Hans-Peter Feldmann (born 1941 in

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) is a German visual artist. Feldmann's approach to art-making is one of collecting, ordering and re-presenting.

Early life and career

In the 1960s, Feldmann studied painting at the

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. He began working in 1968, producing the first of the small handmade books that would become a signature part of his work. These modest books, simply entitled Bilde (Picture) or Bilder (Pictures), would include one or more reproductions from a certain type—knees of women, shoes, chairs, film stars, etc.--their subjects isolated in their ubiquity and presented without captions. In 1979 Feldmann decided to pull out of the art world and just make books and pictures for himself. In 1989 the curator

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persuaded Feldmann to exhibit in a gallery again. Davidfeldm

Work

Hans-Peter Feldmann is a figure in the

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movement and practitioner in the artist book and multiple formats. Feldmann's approach to art-making is one of collecting, ordering and re-presenting amateur snapshots, print photographic reproductions, toys and trivial works of art. Feldmann reproduces and recontextualizes our reading of them in books, postcards, posters or multiples. Feldmann made his first series of books between 1968 and 1971. Works from the early 1970s include 70 snapshots depicting ''All the Clothes of a Woman'' and four ''Time Series'' projects including, for example, a row of 36 pictures of a ship moving along a river. Feldmann's series ''Photographs Taken From Hotel Room Windows While Traveling'' clusters 108 nondescript, unframed snapshots of buildings, streets and parking lots. (Like other Feldmann projects, this calls to mind

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's photographic catalogs.) ''11 Left Shoes'' presents 11 shoes borrowed from 303 Gallery employees, in a row on the floor. ''Que Sera'' has the words of the song of that title handwritten on the wall. ''Bed With Photograph'' simulates part of a hotel room with a slept-in bed, a side table and a framed photograph of a woman in leopard-print pants. Feldman's photographic essays might have a more intimate singularity in book form. His book ''Secret Picturebook'' (1973) is a thick, densely printed, scholarly tome with little pictures of women's torsos in sexy underwear inserted at intervals. It most pointedly embodies the artist's mischievous relationship to high culture. Another book, “1967-1993 Die Toten” reproduces images from newspapers of all of the lives lost due to the violence and terrorism that permeated contemporary German history. Creating carefully conceived installations from everyday images is what Feldmann is best known for. In 2004-5 MoMA P.S. 1 showed “100 Years,” an exhibition made up of 101 photographic portraits of people ages 8 months to 100 years. And at the

International Center of Photography The International Center of Photography (ICP), at 79 Essex Street on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York City, consists of a museum for photography and visual culture and a school offering an array of educational courses and programming. ...

in 2008 he filled a room with the framed front pages of 100 newspapers — from New York, Paris, Dubai, Sydney, Seoul and elsewhere — printed on Sept. 12, 2001.

Recognition

Hans-Peter Feldmann has been named winner of the eighth Biennal

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in 2010. This prize includes an exhibition at the

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, often referred to as The Guggenheim, is an art museum at 1071 Fifth Avenue on the corner of East 89th Street on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. It is the permanent home of a continuously exp ...

, New York, in May 2011.

Collections

Feldmann's work features in prominent private and public collections, such as that of the

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and the MACBA in Barcelona. In 2012, the artist donated one of his key work, ''Die Toten (The Dead)'', to the

Berlin State Museums The Berlin State Museums (german: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin) are a group of institutions in Berlin, Germany, comprising seventeen museums in five clusters, several research institutes, libraries, and supporting facilities. They are overseen ...

in Berlin.

Art market

Hans Peter Feldmann is represented by Mehdi Chouakri Gallery in Berlin, Simon Lee Gallery in London, Galerie Francesca Pia in Zürich, Galerie Martine Aboucaya in Paris and

303 Gallery 303 Gallery is an art gallery in Manhattan, New York. It was established in 1984 by owner and director Lisa Spellman, described by art critic Jerry Saltz as "one of the greatest New York gallerists of our time". The gallery hosts contemporary work ...

in New York. He does not limit the number of editions of his works, nor does he sign them.

