CV

Born in Jugenheim an der Bergstraße (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.)

Prior to this, Gerhard Lang worked in the departments of stage design, make-up and sculpture at the State Theatre in Darmstadt, Germany. He also supervised Jürgen Dreier's stage design for Nathan the Wise, staged by Friedo Solter. Gerhard Lang lives and works in Schloss-Nauses (Germany) and London.

Selected Exhibitions and Performances

2026
Gerhard Lang, Drawing, Something with Art, curated by Dieter Roelstraete, Vienna

2024–25
Counter/Surveillance, The Wende Museum, Culver City, Los Angeles, USA (cat.)

2024
WALK THIS WAY, Kunstmuseum Ravensburg (Germany)
Radical Matter, University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria (cat.)

2023
Out of Bounds: Japanese Women Artists in Fluxus, Japan Society Gallery, New York City. Mieko Shiomi invited Gerhard Lang to participate in her new version of Spatial Poem No 5, titled Open Event. Lang contributed a performance: The Seeing of Clouds, 17 September 2023
WOLKEN. Von Gerhard Richter bis zur Cloud, Stiftung Kunst und Natur, Museum Sinclair-Haus, Bad Homburg (cat.) (CLOUDS. From Gerhard Richter to the Cloud, Art and Nature Foundation, Museum Sinclair-House, Bad Homburg, Germany)

2022
Street Life, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany (cat.)

2021
All the Notes Are There Already, Jason McCoy Gallery, New York City (online)

2020
Living the City. An Exhibition about Cities, People and Stories, curated by Lukas Feireiss, Airport Tempelhof, Berlin (cat.)
Intermedia - Mong Kok, Creative Art Center (Baptist University), Hong Kong (cat.)
VEST oder Der Himmel ist meine Hose, invited by Reinhold Engberding, Freie Akademie der Künste, Hamburg

2019
Drawings. David Connearn and Gerhard Lang, Galerie Albrecht, Berlin

2018
Simulacra ex speculis, MuseumsQuartier, Vienna
Das Blaue Land (The Blue Land), Petra Benteler Stiftung, Murnau, Germany (cat.)
Dialogues with a Collection, Laure Genillard Gallery, London
Intervening by drawing. Gerhard Lang und Rikuo Ueda, Schweissbergweg 34, Binningen-Basel, Switzerland

2017
Unheimlich schön. Stillleben heute (Hauntingly Beautiful. Still Life Today), Museum Moderner Kunst Kärnten (MMKKK), Klagenfurt, Austria (cat.)
How do Discoverers Discover, Unpacking Burckhardt Programme, documenta 14, Kassel
Nubi Tempora, German Meteorological Service (DWD), Offenbach am Main
Transitus, Performance with the New Music Choir Cantiamo, documenta Halle, documenta 14, Kassel (cat.)
City and Otherness, Visual Art Center, Hong Kong

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

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

2014
Die Zukunft bleibt zu Hause. Gateway Gardens als Wille und Vorstellung. Eine andere Sicht auf die „Stadt der Zukunft“, Gateway Gardens, Frankfurt am Main
(The Future stays at Home. Gateway Gardens as Will and Idea. A different view on the "City of the Future", Gateway Gardens, Frankfurt am Main)

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

2011
Science Fiction, Art Museum Solothurn (cat.)
Urbanités Inattendues, Centre Meridional de l'Architecture et de la Ville (CMAV), Toulouse, France
Invasions, Gallery Carolyn Heinz, Hamburg

2010
The Flowres of the Forrest, Royal Botanical Garden, Edinburgh
Théorie des Modèles. Art et science, trop simple, trop complexe, LiveInYourHead, Espace d´exposition de la Head, Genf
Through the Looking Glass I, Performances in the Wenkenpark, Riehen/Basel, Switzerland

2009
The Audacity of Imagination, Galerie Römerapotheke, Zurich, Switzerland
Actions: What You Can Do With the City, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal (cat.)
Actions: What You Can Do With the City, Graham Foundation, Chicago

2007
Say it isn’t so, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen (cat.), Germany

2005
Future Face, National Museum for Science and Technology, Taiwan (cat.)
Tatort und Phantombild, künstlerische Ermittlungen. (Crime Scene and Phantom Image, Artistic Investigations), CineStar, Weimar

2003
Evidence, 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 (Phantom-Images), Staatliche Museen / Neue Gallerie, Kassel (cat.)
Nothing, Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius and Rooseum – Centre for Contemporary Art, Malmö (cat.)

2000
Spectacular Bodies, Hayward Gallery, London (cat.)1998
Natural Science, Stills Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland (cat.)
post naturam-after nature, Paleontological Institute, Münster and Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt (cat.)

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

1996
Happy End, Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany (cat.)
ANIMA-L, Kunstverein, Eislingen, Germany (cat.)

