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Biography
- 1966
Born in Cologne, Germany
- 1987-92
Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany
Lives and works in Berlin, Germany
Solo Exhibitions
- 2020
Freitag der 13, Mehdi Chouakri Gallery, Berlin, Germany
WINDOW at Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY - 2018
Le Terrain Vague, Stuart Sauve, London, UK
Koexistenz, Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Gargoyle, Italic, Berlin, Germany - 2017
Oral Heart, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY (opening November)
FUTURE MUSIC, Casado Santapau, Madrid, Spain - 2016
Working Girl, Sies & Höke, Düsseldorf, Germany
Sex and the City, Art : Concept, Paris, France - 2015
Tropenkoller, Stuart Shave Modern Art, London, United Kingdom
- 2014
PEOPLE LIKE YOU MAKE IT EASY, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY
Mäusebunker, The Kitchen, New York, NY - 2013
Art Basel Parcours, Museum Kleines Klingental – Historic Monastery Building, Basel, Switzerland
Songs for the Blind, Hezi Cohen Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Loneliness is a cloak you wear, a deep shade of blue is always there, Gerharsen Gerner, Berlin, Germany - 2012
Opium, La Conservera Centro de Arte Contemporanea, Ceuti (Murcia), Spain
The story of The Old New Girls, Galerie Art Concept, Paris, France - 2011
Suedehead, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY [cat.]
- 2010
Silberblick/Squint, Stuart Shave/ Modern Art, London, UK
ZOO, Sadler's Wells, London, UK
Piramix Pix, Gerhardsen Gerner, Berlin, Germany - 2009
Kats, Nerves, Shadows & Gin, Anton Kern, New York, NY
Rise and Fall, MGM, Oslo, Norway
Gio Marconi, Milan, Italy - 2008
Casanova & Other Problems, Stuart Shave Modern Art, London, UK
Signal, Art : Concept, Paris, France
Casanova, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland [cat.] - 2007
Alphabet City, curated by Florence Derieux, Le Magasin, Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Grenoble, France [cat.]
Effetti Speciali, c/o – Atle Gerhardsen, Berlin, Germany - 2006
Umbrella, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY [cat.]
Tarantella, Bar Ornella, Köln, Germany - 2005
casa musica (extrema), Atle Gerhardsen, Berlin, Germany
Butterfly, c/o Atle Gerhardsen, Art Nova, Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami, FL - 2004
Fieber/Fever: 5 New Paintings and Other Stories, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY
Ikarus, Art: Concept, Paris, France
On the Olympus, Unlimited Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
Versteck! with Petra Hollenbach, Parkhaus, Düsseldorf, Germany - 2003
Der Gesang der Vögel ist sinnlos! (The Song of the Bird is Nonsense!), Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY
- 2002
Diamanten, c/o Atle Gerhardsen, Berlin, Germany
Fleisch: Maschine, Magnani, London, UK
Concentrations 42, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
Propaganda, Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), London, UK
Wespennest, Dallas Art Museum, Dallas, TX - 2001
Magnet, Art:Concept, Paris, France
- 2000
Das Orakel lächelt. Das Orakel lacht. Das Orakel lächelt, Ars Futura Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
An Schlaf ist nicht zu denken, Lab of Gravity, Hamburg, Germany
Wespennest (Wasp’s Nest), Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY - 1999
Amerika verschwindet nur das Lächeln bleibt (America Disappears Only the Smile Remains), Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY
KAPUTT und die Folgen (Kaputt and the Consequences), Robert Prime, London, UK
Videos, Centre Saint Gervais, Geneva, Switzerland - 1998
Ein Sandstrand voll Glas (A Beach Full of Glass), Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany
Kunstschnee will schmelzen, Bureau Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands - 1997
Samstag Morgen, Zuckersumpf, Robert Prime, London, UK
This Bittersweet Disaster, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY - 1996
Strom, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY
The Bienenkorb Times, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany
FRAC Languedoc Roussillon, Montpellier, France - 1994
LOW, Artistbooth, Cologne Art Fair, Cologne, Germany
LA BOUM, with Thorsten Slama, New Reality Mix, Stockholm, Sweden
OMRON, six videos by Lothar Hempel, Preview Theatre Wardour Street, London, UK
Bewegungslehre (No Future), Buchholz und Buchholz, Cologne, Germany - 1992
240 Minuten, with George Graw, Galerie Esther Schipper, Cologne, Germany
Group Exhibitions
- 2019
H+H, Galeria Casado Santapau, Madrid, Spain
- 2018
where are we now, curated by Friederike Nymphius, FS.ART, Berlin, Germany
- 2017
Inside the distance, Galerie Sabine Knust, Munich, Germany
