Piotr Nathan

Piotr Nathan (born April 27, 1956 in Gdańsk ) is a German artist from Poland .

Life

Piotr Nathan, actually Piotr Nathan Sobieralski, was born on April 27, 1956 in Gdańsk (Danzig). He grew up there and in Chełmża (Kulmsee). From 1971 to 1976 he attended the High School for Fine Arts (Liceum Sztuk Plastycznych) in Gdynia (Gdynia). In 1977 he was admitted to the Art School in Gdańsk (Danzig). He attended the basic class there. In 1980 he moved to Hamburg to continue his studies there, which he had started in 1978 at the University of Fine Arts . During his studies his artistic development was enhanced by studying with Sigmar Polke and Karl-Ernst Hermann, but also by co-founding and working in the artist group “Stille Helden e. V. ”. After completing his studies in 1986, he moved to Berlin , where he still lives and works today. Since 2006 he has been professor for the class with a focus on classical and experimental drawing and printmaking at the Muthesius Kunsthochschule in Kiel . He “has his Baltic Sea back” ( Claus Böhmler ).

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions:

1983

• Künstlerhaus Hamburg, Hamburg.

1985

• Apartment Lange Reihe 91, Hamburg: A facility for art
• Weltknown eV, Hamburg: Questions about stories

1987

• Interim Art, London: A house abandoned in haste
• Dörrie * Priess Gallery, Hamburg
• Yellow Music, Berlin: Snowflakes
• Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg: A very long and incredibly boring piece

1989

• Galerie Isabella Kacprzak, Cologne
• Cornerhaus, Manchester: This is an american home run japanese style…

1990

• Galerie Dörrie * Priess, Hamburg: For a friend
• Galerie Ryszard Varisella, Frankfurt

1991

• Brutto Gusto, Rotterdam: You have to shoot higher, not on your feet - the strolling scent of an entomologist
• Dziekanka Gallery, Warsaw
• Hotel-Pension Nürnberger Eck, Berlin

1992

• Art works, Berlin
• Galerie De Lege Ruimte, Brugge: The order of the titles can be changed at will: crashed, lost, unfinished, forgotten, unknown, burned down, bombed, torn, cracked, sunk

1993

• Whitechapel Art Gallery, London

1994

• GAK - Society for Current Art, Bremen: Excerpts-Cuttings

1995

• Galerie Sabine Schmidt, Cologne: Earth and sky studies
• Albrecht Dürer Gesellschaft / Nürnberger Kunstverein, Nuremberg: In Search for a Store House - Looking for a storage room

1996

• Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin: Stack of Diaries
• Flower shop Brutto Gusto, Rotterdam: Calendar Pages
• Wolfgang Wittrock Kunsthandel, Düsseldorf: Old Palettes and New Paintings

1997

• Galerie Dörrie * Priess, Hamburg: The Thief of the Melancholy
• Hamburger Kunsthalle: The Cursed Garden (permanent installation)
• Galerie Sabine Schmidt, Cologne: The view from my bed

1999

• Galerie Wohnmaschine, Berlin: The clean end to the dirt of passion
• Historical institutes of the Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich: Pandora's box and hanging up a book (permanent installation)

2001

• Haus der Kunst, Munich: The one who counts the stars

2002

• NGBK - New Society for Fine Arts, Berlin: Partnerships Part III: Matt. Ranger and Piotr Nathan
• National Gallery in the Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin: a burning tree of unfulfilled wishes

2003

• Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg: The weaving of fragrances, part I
• Gallery Sabine Schmidt, Cologne

2004

• Berghain , Berlin: The Rituals of Disappearance (permanent installation; removed in 2017 due to renovation work)

2005

• Morris & Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver: How far do you dare to go?

2006

• magnus müller, Berlin: Piotr Nathan - new and old works

2009

• magnus müller, Berlin: The reports from the laboratory of the time travel machine

2011

• Laura Mars Grp., Berlin: Today only painted the light

2012

• Gerisch Foundation, Neumünster: Dreams and Nightmares

Group exhibitions:

1982

• Kampnagel, Hamburg: Memory

1983

• Kampnagel, Hamburg: love / silent heroes and guests

1984

• Hamburger Kunsthalle: alternating current

1985

• Mobile Container-Burg settlement, Cologne: Poetic objection

1986

• Yellow Music, Berlin: artist records
• Riverside Studios, London: Antidotes to Madness

1987

• Kunsthaus Hamburg, Hamburg: silent heroes + guests
• Auto-Galerie, Berlin: Abused Photography

1988

• Emily Harvey Gallery, New York: Extended Play
• Städtische Kunsthalle Recklinghausen: Magic of the book
• Galerie Dörrie * Priess, Hamburg: Unknown Work
• Riis Gallery, Oslo
• Kunsthaus Hamburg: scholarship holders 1987
• Castello di Rivara (Italy): Palestra

1989

• daadgalerie, Berlin
• 8th Sydney Biennale - Le Magasin
• Grenoble: Broken Music
• Galerie 't Venster, Rotterdam: Maak uw correspondenten niet wakker! Evitez de réveiller vos correspondants! Think twice, someone might be sleeping!

