• Hans Kotter




  • 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.

Hans Kotter ©Photo Hans Kotter, Quotation Bettina Schulz

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