Charlotte Posenenske 1930-1985
° Wiesbaden, DE
+ Frankfurt am Main, DE
Lived and worked in Germany.
The German artist Charlotte Posenenske belongs to the group of conceptual and minimal artists, but her work is more radical. She made raw and elementary sculptures. Her work is a fundamental investigation into the position of the artist in relation to the work of art. She is the architect of a new kind of system, closely intertwined with her own reflections. Posenenske's work lays a finger on the open nerves of our modern age. Her works have been collected by institutions such as Middelheim Museum (Antwerp), Dia: Beacon (New York), MoMA (New York), Tate Gallery (London), Krüller Muller Museum (Otterlo), Centre Pompidou (Paris), Museum Ludwig (Cologne), Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago) and M HKA Museum of Contemporary Art (Antwerp).
Charlotte Posenenske is represented by Mehdi Chouakri (Berlin), Peter Freeman Inc. (New York City), Take Ninagawa (Tokyo), Gallery Sofie Van de Velde (Antwerp), Konrad Fischer Gallery (Düsseldorf).
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Words are very Unnecessary
Group Exhibition 29 Mar - 4 May 2025 New South -
The Wall of She
Group Exhibition 22 Feb - 23 Mar 2025 New South -
'It's all right, don't think twice'
Group exhibition 16 May - 16 Jun 2024 New South, South (former location)Titled after the Bob Dylan song, this double-exhibition which spans the two galleries of Sofie Van de Velde (South and New South), asks us to leave the matter behind us....Read more -
Over ritme, motief en ruimte
Group exhibition 10 Apr - 9 May 2021 New SouthDaniel Buren, Willy De Sauter, Guy Mees, Charlotte Posenenske & Perry Roberts. Art is a story about encounters, a combination of specific qualities: head and heart, thoughts and feelings. Although...Read more -
L'heure bleue Part I
Groupshow 9 Jun - 31 Jul 2020 New SouthL’Heure Bleue Gallery Sofie Van de Velde and PLUS - ONE Gallery present ‘L’Heure Bleue’. L’heure bleue is the moment when the sun has set, but the night has not...Read more -
Implicit Movement
Group exhibition 11 Jan - 1 Mar 2020 New SouthGroup exhibition with: William Anastasi Kirstin Arndt, John Beech, Monika Grzymala, Jochem Hendricks, Ann Veronica Janssens, Sandra Kranich, Axel Malik, Guy Mees, Hiroko Nakajima, Charlotte Posenenske, Franziska Reinbothe, Michael Reiter,...Read more -
Charlotte Posenenske / Ilse D'Hollander
Private view 22 Oct - 30 Nov 2019 Groen Kwartier (former location)Private view of Charlotte Posenenske and Ilse D'Hollander. Gallery Sofie Van de Velde Lange Leemstraat 262 Please make an appointment to visit +32486 79 19 93 For more information: sofie@sofievandevelde.beRead more -
The Bare Necessity
Group exhibition 16 Mar - 5 May 2019 New SouthCharlotte Posenenske, Willy De Sauter, and Guy Mees: three artists of the same generation, who found an artistic voice in the sixties, and defied the conventional attitudes of the art...Read more -
Backstage: die Rückseite - the rear side
Group exhibition 7 Sep - 15 Oct 2017 New SouthBackstage: the rear side. The “Barberini Faun” in Munich’s Glyptothek has a coarse rear side, as originally it was joined to a garden wall. The faun is asleep and is...Read more -
Group show
From nature to abstract 18 Mar - 1 May 2016 Groen Kwartier (former location)Abstract art is for many the pre-eminent modern art, and this probably owing to its great influence upon architecture and applied art which has in turn so contributed to what...Read more -
That's all
Group Show 22 Apr - 31 May 2015 Groen Kwartier (former location) -
Geometric Abstractions
Group exhibition 23 Jan - 8 Aug 2015 Groen Kwartier (former location)In January 2015 G262 Sofie Van de Velde exhibits three artists, who created their work from a geometric abstract point of view. Svenja Deininger (1974) Perfect worlds are folded up...Read more
Selected Solo Exhibitions |
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2025 |
Installation Views, Haugar Art Museum in Tønsberg, Norway |
2023 |
'Archiv Charlotte Posenenske: Charlotte Posenenske orchestrated by Konstantin Grcic', Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin, DE |
2022 |
'B/C/D/DW/E - SCHÖNE NEUE PLASTIK TEIL I' Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin, DE |
2021 |
'Charlotte Posenenske' DIA:BEACON, New York, US |
2020 |
'Charlotte Posenenske Work in Progress', Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen-K20, Düsseldorf, DE |
2019 |
'Lexicon of Infinite Movement', Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, NL |
2018 |
'1968 - The times they are a-changin', Mehdi Chouakri - Fasanenplatz, Berlin, DE |
2017 |
'Charlotte Posenenske 1957', Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin, DE |
2016 |
'Charlotte Posenenske', Take Ninagawa, Tokyo, JP |
2015 |
'Charlotte Posenenske X Saâdane Afif, Charlotte Posenenske X Gerold Miller, Charlotte Posenenske X Gerwald Rockenschaub, Charlotte Posenenske X Luca Trevisani', Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin, DE |
2014 |
'Aufhören ; Weitermachen | Charlotte Posenenske', Deutscher Künstlerbund e.V., Berlin, DE |
2013 |
'Line and Space', Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin, DE |
2012 |
'Dasselbe anders/Immer dasselbe', Düsseldorf, K21, Düsseldorf, DE |
2011 |
'Charlotte Posenenske: Dasselbe Anders', Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin, DE |
2010 |
