Anke Lohrer
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Anke Lohrer (born 1969) studied from 1995 to 2001 at the Düsseldorf Art Academy with Jannis Kounellis and Fritz Schwegler. She has been a master student of Fritz Schwegler since 1999. After her studies, she received a scholarship from the German-French Cultural Council for a stay in Paris with mentor Jean-Marc Bustamante at the École nationale. She works in multimedia, designs expansive installations, makes videos, drawings and paintings. Since 2018, she has increasingly devoted herself to painting. Her artist books are a recurring subject. In her work, the artist is particularly concerned with a connection between science and philosophy, with the boundaries and transitions between natural science and art. Increasingly, the plant world is at the centre of her work.
Biography
Born in Duisburg, Germany, in 1969.
Lives and works in Düsseldorf, Germany.
Studies
1995-2001
Studied Fine Arts at the Düsseldorf Art Academy with Prof. Jannis Kounellis and Prof. Fritz Schwegler
1999
Master student of Prof. Fritz Schwegler, Düsseldorf Art Academy
1990-1994
Studies at Folkwang University of the Arts Communication Design
(illustration, book and three-dimensional design), graduation: diploma
1994
International Summer Academy Salzburg, Paper Art - class of Prof. Andreas von Weizsäcker, Academy of Arts Munich
1999
École superieure d'Art de Grenoble (Multimedia)
2001
École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris with mentor Jean Marc Bustamante
Solo shows (selection)
2024
Wolfsstunde, Kunst trifft Psychokardiologie, Bad Bentheim
2022
Plant me a garden, Gallery Clara Maria Sels, Düsseldorf
2020
Eden - Sound Pictures, Fifteen Weeks, Düsseldorf
2017
Anke Lohrer, Books in Motion, project space Neues aus dem Wald, Düsseldorf
Anke Lohrer and Annika Baudry, Artists' Books, La petite moulinette, Paris
2015
Golden Times - A Tribute to Alchemy -.
Gallery Sylvia Bernhardt at the Bar Association, Frankfurt am Main
2014
Art in the Living Space, Moltkeplatz, Essen
2011
Bremen Art Spring 2011, Horst Janssen Museum, Oldenburg (catalogue)
2010
About Fashion & Heroes - Gallery Sylvia Bernhardt, Wiesbaden,
Floating Nature - Gallery Clara Maria Sels, Düsseldorf
2007
How would you like heaven? - Oberwelt e.V., Stuttgart
2004
La vie en robe - Gallery Clara Maria Sels, Düsseldorf
2002
Passion - Gallery Fluid Image, Grenoble
2001
Pleased to meet you - Gallery Clara Maria Sels, Düsseldorf
1996
From Drawing to Books to Object - Picture Book Museum, Troisdorf
Group shows (selection)
2025
DIE GROSSE 2025, Kunstpalast Düsseldorf
La peinture, ca n´appartient pas, Marseille, France
Und wir fangen gerade erst an.., Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
11. Kunstraum Grün, Botanischer Garten Duisburg-Duissern
Bannerkunst im Klinikgarten, Düsseldorf-Kaiserswerth
2024
Die Anmut der Stofflichkeit, Galerie Clara Maria Sels, Düsseldorf
Kunstraum Grün, Botanischer Garten, Duisburg-Duissern
Bilder einer Ausstellung: Green we can - Kunst für alle im Volksgarten, Dokumentarfotoausstellung,
Atelier am Eck, Düsseldorf
30 Ja - Drei Jahrzehnte Kunst im Salzmannbau, Storage Museum, Düsseldorf
2023
Bernsteinzimmer, Hugenottenhaus, Kassel, Germany
Die Grosse 2023, Die Grosse Kunstausstellung NRW, Düsseldorf, Germany
Green we can - Kunst für alle im Volksgarten, Düsseldorf, Germany (as artist and curator)
Internationale DruckKunstWochen, Synagoge Kronach, Germany
Künstlerbuch - live!, Künstlerverein Malkasten, Düsseldorf
Winterausstellung, Haus der Kunst, Palermo, Italy
2021
Double room, Hugenottenhaus, Kassel
"thekitchenhappening", Kitchen exhibition at Judith Samen, Düsseldorf
Cruel Sea, graphic collection, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf
Beelden op de Kart, art association Kunst in Millingen, Netherlands (catalogue)
2020
Fleurs I and II, Gallery Clara Maria Sels, Düsseldorf
Exhibition & Conference in Marseille: "Staying with trouble in Painting", Espace Morlot, Marseille
International Lukas Cranach Prize, woodcut exhibition, Kronach (catalogue)
Lockdown Drawings, online exhibition "Drawing Storage" by Giovanna Sarti, Bologna
2019
Free Rooms, Fritz Schwegler Pupils at the Hugenottenhaus, Kassel
Night of the Museums, Düsseldorf
Phototropia, Maison des relations internationales, Montpellier (catalogue booklet)
2018/ 2019
Phototropia, Maison de Heidelberg, Montpellier
2018
The Great Art Exhibition, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf (catalogue)
2017
Summer Group Show, Karsten Weigmann Gallery, Düsseldorf
2016
Hanging #4, new ends II - Gerson Höger Gallery, Hamburg
2015
Elective Affinities. Duisburg artists and young talents. - Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg (catalogue)
Linienzüge - Forum for Art and Culture Herzogenrath in der Euregio e.V., Herzogenrath
new endings - 36 artists of the former Schweglerklasse exhibit - Kasseler Kunstverein, Kassel
Summer-light - Clara Maria Sels Gallery, Düsseldorf
Print - Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf
2014
in memory of Fritz Schwegler - Maxhaus, Catholic Town Hall, Düsseldorf
From Here To Now - Kunstraum Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf (catalogue)
2012
25th German-Dutch Graphic Exchange, Borken
2010
Best of - Gallery Sylvia Bernhardt, Wiesbaden
2008
Anke Lohrer / Susanne Ritter - APEX pro art e.V., Göttingen
2007
Animals - Animals in Contemporary Woodcut - Städtisches Kunstmuseum Spendhaus Reutlingen,
Reutlingen
Kava Kava - Facets of Fear - Mülheim an der Ruhr Art Museum (catalogue)
International Graphic Triennial Oldenburg, Horst Janssen Museum, Oldenburg, (catalogue)
2005
Villa Bernasconi, Geneva
CPD- Collections Premieres, Düsseldorf
Zone IP, Multimedia- Festival, Grenoble
2003
Animal Encounters - Gallery Christine Hölz, Grevenbroich
International Book Art Festival, Ireland
2002
Contacts. 33 artists of the Düsseldorf Art Academy in Hall 6,
Christine Hölz Gallery, Düsseldorf,
Art Frankfurt, Gallery Clara Maria Sels
2001
Trendwende - Art Space Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf
Emprise Art Award, Düsseldorf (catalogue)
Trip into the Blue, Bismarkturm, Mühlheim an der Ruhr
Max Ernst Museum, Art Award, Brühl
2000
Bolnes Scheepswerf, Rotterdam
Gallery Ulrike Rathert, Minden
1998
Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan (catalogue)
Municipal Gallery Peschkenhaus, Moers
Artoll Laboratory, Bedburg-Hau
1997
Young West, "Prints and Hand Drawings", Recklinghausen Art Gallery (catalogue)
Zimolong Promotion Prize Exhibition, Gladbeck
1996
Der Artomat, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Lehrmbruck Museum Duisburg, Folkwang Museum Essen, Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl (collaboration in the organisation/catalogue)
Prizes and scholarships
1997
Zimolong Promotion Prize, Gladbeck
1999 - 2000
Scholarship of the German - French Exchange Service
2000
Art Prize Max Ernst Museum, Brühl
2001
Scholarship of the German-French Cultural Council
2001
Scholarship for lithography at the Druckwerkstatt Müller in Leipzig
with the Aldegrever Society, Münster
2003
Sponsorship of a solo exhibition in Grenoble by
the Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations
since 2004
Municipal artists' house Salzmannbau, Düsseldorf
2005
Scholarship at the Villa Bernasconi, Geneva
2018
Art Prize at the Da Art Award, Düsseldorf
Biography
Born in Duisburg, Germany, in 1969.
Lives and works in Düsseldorf, Germany.
Studies
1995-2001
Studied Fine Arts at the Düsseldorf Art Academy with Prof. Jannis Kounellis and Prof. Fritz Schwegler
1999
Master student of Prof. Fritz Schwegler, Düsseldorf Art Academy
1990-1994
Studies at Folkwang University of the Arts Communication Design
(illustration, book and three-dimensional design), graduation: diploma
1994
International Summer Academy Salzburg, Paper Art - class of Prof. Andreas von Weizsäcker, Academy of Arts Munich
1999
École superieure d'Art de Grenoble (Multimedia)
2001
École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris with mentor Jean Marc Bustamante
Solo shows (selection)
2024
Wolfsstunde, Kunst trifft Psychokardiologie, Bad Bentheim
2022
Plant me a garden, Gallery Clara Maria Sels, Düsseldorf
2020
Eden - Sound Pictures, Fifteen Weeks, Düsseldorf
2017
Anke Lohrer, Books in Motion, project space Neues aus dem Wald, Düsseldorf
Anke Lohrer and Annika Baudry, Artists' Books, La petite moulinette, Paris
2015
Golden Times - A Tribute to Alchemy -.
Gallery Sylvia Bernhardt at the Bar Association, Frankfurt am Main
2014
Art in the Living Space, Moltkeplatz, Essen
2011
Bremen Art Spring 2011, Horst Janssen Museum, Oldenburg (catalogue)
2010
About Fashion & Heroes - Gallery Sylvia Bernhardt, Wiesbaden,
Floating Nature - Gallery Clara Maria Sels, Düsseldorf
2007
How would you like heaven? - Oberwelt e.V., Stuttgart
2004
La vie en robe - Gallery Clara Maria Sels, Düsseldorf
2002
Passion - Gallery Fluid Image, Grenoble
2001
Pleased to meet you - Gallery Clara Maria Sels, Düsseldorf
1996
From Drawing to Books to Object - Picture Book Museum, Troisdorf
Group shows (selection)
2025
DIE GROSSE 2025, Kunstpalast Düsseldorf
La peinture, ca n´appartient pas, Marseille, France
Und wir fangen gerade erst an.., Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
11. Kunstraum Grün, Botanischer Garten Duisburg-Duissern
Bannerkunst im Klinikgarten, Düsseldorf-Kaiserswerth
2024
Die Anmut der Stofflichkeit, Galerie Clara Maria Sels, Düsseldorf
Kunstraum Grün, Botanischer Garten, Duisburg-Duissern
Bilder einer Ausstellung: Green we can - Kunst für alle im Volksgarten, Dokumentarfotoausstellung,
Atelier am Eck, Düsseldorf
30 Ja - Drei Jahrzehnte Kunst im Salzmannbau, Storage Museum, Düsseldorf
2023
Bernsteinzimmer, Hugenottenhaus, Kassel, Germany
Die Grosse 2023, Die Grosse Kunstausstellung NRW, Düsseldorf, Germany
Green we can - Kunst für alle im Volksgarten, Düsseldorf, Germany (as artist and curator)
Internationale DruckKunstWochen, Synagoge Kronach, Germany
Künstlerbuch - live!, Künstlerverein Malkasten, Düsseldorf
Winterausstellung, Haus der Kunst, Palermo, Italy
2021
Double room, Hugenottenhaus, Kassel
"thekitchenhappening", Kitchen exhibition at Judith Samen, Düsseldorf
Cruel Sea, graphic collection, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf
Beelden op de Kart, art association Kunst in Millingen, Netherlands (catalogue)
2020
Fleurs I and II, Gallery Clara Maria Sels, Düsseldorf
Exhibition & Conference in Marseille: "Staying with trouble in Painting", Espace Morlot, Marseille
International Lukas Cranach Prize, woodcut exhibition, Kronach (catalogue)
Lockdown Drawings, online exhibition "Drawing Storage" by Giovanna Sarti, Bologna
