CV
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 'As I descended into impassible waters I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen', Zeno X Gallery Antwerp Borgerhout,
Antwerp (BE)
2020 'Sleep', Massimo De Carlo, London (UK)
'Johannes Kahrs', Hall Art Foundation | Schloss Derneburg Museum, Derneburg (DE)
2018 'Hell I Am', Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp Borgerhout (BE)
2017 'Embrace', Luhring Augustine, New York (US)
2016 'Then, maybe, the explosion of a star', FRAC Île-de-France, Paris (FR)
'Early this mornin’, ooh', Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp Borgerhout (BE)
2014 'Tropical Nights', Kunsthalle Nürnberg (DE)
'Tropical Nights', Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp Borgerhout (BE)
2013 'Johannes Kahrs', Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden (DE)
2012 'Johannes Kahrs', CentrePasquArt, Biel (CH)
2011 'Johannes Kahrs', Luhring Augustine, New York (US)
2010 'Johannes Kahrs', Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp (BE)
2009 'I can't think of the finish', Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp (BE)
2008 'Eyes on his body',Luhring Augustine, New York, NY (US)
2007 'Men with music', GAMeC, Bergamo (IT)
2006 'Lonely long meaningless way home', Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art, London (UK)
'Ein ganz fremder Nackter', Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp (BE)
2004 'Dunkles Zimmer', Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp (BE)
2003 'Down 'n Out', Zeno X Storage, Antwerp (BE)
2002 'Down 'n Out', Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (DE)
'Questions', Studio Massimo de Carlo, Milan (IT)
'The Drunken Boat', Galerie Almine Rech, Paris (FR)
2001 'A-h', S.M.A.K., Ghent (BE)
'A-h', FRAC des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou (FR)
'A-h', Kunstverein München, München (DE)
2000 'La révolution Permanente', Galerie Almine Rech, Paris (FR)
'Night in Sexyland', Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp (BE)
'Shot and Painted', Galerie Franck + Schulte, Berlin (DE)
'Last virgin on the left', Galerie Signal, Malmö (Sweden)
1999 'Statement', Art 29 Basel, pres. by Galerie Almine Rech, Basel (CH)
1998 'Why don't you paint my portrait', Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen (DE)
'Double Stage - 6 Seconds Popular Violence', Galerie Franck + Schulte, Berlin (DE)
'A-h', Galerie Almine Reich, Paris (FR)
'Schwarzes Loch/Weisse Wand', Galerie Franck + Schulte, Berlin (DE)
1997 '93´09´´- Vorzimmer / 4 Klacks', Vereniging Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent (BE)
'hole', Galerie Arndt & Partner, Berlin (DE)
'Thomson Homestead, Slater, Misouri', Galerie Transit, Leuven (BE)
1995 'Bild und Malerei', Galerie Wohnmaschine, Berlin (DE)
1994 'Schlag doch', DAAD Galerie, Berlin (DE)
1993 'Keine Falsche Bewegung', Galerie Mutzek, Berlin (DE)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 'Peinture: Obsolescence déprogrammée', Musée de l’Abbaye Sainte-Croix, Les Sables d’Olonne (FR)
'Disagio del Corpo', Massimo De Carlo, Milan (IT)
2019 'Michael Jackson: On the Wall', Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Espoo (FI)
'Michael Jackson: On the Wall', Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn (DE)
'Trouble in Paradise, Collection Rattan Chadha', Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam (NL)
2018 ''Michael Jackson: On the Wall', Grand Palais, Paris (FR)
'Works on Paper I', Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp Borgerhout (BE)
'Michael Jackson: On the Wall', National Portrait Gallery, London (GB)
