Christiane Löhr
Born in Wiesbaden in 1965.
Lives and works in Köln and Prato, Italy
Education
1985 Egyptology, Archeology, Classics and History at the University of Bonn
1986 Art Education and German studies at the University of Mainz
1993 First teaching examination for the Gymnasium
1994 Fine Art studies with Jannis Kounellis at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
1996 Master student with Jannis Kounellis
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2025
Kosmos und Kontext, Lothar Fischer Museum, Neumarkt in der Oberpfal
2024
Accumuli, MAN Museum, Nuoro Italy
egare e separare, Galerie Werner Klein, Cologne
Kojin Kyoto, Japan
campi aperti, elastici, Tucci Russo Studio per l’Arte Contemporanea, Torre Pellice/Turin
2023
Raum sein, Base Progetti per l’Arte, Florence
Symmetrien des Sachten, Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck
π· r2 werden, Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste, Düsseldorf
2022
Das Gewicht der Linie, Galerie Werner Klein, Cologne
Fastening oneself in the moment, Taguchi Fine Art, Tokyo
Das Gewicht der Linie, Objekte und Papierarbeiten Galerie Werner Klein, Cologne
New Works, Bernier/Eliades Gallery, Brussels
House of Art, Contemporary Art and Architecture Gallery, České Budějovice
2021
Arbeiten von Christiane Löhr und Louis Soutter, Galerie Dierking, Zurich
Ordnung der Wildnis, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin
2020
Incontri sensibili, Museo Capodimonte, Naples
Studio Trisorio, Naples
movimenti circolari, Galleria San Fedele, Milan
2019
Bernier/Eliades Gallery, Athens
Tucci Russo Studio per l’Arte Contemporanea, Torre Pellice/Turin
12 prints, Taguchi Fine Art, Tokyo
Galerie Werner Klein, Köln
2018
attrazione, Skulpturenpark Waldfrieden / Cragg Foundation, Wuppertal
diffuse, Jason McCoy Gallery, New York
2017
nodi e snodi, Tucci Russo Studio per l’Arte Contemporanea Chambres d’Art, Turin
opus, Wooson Gallery, Daegu, South Korea
crescendo, Taguchi Fine Art, Tokyo
2016
Premio Pino Pascali 2016, Fondazione Museo Pino Pascali, Polignano a Mare
Densen – Disperse, Gunby Estate, Hall and Gardens, Spilsby, Lincolnshire UK
Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel/Muttenz
Bernier/Eliades Gallery, Brussels (with Mario Airò)
2015
displuvio, Jason McCoy Gallery, New York
lined, Taguchi Fine Art, Tokyo
encircling the orbit, Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum, Shizuoka, Japan
Galerie Werner Klein, Köln
2014
Bernier/Eliades Gallery, Athens
Tucci Russo Studio per l’Arte Contemporanea, Torre Pellice/Turin
permeabile, Kunst- und Kulturstiftung Opelvillen Rüsselsheim
línies contínues, Blueproject Foundacion, Barcelona
2013
Jason McCoy Gallery, New York
Taguchi Fine Art, Tokyo
2012
Jason McCoy Gallery, New York
2011
vertikal, Galerie Werner Klein, Köln
HerderRaum für Kunst, Köln
2010
dilatare lo spazio, Galleria Oredaria, Rome
dividere il vuoto, Villa e Collezione Panza, Varese
2009
sortint de l’embull, Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró, Palma de Mallorca
2008
Galleria Salvatore + Caroline Ala, Milan
2007
CDAN Centro di Arte y Naturaleza, Huesca
Gallery A-quad, Takenaka Corporation, Tokyo
2006
sculture, PIAC Piattaforma Internazionale Arte Contemporanea, Ragusa
2005
Heidelberger Kunstverein
Kunstverein Ludwigshafen
Kunstverein Arnsberg
Galleria Salvatore + Caroline Ala, Milan
2004
Galerie Werner Klein, Köln
Studio Stefania Miscetti, Rome
Tendersi dentro – stretching towards the inside, Fattoria di Celle,
Gori Collection, Pistoia
2003
