SHORT INFO
The artist Jan Köchermann (*1967 in Lüdenscheid, lives in Hamburg) continuously works on various thresholds - between inside and outside, private and public, science and fiction, dystopia and utopia. The space created in each case becomes a stage and setting for stories. His work has been shown at the Staatliches Museum für Kunst und Design /Nürnberg; the Bundeskunsthalle /Bonn, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Kunsthalle Bratislava, Kunstsammlung NRW, K21 / Düsseldorf and the Nasjonalmuseet /Oslo, among others. Köchermann is represented in the Collection of Contemporary Art of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Hamburger Kunsthalle, among others. A monograph on Jan Köchermann was published by Kunstforum International in fall 2023. www.koechermann.com
SCHOLARSHIPS / PRIZES
| 2010 | Berlin Art Prize (sponsorship award), Akademie der Künste, Berlin |
| 2008 | Working grant from the Bonn Art Fund Foundation |
| 2005 | Scholarship of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg LUX.US. Light Art Prize |
| 2005 | Special Prize Lüdenscheid 2004 Karl Hofer Prize, University of the Arts, Berlin |
| 2003 | DAAD Scholarship, New York, USA Stehr Scholarship, Uetersen |
| 2001 | Goldbeck studio grant, Hamburg |
| 1999 | German Study Prize of the Körber Foundation, Hamburg (first prize) |
INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS (selection)
| 2022 | Mokkelbosts Keller, Gallery Mathias Güntner, Berlin |
| 2019 | Frassek Raumsammler, Kunsthalle Göppingen |
| 2018 | Frassek Space Collector, Gallery Mathias Güntner, Hamburg |
| 2017 | SH ART PROJECT, Tokyo |
| 2016 | Fragment Weltgetriebe Dorf, Kunstverein Bochum |
| 2015 | Space and Time, ArtN Space, Shanghai, China |
| 2014 | Wall, Delmenhorst Municipal Gallery |
| 2012 | Dead End Heedfeld - Tunnel 8, Galerie Mathias Güntner, Hamburg |
| 2010 | Kunsthalle Göppingen |
| 2009 | Fragment / Platform I, Kunstverein Braunschweig | REMISE, Braunschweig Krakerts Keller, artfinder Galerie | Mathias Güntner, Hamburg |
| 2007 | New works, artfinder Gallery | Mathias Güntner, Hamburg |
| 2004 | L. Diesel, Kunstraum Düsseldorf |
| 2003 | Walkways, artfinder (project space), Hamburg |
| 2000 | Black Holes, Galerie von der Milwe, Aachen |
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selection)
| 2022 - 2024 | something new, something old, something desired, Hamburger Kunsthalle |
| 2022 | Falling into the House with the Door, New Acquisitions from the Federal Collection, Neues Museum - Staatliches Museum für Kunst und Design in Nuremberg How it all began, Museum der Arbeit Hamburg What Is Fiction?, Künstlerhaus Sootbörn, Hamburg Identity not proven, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn something new, something old, something desired, Hamburger Kunsthalle What Is Fiction?,Künstlerhaus Sootbörn, Hamburg Identity not proven, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn |
| 2021 | Out Of Space, Hamburger Kunsthalle |
| 2020 | Out Of Space, Hamburger Kunsthalle All Over, Gallery Mathias Güntner, Hamburg Fly - Arne Rautenberg Betextet Werke Der Sammlung, Städtische Galerie Delmenhorst Clash, Polar Space, Hamburg |
| 2019 | Breaking open, Barlach Hall K on Klosterwall, Hamburg Art at Hansaplatz, Berlin Science Fictions, Center Photographique, Rouen |
| 2018 | Honey, I rearranged the collection, #3 Bouncing in the corner. The measurement of space, Hamburger Kunsthalle |
| 2017 | Dark Matter, Desy, Hamburg Beckett was here!, Westwerk, Hamburg Band Art Festival 2, Malkasten, Düsseldorf |
| 2016 | Pieces of Water, Kunsthalle Göppingen, Göppingen Rethinking Images, Gallery Mathias Güntner, Hamburg Flux, Seoul Womens University, Seoul, South Korea Mixed Company, Oberpostdirektion, Hamburg Environmental Installation Art 16, Gangwon, South Korea Band Art Festival 1, Galerie Peter Tedden, Düsseldorf |
| 2015 | Psychogeographic Junction, Kunsthalle Bratislava private view 2, Municipal Gallery Villingen-Schwenningen |
| 2014 | Casino Weltgetriebe Dorf, Hamburg_Shanghai, Hall 4, Hamburg/Oberhafen North Light, Imazoo Gallery, Seoul, South Korea Floating Volumes #4, Künstlerhaus Friese, Hamburg Under the Earth, Kunstsammlung NRW, K21, Düsseldorf Happy Warriors, Part IV, Galerie Mathias Güntner, Hamburg Art is when... 25 years Kunsthalle Göppingen!, Kunsthalle Göppingen |
| 2013 | Power. Delusion. Vision - The Tower in Sculpture, Municipal Museums Heilbronn hi ti lo fi, Gallery Merete Hertz, Copenhagen, Denmark ALWAYS DOWNTOWN, The White House, Vienna Blowin Free Emscherkunst NRW 2013, Oberhausen Enviromental Installation Art, Baek Rak Temple, Gangwon, South Korea |
| 2012 | I Wish I Was a Song, Nasjonalmuseet - Museet for samtidkunst, Oslo, Norway Lost Places, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg To Begin Is To Be Half Done, Busanstation, Busan, South Korea Hold the Line - Feinkunst Krüger, Hamburg |
| 2011 | Happy Warriors / Part II, artfinder Galerie | Mathias Güntner, Hamburg Happy Warriors, artfinder Galerie | Mathias Güntner, Hamburg site-specific, Pluto - site-specific art, Berlin Deadwood, Loyal Gallery, Malmö |
| 2010 | LICHTPARCOURS braunschweig 2010, Braunschweig Rohre zur Sonne, Kunstverein Frankenthal |
| 2009 | Shop window, Fabrik der Künste, Hamburg LICHTPARCOURS braunschweig 2010, (exhibition of the designs), Kunstverein Braunschweig |
| 2008 | Berlin in the Light, Stadtmuseum Berlin / Märkisches Museum, Berlin We call it Hamburg, Kunstverein Hamburg -zoom+, Künstlerhaus Dortmund U-Pants Congress, Gallery NS16, Tilburg, Netherlands |
| 2007 | Perplex, Künstlerhaus Dortmund De Gerhard Richter - Markus Sixay. Particules d ́Histoire, LAAC, Dunkirk, France Picture Exchange 2, Marli Hoppe-Ritter Collection, Museum Ritter, Waldenbuch Whether I see that, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg |
| 2006 | MINIMAL QUOTATION, Gallery Mathias Güntner, Hamburg FRIENDS AND ENEMIES, Gagosian Gallery (bb4 project space), Berlin GOETHE ABWÄRTS - DEUTSCHE JUNGS ETC, Mönchehaus Museum, Goslar HAPPY HOURS, Stefan Rasche Gallery, Münster Falckenberg, Mönchehaus-Museum, Goslar / Meilahti Art Museum Helsinki |
| 2005 | UWAGA BERLIN, Kunstraum Düsseldorf / Kunstverein Aichach Really important: Kunst uit Berlijn, P////AKT, Amsterdam Remix. Focus Painting, Columbus Art Foundation, Ravensburg IBAC - International Biennial of Conpemporary Art, National Gallery, Prague |
COLLECTIONS
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Collection of Contemporary Art of the Federal Republic of Germany, other private collections