Selected Works

  • Martin Klimas
    untitled (Iridaceae III)
    2019
    Lambda Print, Diasec, framed
    220 x 170 cm

  • Martin Klimas
    untitled (Astilbe Arendsii)
    2016
    Lambda print, diasec
    220 x 170 cm
    Ed./2

  • Martin Klimas
    untitled (Polarization #3606)
    Video, monitor 115 x 65 cm
    Ed./1
    2014

  • Martin Klimas
    'Lenticular/Polarization', Installatin view COSAR, 2015

  • Martin Klimas
    untitled (Lenticular)
    Archival Ipinkjet print
    170 x 110 cm
    Ed./3
    2014

  • Martin Klimas
    untitled (Lenticular)
    Archival Ipinkjet print
    170 x 110 cm
    Ed./3
    2014

  • Martin Klimas
    'Lenticular/Polarization', Installatin view COSAR, 2015

  • Martin Klimas
    untitled (Polarization #3615)
    Video, monitor 115 x 65 cm
    Ed./1
    2014

  • Martin Klimas
    untitled
    2015
    Archival inkjet print
    Ed./3

  • Martin Klimas
    Installation view 'as it seems', COSAR 2015

  • Martin Klimas
    untitled
    2015
    Archival inkjet print
    Ed./3

Exhibitions

Curriculum Vitae (CV)

BIOGRAPHY
Born 1971 in Singen, D

EDUCATION
1992 - 98
Studies of Photography Fachhochschule Düsseldorf

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
Fragile Beauty, Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto, CAN
2021
Martin Klimas plays the Classics, Foley Gallery, New York, USA
2019
‘More than meets the Eye’, COSAR HMT, Düsseldorf, DE
‘New Flowers’, Foley Gallery, New York, USA
2018
‘polarloops’, COSAR HMT
‘radiant and polarization’, Foley Gallery, New York
2016
Soundworks, Foley Gallery, New York
2015
Lenticular ⁄ Polarization, COSAR HMT, Düsseldorf
2013
Sonic, Foley Gallery, New York
Musiktheater Linz, Linz, AT
2012
Movements, Other Gallery, Peking/Shanghai
Sonic Sculptures, Pavlo’s Dog ⁄ Raum für Fotografie, Berlin
2011
Foulard, COSAR, Düsseldorf
2009
Flowers, Foley Gallery, New York
2008
Ceramic Explosion, Andy Warhol Museum, Pitsburgh
COSAR, Düsseldorf
2007
Foley Gallery, New York
2006
Galerie Michael Cosar, Düsseldorf
2005
Galeria Suzy Shammah, Milano
2004
Martin Klimas - Achim Kobe, Galerie Michael Cosar, Düsseldorf

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
‚Momente des Sehens – 4 fotografische Positionen‘, Galerie Schlichtenmaier, Stuttgart
2021
1st Macau Art Biennale, Macao Museum of Art
2020
‚Structures‘, Cosar HMT, Düsseldorf
‚Wie Blüten gehn Gedanken auf‘, Galerie Schlichtenmaier, Schloss Dätzingen
2019
‘Blumen in der Fotografie’, Galerie Stihl, Waiblingen
2018
'Drive Drove Driven', Kommunale Galerie, Berlin
and FO.KU.S, Innsbruck
2017
‘Gardens on Orchard’, Foley Gallery, New York, USA
‘Edition 12/21’, me Collectors Room Berlin, Berlin, DE
‘You Want Truth Or Beauty?’, Kunsthaus Nexus, Saalfelden, AT
2016
Blütenpracht. Zeitgenössische Blumenstilllebe, Neue Galerie im Haus Beda, Bitburg
2015
The Painters Eye in Photography, Haus der Fotografie, Burghausen
as it seems, COSAR HMT, Düsseldorf
2014
Tiere in der zeitgenössischen Fotografie, Alfred-Ehrhardt-Stiftung, Berlin
Porcelain: Breaking Tradition, Art Mûr, Montréal and Québec
Zeitgenössische Fotografie, E.ON, Düsseldorf
2013
How long is Now, Fotoraum, Wien
2012
Smashing!, Benyamini Contemporary Ceramic Art Centre, TelAviv
Lost Paradise, Mönchehaus Museum, Goslar
Wild, The Moving Gallery, Omaha, Nebraska
LOOK3 Festival, Charlottesville, Virginia
2011
Die Zeit in der Fotografie, Bieler Fototage, Biel, CH
Time, Death and Beauty’, FO.KU.S, Innsbruck
paper framed behind glass, COSAR, Düsseldorf
Blumen - Zeitgenössische Fotografie, Alfred Ehrhardt Stiftung, Berlin
2010
travelling without moving, COSAR, Düsseldorf
Beauty - Flowers in Photography’, Alexander Ochs, Beijing
2009
Christian Forsen - Martin Klimas, COSAR EY5, Düsseldorf
Seitenwechsel, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf
revisiting Landscape & Still Life, Bafa Foto, Geneva
Decline and Fall, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco
2008
Gallery Howard House, Seattle
Galeria Xavier Fiol, Palma de Mallorca
Querdenker, Darmstätter Tage der Fotografie, Eugen-Bracht-Haus, Darmstadt
LADA, Baumwollspinnerei, Leipzig
2007
Die Kunst zu sammeln, Museum Kumst Palast, Düsseldorf
Luft - poetische Qualitäten und turbulente Höhepunkte, Luftmuseum Amberg
2005
the nature of skin, Kunsthaus Hamburg
2001
BFF Kongress, Willi-Brandt-Haus, Berlin
Reinhard Wolf Preis, Museum für Gestaltung, Hamburg
2000
3D Installationen, Expo 2000, Hannover

Martin Klimas, untitled (Polarization #0215), Video, 2017

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