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Adrian Ghenie is a Romanian Postwar & Contemporary painter who was born in 1977.
How much does an Adrian Ghenie cost?
Adrian Ghenie's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 799 USD to 10,326,240 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork.
What is Adrian Ghenie's most expensive painting?
Since 2011 the record price for this artist at auction is 10,326,240 USD for Pie Fight Interior 12, sold at Christie's Hong Kong in 2022. In the past 12 months, his artworks have averaged 249,502 USD.
Where can I see Adrian Ghenie's works?
Numerous key galleries and museums such as Albertina Museum have featured Adrian Ghenie's work in the past.
Adrian Ghenie in the news
Adrian Ghenie has been featured in articles for , and . The most recent article is written for ARTnews in September 2025.
Collectors here seem increasingly selective, gravitating toward institutionally grounded names and blue-chip fixtures, while showing less appetite for new figurative works propelled by purely commercial momentum.
"Shifting the Silence" is the title of Etel Adnan's last book, published in 2021. The German translation "Die Stille verschieben" was published posthumously in 2022.
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..Witnessing the disintegration of ideologies from a peripheral view (growing up in Romania under a communist dictatorship), Ghenie's paintings try to be a mirror of our collective memory which is suffocated...
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..Ghenie’s show underscores the way in which he has been developing a consistent engagement with issues such as memory and history, by subjecting his artistic practice to a process of continuous renewal...
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..Ghenie incorporates a multitude of references and idioms that do not result in a gratuitous postmodern game, but rather evince his commitment to investigate the possibilities of painting, while at the...
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..Although his work displays a belief in the contemporary relevance of painting, Ghenie seeks to delve into the conceptual tenets that have undermined the legitimacy of the medium...
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