1990

• Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montréal
• Museet for Samtidskunst, Roskilde

1991

• Russian Ethnographic Museum, St. Petersburg
• Expo Henk, Rotterdam: Present days
• Dörrie * Priess Gallery, Hamburg
• Mars Artspace, Phoenix, Arizona: Dobles sentidos - double meanings

1992

• Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris: Qui, Quoi, Où?
• Wilhelmsthal Castle, Kassel
• Galerie Dörrie * Priess, Hamburg: Animals
• Galerie Wanda Reiff, Amsterdam: The last rose of summer
• Wewerka & Weiss Gallery, Berlin

1993

• Wolfgang Wittrock Kunsthandel, Düsseldorf
• Kunstraum Elbschloß, Hamburg: Love again
• Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin: something else, The selection of the selected, The friends' meeting
• Gross Gusto, Rotterdam: deGEDEKTEtafel

1994

• Offenes Kulturhaus, Linz: Other Body-Different Bodies
• Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
• Kunstverein Hamburg: Against it
• Old Town Hall / Kulturhaus, Potsdam: AIDS Worlds / Life Worlds

1995

• Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, D. C. - ICA-Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston: Burnt Whole
• Hotel-Pension Nürnberger Eck, Berlin: Bed exhibition
• NGBK - New Society for Fine Arts, Berlin: GeWALT / shops
• Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin: A Bonnie Situation - Truth and Fiction

1996

• Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin: The stain in the past and present
• Vitriinimuseo, Helsinki: Vitrinii

1997

• Ataturk Cultural Center / Dolmabahçe Palace, Istanbul: In medias res - Photography and other media art from Berlin
• Akademie der Künste, Berlin: Positions on gay art
• GAK Society for Current Art eV, Bremen: The work of drawing

1998

• Center d'Art Contemporain, Geneva: Aids Worlds: Between Resignation and Hope
• Big art show, Worpswede: elsewhere
• Torch-Gallery, Amsterdam: The Amsterdam Project Room
• Suermondt Ludwig Museum, Aachen: Entropy at home - Coll. Schürmann
• AHAWA, Berlin: Davka - Jewish Life in Berlin / Traditions and Visions

1999

• Artists Space, New York: Shy
• Galerie Dörrie * Priess, Hamburg: Men's art

2000

• Manzini-Mitte, Berlin-Galerie Dörrie * Priess, Hamburg: Food pictures
• Kunstverein München-Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden: The injured diva

2001

• LCCA-Latvian Center for Contemporary Art, Riga: Contemporary Utopia
• Museum of Applied Arts, Cologne: Unwearable fashion as a sculpture
• Galerie der Künstler, Munich: One does not speak with a full mouth

2002

• Laura Mars Grp., Berlin: Laura Mars Group Show 2002
• Stadtgalerie Kiel: You don't speak with a full mouth
• Gallery Dörrie * Priess, Hamburg: Angels & Devils

2003

• Nordic Embassies, Berlin: In residence
• Museum Bochum: The Right of the Image - Jewish Perspectives in Modern Art
• Luitpold Lounge, Munich: happiness

2004

• 3rd berlin biennial for contemporary art; Berlin: The weaving of fragrances, part II
• ACC Galerie, Weimar: Approaches to happiness
• Kunstbank, Berlin: Piotr Nathan / Rolf Wicker (scholarship holders 2003)
• Schwules Museum, Berlin: Drawings
• Galerie Sabine Schmidt, Cologne: 44 in 10 exhibitions 1994–2004

2005

• Galerie Dörrie * Priess, Berlin: Seascapes

2006

• Akademie der Künste, Berlin: Art competition Memorial for the homosexuals persecuted under National Socialism (exhibition of the competition works)
• Museum Ludwig, Cologne: The eighth field - The Eighth Square
• Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen: Personal Affairs

2007

• Wilhelm Lehmbruck-Museum, Duisburg: Selection of 6 empty spaces of storytelling (Provincial Art Collection)
• Machine house of the Muthesius Art College, Kiel: powerlessness
• Galerie Brutto Gusto_fine arts, Berlin: Wunderkammer - The romantic December adventure

2008

• Galerie Brutto Gusto_fine arts, Berlin: Tell me where the flowers are ... At Easter and tell me where the flowers are ... Part 3
• Cobra Museum of Modern Art, Amstelveen (NL): Gewoon different! - Just different!
• KunstCentret Silkeborg Bad, Silkeborg (DK): Call it what you like! Collection Rik Reinking
• Gallery September, Berlin: Metal Postcard Mittageisen

2009

• Temporary Kunsthalle, Berlin: Show. An audio tour through Berlin by Karin Sander

2010

• Muzeum Narodowego, Berlin: ARS Homo Erotica

Awards

• 1987 Hamburg scholarship
• 1989 PS 1 scholarship in New York
• 1991 working grant from the Berlin Senate
• 1992 scholarship from the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
• 1993 working grant from the Art Fund Foundation , Bonn
• 1995 Work stay at MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire (USA)
• 1996 Working grant from the Barkenhoff Foundation, Worpswede
• 2003 Munch-Haus scholarship, Warnemünde
• 2004 Scholarship from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York

Works of art in public collections

• Collection Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent
• Nuremberg Art Gallery
• National Gallery in the Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart - Berlin
• Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
• Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
• Federal Collection of Contemporary Art, Bonn
• State Museums in Berlin - Kupferstichkabinett
• Falckenberg Collection / Phoenix Cultural Foundation. Hamburg-Harburg

Publications

• Catalog Piotr Nathan | Drawing and space | Drawing and Space | 1981–2015 (available on the artist's website; PDF , 17.6 MB)

Web links

• Interview with the artist (English) on Independent Collectors.