Gert Tobias and Uwe Tobias (born 1973) are twin brothers working as a collaborative duo of visual artists.

The brothers were born in Braşov

Brasov

Brașov is a city in Romania and the capital of Brașov County.According to the last Romanian census, from 2002, there were 284,596 people living within the city of Brașov, making it the 8th most populated city in Romania....

, Romania

Romania

Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...

; they live and work in Cologne

Cologne

Cologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the Germany Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants.Cologne is located on both sides of the...

. They are known for their woodcut

Woodcut

Woodcut—occasionally known as xylography—is a relief printing artistic technique in printmaking in which an image is carved into the surface of a block of wood, with the printing parts remaining level with the surface while the non-printing parts are removed, typically with gouges...

 prints as well as relief sculpture

Sculpture

Sculpture is three-dimensional artwork created by shaping or combining hard materials—typically stone such as marble—or metal, glass, or wood. Softer materials can also be used, such as clay, textiles, plastics, polymers and softer metals...

s, drawing

Drawing

Drawing is a form of visual art that makes use of any number of drawing instruments to mark a two-dimensional medium. Common instruments include graphite pencils, pen and ink, inked brushes, wax color pencils, crayons, charcoal, chalk, pastels, markers, styluses, and various metals .An artist who...

s using typewriters, watercolours and ceramics

Ceramic art

In art history, ceramics and ceramic art mean art objects such as figures, tiles, and tableware made from clay and other raw materials by the process of pottery. Some ceramic products are regarded as fine art, while others are regarded as decorative, industrial or applied art objects, or as...

. Their work centres on their Romanian heritage and the myth and legend that is associated with that area, such as the story of Dracula

Dracula

Dracula is an 1897 novel by Irish author Bram Stoker.Famous for introducing the character of the vampire Count Dracula, the novel tells the story of Dracula's attempt to relocate from Transylvania to England, and the battle between Dracula and a small group of men and women led by Professor...

. They combine their native history with elements of contemporary graphic design

Graphic design

Graphic design is a creative process – most often involving a client and a designer and usually completed in conjunction with producers of form – undertaken in order to convey a specific message to a targeted audience...

, camp horror films and abstract art

Abstract art

Abstract art uses a visual language of form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world. Western art had been, from the Renaissance up to the middle of the 19th century, underpinned by the logic of perspective and an...

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Selected exhibitions

2004

• Kunstverein e.V., Cologne

2005

• Dead / Undead, Galerie Six Friedrich Lisa Ungar, Munich
• 7, Simon Lee Gallery, London
• Roswitha meets Dionysos, The Breeder Projects, Athens

2006

• Loveless, Team Gallery, New York
• Hammer Museum, Los Angeles

2007

• If You Build It, They Will Come, Brukenthal Museum, Sibiu
• Return to Form, Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad
• Projects 86, Museum of Modern Art, New York
• Made in Germany - Aktuelle Kunst aus Deutschland, Sprengel Museum Hannover, Hannover

2008

• Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn

2010

• They are exhibiting with photographer Diane Arbus at Nottingham Contemporary from 17th July till 3rd October 2010.

2011

• Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, Netherlands

External links

• Gert and Uwe Tobias on ArtFacts.com
• Gert and Uwe Tobias on ArtNet.com
• Further information from the Saatchi Gallery
• More information from Galerie Rodolphe Janssen

http://www.nottinghamcontemporary.org/art/gert-and-uwe-tobias