GERHARD LANG

1963 born in Jugenheim (Germany)

Worked in the department of stage design, make-up and sculpture at the Darmstadt State Theatre (Germany)

Studied at Kassel Art School (Germany)and at the Slade School of Fine Art in London (M. A.)

Selected awards and scholarships:

2004-06 Sciart Award from the Wellcome Trust in London

2000-01 Scholarship awarded by the Gulbenkian Foundation in London

1998 Exhibition support provided by
the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa)

Scholarship from the Ministry of Science and Art in Hesse (Germany)

1996 Julian Sullivan Award given by Slade School of Fine Art

1994 European Travel Scholarship

1993 Awarded with the Bermuda Triangle of Photography

1992 Scholarship given by the Sparda-Bank

1989 Foto Award’89, 3rd International Photo Manifestation
for the 150th anniversary of Photography, Amsterdam

Selected exhibitions:

2008

Actions: What you can do with the city, Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), Montreal, Quebec (cat.)

2007

Say it isn’t so, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany (cat.)

Ospiti, Prättigau (in the Grisons area of the Swiss Alps)

Darmstädter Tage der Fotografie, Darmstadt, Germany (cat.)

2005

Future Face, National Museum for Science and Technology, Taiwan (cat.)

Tatort und Phantombild. Künstlerische Ermittlungen, CineStar, Weimar

2004

Performance Festival, Kunstverein, Ingolstadt, Germany

2003

Evidence, Essor Gallery Project Space, London

Head On, Science Museum, London (cat.)

2002

The Second Face, German Museum, Munich (cat.)

The Genius of Genetics, St. Thomas Monastery, Brno, Czech Republic (cat.)

2001

Nothing, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania (cat.)

Nothing, Rooseum - Centre for Contemporary Art, Malmö, Sweden

Phantom-Bilder, Neue Galerie, Kassel (cat.)

2000
Spectacular Bodies, Hayward Gallery, London (cat.)

1999
Zum Thema Berge, Kunstverein, Kitzbühel, Austria

1998
Natural Science, Stills Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland (cat.)

post naturam - nach der Natur, Paleontological Institute,
Münster and Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt (cat.)

1997

Art / Science, Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh

Heaven, PS1 Museum, New York

1996
Happy End, Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany (cat.)

ANIMA-L, Kunstverein, Eislingen, Germany (cat.)

1995
Identity and Otherness, Venice Biennale (cat.)

Hong Kong Installation Art Festival, Hong Kong (cat.)

1994
Hommage für Moholy-Nagy, Museum for Photography, Braunschweig, Germany

1993

Palaeanthropische Physiognomie, Natrual History Museum
Senckenberg, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (cat.)

1989
3rd International Photo Manifestation for the
150th anniversary of Photography, Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Teaching experience:

2004 Seminar as part of the doctoral student course “Raum und Ritual” (“Space and Ritual”) in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Stephan Weyer Menkhoff, Johannes Gutenberg-University of Mainz, Germany.

2002 Visiting teaching assistant for the BA programme at the Central St. Martin’s School of Art in London.

1996 Tutor as artist in residence for the MA programme at the Glasgow School of Art, Scotland. In collaboration with Professor Thomas Joshua Cooper (photography) and Pavel Bueschler (director).

1994-96 Teaching assistant in Bruce McLean’s first year undergraduate programme at the Slade School of Fine Art, London.

1992-94 Temporary head of the photographic workshops at Kassel Art School. In collaboration with Professor Floris M. Neusüss.

Selected lectures:

Basel School of Design

Bonn, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland

Canterbury, University of Kent

Darmstadt, Hessisches Landesmuseum

Dundee, School of Art

Edinburgh University

Frankfurt am Main, Städelschule

Kassel, University, faculty of town planning and landscape design
London, Architectural Association

London, Hayward Gallery

Mainz, Max Planck Institute

Mainz, Department of Theatre Studies (International Performance Festival),
Johannes Gutenberg-University

Munich, Academy of Fine Arts

Oxford University

Selected bilbliography:

Ways Around Modernism, by Stephen Bann, James Elkins (ed.), Routledge Verlag, London/New York, 2007

Say it isn’t so, Peter Friese, Guido Boulboulle and Susanne Witzgall (ed.), Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, 2007

Überblick – Konstruktionen der Wahrheit, Darmstädter Tage der Fotografie e. V. (ed.), Darmstadt, 2007

Warum ist Landschaft schön? Die Spaziergangswissenschaft, by Lucius Burckhardt, Markus Ritter and Martin Schmitz (ed.), Publisher Martin Schmitz, Berlin, 2006

Future Face, Sandra Kemp (ed.), National Museum for Science and Technoloy, Taichung (Taiwan), 2006

Gerhard Langs Spaziergänge zu den Wolken, by Susanne Witzgall, and: Gerhard Langs Phantombilder von Wolken, by Lutz Becker and C. N., in: Wolken, Lorenz Engell, Bernhard Siegert and Joseph Vogl (ed.), Archive for Media Studies, Verlag der Bauhaus-University Weimar, 2005

Lichtwiesen - Inszenierte Landschaften, Darmstädter Tage der Fotografie e. V. (ed.), Darmstadt, 2005

The Molecular Gaze, Suzanne Anker and Dorothy Nelkin (ed.), Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, New York, 2004

Kunst nach der Wissenschaft, by Susanne Witzgall, Institut für moderne Kunst Nürnberg (ed.), Verlag für Moderne Kunst, Nürnberg, 2004

Luft, Schriftenreihe Forum, Bd. 12, Elemente des Naturhaushalts IV, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland GmbH (ed.), Cologne, 2003

Mined, Masoud Golsorkhi and Andreas Laeufer (ed.), Tank Publications, London, 2003

Kunst und Fotografie. Floris Neusüss und die Kasseler Schule für Experimentelle Fotografie 1972-2002, Renate Heyne (ed.), Publisher Jonas, Marburg, 2003

Junge Kunst im Kasseler Raum / 2001, Michael Eissenhauer (ed.), Staatliche Museen Kassel / Neue Galerie, Kassel, 2003

Head On, by Catarina Albano, Ken Arnold and Marina Wallace, The Wellcome Trust (ed.), London, 2002

The Other Face, Cornelia Kemp and Susanne Witzgall (ed.), Publisher Prestel, Munich, 2002

Mensch und Natur, von Christoph Goritz, Ernst Klett Schulbuchverlag Leipzig GmbH (ed.), Leipzig, 2002

The Genius of Genetics, Catarina Albano and Marina Wallace (ed.), St. Thomas Kloster, Brno, 2002

Nothing, Graham Gussin and Ele Carpenter (ed.), August Media and Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, UK, 2001

Spectacular Bodies, by Martin Kemp and Marina Wallace, Hayward Gallery (ed.), University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles, London, 2000

Sehnsuch nach Landschaft?, Arbeitsgemeinschaft Worpsweder Kultureinrichtungen (ed.), Worpswede, 2000

The Government, by Gerhard Lang, museum in progress, Oscar Brommer (ed.), extra print of the newspaper Der Standard, Vienna, 2000

Natura Maestra – Über Pflanzen, Tiere, Landschaft und andere Phänomene, by Lucius Burckhardt, in: Künstler als Gärtner, Paolo Bianchi (ed.), Kunstforum international, Bd. 145, Cologne, 1999

Natural Science, Stills Gallery (ed.), Edinburgh, 1998

post naturam - nach der Natur, Gudrun Bott and Magdalena Broska (ed.), Druck und Medienverlag Bielefeld, 1998

John Constable’s Clouds are still passing, by Lucius Burckhardt, Dr. Matthias Hagemann (ed.), Basler Magazin, Nr 13, 1997

Happy End, Marie Luise Syring (ed.), Kunsthalle Düsseldorf and Verlagshaus Wienand, Köln, 1996

ANIMA-L, Kunstverein Eislingen e. V. (ed.), Eislingen/Fils, 1996

Identita e Alterita. Figure del Corpo 1895/1995, Manlio Brusatin and Jean Claire (ed.), Biennale Venedig, 1995

Hong Kong Installation Art Festival, Hong Kong Visual Arts Research Society (ed.), Hong Kong, 1995

Design ist unsichtbar, by Lucius Burckhardt, Hans Höger (ed.), Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern, 1995

das Zebra streifen, Helmut Aebischer (ed.), Gesamthochschule Kassel, Department of Town Planning and Landscape Planning, Schriftenreihe Band 20, Kassel, 1994

Palaeanthropische Physiognomie, Gerhard Lang (ed.), Deutsche Fototage, Frankfurt am Main, 1993

Visuelle Kommunikation, Anton Stankowski and Karl Duschek (ed.), Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin, 1989

Photo: Dieter Schwerdtle