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REINHARD HAUFF: Thomas Locher "Supplements Signs Signifiers" - 20 Nov 2009 to 16 Jan 2010 Current Exhibition |
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Thomas Locher "Supplements Signs Signifiers" 20.11.2009 - 16.01.2010 Er�ffnung / Opening Freitag, 20.11.2009, 19 - 22 Uhr / Friday, 20.11.2009, 7 - 10 pm Galerie Reinhard Hauff is pleased to announce the exhibition �Supplements Signs Signifiers� by Berlin artist Thomas Locher (*1956). In this exhibition � the artist�s 5th solo show at Galerie Reinhard Hauff � Thomas Locher reviews core themes in his artistic practice. The three concepts �Supplements�, �Signs� and �Signifiers� combine to a formula, which connects the different works and groups of works within the show with one another. The exhibition does not attempt to define these three terms � does not explore the nature of signs � what they are and how they signify in the classic sense, where significance is a relationship between two sorts of things: signs and the kind of things they signify. Or mean. Here, it is not a question of the identification of a sign and its intended meaning (the signifier and the signified), but rather about the space in which the difference between individual types/groups of signs exposes characteristics of their basic nature and becomes a container of various vehicles of meaning. �Supplements Signs Signifiers� is about reading and misreading, about representation of meaning and the confrontation with the impossibility for the recipient to remain indifferent or neutral towards the message, which has been sent. And the wider possibilities thereby created. To choose to �not receive� is not an option, once a confrontation takes place. Any encounter with a sign solicits (personal) interpretation and comment. What the commentary does to the shape/content it comments on, what is thereby possibly added, what has possibly also changed, deformed or enriched the original intent of the material commented on (the original core message) is contained in the logic of Supplementarity � the change through addition and therefore transformation of whatever is represented. Due to the impossibility for the receiver to be inside the original represented, any incompleteness has to be enhanced and/or supplemented. A vacuum will be filled. Supplementarity � or any representation � conveys a shift in meaning. The work of Thomas Locher explores on the one hand texts and letters as abstract forms, but also texts as carriers of meaning such as the large central wall installation �from S1 to S2, from one place to another and [again]�. �Supplements, Signs, Signifiers� is therefore a show about various types of representation/reproduction of meaning. Some works exhibited are framed, photographic views of office or living settings lifted from architectural books � windows illustrating various lifestyles and thereby giving significance to their chosen content. But at the same time simply framed pictures � objects. Any view on anything is a selection of things/elements to focus on and in turn a personal choice offered and put on display. The point � of � view from where situations are observed is always personal and by definition a fragment, incomplete. VITA Born 1956 in Munderkingen, Oberschwaben, Germany Lives and works in Berlin, Germany EDUCATION 1979�1985 Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden K�nste, Stuttgart 1981�1985 Universit�t Stuttgart SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2008 etwas, Charim Ungar Contemporary Berlin (CUC), Berlin 2007 Kommentare, Politics of Research, artsprogram Zeppelin University, Flughafen Tempelhof, Berlin Erscheinungen, Kunstverein Heilbronn, Heilbronn showcase/showcase, Sammlung Sch�rmann, Berlin 2006 Die Rechnung. Die nicht aufgeht, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart always] trouble with principle, Georg Kargl, Vienna Old and new subjects, Galeria Helga de Alvear, Madrid 2004 Kunstsammlung Gera, Gera 2003 Politik der Kommunikation, museum in progress und Arbeiterkammer, Vienna Axiome der Kommunikation, Projektraum Rosenthaler 11, Deutscher K�nstlerbund, Berlin Galerie der Stadt Stuttgart, Stuttgart knots and lines, the new subject, Galerie Rheinhard Hauff, Stuttgart 2002 Galerie Georg Kargl, Vienna Regel und Ausnahme, Demmel