Nikolaus Lang

Nikolaus Lang (born February 12, 1941 in Oberammergau ) is a German conceptual artist .

Life

He lives in Murnau am Staffelsee and Marazion, Cornwall and is seen alongside Christian Boltanski and Jochen Gerz as a representative of the art of securing evidence . He is married to Celia Lang and has two sons, Daniel Lang and Benjamin Lang. His cousin is the architect and cartoonist Ernst Maria Lang .

Solo exhibitions

• 1968 Mr and Mrs Hagen, London
• 1970 Dorothea Leonhart Gallery, Munich
• 1971 Östergren Gallery, Sweden
• 1972 Maltzahn Gallery, London
• 1973 "Japanese Landscapes", Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich
• 1974 "Find descriptions 1970-74", Neue Galerie, Ludwig Collection, Aachen
• 1975 Forum Kunst, Rottweil
• 1975 Kestnergesellschaft, Hanover
• 1976 Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart
• 1978 Westphalian Art Association, Münster
• 1980 "Props", Städtische Galerie, Nordhorn
• 1982 Goethe Institute, Paris
• 1984 Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
• 1985 Defet Gallery , Nuremberg
• 1987 "Sand and Ocher", College Gallery, South Australian School of Art, Adelaide
• 1988 "Imaginary Figurations, 1986-88", Art Gallery of South Australia , Adelaide
• 1989 "Landscapes and Animals", Australian Center for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
• 1991 "Nunga and Goonya", Kunstraum München e. V., Munich
• 1991 "Nunga and Goonya", Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich
• 1991 "Nunga and Goonya", Kunsthalle Bremen
• 1991 "Nunga and Goonya", Stadtgalerie, Saarbrücken
• 1992 "Nunga and Goonya", daedalus, Vienna
• 1992 "Nunga and Goonya", Institute for Foreign Relations, Stuttgart
• 1992 "Terra Nullius", Kunstverein Ruhr, Essen
• 1992 "Terra Nullius", Kunstraum Wuppertal
• 1993 "Nunga and Goonya", The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin
• 1995 "Druckstock 1, 1980", Sprengel Museum Hannover
• 1998 "Points of view", Neuer Berliner Kunstverein
• 2000 "art on the Zugspitze" - in cooperation with the Neues Museum, State Museum for Art and Design in Nuremberg
• 2000 "roadkill", agency for contemporary art, Christoph Grau, Hamburg
• 2001 "Roadkill and Material Pictures, solo and in collaboration with Dorrie Gibson and John Turpie", Light Square Gallery, Adelaide
• 2002 “Dear Daddy…”, together with Katharina Lommel, Galerie Defet, Nuremberg

