Kamelogana
Christoph Fuhrken aka Kamelogana is a German stencil artist who derives his stage name KAMELOGANA from the word Fata Morgana. From a vision of peace in the world.
Christoph Fuhrken studied visual arts at the
Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg and the FU Berlin. He has held shows in Berlin, Frankfurt a.M., Darmstadt or Dallas TX. USA and is represented by commercial galleries. His work can be found in private collections across Australia, USA, Europe or the Sultanate of Oman.
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2021 Finalist STENCIL ART PRIZE - TOURING EXHIBITION 5 February 2021 – 2 May 2021, Hurstville Museum & Gallery, Sydney, NSW /15 May 2021 - 10 July 2021, Dogwood Crossings, Miles, Queensland / 30th July 2021 – 4 September 2021, Logan Art Gallery, Logan, Queensland /
2020 RUMBLING RENAISSANCE / Thomas Baumgärtel, Patrizia Casagranda, Kamelogana, Kunstrasen, Van Ray, zirO / Ein Urban Art Projekt In Verrückten Zeiten.
09 May - 27 June 2020, Neue Kunst Gallery - Michael Oess, 76133 Karlsruhe, Germany
2019 - 2020 Finalist STENCIL ART PRIZE - TOURING EXHIBITION. Exhibition Launch on 13 September 2019 at Tortuga Studios, Sydney, NSW, Australia / Southern Buoy Studios, 7 December 2019 - February 2020, Mornington (57 KM south of Melbourne) VIC, Australia / Gympie Regional Gallery, -24 June - 31 July 2020, Gympie, QLD, Australia / Glasshouse Regional Gallery, 19 September 2020 - 29 November 2020, Port Macquarie, NSW, Australia
https://www.southernbuoystudios.com.au/stencil-prize-2019
2020 THE HIDDEN ART PROJECT #2
11 September - 21 September 2020, Art Instead Of Commerce / Kunst Statt Kommerz The Hidden Art Project uses advertising space in and around the city centre of Oldenburg, 26122 Oldenburg, Germany
2020 THE HIDDEN ART PROJECT #1
20 May-14 June 2020 They Are Not Hidden In Their Art But Free In Their Projects! Haarenstr. 11, 26122 Oldenburg, Germany https://www.thehiddenartproject.de/
2020 URBAN.ART@PFORZHEIM. KUNST IM ÖFFENTLICHEN RAUM / Stadtlabor am Marktplatz, 75175 Pforzheim, Germany. Scheduled for 20 June - 02 August 2020, has been cancelled due to the Coronavirus and will be closed to the public until further notice in 2021.
2020 "WE ARE THE PEOPLE" - THE SOCIAL ART AWARD 2019-2020
Peaceful revolutions through the power of the many – can
art catalyze change? Institute for Art and Innovation, 10435 Berlin, Germany
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http://www.kamelogana.de
21th September 2017 KAMELOGANA Stencil Art Solo Exhibition bau_werk Halle in Oldenburg. WO BLEIBT DIE MITTE?! STREET ART-SO SWEET ART / bau_werk Halle am Pferdemarkt, Pferdemarkt 8a, 26121 Oldenburg / bau-werk e.V. Oldenburger Forum für Baukultur Mitglied im Netzwerk Baukultur in Niedersachsen e.V.