2017 'The Truth of Uncertainty: Moving Image Works from the Hall Collection', Schloss Derneburg, Derneburg (DE)
2016 'In the Cage of Freedom', Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg (DE)
'Retour au Meilleur des Mondes', FRAC Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand (FR)
'Private Exposure', me Collectors Room, Berlin (DE)
2015 'Prima Facie: Works from the Igal Ahouvi Art Collection', The Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv (IL)
'I am a Lie and I am Gold', Yossi Milo Gallery, New York (US)
'13th Lyon Biennial: La Vie Moderne', MAC, Lyon (FR)
'Sense Uncertainty. A Private Collection', Kunsthaus Zürich (CH)
'Raoul De Keyser, Johannes Kahrs, Mark Manders, Mircea Suciu, Patrick Van Caeckenbergh', Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp Borgerhout (BE)
'Cannibalism? On Appropriation in Art', Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw (PL)
'Works on Paper II', Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp Borgerhout (BE)
2014 'Donkere kamers, Over melancholie en depressie', Museum Dr. Guislain, Ghent (BE)
'Kees Goudwaard, Kim Jones, Johannes Kahrs, Jenny Scobel, Jack Whitten', Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp Borgerhout (BE)
'Mediations Biennale 2014', National Museum Poznan, Poznan (PL)
2013 'Opening New Space', Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp Borgerhout (BE)
'Geteilt/ ungeteilt. Kunst in Deutschland 1945 bis 2010', Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Ausstellung der Galerie Neue Meister, Dresden (DE)
2012 'Fruits de la passion', Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (FR)
'Schach Matt', Märkisches Museum, Witten (DE)
2011 'abc, about painting', Station-Berlin, Berlin (DE)
2010 'Objetos Desclasificados', Caixa Forum, Barcelona (ES)
'Celebration . Ouverture nouvel espace', Frac Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand (FR)
2009 'Private Universes', Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas (US)
'Between Art and Life. The contemporary Painting and Sculpture Collection', SFMOMA, San Francisco (US)
'Defiance & Melancholy. German Painting from the Dresden Albertinum/galerie Neue Meister.', Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki (FI)
'Re-Imagining Asia', The New Art Gallery, Walsall (GB)
2008 'Re-Imagining Asia', House of World Cultures, Berlin (DE)
'Colección de Arte Contemporáneo de la Fundación la Caixa', Caixaforum, Madrid (ES)
'western moderne', FRAC Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand (FR)
'The Painting of Modern Life', Castello di Rivoli, Turin (IT)
2007 'The Painting of Modern Life', Hayward Gallery, London (GB)
'De Cirkel', Roger Raveelmuseum, Machelen-Zulte (BE)
'Visit(e): Contemporary art in Germany', Bozar, Brussels (BE)
'Works on paper', Zeno X Gallery & Zeno X Storage, Antwerp (BE)
2006 'Vous êtes ici', FRAC Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand (FR)
'Parcours video-installatie', Beursschouwburg, Brussels (BE)
'Constructing Reality: New Berlin', Bass Museum of Art, Miami (US)
'25 years Zeno X Gallery', Zeno X Gallery & Zeno X Storage, Antwerp (BE)
'Leeftijdgenoten', Roger Raveelmuseum, Machelen-aan-de-Leie (BE)
'flutter', The approach, London (GB)
'Constructing Reality: New Berlin', Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix Arizona (US)
'Johannes Kahrs, Magnus von Plessen, Eberhard Havekost und Wilhelm Sasnal', Colecçao Fundaçao de Serralves - Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto (PT)
'Le Mouvement des Images', Centre Pompidou, Paris (FR)
'La mirade de l'artista: la proposta de Juan Uslé. Collectio d'Art Cotnemporani Fundacio La Caixa', Fundacio 'La Caixa', Barcelona (ES)
2005 'Zur Vorstellung des Terrors: Die RAF - Ausstellung', Kunst-Werke, Berlin (DE)
'Young artists (selected by)', Witte Zaal, Ghent (BE)
2004 'Drafting Deceit', Apexart, New York (US)
'45th October Salon: Continental Breakfast', Belgrado, Servia
'Manifesta 5', European Biennale of Contemporary Art, San Sebastian (ES)
'Contre - Images', Carré d'Art, Nîmes (FR)
'Berlin-Moskau / Moskau-Berlin 1950-2000', Staatliche Tretjakov Galerie, Moscow, (RU)
'Zie Tekening', Project Voorkamer, Stedelijk Museum Wuyts-Van Campen & Baron Caroly, Lier (BE)
'Was Malerei heute ist', Stiftung Opelvillen, Rüsselheim (DE)
2003 'Fuori Uso 03', Pescara (IT)
'Plastik, Plüsh und Politik - Reflexe der 70er Jahre in der Gegenwartskunst', Städtische Galerie Nordhorn, Nordhorn (DE)
'Berlin-Moskau / Moskau-Berlin 1950-2000', Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin (DE)
'Kiss and Ride', Z33 / Begijnhof, Hasselt (BE)
'Warum! Bilder diesseits und jenseits des Menschen', Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin (DE)
'A Mains Nues', FRAC Haute-Normandie (FR)
'Deutschemalereizweitausenddrei', Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt (DE)
2002 'Great Theater of the World', Taipei Biennal, Taipeh (TW)
'Cardinales', MARCO - Museo de Arte Contemporànea de Vigo, Vigo (ES)
'Questions', Studio Massimo de Carlo, Milan (IT)
'Without Consent', CAN - Centre d'art de Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel (CH)
2001 'In/Site/Out', Apex, New York (US)
'Double - Trouble', Borusan Kültur ve Sanat, Instanbul (TR)
'Moving Pictures.Photography and Film in Contemporary Art', Villa Merkel / Bahnwärterhaus, Esslingen (DE)
'Screen', Psychiatrisch Centrum Sleidinge, Sleidinge (BE)
'Squatters', Museo de Art Contemporain de Serralves, Porto (PT)
2000 'Indoor', S.M.A.K., Ghent (BE)
'Children of Berlin', Museum Folkwang, Essen (DE)
'Dorothea von Stetten Kunstprize', Kunstmuseum Bonn (DE)
Kunstbank Berlin, Berlin (DE)
1999 'Face à l'Autre', FRAC Haute-Normandie (FR)
'The Children of Berlin', PS 1, New York (US)
'Ainsi de suite 3', Centre d'Art Contemporain, Sète (FR)
'Rue Louise Weiss', Centre d'Art contemporain, Meymac (FR)
'Indoor', Musée d'Art Contemporain, Lyon (FR)
'Art Club Berlin', AU Base, New York (US)
'Independance day', Kunst-Werke e.V. , Berlin (DE)
'Drawings', Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp (BE)
'EV+A', Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick (IR)
1998 Biennale de Berlin, Berlin (DE)
'The Cinema Project', Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (DE)
'Indoor', Centro civico per l'Arte Contemporanea, Serre di Rapolano (IT)
'Le présent du Futur', FRAC Languedoc-Rousillon, Montpellier (FR)
'Kamikaze', Marstall, Berlin (DE)
1997 'Heaven - Private View', P.S.1, New York (US)
'Selection Fall 1997', Drawing Center, New York (US)
'Korrespondenzen', Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh (UK)
'Fenêtre sur cour', Galerie Almine Reich, Paris (FR)
1996 'The Aggression of Beauty', Galerie Arndt & Partner, Berlin (DE)
'Nach Weimar', Kunstsammlungen zu Weimar, Weimar (DE)
'Laboratorium Berlin - Moscow', Contemporary Art Center, Moscow (RU)
1995 'Club Berlin', Biennale XLV, Venice (IT)
'Close Up', Städtische Galerie, Bremen (DE)
'Filmcuts', Galerie Neugerriemschneider, Berlin (DE)
'Drawings', Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich (CH)
1994 'Postconceptual Painting', Kunstwerke, Berlin (DE)
'A Personal Choice', Galerie Franck + Schulte, Berlin (DE)
1990 'Geist und Körper', Deutsches Museum für Geschichte, Berlin (DE)