Jan Köchermann

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