Galeria Nuno Centeno is pleased to announce the opening of David Ostrowski’s Glas Im Auge. This is the artist’s first exhibition in Portugal and at Galeria Nuno Centeno.
David Ostrowski intends his minimalist canvases to be tabula rasae, blank slates that have not experienced outside interference. His works are dominated by white, with occasional scribbles and patches of color functioning as unruly interventions. For his ongoing series F, the artist works in a contrary style, rapidly effacing existing strokes and embracing marks that might be considered errors. He layers oil and lacquer on his surfaces, occasionally adding blank, collaged bits of paper. Critic J.J. Charlesworth has called Ostrowski’s work endgame painting – a process that involves discovering what marks must still be made on the canvas.

David Ostrowski (1981, Cologne, Germany) lives and works in Cologne. He studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf with Albert Oehlen from 2004-2009. He was awarded the Atelierstipendium by the Kölnischer Kunstverein and the Imhoff-Stiftung, Cologne, in 2012. Recent solo exhibitions include Political Paintings, Sundogs, Paris, 2019; Political Correction, Piece Unique, Cologne, 2019; The thin red line, Sprüth Magers, London, 2018; Bei mir geht es in den Keller hoch, Blueproject Foundation, Barcelona, 2017; To Lose (a two man show with Michail Pirgelis), Leopold-Hoesch-Museum, Düren, 2016; The F Word, ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, 2015; I want to die forever, Kunstraum Innsbruck, 2015; How to do things left, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, 2014 and Just do it at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, 2014.
Ostrowski’s work has been included in group exhibitions at the M Woods Museum, Beijing, 2015; Halle für Kunst & Medien, Graz, 2014; and at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 2014. His work was also featured in DONT the Music and Art Performance at Halle 9 Kirowwerk, Leipzig, 2017.