Salone Villa Romana, Florence
Hancock Museum, Newcastle, project by Locus+
Galleria Salvatore + Caroline Ala, Milan
Wie die Dinge den Raum berühren, Kunstmuseum Bonn
Christiane Löhr / Sofi Zezmer, Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden
2002
Kunstverein Münsterland, Coesfeld
2001
Un lavoro: un’opera, un’istallazione di Christiane Löhr una poesia di Nico Orengo, già
VIA NUOVA per l’Arte contemporanea, Florence
2000
artothek, Köln
Camera Oscura, San Casciano dei Bagni
1999
Galleria Salvatore + Caroline Ala, Milan
Galerie Hafemann, Wiesbaden
Forum Kunst, Rottweil
1998
Objekte, Studentisches Kulturzentrum, Belgrade
1997
Das Übergewicht des Kleinen, Mittelrhein-Museum Koblenz
Objekt und Zeichnung, Kunstverein Trier
1996
Objekte und Installationen, Galerie Brückenturm, Mainz
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025
Touch Nature, Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Linz, Austria
2024
Colorescenze,:Artiste, Toscana, Futuro, Centro Pecci Prato, Italy, curated by Stefano Collicelli Cagol e Elena Magini
Diorama, MAN Museo d’Arte Provincia di Nuoro
Presi per incantamento, CCC OD Centre de création contemporaine Olivier Debré, Tours
Der direkte Blick, Galerie Werner Klein, Cologne
2022
Ex natura, Villa e Collezione Panza, Varese
Ganesha and his heavenly friends, Galerie Dierking, Zurigo
Open book, Tucci Russo Studio per l’Arte Contemporanea, Torre Pellice/Torino Reggia di Caserta
Weeds & spores, Alexandre Gallery, New York
Edith Stein. Losing by Winning, Museum Stift Stams, Tirol
Medium Zeichnung, Kunstsammlung Gera & Kunstverein Gera e.V
Studio Trisorio, Capri
2021
Map and Territory. Environmental Art from the Panza Collection, Galerie Hauser & Wirth, St. Moritz
Inventing Nature. Pflanzen in der Kunst, Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
La face autre de l’autre face, Fondazione Mudima, Milan
2020
Erodet Landscape, Musée d’art contemporain de la Haute-Vienne / Chateau de Rochechouart, Rochechouarth
freshtest, Kunstverein-Koelnberg e.V., Köln
2000 – 2020, 20 Jahre Galerie Werner Klein, Galerie Werner Klein, Köln
La face autre de l’autre face, MUC Musée Municipal Urbain Cabrol, Villefranche-de-Rouerge
Sense of wonders: into another garden, Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum, Shizuoka
Linie Line Linea: Contemporary Drawing, Milli Reasürans Sanat Galerisi, Istanbul
2019
Kunst als Argument, Kunstverein Bamberg, Bamberg
The ground we have in common, Gallerie delle Prigioni /Fondazione Benetton, Treviso Gallerie delle Prigioni – Imago Mundi I Luciano Benetton Collection, Treviso
Rudolph-Scharpf-Galerie, Ludwigshafen
Vetrine di Libertà – la libreria delle donne di Milano, ieri, oggi, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan
Group Show, Bernier/ Eliades Gallery, Athens
2018
Sexy & Cool. Minimal goes emotional, Kunsthalle Tübingen, Tübingen
Formen der Natur: Pure Nature Art, Museum Villa Rot, Burgrieden-Rot
Rainbow, Tucci Russo Studio per l’Arte Contemporanea, Torre Pellice/Turin
2017
Pure Nature Art. Naturmaterialien in der zeitgenössischen Kunst, Museum Kunst der
Westküste, Föhr
Ausstellungshaus Daniel Spoerri, Hadersdorf, Austria
De Nature en Sculpture, Fondation Villa Datris, L’Isle-sur-la Sorge
Metamorfosi. Uno sguardo alla scultura contemporanea, Museo d’Arte Mendrisio,
Mendrisio
La materia della forma. Collezione Panza di Biumo, MART Museo di Arte Moderna e
Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto
Linie Line Linea, Contemporary drawing, ifa (institut for foreign affairs) in
