Performance

Lothar Hempel

BornNationalityBased In
1966GermanBerlin
Biography

Lothar Hempel was born in 1966 in Cologne where he lives and works. He draws his inspiration from German history as well as from Californian New-Wave, Greek tragedy, pagan culture, music and cinema. His interest doesn’t 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 – complete with characters, objects and environment – in which verbal and visual intermingle and by which previously distinct media clash in an almost violent way. ...

Selected Artworks
Performance
Lothar Hempel
Performance, 2015
33.02 x 33.02 x 8.26cm
Plakat (small town boy)
Lothar Hempel
Plakat (small town boy), 2016
259 x 259 x 10cm
Clairevoyanx
Lothar Hempel
Clairevoyanx, 2016
259 x 259 x 10cm
Plakat (Fantastic Man)
Lothar Hempel
Plakat (Fantastic Man), 2016
174 x 174 x 10cm
Interior (Dragon)
Lothar Hempel
Interior (Dragon), 2016
33 x 33 x 8.3cm
Old New Girl (im goldenen Dreieck)
Lothar Hempel
Old New Girl (im goldenen Dreieck), 2012
210 x 158cm
Balance
Lothar Hempel
Balance, 2009
125 x 125cm
The Mirror
Lothar Hempel
The Mirror, 2008
160 x 60cm
Russian Hill
Lothar Hempel
Russian Hill, 2001
36 x 40 x 8cm
Gallery Representation
Biennals
Athens Biennale2009 - Athens
Athens Biennale2009 - Athens
Gwangju Biennial2008 - Gwangju
Gwangju Biennial2008 - Gwangju
Venice Biennial1993 - Venice
Venice Biennial1993 - Venice
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