1995
Identity and Otherness, Venice Biennale (cat.)
Hong Kong Installation Art Festival, Hong Kong (cat.)

1994
Hommage to Moholy-Nagy, Museum of Photography, Braunschweig, Germany

1993
Palaeanthropische Physiognomie, Natrual History MuseumSenckenberg, 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 AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS2025 Research and work grant, Lucius und Annemarie Burckhardt Stiftung, Basel, Switzerland2022 NeuStartKultur Grant, Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn, Germany2020-21 Work Grant, Hessische Kulturstiftung (Cultural Foundation of the State of Hesse), Wiesbaden, Germany2018 Publication Grant from the Hessische Kulturstiftung, Wiesbaden

2018
Artist in Residence, MuseumsQuartier, Vienna2018 Research Grant. Lucius und Annemarie Burckhardt Stiftung, Basel, 2017 Project Grant, Ministry of Science and Art in Hesse, Wiesbaden2017 Work Grant, Lucius und Annemarie Burckhardt Stiftung, Basel2013-14 Research Fellowship, Lucius und Annemarie Burckhardt Stiftung, Basel2012-13 New York City Residency Grant, Hessische Kulturstiftung, Wiesbaden2010-11 Research Fellowship, Lucius und Annemarie Burckhardt Stiftung, Basel2009 Studio Award, Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn2004-07 Sciart Award from the Wellcome Trust, London2000-01 Scholarship, Gulbenkian Foundation, London1998 Exhibition Funding, ifa, Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (The Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations), Stuttgart, Germany1998 Studio Award, Ministry of Science and Art in Hesse, Wiesbaden1996 Julian Sullivan Award, Slade School of Fine Art at University College London1994 European Travel Grant, University of Kassel1993 Awarded with the Bermuda Triangle of Photography by Floris M. Neusüss1992 Work Grant, Sparda-Bank, Germany1989 Foto Award’89, 3rd International Photo Manifestation for the 150th Anniversary of Photography, Amsterdam

Selected Teaching Experience

2026
Intervento Minimo, Faculty of Architecture and Urban Design, Jade College, Oldenburg, Germany

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
Temporality, Entropy, Being, Edinburgh College of Art (ECA), 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, Germany

2015-16
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, Vienna

2012
Bodey and Space, Guest Lecturer, Department of Visual and Environmental Studies (VES), Harvard University

2011
Department of Photography, Art School, University of Kassel

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

2002
Visiting teaching assistant for the BA programme, Central St. Martin’s School of Art, London1996 Tutor as artist in residence for the MA programme, Glasgow School of Art, Scotland 1994-96 Tutor for the first year undergraduate programme, at the invitation and in collaboration with Prof. Bruce McLean, Slade School of Fine Art, London1992-94 Head of the photographic workshops, Art School, University of Kassel
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS AND CONFERENCES2025 Institute of Social Design, University of Applied Art, Vienna

2021
Touching the Distance, 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 Art Seminars. Contemporary Art in Germany Now, United
International College (UIC), Zhuhai, China

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

2014
12th Hessian Mobility Congress, Gateway Gardens, Frankfurt am Main

2011
Atkinson Grimshaw, Leeds Trinity University College, England

2010
Perception of Space, Faculty of Architecture, Jade College, 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 School, 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

