LOTHAR BAUMGARTEN
(b. 1944, Rheinsberg, Germany. Lives and works in Berlin and New York)
Awards:
mfi Award, Kunst und Bau, Essen, Germany, 2003
Lichtwark Prize, City of Hamburg, Germany, 1997
The Golden Lion, First Prize of 41st Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy, 1984
Prize of the County of Nordrhein Westfalen, Germany, 1976
Prize of the City of Düsseldorf, Germany, 1974
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016
Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany
Specchio del Mare, Franco Noero Gallery, Turin, Italy
The ship is going under, the ice is breaking through, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina, Palacio de Cristal, Madrid, Spain
2014
Lothar Baumgarten, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
2012
Los Aristócratas de la Selva y la Reina de Castilla, Botin Foundation, Cantabria,
Spain
2011
Lothar Baumgarten Evening of Time –Señores Naturales/Yãnomãmi, Museum
Folkwang, Essen, Germany
Fragmento Brasil, Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris, France
2009
Seven Sounds Seven Circles, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria
2008
Autofocus Retina, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA),
Barcelona, Spain
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
2006
Imago Mundi, Museum Kurhaus, Kleve, Germany
2004
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
2003
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Skaftfell Cultural Center, Seydisfjordur, Iceland
Look and Feel, De Verbeelding kunst, landschap natuur, Zeewolde, Netherlands
2002
Freedman Gallery, Albright College Center for the Arts, Reading, Pennsylvania
De Pont, Tilburg, The Netherlands
2001
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
Palazzo Querini Stampalia, Venice, Italy
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
Museu Serralves, Porto, Porgtugal
Schirmer/Mosel Showroom, Munich, Germany
2000
Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, France
1998
Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, France
Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
1997
Kurhaus Museum, Kleve, Germany
1996
Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, France
1995
Fondation Cartier, Paris, France
1994
Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland
1993
CARBON, The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
AMERICA Invention, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (F.L.Wright’s Rotunda), New York
1992
Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno, Valencia, Spain
Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld, Germany
1991
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
1990
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
Konrad Fischer Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany
1988
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
1987
Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Musée des Arts Africains et Océaniens, Paris, France (in conjunction with
L'époque, la mode, la morale, la passion, Musée National d'Art Moderne-Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France)
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1986
ARC/Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
Museo de Bellas Artes, Jardín Botanico de Caracas y Parque de Los Caobos,
Caracas, Venezuela
Pacific Film Archives, University Art Museum, Berkeley, California
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Konrad Fischer Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany
1985
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
Konrad Fischer Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts
1983
Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany
1982
Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Konrad Fischer Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany
1979
Hallen für Internationale Neue Kunst, Zürich, Switzerland
1978
Kunstraum, Munich, Germany
1976
Kabinett für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremerhaven, Germany
Konrad Fischer Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany
1975
Konrad Fischer Gallery, Düsseldorf
Rolf Preisig Gallery, Basel
1974
Wide White Space, Brussels and Antwerp, Belgium
Konrad Fischer Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany
Botanical Garden, Cologne, Germany (in conjunction with Kunst bleibt Kunst,
Kunsthalle, Cologne, Germany)
1973
Gian Enzo Sperone/ Konrad Fischer Gallery, Rome
Konrad Fischer Gallery, Düsseldorf
1972
Konrad Fischer Gallery, Düsseldorf
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017
Mil bestias que rugen. Dispositivos de exposición para una modernidad crítica (A Thousand Roaring Beasts: Display Devices for a Critical Modernity), Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (CAAC), Sevilla, Spain
Folklore, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Mönchsberg, Germany
Prometheus Unbound, Steirischer Herbst Festival 2017, Neue Galerie, Graz, Austria
SITES OF ASSEMBLY, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
L’emozione dei COLORI nell’arte, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea & GAM – Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin, Italy
Collection Display: Communities, Migros Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland
2016
Capital. Debt-Territory-Utopia. Hamburger Bahnhof- Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany
Sammlung Opitz-Hoffmann. Stadtmuseum & Kunstsammlung Jena, Jena, Germany
Honey, I Rearranged The Collection. # 1 The Magic of Things. Perfidious Objects. Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
Art from Elsewhere: International Contemporary Art from UK Galleries, Towner, Eastbourne, UK
Order & Reorder: Curate Your Own Exhibition. National Museum of Modern Art Kyoto (MOMAK), Kyoto, Japan
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany
25 Years MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst – New Collection Presentation. MMK 1 Museum für moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2015
FORSTER, 1754 – 2015 (Lothar Baumgarten, Camille Henrot, Friedemann von Stockhausen) Kunsthalle Mainz, Mainz, Germany
