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Born in Jugenheim (Germany)


Studied at the Art School at the University of Kassel (Germany) and at the Slade School of Fine Art at University College London (M. A.)


Worked in the department of stage design, make-up and sculpture at the Darmstadt State Theatre (Germany)

Gerhard Lang lives and works in Schloss-Nauses (Germany) and London.


SELECTED AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS

2020-21 Work, Project and Bridging Grant, Hessische Kulturstiftung, Wiesbaden (Germany)
2018 Publication Grant from the Hessische Kulturstiftung (Cultural Foundation of the State of Hesse) in Wiesbaden

2018 Artist in Residence, MuseumsQuartier, Vienna
2018 Research Grant. Lucius und Annemarie Burckhardt Stiftung, Basel, Switzerland
2017 Project Grant, Ministry of Science and Art in Hesse, Wiesbaden (Germany)
2017 Work Grant, Lucius und Annemarie Burckhardt Stiftung, Basel (Switzerland)
2013-14 Research Fellowship, Lucius und Annemarie Burckhardt Stiftung, Basel (Switzerland)
2012-13 New York City Residency Grant, Hessische Kulturstiftung, Wiesbaden (Germany)
2010-11 Research Fellowship, Lucius und Annemarie Burckhardt Stiftung, Basel (Switzerland)
2009 Studio Award, Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn (Germany)
2004-07 Sciart Award from the Wellcome Trust, London
2000-01 Scholarship, Gulbenkian Foundation, London
1998 Exhibition Funding, ifa, Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (The Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations), Stuttgart (Germany)
1998 Studio Award, Ministry of Science and Art in Hesse, Wiesbaden (Germany)
1996 Julian Sullivan Award, Slade School of Fine Art at University College London
1994 European Travel Grant, University of Kassel (Germany)
1993 Awarded with the Bermuda Triangle of Photography
1992 Grant, Sparda-Bank, Germany
1989 Foto Award’89, 3rd International Photo Manifestation for the 150th Anniversary of Photography, Amsterdam

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCES

2021

All the Notes Are There Already, Jason McCoy Gallery, New York City (online)
Der Mobile Zebrastreifen (Mobile Zebra Crossing), in: Wunderkammer modern, Stadtmuseum Kassel, Germany

 

2020

Living the City. An Exhibition about Cities, People and Stories, curated by Lukas Feireiss, Airport Tempelhof, Berlin
Intermedia - Mong Kok, Creative Art Center (Baptist University), Hong Kong (Kat.)
VEST oder Der Himmel ist meine Hose, invited by Reinhold Engberding, Freie Akademie der Künste, Hamburg

 

2019

Drawings by David Connearn and Gerhard Lang, Galerie Albrecht, Berlin
Sky|topia, Art Museum of China, Shenzhen, China (cat.)

 

2018

Gerhard Lang und Rikuo Ueda, Drawing, Schweissbergweg 34, Binningen-Basel, Switzerland
Dialogues with a Collection, Laure Genillard Gallery, London
Das Blaue Land (The Blue Country), Petra Benteler Stiftung, Murnau, Germany (cat.)
Simulacra ex speculis, MuseumsQuartier, Vienna

 

2017City and Otherness, Crossing Border Festival, Hong Kong
Transitus, documenta Halle, documenta 14, Kassel
Anima-l, Galerie Schloss Wolkersdorf, Austria
How do Discoverers Discover, Unpacking Burckhardt Programme, documenta 14, Kassel
Unheimlich schön. Stillleben heute (Hauntingly Beautiful. Still Life Today), Museum Moderner Kunst Kärnten (MMKKK), Klagenfurt, Austria (cat.)

 

2016–17Visus Signatus. Drawings and performances at the Deutscher Wetterdienst (German Weather Service), Offenbach am Main

 

2016Herwig Turk: Landschaft=Labor (Landscape=Laboratory), invited by Herwig Turk, Museum Moderner Kunst Kärnten (MMKK), Klagenfurt, Austria (cat.)

