Lothar Hempel

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Lothar Hempel (* 1966 in Cologne ) is a German artist who lives and works in Berlin . Lothar Hempel works in the media of sculpture, drawing, video, performance, painting and installation.

Life

Lothar Hempel graduated from the Düsseldorf Art Academy in 1992 . In addition to his work as a visual artist, he also makes music.

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In his photographs and sculptures, Lothar Hempel works with collected images that show dancers, performers and portraits of marginalized groups. Photographs of Pina Bausch's performances appear frequently, as well as of prostitutes and cult figures from film and the stage of the 1990s. By selecting their gestural expression and character, Hempel also offers a detachment from their social, personal, historical etc. contexts, frees them, so to speak, from their history and gives them new opportunities for development. These newly created characters, although they seem a bit strange, are recognizable and thus arouse certain associations in the viewer.

The artist's works relate to other media systems; theater, dance and film play an important role. The artist's photographic collages and sculptures relate to dream situations; Hempel assembles his world of figures, shapes and colors in a certain attitude and opens his work to a stage-like presentation. The narrative associations and contradictions of the works aim at a state between consciousness and dream. That is why Lothar Hempel sees his sculptural constellations as narrative machines into which the viewer is drawn in order to fill them with his own imagination. Hempel's exhibitions present us with an open scenario that offers the viewer various possibilities of meaning and interpretation.

Exhibitions

In 2007 Lothar Hempel's work was shown in the large retrospective "Alphabet City" at Le Magasin , Grenoble. Solo exhibitions in museums include "Casanova", Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin; "Concentrations 42", Dallas Museum of Art , Dallas; and "Propaganda", ICA , London. Lothar Hempel's works were included in the following group exhibitions: "Heaven", Athens Biennale, "Le Sang D'un Poete", Frac des Pays de la Loire, Nantes; Beaufort 03, Triennial for Contemporary Art, Blankenberge; 7th Gwangju Biennial; "Pale Carnage", Arnolfini, Bristol and Dundee Contemporary Arts , Dundee; "Imagination becomes Reality. Works from the Goetz Collection", ZKM , Karlsruhe. Lothar Hempel's work has been featured in international exhibition projects for almost two decades, including: the Venice Biennale ; Tate Liverpool , Stedelijk Museum , Amsterdam; PS1 , New York; Museum of Contemporary Art , Chicago; Portikus , Frankfurt am Main; Secession , Vienna; Center Georges Pompidou , Paris.

Works in public collections

literature

  • Il Casanova di Federico Fellini: Lothar Hempel, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin 2008
  • Lothar Hempel - Alphabet City, Le Magasin, Grenoble 2007
  • Umbrella, Anton Kern, New York 2006
  • Butterfly, c / o - Atle Gerhardsen, Berlin 2005
  • Propaganda, ICA - Institute of Contemporary Arts, London 2002
  • Concentrations 42. Lothar Hempel, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas 2002
  • Lothar Hempel - Fleisch: Maschine, Magnani, London 2002
  • Lothar Hempel, Magnet, Art: Concept, Paris 2001
  • Lothar Hempel. Artificial snow wants to melt, special print from ars viva 98/99 - Installations (Ed .: Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft im BDI), Cologne 1998

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lothar Hempels discography on Discogs.com.
  2. ↑ See Claire Moulène, Lothar Hempel , in: Artforum International, No. 10, summer 2007, p. 484f.
  3. ↑ See for example Vincent Pecoil, Lothar Hempel , in: Flash Art, No. 254, May-June 2007, pp. 139f.
  4. ↑ Reutlinger General-Anzeiger: Kunstverein Reutlingen: Babylonische Malverwirrung. In: www.gea.de. Retrieved August 10, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Hempel, Lothar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne