Andreas Gefeller

Andreas Gefeller – Dies ist kein Baum.

Thomas Rehbein Gallery Cologne
September 1 – October 14, 2023

Works by Andreas Gefeller from 2003 until today

A »see journey« with optical shallows. Andreas Gefeller shows new, freshly produced works from the series Flames, The Other Side of Light and Blank in combination with pearls from the archive. Nothing is as it seems; nothing seems as it is. Freely adapted from Magritte: This is not a tree.

A booklet accompanies the exhibition.

Andreas Gefeller – Out of Sight

Retrospective
NRW-Forum Düsseldorf
March 3 – May 14, 2023

The exhibition was generously supported by:
Dr. Stephanie & Wolfgang Bohn
DZ BANK Kunststiftung gGmbH
Heiner Wemhöner

Andreas Gefeller examines the human environment and reveals unknown worlds: the Düsseldorf-based photographer explores our technologized society and human-dominated nature. The NRW-Forum Düsseldorf presents the first retrospective of his work from 3 March to 14 May 2023. From Gefeller’s beginnings in analogue and digital photography to his most recent works, which are reminiscent of 3D renderings, the exhibition includes 60 works spanning his entire oeuvre from 2000 to the present. The presentation illustrates his experimental approach to the medium, in which the photographic process itself is the subject.

Andreas Gefeller betrachtet den Lebensraum des Menschen und zeigt unbekannte Welten auf: Der Düsseldorfer Fotograf beschäftigt sich mit der technologisierten Gesellschaft und einer vom Menschen dominierten Natur. Das NRW-Forum Düsseldorf präsentiert vom 3. März bis 14. Mai 2023 seine erste Retrospektive. Von Gefellers Anfängen in der analogen und digitalen Fotografie bis zu den jüngsten Arbeiten, die an 3D-Renderings erinnern – die Ausstellung umfasst 60 Werke aus seinem gesamten Schaffen von 2000 bis heute. Die Präsentation verdeutlicht seinen experimentellen Umgang mit dem Medium, durch den er den fotografischen Prozess selbst zum Thema macht.

Text: NRW-Forum Düsseldorf

Up in the Air / Welt in der Schwebe

Kunstmuseum Bonn
February 24—June 19, 2022

The exhibition focuses on air as a carrier of forms and ideas. As such, it has appeared in the visual, applied and performing arts since the modern era. With Marina Abramovic / Ulay, Nina Canell, Christo, Charlotte Charbonnel, Judy Chicago, Andreas Gefeller, Hans Hemmert, Edith Kollath, Lang/Baumann, Piero Manzoni, Lyoudmila Milanova, Yoko Ono, Otto Piene, Michael Pinsky, Arcangelo Sassolino, Rikuo Ueda, Timm Ulrichs, Andy Warhol, Martin Werthmann, and others. Gefeller is represented with 4 large-format works from his series Clouds.

Andreas Gefeller – Fotoarbeiten

Städtische Galerie Neunkirchen
May 21 – August 1, 2021

Andreas Gefeller’s largest solo exhibition to date with around 60 works from 20 years, from Soma (2000) to The Other Side of Light (since 2017). A catalogue accompanies the exhibition.

Andreas Gefeller

New headquarter of an international bank, Düsseldorf
Permanent film installation

Untitled (Rhein)
Slow motion film, loop, 2h 56m
2021

Andreas Gefeller’s first film project can be seen in a permanent installation in the new main building of an international bank in Düsseldorf. The film projected onto the floor shows sun reflections dancing on the river Rhine in extreme slow motion.

Film documentation

Andreas Gefeller

Thomas Rehbein Gallery Cologne
November 13, 2020—January 9, 2021

Single show with new works by Andreas Gefeller. A booklet accompanies the exhibition.

Mapping Perception

Atlas Gallery London
October 1—December 5, 2020

Single Show

Remember Art Cologne

Thomas Rehbein Gallery Cologne
May 8—June 20, 2020

Group show with works by William Anastasi, Dove Bradshaw, Heinz Breloh, Andreas Gefeller, Benjamin Houlihan, François Jacob, Pauline M‘Barek, Peter Tollens.

