JOHANNES KAHRS

° 1965, Bremen (Germany)
Lives and works in Berlin (Germany)
   
   
  solo exhibitions
   
2010 FRAC Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand (FR)
2008 Luhring Augustine, New York, NY (US), (September - October)
2007 "Men with music", GAMeC, Bergamo (IT), (April 4 - July 29)
2006 "Lonely long meaningless way home", Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art, London (UK), (November 18 - February 10, 2007)
  "Ein ganz fremder Nackter", Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp (BE) (January 26 - March 11)
2004 "Dunkles Zimmer", Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp (BE), (Sept. 9 - Oct. 16)
2003 "Down 'n Out", Zeno X Storage, Antwerp (BE), (May 3 - June 7)
2002 "Down 'n Out", Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (DE), (December 13 - December 29)
  "Questions", Studio Massimo de Carlo, Milan (IT)
  "The Drunken Boat", Galerie Almine Rech, Paris (FR), (September 14 - October 29)
2001 "A-h", S.M.A.K., Ghent (BE), (June 2 - August 12), (cat)
  "A-h", FRAC des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou (FR), (March 24 - May 20), (cat)
  "A-h", Kunstverein München, München (DE), (January 10 - March 2), (cat)
2000 "La révolution Permanente", Galerie Almine Rech, Paris (FR), (November 10 - December 23)
  "Night in Sexyland", Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp (BE), (September 14 - October 25)
  "Shot and Painted", Galerie Franck + Schulte, Berlin (DE)
  "Last virgin on the left", Galerie Signal, Malmö (Sweden), (February 4 - March 5)
1999 "Statement", Art 29 Basel, pres. by Galerie Almine Rech, Basel (CH)
1998 "Why don't you paint my portrait", Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen (DE), (cat)
  Double Stage - 6 Seconds Popular Violence", Galerie Franck + Schulte, Berlin (DE)
  "A-h", Galerie Almine Reich, Paris (FR)
  "Schwarzes Loch/Weisse Wand", Galerie Franck + Schulte, Berlin (DE), (cat)
1997 "93´09´´- Vorzimmer / 4 Klacks", Vereniging Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent (BE)
  "hole", Galerie Arndt & Partner, Berlin (DE)
  "Thomson Homestead, Slater, Misouri", Galerie Transit, Leuven (BE)
1995 "Bild und Malerei", Galerie Wohnmaschine, Berlin (DE), (cat)
1994 "Schlag doch", DAAD Galerie, Berlin (DE), (cat)
1993 "Keine Falsche Bewegung", Galerie Mutzek, Berlin (DE)
   
   
  group exhibitions
   
2008 'Re-Imagining Asia', House of World Cultures, Berlin (DE), (March 13 - May 18, 2008)
  'Colección de Arte Contemporáneo de la Fundación la Caixa', Caixaforum, Madrid (ES), (February 14 - April 6)
  'western moderne', FRAC Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand (FR), (February 8 - April 6)
  'The Painting of Modern Life', Castello di Rivoli, Turin (IT), (February 4 - May 4, 2008)
2007  "The Painting of Modern Life", Hayward Gallery, London (GB), (October 4 - December 30)
  "De Cirkel", Roger Raveelmuseum, Machelen-Zulte (BE), (March 25 - May 20)
  "Visit(e): Contemporary art in Germany", Bozar, Brussels (BE), (March 23 - July 1)
  "Works on paper", Zeno X Gallery & Zeno X Storage, Antwerp (BE), (January 17 - February 17)
2006 "Vous êtes ici", FRAC Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand (FR), (November 9 - January 17, 2007)
  "Parcours video-installatie", Beursschouwburg, Brussels (BE), (November 24 - December 23)
  "Constructing Reality: New Berlin", Bass Museum of Art, Miami (US), (November 3 - January 21, 2007)
  "25 years Zeno X Gallery", Zeno X Gallery & Zeno X Storage, Antwerp (BE), (October 17 - December 2)
  "Leeftijdgenoten", Roger Raveelmuseum, Machelen-aan-de-Leie (BE), (September 3 - November 19)
  "flutter", The approach, London (GB), (June 29 - August 6)
  "Constructing Reality: New Berlin", Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix Arizona (US), (April 7- September 24)
  "Johannes Kahrs, Magnus von Plessen, Eberhard Havekost und Wilhelm Sasnal", Colecçao Fundaçao de Serralves - Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto (PT), (May 13 - July 2)
  "Le Mouvement des Images", Centre Pompidou, Paris (FR), (April 3, 2006 - 2007)
  "La mirade de l'artista: la proposta de Juan Uslé. Collectio d'Art Cotnemporani Fundacio 'La Caixa'", Fundacio 'La Caixa', Barcelona (ES), (January 27 - May 7)
2005 "Zur Vorstellung des Terrors: Die RAF - Ausstellung", Kunst-Werke, Berlin (DE), (Jan. 29 - May)
  "Young artists (selected by)", Witte Zaal, Ghent (BE), (June 7 - June 26)
2004 "Drafting Deceit", Apexart, New York (US), (Nov. 17 - Dec. 22)
  "45th October Salon: Continental Breakfast", Belgrado, Servia, (11 Sept - 31 Oct.)
  "Manifesta 5", European Biennale of Contemporary Art, San Sebastian (ES), (11 June - 30 Sept.)
  "Contre - Images", Carré d'Art, Nîmes (FR), (03 June - 26 Sept.)
  "Berlin-Moskau / Moskau-Berlin 1950-2000", Staatliche Tretjakov Galerie, Moscow, (RU), (March 15 - June 15)
  "Zie Tekening", Project Voorkamer, Stedelijk Museum Wuyts-Van Campen & Baron Caroly, Lier (BE), (February 20 - May 2)
  "Was Malerei heute ist", Stiftung Opelvillen, Rüsselheim (DE), (February 8 - April 25)
2003 "Fuori Uso 03", Pescara (IT), (November 29 - January 8 2004)
  "Plastik, Plüsh und Politik - Reflexe der 70er Jahre in der Gegenwartskunst", Städtische Galerie Nordhorn, Nordhorn (DE), (November 21 - January 25 2004)
  "Berlin-Moskau / Moskau-Berlin 1950-2000", Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin (DE), (September 28 - January 5 2004)
  "Kiss and Ride", Z33 / Begijnhof, Hasselt (BE), (July 10 - November 2)
  "Warum! Bilder diesseits und jenseits des Menschen", Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin (DE), (May 28 - August 3), (cat)
  "A Mains Nues", FRAC Haute-Normandie (FR)
  "Deutschemalereizweitausenddrei", Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt (DE), (January 15 - April 13), (cat)
2002 "Great Theater of the World", Taipei Biennal, Taipeh (TW)
  "Cardinales", MARCO - Museo de Arte Contemporànea de Vigo, Vigo (ES), (cat)
  "Questions", Studio Massimo de Carlo, Milan (IT)
  "Without Consent", CAN - Centre d'art de Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel (CH), (June 6 - August 18)
2001 "In/Site/Out", Apex, New York (US)
  "Double - Trouble", Borusan Kültur ve Sanat, Instanbul (TR)
  "Moving Pictures.Photography and Film in Contemporary Art, Villa Merkel / Bahnwärterhaus, Esslingen (DE), (July 1 - September 23)
  "Screen", Psychiatrisch Centrum Sleidinge, Sleidinge (BE), (November 24 - December 20)
  "Squatters", Museo de Art Contemporain de Serralves, Porto (PT), (June 23 - September 16)
2000 "Indoor", S.M.A.K., Ghent (BE)
  "Children of Berlin", Museum Folkwang, Essen (DE)
  "Dorothea von Stetten Kunstprize", Kunstmuseum Bonn (DE), (cat)
  Kunstbank Berlin, Berlin (DE)
1999 "Face à l'Autre", FRAC Haute-Normandie (FR), (December 13 - January 30 2000)
  "The Children of Berlin", PS 1, New York (US), (November)
  "Ainsi de suite 3", Centre d'Art Contemporain, Sète (FR)
  "Rue Louise Weiss", Centre d'Art contemporain, Meymac (FR)
  "Indoor", Musée d'Art Contemporain, Lyon (FR)
  "Art Club Berlin", AU Base, New York (US)
  "Independance day", Kunst-Werke e.V. , Berlin (DE)
  "Drawings", Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp (BE)
  "EV+A", Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick (IR)
1998 Biennale de Berlin, Berlin (DE), (October - January 1999)
  "The Cinema Project", Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (DE)
  "Indoor", Centro civico per l'Arte Contemporanea, Serre di Rapolano (IT), (cat)
  "Le présent du Futur", FRAC Languedoc-Rousillon, Montpellier (FR)
  "Kamikaze", Marstall, Berlin (DE)
1997 "Heaven - Private View", P.S.1, New York (US)
  "Selection Fall 1997", Drawing Center, New York (US)
  "Korrespondenzen", Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh (UK), (cat)
  "Fenêtre sur cour", Galerie Almine Reich, Paris (FR), (cat.)
1996 "The Aggression of Beauty", Galerie Arndt & Partner, Berlin (DE)
  "Nach Weimar", Kunstsammlungen zu Weimar, Weimar (DE), (cat)
  "Laboratorium Berlin - Moscow", Contemporary Art Center, Moscow (RU)
1995 "Club Berlin", Biennale XLV, Venice (IT)
  "Close Up", Städtische Galerie, Bremen (DE), (cat)
  "Filmcuts", Galerie Neugerriemschneider, Berlin (DE)
  "Drawings", Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich (CH)
1994 "Postconceptual Painting", Kunstwerke, Berlin (DE)
  "A Personal Choice", Galerie Franck + Schulte, Berlin (DE)
1990 "Geist und Körper", Deutsches Museum für Geschichte, Berlin (DE), (cat)
   
