Lothar Baumgarten
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Biography
Born 1944 in Rheinsberg, Germany.
Died 2018 in Berlin, Germany.
Education
1969 – 1971
Staatliche Kunstakademie, Düsseldorf
1968
Staatliche Akademie für bildende Künste, Karlsruhe
Grants and Awards
2003
mfi Award, Kunst und Bau, Essen, Germany
1996
Lichtwerk Preis, City of Hamburg, Germany
1983
The Golden Lion, First Prize of 41st Venice Biennial, Italy
1976
Prize of the State of Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
1974
Prize of the City of Düsseldorf, Germany
Selected Group Selections
2024
PLANET VENUS IN FULL DAYLIGHT, BQ, Berlin, Germany
2023 – 2024
Channeling, Museum of modern Art, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2023 – 2023
D'ici à l´infini, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, France
2022 – 2023
Max Ernst und die Natur als Erfindung, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
2022
Still Alive. Aichi Triennale, Aichi, Japan
2021
Unsettled Objects, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Eine natürliche Ordnung der Dinge, ifa-Galerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
Though it’s dark, still I sing, 34. Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil
Amazonia, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Sevilla, Spain
2020 – 2021
Freischwimmer, Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve, Germany
2020
Subject and Object, Photo Rhine Ruhr, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf
Direct Message: Art, Language, and Power, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois, USA
2019
Apologia della storia –The Historian's Craft, ICA, Milan, Italy
Des mots et des choses, FRAC Bretagne, France
2018
Invention of Origin, Pinacoteca do Estado Sao Paolo, Brazil
The Reconfigured Landscape, Centro Botín, Santander, Spain
Büro Komplex – Die Kunst der Artothek im politischen Raum, Kunsthaus NRW, Kornelimünster
XIV Bienal De Cuenca: Estructuras Vivientes. El arte como experiencia plural, Ecuador
Michael Oppitz. Mobile Myths, Kolumba, Art Museum of the Archdiocese, Cologne
2017
A Tale of Two Worlds. Experimental Latin American Art in Dialogue with the MMK Collection 1940s-1980s, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt/Main
Mil bestias que rugen. Dispositivos de exposición para una modernidad crítica (A Thousand Roaring Beasts: Display Devices for a Critical Modernity), Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Sevilla, Spain
Folklore, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg-Mönchsberg, Austria
Prometheus Unbound, Steirischer Herbst Festival 2017, Neue Galerie, Graz, Austria
Sites of Assembly, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
L’emozione dei COLORI nell’arte, Castello di Rivoli, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea and Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin, Italy
Collection Display: Communities, Migros Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland
2016
Art from Elsewhere: International Contemporary Art from UK Galleries, Towner, Eastbourne, UK
Kramlich Collection of Media Art, Los Angeles, USA
2015
Forster 1754-2015, Lothar Baumgarten / Camille Henrot / Friedemann von Stockhausen, Kunsthalle Mainz, Mainz
DUMP! Mulitispecies Making and Unmaking, Aarhus Kunsthal, Denmark
Art & Language, Lothar Baumgarten, Robert Bary, Sigmar Polke, Hirose Collection, Hiroshima, Japan
2014
Lens-based Sculpture. Die Veränderung der Skulptur durch die Fotografie, Akademie der Künste, Berlin
Kunst/Geschichten, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria
Booster – Kunst Sound Maschine, Marta Herford, Herford
2013 – 2014
Minimal Resistance, Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
2013
Neunzehnhundertsiebzig. Material, Orte, Denkprozesse, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern, Switzerland
25 Jahre Generali Foundation, The Content of Form, Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria
2012 – 2013
Ends of the Earth. Land Art bis 1974, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany and Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
Poesie der Reduktion – Minimal, Concept, Land Art, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria
2012
Spies in the House of Art, The Metropolitan Museum, New York, USA
La Triennale, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Tour d'Horizon - Werke aus der Sammlung, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland
2011
Die Erfindung der Wirklichkeit. Photographie an der Kunstakademie Düsseldorf von 1970 bis heute, Akademie-Galerie, Die Neue Sammlung, Düsseldorf
2010
Projecto Tierra, Alhóndiga Bilbao, Spain Museum Folkwang, Essen
Leopards in the Temple, Sculpture Center, Long Island, USA
Lost and Found, Galerie Neugerriemschneider, Berlin
2009 – 2010
Radical Nature - Art and Architecture for a Changing Planet 1969-2009, Barbican Centre, London, Dick Institute, Klamarnock, UK
2009
Universal Archive: The Condition of the Document and the Modern Photographic Utopia, Museu Colecçao Berardo, Lisbon, Portugal
Joseph Beuys und seine Schüler - Werke aus der Sammlung Deutsche Bank, Sakip Sabanci Museum, Istanbul, Turkey
2008 – 2009
Seeing Double, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne
2008
Un Coup des Dés, Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria
Objectivités: La Photographie à Düsseldorf, ARC / Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
Collection 1978-2008, Migros Museum, Zurich, Switzerland
Universal Archive: The Condition of the Document and the Modern Photographic Utopia, Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain
2007
30/40, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, USA
From the Earth to the Moon, Castello Rivoli, Turin, Italy
Revue, Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve
Hidden in Plain Sight: Contemporary Photographs from the Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Edit! Photography and Film in the Ellipse Collection, Ellipse Foundation, Cascais, Portugal
2006 – 2008
Más de lo que los ojos pueden ver - Arte Fotografico de la Coléccion Deutsche Bank, Marco Museum, Monterrey, Museo de Artes Modernas, Lima, Peru and Museo de Arte Moderno, Sao Paul, Brasil
2006
Why Pictures Now, MUMOK Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria
2005 – 2006
Slide Show, Baltimore Museum, Baltimore, Maryland, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Brooklyn Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
UdK, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin
2005
Down the Garden Path: The Artist’s Garden after Modernism, Queens Museum of Art, New York, USA
Contradicting Architecture, Marian Goodman Gallery Paris, France
Evergreen, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, UK
An Aside, Camden Arts Centre, London, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, The Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansee, UK
2004 – 2005
Behind the Facts, Interfunktionen 1968-1975, Joan Miró Foundation, Barcelona, Spain; Museu Serralves, Porto, Portugal and Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel
2004
Animaux. Von Tieren und Menschen, Seedamm-Kulturzentrum, Pfäffikon, Switzerland
Animals, Haunch of Venison, London, UK
Yanomami, o espírito da floresta, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
Reflecting the Mirror, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, USA
2003 – 2004
LOOK and FEEL, De Verbeelding Art Landscape Nature, Zeewolde, Netherlands
Gegenwärtig: Field Research, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
2002
Watershed - The Hudson Valley Art Project, Minetta Brook, Beacon, New York, USA
Recaptured Nature, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, USA
Yanomami Sprit of the Forest, Fondation Cartier, Paris, France
Photography: Fact to Fiction, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, France
Arte all’ Arte, Arte Architettura Paesaggio 7 ("Ecce Homo"), San Francesco, Montalcino, Italy
Summer Show, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, USA
COPY, Roth+Horowitz, LLC, New York, USA
2001
Szenenwechsel XIX, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt/Main
Parallels, Atlanta College of Art Gallery, Atlanta, USA
This Side of Paradise, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, USA
Seeing Time: Selections from the Kramlich Collection of Media Art, Museum für neue Kunst ZKM, Karlsruhe
2000
voici: 100 Years of Contemporary Art, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium
Kabinett der Zeichnung (organized by Kunstfonds Bonn), Kunstakademie Dresden, Kunstverein Düsseldorf, Kunstverein Lingen, Kunstverein Chemnitz, Kunstverein Stuttgart
1999 – 2000
Kunstwelten im Dialog, Museum Ludwig, Cologne
Ein Jahrhundert Kunst in Deutschland, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
1999
Seeing Time: Selections from the Pamela and Richard Kramlich Collection of Media Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, USA
Circa 1968, Museu Serralves, Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugal
The Museum as Muse: Artists Reflect, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
1998
Breaking Ground, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, USA
Jardin d’artiste: de mémoire d’arbre, Musée Zadkine, Paris, France
1997
documenta 10, Kassel
1996
Project for Survival, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto and The National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo, Japan
Thinking Print: Books to Billboards, 1980-1995, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Elsewhere, Galerie Froment & Putman, Paris, France
Multiple, Pierogi 2000, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Under Capricorn The World Over, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands; City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
Comme un Oiseau, Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain, Paris, France
1995 – 1996
1965-1975: Reconsidering the Object of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
1995
Call it Sleep, Witte de With, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Wide White Space, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
1994
In the Field: Landscape in Recent Photography, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Wall to Wall, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Denmark
1993 – 1994
Photographie in der deutschen Gegenwartskunst, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland and Museum Ludwig, Cologne
1993
Die Sprache der Kunst, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
De la main à la tête, l'objet théorique, Le Domaine de Kerguehennec Centre d’Art Contemporain, Bignan, France
1992
Natural Order: Recent European Sculpture from the Tate's Collection, Tate Gallery, Liverpool, UK
documenta 9, Kassel
Photography in Contemporary German Art: 1960 to the Present, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, The St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, The Solomon R.Guggenheim Museum, New York, The Lannan Foundation, Los Angeles, USA
1991
Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA (Grammar of Creation, 1990-1991, Richard King Mellon Hall of Science, 1966-68, Architect: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe)
Szenenwechsel, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt/Main (Frankurter Brief, 1989-91)
Recent Acquisitions, Tate Gallery, London, UK
This Land…, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, USA
Brennpunkt 2, Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf
1990
Rhetorical Image, The New Museum, New York, USA
Savoir-Vivre, Savoir-Faire, Savoir-Etre, Centre International d'Art Contemporain, Montreal, Canada
Life-Size, A Sense of the Real in Recent Art..., The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
A Group Show, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, USA
1989
Blickpunkt, Musée d'Art Contemporain, Montreal, Canada
Bilderstreit, Museum Ludwig, Cologne
A Sculpture Show, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, USA
Photo-Kunst, Arbeiten aus 150 Jahren, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Graphische Sammlungen, Stuttgart
A Photo Show, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, USA
1988
Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, USA
1987
Skulptur Projekte Münster, Westfälisches Landesmuseum, Münster (Drei Irrlichter)
Meltem, Château d'Oiron, Oiron, France (Les Animaux de la Pleine Lune. Une Cosmographie de la Touraine, 1986-87)
1986
Falls the Shadow: Recent British and European Art, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
Augenhöhe: Van Abbemuseum 1936-1986, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
America, Museum Ludwig, Cologne
Art as Culture: Recent Art from Germany, Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, USA
1985
Recent Films from West Germany, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
The European Iceberg, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
1984
Von hier aus, Messehallen, Düsseldorf
Ouverture, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy
Roots, Forum Middelburg, Middelburg, Netherlands
41st Venice Bienniale, German Pavilion, Venice, Italy (with A.R. Penck)
1983
Internationale Filmfestpiele Berlin, Berlin (The Origin of the Night, 1978)
1982
documenta 7, Kassel
1981
Art Allemagne Aujourd'hui, ARC / Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France
1979
Schlaglichter, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn
1978
38th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
1977
Kunst der BRD nach 1945, Budapest, Hungary
1976
INK, Hallen für internationale neue Kunst, Zurich, Switzerland
1974
Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
1973
Medium Photographie, Schloss Morsbroich, Leverkusen
1972
documenta 5, Kassel
Photography into Art, Camden Art Center, London, UK
Jetzt, Kunsthalle, Cologne
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2024
Land of the Spotted Eagle. Werke aus der Sammlung Lothar Schirmer, Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany
2021
Lothar Baumgarten: Amazon Cosmos, Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris, France
2020
Lothar Baumgarten. Kultur Natur, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne
Lothar Baumgarten. The Early Years, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, USA
2016
Lothar Baumgarten. Sidetracks, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne
Lothar Baumgarten, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía and Palacio de Cristal, Madrid, Spain
2014
Lothar Baumgarten. Los Aristócratas de la Selva y la Reina de Castilla', Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, USA
2012 – 2013
Lothar Baumgarten. Los Aristócratas de la Selva y la Reina de Castilla', Fundación Botín, Cantabria, Spain
2011 – 2012
Lothar Baumgarten. Abend der Zeit - Señores Naturales Yanomami, Museum Folkwang, Essen
2011
Lothar Baumgarten. Fragmento Brasil, Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris, France
2010
Lothar Baumgarten. River Crossing, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne
2009
Lothar Baumgarten. Fragmento Brasil, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, USA
Lothar Baumgarten. Seven Sounds/Seven Circles, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria
2008
Lothar Baumgarten. Autofocus retina, Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain
2006
Lothar Baumgarten, Museum Kurhaus, Kleve
2004
Lothar Baumgarten. Carbon, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas, USA
Lothar Baumgarten. Imago Mundi, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, USA
2003
Lothar Baumgarten. The Origine of the Night, 1978, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
Lothar Baumgarten, Skaftfell Cultural Center, Seydisfjördur, Iceland
Lothar Baumgarten. De Verbeelding Art Landscape Nature, Zeewolde, Netherlands
2002
