oliver Schultz-Berndt/Courtesy of Gagosian Gallery.

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Albert Oehlen’s More Fire and Ice, 2001. Courtesy of Luhring Augustine and Gagosian Gallery.

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Rudolf Zwirner and Oehlen at the artist’s opening at Rudolf Zwirner in Cologne, Germany, 1983. Photograph by Wilhelm Schurmann.

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Untitled, 2009–2011. Photograph by Lothar Schnepf/Courtesy of Gagosian Gallery.

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Selbstportrait Als Holländerin (Self-portrait as Dutch Woman), 1983. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin.

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Sin, 2008. Photograph by Jorg von Bruchhausen/Courtesy of Gagosian Gallery.

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The Green Door (1), 1989. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin.

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Captain Jack, 1997. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin.

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Untitled, 1992. Photograph by Lothar Schnepf/courtesy of the artist.