 

2015Field Trip No. 7, curated by International Lawns, Domobaal Gallery, London
Triennale, Milan

 

2013X Architecture Biennale, São Paulo
U. F. O., Museum of Site (MOST), Hong Kong
Vereinzelt Schauer - Formen von Wetter (Scattered Showers – Forms of Weather), Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main

2011Invasions, Gallery Carolyn Heinz, Hamburg
Your Garden is Looking like a Mess. Could you Please tidy it up, PayneShurvell Gallery, London
Science Fiction, Art Museum Solothurn (cat.)
Urbanités Inattendues, Centre Meridional de l'Architecture et de la Ville (CMAV), Toulouse


2010

Théorie des Modèles. Art et science, trop simple, trop complexe, LiveInYourHead, Espace d´exposition de la Head, Geneva
Through the Looking Glass I, Performances in the Wenkenpark, Riehen/Basel
Actions: What You Can Do With the City, Graham Foundation, Chicago (cat.)


2009

The Audacity of Imagination, Gallery Römerapotheke, Zurich


2008

Actions: What you can do with the city, Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), Montreal, Quebec (cat.)


2007

Say it isn’t so, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen (cat.)
Spiritus Caeli, Performances, Prättigau, in the Grisons area of the Swiss Alps

2005Future Face, National Museum for Science and Technology, Taiwan (cat.)
Crime Scene and Police Sketch. Artistic Investigations, CineStar, Weimar

2004Performance Festival, Kunstverein, Ingolstadt, Germany

 

2003Evidence, Essor Gallery Project Space, London

Head On, Science Museum, London (cat.)

 

2002

The Second Face, German Museum, Munich (cat.)

The Genius of Genetics, St. Thomas Monastery, Brno, Czech Republic (cat.)

2001

Phantom-Bilder, Neue Gallerie, Kassel (cat.)
Nothing, Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland (cat.)
Nothing, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius
Nothing, Rooseum – Centre for Contemporary Art, Malmö

2000Spectacular Bodies, Hayward Gallery, London (cat.)
Transact 2000, museum in progress, Vienna (cat.)

1998Natural Science, Stills Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland (cat.)
post naturam-after nature, Paleontological Institute, Münster (cat.)
post naturam-after nature, Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt

1997Heaven, PS1, New York City
Art / Science, Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh
72 Hours, Milch Gallery, London


1996Happy End, Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany (cat.)

ANIMA-L, Kunstverein, Eislingen, Germany (cat.)

 

1995Identity and Otherness, Venice Biennale (cat.)Hong Kong Installation Art Festival, Hong Kong (cat.)
1994Hommage to Moholy-Nagy, Museum for Photography, Braunschweig, Germany
1993Palaeanthropische Physiognomie, Natrual History Museum
Senckenberg, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (cat.)

 

1989

Looking for Schlemhil’s Shadow, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel
3rd International Photo Manifestation for the 150th Anniversary of Photography, Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam




SELECTED TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2020-22 Artist in Residence at the Ernst-Göbel-Schule - Kulturschule in Höchst in the Odenwald region (Germany).

 

2019 Phenomenology of a place and performative acting, Faculty of Design, Industrial Design and Communication Design, University of Applied Sciences, Darmstadt

 

2018 Walking as an artistic medium, University of Applied Art, Vienna

 

2017-18 Edinburgh College of Art (ECA), Temporality, Entropy, Being, Edinburgh, Scotland

 

2016-17 Didactics of the picture. At the invitation of and in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Stephan Weyer-Menkhoff, Faculty of Protestant Theology, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität in Mainz

 

2015-16 Theoretical and practical courses “Ecclesiastical Pedagogy – How do Churches Teach Religion”. The main focus of this programme is on religion and space, religion and art. At the invitation of and in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Stephan Weyer-Menkhoff, Faculty of Protestant Theology, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität in Mainz

 

2014 “L’intervento minimo”, in the field of Social Design, University of Applied Art in Vienna

