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| PHILIP HAUSMEIER |
The work of Philip Hausmeier explores in a range of media including installation, video
and collage bodily perception and its environmental correlations, and particularly
concentrates on physical and psychological conditions that define the self as an
impermanent and fragmented entity. The body is seen as a base material from which to
examine potential meanings of subjective feeling.
‘To the other shore’ (2007) shows a projected loop of struggling birds endlessly falling
down the skies. Immersed in this almost hypnotic sequence the viewer begins to falls
with them, and finding nowhere to rest, fluctuates between the filmed image and an
internal change of state becoming conscious.
This ambiguity between image and subjective feeling is further investigated in Hausmeier’
s new series of collages called ‘Uncertain Stages’. Magazine images of musicians and
singers caught in their emotional exaggeration on stage are cut and arranged to reform
the image to the edge of hovering between abstract formalism and the remains of
selfexpression. The body as a means for externalizing emotion appears to be in conflict
with its surroundings and other bodies, broken and fragmented. Yet at the same time
the works seem to present themselves as poetic plays of light and darkness, functioning
as extensions of a torn and unstable subjectivity.
Lives and works in Berlin.
Exhibitions
EDUCATION
2003–2005 Slade School of Fine Art, London, MFA
1999–2003 University of Applied Sciences, Düsseldorf, Germany
SCHOLARSHIPS
2006 Boise Travel Scholarship, Spain and Japan
AWARDS
2009 Art Prize - Light, Kunstkreis Gräfelfing, Munich
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011 For a blue cliff record, Volker Bradtke, Düsseldorf
2010 The Deal, Maribel Lopez Gallery, Berlin
Conditional States, with Anton Burdakov, secondhome, Berlin
Art Forum, with Mariah Robertson, Museum 52, Berlin
2008 When leaves fall they return to the root
When I come I'll have no mouth, Museum 52, London
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011
Physical Center: London, Yinka Shonibare Guest Projects, London
From Slapstick to Horror, Latitude, Suffolk
From Slapstick to Horror, Nunhead Open 8, London
Complex systems and the other side, Alte Giesserei, Berlin
2010
Personal Freedom, Portugal Arte 10, Lisbon
Physical Center: Brooklyn, Convent of Saint Cecilia, New York
Droppolis 2010, Am Gereonswall 32, Cologne
Schnell & Schmutzig, Markthalle Eisenstrasse, labmontage, Berlin
Black No.5, Grau 6, SRR 10, Düsseldorf
2009
Art Prize - Light, Kunstkreis Gräfelfing, Munich
It's Only A Paper Moon, Galleria Galica, Milan
Works on Paper, Museum 52, London
2008
2, Ringel/Garage, Düsseldorf
Parallax, Fieldgate Gallery, London
Riflessioni Geometriche, Galeria Galica, Milan
2007
Display, Museum 52, New York
Walking Through Walls, Artists Studios, Tel Aviv
Don't Leave, St. Ethelburgas, London
Consequence, Museum 52, London
2006
Assemblage III, Museum 52, London
Concrete Allotment, temporarycontemporary, London
2005
Twenty to One, Canary Wharf, London
Red Line, Whitfield Space, London
COLLECTIONS
MONA Tasmania, Australia
UCL Art Collection, London
David Roberts Collection, London
Burt Aaron Collection, Michigan
Stefan Simchowitz Collection, Los Angeles
and collage bodily perception and its environmental correlations, and particularly
concentrates on physical and psychological conditions that define the self as an
impermanent and fragmented entity. The body is seen as a base material from which to
examine potential meanings of subjective feeling.
‘To the other shore’ (2007) shows a projected loop of struggling birds endlessly falling
down the skies. Immersed in this almost hypnotic sequence the viewer begins to falls
with them, and finding nowhere to rest, fluctuates between the filmed image and an
internal change of state becoming conscious.
This ambiguity between image and subjective feeling is further investigated in Hausmeier’
s new series of collages called ‘Uncertain Stages’. Magazine images of musicians and
singers caught in their emotional exaggeration on stage are cut and arranged to reform
the image to the edge of hovering between abstract formalism and the remains of
selfexpression. The body as a means for externalizing emotion appears to be in conflict
with its surroundings and other bodies, broken and fragmented. Yet at the same time
the works seem to present themselves as poetic plays of light and darkness, functioning
as extensions of a torn and unstable subjectivity.
Lives and works in Berlin.
Exhibitions
EDUCATION
2003–2005 Slade School of Fine Art, London, MFA
1999–2003 University of Applied Sciences, Düsseldorf, Germany
SCHOLARSHIPS
2006 Boise Travel Scholarship, Spain and Japan
AWARDS
2009 Art Prize - Light, Kunstkreis Gräfelfing, Munich
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011 For a blue cliff record, Volker Bradtke, Düsseldorf
2010 The Deal, Maribel Lopez Gallery, Berlin
Conditional States, with Anton Burdakov, secondhome, Berlin
Art Forum, with Mariah Robertson, Museum 52, Berlin
2008 When leaves fall they return to the root
When I come I'll have no mouth, Museum 52, London
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011
Physical Center: London, Yinka Shonibare Guest Projects, London
From Slapstick to Horror, Latitude, Suffolk
From Slapstick to Horror, Nunhead Open 8, London
Complex systems and the other side, Alte Giesserei, Berlin
2010
Personal Freedom, Portugal Arte 10, Lisbon
Physical Center: Brooklyn, Convent of Saint Cecilia, New York
Droppolis 2010, Am Gereonswall 32, Cologne
Schnell & Schmutzig, Markthalle Eisenstrasse, labmontage, Berlin
Black No.5, Grau 6, SRR 10, Düsseldorf
2009
Art Prize - Light, Kunstkreis Gräfelfing, Munich
It's Only A Paper Moon, Galleria Galica, Milan
Works on Paper, Museum 52, London
2008
2, Ringel/Garage, Düsseldorf
Parallax, Fieldgate Gallery, London
Riflessioni Geometriche, Galeria Galica, Milan
2007
Display, Museum 52, New York
Walking Through Walls, Artists Studios, Tel Aviv
Don't Leave, St. Ethelburgas, London
Consequence, Museum 52, London
2006
Assemblage III, Museum 52, London
Concrete Allotment, temporarycontemporary, London
2005
Twenty to One, Canary Wharf, London
Red Line, Whitfield Space, London
COLLECTIONS
MONA Tasmania, Australia
UCL Art Collection, London
David Roberts Collection, London
Burt Aaron Collection, Michigan
Stefan Simchowitz Collection, Los Angeles