Still Light

Clervaux Cité de l’Image
September 27, 2019 — September 25, 2020

With François Fontaine, Andreas Gefeller, Mona Kuhn and Anna Lemann-Brauns
Andreas Gefeller shows works from his series Soma at Echappée Belle, place du marché.
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Civilization: The Way We Live Now

Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
March 9—May 19, 2019

»A monumental photography exhibition featuring over 250 artworks by more than 120 photographers from Asia, Australia, Europe, Africa, and the Americas. The exhibition focuses on the development of human life on a global scale in the 21st century, and the patterns of behavior—collaboration and conflict, production and consumption—that now connect people to an unprecedented degree. While acknowledging the efforts of individuals to shape the world around them, and the differences between and among cultures, the exhibition focuses specifically on the collective achievements—and tensions—thatnarratives of individualism and heterogeneity tend to obscure. The showforegrounds the development of the medium of photography and the unique ability of photographers to create a multifaceted portrait of the present era. “Civilization: The Way We Live Now” is curated by William A. Ewing and Holly Roussell. The exhibition is co-produced by the Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography, Minneapolis/New York/Paris/Lausanne, and the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Korea, Seoul.«
Website UCCA

Andreas Gefeller takes part with his work FR 23, 2014, from his series Blank. A catalog accompanies the exhibition.

Gefeller Houlihan

Thomas Rehbein Gallery Brussels
November 29—December 21, 2019

Double exhibition with photoworks from the series Soma, 2000, by Andreas Gefeller and sculptures by Benjamin Houlihan

The Backside of Light

Thomas Rehbein Gallery Brussels
November 10—December 22, 2018
Single show
A booklet accompanies the exhibition.

The Backside of Light

Thomas Rehbein Gallery Cologne
September 8—October 6, 2018

Single show with new works by Andreas Gefeller. A booklet accompanies the exhibition.

Andreas Gefeller – Supervisions

HSBC Deutschland, Düsseldorf
January 23—April 15, 2018

Single show by Andreas Gefeller in the entrance hall of HSBC Bank, Düsseldorf, curated by Olaf Pilz.

Andreas Gefeller

Wouter van Leeuwen Gallery, Amsterdam
November 23, 2017—January 2018

Andreas Gefellers first single show at Wouter van Leeuwen Gallery.

Beyond the Sphere of Reproduction

Whitebox Art Center, Beijing
October 15—November 13, 2017

Group show with Shan Feiming, Andreas Gefeller, Corina Gertz, Samuel Henne, Wang Ningde, Jiang Pengyi, Michael Reisch, Michael Schnabel, Kris Scholz, Jiaxi Yang and Xu Yong. Curated by Gérard Goodrow and Kris Scholz.

Andreas Gefeller – Blank

Sous les Étoiles Gallery
New York
September 7—November 4, 2017

Andreas Gefellers first single show at the gallery on Broadway.

Aspects of Dissolving Images

Museum Marta Herford
June 24—October 9, 2016

Works of Photography by Andreas Gefeller, Fabian Marti and Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs. Andreas Gefeller shows approximately 45 works from 15 years, from Soma (2000) to Blank (2016).

Andreas Gefeller

Sipgate, Düsseldorf
April 9—May 14, 2016

Single exhibition on the occasion of Night of Museums, Düsseldorf.

Andreas Gefeller: Blank Close Ups

Thomas Rehbein Gallery, Cologne
April 14—May 21,2016

Solo show with the latest photographs from the series Blank. Gefeller’s new book Blank has been published on the occasion of the exhibition.

Photo Beijing 2015

China Millennium Monument
Beijing, 2015

Group show

Andreas Gefeller

Dear Future Me
Brussels, 2015

Single show

Andreas Gefeller – Fotografien 2000–2014

Palais für aktuelle Kunst
Glückstadt, 2014

Single show

Supervisions and Beyond

Baton Gallery
Seoul, 2014

Single show

Lead Awards

Haus der Photographie, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
July 27—October 23, 2013

Group show

Out of Focus

Saatchi Gallery, London
September 27—November 4, 2012

Group show

»This latest in the Saatchi Gallery’s whopping survey shows turns to contemporary photography. Forty artists (not all call themselves photographers) are represented, with a huge array of styles and methods, but the show’s title, Out of Focus, is sadly apt. By the time I got to the end, I couldn’t remember where I’d been.