 

2012 “Walking”, Guest Lecturer, Department of Visual and Environmental Studies (VES), Harvard University

 

2011 Department of Photography, Art School, University of Kassel, Germany

 

2010 “Phylogeny”, Department of Art, Space and Nature, Edinburgh College of Art (ECA) and the Royal Botanical Garden Edinburgh, Scotland

 

2009 “Gibellina. Interruption of Continuity”, Faculty for the Study of Architecture, University of Palermo, Sicily, Italy

 

2009 Department of Photography, Film & Video, School of Design & Media Arts, Napier University, Edinburgh, Scotland

 

2008 Seminar focusing on landscape aesthetics, Martin Wagenschein's and Maria Montessori's educational concepts, College for Educational Studies, Liestal, Switzerland

 

2004 Doctoral student course “Raum und Ritual” (Space and Ritual). At the invitation of and in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Stephan Weyer Menkhoff, Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany

 

2002 Visiting teaching assistant for the BA programme, Central St. Martin’s School of Art, London

1996 Tutor as artist in residence for the MA programme, Glasgow School of Art, Scotland

1994-96 Tutor for the first year undergraduate programme, Slade School of Fine Art, London

1992-94 Head of the photographic workshops, Art School, University of Kassel, Germany


SELECTED PRESENTATIONS AND CONFERENCES

2021 Lecture in a Series of talks on climate and weather, German Meteorological Service (Deutscher Wetterdienst, DWD), Offenbach am Main

 

2019 Walk May Talk, University of Applied Art, Vienna

 

2017 International Forum, UIC University, Zhuhai, China

2016 Fast Nichts (Almost Nothing), organized by Cusanuswerk, at the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart

 

2014 12th Hessian Mobility Congress, Frankfurt am Main

 

2011 Atkinson Grimshaw, Leeds Trinity University College

 

2010 Perception of Space, Faculty of Architecture, Jade University, Oldenburg (Germany)

 

2010 Théorie des Modèles. Art et science, trop simple, trop complexe, College of Art and Design (HEAD), Geneva

 

2009 The Stephen Bann Effect, Department of History of Art, University of Bristol

 

2008 W. G. Sebald, University of East Anglia, Norwich

 

2007 documenta urbana, Art College, University of Kassel

 

2005 Lichtwiesen – Constructed Landscapes, College for Art and Design, Darmstadt (Germany)

 

2004 Spaziergangsforscher/Stollologist. A Peripatetic Conference, organized by the Foundation Cusanuswerk, Pirna-Copitz, Swiss Saxony, Germany

 

2003 Cloud Archeology – a Field of Science not just for Angles, Max-Planck-Institute for Polymer Studies, Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz (Germany)

 

2003 Visual Knowledge, University of Edinburgh


2002 Air, Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn (Germany)

 

2001 Head On, Wellcome Trust, London

 

2001 7th Performance Studies Conference, Institute for Theatre Studies, Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz

 

1999 Know Thyself: The Art and Science of the Human Body, Department of the History of Art, University of Oxford, organized by Prof. Martin Kemp and the European Science Foundation



SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

 

museum in progress. Art in public spaces and in media – IN ONE END & OUT THE OTHER [ & THEN AGAIN ], ed. by Kaspar Mühlemann Hartl and Alois Herrmann, museum in progress, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, Cologne, 2021

 

Gerhard Lang. Ein anderes Sehen (Gerhard Lang. A different way of seeing), a monographic report by Paolo Bianchi, in: Kunstforum International, Cologne, Germany. Pending

 

The Landscapes of Dieter Kienast, by Annette Freytag, gta Verlag, Zurich, Switzerland, 2020

 

Die andere Seite der Wolken. Über Sichtbares und Unsichtbares (The Other Side of Clouds. About the Visible and the Invisible) in: Raumbildungen. Erkundungen zur christlichen Religionspraxis (Creations of Space. An exploration of christian religion practice), hg. Tobias Kaspari, Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig, 2018

 