Exhibitions

*1972 - ''Billeder af Feldmann'' (Bilder von Feldmann)
Daner Galleriet
Copenhagen, Denmark *1977 - ''Eine Stadt: Essen'', Museum Folkwang Essen *1990 - ''Hans-Peter Feldmann, das Museum im Kopf'',

Portikus Portikus is an exhibition hall for contemporary art in Frankfurt am Main, that was founded in 1987 by Kasper König. The museum is part of the Museumsufer. Portikus presents the work of internationally renowned artists, and exhibits younger, emer ...

, Frankfurt; Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf *1999 - ''Hans-Peter Feldmann: Bücher'', Neues Museum

Weserburg The Weserburg is a modern art museum in Bremen, Germany. Opened in 1991, it is located on the Teerhof peninsula next to the River Weser in an old factory building which was almost completely destroyed in the Second World War. Originally known ...

Bremen *2001 - ''Hans-Peter Feldmann, 100 Jahre'', Museum Folkwang Essen 2001 *2001 - ''Hans-Peter Feldmann 272 pages'', Fundacio Antoni Tàpies Barcelona *2002 - ''Hans-Peter Feldman 272 pages'', Centre nationale de la photographie Paris, Fotomuseum Winterthur *2006 - ''Hans-Peter Feldmann in der Antikensammlung der Kunsthalle zu Kiel'', Kunsthalle Kiel der Christian Albrechts-Universität, Schleswig-Holsteinischer Kunstverein Kiel *2007 - ''Hans-Peter Feldmann'', Museum am Ostwall in Dortmund, ''Die Toten'', RAF bis heute *2007 - ''Hans-Peter Feldmann'', Skulptur Projekte

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2007, ''Sanierung, bzw. Neugestaltung der Toilettenanlagen am Domplatz'' *2010 - ''Hans-Peter Feldmann'',

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, Malmö, Sweden *2010 - ''An Art Exhibition'', Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía MNCARS, Madrid, Spain *2010 - ''Hans-Peter Feldmann'', Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany *2010 - Les Rencontres d'Arles, France. *2010 -

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, Düsseldorf. *2012 - ''Hans-Peter Feldmann'',

Serpentine Galleries The Serpentine Galleries are two contemporary art galleries in Kensington Gardens, Hyde Park, Central London. Recently rebranded to just Serpentine, the organisation is split across Serpentine South, previously known as the Serpentine Gallery, ...

, London.Hans-Peter Feldmann
exhibition at the Serpentine Galleries 2012

Survey exhibitions

*1972 - documenta 5, Kassel/Germany *1975 - Biennale de la Jeunesse, Paris/France *1977 - documenta 6, Kassel/Germany *2003 -

Biennale di Venezia The Venice Biennale (; it, La Biennale di Venezia) is an international cultural exhibition hosted annually in Venice, Italy by the Biennale Foundation. The biennale has been organised every year since 1895, which makes it the oldest of ...

/Italy *2009 -

/Italy *2010 -

Museum für Moderne Kunst The Museum für Moderne Kunst (''Museum of Modern Art''), or short MMK, in Frankfurt, was founded in 1981 and opened to the public 6 June 1991. The museum was designed by the Viennese architect Hans Hollein. Because of its triangular shape, it ...

(MMK), Frankfurt/Germany *2010 - Ruhrblicke, Zeche Zollverein, Essen/Germany *2010- Dublin Contemporary

Publications (selected)