'Charlotte Posenenske', Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR |
2009 |
'Charlotte Posenenske', Corrugated Series, Art Basel, Basel, CH |
2008 |
'Prototypes for Mass Production (1965 - 1967)', Peter Freeman Inc., New York, US |
2007 |
'Charlotte Posenenske', Galerie Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin, DE |
1988 |
Central Market, Frankfurt am Main, DE |
2005 |
Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck, AU |
2003 |
Galerie Konstantin Adamopoulos, Frankfurt am Main, DE |
1999 |
Galerie ak, Programm Konstantin Adamopoulos, Frankfurt am Main, DE |
1990 |
Museum für Moderne Kunst (at the Jahrhunderthalle Hoechst), Frankfurt am Main, DE |
1989 |
Garage of the City Hall, Rotunda of the Neue Staatsgalerie, curated by Werner Esser, Stuttgart, DE |
1986 |
Galerie Paul Maenz, Cologne, DE |
1968 |
Galerie Art & Project, Amsterdam, NL |
1967 |
Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf, DE |
1966 |
Galerie Dorothea Loehr, Frankfurt am Main, DE |
1961 |
Galerie Dorothea Loehr, Frankfurt am Main, DE |
Selected Group Exhibitions |
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2024 |
'It's all right, don't think twice', Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp, BE |
Archiv Charlotte Posenenske: Wahlverwandtschaften, Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin |
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Kunstmuseum Basel, Art After the 1950, as part of the museum collection |
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Deep Distance Tender Touch, Öpelvillen, Rüsselheim |
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Bodies in Motion – Form in the Making, Kunsthalla Mainz, Mainz |
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Wir werden bis zu Sonne gehen – Pioneers of the Geometric Abstraction, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen am Rheim |
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Museum Morsbroich, Leverkussen, as part of the museum collection |
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Your Museum! Your Collection!, K20, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, as part of the museum collection |
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The Sixties Experiment, Harvard Art Museum, Cambridge, as part of the museum collection |
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Under the Spell of Duchamp, Fondazione Antonio Dalle Nogare, Bolzano, group exhibition |
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Zerreißprobe. Kunst zwischen Politik und Gesellschaft, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, as part of the museum collection |
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Art after the 1950, Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel |
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2023 |
'Brilliant Cut', Gallery Baton, Seoul, KR |
2022 |
'SERIELLE FORMATIONEN',Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin, DE |
2021 |
'Who’s Afraid of Red…' Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin, DE |
2020 |
'L'heure bleue', Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp, BE |
2019 |
'Immortality', 5th Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art, Ekaterinburg, RUS |
2018 |
'Sculptors. From Kollwitz to Genzken', Museum Heilbronn, DE |
2017 |
'Backstage, die Rückseite, the rearside', Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp, BE |
2016 |
'Interiors', Front Desk Apparatus, New York, US |
2015 |
'Reduzieren, curated by Burkhard Brunn', Daniel Marzona, Berlin, DE |
2014 |
'Play Objects - The Art of Possibilities', Museum Tinguely, Basel, CH |
2013 |
'D'Hollander, Posenenske, Warboys, paintings', Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf, DE |
2012 |
'Minimalism in Germany. The Sixties II', Daimler Contemporary, Berlin, DE Art and the City, Zürich, CH |
2011 |
12th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, TR |
2010 |
Pergola, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR |
2009 |
'In & Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art', 1960–1976, Museum of Modern Art, New York, US |
2008 |
'Zuordnungsprobleme', Johann König, Berlin, DE |
2007 |
Documenta 12, Kassel, DE |
2006 |
'Conversation with Art, on Art', Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, JP |
2005 |
'25 Jahre Sammlung Deutsche Bank', Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, DE |
2004 |
'Kurze Karrieren', Museum Moderner Kunst, Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, AUT |
2003 |
'On the Edge', Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, US The DaimlerChrysler Collection, ZKM, Karlsruhe, DE |
2002 |
'Minimalism and After II', Daimler Contemporary, Berlin, DE |
2001 |
'Frankfurter Kreuz. Transformationen des Alltäglichen in der zeitgenössischen Kunst', Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main, DE |
1972 |
Galerie Art & Project, Amsterdam, NL |
1969 |
Galerie plus-kern, Ghent, BE |
1968 |
Galerie Dorothea Loehr, Frankfurt am Main, DE |
1967 |
Galerie Jülicher, Mönchengladbach, DE |
1966 |
'Marielies-Hess-Stiftung', Hessischer Rundfunk, Frankfurt am Main, DE |
1961 |
'Junger Westen', Städtische Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, DE |
1959 |
'Vibration', Galerie Weiss, Kassel, DE |
Bibliography
2013 |
Manifesto Published by Distanz |
2008 |
Charlotte Posenenske: 1930 - 1985 Published by Distanz, |