Hans Kotter
Biography
1966 born in Mühldorf am Inn, Germany
1993 - 94 Art Students League, New York, studied with Bruce Dorfman und William Scharf
2001 - 03 MediaDesign Akademie Munich, Germany
2004 Bavarian Culture Award (E-ON), Germany
2011 Artist in Residence, Art Radionica Lazareti, Dubrovnik, Croatia
2007 - 13 Lecturer at State Academy of Art and Design Stuttgart, Germany
2014 Nominated for the International Light Award, Centre for International Light Art Unna, Germany
lives and works in Berlin
Because without light, without refraction and reflection, we lived in a colorless and therefore contourless world.

Ausstellungen
Messen
Museum Exhibitions (selection)
2020
Hans Kotter - Hans Kotter at the Museum of Applied Art, Cologne 2020: Selections De Buck Gallery New York City, NY, United States
Hans Kotter / Light – Colour – Space, MAKK - Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Köln/Cologne, Germany
2019
Luminous Infinity, LH2 Contemporary Berlin, Germany
2018
Mehr Licht! Stern-Wywiol Galerie, Hamburg, Germany
Hans Kotter | Luminous Infinitygalerie | michaela | stock, Wien/Vienna, Austria
2017
Point of View, Patrick Heide Contemporary Art, London, United Kingdom
2015
Hans Kotter - Beyond Light, Bildraum 07, Wien / Vienna, Austria
Hans Kotter - Lichtkunst, Kunstverein Lippe - Lippische Gesellschaft für Kunst, Detmold, Germany
2014
Hans Kotter - Light Flow, Galerie Nery Mariño, Paris, France
Hans Kotter: ...Interruption, De Buck Gallery, New York City, NY, United States
2013
Hans Kotter: Mehr Licht, Schafhof - Europäisches Künstlerhaus Oberbayern, Freising, Germany
Hans Kotter - Superposition - Lichtinstallationengalerie | michaela | stock, Wien / Vienna, Austria
Hans Kotter - Light Flow, Osthaus Museum Hagen, Hagen, Germany
Hans Kotter, Syracuse University Art Galleries, Syracuse, NY, United States
Hans Kotter - Werke in der Rotunde, Osthaus Museum Hagen, Hagen, Germany
2012
In the Flux, Galerie Nmariňo, Paris, France
2011
Light Sensitive, De Buck Gallery, New York City, NY, United States
Light Flow, Patrick Heide Contemporary Art, London, United Kingdom
point of view, Priveekollektie, Heusden aan de Maas, Netherlands
Hans Kotter - Deflection, Studio d´Arte Contemporanea Pino Casagrande, Rom / Rome, Italy
2010
Transformation, Priveekollektie, Heusden aan de Maas, Netherlands
2009
Replaced, Patrick Heide Contemporary Art, London, United Kingdom
Hans Kotter - replaced / Lichtinstallationgalerie | michaela | stock, Vienna, Austria
2008
Balance, Kinetica - Museum of Kinetic Art, London, United Kingdom
colour rush, Lausberg Contemporary, Toronto, ON, Canada
2007
Hans Kotter - Colour Rush, Patrick Heide Contemporary Art, London, United Kingdom
2006
Hans Kotter - Chromatic Impulse - Lightboxes and Photographs, Patrick Heide Contemporary Art, London, United Kingdom
Licht am Main, Bestregarts, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
2004
Hans Kotter - Raum für Kunst, Kunstverein Ravensburg, Ravensburg, Germany
Hans Kotter - Macrolightscapes, Patrick Heide Contemporary Art, London, United Kingdom
Hans Kotter - Illuminations, Aedes, Berlin, Germany
2003
Lichtecht, Patrick Heide Contemporary Art, London, United Kingdom
2002
beauty in plastic, Stadtmuseum Neuötting, Neuötting, Germany
Hans Kotter: Licht und Farbe, Galerie Bezirk Oberbayern, München / Munich, Germany
2001
Hans Kotter - blue line, Pasinger Fabrik, München / Munich, Germany
1999
Hans Kotter - Stillleben, Galerie Rainer Klimczak, Viersen, Germany
1998
Hans Kotter - Spurensicherung, Städtische Galerie Waldkraiburg, Waldkraiburg, Germany