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+44 7890830741 120 Harvey Drive, Wilson House, Whitstable CT5 3QY, UK Studio 16 , 21 Wren Street, Bloomsbury , London WC1 Born in 1957 in Germany Alf Löhr trained as an artist at the Academy of Modern Art in Düsseldorf with Ullrich, Reusch, Heerich and moved to London where he received a Ph.D. at the Royal College of Art for his public art projects. Continuing his research in this area with the support of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation he moved to Seattle and San Francisco in the following years, where he was lecturing at the School of Art and a fellow to the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Washington, focusing on post modern conditions to socially engaged process orientated art in the U.S. During his tenure he organized international conferences on public art, “ Can artist make a difference”. On his return to Europe Löhr taught as a senior lecturer at the Environmental Art Department at the Glasgow School of Art and took a leading role as a board member of the German artist association Deutscher Künstlerbund in Berlin and the international artist association IGBK. He was awarded the UWIC Fellowship in Cardiff where he founded Art and Ecology Research Projects, an initiative to enable interdisciplinary projects for artists with industry and professionals. In Britain he carried out large scale public art projects for Roles Royce Turbine Manufactures, the Michelin tire company, the county of East Kilbride, the cities of Edinburgh andcollaborated with Hermes, Paris and Studio&Partners, Milano. From 2006 to 2008 Alf Löhr took his family for extensive travels through the Australian desert. The confrontation with such wilderness provoked a determination to focus solely on his life long passion for painting. He returned to London in 2008 and took a studio in Bloomsbury and lately in Whitstable, Kent, where he paints large abstract works on paper and canvas that capture time and fluidity. Löhr’s abstract paintings orchestrate on mostly large canvases a complex interaction between color, form and pictorial space. He works with many layers of paint on paper or canvas, mostly translucent which in the process of painting are sometimes removed again and replaced by new ones. The entire chronology of his working process remains visible through the formations of overlapping, translucent layers of paint. Polyfocal space: For just as a poet writes a poem or a composer a song, Alf Löhr as a painter, uses colour and canvas in order to create something new in his own language, and thus to add something to the world. The polyfocal space, the ordered line, the contrary motion, the rhythm, the sustained tone, the melody or the amoeba-like form guide the viewer through unknown spaces, and all of a sudden we feel ourselves placed in dialogue: the painting and I. The American critic Dr. Mark Bartlett writes: Löhr’s work embodies the keenest of contradictions that make us human. His works articulate these themes with extraordinary precision, and passion. They tap into the liminal zones where our desires are formed. They suggest ways that we can go beyond limits and ourselves. It is a form of transgression that allows us to feel and see the world anew. Alf Löhr Born 1957 in Bochum, Germany 1977–83 MFA Kunstakademie Düsseldorf 1985–88 Ph. D. Royal College of Art, London Exhibitions 2023 ' Shadowlands ' curated by Prof. Dr Gerhard Graulich , Goldbergkunst ' Alter Ego ' performance with Ulrike Brand and the Sicilian Improvisors Orchestra, Curva Minore, Palermo ' Nacht über Deutschland ' ein Installation von Tanja Zimmermann zu Gertrud Bing, Casper David Friedrich Institute, Greifswald ' Alter Ego' Museo Antonio Pasqualino Internationale Delle Marionette, Palermo 2022 'Diario di Palermo', mit Ulrike Brand, Cantieri Culturali alla Zisa-Sala Michele Perriera, Curve Minore, Palermo , 2020 Der Sturm/ The Tempest , Staatliches Museum Schwerin 2019 'Nodi di Colore- Specci di Cielo', La Fondazione Bogliasco, Genoa 2018 Royal Academy 250 year Anniversary Summer Show, London 2017 Working in India, Spain, England 2015 " Reise nach Indien", Galerie Alter& Neuer Meister, Staatliche Museen Schwerin, Gupta, Löhr, Graf, Shetty, Flohrschuetz “Fremd Sein”, Staedtische Galerie Ostfildern, Camil Leberer und Alf Löhr 2014 “ Water and Colour” curated by Becca Pelly-Fry, Griffin Galerei, London “ Venus and Cupit”, Angus Broadbent Gallery , London Working in India, Spain, London. 2013 “In the shadow of the dinosaur”, Berlin, Museum für Naturkunde “Paintings from three continents” Adam Gallery, London 2012 Residency at Saaram Centre, Kottajam “In Context”, Performance at Situation Kunst, Bochum with Stephan Ullrich, Voice, and Wolfgang Sellner, cello. Working in India, Spain, London. 2011 Sanskriti Foundation, New Delhi “Inversion”, Adam Gallery, London “Alf Löhr at St. John” London “Precious Light”, Edinburgh City Art Gallery, Group exhibition as part of the David Mach exhibition. Working in India, Spain, London 2010 Galerie Jones, Cologne “Between Chance and Determination”, Adam Gallery, London Working in Spain, London, and Istanbul. 2009 Atelier Aperti, Orvieto, Italy “It shouldn’t have happened to me”, book on trauma with Anna Walker Working in Italy, Spain, London. 2008 Muka Gallery, Aukland, New Zealand “Objective Emotion”, Broadbent Gallery, London Galerie Truebenbach und Jones, Cologne “Bias Bond”, Melbourne, “Dreams of Art Spaces Collected”, IGBK, Berlin 2007 Conny Dietzhold Gallery, Sydney Victorian Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne “Looking for the Tasmanian Tiger”, Broadbent Gallery, London Residency at VTW, Melbourne Visiting Prof. at Monash University, Melbourne Travelling in Northern Australia, New Zealand 2006 “Einblicke”, Galerie Witzel, Wiesbaden “Conversations on Cork Street, Adam Gallery, London “Quiet Strokes of a Night Swimmer”, The Ambassador’s Residency, London Visiting Prof. at Monash University, Melbourne Travelling in Australia, Tasmania, 2005 Angus Broadbent Gallery, London Travelling in Senegal Working in Spain and London 2004 The German Ambassador’s Residency Gallery, London “Slow Art”, Broadbent Gallery, London 2003 Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall Kunst und Austellungshalle der BRD, Bonn Kunstverein Rastatt 2002 Pumphouse Gallery, Battersea Park, London Howard Garden Gallery, Cardiff Firstsite at the Minories, Colchester 2001 Goethe Institute London Gloucester Cathedral, Gloucester 2000 Galerie Christoph Grau, Hamburg “Ist die Photographie am Ende?” Aktuelle Photo- und Medienkunst Staatliche Galerie Schloß Moritzburg, Halle. 1999 Museum Bochum Awards and Honors 2003 Kunstfonds, Bonn, Arbeitsstipendium 1996 Senior Fellow, University of Wales, Institute of Cardiff 1992 Kaiserringstipendium, Museum für moderne Kunst, Goslar 1989–91 Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Bonn 1987 DAAD German Academic Exchange Service |
