3. KAI ALTHOFF
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| Winter 2002 Watercolour, metallic paint and varnish on canvas 60 x 40cm |
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| Untitled 1999 watercolour, pen and pencil on board 25.5 x 24cm |
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| Untitled 2001 Pen, wax crayon, pencil on paper and epoxy resin on board 79 x 72 cm |
BIO & STEPS
Born:
In 1966 in Cologne, Germany
Studies:
He is a cultivated
artist an musician
Nowadays:
Lives and works in
Cologne, Germany
Themes:
Tapping a multitude of
sources, from Germanic folk traditions to recent popular culture, from medieval
and gothic religious imagery to early modern expressionism, Althoff’s
characters inhabit imaginary worlds that serve as allegories for human
experience and emotion incluiding in many cases childhood memories.
Techniques:
Collaboration,
Painting, Collage, Installation, multimedia
First Exhibition
1991- Happening “A group of friends encounters in the backside of a shop to make
masks” (
Solo Exhibitions
2014
“Kai Althoff,” Michael
Werner, London
2011
"Kaiki,” Focal
Point Gallery, Southend Central Library, Essex, England
"Punkt, Absatz,
Bluemli (period, paragraph, Bluemli),” Gladstone Gallery,
New York
2008
“Kai Althoff,” Vancouver
Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2007
“Kai Althoff: Ich meine
es auf jeden fall schlecht mit ihnen,” Kunsthalle Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
"Nick Z & Kai
Althoff: We Are Better Friends For It," Gladstone Gallery,
New York
2005
“Kai Althoff/Lutz Braun:
Solo fur eine befallene trompete,” ACME Gallery, Los
Angeles
2004
"Kai kein
Respekt," Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
"Kai kein
Respekt," Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
"Immo,”
Simultanhalle, Cologne, Germany
2003
"Vom Monte Scherbelino
Sehen," Diözesanmuseum Freising, Munich, Germany
2002
“Kai Althoff and Armin
Kraemer,” Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
2001
"Impulse,” Anton
Kern Gallery, New York
"Aus Dir,"
Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany
2000
"Hau ab, Du
Scheusal," Galerie Neu, Berlin
“Stigmata aus
Grossmanssucht,” Galerie Ascan Crone, Hamburg, Germany
“Kai Althoff,” ACME, Los
Angeles
1999
"Ein noch zu
weiches Gewese der Urian-Bundner," Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne,
Germany
“Kai Althoff,” Galerie
Gabi Senn, Vienna
1998
"Reflux Lux,"
Galerie Neu, Berlin
"Bezirk der
Widerrede," Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany
1997
"Hilfen und Recht
der äußeren Wand (an mich)," Anton Kern Gallery, New York
"In Search of
Eulenkippstadt," Robert Prime Gallery, London
"Heetz, Nowak,
Rehberger," Museo de Arte Contemporanea ca USP, São Paulo, Brazil
1996
"Hakelhug,"
Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne, Germany
1995
"Hast du heute
Zeit, Ich aber nicht," Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
(with Cosima von Bonin),
Stuttgart, Germany
"Modern wird
lahmgelegt," Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany
"Kirsche-Jade-Block,"
Galerie Christian Nagel (with Cosima von Bonin), Cologne, Germany
1994
"Zur ewigen
Lampe," Galleri Nicolai Wallner (with Torsten Slama), Copenhagen
"Uwe: Auf guten Rat
folgt Missetat," Lukas & Hoffmann, Cologne, Germany
1993
"Kai Althoff,"
Galerie Lukas & Hoffmann, Berlin
Group
Exhibitions
2015
"Avatar and
Atavism: Outside The Avant-Garde,“ Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf
"Painting 2.0:
Expression in The Information Age," Museum Brandhorst, Munich
2014
"A Place Like
This," Klöntal Triennale 2014, Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus, Switzerland
2013
"Not Yet Titled,“
Museum Ludwig, Köln
2012
The Whitney Biennial,
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
"Sgl. Wilhelm Otto
Nachf. Werkräume von / Work Spaces from Kai Althoff bis / to Thomas Zip,"
Leopold-Hoesch-Museum & Papiermuseum Düren, Düren, Germany
"A Bigger Splash:
Painting after Performance," Tate, London
2011
"Germany Is Your
America," Broadway 1602, New York
"The Perfect
Man," White Columns, New York
"Weekend in
Valmouth," Ancient and Modern, London
"Works of
Paper," ACME Gallery, Los Angeles
"The
Phantasm," Foxy Production, New York
2010
"At Home/Not At
Home: Works from the Collection of Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg," Bard
Center for Curatorial Studies and Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson,
New York
"Beyond | In WNY,
Alternating Currents," Albright Knox Triennial, Buffalo, New York
“The Summer
Bazaar,” Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
2009
"Between Art and
Life: The Painting and Sculpture Collection," San Francisco Museum of
Modern Art, San Francisco, California
"Compass in Hand:
Selections from the Judith Rothschild Foundation," Contemporary Drawings
Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York
"Kai Althoff &
Erin Allen, Justin Beal and Lisa Williamson," ACME Gallery, Los Angeles
"Mapping the
Studio: Artists from the Francois Pinault Collection," Palazzo Grassi,
Venice, Italy
"Brandon Stosuy and
Kai Althoff: Mirror Me," DISPATCH Projects, New York
"Video
Journeys," Sister Gallery, Los Angeles
2008
"Painting: Now and
Forever, Part II," Greene Naftali and Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
"Life on
Mars," Carnegie International, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2007
“Makers and Modelers,“
Gladstone Gallery, New York
"Make Your Own
Life: Artists In & Out of Cologne," Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami
"Genesis I'm
Sorry," Greene Naftali, New York
2006
"Heart of Darkness:
Kai Althoff, Ellen Gallagher and Edgar Cleijne, Thomas Hirschhorn," Walker
Art Center, Minneapolis
"Painting in
Tongues," Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
2005
"Nolens
volens," Galerie neu, Berlin
"Important, Modern
and Contemporary Art," Gary Nader, Miami
"The Triumph of
Painting," Saatchi Gallery, London
2004
The Douglas Hyde
Gallery, Dublin
"Armin Krämer, Abel
Auer, Robert Elfgen, Kai Althoff," Corvi-Mora, London
"Sans Soleil,"
Galerie neu, Berlin
“She’s Come
Undone," Artemis-Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York
“From Aural Sculpture to
Sound by Ink," Galerie Art: Concept, Paris
“The Pattern
Playback," The Moore Space, Miami
2003
"Malerei II
Ausstellung Nulldrei," Christian Nagel, Cologne, Germany
"Lieber Maler, male
mir," Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
Venice Biennale, Museo
Correr, Venice, Italy
"EU3," Stephen
Friedman Gallery, London
"Nature Boy,"
Elizabeth Dee, New York
“A Perilous Space,"
Magnani, London
2002
"Drawing Now: Eight
Propositions," Museum of Modern Art, New York
"Chére Paintre,
Liebe Maler," Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris [traveled to: Kunsthalle
Wien, Vienna]
2001
"Neue Welt,"
Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
"Musterkarte.
Modern Painting in Germany 2001," Galeria Heinrich Erhardt, Madrid
"Vom Eindruck zum
Ausdruck, Grasslin Collection," Deichtorhallen, Hamburg,
Germany
“I Love NY," Anton
Kern Gallery, New York
2000
"Drawings
2000," Gladstone Gallery, New York
"Deutsche Kunst in
Moskau," Central House of Artist, Moscow
"Europa differenti
prospettive nella pittura," Museo Michetti, Francavilla al Mare Chieti,
Italy
1999
"German Open.
Gegenwartskunst in Deutschland," Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
"The School of
Athens - German Art Today," Hellenic Art Galleries Association, Athens
"How Will We
Behave," Robert Prime, London
"On Paper,"
Stalke Gallery, Copenhagen
"Oldnewtown,"
Casey Kaplan, New York
1998
“Ars Viva 98/99,“
Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
[traveled to:
Brandenburgische Kunstsammlungen, Cottbus, Germany; Portikus, Frankfurt
(1999)]
“Kai Althoff,"
Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany
"Wrapped,"
Sorø Kunstmuseum, Sorø, Denmark
1997
"Heetz, Nowak,
Rehberger," Museo Contemporaneo, São Paulo, Brazil
"Time Out,"
Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nuremberg, Germany
"Home Sweet
Home," Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
"Symposion,"
Icebox / Venetia Kapernekas, Athens
1996
"Glockengeschrei
nach Deutz. Das Beste aller Seiten," Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne,
Germany
"Wunderbar,"
Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany
"Heetz, Nowak,
Rehberger," Museum Abteiberg (with Cosima von Bonin and Tobias Rehberger),
Mönchengladbach,
Germany
1995
Fächerfest, Forum
Stadtpark, Graz, Austria
"Wild Walls,"
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
1994
"Stonewall,"
White Columns, New York
"Sonne
München," Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany
"Stockholm Smart Show,"
Lukas & Hoffmann, Cologne, Germany
1993
"Unfair,"
Galerie Lukas & Hoffman, Cologne, Germany
"Aperto 93,"
Venice Biennale, Stand Schafhausen, Venice, Italy
"E,"
Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
"6 Wochen
Brüssel," Lukas & Hoffmann, Brussels
Projects
2003
"Wer nicht, wenn
du," video film, 92 min., Städt. Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach,
Germany
1994
"Bernd, Eric und
Oliver rehearsing for "Grenzen am Rand der Neustadt," Lukas &
Hoffmann, Cologne, Germany
1993
"Scherenschnitt,"
window project, Galerie Lukas & Hoffmann, Cologne, Germany
1991
"Eine Gruppe von
Befreundeten trifft sich in einem Ladenlokal auf dem Friesenwall, Köln um
Masken herzustellen," Friesenwall 116 a, Belgium
Galleries
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For more Information:
http://www.moma.org/collection/artists/26178
En Español:
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kai_Althoff