14th-17th September 2017 Trade Fair 2.CREATIVE OLDENBURG / bau_werk Halle am Pferdemarkt, Pferdemarkt 8a, 26121 Oldenburg
02th June-02th July 2017 Exhibition URBAN ART / KUNSTVEREIN WÖRTH e.V. Städtische Galerie "Altes Rathaus", Ludwigstr.1, 76744 Wörth am Rhein http://www.kunstportal-pfalz.de/29/eid,21717/urbanart-2017.html
2017 group exhibition APOLLO IN DER PYRAMIDE / The Eagle has landed – 25th February-25th March 2017 Ausstellungszentrum Pyramide, Riesaer Str. 94, 12627 Berlin
2017 with "VENUS" Finalist in THE KUTZ STENCIL AWARD /11th March to 8th April 2017/ It´s All 2 Much Gallery, Bristol, UK
2017 with "SEAL" Finalist in the 2016 STENCIL ART PRIZE / Adelaide Fringe Flinders University City Gallery (17 February-19 March 2017) / Adelaide, Australia https://www.adelaidefringe.com.au/fringetix/2016-stencil-art-prize
09.2016 Finalist STENCIL ART PRIZE Sydney Fringe Festival vom 05. – 25. September 2016, Sydney, Australien
05.2016 Finalist 9. Heise Kunstpreis, Heidestraße 75, 06842 Dessau-Roßlau ALTE FEUERWACHE DESSAU (28.05.-10.06.2016)
Finalist in the Kutz Stencil Art Award / It´s All 2 Much Art Gallery, Bristol, UK (06.02.-28.02.2016)
Finalist in the Stencil Art Prize 2015 / aMBUSH Gallery, Sydney, Australia / 16 October - 30 October 2015
05.-06.2015 group exhibition "The Eagle Has Landet: Apollo 11-45 Years Later, Galerie Dzialari, Warschau, Polen
07.02.-27.02.2015 group exhibition "WHITE COLOURS" / Kunstsalon Kunststueck Berlin, Braunschweiger Strasse 64, 12055 Berlin
10.-11. 2014 solo exhibition Christoph Fuhrken / Kamelogana / STENCILS /Kaffee & Kleid, Kurwickstr. 6, 26122 Oldenburg
06. 2014 solo exhibition Christoph Fuhren / KAMELOGANA / “STENCIL ARTWORKS”, Gallery CUT UP, 26180 Rastede
02. 2014 solo exhibition Christoph Fuhren / KAMELOGANA at the gallery NWZ / NWZ-Media House, Nordwest-Zeitung Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co.KG, Peterstrasse 28-34, 26121 Oldenburg.
12. 2013 group exhibition Elke Röbken Fotografie... / Christoph Fuhrken Stencils... Gallery CUT UP, 26180 Rastede.
10.2013 Finalist / STENCIL ART PRIZE 2013 Australia / 16 October-27 October, 2013. Chrissie Cotter Gallery, Sydney. The Stencil Art Prize is the only large scale prize in the world that exists to recognise and reward stencil artists.
08. 2013 group exhibition "FREIheit FreeDOM" / Gallery ART BY GORA, Basaltstr.8, 60487 Frankfurt a.M.
04.-05.2013 solo exhibition Christoph Fuhren / KAMELOGANA / Gallery ART BY GORA, Basaltstr.8, 60487 Frankfurt a.M.
09.-10. 2012 KAMELOGANA group exhibition ART 4 PEACE III "Stencils Peaceful World 1" Gallery CUT UP , 26180 Rastede.
07.-08.2012 KAMELOGANA group exhibition ART 4 PEACE II "WE ALL SHARE THE SAME" Gallery CUT UP , 26180 Rastede.
04.2012 Opening the gallery CUT UP in Rastede-Loy, Germany.
group exhibition ART 4 PEACE I " KAMELOGANA Project and Friends / Artworks and Mail-Art with original cartoons of Tuli Kupferberg".
10.-09/11/2011 KAMELOGANA Project Light Installation and solo exhibition “Schnittstelle” at the highway bridge BAB 29 "Huntebrücke" Oldenburg / Bremen.
08.2011-September 6, 2011 group exhibition LuminArte Design Gallery in Dallas, Texas / USA celebrates Andy Warhol´s 83rd Birthday with an exhibition of 21st Century “What would Andy Do?” „They always say time changes things, but actually you have to change them yourself.“- Andy Warhol.
06.2011 Christoph Fuhrken KAMELOGANA participation the online Creative Divergents Showcase.
03.2011 Partizipation sticker expo 1 2 3... OPPLA STICK True Love Art Gallery Savona, Italy.
10. 2010 group exhibition "World of Art “ Urania Berlin e.V. An der Urania 17, 10787 Berlin. Bernhard Wiesbeck Kultur-Netzwerk.
