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GEBERT CONTEMPORARY
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BIM KOEHLER
1949 / Born in Kassel / born in Kassel (Germany)lives in Rheinhessen / Rhineland-Palatinate,
Studio in Nieder-Olm, "Industrial Park Eckes"
Selected Solo Exhibitions
1993 / Town Hall Gallery External Link, 28 pictures against law '
1994 / Mozarteum University of Music and Arts, Salzburg R + T Gallery, Mainz
1995 / Gallery in Leola, sub Michelbach / Nuremberg, (K)
1996 / Studio at Winter Harbour, Mainz (with Dirk Farklas) Foyer of the Landtag of Rhineland-Palatinate,
(With German Britta / sculpture), Mainz (K)
1997 / Gallery Erik Baussmann, Mainz
Gallery Veronica couch, Michelstadt
1998 / Gallery Uli Lang, Biberach
Gallery Erik Baussmann, Mainz (K)
1999 / Gallery Veronica couch, Michelstadt (With Bernhard Lehmann, Jevenstedt, sculpture)
2000 / Gallery 89, (with Franz Anatol Wyss and Klaus Prior drawing, sculpture), Aarwangen / Switzerland Gallery Erik Baussmann (Juxtaposition Förg / Binköhler), Mainz
Forum Gallery, Usingen Stairwell Gallery, Press and Information Office of Frankfurt (with Agnes Noltenius, Photography)
2001 / Gallery Veronica couch, Michelstadt
Gallery Erik Baussmann, Mainz
Galerie Renate Bender, Munich
2002 / Forum Art, Constance
2003 / Gallery Veronica couch, Michelstadt (With Klaus Lomnitzer)
Kohinoor Art Gallery, Karlsruhe ("transparency")
Forum Gallery, Usingen ("... The development of color and transparency") (K)
Gallery 89, Aarwangen (CH)
2004 / Galerie Renate Bender, Munich (K)
Gallery Angelika Harthan, Stuttgart (K)
Art Felchlin Zurich
2005 / ArtFelchlin, Schwyz / CH
2006 / Galerie Renate Bender, Munich
Galerie Ulrike Hrobsky, Vienna (A); (With Ulrich Plieschnik), (K)
Galerie Ursula Huber, Basel (CH); (With Christian Gardair)
Gallery Veonica couch, Michelstadt; (With Peter Weber and Jens Trimpin)
2007 / Galerie Ulrike Hrobsky, Vienna "Reflection" by Joseph Adam Moser;
Gallery Angelika Harthan, Stuttgart "Pictures without pictures"
2008 / Art Karlsruhe ("one-artist-show"),
Bender Gallery, London (special catalog)
Galerie Fetzer, Sontheim (For the exhibition catalog)
Gallery Wälchi, Aarwangen (CH) (With Hans Sieverding and Christoph Hauri)
Gallery Veronica couch, Michelstadt (With Harald Pombl, sculpture)
2009 / Art Felchlin Zurich
Gallery artopoi, Freiburg
Bender Gallery, Munich
Gallery Schmalfuss Marburg "Behind" with Christofer Kochs
2010
2011 / Gallery Angelika Harthan, Stuttgart
"Sparklers" Galerie Fetzer, Sontheim
"Stains"
Bim Koehler “Paintings”, Gebert Contemporary, Santa Fe NM, USA
Selected Group Exhibitions
1993 / Kunstverein Essenheim "All good people," Essenheim
1994 / BBK Schwaben-Nord/Heinrich-Heine-Stiftung Dusseldorf, Augsburg (K)
1995 / Haueisen Art Prize, Jockgrim German-equipment leasing (DAL), Mainz
1996 / BBK Schwaben-Nord, subjects working with Thomas Mann, Augsburg (K)
Art Price SALT, St. John Hall, Schwäbisch-Hall (winner)
Art Price Arthouse at City Hall, Ingelheim, (K); (Winner Elisabeth Vierkotten / room installation)
1997 / Museum of Sepulchral Culture; ("Installation HausTod"), Kassel
1998 / Kunstverein Essenheim, "Ten x 10" Food Home (K)
Art Frankfurt, Art Fair, Frankfurt
Museum of Sepulchral Culture in Kassel
Book Fair, Frankfurt
Multiple species, Art Fair, Dusseldorf
Art and Artists of Rhineland-Palatinate,
Brickworks Museum / Zehnthaus, Jockgrim (K)
Gallery Veronica couch, "The small format," Michelstadt
Representation of Rhineland-Palatinate, Brussels
1999 / Sport-Toto Art Prize, Koblenz;
8 Episode exhibitions, (K)
ART Frankfurt, Art Fair, Frankfurt
Book Fair, Frankfurt
Rathaus-Galerie, Dresden
Gallery Erik Baussmann, "Gallery Artists," Mainz
German-equipment leasing (DAL)
»3 Mainz artist," Mainz
2000 / ART Frankfurt, Art Fair, Frankfurt
Art 2000, Art Fair Zurich (Brummer Gallery, Zurich)
2001 / Haueisen Art Prize, Jockgrim
ART Frankfurt, Frankfurt Art Fair (Gallery Baussmann)
Art Vienna, International Art Fair, Vienna
ART Paris, International Art Fair, Paris
2002 / "Translucent - Translucent" Galerie Renate Bender, Munich
Art fair participation Artefiera Bologna, Art Frankfurt, Zurich Art, Art Cologne
Gallery Veronica couch, Michelstadt, "mixed salad"
2003 / Gallery 89, Aarwangen / Switzerland
Art fair participation Artefiera Bologna, Art Frankfurt, Zurich Art,
Art Frankfurt, Art Chicago, Art Santa Fe
2004 / Art fair participation Artefiera Bologna Art Karlsruhe
(One-man show), Art Frankfurt
2005 / Artefiera Bologna
Art Karlsruhe,
Art Frankfurt,
Art Santa Fe,
Art Zurich.
2006 / Art Miami, Miami Beach, Art Zurich (one-person show by Bender Gallery),
Art Karlsruhe,
artspace Frankfurt,
Art Chicago,
Art Cologne,
Galerie Renate Bender, Munich; (Open Type) "Don` t touch "with Alfonso Fratteggiani, Edda Jachens,
Robin Rose, Robert Sagerman
Arts Zurich
2007 / Art Karlsruhe
Art Cologne
Art Chicago
Art Santa Fe
Art Miami
Arts Zurich
2008 / Art Karlsruhe
Vienna Vienna Fair
Art Miami
Art Santa Fe
Art Bodensee, Dornbirn
Arts Zurich
Open Art Munich: "The Color Red"
Bender Gallery (with Inge Dick, Robert Sagerman, Bill Thompson, Robin Rose, Peter Weber)
2009 / Art Karlsruhe
Galerie Fetzer, Sontheim "between"
Arts in Zurich, Switzerland
Art Miami, USA
2010
2011 / Harthan Gallery, Stuttgart
"Accrochage" with M. Burges, M. Dietz, C. Koch, W. Siber
Galerie Renate Bender, Munich
"White II" with E. Jachens, M. McClune, R. Sagerman, L. Strandh, P. Weber, S. York
Galerie Ursula Huber, Basel / Ch.
"Monochrome positions" with P. Hodel, M. Mentoni, A. Ruede, K. Schartlin
Art Karlsruhe
(Galleries Bender, Munich; Fetzer, Sontheim; couch, Michelstadt)
Vienna, Vienna Fair
Dallas Art Fair, USA
(Gallery at Gebert Contemporary)
Art Miami, USA
(Bender Gallery, Munich)
Dallas Art Fair, Gebert Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM, USA
Houston Fine Art Fair, Gebert Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM, USA
Selected Projects
1994 / Study trip to Denmark
1995 / "Artists Against Waste" campaign of the Bund and the Ministry of Environment of Rhineland-Palatinate, nationwide touring exhibition stint in New York (SoHo), installation of 6 galleries to "relic transform transport"
"Staggered level" (with Lucille THOYER / F / klass. Guitar and Michael Milde, Winnenden, literature), Atelier Essenheim
1996 / Open Studios, BBK and Cultural Summer RP, Atelier Essenheim
1999 / Open studios, studio Schornsheim
Art Action »3 x ring," Mainz
2000 / Gutenberg Pavilion, mail art project
"Happy Birthday John", Mainz (K)
Open studios, studio Schornsheim
2001 / Studio conversations" with the art archive Darmstadt
Artist talk at the gallery Baussmann"
Dr. Andreas Bee, Museum of Modern Art, Frankfurt
2002 / "Romantic Rhine" mail art project
Charity Essenheimer Kunstverein
Cultural Agenda VG Wörrstadt (Agenda Member)
2003 / Charity Essenheimer Kunstverein
2006 / The Art of being friends" European Comenius project
2007 / Schufa Holding, Wiesbaden. "Color Space World" with Daniel Buren, Katharina Grosse, P & I AG Wiesbaden.