Runter von den Marmorklippen!, Kwadrat, Berlin, Germany
Zeitgeist, Musée d’art moderne et contemporain (MAMCO), Geneva, Switzerland
Modern Sculpture, Casado Santapau, Madrid, Spain - 2016
Staged: Spectacle and Role Playing in Contemporary Art, Sammlung Goetz Collection at Kunsthalle der Hypo Kulturstiftung, Munich, Germany
Theories of Modern Art, Modern Art, London, UK
6s and 7s, Marlborough Gallery, 40 West 57th Street, New York, NY
Sex and the City, Art : Concept, Paris, France
Only Lovers, Le Coeur, Paris, France - 2015
Lothar Hempel and Uwe Henneken: L A V A, curated by Timothée Chaillou, Appartement 27 bis, Paris, France
LOVE, Nymphius Projekte, Berlin, Germany
Focus Resonance, Interior and the Collector, Collection #5, 12th Biennale de Lyon, France
Threads: A Phantasmagoria about Distance, 10th Kaunas Biennial, curated by Nicolas Bourriaud, M. K. Čiurlionis National Museum of Art, Kaunas, Lithuania
IMAGE OBJECTS, Public Art Fund, City Hall Park, New York, NY
La Femme de trente ans, Art Concept, Paris, France
An Unfixed Image: The Photographic Across Media, TCNJ Art Gallery, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ
All the World’s a Stage: Works from the Goetz Collection, Sala de Arte Santander, Fundación Banco Santander, Madrid, Spain - 2014
Wo ist hier? #1: Malerei und Gegenwart, Kunstverein Reutlingen, Reutlingen, Germany
Luggage and Observations, Galerie Klaus Gerrit Friese, Stuttgart, Germany
A MAN WALKS INTO A BAR…, Landshuter Strasse 49, Mainburg, Germany - 2013
Cérémonie, curated by Timothée Chaillou, Melinda Gloss, Paris
Experience Pommery #11, curated by Florence Derieux, Domaine Pommery, Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France - 2012
Voice of the Triangle, Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London, UK
Tomorrow, Die Bastei, Cologne, Germany
Blind Cut, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, NY
Without Hope, Without Fear, Mottahedan Projects, Al Quoz, Dubai, UAE
Accrocharge, Gerhardsen Gerner, Berlin, Germany
It's Always Summer on the Inside, organized by Dan McCarthy, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY - 2011
Herzliya Biennial for Contemporary Art, Herzliya, Israel
MakeUp, A Palazzo Gallery, Brescia, Italy
The Bell Show, Lüttgenmeijer, Berlin, Germany
portraits & faces, heldart, Berlin, Germany
Synecdoche, Bourouina Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Space Oddity, Centre of Contemporary Art Andratx, Mallorca, Spain - 2010
Qui Es-Tu Peter? (Who Are You Peter?), Louis Vuitton Cultural Space, Paris, France
Poetry in Double Time: A Small Rustling Revolution. Idiolect Visual Arts, Brugge, Belgium
The Artist’s Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Storytellers, Centre d'art contemporain / Passages, Troyes, France
Plus Ultra - Opere dalla Collezione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, MACRO Testaccio, Rome, Italy
Crosstown Traffic, Wentrup, Berlin, Germany
Cinematique, esthetique, politique, hermetique, Art:Concept, Paris, France - 2009
Art by the Sea, Beaufort 03, Ostend, Belgium
Jean-Luc Blanc: Opéra Rock, curated by Alexis Vaillant, CAPC Musée d`Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
Heaven, Athens Biennale, Athens, Greece
Biennale Estuaire Nantes < > St. Nazaires, Fond régional d`Art Contemporain des Pays de la Loire / Hangar à bananes, St. Nazaire, France
Beaufort 03, Triennial for Contemporary Art, Blankenberge, Belgium
SCULPTURE SHOW, Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK
Festival de la création du Centre Pompidou, Conciergerie, Paris, France
Anabasis. Rituals of Homecoming, curated by Adam Budak, Ludwik Grohman Villa, Lodz, Poland
Birds love fish, CHERT, Berlin, Germany
Un plan simple (Perspective – Scène – Écran), Maison populaire, Centre d’art Mira Phalaina, Paris-ontreuil, France - 2008
Sphinxx, curated by Alexis Vaillant, Modern Art, London, UK
La Fete Est Permanente / The Eternal Network, FRAC - Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France
A show of many parts, each part more spectacular and elaborate than the last, curated by Kirsty Ogg, The City Gallery, Leicester, UK
7th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea
Art Berlin Contemporary 2008, c/o – Atle Gerhardsen, Berlin, Germany
Family and Friends, Anton Kern, New York, NY
Lust warande, Skulpturenpark, Tilburg, Netherlands
Mystery of the Invisible Clock, curated by Joshua Nathanson, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, Mission: to interpret and understand contemporary art, Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK
Lustwarande 08 – Wanderland, Tilburg, Holland - 2007
Effigies, Modern Art, London, UK
L.A. Desire, Dennis Kimmerich, Düsseldorf, Germany
Half square, half crazy / À demi carré, à demi fou, Centre National d’Art Contemporain de la Villa Arson, Nizza
