Kai Althoff

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Kai Althoff
BornFebruary 1966
Cologne
NationalityGerman
Stylemultimedia art

Kai Althoff (born 1966 in Cologne) is a German visual artist and musician.

Life and work

Kai Althoff was born in

German Expressionism, reconfigured by introducing collaged technique.[3]

Much of Althoff's work is collaborative. For the 4th

Whitney Museum of American Art, the pair portrayed the show’s main characters, Orpah and Lydia, two single mothers searching for a lost daughter.[5] In Die Kleine Bushaltestelle (Gerüstbau) (Little Bus Stop [Scaffolding], 2012) Althoff performed alongside fellow artist Isa Genzken in a 70-minute absurdist comedy shot on home video.[6]

Althoff's work has been included in several books listing contemporary artists, such as Art Now, published by Taschen. He is also a musician, releasing solo work under such monikers as Fanal, Engelhardt/Seef/Davis Coop. or Ashley's. He and Justus Köhncke perform as Subtle Tease, and he co-founded the band Workshop with Christoph Rath, Stefan Mohr and Stephan Abry.[7]

Althoff is represented by Gladstone Gallery in New York, Galerie NEU in Berlin, and Michael Werner Gallery in London.

Exhibitions

Althoff has been the subject of solo exhibitions worldwide, including Kaiki, an exhibition of artist Kai Althoff’s work selected by Saim Demircan at Focal Point Gallery in

Michael Werner Gallery
, London.

Current group exhibitions include Invisible Adversaries: the Marieluise Hessel Collection, Center for Curatorial Studies, Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson and Identity Revisited, The Warehouse, Dallas in 2016; Avatar and Atavism: Outside the Avant-Garde, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf in 2015; Not Yet Titled, Museum Ludwig, Cologne in 2013.

Selected group exhibitions

  • 1993: Aperto 93, Venice Biennale, Stand Schafhausen, Venice
  • 1993: E, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
  • 1995: Wild Walls, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
  • 1996: Wunderbar, Kunstverein, Hamburg
  • 1997: Time Out, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nuremberg
  • 1997: Home Sweet Home, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
  • 1998: Ars Viva 98/99, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig; Brandenburgische Kunstsammlungen, Cottbus; Portikus, Frankfurt
  • 1999: German Open. Gegenwartskunst in Deutschland, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg
  • 2001: Vom Eindruck zum Ausdruck, Grasslin Collection, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
  • 2001: Neue Welt, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt
  • 2002: Drawing Now: Eight Propositions,[16] Museum of Modern Art in New York City
  • 2002: Chère Paintre, Liebe Maler, Dear Painter
    Pompidou Centre in Paris
  • 2003: A Perilous Space at Magnani in London
  • 2003: Lieber Maler, male mir and Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
  • 2003: Venice Biennale, Museo Correr, Venice
  • 2006: Painting in Tongues at Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
  • 2006: Heart of Darkness: Kai Althoff, Ellen Gallagher and EdgarCleijne, Thomas Hirschhorn at Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
  • 2007: Make Your Own Life: Artists In & Out of Cologne, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami
  • 2008: Life on Mars at Carnegie International, Pittsburgh
  • 2009: Between Art and Life: The Painting and Sculpture Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
  • 2009: Compass in Hand: Selections from the Judith Rothschild Foundation, Museum of Modern Art, New York
  • 2009: Mapping the Studio: Artists from the Francois Pinault Collection, Palazzo Grassi, Venice
  • 2009: Brandon Stosuy and Kai Althoff: Mirror Me, DISPATCH Projects, New York
  • 2010: Beyond | In WNY, Alternating Currents, Albright Knox Triennial, New York
  • 2010: At Home/Not At Home: Works from the Collection of Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg, Bard Center for Curatorial Studies and Hessel Museum of Art, New York
  • 2012: A Bigger Splash: Painting after Performance, Tate, London
  • 2012: The Whitney Biennial,
    Whitney Museum of American Art, New York[18]

Contributions

References

  1. ^ Kai Althoff and Nick Z: We Are Better Friends For It, May 5 - June 16, 2007 Barbara Gladstone, New York.
  2. Museum of Contemporary Art
    , Chicago. Retrieved 2016-10-25.
  3. ^ Kai Althoff, Untitled (2002) Phillips, Contemporary Art Part I, 28 February 2008, London.
  4. ^ Kai Althoff, November 8, 2008 - February 15, 2009 Vancouver Art Gallery.
  5. Whitney Museum of American Art
    , New York.
  6. ^ Artists' Film Club: Isa Genzken, 13 December 2012 Institute of Contemporary Arts, London.
  7. ^ Kai Althoff, November 8, 2008 - February 15, 2009 Vancouver Art Gallery.
  8. ^ "Vancouver Art Gallery". www.vanartgallery.bc.ca. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
  9. ^ "Kai Althoff | Kunsthalle Zürich". kunsthallezurich.ch (in German). Retrieved 12 January 2018.
  10. ^ "Kai Althoff | Kunsthalle Zürich". kunsthallezurich.ch (in German). Retrieved 12 January 2018.
  11. ^ "Kai Althoff: Kai kein Respekt (Kai no respect) | icaboston.org". www.icaboston.org. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
  12. ^ "Kai Althoff: Kai Kein Respekt (Kai No Respect)". MCA. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
  13. ^ "SIMULTANHALLE – RAUM FÜR ZEITGENÖSSISCHE KUNST". simultanhalle.de. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
  14. ^ Kai Althoff: Blümli (period, paragraph, Blümli), January 15 - March 5, 2011 Barbara Gladstone, New York.
  15. ^ Braunschweig, Kunstverein. "Kunstverein – Braunschweig – Rückblick". www.kunstverein-bs.de. Retrieved 13 January 2018.
  16. ^ "Drawing Now: Eight Propositions | MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 13 January 2018.
  17. ^ "Cher Peintre..., Lieber Maler..., Dear Painter..." (PDF). Communiqué de Presse Centre Pompidou.
  18. ^ "Michael Werner Gallery". Michael Werner Gallery. Retrieved 14 January 2018.

Bibliography

External links
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