Deutsches Architektinnen Blatt (DAB) with the focus communicating architecture, edition Q2/2026
Die Burckhardts, werk, bauen+wohnen, Verlag Werk AG, Zurich, 2025
WOLKEN. Von Gerhard Richter bis zur Cloud, Museum Sinclair Haus (Clouds. From Gerhard Richter to the Cloud), Bad Homburg v. d. H. / Stiftung Kunst und Natur, 2023
Street Life, ed. Astrid Ihle and René Zechlin, Hirmer Publishers, Munich, 2022
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
Living the City, ed. Lukas Feireiss, Tatjana Schneider, TheGreenEyl, Spector Books, Leipzig, 2020
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), ed. Tobias Kaspari, Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig, 2018
The curator as ... Cathrin Pichler Archiv für Kunst und Wissenschaften, ed. Felicitas Thun-Hohenstein und Sabine Prilinger, Schlebrügge. Editor, Wien, 2018
Das übersehene Tier (The missed Animal), von Mona Mönnig, transcript, Bielefeld, 2018
Transitus, in: aneducation - documenta 14, Archive Books, Berlin, 2018
Nubi Tempora. Cloud Landscapes, German National Meteorological Service (DWD), 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
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
Through the Looking Glass II, in: Herwig Turk: Landschaft=Labor, Verlag für Moderne Kunst, Nuremberg, 2016
Lucius Burckhardt. Why is Landscape Beautiful? The Science of Strollology, ed. Markus Ritter and Martin Schmitz, Birkhäuser Verlag GmbH, Basel, 2015
Phantomgesichter. 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, 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 and Martin Schmitz, Springer Wien New York, 2012
Science & Fiction, ed. Barbara von Flüe, edition Fink, Zurich, 2011
Wahrnehmen von Raum (Perception of Space), ed. Holm Kleinmann, Faculty of Architecture, Jade College, Oldenburg, 2010
TransAct. Transnational Activities in the Cultural Field. Interventionen zur Lage in Österreich, ed. Cathrin Pichler and Roman Berka, museum in progress, Springer Wien/New York, 2010
Dorothee von Windheim. Auf der Suche nach (Ab)bildern von Wirklichkeit, by Mona Mollweide-Siegert, VDG Verlag und Datenbank für Geisteswissenschaften, Weimar, 2008
Actions. What You Can Do With the City, ed. Giovanni Borasi and Mirko Zardini, Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) and SUN, 2008
Ways Around Modernism, by Stephen Bann, ed. James Elkins, Routledge, London/New York, 2007
Say it isn't so, ed. Peter Friese, Guido Boulboulle and Susanne Witzgall, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, 2007
Future Face, ed. Sandra Kemp, National Museum for Science and Technoloy, Taichung (Taiwan), 2006
Gerhard Langs Spaziergänge zu den Wolken (Gerhard Lang's Cloud Walks), by Susanne Witzgall, and: Gerhard Langs Phantombilder von Wolken (Gerhard Lang's Phantom Images of Clouds), by Lutz Becker and C. N., in: Wolken, ed. Lorenz Engell, Bernhard Siegert and Joseph Vogl, Archive for Media Studies, Verlag der Bauhaus-University Weimar, 2005
Kunst nach der Wissenschaft (Art after Science), by Susanne Witzgall, published by the Institut für moderne Kunst Nuremberg, Verlag für Moderne Kunst, Nürnberg, 2004
The Molecular Gaze, ed. Suzanne Anker and Dorothy Nelkin, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, New York, 2004
Luft (Air), Schriftenreihe Forum, Bd. 12, Elemente des Naturhaushalts IV, ed. Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland GmbH, Cologne, 2003
Mined, ed. Masoud Golsorkhi and Andreas Laeufer, Tank Publications, London, 2003
Kunst und Fotografie (Art and Photography). Floris Neusüss und die Kasseler Schule für Experimentelle Fotografie 1972-2002, ed. Renate Heyne, Publisher Jonas, Marburg, 2003
Head On, by Catarina Albano, Ken Arnold and Marina Wallace, ed. The Wellcome Trust, London, 2002
Das Zweite Gesicht / The Other Face, ed. Cornelia Kemp and Susanne Witzgall, Publisher Prestel, Munich, 2002
Mensch und Natur, ed. Christoph Goritz, Ernst Klett Schulbuchverlag Leipzig GmbH, Leipzig, 2002
The Genius of Genetics, ed. Catarina Albano and Marina Wallace, St. Thomas Monastery, Brno, Czechia, 2002
Nothing, ed. Graham Gussin and Ele Carpenter, August Media and Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, UK, 2001
Spectacular Bodies, by Martin Kemp and Marina Wallace, ed. Hayward Gallery, University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles, London, 2000
Sehnsuch nach Landschaft? (Longing vor Landscape?), ed. Arbeitsgemeinschaft Worpsweder Kultureinrichtungen, Worpswede, 2000
The Government, a phantom image by Gerhard Lang, museum in progress, ed. Oscar Brommer, extra print of the newspaper Der Standard, Vienna, 6 July 2000
Natura Maestra – Über Pflanzen, Tiere, Landschaft und andere Phänomene, by Lucius Burckhardt, in: Künstler als Gärtner, ed. Paolo Bianchi, Kunstforum international, Bd. 145, Cologne, 1999
post naturam - nach der Natur, ed. Gudrun Bott and Magdalena Broska, Druck und Medienverlag Bielefeld, 1998
Happy End, ed. Marie Luise Syring, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf and Verlagshaus Wienand, Cologne, 1996
ANIMA-L, ed. Kunstverein Eislingen e. V., Eislingen/Fils, 1996
Identita e Alterita. Figure del Corpo 1895/1995, ed. Manlio Brusatin and Jean Claire, Venice Biennale, 1995
Lucius Burckhardt. Design ist unsichtbar (Lucius Burckhardt. Design is Invisible), ed. Hans Höger, Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern, 1995
das Zebra streifen, ed. Helmut Aebischer, Gesamthochschule Kassel, Department of Town Planning and Landscape Planning, Schriftenreihe Band 20, Kassel, 1994
Palaeanthropische Physiognomie, ed. Gerhard Lang, Deutsche Fototage, Frankfurt am Main, 1993
Visuelle Kommunikation, ed. Anton Stankowski and Karl Duschek, Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin, 1989