   
  catalogues (selection)
   
2007

Collection Art Contemporain - Centre Pompidou
Centre Pompidou - Musée national d'art moderne, Paris (FR)
 

The Painting of Modern Life: 1960's to Now
 The Hayward, London (GB)
 

Men with Music
GAMeC, Bergamo (IT)
2006

Constructing Reality: New Berlin
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix Arizona (US)
 

Johannes Kahrs, Magnus von Plessen, Eberhard Havekost und Wilhelm Sasnal: Images in Painting
Colecçao Fundaçao de Serralves - Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto (PT)
2005

2005 - "Open Days" Roma Publications 1998-2005
S.M.A.K., Ghent (BE)

 

Drawing from the Modern: 1975 - 2005
The Museum of Modern Art MOMA, New York, NY (US)
 

Contemporary Art in Belgium 2006
Edited by Best Of Publishing, Brussels (BE)

2004 Fehlfarben', Neue Malerei aus München, Dresden, Leipzig, Berlin
Gerrit GOLHLKE, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Dresden (DE)
 

Some Reflections on the Painterly Practice of Johannes Kahrs
European Biennal of Contemporary Art, San Sebastian (ES)

 

Zie Tekening
Stedelijk Museum Wuyts-Van Campen en Baron Caroly, Lier (BE)

2003 Comme des Garçons
Edited by Comme des Garçons
  Berlin-Moscow/Moscow-Berlin’ - Kunst 1950-2000
Edited by Nicolai, Martin Gropius-Bau, Berlin (DE)
  Deutschemalereizweitausenddrei
Nicolaus Schafhausen, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt (DE)
  Warum!’ Bilder diesseits und jenseits des Menschen
Hatje Cantz, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin (DE)
  Down ‘n Out
Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (DE)
2002 Vitamin P. New perspectives in painting
Edited by PHAIDON
  Cardinales
MARCO - Museo de arte Contemporanea de Vigo, Vigo (ES)
2001 Squatters
Fundacao Serralves, Porto (PT)
  A-h
Kunstverein München, München (G.), text by Harald Fricke
2000 Rencotres 3. Johannes Kahrs / Dr. Eric Caillon
Edited by Images Modernes
1999 Johannes Kahrs. Why Don't You Paint my Portrait
Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen (DE.)
1994 Johannes Kahrs. Schlag Doch
Berlin (G.), (Internationaler Schlumberger Kunstpreis)
   
   
  public collections
   
 

Centre Pompidou, Paris (FR)
  Contemporary Art Fundacio 'la Caixa', Barcelona (ES)
  Colecçao Fundaçao de Serralves - Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto (PT)
  FRAC des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou (FR)
  FRAC Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand (FR)
  Galerie Neue Meister, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (DE)
  Hamburger Bahnhoff, Berlin (DE)  
  Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY (US)
  Museum of Contemporary Art MoCA, Los Angeles, LA (US)
  Museum of Modern Art MOMA, New York, NY (US)
  S.M.AK., Ghent (BE)
  UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA (US)

 

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