Helmut Löhr (American/German, born )

Timeline

Born in 1955 in Germany, Helmut Löhr first got a degree as a designer before turning to the fine arts. He currently lives and works in Santa Fe, NM and is considered to be an important representative of visual poetry.
His works are exhibited internationally in more than 200 shows and on view in collections such as the Museum of Modern Art, NYC, Paul Getty Museum, Santa Monica, Berlin Museum, Berlin, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Sackner Collection, Miami, Brooklyn Museum, NYC, Doubleday, NYC, Franklin Furnace Archive, NYC, New York Public Library, NYC, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, School of the Art Institute, Chicago, Klingspor Museum, Offenbach, Amerika Gedenkbibliothek, Berlin, FRAC Collection, Rouen, Fejer Megyel Museum, Hungary, Gutenberg Museum, Mainz, Kunstbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin; Kunsthalle, Bremen, Leopold Hoesch Museum, Dueren, Stadtische Galerie Villa Zander, Bergisch Gladbach, Kultusministerium Nordrhein, Westfalen, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich, Rijksmuseum Meermanno Westreenianum, The Hague, Metropolitan University of Manchester, Deutsche Telekom, Dusseldorf, Bertelsmann Publishing, Guetersloh, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Schwann Publishing, Nurenberg, Museum of Contemporary Japanese Poetry, Tanka and Haiku, Kitakami, Japan, Deutsches Museum fur Buch - und Schriftkunst, Leipzig
He has published several books on Visual Poetry and has worked numerous times with experimental musicians and composers. He is author of the International Library Project, which is housed in the F. R. Weismann Museum, Minneapolis.

Exhibitions

2005
I AM ME – I AM FREE, 25 Years of Freedom, a retrospective at kulturforum (solo)
2005
Metamorphoses du Livre, Bibliotheque de la Maison pour Tous, Choisy-le-Roi, France
2005
HORTULUS ANIMAE, dell’Orto dei Semplici Elbano, Rio Nell, Elba, Italy
2005
Positionen zeitgenössischer Skulptur (Positions of Contemporary Sculpture), Galerie Schwenk, Castrop-Rauxel, Germany
2005
Still Life with Words, Gallery 308, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
2005
Thirty Years of Innovation: A Survey of Exhibition History at the Center for Book Arts 1974 – 2004, The Center for Book Arts, New York, New York, USA
2005
Rochford & Messick, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
2004
Letters, Poems and Scores from the Desert, Galerie Schwenk, Castrop-Rauxel, Germany (solo)
2004
Rochford & Messick, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
2004
Kraftfelder 3, kulturforum schlossmeierhof, Düsseldorf, Germany
2004
InsightOut: Reversing Vandalism, Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
2004
San Francisco International Art Expo, EVO Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
2004
Fete de l’ete, stage des Livres-Objets, Centre Artistique de Verderonne, Verderonne, France
2003
DIALOGUE, Alchemy of the word-In the Presence of Absence, with Harriet Bart, EVO Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA (solo)
2003
DIALOGUE, Alchemy of the Word - In the Presence of Absence, with Harriet Bart, CCA Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA (solo)
2003
Kraftfelder, curated by Volker Marschall, Guetersloh, Germany
2003
BODIES OF EVIDENCE, The International Library Project, Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
2003
Works on paper, EVO Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
2003
Kraftfelder, curated by Volker Marschall, Krefeld, Germany
2003
Moving through the fourth into the fifth dimension, performance with Joe Winkler, Nikodemuskirche, Berlin, Germany
2003
PEACE SHOW, James Hart Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
2003
HORTULUS ANIMAE, Eremo di Santa Caterina, Isola d’Elba, Italy
2003
Art Chicago, EVO Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
2003
METAMORPHOSES DU LIVRE, Centre du Livre d’Artiste Contemporain, Guyancourt, France
2003
San Francisco Art Expo, EVO Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
2002
Standtpunkte Volker Marschall ausstellungsraum, Düsseldorf, Germany
2002
wrapped, EVO Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
2002
TEXT ART DIALOGUE, with Ruark Lewis, Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney, Australia (solo)
2002
TEXT ART MULTIPLES, Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2002
i do reclaim my power, EVO Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA (solo)

Literature

1993
Helmut Löhr, Visual Music
1991–1992
Helmut Löhr, Visual Communications
1990
Helmut Löhr, Visual Letters
1988–1989
Helmut Löhr, Visual Discussions, Berlin
1988
Helmut Löhr, Visual Prose
1987
Helmut Löhr, Visual Poetry
English (US)

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