I am not interested in the highpoints of life. Only 5 minutes of everyday are interesting, I want to show the rest, normal life. Hans-Peter Feldmann

HANS-PETER FELDMANN

Hans-Peter Feldmann is considered one of the main figures of european conceptual art. His approach to art-making is one of collecting, ordering and re-presenting elements of the visual culture. He started in the 1960s, producing small handmade books showing isolated reproductions from a certain type, shoes for instance, without captions. Since then, he has kept on investigating the influence of these visual signals on our way to perceive. Composing images and objects into archives, photographs, installations and sculptures, he creates uncanny compositions and unexpected new contexts. In many ways, his works are defined by daily life and the intimacy of private moments, exploring and unveiling beauty within the everyday landscape. I am not interested in the highpoints of life. Only 5 minutes of everyday are interesting, I want to show the rest, normal life. Hans-Peter Feldmann His creative process consists in compulsively collecting. Feldmann has been accumulating all sorts of things throughout his career, such as oil paintings, mainly portraits and landscapes, but also silver spoons, newspapers, stamps, shoes, hats, postcards, dollar notes as well as a large variety of photographs representing flowers, books, women clothes, shoes, or handbags, paintings, legs, lips, strawberries, celebrities, landscapes, crossroads, planes, pigs, chairs, undone beds, birds, car interiors, etc. Feldmann s interests span pop culture, sociology, art history, politics, sciences all these fields being of equal importance within his work. Bypassing customs such as edition, signature, date, or title for his works, Feldmann's approach reveals that the market rules are extraneous to the actual artworks. From 1975 until 2015, he and his wife ran a store (Laden in German) in central Düsseldorf. The Laden was the place to buy items you could not find anywhere else, such as nautical equipment, cameras, vintage toys, collectibles, antiques, photographs, kitsches, paintings, etc. In 1979, the business was so flourishing that Feldmann withdrew from the art world for a decade in order to focus on the shop. After forty years, the Laden was closed and Feldmann transformed its whole inventory into an artwork, now entrusted to the Lenbachhaus in Munich. Short biography Hans-Peter Feldmann was born 1941 in Düsseldorf, where he still lives and works. His work has been exhibited widely, but the artist prefers no to publish any biography. His works are present in major public collections, such as Museum of Modern Art, New York, Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Louisiana Museum, Humlebæk, Migros Museum, Zurich, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Musée National d Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid. Selected publications Catalogue, Serpentine Gallery, ed. by Helena Tatay, Koenig Books, London, 2012 Another Book, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Koenig Books, London, 2010 Book #9, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne, 2007 272 Pages, Fundació Antoni Tapiés, ed. by Helena Tatay, 2002

Galerie des Galeries Paris, 2016

303 Gallery New York, 2016

Sammlung Philara Düsseldorf, 2016

Exhibition view Sammlung Philara Düsseldorf, 2016

C/O Berlin Berlin, 2016

Mehdi Chouakri Berlin, 2015

Lehnbachhaus Munich, 2015

Exhibition view K21 Düsseldorf, 2015

Take me I m Yours La Monnaie de Paris Paris, 2015

Exhibition view Unlimited Basel, 2015

Deichtorhallen Hamburg, 2013

Exhibition view Deichtorhallen Hamburg, 2013

Mehdi Chouakri Berlin, 2013

Serpentine Gallery London, 2012

Bass Museum of Art Miami Beach, 2012

Exhibition view Bass Museum of Art Miami Beach, 2012

Exhibition view Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin, 2012

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum New York, 2011

Kunsthalle Düsseldorf Düsseldorf, 2010

Mehdi Chouakri Berlin, 2010

Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia Madrid, 2010

Exhibition view Simon Lee Gallery London, 2008

Sprengel Museum Hannover, 2007

Hamburger Bahnhof Berlin, 2006

Mehdi Chouakri Berlin, 2006

Kunsthalle Kiel Kiel, 2005

Exhibition view Mehdi Chouakri Berlin, 2002