That’s not to say that there aren’t many memorable moments. Most of the work in this show is of a high quality and worth seeing. A series by Katy Grannan, of portraits taken on the streets of San Francisco, is absorbing — Grannan’s stark light and sharp focus picks out every flaw in the sagging bodies of her old bikers, thinning trannies and over- dressed eccentrics. You want to know their stories, but then a few minutes in the Tenderloin district of that city yields enough characters for a novel even without a camera. Entirely different but equally fascinating are Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin’s fragments of pictures from the Belfast Exposed archive. They enlarged and printed only the bits obscured by the circular stickers placed randomly on the prints by archivists. Revealed are such strange and troubling items as a man handcuffed to a pipe and covered in paint, a child’s head having a wound dressed, or a bird in a hand.

Personal favourites were Mariah Robertson’s sculptural, rippling roll of photographic print in myriad colours, and Andreas Gefeller’s impossible aerial shots of studios at the Dusseldorf Academy of Arts (made with up to 100 individual shots, they look almost seamless, given away only by the crazy angles of the radiators). I have long been a fan of John Stezaker’s witty collages of faces and landscapes, but enjoyed discovering Laurel Nakadate’s deliberately naff “sexy” pictures, smudged by the grubby fingers of men invited to paw them on Craigslist.

A.L. Steiner’s collage of tits’n’ bits stopped many viewers in their tracks, forcing them to consider the fluidity of gender and sexuality.

Ultimately though, I left feeling rather perplexed — the variety is astonishing but it feels uncurated. The catalogue suggests looking at this show through “an appropriate lens — a kaleidoscope”. It made my eyes go a bit funny.«

Nancy Durrant, The Times UK

Blank

Thomas Rehbein Gallery, Cologne
September 8—October 13, 2012

Single show

Wasserstandsmeldung

Kunstmuseum Bonn
2012

Comprehensive new presentation of the collection on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Kunstmuseum Bonn. Andreas Gefeller takes part with his series Supervisions.

Andreas Gefeller – The Japan Series

Hasted Kraeutler Gallery, New York
March 31—May 14, 2011

The Japan Series is Andreas Gefeller’s new body of work created in the Tottori Prefecture of Japan. The photos consist of plants modified by human intervention and above-ground power cables against black or white sky, and the images draw aesthetic inspiration from Japan’s taste for minimalism and calligraphy. Continuing his distinct process of digitally constructing many exposures into one single composite image, the photographs “investigate the relationship between natural growth and construction and the formal qualities of natural and man-made structures.”

In light of the recent events that have have deeply affected Japan, Hasted Kraeutler Gallery will donate 5% of the profits for every print sold until May 14 to the American Red Cross Japan and Pacific Tsunami Relief Effort, as well as all the profits from a special edition of Untitled (Cherry Blossoms), 2010, which sells for $300.

Landscape without Horizon

Museum Schloss Moyland
Bedburg-Hau, 2010

Group show with Dieter Appelt, Boris Becker, Daniel Gustav Cramer, Natalie Czech, Miklos Gaál, Andreas Gefeller, Jitka Hanzlová, Naoya Hatakeyama, Zhao Liang, Taiji Matsue, Walter Niedermayr, Thomas Struth, Adam Thompson, Timm Ulrichs and Thomas Wrede.
A catalogue accompanies the exhibition.

The Japan Series

Thomas Rehbein Gallery Cologne
October 16—November 27, 2010

Single show

Andreas Gefeller – Photographs

Landesgalerie Linz
February 10—April 18, 2010

Solo show. The catalogue Andreas Gefeller – Photographs accompanies the exhibition.

Andreas Gefeller – Photographs

Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken
June 6—July 19, 2009

Solo show. The catalogue Andreas Gefeller – Photographs accompanies the exhibition.

Remote Proximity – “Nature” in Contemporary Art

Kunstmuseum Bonn
September 10—November 15, 2009

With Sonja Braas, Marie José Burki, Andreas Gefeller, Rodney Graham, Barnaby Hosking, Sven Johne, Walter Kütz, Rosemary Laing, Axel Lieber, Christiane Löhr, Tony Matelli, Thomas Mulcaire, Walter Niedermayr, Roxy Paine, Daniel Richter, Su-Mei Tse, Klaus Weber, Franziska & Lois Weinberger.
A catalogue accompanies the exhibition.

Andreas Gefeller – New Works

Hasted Hunt Gallery, New York
March 5—April 25, 2009

Solo show

Veto – Zeitgenössische Positionen in der deutschen Fotografie

Haus der Photographie, Deichtorhallen Hamburg
September 4—November 15, 2009

With Dörte Eißfeld, Andreas Gefeller, Christoph Girardet & Matthias Müller, Beate Gütschow, Natalie Ital, Jenny Rosemeyer, Hans-Christian Schink, Andrea Sunder-Plassmann.
A catalogue accompanies the exhibition.

