ALPAY EFE
"German painter Alpay Efe portrays a contemporary beauty in his works, but he isn’t interested in perfection. His paintings of still life, nudes, and modern figures focus instead on the ever so slight smile or the way light touches a form as he sees it. Influenced by Zeitgeist art and pop culture, he paints figuratively and realistically, using primarily oil paint on wood panel. The background in many of Efe’s paintings shows his art studio in Oberhausen, Germany. His studio is what you might expect- towels on the easel, cups of coffee and half-eaten doughnuts, and there is a certain attitude and specificity to the way he captures it. For example, he will attach objects to ropes to make them float and create an interesting shadow. To break the spell of its realism, he adds strips of white masking tape to the piece, bringing the scene to a more tangible realm. “It looks exactly the scene in the studio, as I see it or have seen, and not what the viewer should see them reality,” Efe says. “For what can be seen later in the image shows neither what happened nor what needs to do or go through an artist to make the picture complete. But those same thoughts I find very interesting, and I remember this duality, in which the image shows the working process.”

- Hi-fructose Magazine

Alpay Efe is born in 1987 in Oberhausen, Germany.
He is educated from the Academy of Fine Arts, Düsseldorf, Germany.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Solo exhibitions
2015
Resolve, Gallery kunst-raum schulte-goltz+noelte, Essen, Germany
2014
subject / object / inside out, Von Fraunberg Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany
work in progress, Villa Van Delden, Ahaus, Germany
2013
Illusions of Reality, Gallery kunst-raum schulte-goltz+noelte, Essen, Germany
2011
Legends, Gallery kunst-raum schulte-goltz+noelte, Essen, Germany.

Group exhibitions
2017
"The 27th Annual Holiday Miniatures Show", Abend Gallery, Denver, CO
"Little Utopias", Talon Gallery, Portland, USA
"All in...", Von Fraunberg Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany
"Christmas Group Exhibition", Gallery Oxholm, Kopenhagen, Denmark
"Variance", Abend Gallery, Denver, CO
"Du liebes Tier" at kunst-raum schulte-goltz+noelte, Essen, Germany
2016
"The 26th Annual Holiday Miniatures Show", Abend Gallery, Denver, CO
"Flux: Anomie Belle", Modern Eden Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"Edge of Realism", Abend Gallery, Denver, CO
"Contemporary Figuration", Abend Gallery, Denver, CO
„Summer Journey“ at kunst-raum schulte-goltz+noelte, Essen, Germany
"Zeitgeist", Galerie Nolte, Münster, Germany
2015
Index at kunst-raum schulte-goltz+noelte, Essen, Germany
„Summer Journey“ at kunst-raum schulte-goltz+noelte, Essen, Germany
"Into Summer" Von Fraunberg Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany
2014
Index at kunst-raum schulte-goltz+noelte, Essen, Germany
„Summer Journey“ at kunst-raum schulte-goltz+noelte, Essen, Germany
2013
SUMMER-JOURNEY at kunst-raum schulte-goltz+noelte
2012
„Scriptorum“ at Gallery Goltz, Essen, Germany
„Summer Journey“ at kunst-raum schulte-goltz+noelte, Essen, Germany
2011
Contemporary Art Ruhr with kunst-raum schulte-goltz+noelte, Essen, Germany
Index 11 „painting is the new video“ at kunst-raum schulte-goltz+noelte, Essen, Germany
2010
„Highlights zur Kulturhauptstadt“ at Gallery kunst-raum schulte-goltz+noelte, Essen, Germany
Contemporary Art Ruhr with kunst-raum schulte-goltz+noelte, Essen, Germany
Index 10 „listen to your eyes“ at kunst-raum schulte-goltz+noelte, Essen, Germany.

Art fairs
2017
Art KARLSRUHE with kunst-raum schulte-goltz+noelte
Kunst Zürich with Von Fraunberg Gallery
2016
Art KARLSRUHE with kunst-raum schulte-goltz+noelte
Art Fair Cologne with kunst-raum schulte-goltz+noelte
Kunst Zürich with Von Fraunberg Gallery
2015
Art KARLSRUHE with kunst-raum schulte-goltz+noelte
Art Fair Cologne with kunst-raum schulte-goltz+noelte
Kunst Zürich with Von Fraunberg Gallery
2014
Art KARLSRUHE with kunst-raum schulte-goltz+noelte
Art Fair Cologne with kunst-raum schulte-goltz+noelte
2013
Art Fair Cologne with kunst-raum schulte-goltz+noelte
2012
Art Fair Cologne with kunst-raum schulte-goltz+noelte
2011
Art Fair Cologne with kunst-raum schulte-goltz+noelte
2010
Korea International Art Fair with kunst-raum schulte-goltz+noelte, Seoul, Korea