09. 2010 KAMELOGANA Project Group Exhibition in Oldenburg/Oldb. "The Blue Container ANTI-WAR" participating artists: Mohammed Sami (Iraq), Rai Escalé (Spain), Khamoosh (Iran), Max Weinberg (Germany), Hadayatullah Hübsch (Germany), Jörg Seifert (Germany), Jochen Klösgen (Germany), Failure (USA), Smut (USA), MadGods (USA), Oliver Demet (Fantomboy81) (Belgium), Daniel Cantrell (UK), Luis Drayton (UK), Dieter Fritz (Germany), Annedore Keller (Germany), David Young V (USA), GhalamDar (Iran), Markuza (Brasil), Fokko (Germany), Johannes Kwauka (Germany).
BANDS: Nils Damage, Anda, Abraxas Apperatus, Henner Destruction, DeltaRocker, GoreThiefs, Subclub, Matini Schmerzverstärker, Beelzebub Airlines.
02. 2010 KAMELOGANA Project Street Art Event at the Place of Republic in Berlin: 100 pink ballons flying with the ballot "DEPLETED URANIUM Do yo want to go there? Yes / No".
12.2009 group exhibition Kolahstudio / Underground Art Media and Basement presents the Assemblage UNDERCOVER in the streets of Tehran, Iran.
09. 2009 KAMELOGANA Projekt ART EXHIBITION " P A X ! " Christoph Fuhrken, Max Weinberg, Hadayatullah Hübsch and many other artists exhibits to donate for the refugee aid in Pakistan together with the organization CARE Deutschland-Luxemburg e.V. Gallery Stolze Haus, Darmstadt.
11.-12. 2008 group exhibition Gallery Johannishaus, Johannisallee 2, 04317 Leipzig.
08.-10. 2008 group exhibition "The absence of the artist in his work / or something good in everything I see" 120 postcard collages are shown, a choice pretty, these were taken and last to this day from the correspondence with Hadayatullah Hübsch since Sept.2005 station 73.01 Künstlerhaus Mousonturm Waldschmidtstr.4 D-60316 Frankfurt/Main.
07. 2008 exhibition of paintings and collages from the KAMELOGANA Project on the occasion of the event most cultural / art at the Main organizer: the organization ring Frankfurt M.-highest registered Assoziation.
03. 2008 samples of works and information state for the KAMELOGANA Project at the Iraq conference in 2008 to the 5th anniversary of the war, alternatives to war and crew, Humboldt University to Berlin and House of Democracy, Berlin.
12. 2007 group exhibition “END…BEGINNING” Communal Gallery Justus-Liebig-House, Darmstadt.
01. 2007 group exhibition with the artists Malte Schlorf and Robert James Meuser, Gallery Luisencenter, Darmstadt.
12. 2006 solo exhibition KAMELOGANA Project "SIGNS" paintings, collages and the sculpture Kamelogana. Frankfurterstr. 44, Darmstadt.
08. 2006 group exhibition “Musenknutsch 21” The painting SIGN FOR PEACE can be signed by the guests, Wagenplatz, Darmstadt.
07. 2005 KAMELOGANA street art - 100qm black film dedicated to the memory of the victims of the terrorist attacks in London (07.07.2005), Friedensplatz, Darmstadt.
04. 2005 KAMELOGANA Project, New Society For Visual Arts, Berlin.
02.2005 KAMELOGANA Project, Museum Karl Ernst Osthaus, Hagen.
09. 2004 Long Night Of The Muses “KAMELOGANA Project - Performance“, Justus Liebig Haus, Darmstadt.
10. 2004 solo exhibition “Dream-Room 1001” / Communal Gallery, Darmstadt. Introduction speech with regard to the exhibition Hadayatullah Hübsch.
09. 2003 on the occasion of the long night of the Muse in Darmstadt the watercolours are shown with reference to the topic "KAMELOGANA".
06. 2003 street art / artistic donation with the social-nail-sculpture "KAMELOGANA" against distress in Iraq (12.06.-18.06.03), Darmstadt.
03. 2003... First watercolour-diaries KAMELOGANA Project.