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Elger Esser

(German, born 1967)

Elger Esser

Ninfa (Psekas), 2013

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Elger Esser

Courcelles, 2018

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Elger Esser

Cusy, 2018

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Elger Esser

Charite-sur-Loire I, Frankreich, 2000

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Elger Esser

Montrond-les-Bains, Frankreich, 2012

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Elger Esser

140 Saint-Malo, 2004

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Elger Esser

Chamesson, 2018

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Elger Esser

Ninfa (Psekas), 2013

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Elger Esser

Phare des Poulains, Frankreich, 2012

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Elger Esser

Cabourg I, Frankreich, 2008

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Elger Esser

Brion sur Ource, 2018

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Elger Esser

Nil III, 2011

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Timeline

1967: Born in Stuttgart, Germany
1969 - 1986: Raised in Rome, Italy
1991 - 1997: Studies at Academy of Fine Arts in Düsseldorf, master class of Prof. Bernd Becher
1996: Student of Master Class
1997: Academy diploma
1998: Foreign DAAD-travel grant 'Italy'
: Recipient, Supporting award for Art Düsseldorf
: Supporting area Art Cologne (Gallery Inge Friebe)
: Recipient, DAAD-travelling award, Italy
: Advancement award of Fine Arts of the city of Düsseldorf, Germany
2001: Deutsches Studienzentrum Venice
2006 - 2009: Professor of Photography at Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design, Karlsruhe, Germany
2008: Visiting Professor of Photography at Folkwang Hochschule Essen
2010: Rheinischer Kunstpreis
2012: Fellowship Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg (HWK), Institute for Advanced Study, Delmenhorst, Germany
: Lives and works in Düsseldorf, Germany

Exhibitions

2014: One Work. The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga Springs, New York, USA
: Temporary living. Galerie de Zaal, Delft, The Netherlands
: Una Colección Basada en la Naturaleza y el medio ambiente. Colección MP de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville, Spain
: Home (Very) Sweet Home, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
: Elger Esser: Ab Olympo, Galleria Alessandra Bonomo, Rome, Italy (solo)
: Elger Esser, Fundació Palma Espai d'art, Casal Solleric, Palma de Mallorca, Spain (solo)
: Elger Esser, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, Germany (solo)
: One Work, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga Springs, New York, USA
: L’âge d’or, Kewenig, Berlin, Germany (solo)
: Elger Esser: Saeculum Aureum, Sonnabend Gallery, New York (solo)
: Nocturnes à Giverny. Photographies de Elger Esser, Pôle Image Haute-Normandie, Rouen, France (solo)
: Meseglise, Institut für Moderne Kunst, Nürnberg, Germany (solo)
: Kalte Rinden - Seltene Erden, Stadtgalerie Kiel, Germany
: Les Territoires du désir ou les métamorphoses d’un musée imaginaire,  Musée d’Art moderne André Malraux, MuMa, Le Havre, France
: Il Fuoco Della Natura / The Flash of Nature, Salone degli Incanti, ex Pescheria, Trieste, Italy
: Exposition photographique: Eaux précieuses – Eaux sauvages, Galerie d’art du Conseil général, Hôtel de Castillon, Aix-en-Provence, France
: OLD SCHOOL Anachronismus in der zeitgenössischen Kunst, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Germany
: Nocturens à Giverny. Photographies de Elger Esser, Galerie Photo du Pôle Image Haute-Normandie, Rouen, France (solo)
: Elger Esser. Giverny, Heliogravuren, Schirmer und Mosel, München (solo)
2013: Desaster / The End of Days, Galerie Taddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
: Meseglise, Institut für Moderne Kunst, Nürnberg, Germany (solo)
: Stille Wellen, Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany (solo)
: Sonnabend Gallery, New York (solo)
: ‚Exposition photographique: Eaux précieuses – Eaux sauvages’, Galerie d’art du Conseil général, Hôtel de Castillon, Aix-en-Provence, France
: ‚Il Fuoco Della Natura / The Flash of Nature’, Salone degli Incanti, ex Pescheria, Trieste, Italy
: ‚Les Territoires du désir ou les métamorphoses d’un musée imaginaire’,  Musée d’Art moderne André Malraux, MuMa, Le Havre, France
: ‚Kalte Rinden - Seltene Erden’, Stadtgalerie Kiel, Germany
: Katz Contemporary, Zurich (solo)
2012: Galeria Kewenig, Palma de Mallorca, Spain (solo)
: Lichte Weite, LVR-LandesMuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany (solo)
: Les Territoires du désir ou les métamorphoses d’un musée imaginaire', Musée d’Art moderne André Malraux - MuMa, Le Havre, France
: Welt-(er)-findung, zeitgenössische Photographie - Collection Olbricht, Kunsthaus Villa Jauss, Oberstdorf, Germany
: La ciudad magnífica. Arquitecturas en la colección CIRCA-XX Pilar Citoler, The Andalusian Centre of Photography, Almería, Spain
: light-sensitive – Contemporary Photography from the Schaufler Collection, Schauwerk Sindelfingen, Sindelfingen
: ILEANA SONNABEND. AN ITALIAN PORTRAIT. Peggy Guggenheim Collection – New Wing, Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, Venice, Italy
: Galleria Alessandra Bonomo, Rome (solo)
2011 - 2012: Voyage en Egypte, Rose Gallery, Santa Monica, USA (solo)
: Elger Esser - Landscapes and heliogravures, Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney, Australia (solo)
: ZERO - ∞. Schauwerk Sindelfingen, Sindelfingen, Germany
: Der rote Bulli: Stephan Shore und die neue Düsseldorfer Fotografie, NRW-Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft, Düsseldorf, Germany
: Viaggio in Italia, sguardi internazionali sull’Italia contemporanea, Palazzo Fabroni, Pistoia, Italy
: Collezioni Contemporanee, SMS Santa Maria della Scala, Siena, Italy
: Water, Fifty One Fine Art Photography, Antwerp, Belgium
: ‚La ciudad magnífica. Arquitecturas en la colección CIRCA-XX Pilar Citoler’, The Andalusian Centre of Photography, Almería, Spain
: Nocturnes, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France (solo)
: ‚Les Territoires du désir ou les métamorphoses d’un musée imaginaire', Musée d’Art moderne André Malraux - MuMa, Le Havre, France
: Kunst befreit! Neupräsentation der Sammlung. Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Germany
: Kunstforum Baloise, Basel, Switzerland (solo)
: Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France (solo)
: Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon (solo)
2011: Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney, Australia (solo)
: ‚light-sensitive – Contemporary Photography from the Schaufler Collection’, Schauwerk Sindelfingen, Sindelfingen, Germany
: Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria (solo)
: Collezioni Contemporanee, SMS Santa Maria della Scala, Siena, Italy
: Viaggio in Italia, sguardi internazionali sull’Italia contemporanea, Palazzo Fabroni, Pistoia, Italy
: Der rote Bulli: Stephan Shore und die neue Düsseldorfer Fotografie, NRW-Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft, Düsseldorf, Germany
: Photobiennale Moscow, Exhibition Hall New Manege, Moscow, Russia (solo)
: ZERO - ∞. Schauwerk Sindelfingen, Sindelfingen, Germany
: IMAGINÁRIO DA PAISAGEM. Obras da BesArt - colecção Banco Espírito Santo, CAV Centro de artes Visuais, Encontros de Fotografia, Coimbra, Portugal
: Konstellationen, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria
: Et in Arcadia Ego. Paraísos cercanos, TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain
: Sin Tiempo, Galería Fúcares, Madrid, Spain (solo)
: Sonnabend Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
: Eigenzeit, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany (Solo)
: EIGENTJD-ELGER ESSER, Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem, Arnhem, Holland (solo)
: ELGER ESSER, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, Germany (solo)
2010: Landschaften-Veduten-Ansichten-Heliogravüren, Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Hamburg, Germany (solo)
: The Düsseldorf School of Photography. Bernd & Hilla Becher, Thomas Ruff, Candida Höfer, In Sook Kim, Elger Esser, Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, USA
: Siedlungen und Wohnanlagen 1858-1937, Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf, Germany
: Voyages pittoresques, Normandie 1820-2009, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen, Le Château - Caen, France (group)
: TAGO - MAGO, Galería Fúcares, Almagro & Espacio de arte Hospital de San Juan de Dios. Almagro, Spain (group)
: Six American Sunsets, Dominik Mersch Gallery, Waterloo, Australia (solo)
: Wrecks and Landscapes, Sonnabend Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
: Galeria Bonomo, Bari, Italy (solo)
: Saône et Rhône, Exhibition on the occasion of Paris Photo, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France (solo)
: Sonnabend Gallery, NY (solo)
: Voyages pittoresques. Normandie 1820-2009, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen, Le Château - Caen, France
: Elger Esser, Eigenzeit, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany (solo)
: Fotos que ver en Madrid cuando aún no estés muerto...de calor, Galería Fúcares, Madrid, Spain
2009: Les Rencontres Photographiques d’Arles, Arles, France (solo)
: ‚6 views of photography’, Galerie de Zaal, Delft, Netherlands
: Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Beirut, Lebanon (group)
2008: Objectivités. La photographie à Düsseldorf, Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris / ARC, Paris, France
: untitled (photography), Galerie Tanit, Munich, Germany
: Pures Wasser. Elementares Motiv der Gegenwartskunst, Kunstverein Villa Streccius, Landau, Germany
: Galleria Alessandra Bonomo, Rome, Italy (solo)
: Johnen+Schöttle, Cologne, Germany (solo)
: FO.KU.S - Foto Kunst Stadtforum, Innsbruck, Germany (solo)
: Combray, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
: Sonnabend Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
: Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida (solo)
: Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Hamburg, Germany (solo)
: Ileana Sonnabend, New York, NY (solo)
2007: Seestücke, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
2006: Landscapes and Postcards, Haggarty Museum of Art, Milwaukee, USA (solo)
: Important early photographs, Thomas Segal Gallery, Baltimore, USA (solo)
: Gana Art Center, Seoul (solo)
: Galeria Fúcares, Madrid, Spain (solo)
: Johnen+Schöttle Gallery, Munich, Germany (solo)
: Kunstraum Deutsche Bank, 2006 (solo)
2005 - 2006: Fast Nichts. Minimalistische Werke aus der Friedrich Christian Flick Collection im Hamburger Bahnhof, Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany
: Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
: dreamscapes, Aeroplastics Contemporary, Brussels
: Flight 405, Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Beirut, Lebanon
2005: Galerie Johnen + Schöttle, Cologne, Germany (solo)
: The City: Contemporary Views of the Built Enironment, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY
: Landschaft als Metapher, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal, Germany
: Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Hamburg, Germany (solo)
: Landschaften – Sonderausstellung zur KunstKöln, Cologne, Germany
: Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Hamburg, Germany (solo)
: Landschaften – Sonderausstellung zur KunstKöln, Cologne, Germany
: Art History: Photography References Painting, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY
: Vague II Hommages et digressions, Musée Malraux, Le Havre, France
: Fondation Herzog - Ein Laboratorium für Photographie, Basel, Switzerland (solo)
2004: Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria (solo)
: Imágenes en movimiento // Moving Pictures, Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain
: Marco Voena, Milan, Italy (solo)