Transitus, in: aneducation - documenta 14, Archive Books, Berlin, 2018

 

Nubi Tempora. Cloud Landscapes, German National Meteorological Service, Offenbach am Main, 2017

 

Unheimlich schön. Stillleben heute (Hauntingly Beautiful. Still Life Today), ed. Christine Wetzlinger-Grundnig, Museum für Moderne Kunst Kärnten (MMKK), Klagenfurt, Austria, 2017

 

Through the Looking Glass II, in: Herwig Turk: Landschaft=Labor, Verlag für Moderne Kunst, Nuremberg, 2016

 

Die Verrücktheit des Blicks (Rearranging Perspective), in: Made for Arolsen. Laura J. Padgett and Martina Wolf, ed. Birgit Kümmel and Claudia Scholtz, Museum Bad Arolsen, 2016

 

Lucius Burckhardt. Why is Landscape Beautiful? The Science of Strollology, ed. Markus Ritter und Martin Schmitz, Birkhäuser Verlag GmbH, Basel, 2015


Phantomgesichter (Composite Faces). Zur Sicherheit und Unsicherheit im biometrischen Überwachungsbild, ed. Ulrich Richtmeyer, Wilhelm Fink-Verlag, Paderborn 2014

 

Der Klimawandel in der Kunst (Climate Change in the Arts), Anna Wiese, Diplomica Verlag, Hamburg, 2013

 

Lexikon der Raumphilosophie (Dictionary of Philosophy of Space), ed. Stephan Günzel, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft (WGB), Darmstadt (Germany), 2012

 

Art and Fear in the Contemporary World, by Caterina Albano, Reaktion Books Ltd, London, 2012

 

Lucius Burckhardt Writings. Rethinking Man-made Enviroments, ed. Von Jesko Fezer und Martin Schmitz, Springer Wien New York, 2012

 

Science & Fiction, hg. Barbara von Flüe, edition Fink, Zürich, 2011

 

Wahrnehmen von Raum (Perception of Space), ed. Holm Kleinmann, Faculty of Architecture, Jade University, Oldenburg, 2010


TransAct. Transnational Activities in the Cultural Field. Interventionen zur Lage in Österreich, Cathrin Pichler and Roman Berka (ed.), museum in progress, Springer Wien/New York, 2010

 

Actions. What You Can Do With the City, ed. Giovanni Borasi and Mirko Zardini, Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) and SUN, 2008

 

Dorothee von Windheim. Auf der Suche nach (Ab)bildern von Wirklichkeit, by Mona Mollweide-Siegert, VDG Verlag und Datenbank für Geisteswissenschaften, Weimar, 2008

 

Ways Around Modernism, by Stephen Bann, ed. James Elkins, Routledge Verlag, London/New York, 2007

 

Say it isn't so, hg. von Peter Friese, Guido Boulboulle und Susanne Witzgall, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, 2007

 

Überblick – Konstruktionen der Wahrheit, Darmstädter Tage der Fotografie e. V. (ed.), Darmstadt, 2007

 

Lucius Burckhardt. Warum ist Landschaft schön? (Why is Landscape beautiful?), ed. by Markus Ritter and Martin Schmitz, Martin Schmitz Verlag, Berlin, 2006

 

Future Face, Sandra Kemp (ed.), National Museum for Science and Technoloy, Taichung (Taiwan), 2006

 

Gerhard Langs Spaziergänge zu den Wolken, by Susanne Witzgall, and: Gerhard Langs Phantombilder von Wolken, by Lutz Becker and C. N., in: Wolken, Lorenz Engell, Bernhard Siegert and Joseph Vogl (ed.), Archive for Media Studies, Verlag der Bauhaus-University Weimar, 2005

 

Lichtwiesen - Inszenierte Landschaften, Darmstädter Tage der Fotografie e. V. (ed.), Darmstadt, 2005

 

The Molecular Gaze, Suzanne Anker and Dorothy Nelkin (ed.), Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, New York, 2004