Views on Mainz: 111 Artists in One Office, Mainzer Ansichten - Kunsthalle Mainz, Mainz, Germany
Dump! Multispecies Making and Unmaking, Aarhus Kunsthal, Denmark
Art & Language, Lothar Baumgarten, Robert Bary, Sigmar Polke. Hirose Collection, Hiroshima, Japan
Art from Elsewhere: International Contemporary Art from UK Galleries, Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery, UK; mima (Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art), UK; Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Preston, UK
Yuxtaposiciones: Bleda y Rosa & Lothar Baumgarten. Espaivisor Gallery, Valencia, Spain
25 años: Exposición colectiva. Galería Elba Benítez, Madrid, Spain
Camera of Wonders. Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City, Mexico
2014
Lens-based Sculpture. Die Veränderung der Skulptur durch die Fotografie, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany
Cartagena Biennale, Cartagena, Colombia
Booste: Art Sound Machine, Marta Herford, Herford, Germany
On the Road/En el camino, curated by Gloria Moure, exhibition installed throughout historic buildings of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Art from Elsewhere: International Contemporary Art from UK Galleries, Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA), Glasgow, Scotland
2013
Ends of the Earth, Land Art to 1974, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
Poesie der Reduktion – Minimal, Concept, Land Art, Museum Moderner
Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria
Neunzehnhundertsiebzig. Material, Orte, Denkprozesse, Kunstmuseum
Luzern, Luzern, Switzerland
Estado Oculto, 43rd Salón Nacional de Artistas, Medellín, Columbia
2012
Ends of the Earth, Land Art to 1974, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los
Angeles
La Triennale, Intense Proximity, Le Palais de Tokyo, Paris
Oltre il muro, Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy
2011
Making Histories: Changing Views of the Collection, Temporary Stedelijk 2,
Amsterdam
MMK 1991-2011: 20 Jahre Gegenwart, Museum fur Moderne Kunst (MMK),
Frankfurt
Staging the Archive, MACE – Museu de Arte Contemporanea de Elvas, Portugal
Windflower, Perceptions of Nature, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo,
Netherlands
Frames and Documents: Conceptualist Practices, Selections from the Ella
Fontanals-Cisneros Collection – CIFO – Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, USA
Zeit zu handeln! Kunsthalle Krems, Krems
Light Years: Conceptual Art and the Photograph, 1964-1977, Art Institute of Chicago, USA
2010
Radical Nature, Dick Institute, East Ayshire, Scotland
Beuys y más allá – El enseñar como arte, MAVI - Museo de Artes Visuales, Santiago, Chile
2009
Universal Archive: The Condition of the Document and the Modern
Photographic Utopia, Museu Colecçao Berardo, Lisbon, Portugal
Objectivités: La Photographie à Düsseldorf, Musée de l’Art Moderne de la
Ville de Paris, Paris, France
2008
To be a teacher is my greatest work of art, Kunstmuseum Ahlen, Ahlen, Germany
Un Coup de Dés. Writing Turned Image: An Alphabet of Pensive Language,
Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria
Neue Ansichten – Die Sammlung zeitgenössischer Kunst - Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve
Zeitblick - Ankäufe aus der Sammlung Zeitgenössischer Kunst der
Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1998–2008, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
La condición del documento y la utopía fotográfica moderna, Museu d´Art
Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona
Sammlung / Collection, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich
2007
Hidden in Plain Sight: Contemporary Photographs from the Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
Edit! Photography and Film in the Ellipse Collection, Ellipse Foundation, Cascais, Portugal
2005
Slide Show, Baltimore Museum, Baltimore, Maryland
An Aside, Camden Arts Centre, London; The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh;
The Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansee, England
2004-05
Animaux, Seedamm Kulturzentrum, Pfäffikon, Schweiz
Behind the Facts, Interfunktionen 1968-1975, Joan Miró Foundation,
Barcelona, Spain; Museu Serralves, Porto, Portugal; Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
2004
Reflecting the Mirror, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
Yãnomãmi, o espírito da floresta, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de
Janeiro, Brasil
2003-04
Gegenwärtig: Field Research, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
2003
Watershed - The Hudson Valley Art Project, Minetta Brook, Beacon, New
York
Recaptured Nature, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
Yãnomãmi, Spirit of the Forest, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain,
Paris, France
Photography: Fact to Fiction, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, France
Projection, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany
2002
Arte all’ Arte, Arte Architettura Paesaggio 7, (Ecce Homo [2002]) San
Francesco, Montalcino, Italy
Summer Show, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
COPY, Roth+Horowitz, LLC, New York
2001
Szenenwechsel XIX, (CARBON [1987-90]) Museum für Moderne Kunst,
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Parallels, Atlanta College of Art Gallery, Atlantaa
This side of paradise, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
Seeing Time: Selections from the Kramlich Collection of Media Art, Museum
für neue Kunst ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
2000
Voici: 100 Years of Contemporary Art, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels,
Belgium
Zeichnung, (organized by Kunstfonds Bonn), Kunstakademie Dresden, Dresden;
Kunstverein Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf; Kunstverein Lingen, Lingen; Kunstverein Chemnitz, Chemnitz; Kunstverein Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
1999
Seeing Time: Selections from the Pamela and Richard Kramlich Collection of
Media Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
Circa 1968, Museu Serralves, Porto, Portugal
The Museum as Muse: Artists Reflect, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Kunstwelten im Dialog, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Ein Jahrhundert Kunst in Deutschland, National Galerie, Hamburger Bahnhof,
Berlin, Germany
1998
Breaking Ground, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
Jardin d'artiste: de mémoire d'arbre, Musée Zadkine, Paris, France
1997
documenta X, Kassel, Germany
1996
Project for Survival, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto; The
National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo, Japan
Thinking Print: Books to Billboards, 1980-1995, The Museum of Modern Art,
New York
Elsewhere, Galerie Froment & Putman, Paris
Multiples, Pierogi 2000, Brooklyn, New York
Under the Capricorn The World Over, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The
Netherlands; City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
Comme un oiseau, Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain, Paris, France
1995-96
1965-1975: Reconsidering the Object of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art,
Los Angeles, California
1995
Call it Sleep, Witte de With, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Wide White Space, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
1994
In the Field: Landscape in Recent Photography, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los
Angeles
Wall to Wall, Serpentine Gallery, London
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
1993-94
Photographie in der deutschen Gegenwartskunst, Museum für
Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland; Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
1993
Die Sprache der Kunst, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
De la main à la tête, l'objet théorique, Le Domaine de Kerguehennec Centre
d'Art Contemporain, Bignan, France
1992
American Fine Arts Co., New York
Animals, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris
Natural Order: Recent European Sculpture from the Tate's Collection, Tate
Gallery Liverpool, Liverpool, England
documenta 9, Kassel, Germany
Photography in Contemporary German Art: 1960 to the Present, Walker Art
Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota; The St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas; The Solomon R.Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York; The Lannan Foundation, Los Angeles, California
1991
Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
(Grammar of Creation, Richard King Mellon Hall of Science, Duquence University, 1966-68, Architect: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe)
Szenenwechsel (Frankurter Brief [1989-91]) Museum für Moderne Kunst,
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Recent Acquisitions, Tate Gallery, London, England
This Land..., Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
Brennpunkt 2, Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
1990
Rhetorical Image, The New Museum, New York
Savoir-Vivre, Savoir-Faire, Savoir-Être, Centre International d'Art
Contemporain, Montreal, Quebec
Life-Size, A Sense of the Real in Recent Art..., The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
A Group Show, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
1989
Blickpunkt, Musée d'Art Contemporain, Montreal, Quebec
Bilderstreit, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
A Sculpture Show, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
Photo-Kunst, Arbeiten aus 150 Jahren, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Graphische
Sammlungen, Stuttgart, Germany
A Photo Show, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
1988
The Tongue of the Cherokee, Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
1987
Skulptur Projekte Münster (Drei Irrlichter) Westfälisches Landesmuseum,
Münster, Germany
Meltem, (Les Animaux de la Pleine Lune. Une Cosmographie de la
Touraine [1986-87]) Château d'Oiron, Oiron, France
1986
Falls the Shadow: Recent British and European Art, Hayward Gallery, London, England
Augenhöhe: Van Abbemuseum 1936-1986, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
America, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Art as Culture: Recent Art from Germany, Davison Art Center, Wesleyan
University, Middletown, Connecticut
1985
Recent Films from West Germany, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
The European Iceberg, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario
1984
Von hier aus, Messehallen, Düsseldorf, Germany
Ouverture, (Yurupari [Stanza di Rheinsberg] [1969]) Castello di Rivoli
Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy
Roots, Forum Middelburg, Middelburg, The Netherlands
41st Venice Biennial (AMERICA Señores Naturales [1978-82]) (German
Pavilion with A.R. Penck), Venice, Italy
1983
International Filmfestpiele Berlin, Berlin, Germany (Ursprung der Nacht)
(Origin of the Night) 1978, [1973-77])
1982
documenta 7, (Monument for the Native Societies of South America [1978-
82]) Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
1981
Art Allemagne Aujourd'hui, ARC/ Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
1979
Schlaglichter, Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany
1978
38th Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy
1977
Kunst der BRD nach 1945, Budapest, Hungary
1976
INK. Hallen für Internationale Neue Kunst, Zurich, Switzerland
1974
Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
1973
Medium Photographie, Schloss Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
1972
documenta 5, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
Photography into Art, Camden Art Center, London, England
Jetzt, Kunsthalle Köln, Cologne, Germany
COMMISSIONS/PUBLIC PROJECTS
2003
Plant Life Architecture, De Verbeelding, kunst landscap natuur, Zeewolde,
Netherlands
1996-98
New Presidential Headquarters, Federal Republic of Germany, Berlin, Germany
1997
Hufschlag, RWE Essen, Essen, Germany
1996
Steinschlag, University St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland
Das Große Rasenstück, Überlingen, Germany
1994-96
Theatrum Botanicum, Fondation Cartier, Paris, France
1992
Configuracións urbanes, Olympiade Cultural, Barcelona, Spain (Rosa de los
Vientos)