Kunstprojekt, Osnabr�ck knots / Knoten, Galerie Haas & Fuchs, Berlin POLITICS OF COMMUNICATION, �art in dialog�, Universit�t Witten Herdecke, Witten Herdecke 2000 POLITICS OF COMMUNICATION, Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert Inc., New York Galerie Six Friedrich Lisa Ungar, Munich Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart 1999 Galerie Georg Kargl, Vienna 10 JAHRE KUNST UND PROJEKTE SINDELFINGEN E.V, Galerie der Stadt Sindelfingen, Sindelfingen 1998 UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND SOUVEREIGNTY/CONSTRUCTION, Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert Inc., New York 1997 BEGRIFFLICHE BEZIEHUNGEN, Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart ANDERE ORTE, �FFENTLICHE R�UME UND KUNST, Kartause Ittingen, Kunstmuseum Kanton Thurgau, Thurgau GRUND UND ABGRUND, Galerie Haas & Fuchs, Berlin Galerie Urs Meile, Luzern 1996 �FFENTLICH/PRIVAT, K�nstlerhaus Stuttgart, Stuttgart Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris �FFENTLICH/PRIVAT, Kunstraum der Universit�t L�neburg, L�neburg Galerie Six Friedrich, Munich 1995 K�nstlerhaus Palais Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz Z.B.: GG.ART.146 und ART.16.A, KLEINE HERMENEUTIK D. DISKURS, ROUND TABLE, Galerie Tanja Grunert, Cologne National Gallery of Contemporary Art Zacheta, Warschau Galerie Pankow, Galerie des Kulturamtes, Berlin PR�AMBEL UND GRUNDRECHTE IM GRUNDGESETZ F�R DIE BUNDESREPUBLIK DEUTSCHLAND [DISKURS2], Kunstverein M�nchen, Munich 1994 Europ�ische Menschenrechtskonvention [Diskurs1], Galerie Metropol, Vienna Galerie Michael Fuchs, Berlin 1993 Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg Kunsthalle Z�rich, Zurich 1992 WER SAGT WAS UND WARUM, K�lnischer Kunstverein, Cologne Galerie Antoni Estrany, Barcelona Stichting de Appel, Amsterdam DOPPELZIMMER, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld 1991 Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris Trans Avant-Garde Gallery, San Francisco Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York 1990 Galerie Metropol, Vienna Galerie Karsten Schubert, London Galerie Lia Rumma, Neapel 1989 Galerie Tanja Grunert, Cologne 1988 Galerie Ralph Wernicke, Stuttgart Galerie Tanja Grunert, Cologne Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York 1987 Galerie Interim Art, London Galerie Karsten Schubert, London Galerie Tanja Grunert, Cologne Galerie Christoph D�rr, Munich 1985 Galerie Ralph Wernicke, Stuttgart RECENT SELECTED GROUP SHOWS 2008 No Place - like Home. Perspectives on Migration in Europe, Argos Center for Art and Media, Brussels Gl�ck � Welches Gl�ck, Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden, Dresden Under Pain of Death, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York Vertrautes Terrain - Aktuelle Positionen in / �ber Deutschland, ZKM, Museum f�r Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe 2007 Im Wort, Kunsthalle G�ppingen, G�ppingen Not like You remembered, Galerie SixFriedrichLisaUngar, M�nchen, Munich Pr�senzproduzenten, Kunsthalle im Haus f�r Ideen, Columbus art foundation, Ravensburg Theatrum Mundi, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris 2006 This Land is my Land..., Neue Gesellschaft f�r Bildende Kunst, Berlin Somewhere else/Anderswo, Kunstverein G�ppingen, G�ppingen Faster! Bigger! Better!, Signetwerke der Sammlungen im zkm, Museum f�r Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe Eye on Europe: Prints, Books & Multiples/1960 to Now, The Museum of Modern Art, New York Politische Wahrheiten, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg Anstoss Berlin, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin Letters own a book, Galerie Ham, Nagoya, Japan This Land is my Land..., Kunsthalle N�rnberg, N�rnberg I still love the 20th Century, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna 100 ARTISTS SEE GOD, Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, TN 2005 Lichtkunst aus Kunstlicht, zkm Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe Entdecken und Besitzen, Einblicke in �sterreichische Privatsammlungen, MUMOK, Vienna 100 ARTISTS SEE GOD, Allbright College Freedman Art Gallery, Reading PA projekt migration, K�lnischer Kunstverein, Cologne word and object, 2.Berliner Kunstsalon, Berlin passion beyond reason, wallstreet one gallery, Berlin lines and traces, Galerie Bernhard Knaus, Mannheim 3D - DIE DRITTE DIMENSION, Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin Nach Rokytnik � Die Sammlung der EVN, Mumok Wien, Vienna Entourage de?� Klasse Paul Uwe Dreyer, Villa Merkel Esslingen, Esslingen L�estasi delle cose, Spazio Oberdan, Museo di Fotografia Contemporanea, Milano Making Things Public, Atmosph�ren der Demokratie, zkm Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe Circa Berlin, Nikolaj, Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen Basics, transmediale.05, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin 100 ARTISTS SEE GOD, Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach 2004 100 ARTISTS SEE GOD, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London Made in Berlin, Art Forum Messe Berlin, Berlin Im Bild, Kunsthalle G�ppingen, G�ppingen The artist�s beautiful language, Galerie Anselm Dreher, Berlin Minimalism and After III, Sammlung DaimlerChrysler, Berlin Im Rausch der Dinge, Fotomuseum Winterthur und Fotostiftung Schweiz, Winterthur The Billboard Project, Orange Gallery, Catanzaro Calabria Vienna Coffee Table, Galerie Bernhard Knaus, Mannheim Pour les Oiseaux, Frac des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou 100 ARTISTS SEE GOD, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna, CA Locher, Mundt, Zimmermann, Galerie Six Friedrich Lisa Ungar, Munich walk me, Die Kunstzeile an der Wienzeile, Architekturzentrum Wien, Vienna MOBILE MUSEEN, Potsdamer Platz Berlin und Museumsquartier Wien, Vienna 100 ARTISTS SEE GOD, The Jewish Museum San Francisco, San Fransisco WIEN-BERLIN, Galerie im Parlament, Abgeordnetenhaus Berlin, Berlin 2003 A CLEAR VISION, Photographische Werke aus der Sammlung F.C.Gundlach, Internationales Haus der Photographie Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg BANQUETE. METABOLISMO Y COMUNICACI�N, Centro Culturel Conde Duque, Conde Duque SUK�N-STILLE, Ein Projekt mit der Mobilen St�dtischen Galerie im Folkwang Museum Essen und der Essener Verkehrs-AG100 ARTISTS SEE GOD�, ICI New York, (cur.: John Baldessari und Meg Cranston, Essen 100 ARTISTS SEE GOD, ICI New York, New York EX ORIENTE / ISAAK UND DER WEISSE ELEFANT, Dom zu Aachen, Aachen adicction, 15 Micawber Street, London BANKETT. METABOLISMUS UND KOMMUNIKATION, zkm Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe LUST ALS PASSION, Neue Galerie Graz, Graz L��quilibre du chaos ou l�expression des passions, �uvres de la collection du Frac des Pays de la loire, Centre culturel Entracte, Sabl�-Sur-Sarthe HERBARIUM DER BLICKE, Deutscher K�nstlerbund, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn M_ARS, Kunst und Krieg, Neue Galerie Graz, Graz 2002 Reproduktion, Galerie Bernhard Knaus, Mannheim Kunst nach Kunst, (Art after Art), Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen, Bremen iconoclash, beyond the image wars in science, religion, and art, zkm Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe Collector' Choice, Internationale Kunst seit 1950, Sammlung Ploil; Neue Galerie Graz, Graz Kunst auf Zeit, Freistempel, Ausstellung im Kabinett Stuttgart, Stuttgart 2001 it doesn't work, K�nstlerhaus Palais Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz Zusammenh�nge im Biotop Kunst, Ein Ausstellungsparcours, Kunsthaus Muerz, M�rzzuschlag ZEIT/R�UME, 2. Triennale zeitgen�ssischer Kunst Oberschwaben, Braith-Mali-Museum Biberach, Biberach DIN ART 4 � 560 K�nstler und 1 Formular,, Museum f�r Kommunikation Frankfurt a.M., Frankfurt Echo�s Pool, F�nf j�dische Friedh�fe f�nf k�nstlerische Einlassungen, Stiftung DKM, Duisburg hidden text, Anthony Reynolds Gallery London, London 2000 Tonio Kr�ger, B�hnenbild, Thalia Theater Halle, Halle Auf zu den Sternen, Brandenburgische Kunstverein Potsdam e.V., Waschhaus und Fabrik, Potsdam LE JEU DES 7 FAMILLES, mamco (Mus�e d�Art Moderne et contemporain), Geneva GUT AUFGELEGT, Aktuelle Tendenzen vervielf�ltigter Kunst, Griffelkunstvereinigung, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Hamburg VON ALBERS BIS PAIK, Konstruktive Werke aus der Sammlung DaimlerChrysler, Haus f�r konstruktive und konkrete Kunst, Z�rich SKULPTUR ALS M�BEL, M�BEL ALS SKULPTUR, Neue Galerie Graz im Kloster Frohnleiten, Graz primavera, Galerie Antonio Ferrara, Reggio Emilia Italia |
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