Christoph Dahlhausen, born 1960, is a German-based fine artist and teacher. He is working across painting, sculpture, installation and light-based artistic forms. His practice is highly regarded in Germany.
He has exhibited and curated extensively both in museums, institutional and commercial spaces in Europe, USA, Mexico, Brasilia, Australia and New Zealand.
He is Adjunct Professor of Fine Art at the School of Art, RMIT University in Melbourne.
He received re-known grants and art awards, including the highly regarded art ward from the city of Bonn.
LATEST NEWS
Soloshow at DA Kunsthaus Gravenhorst, 10.12.22–26.2.2
Recent aquisition by seum für Konkrete Kunst, Ingolstadt
‘Unbemanntes Farbobjekt’ (=Unmanned Colour Object)
Upcoming Shows
- 09.10.22 – 05.03.23 Ingolstadt (DE), Museum fuer Konkrete Kunst, ‘Reflections-Spiegelwelten
- 06.11.22 – 20.02.23 Bedburg-Hau (DE), Museum Schloss Moyland, ‘BLICKFELDER‘ (large scale group show,artists from North Rhine-Westphalia)
- 07.12.22 – 28.01.23 Dornbirn (AT), New InVol 4, Galerie c.art (groupexhibitionwith Doris Piwonka und LaurienRenckens et al)
- 10.12.22 – 26.02.23 Hoerste (DE), DA Kunsthaus Kloster Gravenhorst, ‘More Blues‘, solo-exhibition
- 20.01. – 04.04.23 Veszprem (HU), Museum Vass Collection, light installation in the program of ECOC(European Capital Cultural City)
- 21.01. – 04.04.23 Veszprem (HU), SchrothCollection@ House of Arts
- 22.07. – 20.08.23 Veszprem (HU), Kunsthaus, ‘Japanese Positions‘ curated by Christoph Dahlhausen
- 21.07. – 24.09.23 Veszprem (HU), ‚Colour over our heads‘, light installation at the Veszprémvoelgyi monastery
- 26.08. – 24.09.23 Veszprem (HU, House of Arts, ‚Light-Space-Reflection‘, Dahlhausensoloexhibition
- 16.9. – 12.12.23 Koenigshain (DE), Barockschloss, ‘Kunstspektrale‘ (groupexhibition with Heinz Gappmayr, Hans Jörg Glattfelder, Jan van Munster,Klaus Staudtet al)
- Autumn 2023 Saga (JP), Kenakian space, solo exhibition
Works
Light, the natural and the artificial, has always been the focus of Christoph Dahlhausens artistic research. In the early 1990 he used photography to catch light effects and created painting like ‘light images’. Later his glassworks have been exhibited worldwide. These glassworks painted shadows on the wall, created a dialog and between the real space and the virtual visible in the work. Since 2005 the German artist uses artificial light, special blue fluorescent light tubes, not just as an additional esthetical element in sculptural situations or as illumination, but as an independent medium. For the combination of blue fluorescent light tubes with ordinary steel scaffoldings Dahlhausen was nominated for the short list of the first international light art award.
Exhibitions
Christoph Dahlhausens work has beenextensivelyexhibited in museums, galleries and art fairsworldwide. Solo exhibitions had been shown atKunstmuseum Bonn, Museum am Ostwall Dortmund,Museum of Modern Art Melbourne, KunstmuseumAhlen (DE), Kunststiftung Erich Hauser, Rottweil (DE),Kunsthaus Kloser Gravenhorst (DE),Gallery ofMassey University, Wellington(NZ), Art Institute ofShibukawa (JP) among others.
His work is represented by Galerie Am Lindenplatz,Vaduz (LI), Galerie Kim Behm (Mannheim, DE), c.artGallery (Dornbirn, AT), Esther Verhaeghe ArtConcepts (Brussels, BE), Galerie Floss & Schultz(Cologne, DE), Galerie mariette HAAS (Ingolstadt,DE), youngcollectors.de (Miel, DE), La Estacion ArteContemporaneo (Chihuahua, MX), schauraum multipleart (Zurich, CH).
Projects
Art in architedture and art in public are importantissues and fields in Dahlhausens practice. Site specificinstallations using vinyl on glass he realized ascomissions worlwide, for example at the BrasilianMinistery for Education and Health in Rio De Janeiro,an iconic Oscar Niemeier building, Konrad AdenauerAssociation in Berlin, Kreditanstalt fuer WiederaufbauBerlin, Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne amongothers. Sculptural public commissions have beenrealized in Germany, Australia and Belgium.Hisparticipatory public art projects have been done forexample in Germany, The Netherlands, Hong-Kongand New Zealand.
