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HANS-PETER FELDMANN

ans-Peter Feldmann is considered one of the main figures of european conceptual art. His approach to art-making is one of collecting, ordering and re-presenting elements of the visual culture. He started in the 1960s, producing small handmade books showing isolated

reproductions from a certain type, shoes for instance, without captions. Since then, he has kept on investigating the influence of these visual signals on our way to perceive. Composing images and objects into archives, photographs, installations and sculptures, he creates uncanny compositions and unexpected new contexts. In many ways, his works are defined by daily life and the intimacy of private moments, exploring and unveiling beauty within the everyday landscape. I am not interested in the highpoints of life. Only 5 minutes of everyday are interesting, I want to show the rest, normal life. Hans-Peter Feldmann His creative process consists in compulsively collecting. Feldmann has been accumulating all sorts of things throughout his career, such as oil paintings, mainly portraits and landscapes, but also silver spoons, newspapers, stamps, shoes, hats, postcards, dollar notes… as well as a large variety of photographs representing flowers, books, women clothes, shoes, or handbags, paintings, legs, lips, strawberries, celebrities, landscapes, crossroads, planes, pigs, chairs, undone beds, birds, car interiors, etc. Feldmann’s interests span pop culture, sociology, art history, politics, sciences… all these fields being of equal importance within his work. Bypassing customs such as edition, signature, date, or title for his works, Feldmann's approach reveals that the market rules are extraneous to the actual artworks. From 1975 until 2015, he and his wife ran a store (Laden in German) in central Düsseldorf. The Laden was the place to buy items you could not find anywhere else, such as nautical equipment, cameras, vintage toys, collectibles, antiques, photographs, kitsches, paintings, etc. In 1979, the business was so flourishing that Feldmann withdrew from the art world for a decade in order to focus on the shop. After forty years, the Laden was closed and Feldmann transformed its whole inventory into an artwork, now entrusted to the Lenbachhaus in Munich. Short biography Hans-Peter Feldmann was born 1941 in Düsseldorf, where he still lives and works. His work has been exhibited widely, but the artist prefers no to publish any biography.

His works are present in major public collections, such as Museum of Modern Art, New York, Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Louisiana Museum, Humlebæk, Migros Museum, Zurich, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid.

Selected publications Catalogue, Serpentine Gallery, ed. by Helena Tatay, Koenig Books, London, 2012

Another Book, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Koenig Books, London, 2010

Book #9, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne, 2007

272 Pages, Fundació Antoni Tapiés, ed. by Helena Tatay, 2002

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Exhibition viewsGalerie des Galeries

Paris, 2016

Exhibition views303 Gallery

New York, 2016

Exhibition viewsSammlung PhilaraDüsseldorf, 2016

Exhibition viewSammlung PhilaraDüsseldorf, 2016

Exhibition viewsC/O Berlin

Berlin, 2016

Exhibition viewsMehdi Chouakri

Berlin, 2015

Exhibition viewsLehnbachhausMunich, 2015

Exhibition viewK21

Düsseldorf, 2015

Exhibition viewsTake me I’m Yours

La Monnaie de ParisParis, 2015

Exhibition viewUnlimited

Basel, 2015

Exhibition viewsDeichtorhallenHamburg, 2013

Exhibition viewDeichtorhallenHamburg, 2013


Berlin, 2013

Exhibition viewsSerpentine Gallery

London, 2012

Exhibition viewsBass Museum of Art

Miami Beach, 2012

Exhibition viewBass Museum of Art

Miami Beach, 2012

Exhibition viewNeue Nationalgalerie

Berlin, 2012

Exhibition viewsSolomon R. Guggenheim Museum

New York, 2011

Exhibition viewsKunsthalle Düsseldorf

Düsseldorf, 2010


Berlin, 2010

Exhibition viewsMuseo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia

Madrid, 2010

Exhibition viewSimon Lee Gallery

London, 2008

Exhibition viewsSprengel Museum

Hannover, 2007

Exhibition viewsHamburger Bahnhof

Berlin, 2006


Berlin, 2006

Exhibition viewsKunsthalle Kiel

Kiel, 2005

Exhibition viewMehdi Chouakri

Berlin, 2002

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