2003: Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
: Galerie Johnen + Schöttle, Cologne, Germany (solo)
: Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
: Galerie Johnen + Schöttle, Cologne, Germany (solo)
: Kunsthalle Rostock, Rostock, Germany (solo)
: Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, Germany (solo)
: Kunsthalle Rostock, Rostock, Germany (solo)
: Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, Germany (solo)
: Schirmer/Mosel Showroom, Munich, Germany (solo)
: In Szene gesetzte Architektur, ZKM Karlsruhe/Stadtische Galerie Erlangen/Kunsthaus Kaufbeuren
: Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France (solo)
: Wallflowers, Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland
: Galerie De Zaal, Delft, The Netherlands
: Biennale der Fotografie, Moscow, Russia
: Interieur, Galerie Andreas Grimm, Munich, Germany
: Aus Düsseldorf, Baronian-Francey Galerie, Brussels, Belgium
: Galerie Sfeier-Semler, Hamburg, Germany (Solo)
: Cityscapes/Landscapes, Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, Italy (solo)
: 10 young german artists, Galerie de Zaal, Delft, Netherlands
2002: Galleria Alessandra Bonomo, Rome, Italy (solo)
: Ileana Sonnabend, New York, NY (Solo)
: Galleria de Arte Moderne Villa delle Rose, Bologna, Italy (Solo)
: Retrospective, Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY
: Ohne Zögern, Sammlung Olbricht, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany
: Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art, London, England (solo)
: Johnen & Schöttle, Cologne (mit | with Candice Breitz), Germany
: Château de Sully, Sully sur Loire, France (solo)
2001: Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria (solo)
: Chrisitna Doll, Elger Esser Michael van Ofen, Galerie Sfeier Semler, Hamburg, Germany
: Friesland is …, Friesmuseum, Leeuwarden, Netherlands
: Landscapes - Portraits, Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art, London, England
: Landscapes - Portraits, Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art, London, England
: Retrospective, Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY
: Friesland is …, Friesmuseum, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands
: Galerie de Zaal, Delft, Netherlands
: Galerie 213, Paris, France
: Galerie Inge Friebe Lüdenscheid, Germany (Solo)
2000: Alte Feuerwache Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany (Solo)
: Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, Germany (with Candice Breitz)
: Andreas Grimm Galerie, Palma de Mallorca, Spain (solo)
: VISA, Galerie Johnen + Schöttle, Cologne, Germany
: New Photography, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY
: insight-out, Kunstraum Innsbruck / Kunsthaus Baselland / Kunsthaus Hamburg, Austria and Germany
: Massimo Lauro Galleria, Milan, Italy (Solo)
: Landschaften, Galerie Carolin Lindig, Nuremberg, Germany
: Lawrence Beck, Elger Esser, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Ileana Sonnabend Gallery, New York, USA
1999: neg-gallery, Milan, Italy (solo)
: Landschaften, de Vleeshal, Middelburg, The Netherlands
: Kunstverein Siegen, Germany (solo)
: Galerie de Zaal, Delft, Netherlands (mit | with Michel Sauer)
: Galerie Inge Friebe, Lüdenscheid, Germany (solo)
: Galerie 213, Paris, France (solo)
: Umgebung und Aussicht, Galerie Cora Hölzl, Düsseldorf / Galerie Lisl Hämmerle, Bregenz Landschaftsbilder, Städtische Galerie Stuttgart, Germany
: Kunstraum Düsseldorf (Advancement Award of Fine Arts), Düsseldorf, Germany (solo)
: Umgebung und Aussicht, Galerie Cora Hölzl, Düsseldorf, Germany
: Alte Post Neuss, Neuss, Germany (solo)
1998: Galerie Marion de Beaupre, Paris, France (Solo)
: When season becomes form, Kulturallianzen Cologne, Germany
: ARToll Labor Bedburg-Hau, Germany
1997: Andreas Grimm Galerie, Palma de Mallorca, Spain (solo)
: Kunstverein Hagen, Hagen, Germany (solo)
1996: Auslöser, Düsseldorf, Germany
: Projektausstellung Siedlungen in Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany (solo)
1995: Kulturbahnhof Eller, Germany (solo)
1994: Idus Nemorensis Nemi, Italy

Public Collections

: Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
: Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna
: DZ Bank Kunstsammlung, Frankfurt, Germany
: SMS Contemporanea, ex Palazzo Delle Papesse, Siena, Italy
: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, USA
: Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
: Stiftung Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Germany
: Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich
: Fonds national d’art contemporain, Paris
: Centre Pompidou, Paris
: Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany
: Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

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Elger Esser

(German, born 1967)

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Elger Esser

(German, born 1967)

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