 

Das Bild des Menschen in der Fotografie. Die Portraits von Thomas Ruff, by Patricia Drück, Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin, 2004

 

Kunst nach der Wissenschaft (Art after Science), by Susanne Witzgall, published by the Institut für moderne Kunst Nürnberg, Verlag für Moderne Kunst, Nürnberg, 2004

 

Luft (Air), Schriftenreihe Forum, Bd. 12, Elemente des Naturhaushalts IV, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland GmbH (ed.), Cologne, 2003

 

Mined, Masoud Golsorkhi and Andreas Laeufer (ed.), Tank Publications, London, 2003

 

Kunst und Fotografie (Art and Photography). Floris Neusüss und die Kasseler Schule für Experimentelle Fotografie 1972-2002, Renate Heyne (ed.), Publisher Jonas, Marburg, 2003

 

Junge Kunst im Kasseler Raum / 2001, Michael Eissenhauer (ed.), Staatliche Museen Kassel / Neue Galerie, Kassel, 2003

 

Head On, by Catarina Albano, Ken Arnold and Marina Wallace, The Wellcome Trust (ed.), London, 2002

 

Das Zweite Gesicht / The Other Face, Cornelia Kemp and Susanne Witzgall (ed.), Publisher Prestel, Munich, 2002

 

Mensch und Natur, von Christoph Goritz, Ernst Klett Schulbuchverlag Leipzig GmbH (ed.), Leipzig, 2002

 

The Genius of Genetics, Catarina Albano and Marina Wallace (ed.), St. Thomas Kloster, Brno, 2002

 

Nothing, Graham Gussin and Ele Carpenter (ed.), August Media and Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, UK, 2001

 

Spectacular Bodies, by Martin Kemp and Marina Wallace, Hayward Gallery (ed.), University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles, London, 2000

 

Sehnsuch nach Landschaft?(Losging vor Landscape?), Arbeitsgemeinschaft Worpsweder Kultureinrichtungen (ed.), Worpswede, 2000

 

The Government, by Gerhard Lang, museum in progress, Oscar Brommer (ed.), extra print of the newspaper Der Standard, Vienna, 2000

 

Natura Maestra – Über Pflanzen, Tiere, Landschaft und andere Phänomene, by Lucius Burckhardt, in: Künstler als Gärtner, Paolo Bianchi (ed.), Kunstforum international, Bd. 145, Cologne, 1999

 

Natural Science, Stills Gallery (ed.), Edinburgh, 1998

 

post naturam - nach der Natur, Gudrun Bott and Magdalena Broska (ed.), Druck und Medienverlag Bielefeld, 1998

 

John Constable’s Clouds are still passing, by Lucius Burckhardt, Dr. Matthias Hagemann (ed.), Basler Magazin, Nr 13, 1997

 

Happy End, Marie Luise Syring (ed.), Kunsthalle Düsseldorf and Verlagshaus Wienand, Köln, 1996

 

ANIMA-L, Kunstverein Eislingen e. V. (ed.), Eislingen/Fils, 1996

 

Identita e Alterita. Figure del Corpo 1895/1995, Manlio Brusatin and Jean Claire (ed.), Biennale Venedig, 1995

 

Hong Kong Installation Art Festival, Hong Kong Visual Arts Research Society (ed.), Hong Kong, 1995

 

Design ist unsichtbar (Design is Invisible), by Lucius Burckhardt, Hans Höger (ed.), Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern, 1995

 

das Zebra streifen, Helmut Aebischer (ed.), Gesamthochschule Kassel, Department of Town Planning and Landscape Planning, Schriftenreihe Band 20, Kassel, 1994

 

Palaeanthropische Physiognomie, Gerhard Lang (ed.), Deutsche Fototage, Frankfurt am Main, 1993

 

Visuelle Kommunikation, Anton Stankowski and Karl Duschek (ed.), Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin, 1989






Photo: Dieter Schwerdtle (1952-2009), 2002

Gerhard Lang © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn