Brehm's Praxis series is driven by a spirit of enterprise that is clearly palpable: Since 1974 Dietmar Brehm has been sensuously modulating his private iconography in ever new variations, ceaselessly engaged with his ever growing image and sound archive, withdrawn into the interior of an infernal fantasy. There is no posturing behind his cool treatment of the disquieting signs in his work, but rather ennui, a loner life, solipsism. Dietmar Brehm orchestrates implosions and idling states. He could be seen as the representative of a telephone-game art movement: His work is post avant-garde, post-narrative, post-surreal, post-pornographic and post-psychoanalytic; it appears like an extra entry in the annals of a long since shelved cultural history, like a last ditch effort of art after the end of time. - Stefan Grissemann
“Szene 4: 1000 Bolts” (1997/2007), “Szene 11: Sky” (2006/2007), “Szene 13: Exercise” (2004/2007), “Szene 14: Schwarzensee” (2006/2007), “Szene 18: Basis pH” (2004/2007), “Szene 20: Peng Peng” (2005/2007), “Szene 23: Always” (2008), “Szene 24: Full Moon” (1997/2008), “Szene 28: Absolut” (1997/2008), “Szene 47: Berlin” (1985/2009), “Szene 49: Paris” ( 2002/2009), “Szene 50: Copse” (2000/2009), “Szene 51: Chesterfield” (1986/2009), “Szene 54: Charles”, (1978/2009), “Szene 55: X-Ray” (1983/2009), “Szene 56: Schwarzensee”(1989/2009), “Szene 57: Calculation”, (2009), “Szene 58: Bonbon” (2009), “Szene 59: Jayne” (1983/2009), “Szene 60: Staff” (1976/2009), “Szene 67: Huh Huh Huh” (2010), “Szene 68: Hello Hello” ( 2010), “Szene 72: Waxenberg Forest”(2000/2010), “Szene 76: Noon” (2011), “Szene 84: Hello Dan Graham” (2010/2011), “Szene 87: Trousers” (2011), “Szene 94: Express” (2012), “Szene 96: Chesterfield” (2012), “Szene 102: Alter Ego” (2012), “Szene 103: Light” (2013), “Szene 110: Insch” (2013), “Szene 112: Sun Stop” (2013), “Szene 113: Cocktail” (2013), “Szene 114: Hello Mabuse” (2013), “Szene 120: Turaluralu” (2013), “Szene 130: Roll” (2011/2013), “Szene 131: Oxford” (2013), “Szene 137: Full Moon” (2011/2014), “Szene 138: Nanu” (2014), “Szene 141: Coke” (2014).