2019
Free Rooms, Fritz Schwegler Pupils at the Hugenottenhaus, Kassel
Night of the Museums, Düsseldorf
Phototropia, Maison des relations internationales, Montpellier (catalogue booklet)
2018/ 2019
Phototropia, Maison de Heidelberg, Montpellier
2018
The Great Art Exhibition, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf (catalogue)
2017
Summer Group Show, Karsten Weigmann Gallery, Düsseldorf
2016
Hanging #4, new ends II - Gerson Höger Gallery, Hamburg
2015
Elective Affinities. Duisburg artists and young talents. - Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg (catalogue)
Linienzüge - Forum for Art and Culture Herzogenrath in der Euregio e.V., Herzogenrath
new endings - 36 artists of the former Schweglerklasse exhibit - Kasseler Kunstverein, Kassel
Summer-light - Clara Maria Sels Gallery, Düsseldorf
Print - Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf
2014
in memory of Fritz Schwegler - Maxhaus, Catholic Town Hall, Düsseldorf
From Here To Now - Kunstraum Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf (catalogue)
2012
25th German-Dutch Graphic Exchange, Borken
2010
Best of - Gallery Sylvia Bernhardt, Wiesbaden
2008
Anke Lohrer / Susanne Ritter - APEX pro art e.V., Göttingen
2007
Animals - Animals in Contemporary Woodcut - Städtisches Kunstmuseum Spendhaus Reutlingen,
Reutlingen
Kava Kava - Facets of Fear - Mülheim an der Ruhr Art Museum (catalogue)
International Graphic Triennial Oldenburg, Horst Janssen Museum, Oldenburg, (catalogue)
2005
Villa Bernasconi, Geneva
CPD- Collections Premieres, Düsseldorf
Zone IP, Multimedia- Festival, Grenoble
2003
Animal Encounters - Gallery Christine Hölz, Grevenbroich
International Book Art Festival, Ireland
2002
Contacts. 33 artists of the Düsseldorf Art Academy in Hall 6,
Christine Hölz Gallery, Düsseldorf,
Art Frankfurt, Gallery Clara Maria Sels
2001
Trendwende - Art Space Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf
Emprise Art Award, Düsseldorf (catalogue)
Trip into the Blue, Bismarkturm, Mühlheim an der Ruhr
Max Ernst Museum, Art Award, Brühl
2000
Bolnes Scheepswerf, Rotterdam
Gallery Ulrike Rathert, Minden
1998
Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan (catalogue)
Municipal Gallery Peschkenhaus, Moers
Artoll Laboratory, Bedburg-Hau
1997
Young West, "Prints and Hand Drawings", Recklinghausen Art Gallery (catalogue)
Zimolong Promotion Prize Exhibition, Gladbeck
1996
Der Artomat, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Lehrmbruck Museum Duisburg, Folkwang Museum Essen, Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl (collaboration in the organisation/catalogue)
Prizes and scholarships
1997
Zimolong Promotion Prize, Gladbeck
1999 - 2000
Scholarship of the German - French Exchange Service
2000
Art Prize Max Ernst Museum, Brühl
2001
Scholarship of the German-French Cultural Council
2001
Scholarship for lithography at the Druckwerkstatt Müller in Leipzig
with the Aldegrever Society, Münster
2003
Sponsorship of a solo exhibition in Grenoble by
the Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations
since 2004
Municipal artists' house Salzmannbau, Düsseldorf
2005
Scholarship at the Villa Bernasconi, Geneva
2018
Art Prize at the Da Art Award, Düsseldorf