SEB Frankfurt. Interior design project with Angela Glajcar.
2008 / Edelmann Group, Heidenheim - interior design concept
SEB Frankfurt - Continued space design concept
Selected Bibliography
2002 / "More than just monochrome," Elsner Brigitte Heller
"Layer after layer is applied," Südkurier
"Bim Koehler" (opening speech to plano)
Dr. Stefanie Dathe, Dieterich Wengen / BW
" Harmonious Arrangement, Liane Probst-Simon, Odenwälder Echo
"Miracle Strip" Anja Pawlitzki, feuilleton Darmstaedter Echo
2003 / "Drunk with color," Dr. Roland hero Feuilleton Darmstaedter Echo
"Transparent connects," Liane Probst-Simon, Odenwälder Echo
"Bim Koehler: transparency object images" (opening speech), Ulrike Selzer, Maintal
"Plano
(For the reception of the image objects of Bim Koehler) "
Dr. Stefanie Dathe, Dieterich Wengen / BW
Works by Bim Koehler. Seduced by exact Look, "Baden Latest News
German Wave (movie review of Kohinoor Art Gallery exhibition with report)
'Transparency and surface. Bim Koehler's image-objects "as a membrane made of matter and light, Dr. Birigt Moeckel, Berlin
"Five artists in the felicitous dialogue. Positions " Berner Zeitung
"Just soak in the colors," Usinger Gazette
"Interaction of colors, Wilma Eckhardt, Taunus Zeitung (Rhein-Main)
Art-Clods in forum Blazed" Annika Natus, Taunus-newspaper
(Contribution to the vandalism of the pictures
of Bim Koehler in the exhibition in the "Forum Gallery" Usingen)
"Bim Koehler - and the question of painting"
(Theses and reflections), Klaus Honnef, Bonn
2006 / River of Colour "(New Works 2005);
Susann Kosa, Museum of Concrete Art, Ingolstadt
Viewed in the context of abstract painting history - "Bim Koehler Images
(The last pictures but no end), "
Florian Steininger, Vienna
"Bim Koehler: color and form - forms of color
(Pictures of the hidden emotions and feelings) "; Monika Woesthoff, Basel
"Experiment of contrasts
(Bim Koehler and Christian Gardair at Huber) "; Simon Baur, Baseler Zeitung
"Area, with relief thinking claim" Odenwälder Echo
Upper centering News The Art of being friends": Lived in Europe, Poland, and
Interview with the artist Bim Koehler for presentation at European Comenius project meeting in Poland"
2007 / Magistrate Silvie Aigner, Vienna: "tension between painting and object"
Wiener Zeitung, 08.11.07: "Colours are miracles - eye-filling" (Exhibition Gallery Hrobsky with JA Moser)
Dr. Stefanie Dathe, Dieterich Wengen: "images without images" (speech at the opening on 5.11.07 in the gallery Harthan, Stuttgart)
2008 / Dr. Tobias Hoffmann, "The Event of color"
Museum of Concrete Art Ingolstadt, eulogy to the exhibition in the gallery at 11:07:08 Fetzer, Sontheim (Presentation Catalog)
Dr. Hubert Beck, MMK Frankfurt (introduction to the exhibition "Bim Koehler, and Harald Pombl painting, sculpture")
2009 / Badische Zeitung of 20.02.2009 "Colored Rain and Nirvana"
Marburger Zeitung from 04.09.2009 "Bim Koehler presents new works"
2010 / Stuttgarter Nachrichten on 18/09/2010 "Art Tour in the sign of the star" by Daniela Eichert.
Jenny Sturm, Stuttgart: Eulogy for the exhibition "gems" in the gallery Harthan, Stuttgart and "stains" in the Galerie Fetzer, Sontheim.
Monika Wösthoff, Basel: "Bim Koehler: Joie de vivre in the fireworks of color"
Heidenheimer Zeitung / culture of 23.11.2010: "Picturesque border areas" to "stains" of Bim Koehler.
Dr. Hubert Beck, MMK Frankfurt: description for the title "stains"