coorperation with the German Ambassy, Hanoi, Vietnam
Chaosmos 5: To View a World within a Grain of Sand, Sakura City Museum of Art,
Sakura
Natur(en), Neuer Kunstverein Giessen
Entangled. Threads and Making. Turner Contemporary, Margate
2016
altri tempi, altri miti – 16a Quadriennale d’arte, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome
hopes of paradise, Galerie m, Bochum
urban mining / rigenerazioni urbane, XXV. Edition National Award Visual Arts,
Museo MAGA, Gallarate
Linie Line Linea, Adam Art Gallery Te Pataka Toi, Wellington, New Zealand
works on paper, Taguchi Fine Art, Tokyo
2015
The Human Condition, National Centre for Contemporary Arts NCCA, Moscow
Au rendez-vous des amis, Fondazione Palazzo Albizzini Collezione Burri,
Città di Castello
Ich bin eine Pflanze. Naturprozesse in der Kunst, Kunstmuseum Ravensburg
in situ, Jason McCoy Gallery, New York
SpaceLiner, ARTER Sanat için Alan-Space for Art, Istanbul
2014
lifescape, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo
6. Biennale der Zeichnung, Kunstverein Eislingen
about sculpture #2, Galerie Rolando Anselmi, Berlin
International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Cartagena de Indias, Colombia
2013
Tucci Russo Studio per l’Arte Contemporanea, Torre Pellice
Recent acquisitions, Morgan Library, New York
Autoritratti. Iscrizioni del femminile nell’arte italiana contemporanea, MAMbo Museo
d’Arte Moderna di Bologna
La magnifica ossessione, MART Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di
Trento e Rovereto
Linie Line Linea, Dibujo contemporáneo alemán, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de
Quito, Ecuador / Museo de Arte del Banco de la República, Bogota / Museo Nacional de
Arte, La Paz, Bolivia
2012
RegardBenin, Biennale Benin, Imprimerie Nationale, Porto Novo
Drawing, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas
Tra natura e spirito, Centro San Fedele, Milan
Paper Space, Drawings by Sculptors, Inman Gallery, Houston
Paper band, Jason McCoy Gallery, New York
Die Eroberung der Wand. Nazarenerfresken im Blick der Gegenwart.
Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck, Remagen
Alles Linie | Material und Zeichnung, Galerie Werner Klein, Köln
2011
Schnittstelle | Muster, Gesellschaft für Kunst und Gestaltung, Bonn
Spaceship earth, Centre of Contemporary Art in Torun, Poland
Linie Line Linea, Dibujo contemporáneo alemán, Centro Cultural Caja Real de
Universidad Autonoma, San Luis Potosì, Mexico / Instituto Cultural Cabañas,
Guadalajara, Mexico / Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales, Montevideo
2010
Galaxy & Cosmos, Jason McCoy Gallery, New York
Raum der Stille, Shi Fang Fine Art, Düsseldorf
Terre vulnerabili, HangarBicocca, Milan
Trasparenze, MACRO Future, Rome, MADRE, Naples
paperwork, Bernhard Knaus Fine Art, Frankfurt
Dead or Alive, Museum of Arts and Design, New York
State of Mind, Panza Collection, Lucca Center of Contemporary Art
The Environment and the Future, Women and Art Biennal, Sharjah Art Museum, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Linie Line Linea, Contemporary Drawing, Kunstmuseum Bonn
Miradas singulares. Voces plurales, Palacio Provincial de le Diputacion de Cadiz
2009
Ferne Nähe, Kunstmuseum Bonn
green platform, CCCS Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina, Palazzo Strozzi,
Florence
Patterns In Nature, Bernhard Knaus Fine Art, Frankfurt
Patterns in Nature, Städtische Galerie Neunkirchen
2008
Incantamenti, il MAN all’isola delle storie, Gavoi
