{"id":3015,"date":"2020-09-08T15:46:27","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T15:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.galerieartconcept.com\/new\/?p=3015"},"modified":"2026-03-24T15:29:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T15:29:03","slug":"lothar-hempel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.galerieartconcept.com\/en\/lothar-hempel\/","title":{"rendered":"Lothar Hempel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Vue d’exposition \/ Installation view Hippydrome, Frac Normandie, Caen\/FR, 2022<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Installation view Lothar Hempel WINDOW, 91 Walker Street New York, Anton Kern Gallery, 2020. Courtesy of the artist and Anton Kern Gallery<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Installation view FREITAG DER 13<\/em>, Mehdi Chouakri Gallery, Berlin, 2020. Courtesy of the artist and Mehdi Chouakri Gallery<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Installation view, Sex and the City, Art : Concept, Paris 2016<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Amour Phou, 2016, ink jet print, aluminium and mixed media, 49 x 28 3\/8 x 6 1\/8 in, available<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Plakat (1977), 2016, inkjet on Dibond, acrylic, mixed material, 102 x 102 x 3 7\/8 in<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Interior (Paradox), 2016, mixed media, 13 x 13 x 3 1\/4 in., private collection FR<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Fool’s rock, 2010, mixed media, 94 1\/2 x 35 3\/8 x 35 3\/8 in<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Styx, 2009, mixed media, 68 7\/8 x 98 3\/8 in. Public collection: CNAP FR<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Performance, 2015, ink jet print, aluminum and mixed media, variable dimensions<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Installation view, CNAP (France), 2009<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Lothar Hempel, Instrument, 2013 Installation view, FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, France<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Old New Girl (?), 2012, acrylic, oil paint, crayon and ink on primed aluminium, 98 3\/8 x 35 3\/8 in., 99 1\/4 x 36 1\/4 in. framed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The Mirror, 2008, acrylic on aluminium, 63 x 23 5\/8 in.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Old New Girl (Rise and Fall), 2012, acrylic, oil paint, crayon and ink on primed aluminium, framed, 78 3\/4 x 98 3\/8 in., 79 1\/2 x 99 1\/4 in. framed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Signal Perplex, 2008,
mixed media, public collection : Frac Limousin FR<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Signal, 2008 , mixed media, variable dimensions, public collection: FRAC Pays de Loire FR<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Wirst du jemals erwachsen werden ? (Will you ever grow up ?), 2007, mixed media, 90 1\/2 x 23 5\/8 x 23 5\/8 in., public collection : FRAC Champagne-Ardenne FR<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The Black Hour, 2004 MDF, plastic, aluminum, photographic reproductions and electrical clockwork, 110 x 100 x 59 in.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Mantra, 2004, fabric, light bulb and electrical system, 78 3\/4 x 78 3\/4 in.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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La Concubine, 2001, felt, rubber, styropore, metal and rope, variable dimensions, private collection GR<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Biography<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Lothar Hempel was born in 1966 in Cologne. He lives and works in Berlin. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He draws his inspiration from German history as well as from Californian New-Wave, Greek tragedy, pagan culture, music and cinema. His interest doesn\u2019t reside in references as such: taking images for what they are or for what they convey in contemporary western culture is not his main concern. Rather, he seeks a re-appropriation akin to a way of seizing reality to make it circulate in his universe. His works are densely emotional, and instead of relinquishing themselves from the start in the form of a concept, they make us face lost or forgotten memories which we feel we could recover from one second to the other, thus engendering a multiplicity of individual interpretative possibilities and creating paths between dream and reality. Lothar Hempel creates a cosmogony \u2013 complete with characters, objects and environment \u2013 in which verbal and visual intermingle and by which previously distinct media clash in an almost violent way. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

His work is in multiple public collections such as the Museum of Contemporary Art\/US; Museum of Modern Art, New York\/US and in several FRAC, Fonds R\u00e9gionaux d’Art Contemporain\/FR. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recent solo shows include: WINDOW, Anton Kern Gallery, New york (2020); Le Terrain Vague, Stuart Shave \/ Modern Art, London (2018); Oral Heart, Anton kern gallery, New York (2017); Sex and the City, Art : Concept, Paris (2016); Working Girl, Sies + H\u00f6ke, D\u00fcsseldorf (2016); Tropenkoller, Modern Art, London (2015).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the gallery<\/h4>\n\n\n\n