Johannes KAHRS
Biography
Born in 1965, in Breme, Germany
Lives and works in Berlin, Germany
Solo Exhibitions
2009
‘I can’t think of the finish’, Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
2008
‘Eyes on his body’, Luhring Augustine, New York, NY, U.S.A.
2007
‘Men with Music’, GAMEC - Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy
‘Lonely long meaningless way home: Johannes Kahrs’, Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art, London, U.K.
2006
‘Ein ganz fremder Nackter’, Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
2005
Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art, London, U.K.
2004
‘Dunkles Zimmer’, Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
2003
‘Down'n out’, Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
2002
‘Down'n Out’, Studio 2, Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
‘The Drunken Boat’, Galerie Almine Rech, Paris, France
2001
‘A-h’, Kunstverein of Munich, Munich, Germany
‘A-h’, FRAC Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, France
‘A-h’, S.M.A.K., Gand, Belgium
2000
‘La révolution permanente’, Galerie Almine Rech, Paris, France
‘Night in SexyLand’, Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
‘Shot and painted’, Franck+Schulte Gallery, Berlin, Germany
‘Last virgin on the left’, Signal, Malmö, Sweden
1999
‘Why don't you paint my portrait’, Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen, Germany
‘Art Statements’, Galerie Almine Rech at Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland
1998
‘Johannes Kahrs’, Franck+Schulte Gallery, Berlin, Germany
‘A-h’, Galerie Almine Rech, Paris, France
1997
‘Hole’, Arndt & Partner Gallery, Berlin, Germany
‘Thomson homestead, Slater, Missouri’, in collaboration with ‘Passe-partout Newspaper’, Transit Gallery, Leuven, Belgium
Vereniging, Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst, Gent, Belgium
‘Austerlitz Autrement’, Galerie Almine Rech, Paris, France
1995
‘Datierung’, urban project in collaboration with ‘Zitty Newspaper’, Galerie Wohnmaschine, Berlin, Germany
1994
‘Schlag doch’, DAAD Gallery, Berlin, Germany
1993
‘Keine Falsche Bewegung’ Mutzek Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Group Exhibitions
2008
‘Locked-In’, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg
‘Re-Imagining Asia’, Maison des cultures du monde, Berlin, Germany
‘The Painting of Modern Life’, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy
2007
‘The Painting of Modern Life’, Hayward Gallery, London, U.K.
‘De Cirkel’, Roger Raveelmuseum, Machelen-Zulte, Belgium
‘Visit(e): Contemporary art in Germany’, Bozar, Brussels, Belgium
‘Works on paper’, Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
2006
‘Vous êtes ici’, FRAC Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France
‘Parcours video-installatie’, Beursschouwburg, Brussels, Belgium
‘Constructing New Berlin’, Bass Museum of Art, Miami, FL, U.S.A.
‘FLUTTER’ The Approach, London, U.K.
‘Havekost, Kahrs, Plessen, Sasnal - imagens em pintura’, Museu Serralves - Museu de Arte Contemporanea, Porto, Portugal
‘Constructing Reality: New Berlin’, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix AZ, U.S.A.
2005
‘Zur Vorstellung des terrors: Die RAF-Ausstellung’, KW - Institute of Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany ; Neue Gallery Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria
2004
‘The 45th October’, Salon Continental Breakfast, Belgrade, Serbia
Art 35 Basel, Sant H10, Basel, Switzerland
MANIFESTA 5 European Biennial of Contemporary Art, San Sebastian, Spain
‘Contre Images’, Carré d´Art, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Nîmes, France
L'Albertinum, Dresde, Germany
‘Berlin-Moskau/Moskau-Berlin’, Moscow, Russia
‘Was Malerei heute ist’, Opelvillen, Rüsselsheim, Germany
2003
‘Berlin-Moskau/Moskau-Berlin’, Gallery Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany
‘Kiss and Ride’, Hasselt, Belgium
‘Gelijk het leven is’, SMAK, Gand, Belgium
‘Warum! Bilder diesseits und jenseits des Menschen’, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany
‘German painting two thousand and three’, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Germany
‘A mains nues’, FRAC Haute-Normandie, Batiment Trafic, Sotteville-lès-Rouen, France
2002
Biennale de Taipei, Taipei, Taïwan
‘Cardinales’, MARCO - Museo de Arte Contemporànea de Vigo,Spain
‘Without Consent’, CAN - Centre d'art de Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
‘Questions’, Studio Massimo de Carlo, Milan, Italy
2001
‘Squatters’, Museo de Art Contemporain de Serralves, Porto, Portugal
‘Screen’, Psychiatrisch Centrum Sleidinge, Sleidinge, Belgium
‘Moving Pictures’, Fototriennale Esslingen, Villa Merkel, Esslingen, Germany
‘Double - Trouble’, Borusan Kültür ve Sanat, Istanbul, Turkey
‘In/Site/Out’, Apex, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Art Unlimited, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland
2000
‘Children of Berlin’, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
‘Indoor’, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent, Belgique
1999
‘Indoor’, MAC Lyon, Lyon, France ; Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst, Gent, Belgium
‘Trouble Spot Painting’, Museum voor Hedendaags, Kunst, Antwerp, Belgium
‘Drawings’, Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
‘Independance day’, Kunst Werke, Berlin, Germnay
‘EV+A’, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick, Ireland
‘Rue Louise Weiss’, Centre d’Art Contemporain de Meymac, Meymac, France
‘Ainsi de suite 3’, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Sète, France
‘The children of Berlin’, P.S. 1, New York, NY, U.S.A.
‘Face à l'Autre’, FRAC Haute-Normandie, France
1998
Biennale de Berlin, Berlin, Germany
‘Le présent du futur’, FRAC Languedoc-Roussillon, Sigean, France
‘Indoor’, Centro civico per l’Arte Contemporanea, Sienna, Italy
‘The Cinema Project’, Kunsthaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
1997
‘Fenêtre sur cour’, Galerie Almine Rech, Paris, France
‘Korrespondenzen’, Gallery Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany ; Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, U.K.
‘Selection fall 1997’, Drawing Center, New York, NY, U.S.A.
‘Heaven-Private view’, P.S.1, New York, NY, U.S.A.
1996
Projet dans la ville de Moscou, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Moscow, Russia
‘Nach-Weimar’, project in the city, Kunstsammlungen zu Weimar, Weimar, Germany
1994
‘A personal choice’, Franck+Schulte Gallery, Berlin, Germany
‘Post-conceptual Painting’, Kunstwerke, Berlin, Germany
1990
‘Geist und Körper’, Deutsches Museum für Geschichte, Berlin, Germany
Awards
Dorothea Von Stetten Prize, Bonn, Germany
Collections
Musée de Gent, Gent, Belgium
FRAC Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, France
Collection Goetz Sammlung, Munich, Germany
Collection Deutsche Bank, Francfort, Germany
Musée d'Art de Hedendaagse, Hedendaagse, Belgium