Lothar Baumgarten. Carbon, Freedman Gallery, Albright College Center for the Art. Reading, Pennsylvania, USA
Lothar Baumgarten. Carbon, De Pont, Tilburg, Netherlands
2001 – 2002
Lothar Baumgarten. Terra Firma, Schirmer/Mosel Showroom, Munich
2001
Lothar Baumgarten. Berühren zwei Kreise einander, so kann ihr Mittelpunkt nicht derselbe sein, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
Lothar Baumgarten. allora, dunque, Palazzo Querini Stampalia, Venice, Italy
Lothar Baumgarten. How to see Venice, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, USA
Lothar Baumgarten, Museu Serralves, Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugal
2000
Lothar Baumgarten, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, France
1998
Lothar Baumgarten. Voilà pourtant, dit Candide, un Pays qui vaut mieux que la Westphalie / El Dorado, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, France
Lothar Baumgarten. Realité Silhouette Paradoxe, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, France
Lothar Baumgarten. Terra Incognita, Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland
1997
Lothar Baumgarten. Fiederzwenke, Kurhausmuseum, Kleve
1996
Lothar Baumgarten. A Mi-Chemin, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, France
1995
Lothar Baumgarten. Theatrum Botanicum, Fondation Cartier, Paris, France
1994
Lothar Baumgarten. Silencium, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, UK
Lothar Baumgarten. Conservatory, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, UK
1993
Lothar Baumgarten. Carbon, The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA
Lothar Baumgarten. Eklipse, Portikus, Frankfurt/Main
Lothar Baumgarten. AMERICA Invention, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, F.L. Wright’s Rotunda, New York, USA
1992
Lothar Baumgarten. Tierra Firme, Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno, Valencia, Spain
Lothar Baumgarten. Wie Venedig sehen, Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld
1991
Lothar Baumgarten. Carbon, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, USA
Lothar Baumgarten. Baltic Window, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
1990
Lothar Baumgarten. Side Tracks, Carbon, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
Lothar Baumgarten. Endlager / Milkyway, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf
1988
Lothar Baumgarten. Terra Incognita, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, USA
1987
Lothar Baumgarten. El Dorado, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Lothar Baumgarten. L’époque, la mode, la morale, la passion, Musée des Arts Africains et Océaniens, Paris, France (in conjunction with Musée National d’Art Moderne-Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris)
Lothar Baumgarten. Makunaíma, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, USA
Lothar Baumgarten. Vacuum, The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
1986
Lothar Baumgarten. Accès aux Quais’ Tableaux Parisiens, ARC / Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
Lothar Baumgarten. Wegwurf, Museo de Bellas Artes, Jardín Botanico de Caracas y Parque de Los Caobos, Caracas, Venezuela
Lothar Baumgarten. The Origin of the Night, Pacific Film Archives, University Art Museum, Berkeley, California, USA
Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf
1985
Lothar Baumgarten. Tierra de los Perros Mudos, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Lothar Baumgarten. El Dorado, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, USA
Lothar Baumgarten. Termite Savannah, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA
1983
Lothar Baumgarten. Land of the Spotted Eagle, Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach
1982
Lothar Baumgarten. Die Namen der Bäume, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf
1979
Hallen für internationale neue Kunst, Zurich, Switzerland
1978
Kunstraum, Munich
1976
Kabinett für aktuelle Kunst, Bremerhaven
Galerie Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf
1975
Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf
Rolf Preisig Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
1974
Wide White Space, Brussels and Antwerp, Belgium
Lothar Baumgarten. Tropenhaus [1972-74], (on the occasion of ‘Kunst bleibt Kunst’, Kunsthalle Cologne), Botanical Garden, Cologne
1973
Lothar Baumgarten. Vom Ursprung der Tischsitten, Gian Enzo Sperone / Konrad Fischer Galerie, Rome, Italy
1972
Lothar Baumgarten. Guayana, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf
Selected Films and Projections
‘Unsettled Objects’, Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford 1968 [1969]. A projection of 81 slides in a 13 minute sequence. Edition of 5 + 2 AP
'Eine Reise oder Mit der MS Remscheid auf dem Amazonas’, (A Journey or ‘With the MS Remscheid on the Amazon’), 1968-1971 projection of 81 slides in a 12.5 minute sequence. Edition of 10 + 2 AP
'Imago Mundi’ Düsseldorf, 1968-1972. projection of 81 slides in a 13 minute sequence. Edition of 10 + 2 AP
'Da gefällt’s mir besser als in Westfalen’ Eldorado 1968-76. A 35.7 minute long projection of 187 slides with sound track. Edition of 5 + 2 AP
'Der Ursprung der Nacht’ [Amazonas-Kosmos] (The Origin of Night), 1978. A 16mm film, color, sound of 102 minutes lenght. produced between 1973 and 1977.
'Aristokraten des Urwalds’, 16mm film, in progress; filmed in colaboration with the Yanomami people of the Upper Orinoco region, Venezuela 1978-79.
'Fragmento Brasil/Vom Ursprung der Tischsitten’ 1971-2005, Synchronprojection of 648 slides in a 45 minuites sequence. Edition of 5 + 2 AP
'Caribana/Canibali [Pass del Cacao]’, 1978-2009, Synchronprojection of 162 slides in a 15 minuites sequence. Edition of 5 + 2 AP
'Piedras de Aliento [Tierra de Nadie]’, 1977-2009, Projection of 81 slides in a 13 minuites sequence. Edition of 5 + 2 AP
Selected Commissions / Public Projects
2003 – 2007
‘Seven Sounds Seven Circles’ Beacon, NY, Minetta Brook, New York, USA
2003
‘Plant Life Architecture’ De Verbeelding Art Landscape Nature, Zeewolde, Netherlands
1999 – 2002
Permanent Commission for the City of Frankfurt/Main
1998 – 2000
New Presidential Headquarters, Federal Republic of Germany, Berlin
1997
‘Hufschlag’ RWE, Essen
1991 – 1996
‘Steinschlag’, University St. Gallen, Switzerland
1995 – 1996
‘Das Große Rasenstück’, Überlingen
1994 – 1996
‘Theatrum Botanicum’ [1993-94], Fondation Cartier, Paris, France
1991 – 1992
‘Configuracións urbanes’ Olympiade Cultural, Barcelona (‘Rosa de los Vientos’)
Selected Bibliography
2020
Lothar Baumgarten. America Señores Naturales, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, USA
2012
Lothar Baumgarten. Los Aristócratas de la Selva y la Reina de Castilla; Fundación Botín, Santander, Spain
2009
Lothar Baumgarten. Seven Sounds Seven Circles, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria
Lothar Baumgarten. Seven Sounds Seven Circles, CD Album, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria
2008
Lothar Baumgarten. Auto Focus retina, MACBA, Barcelona, Spain
2006
Lothar Baumgarten. AIR, Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve, Germany
Lothar Baumgarten. See other Side, Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve, Germany
1997
Lothar Baumgarten. EKLIPSE, Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve, Germany
1993
Lothar Baumgarten. AMERICA Invention, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
1991
Lothar Baumgarten. Carbon, including 10 short stories by LB, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California, USA
1987
Lothar Baumgarten. Makunaíma, with text by 'Los Advertidos' by Alejo Carpentier, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, USA
1985 – 1986
Lothar Baumgarten. Accès aux Quais, Tableaux Parisiens, ARC Musée d'Art, Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France
1985
Lothar Baumgarten. Tierra de los Perros Mudos, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1984
Lothar Baumgarten. Señores Naturales, AMERICA, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
1983
Lothar Baumgarten. Land of the Spotted Eagle, Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany
1982
Lothar Baumgarten. Die Namen der Bäume, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven,
1974
T'E-NE-T'E, L. Baumgarten with Michael Oppitz., Konrad Fischer, Düsseldorf
Public Collections
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Bundespräsidialamt, Berlin
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy
City of Barcelona, Spain
City of Münster, Germany
Château d'Oiron, Oiron, France
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas, USA
De Pont, Tilburg, Netherlands
Deutsche Bank Art Collection, Frankfurt/Main
Ellipse Foundation Art Centre, Alcoitao, Portugal
Fondation Cartier, Paris, France
FRAC-Champagne-ARD, Reims, France
FRAC-Nord Pas de Calais, Dunkerque, France
Fundaçao Serralves, Porto, Portugal
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
Haags Gemeentemuseum, the Hague, Netherlands
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno, Valencia, Spain
Klinik Buchinger, Überlingen
The Metropolitan Museum, New York, USA
Migros Museum, Zurich, Switzerland
MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain
Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach
Museum Folkwang, Essen
Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt/Main
Museum Glasgow, Scotland
Museum Kleve, Kleve
Museum of Modern Art, New York , USA
Nationalgalerie, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Tate Gallery, Liverpool, UK
Universität St. Gallen, Switzerland
Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada