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2010
 
01-26-2010
ek-phre-ses
Exhibit "ek-phre-ses" at Lift Trucks Project, Croton Falls, NY, USA
Jan 30th - March 27th, 2010
opening Jan 30th, 5 pm to 8 pm

“This exchange between artists and writers is ancient,” said curator Pamela Hart. “The Greeks started it all and named it ‘ekphrasis’ or a verbal representation of a visual work of art.”

“Do something,” Jasper Johns admonished artists. Take a dream or a flag or a color and “do something to that,” Johns said, again and again. So artists get ideas from the world around them, from experience and memory. And even from other artists. A visual work of art can inspire a writer, for instance. Using visual works of art as springboards for writing is the focus of this exciting exhibition.

[Invitation card]

Further information: ltproject.com
01-20-2010
Ottmar Hörl bei Kunsthandlung Josef Springmann Freiburg
23.1. bis 1.2.2010
Eröffnung Samstag, 23.1.2010 um 11 Uhr

Kunsthandlung Josef Springmann Freiburg
Schusterstraße 25
79098 Freiburg
Tel.: +49 (0)761 24654

[Plakat]  

Further information: www.badische-zeitung.de of 01-25-2010
Photos: Werner Scheuermann, Sven Hofmann
01-17-2010
"Wir haben als Künstler versagt"

Ottmar Hörl bei [einfallsreich.tv]  
01-16-2010
Revolt of the Gnomes
Video film project in Bremerhaven by Unerhört-Verein für Neue Musik e.V. and 500 Welcome Gnomes from Ottmar Hörl plus a musical contribution by Ottmar Hörl

Revolt of the Gnomes in Grünhöfe
Summer 2009 the Immanuel Kant School Media Workshop promoted a media culture project for children and teenagers in Grünhöfe, Bremerhaven. To open up and present new perspectives for their borough was the project intention. Focus of the plot are 500 Welcome Gnomes, manually moved cross-town for a stop motion film. Step by step a film has been created whose pseudo movements come together with the reality taking place in the town. From about 20.000 shots a film has been made on the computer. The story: An UFO lands in Grünhöfe, on board 500 garden gnomes in search of their creator Ottmar Hörl, who summons his gnomes playing the passion ”the Pied Piper of Hamelin” on an electric cello in the Grünhöfe Petrus Church. 50 Grade 6 pupils accompanied for one week the gnomes invasion and introduced them to their borough, its institutions, super markets, fast food restaurants, high-rise buildings, streets and intersections…

To the Videos: [Video]

Further information at www.kumulus-bremerhaven.de   www.jenscarstensen.de

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01-14-2010
Ottmar Hörl auf der art KARLSRUHE, Internationale Messe für Klassische Moderne und Gegenwartskunst
vom 4. bis 7. März 2010

bei folgenden Galerien:

ABTart GmbH
Galerie Kasten
Maisenbacher Art Gallery

Weitere Informationen: www.art-karlsruhe.de   www.ebgruppe-services.de

01-12-2010
Meisterstücke

14. Februar bis 27. März 2010
Eröffnung: Sonntag, 14. Februar, 16 Uhr
Galerie Kasten, Dr. Friedrich W. Kasten, Werderstr, 18, 68165 Mannheim

Die künstlerischen Ausdrucksformen des Bildhauers und Konzeptkünstlers Ottmar Hörl sind vielfältig und lassen sich nicht auf eine bestimmte Stilrichtung festlegen. Das Prinzip der Serialität, der Respekt vor der Integrität des Objekts und die Frage nach Regeln der Ordnung, gepaart mit dem ihm ganz eigenen Humor, sind Leitmotive seiner künstlerischen Arbeit. Seine Plastiken beinhalten gleichzeitig Organisations- wie Interventionsprinzipien, die unsere Wahrnehmung verändern. Die Materialien, die er verwendet, stammen zumeist aus industriellen Produktionsprozessen. Mit seinen singulären Rauminstallationen, Skulpturen im öffentlichen Raum und Fotokonzepten erweitert Hörl den Begriff des Plastischen zeit- und wahrnehmungsbezogen.

Weitere Informationen: www.galerie-kasten.de

Mannheimer Morgen of 03-17-2010

Bild: Ottmar Hörl, Die drei Grazien, 2009 (Jean Baptiste Regnault 1793, Louvre)
        185 x 135 cm, Inkjet-Druck auf Leinwand, Auflage 3

Bilder aus der Ausstellung:
Photos: Werner Scheuermann
01-12-2010
Ort der Engel

18. KunstWeihnachtsBaum Götzenhain
Eröffnung: 28.11.2009

Zusammen mit Ottmar Hörl realisiert Margarete Habernoll vom „Kunstraum Habernoll“, dem Förderverein Alt-Götzenhain und vielen ehrenamtlich Tätigen dieses Jahr zum 18. Mal den KunstWeihnachtsBaum in Götzenhain. Begonnen jedoch haben die Vorbereitungen zur diesjährigen Skulptur „Ort der Engel“ schon vor einem Jahr. Der letztjährige Weihnachtsbaum, eine 11 m hohe Tanne, blieb stehen und die Bürger konnten die natürliche Verwandlung des Baumes während der Jahreszeiten miterleben: Wie die Tanne zuerst die Nadeln abwarf und dadurch Licht und Platz schuf für Neues. Statt weihnachtlichem Lichterfluss leuchteten nun bunte Sommerblumen auf den Zweigen, bis im Herbst Kürbisse und andere rankende Gemüsesorten den Baum umschlangen und begrünten. Am Ende dieser jahreszeitlichen Übergangsphasen erfüllt sich nun das Ziel: 100 goldene Engel nehmen auf der Tanne ihren Platz ein und verwandeln sie zu einer Engel-Skulptur…

Weitere Informationen: www.goetzenhain.de   Eröffnungsrede   Presseinformation  


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Photos: Kunstraum Habernoll
2009
 
12-09-2009
Angels over Munich

The interior of Heilig Kreuz Church in Munich-Giesing is entirely scaffolded due to renovation. Several hundred of golden Guardian Angels spread out over this scaffold forest.

Opening December 13, 2009
December 13 2009 – February 2, 2010, open every day from 8 am to 7 pm, Thursdays from 1 pm to 7 pm.

Further information at www.erzbistum-muenchen.de   www.engel-ueber-muenchen.de   [Exhibition Concepts]  


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Photos: Werner Scheuermann
10-12-2009
Dance with the Devil

Installation mit 1200 Poisoned-Zwergen auf dem Ludwigsplatz in Straubing
15. bis 19. Oktober 2009

Eröffnung 15. Oktober 2009 um 17 Uhr.   Plakat   [Media reports]   [Exhibition Concepts]   press release


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Photos: Werner Scheuermann
08-24-2009
Lady with an Ermine

Installation width 1500 hermines on the Maria-Magdalena-Square in Krakau
September, 5 – 25, 2009

Further information at www.damazgronostajem.com
[more]   Flyer   [Projects]   [Media reports]


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Photos: Werner Scheuermann
08-23-2009
Betriebsausflug – eine Installation von Ottmar Hörl

1000 Erdmännchen unternehmen einen Betriebsausflug in die Umgebung des Hofgut Hohenkarpfen.

Eröffnung 13. September 2009, 11 Uhr  Einladung  Flyer  [Projects]


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07-18-2009

A society cannot be judged by the use of the gnome as a symbol. The gnome does not hold a mirror up to society, but instead fills a void and uses symbols or rather gestures that connect societies.
My relationship with the Poisoned Gnome is therefore completely objective. I made this gnome as a public figure. I do not peddle in morals or ideologies and make no suggestions. I offer an idea that I can present to society, and leave open to personal interpretation. Some may see this gnome as ironic, or interpret it so seriously that they feel insulted, but regardless of the feelings it provokes, they are not part of my context.

December 5-9, 2008
Dance with the devil, Lineart Gent, with Maisenbacher Art Gallery
[more]   [Exhibition Concepts]

Video: Dance with the Devil Lineart Gent 2008,  more [Media reports]

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2008
 
08-15-2008

Under the joint exhibition + reality shows Ottmar Hörl view in the Galerie Kasten, Werder Strasse 18, 68165 Mannheim various aspects of its work. The exhibition shows five singular contributions of contemporary art. The sculptures, paintings and objects mulitple by Hubertus von der Goltz, Ottmar Hörl, Michael Morgner, Stefan Pietryga and Andreas von Weizsäcker (1956-2008) stand for an authentic artistic imagery. For all its individuality in their aesthetic positions, they look at our present together. In its visual strategies, the artists were questioning the man with his individual actions and reactions in the heart of their work. The exhibition is trying to visitors in relation to artistic works. "Reality + view" - says künsterlisches grasp of reality from the profit of opinion and reality in the opinion of the viewer.

Opening the exhibition: Friday, 12 September 2008 from 18:00 to 23:00 clock

Further information at www.galerie-kasten.de
08-13-2008
The Pug

Presentation in the framework of the 8th Art Bodensee in Dornbirn, Austria Maisenbacher Art Gallery / Trier - Berlin, 31 July to 03 August 2008

Further information at www.vol.at  


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05-28-2008
Wirklichkeit + ... Anschauung ..

Four figurative positions in the art house Potsdam, Ulanenweg 9, 14469 Potsdam , 30 May 2008 to 06 July 2008.
Opening the exhibition: 30 May 2008 at 19:00 clock.
Ottmar Hörl will be present.

Further information at www.kunsthaus-potsdam.de


05-14-2008
Ottmar Hörl Panorama

Ottmar Hörl Panorama exhibition in the gallery Benden & Klimczak,
Viersen Oberstraße 2, 41749 Viersen, 17 May to 21 June 2008
Exhibition Opening Friday, 16 May 2008 19:00 to 21:00 clock

04-16-2008
spielART

An exhibition of the initiative for the series "play it - art and game", with 30 galleries and Intitutionen in Stuttgart.
Prof. Ottmar Hörl - sound objects

Galerie ABTart, Sigmaringer Straße 57a, 70567 Stuttgart

Exhibition: 18. April - 29. Mai 2008
Opening: Fr. 18. April, 20 Uhr
Further information at www.abtart.com


03-06-2008
Modern Sculpture

Individual exhibit by Ottmar Hörl at the Erhard Witzel Gallery, Kaiser Friedrich Ring 63, 65185 Wiesbaden, Germany, titled "Modern Sculpture".

Professor Ottmar Hörl exhibits recent works in the Erhard Witzel Gallery.
Further information at www.galerie-witzel.de


2007
 
11-30-2007
gold rush

Individual exhibition by Ottmar Hörl at Gallery Mariette Haas, Neubaustrasse 2, 85049 Ingolstadt, from November 30, 2007 to January 30, 2008 and an installation with Guardian Angels at various locations in the city of Ingolstadt until September 2008
Further information: www.galerie-haas.de and Installation "schutzengel"


10-29-2007
One should not kill the Hen that lays Golden Eggs

An exhibition project by Professor Ottmar Hörl at the Bank of Baden-Wuerttemberg, Kleiner Schlossplatz 11, 70173 Stuttgart, Germany.

10-29-2007
Gallery at the Dome, Krämergasse, 35578 Wetzlar, Germany

Ottmar Hörl: Hessian Lion
An exhibit showing works by Ottmar Hörl.
Further information at www.galerie-am-dom.de


10-28-2007
750 years - Discover the old Castle Anew

On the 750th anniversary of the Wittelsbach Castle in Friedberg, Professor Ottmar Hörl installs 300 golden rats in the attic of the Bavarian Castle Museum in Friedberg.
Further information at www.museum-friedberg.de


08-28-2007
Hessian Lion - Major Installation by Professor Ottmar Hörl

3000 lion Multiples on the Kranzplatz in front of the Hessian State Chamber in Wiesbaden, Germany. Opening by the Prime Minister of Hessia, Roland Koch.
Further information at www.hessen.de and  www.stk.hessen.de


08-28-2007
Sculptures in the Park, 2007 Moerfelden-Walldorf

The Municipal Gallery in the Park at the Buergerhaus in Moerfelden shows the installation "The Lost Dream" by Professor Ottmar Hörl On the park lawn in the City Park of Moerfelden, 200 Teddy bears sit accompanied by a sculpture, a rostrum of 70 figures that put both hands in front of their eyes to bring to the beholder's mind that it is sometimes a peculiar way of reality to wake up in the morning and be grateful that what you dreamed has not become true. And that some dreams are so beautiful that one is disappointed when one awakens and the dream is over.

08-06-2007
7th Art and Culture Summer "The Exposed Animal"

An exhibition project by the art association KISS - Art at the Untergröningen Castle e.V. (AdKV).
Further information at KISS


05-14-2007
Crime Scene: Paderborn, Germany "Earthly Might and Heavenly Powers"
A public environment art project by the city of Paderborn

[more]

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01-20-2007
Dürer Hare - Special Edition - Silkscreen hand-signed by Professor Ottmar Hörl

As of January 1, 2007 a limited silkscreen edition of "Dürer Hare" may be ordered at our Shop
2006
 
08-30-2006
"Landscape", Mariette Haas Gallery, Ingolstadt, Germany. An exhibition by the students of Professor Hörl's sculpture class at the Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg, Germany.

Several positions of the landscape theme are exhibited. Further information at Gallery Haas
08-25-2006
7 steps, Wülfingstairs, Weltanschauung Model I (Worldview Model I) Wuppertal Ostersbaum, Germany (stair complex)

An art project of the Elisabeth Montag Foundation in cooperation with the city of Wuppertal and the Regionale 2006 and with the support of the Ministry for Buildings and Traffic of the state of Nordrhein- Westphalia. Curator: Ingrid Raschke-Stuwe
Further information at Elisabeth Montag Stiftung
05-04-2006
Exhibition Dates

May 3, 2006 Amsterdam / Art Amsterdam - KunstRai 2006 / booth 133 (Maisenbacher Art Gallery, Trier-Berlin)
May 18, 2006 Paris / Gallery Lefor-Openo
May 20, 2006 Dresden / Art Academy, Gallery of Fine Arts GmbH
June 8, 2006 Vienna / Gallery Peithner-Lichtenfels "fifty-fifty"
June 16, 2006 Metz / Arsenal: L'ile d'orée - voyage à la fin de la lumière - Wagner & Liszt
June 25, 2006 Göppingen / Hall of Art - subject exhibition "Horse Tales"
02-22-2006
1,200 Dwarfs for Karlsruhe art Karlsruhe 2006

Professor Ottmar Hörl, President of the Academy for Fine Arts in Nuremberg following an invitation of the art exhibit in Karlsruhe presents an installation of 1,200 dwarfs titled "Bearers of Secrets, see nothing - hear nothing - say nothing" [more]
01-02-2006
Exhibition of Professor Hörl's Class of Students Artbox Frankfurt am Main

20 students from Professor Hörl's class for sculpture and fine arts at the Academy of Fine Arts will participate in the exhibit New designed objects, especially created for the exhibit will be on display
2005
 
11-10-2005
The Rottweil Dogs - Pedestrian Zone Rottweil

When the exhibit at the Erich-Hauser-Sculpture Park of the Art Foundation Erich Hauser, Rottweiler Saline, is closed the Rottweil Dogs travel on to the pedestrian zone of Rottweil. During this event, Rottweil Dog sculptures may be purchased [more]
10-29-2005
Ben, the Praying (Garden) Gnome

Initial presentation at the art fair, Cologne, Maisenbacher Art Gallery Trier-Berlin
10-10-2005
The Rottweil Dogs - Erich Hauser Art Foundation

06-07-2005
Professor Ottmar Hörl becomes new President of the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg.

He succeeds Professor Ulla Mayer as of October 1, 2005 [more]
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