page_title: Arvid Boecker
section_title: Biography
hierarchical_section_title: Arvid Boecker / Biography
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Ausstellungsansicht Heidelberger Kunstverein, Arvid Boecker Milch und Honig, 2005. Vordergrund blaues Bild links: Titel "#313" (2004, Öl auf Leinwand, 240 x 170 cm). Im Hintergrund rotes Bild: Titel "#314" (2004, Öl auf Leinwand, 240 x 170 cm), English: Exhibition view Heidelberger Kunstverein, Arvid Boecker Milk and Honey, 2005. Foreground blue picture on the left: Title "#313" (2004, oil on canvas, 240 x 170 cm). In the background red picture: title "#314" (2004, oil on canvas, 240 x 170 cm),
context_page_description: Arvid Boecker in Wuppertal is a German painter and curator. He is a representative of Concrete Art and focuses on Color Field Painting.
context_section_description: Arvid Boecker studied from 1987 to 1989 at the University of Trier Art history, continuing his studies at the Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Saar in Saarbrücken. There he studied until 1994 with the professors Jochen Gerz, Bodo Baumgarten und Ulrike Rosenbach. In the following years he was Artist-in-residence in London (Acme Studios, 1994-1995), in Katwijk aan Zee in the Netherlands (1995-1996),  on the Isle of Skye (2005), in La Ciotat in southern France in 2006, and in 2018 he went to Paris for a residency at Factory49. Since 1996 Boecker has been a member of the Saarländischer Künstlerbund and lives and works in Heidelberg.
caption: Large exhibition room Heidelberger Kunstverein 
   Arvid Boecker Milk & Honey, 2005 
  Blue picture left: Title "#313", 2004, Oil on canvas, 95×67 inches 
   Red picture in the background: Title "#314", 2004, Oil on canvas, 95×67 inches)
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