Christiane Löhr

Christiane Löhr (born 1965) is a contemporary German artist, who lives and works in Germany and Italy. Her sculptures, installations, and drawings are created with organic materials including horsehair, seeds, tree blossoms, and other elements from nature.

Life

Born in Wiesbaden in 1965, Loehr studied Egyptology, Archeology, Classics and History at the University of Bonn and Art Education and German studies at the University of Mainz before enrolling at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where she was a master student of Jannis Kounellis. She lives and works in Cologne, Germany and Prato, Italy.

Work

Löhr is best known for her sculptures and installations that utilize organic elements as delicate construction materials. Some of these include horsehair, airborne seeds, tree blossoms, plant stalks, and burrs. Löhr transforms these elements into elaborate and ordered structures, translating the sensitivity and fragility of the chosen material into volumetric forms. She uses non-organic substances minimally, manipulating her work according to the given attributes of the chosen material, whether it is biological or foreign. Man-made objects such as needles and hairnets can sometimes be seen in her sculptures, but utilized in ways that call attention to their basic form; their individual structure utilized just as sensitively and individually as the seeds, stalks, or animal hair.

Löhr also creates drawings on paper inspired by the same elements of nature, using pencil, ink, or oil pastel to continue her reorganization of the natural substances in her vocabulary.

Löhr has exhibited extensively in Europe and Asia, including at the 49th Biennale di Venezia. Her solo exhibition at the Villa Menafoglio Litta Panza in Varese, Italy, in 2010, was the last exhibition conceived by the acclaimed collector Giuseppe Panza. She has had both solo and group exhibitions of her work in the United States, including at the Museum of Arts and Design and Jason McCoy Gallery in New York City.

Christiane Löhr, Installation view of dividere il vuoto at Villa e Collezione Panza, 2010

Selected works
  • displuvio, 2015/2016, installation, Jason McCoy Gallery, New York
  • encircling the orbit, 2015, installation, Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum, Shizuoka
  • Grosse Bogenform (big arch form), 2013, grass stalks, 5 1/2 x 15 3/4 x 15 3/4 inches (14 x 40 x 40 cm)
  • Kleiner Samenbeutel (little seed bag), 2010, airborne seeds, hairnet, nail, 7 1/2 x 5 1/8 x 4 3/4 inches (19 x 13 x 12 cm)
  • Löwenzahnkissen (dandelion cushion), 2009, dandelion seeds, 7 x 17 x 14 1/2 inches (18 x 43 x 37 cm)
  • Kleiner Haarkelch (little hair chalice), 2006, horse hair, needles, 13 x 7 x 5 inches (33 x 17 x 13 cm)
  • untitled, 2012, oil pastel on paper, 73 x 58 inches (185 x 148 cm)
  • untitled, 2012, pencil on paper, 10 1/2 inches x 8 inches (27 x 20 cm)
  • untitled, 2009, ink on paper, 10 x 9 1/2 inches (26 x 24 cm)

Selected Exhibitions

2019
Twelve Prints, Taguchi Fine Art, Tokyo
2017
Crescendo, Taguchi Fine Art, Tokyo
2016
Christiane Löhr; Densen – Disperse, Gunby Estate, Hall and Gardens, Lincolnshire, England
Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel
2015
displuvio, Jason McCoy Gallery, New York
Lined, Taguchi Fine Art, Tokyo
encircling the orbit, Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum, Shizuoka, Japan
2014
Tucci Russo Studio per l’Arte Contemporanea, Torre Pellice/Turin
permeabile, Kunst- und Kulturstiftung Opelvillen, Rüsselsheim
línies contínues, Blueproject Foundation, Barcelona
2013
Christiane Löhr, Taguchi Fine Art, Tokyo
2010
dividere il vuoto, Villa e Collezione Panza, Varese
2009
sortint de l'embull, Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró, Palma de Mallorca
2007
CDAN Centro di Arte y Naturaleza, Huesca
2006
sculpture, PIAC Piattaforma Internazionale Arte Contemporanea, Ragusa
2005
Heidelberger Kunstverein
Kunstverein Ludwigshafen
Kunstverein Arnsberg
2004
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+
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
Camera Oscura, San Casciano dei Bagni
1998
Objekte, Studentisches Kulturzentrum, Belgrade
1997
Das Übergewicht des Kleinen, Mittelrhein-Museum Koblenz

Selected Awards and Grants

2016
Pino Pascali Award, it:Fondazione Museo Pino Pascali
XXV Edition National Award of Visual Arts, Gallarate Arte: Sostantivo Femminile, GNAM National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rome
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

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