Andreas Gefeller – Supervisions: New Works

Thomas Rehbein Gallery, Cologne
January 25—March 1, 2008

Solo show

Supervisions

Kunstverein Heinsberg
October 14—November 2, 2007

Solo show

Tschernobyl

Willy-Brandt-Haus, Berlin
March 25—May 14, 2006

Group show with Paul Fusco, Andreas Gefeller, Anatol Kliashchuk, Igor Kostin, Rüdiger Lubricht and Gerd Ludwig. Andreas Gefeller shows works of his series Halbwertszeiten.

Andreas Gefeller – Supervisions

Städtische Galerie Nordhorn
November 20, 2004—January 2, 2005

Andreas Gefeller is awarded the City of Nordhorn Art Prize.

Exhibition views

Andreas Gefeller – Dies ist kein Baum.

Thomas Rehbein Galerie

2023

Andreas Gefeller – Out Of Sight

NRW-Forum Düsseldorf

2023

Up in the Air / Welt in der Schwebe

Kunstmuseum Bonn

2022

Andreas Gefeller – Fotoarbeiten

Städtische Galerie Neunkirchen, 2021

Andreas Gefeller: Untitled (Rhein)

New headquarter of an international bank

Düsseldorf, 2021

Andreas Gefeller

Thomas Rehbein Gallery

Cologne, 2020

Mapping Perception

Atlas Gallery

London, 2020

Remember Art Cologne

Thomas Rehbein Gallery
Cologne, 2020

Still Light

Clervaux Cité de l’Image
Clervaux, 2020

Civilization: The Way We Live Now

Ullens Center for Contemporary Art
Beijing, 2019

Gefeller Houlihan

Thomas Rehbein Gallery
Brussels, 2019

The Backside of Light

Thomas Rehbein Gallery
Brussels, 2018

The Backside of Light

Thomas Rehbein Gallery
Cologne, 2018

Andreas Gefeller – Supervisions

HSBC Deutschland
Düsseldorf, 2018

Andreas Gefeller

Wouter van Leeuwen Gallery
Amsterdam, 2017

Beyond the Sphere of Reproduction

Whitebox Art Center
Beijing, 2017

Andreas Gefeller – Blank

Sous les Étoiles Gallery
New York, 2017

Aspects of Dissolving Images

Museum Marta Herford
Herford, 2016

Andreas Gefeller

Sipgate
Düsseldorf, 2016

Andreas Gefeller: Blank Close Ups

Thomas Rehbein Gallery
Cologne, 2016

Photo Beijing 2015

China Millennium Monument
Beijing, 2015

Andreas Gefeller

Dear Future Me
Brussels, 2015

Andreas Gefeller – Fotografien 2000–2014

Palais für aktuelle Kunst
Glückstadt, 2014

Supervisions and Beyond

Baton Gallery
Seoul, 2014

Lead Awards

Haus der Photographie, Deichtorhallen
Hamburg, 2013

Out of Focus

Saatchi Gallery
London, 2012

Blank

Thomas Rehbein Gallery
Cologne, 2012

Wasserstandsmeldung

Kunstmuseum Bonn
Bonn, 2012

Andreas Gefeller – The Japan Series

Hasted Kraeutler Gallery
New York, 2011

Landscape without Horizon

Museum Schloss Moyland
Bedburg-Hau, 2010

The Japan Series

Thomas Rehbein Gallery
Cologne, 2010

Andreas Gefeller – Photographs

Landesgalerie Linz
Linz, 2010

Andreas Gefeller – Photographs

Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken
Saarbrücken, 2009

Remote Proximity

Kunstmuseum Bonn
Bonn, 2009

Andreas Gefeller – New Works

Hasted Hunt Gallery
New York, 2009

Veto

Haus der Photographie, Deichtorhallen
Hamburg, 2009

Andreas Gefeller – Supervisions

Thomas Rehbein Gallery
Cologne, 2008

Supervisions

Kunstverein Heinsberg
Heinsberg, 2007

Tschernobyl

Willy-Brandt-Haus
Berlin, 2006

Andreas Gefeller – Supervisions

Städtische Galerie Nordhorn
Nordhorn, 2004