Lothar Hempel

Lothar Hempel (born 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 in 1992 at the Art Academy in Dusseldorf. Besides his work as a visual artist, he also makes music.

Work

Lothar Hempel works in his photographs and sculptures collected found images which dancers, performers as well as portraits of specific social groups show. Photographs of Pina Bausch's performances often appear, as prostitutes and cult figures of the film and the stage of the 1990. By Hempel selected their gestural expression and character, he also has a detachment from their social, personal, historical, etc. contexts, freeing them speak of their history and gives them new opportunities of development. This newly created characters, although they seem a bit strange, but wiederzukennen and thus arouse in the viewer certain associations.

The work of the artist in touch with other media systems in relation, in front of all theater, dance and film play an important role. The photographic collagen and sculptures relate to dream situations, his world of characters, shapes and colors adds Hempel in a certain attitude together and opens his work a stage-like presentation. The narrative associations and contradictions of the work aims at a state between consciousness and dream. Therefore, Lothar Hempel sees his sculptural constellations as narrative machines, in which the viewer is drawn in order to meet with his own imagination. Hempel's exhibitions present us an open scenario that the viewer has different meaning and interpretation.

Exhibitions

In 2007, Lothar Hempel's work shown in the 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 work was included in the following group exhibitions: "Heaven", Athens Biennial, " 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 is represented for nearly two decades at international exhibition projects, including: the Venice Biennale; Tate Liverpool, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; P.S.1, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Portico, Frankfurt am Main; Secession, Vienna; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.

Works in public collections

  • Honart Museum / Ebrahim Melamed Collection, Tehran
  • Goetz Collection, Munich
  • Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo
  • Saachi Collection, London
  • Sculpture Park, Tilburg
  • Museum of Modern Art, New York
  • FRAC Champagne, Reims
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