Group exhibitions

• 1968 Welsh Arts Council, Cardiff
• 1969 Art Association Munich (with Gerhard v. Graevenitz, Rupprecht Geiger and Rainer Wittenborn )
• 1970 Galerie de Gestlo, Hamburg (with Rainer Wittenborn)
• 1973 VIII Biennale des Jeunes Artistes, Paris
• 1974 "Project 74 - Art Remains Art", Kunsthalle Cologne
• 1974 "Five from Germany" (Hofschen, Lang, Nierhoff, Reuter, Wittenborn) Serpentine Gallery, London
• 1974 "Forensics: Archeology and Memory", Kunstverein in Hamburg
• 1977 “Boîtes”, Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris. Maison de la Culture, Rennes
• 1977 "documenta 6", Kassel
• 1977 "For example Villa Romana", Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Städt. Kunsthalle, Recklinghausen, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence
• 1979 Third Biennale of Sydney, Australia
• 1980 "28. Annual exhibition ", German Association of Artists , Kunstverein Hannover
• 1980 “Hermit? Researcher? Social worker? ”, Kunstverein Hamburg
• 1980 Kunsthaus Aarau, Switzerland (with court art, Schroer)
• 1980 "Landscape <–> Art: two way reaction", Australian National Gallery, Canberra
• 1981 “Malmoe”, Malmö Konsthall , Sweden
• 1981 "Avant-garde - retrospective", art after 1945, Westfälischer Kunstverein
• 1981 “Myth and Ritual”, Kunsthaus Zurich, Kunstverein Hamburg
• 1981 "29. Annual exhibition “, German Association of Artists, Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg
• 1982 "Past Present Future", Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart
• 1982 "Nature-Landscape-Art", Kunsthalle Bremen
• 1982 "Man, a refugee on earth", Wolfenbüttel Art Association
• 1982 "Art becomes material", National Gallery Berlin
• 1982 “Views of Structures Horizons - Landscapes by German Artists” Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg
• 1983 “Positions”, Städtische Galerie Nordhorn
• 1983 “Signs of Life - Message of Pictures”, Art Museum Hannover with the Sprengel Collection
• 1983 "Young Art in Germany" - privately funded -, Kölnischer Kunstverein. National Gallery Berlin, Municipal Gallery in the Lenbachhaus Munich
• 1983 " aktuell 83 ", Städt. Gallery in the Lenbachhaus Munich
• 1985 "Exhibition Dialogue", Lisbon
• 1985 "Contemporary Art from Germany", Muzeul Colectiilor de Arta, Bucharest, Romania
• 1985 "Elementarzeichen", Neuer Berliner Kunstverein
• 1985 "1945 - 1985", National Gallery Berlin
• 1987 "documenta 8", Kassel
• 1987 "Exotic Worlds - European Fantasies", Institute for Foreign Relations, Stuttgart
• 1988 Eighth Biennale of Sydney, Australia
• 1988 "Focus 88", art gallery of the Hypo-Kulturstiftung Munich
• 1988 "Back to nature, but how?", Städt. Gallery in the Prinz-Max-Palais , Karlsruhe
• 1989 "Resource Art", Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken, artist workshops Lothringerstraße, Munich
• 1990 "Animalia: Alternate", Haus am Waldsee, Berlin
• 1990 "picture for picture", Städt. Gallery in the Lenbachhaus, Munich
• 1990 "Savoir-Vivre, Savoir-Faire, Savoir Être", Center International d'Art Contemporain Montreal, Canada
• 1990 "Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art", Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
• 1991 "Animal Memorial Museum", Municipal Gallery, Delmenhorst
• 1992 "Away", artist workshops Lothringerstraße, Munich
• 1992 "5th Fellbach Triennial", Fellbach. Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg
• 1992 "Contemporary Sculpture Project", Friedenstein Castle, Gotha
• 1993 "Bright Light", International Contemporary Art, Schloss Presteneck
• 1993 "Différentes Natures", Défense Galerie Art 4, Paris
• 1994 "Localities of Desire", Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
• 1995 "Sculptor in Germany", Kunstverein Augsburg
• 1995 "Sculpture Drawings", members of the Academy, Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts, Munich
• 1996 "Maurer, Kalk und Sand or the painter Franz Anton Maulbertsch", daedalus, Vienna
• 1997 "Memoria e Progetto" Abbazia di San Martino delle Scale, Palermo
• 1997 "The Man in the Ice", Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck
• 1997 "Alpenblick", Kunsthalle Vienna
• 1997 "Deep Storage", Kulturforum Berlin
• 1998 "The bird self-knowledge", Tyrolean Folk Art Museum, Innsbruck
• 1999 "The Painted Coast - views of the Fleurieu Peninsula south of Adelaide", Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
• 1999 "From the scarab to the new beetle", Kunstverein Bad Salzdetfurth
• 1999 "the 20th century - a century of art in Germany", Altes Museum, Neue Nationalgalerie, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
• 1999 "The memory opens its doors", contemporary art in the Lenbachhaus, Munich
• 1999 “Cultural Spaces - Sculpture since 1970”, Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum Duisburg
• 2000 "Noah's Ark", Bad Salzdetfurth Art Association
• 2001 "MCA Unpacked", Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
• 2002 "Arid Arcadia: Art of the Flinders Ranges", Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
• 2002 "Linger ... Gerhard Richter , Roman Opalka , On Kawara , Nikolaus Lang, Bill Viola , Hanne Darboven , Michael Wesely , Tatsuo Miyajima - The VII Collection" Städt. Gallery in the Lenbachhaus Munich
• 2002 "Defet: a donation", new museum, State Museum for Art and Design in Nuremberg
• 2003 "Present: FIELD RESEARCH", Hamburger Kunsthalle
• 2003 "The Night of the Hunter ... The Night of the Hunter .." Brigitte March Gallery, Stuttgart
• 2005 "at the end of her exhibition activity", Galerie Defet, Nuremberg
• 2005 "An Arcadia of Modernism? 100 Years of the Villa Romana Artists' House in Florence", Neues Museum, Weimar
• 2007 "Say it isn't so. Science in the sights of art", Weserburg | Museum of Modern Art, Bremen

Individual evidence

1. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: 29th annual exhibition Nuremberg / participants ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on October 3, 2015) 

Web links

• Literature by and about Nikolaus Lang in the catalog of the German National Library