Torben Giehler (born 1973) is a German abstract artist.
Giehler was born in 1973 in Bad Oeynhausen, West Germany. He is a graduate of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. In 1999, he attended the New York Studio Program. He is the recipient of the James William Paige Fund and the Clarissa Bartlett Scholarship. In 2008, he was awarded the Falkenrot Preis from the Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
Giehler is known for his geometric abstractions. "He is fascinated by virtual spaces which, even from the outset, always illustrate realities that are just possibilities – imaginary worlds floating between planning, construction, and unconstrained fiction." (Jens Asthoff, 2008)
Giehler's work has been exhibited in the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg and Wilhelm-Hack-Museum Ludwigshafen in Germany, the Centro de Salamanca in Spain as well as the Cleveland Museum of Art, PS 1/MOMA NY, New Orleans Museum of Art, the Carnegie Art Museum in Oxnard, CA and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. In 2005, Giehler was included in the Prague Biennale 2.
Giehler's work can be found in the permanent collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, the Deste Foundation Centre For Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece, the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany, and Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland.
Selected solo exhibitions
2000 Leo Koenig Inc., New York (catalogue) 2002 Arndt & Partner, Berlin 2002 Leo Koenig Inc., New York (catalogue) 2003 Centro de Arte de Salamanca, Spain (catalogue) 2003 Paolo Curti & Co., Milan 2004 "Sputnik Sweetheart", Arndt & Partner, Berlin 2004 "Jpeg Twister", Leo Koenig Inc., New York 2005 "Suspended Animation", Arndt & Partner, Zürich, Switzerland 2006 "Alphaville", Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve, Paris (catalogue) 2007 "Eis Hexe", Leo Koenig Inc., New York 2007 "Invisible Limits", Martin Geier Galerie, Algund, Italy 2008 Falkenroth Preis, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (catalogue) 2009 "Devil In The Woods", Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve, Paris 2011 "Lateralus", Leo Koenig Inc., New York 2012 Stephane Simoens Contemporary Fine Art, Knokke, Belgium