Klaus Weber
Born 1976, Sigmaringen, DE
lives and works in Berlin, DE
Education
1995 MA Hochschule der KŸnste, Berlin, DE
Solo Exhibitions
2013 Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples, IT
2012 all bodies fall equally fast, Herald St, London, UK
Alle Kšrper fallen gleich schnell, Deutscher KŸnstlerbund, Berlin, DE
Sandfountain Frieze Projects East, London, UK
If you leave me I'm not following, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY
2011 If you leave me IÕm not coming, & Already There!, Nottingham Contemporary, UK
2009 bee paintings, Herald St, London, UK
bee paintings, Transmission, Glasgow, UK
2008 Secession, Vienna, AT
2007 Shape of the Ape, Andrew Kreps, New York, NY
The Big Giving, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
2006 The Big Giving, Herald St, London, UK
2005 Allee der Schlaflosigkeit (Avenue of wakefulness), Kunstverein, Hamburg, DE
2004 Sick Fox, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY
Unfolding cul de sac. Cubitt Gallery, London, UK
2003 Public Fountain LSD Hall, commission Frieze Foundation, Frieze Art Fair,
London, UK
2002 Brutstube, (public installation), Berlin, DE
Fountain Loma Dr / W 6th St, (public installation), Los Angeles, LA
2001 DEMO INVERSE (public performance), Berlin, DE
2000 Death Disco Club (public happening), Berlin, DE
1999 Magic Info, Kunstbank, Berlin, DE
1998 Tour de Force (public action), Berlin, DE
Group Exhibitions
2012 Cosmic Laughter, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal-Unteršwisheim, DE
Bienen des Unsichtbaren, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg, DE
Painting without Paint, David Risley Gallery, Copenhagen, DK
2011 The Art of narration Changes with Time, curated by Gigiotto del Vecchio, Spruth
Magers, Berlin, DE
Fountain Show, Dispari & Dispari Project. Reggio Emilia, IT
Please go around the construction area by the lights and over the traffic
island (and other stories), Kunstverein Schattendorf, Bergenland, AT
2010 Animism, Extra City & M HKA, Antwerp, BE
11. TRIENNALE KLEINPLASTIK 2010, Fellbach, DE
UM- Festival Fur Zeitgenossiche Kunst, Musik und Literatur der Uckermark,
Gerswalde, DE
2009 The Kaleidoscopic eye, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, JP
Tonite, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, UK
The World and Nearer Ones, curated by Mark Beasley, Creative Time,
New York, NY
The Show Continues Upstairs, Supportico Lopex, Berlin, DE
Ferne NŠhe, Kunstmuseum Bonn, DE
Bienale CuvŽe, OK Center for Contemporary Art, Linz, AT
Monument for Study, Herald St, London, UK
Palindrom, W.O Scheibe Museum, Stuttgart, DE
2008 Eine Bessere Welt: TUE GREENFORT, SAN KELLER, KLAUS WEBER, Bonner
Kunstverein, DE
Der blinde Fleck, NGBK, Berlin, DE
Manifesta 7, Trento, IT
Kabul 3000 (love among the cabbages), Gallery Zero, Milan, IT
2007 The Object is the Mirror, curated by Max Henry, Layr Wuestenhagen
Contemporary, Vienna, AT
Design By Accident, Croy Nielsen Gallery, Berlin, DE
Memorial to the Iraq War, curated by Mark Sladen, ICA, London, UK
Syntropia, NGBK, Berlin, DE
2006 FASTER! BIGGER! BETTER!, Signet works of the collections, ZKM-Karlsruhe, DE
Just Off Focus Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY
You'll Never Know: Drawing and Random Interference, Hayward Gallery,
London, UK
After Cage KŸnstlerinterventionen, Nationaal Jenevermuseum, Hasselt, BE
Satom, Weber, Schweiger, Hopf & Pesch, Galerie Walbršl, DŸsseldorf, DE
Art and Music, Center for Opinions in Music and Art, Berlin, DE
beton wurst und andere teamgeister, after the butcher, Berlin, DE
It is Òwhat it isÓ, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY
2005 Ecstasy. In and About Altered States, MOCA, Geffen Contemporary,
Los Angeles, LA
Not a drop but the Fall, KŸnstlerhaus, Bremen, DE
The Imaginary Number, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, DE
Communism, PROJECT ARTS CENTRE, Dublin, IRE
2004 Never Never Landscape , c/o - Atle Gerhardsen Galerie, Berlin, DE
Black Friday – Exercises in Hermetics, Galerie Kamm, Berlin, DE
World Watchers, Kunsthaus Dresden, DE
2003 Mutated Zen. The Art of surviving, The Nunnery, London, UK
LUX OPEN, Royal Academy, London, UK
BOOTLEG, Spitalfields Market, London, UK
2002 Violence is at the Margin of all Things. Generali Foundation, Vienna, AT
2001 Surprise 3, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, HU
2000 ticker 6, Galerie Carlier|Gebauer, Berlin, DE
1999 They Came by Taxi, Parabolica Spaces, Berlin, DE
1998 We are Somewhere Else (Already), Swiss Institute, New York, NY
Collaborative Projects
1997 Ping Pong D«Amour, Nouvelle Vague, Soap series about work, love, and
existential crisis, Berlin; Munich, DE
1996 A-Clip, founder; collective film project for cinema spots/ Intervention in movie
theaters, Los Angeles, LA; London, UK; Berlin, DE
1995 ZigarettenRauchen, co-founder; music project, Berlin, DE
KLASSE ZWEI co-founder; artist group and project space, Berlin, DE
Filmography
2004 Menschenloop DVD, 60 min
2003 Fountain Loma Dr//W 6th St, DVD, 60 mi
7 Leben und 2 daneben (7 lives and 2 beside) A-clip, 35mm, 60 sec
Embrace the Hyper Rational, A-clip, 35 mm, 70 sec
Watching 03, Music Video, DVD, 59 sec
2002 DEMO INVERSE, Documentation of the performance, DVD, 60 min
1999 Surplus, Beta SP, 15 min loop
1998 Anstiftung Warentest, A-clip II, 35mm film, 1 min. 55 sec
1997 InfosŠule, A-clip |, 35mm film, 1 min. 29 sec
1996 AbsichtserklŠrung A-clip, VHS-Video and 35 mm Film, 1 min. 57 sec.
Morgen!, Music Video, S-VHS, 2 min 44 sec
Melancholie in der Gro§stadt, Music Video, S VHS, 1 min 6 sec
1995 BlickwinkelprŠferenzen, Music Video, S-VHS, 1 min 38 sec.
alucarD. Fabrikkšrper, Nebel, Markt und Vampirismen, S-VHS, 9 min
Discography
2009 Large Dark Wind Chime (Tritone Westy), 12 inch record
2004 Kranke Fuchs, 12 inch record
exijudile, the sound of the LSD Fountain, 12 inch record
2001 Death Disco Club, Audio-CD, tete-ˆ-tete
2000 ZigarettenRauchen feat. Rosa, Maxi-CD, Sony Music
1998 ZigarettenRauchen mŠnne.r, Single, Monika records
ZigarettenRauchen surplus, Audio-CD, b_books records
Awards
2013 Casa Baldi, Auslandsstipendium, Italien, Kulturestiftung der LŠnder
2012 HAP Grieshaber Prize, DE
2006 Fellowship, Department of Science, Research & Culture, Berlin, DE
2005 Fellowship, Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn, DE
2003 Artist in residence, Delfina Studio Trust, London, UK
2002 Artist in residence, Villa Aurora, Los Angeles, LA
1998 Fellowship, Department of Science, Research & Culture, Berlin, DE
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