micro-narratives, Museé d’Art Moderne de Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne
pay attention please, 26cc, Rome
2007
Stipendiatinnen und Stipendiaten der Stiftung Vordemberge-Gildewart, Museum
Wiesbaden
statement, Bernhard Knaus Fine Art, Frankfurt
Sommer, Sonne, Mond und Sterne, Bernhard Knaus Fine Art, Mannheim
Arte in Memoria 4, Ostia Antica/Rome
2006
Einblicke IV, Arbeiten auf Papier, Galerie Witzel, Wiesbaden
Uscita Pistoia, Pistoia
XII Biennale Internazionale di Scultura, Carrara
Polemos.The work of Art: conflict and resolution, Forte di Gavi, Gavi
2005
Petits Fours, Comme ci Comme ça II, Köln
scultura leggera/light sculpture, 503 mulino, Vicenza
2004
Settlements, Cabinet des Dessins, Museé d’Art Moderne de Saint-Etienne
Métropole
Schöne Aussicht, Stiftung Schloss und Park Benrath
Ins Licht gerückt – Aus der Grafischen Sammlung, Kunstmuseum Bonn
2003
Grande segno cantato, Palazzo Ducale, Gubbio
Il racconto del filo. Cucito e ricamo nell’arte contemporanea, MART Museo di Arte
Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto
2002
Illumination, Marvelli Gallery, New York
Basics, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern
Continuità. Magnete/Magnet. Foreign artists in Tuscany in the second half of the
twentieth century, Fattoria di Celle, Gori Collection, Pistoia
Paradiso perduto / Paradise lost, Palazzo dell’Arengo, Rimini
40 Jahre: Fluxus und die Folgen, Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden
2001
49° Biennale di Venezia, Arsenale
L’Immagine, la parola, Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato
Real Presence, Belgrade
Camp, Leire, Denmark
1999
Fondazione Il Giardino di Daniel Spoerri, Seggiano, Italy
Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
The Secret Life of Plants, Galerie Conrads, Düsseldorf
1998
Eingemacht, students of the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Frauenmuseum Bonn
1997
Galerie S, Aachen
15 + 15, Cultural Capital of Europe 1997, Thessaloniki
BASIS, Museum Insel Hombroich Raketenstation, Neuss
Klasse Kounellis, Museum der Modernen Kunst, Belgrade
Claus Brunsmann, Brigitte Dams, Ursula Habermacher, Bärbel Schulte
Kellinghaus, Christiane Löhr, Sandra Voets, Galleria Salvatore + Caroline Ala,
Milan
1996
FIELD, Künstlerforum, Bonn
Klasse Kounellis, Königliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Den Haag
Junge Rheinland-pfälzer Künstlerinnen und Künstler, Kunstverein Ludwigshafen,
Europäische Akademie Trier und Galerie Mennonitenkirche, Neuwied
Grants and Awards
2020
Member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and Arts
2018
grant award, The Shifting Foundation, California2018
2016
Premio Pino Pascali Award, Fondazione Museo Pino Pascali, Polignano a Mare
XXV edizione Premio Nazionale Arti Visive Città di Gallarate
Arte: Sostantivo Femminile, GNAM Galleria Nazionale di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Roma
2009
Residency CCA Andratx, Mallorca
2006
Kunststiftung NRW scholarship recipient, Art Foundation North Rhine-Westphalia
2002
Warhol Grant, Headlands Center for the Arts, San Francisco
2001
Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler Foundation prize recipient, Rockenhausen
2000
DAAD grant recipient for travel in India
Cité Internationale des Arts grant and studio recipient, Paris
1997
Vordemberge-Gildewart Foundation grant recipient, Museum Wiesbaden
1996
University of Mainz grant recipient
Rhineland-Palatinate federal grant recipient
1995
Heinrich Böll Foundation study grant recipient
1993
City of Mainz study grant for the Summer Academy in Salzburg