Berlin-based artist Lothar Hempel’s work in painting, sculpture, photography, and video offers a surreal reinterpretation of visual culture. Drawing inspiration from Greek tragedy, music, cinema, politics, and dance, he creates eclectic, dreamlike, anthropological installations that incorporate found and collected images in powerful mixed media sculptures.
Lothar Hempel (b. 1966, Cologne, Germany) lives and works in Berlin. His work has been featured in solo exhibitions at The Kitchen, New York (2014); Museum Kleines Klingental, Basel, Switzerland (2013); and the Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Paris (2007). His work has also been featured in group exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2010), and the Tate Liverpool, England (2004), as well as in the Herzliya Biennial, Israel (2011), the Beaufort Triennial, Belgium (2009), the Gwangju Biennial, South Korea (2008), and the 45th Venice Biennale (1993). His work is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; and Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples, Italy, among others. He studied at Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf, Germany. Hempel is represented by the Anton Kern Gallery in New York, Stuart Shave/Modern Art in London, Art Concept in Paris, Gerhadsen Gerner in Berlin, Unlimited Contemporary Art in Athens, and the Gió Marconi Gallery in Milan.
(as of 2015)