Very Abstract and Hyper Figurative, curated by Jens Hoffmann, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, UK
Pale Carnage, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, Australia
Galleri MGM, Oslo, Norway
Pale Carnage, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK
Imagination becomes Reality. Werke aus der Sammlung Goetz, ZKM – Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe, Germany - 2006
Implosion, Anton Kern Gallery, New York
Pelouses autorisées, Parc de la Villette, Paris
The Triumph of Painting, Part 4, The Saatchi Gallery, Londres / Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds
Angela Bulloch, A K Dolven, Olafur Eliasson, Ceal Floyer, Liam Gillick, Lothar Hempel, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Galleri MGM, Oslo, Norway
I Love My Scene: Scene 1 (curated by Jose Freire), Mary Boone Gallery, New York - 2005
Growing Up Absurd Problems of Youth in the Organized System, Kent Institute of Art and Design, Kent, Grande-Bretagne, Greece
The difference between you and me, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne, VIC
Imagination becomes Reality, Part II, Painting Surface Space, Sammlung Goetz, Munich
Bidibidobidiboo, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin
World artists now!, Bijutsu Shuppan-Sha, Japan - 2004
She’s Come Undone, curated by Augusto Arbizo, Artemis Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York, NY
Now is a Good Time, curated by Dean Valentine, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
The Snow Show, Tate Liverpool, UK
The Snow Show, curated by Lance Fung, Cities of Kemi and Rovaniemi, Lapland, Finland
Curb Your Enthusiasm, Millers Terrace, London, UK
The Drawing Project, Vamiali’s, Athens, Greece
Creative Growth, CCA, San Francisco, CA - 2003
Dark Shadows, Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles
Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles
Hands Up, Baby, Hands Up! 160 Jahre Oldenburger Kunstverein, 160 Arbeiten auf Papier, Oldenburger Kunstverein, Oldenburg, Germany - 2002
Schöne Aussicht, Galerie Otto Schweins, Cologne, Germany
It’s Unfair! Museum de Pavilijoens, Almere, Netherlands
Accrochage, c/o Atle Gerhardsen, Berlin, Germany
Internationales Netzwerk, Fluxus und die Folgen, Karstadt Wiesbaden, Germany
Les vertus sont des titres, les souffrances sont des droits. Exposition de la collection du Frac Poitou-Charentes, Hôtel Saint-Simon / Théâtre d’Angoulème, Angoulême, France - 2001
A New Horizon, Art:Concept, Paris, France
Uniform: Order and Disorder, P.S.1, New York
Und keiner hinkt 22 Wege vom Schwegler wegzukommen, Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
Drawings, Galeria Sales, Rome, Italy
I Love NY, Anton Kern, New York, NY
Beauty Of Intimacy - Lens and Paper, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria - 2000
Age of Influence: Reflections in the Mirror of American Culture, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
10 Jahre Ars Futura, Ars Futura, Zurich, Germany
Portraits, Thomas Rehbeiin Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Beauty of Intimacy – Lens and Paper, The Loudon Collection, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany - 1999
Titles for Drawings, AC Project Room, January, New York
oldNEWtOWn, Casey Kaplan, January, New York
Who, if not we?, curated by Yilmaz Dziewior, Elizabeth Cherry Contemporary Art, Tucson, AZ
Nur Wasser Lässt sich leichter schneiden, Projektraum Hafen, Hamburg, Germany
Dessins, Forde Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
A Radiant Future, Forde – Espace d’art contemporain, Genève, Switzerland
Officina Europa, Galeria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy - 1998
Conspirazione, Collection Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
Roommates, Van Loon Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Yesterday Begins Tomorrow: Ideals, Dreams, and the Contemporary Awakening, curated by Francesco Bonami, Bard College, New York, NY
Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany
El Niño, Städtisches Museum Abteiberg Mönchengladbach, Germany
ars viva 98/99 - Installationen, Brandenburgische Kunstsammlungen Cottbus, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Portikus Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Zone, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy - 1997
Group Show: Painting, Photography, Drawing, Anton Kern Gallery, NY
Aura, (with Walter Dahn, Rosemarie Trockel & Dirk Bell) Galerie Ars Futura, Zürich, Switzerland
X 2, Wiener Secession, Vienna, Austria
Panic, ICA, London, UK
Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium
Surprised, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Germany