* ''Eine Stadt. Essen.'' Ausst.-Kat. Museum Folkwang, Essen 1977 * Hans-Peter Feldmann: ''Telefonbuch''. AQ-Verlag, Dudweiler 1980. * Hans-Peter Feldmann: ''Das Museum im Kopf''. Ausst.-Kat. Frankfurt, Düsseldorf. Walther König, Köln 1989. * Hans-Peter Feldmann: ''Eine Firma, Siemens''. München 1991 * Hans-Peter Feldmann: ''Arbeiten''. Kunstverein Heinsberg 1991 * Hans-Peter Feldmann: ''Kunstgeschichten''. Paris 1992 * Hans-Peter Feldmann: ''Portrait''. Schirmer/Mosel München 1994 * Hans-Peter Feldmann: ''Ferien, Secession''. Wien 1994 * Hans-Peter Feldmann: ''Voyeur 1.Aufl.'' La Fleche 1994 * Hans-Peter Feldmann: ''Voyeur 2.Aufl.'' König, Köln 1997 * Hans-Peter Feldmann: ''Ein Energieunternehmen, EVN''. Maria Enzersdorf 1997 * Hans-Peter Feldmann: ''Die Toten''. Düsseldorf 1998 * Hans-Peter Feldmann: ''Bücher''. Ausst.-Kat. Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen 1999 (Serie Sammlung der Künstlerbücher Bd. 23). * Hans-Peter Feldmann: ''Alle Kleider einer Frau''. Düsseldorf - Toronto 1999 * Hans-Peter Feldmann, C. Konrad: ''Die Johanneskirche in Düsseldorf''. 1999 * Hans-Peter Feldmann: ''Graz''. Camera Austria 2000 * Hans-Peter Feldmann: ''Profil ohne Worte''. 2 Magazine 2000 * Hans-Peter Feldmann: ''100 Jahre. Anlässlich der Ausstellung im Museum Folkwang Essen.'' Schirmer/Mosel, München 2001. * Celine Duval, Hans-Peter Feldmann: ''cahier d’images''. 7 Magazine 2001 * Hans-Peter Feldmann: ''Bilder / Pictures''. 2002 * Helena Tatay: ''Hans-Peter Feldmann 272 pages'', Ausst.-Kat. Centre nationale de la photographie Paris u.a. (Englisch-Deutsch) * Hans-Peter Feldmann: ''Vistas desde habitaciones de hotel''. Barcelona 2003 * Hans-Peter Feldmann: ''1941''. Düsseldorf 2003 * Hans-Peter Feldmann: ''Babel ‘About Beauty’''. Berlin 2004 * Hans-Peter Feldmann: ''Das kleine Mövenbuch''. Walther König, Köln 2004 * Hans-Peter Feldmann: ''Abstrakte Kunst''. Salon Verlag 2004 * Hans-Peter Feldmann: ''Frauen im Gefängnis''. Walther König, Köln 2005 * Hans-Peter Feldmann: ''Paris''. Salon Verlag 2005 * Hans-Peter Feldmann: ''Liebe/Love''. Walther König, Köln 2006 * Hans-Peter Feldmann: ''Die beunruhigenden Musen. Hans-Peter Feldmann in der Antikensammlung der Kunsthalle zu Kiel.'' Ausst.-Kat. Kunsthalle Kiel, Schleswig-Holsteinischer Kunstverein, Kiel. Walther König, Köln 2006. * Hans-Peter Feldmann: ''Birgit''. Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver 2006 * Hans-Peter Feldmann: ''Blau''. Walther König, Köln 2006 * Hans-Peter Feldmann: ''Zeitungsphotos''. Walther König, Köln 2006 * Hans-Peter Feldmann: ''Foto''. Galerie Langhans, Praha 2006 * Hans-Peter Feldmann: ''Voyeur 3.Aufl.''. König, Köln 2006 * Hans-Peter Feldmann: ''Buch / Book # 9''. Sprengel Museum Hannover 2007 * Hans-Peter Feldmann: ''Smoke''. Walther König, Köln 2007 * Hans-Peter Feldmann: ''Album''. Walther König, Köln 2008 * Hans-Peter Feldmann: ''Voyeur 4.Auflage''. Walther König, Köln 2009 * Hans-Peter Feldmann: ''Interview zusammen mit Hans Ulrich Obrist.'' Walther König, Köln 2009

References

External links

Hans-Peter Feldmann information at 303 Gallery
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Kurzbiographie Biography''Skulptur-projekte''Simon Lee Gallery, London Selected Works, Simon Lee GalleryHans-Peter Feldmann
2012 exhibition at the Serpentine Galleries {{DEFAULTSORT:Feldmann, Hans-Peter 1941 births Living people German contemporary artists