Bring your own Walkman, W 139, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Delta, a geographical expression, curated by Francesco Bonami, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France
Cologne show, Goethe Institut, Turin, Italy - 1996
Glockengeschrei nach Deutz, das Beste aller Seiten!, Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany
This really nice, a project with students from the royal academy of arts, Aircondition, Copenhagen, Sweden
TRAFFIC, curated by Nicolas Bourriaud, CAPC Musée, Bordeaux, France
PUSH UPS, The Factory, Athens, Greece
AUTO REVERSE 2, le magasin, Grenoble, France
How will we behave?, Robert Prime Gallery, London, UK
Escape Attempts, curated by Simon Sheik and Globe, Christiania, Copenhagen, Sweden - 1995
Atomic!, Oberwelt Galerie, Stuttgart, Germany
Auto Reverse, Centre Européen de la Culture, Geneva, Switzerland
The Video Collection, Filmfestival Knokke, Knokke, Belgium
Figures, Le Parvis, Centre Meridien
The Moral Maze, curated by Liam Gillick and Philippe Parreno, e Consortium, Dijon, France
Stoppage, curated by Liam Gillick, CCC Tours, Villa Arson, Nice, France
I Confess, Nicolay Art Center, Copenhagen, Sweden
Purple 8 1/2, curated by Purple Prose, Galerie Jousse Seguin, Paris, France
L‘Hiver de l‘Amour, Part 2, PS 1, New York, NY
Aperto, previously unreleased! curated by Sabrina Grassi, A.P.A.C. Nevers, France
Photomontage, le Consortium, Dijon, France
Labyrinthe Morale, curated by Liam Gillick and Philippe Pareno L‘Usine, Dijon, France
X/Y, Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
I Confess, Nicolaij Art Center, Copenhagen, Denmark - 1994
Sonne München, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany
Homegrown, Lotus Club, Cologne, Germany
Grand Prix, Air de Paris, Nice, France
L‘Hiver de l‘Amour, Musée d‘art Contemporain de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
Rue des Marins, Air de Paris, Nice, France
Residence Secondaire, Galerie Sabrina Grassi, Paris, France
20, curated by Tomaso Corvi-Mora, Galleria Pascale Laccese, Milan, Italy
Caravanserai, Galerie W 139, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Henry Bond, Olafur Eliasson, Lothar Hempel, Saga Basement, Copenhagen
Das Studium der Kunstgeschichte, Schleifschnecke, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Germany
Miniatures, the Agency, London, UK
Mixbild, Galerie Esther Schipper und Michael Krome, Cologne, Germany
13 Levels of Meaning,"with Henry Bond, Ars Futura, Zurich, Germany
Atomic, Neurotic, Exstatic, curated by Hendrik Larsson, The New ROOM, Göteborg, Sweden - 1993
Some artists I've been thinking about who falls under the title of: Wouldn't it be more pluralistic to embrace turmoil and/or violence?, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY
Galerie Esther Schipper at the Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Biennale di Venezia, APERTO, Venice, Italy
Summer Show, Galerie Esther Schipper, Cologne, Germany
Future Book Collection, Air de Nice, Nice, France
Fuck the System, Villa Rossi, Lucca, Italy
Food for Thought, curated by Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Franklin Furnace, New York
Phenylovethylamour, Unfair 1993, project by Lothar Hempel and Carsten Hoeller, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany
Unplugged, curated by Nicholas Bourriaud, jeder kind is van marmer, Bloom Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Christmasshop, Air de Paris, Paris, France
Video, Galerie Sabrina Grassi, Paris, France
7e Semaine Internationale de Video (S.I.V.), Centre pour l’Image contemporaine Saint-Gervais, Genève, Switzerland [cat.] - 1992
Prince, Madonna, Marky Mark & Cinderella, Ancient Etablissement Sacré, Liège, Belgium
Paradise Europa, BIZART, Copenhagen, Sweden
Tattoo Collection, Air de Paris & Urbi et Orbi at the Jennifer Flay Gallery, Paris Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, and Andrea Rosen, New York, NY
Galerie Monika Sprüth, Cologne, Germany
Galeria Pasquale Leccese, Milan, Italy
Press
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September 4,
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2011Modern PaintersReview: Lothar Hempel -
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2007ArtforumLothar Hempel -
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2007Flash ArtLothar Hempel -
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2007Artforum.comCritics' Picks: Lothar Hempel -
October 1,
1997FriezeLothar Hempel
Publications
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Il Casanova di Federico Fellini
Lothar Hempel
Published on the occasion of the exhibition Il Casanova di Federico Fellini at the Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, January 25 - March 6, 2008
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