Kai Richter

Düsseldorf/GER

*1969 studied art history, philosophy, English language and literature at the Ruhr University in Bochum after training as an industrial mechanic, as well as free art at the Kunstakademie Münster and Düsseldorf as a master student of Hubert Kiecol.

Solo Shows

2020 Already Made, Gallery Christian Lethert, Cologne
2020 Vertigo, Art Association Wesselingen, Wesselingen

2019 Neue Arbeiten, Gallery Sebastian Fath Contemporary, Mannheim
2019 Lichtenberger Güsse, City Museum Lichtenberg, Berlin
2019 6 Stahlringe,+Punkt, Exhibition Place der kath. Kirche, Heidelberg

2018 Structuring the Space, Art Gallery Fürth, Fürth
2018 Nullpunkt, Gallery Sebastian Fath Contemporary, Mannheim

2017 Somewhere in between, Gallery Christian Lethert, Cologne
2017 Construction Time Again, Studio im Hochhaus, Berlin

2016 Ego construo ergo sum, Art Association Sundern
2016 Beton, Lichtenberg Studios, Berlin
2016 Eine Etage tiefer, Reinraum, Düsseldorf
2016 Sculptures, Gallery Sebastian Fath Contemporary, Mannheim

2015 Dogma durchgestoßen, Herz Jesu Church, Cologne

2014 Wall/Space, Daab Verlag, Cologne with L.Breuer run, Art Association Langenfeld, Langenfeld Space Availabel, The Brigaitt, Glasgow, Scotland
2014 Schrauben und Streifen, Showroom Tina Miyake, Düsseldorf
2014 Monument, International Art Festival, Glasgow, Scotland

2013 Break through the Lines, Gallery Christian Lethert, Cologne

2012 The Loss of Gravity, Zeitkunstgalerie Kitzbühel, Österreich
2012 Eller, Space for Art, Düsseldorf
2012 Soiled Structures, Society for Art, Bonn

2011 gegossen, UniCredit Art Room, München

2010 SpeicherU75, Düsseldorf

2009 Trocken, Gallery Christian Lethert, Cologne
2009 Cue, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
2009 Stop Gravity, Kreisgalerie at the Germanic National Museum, Nürnberg
2009 Radtke/Richter, Gallery Sebastian Fath Contemporary, Mannheim
2009 Voids, Forum for Art and Culture, Herzogenrath

2008 Constructing Form, Gallery 1708 Space for New Art, Richmond, Va. USA
2008 2007 geschoss 349, Gallery Sebastian Fath, Mannheim RUX, Vorgebirgspark Sculpture, Cologne (mit Lutz Fritsch)
2008 H20-H21, Kunstverein Mönchengladbach
2008 HEUTE, Gallery Christian Lethert, Cologne (mit Jo Schultheis)
2008 Fuhrwerkswaage, Cologne, One Man Show, Art Cologne
2006: zweigeschossig, Fuhrwerkswaage, Cologne
2005: Building Sculpture, Art Association Leverkusen, Museum Morsbroich

Group Shows

2021 Groupshow Gallery Christian Lethert, Cologne
2021 Die Grosse, Düsseldorf
2021 Fahr-Art, Kevelar

2020 DEW Art Price, Museum Dortmund U
2020 How space can be defiend, BcmA Gallery, Berlin
2020 Ich schreib dir von zu Hause, dst. gallery, Münster
2020 Leidenschaft ist unser Antrieb, Collection Kunstraum at Limes, Gallery Christian Lethert, Cologne
2020 Elementum, CCA Andraxt, Mallorca, Spain
2020 ALLES III, Studio im Hochhaus, Berlin
2020 Groupshow, Gallery Christian Lethert, Cologne, Curated by Kai Richter, Sebastain Fath Contemporary, Mannheim

2019 Monochrom, Galerie Sebastain Fath Contemporary, Mannheim
2019 Die Grosse, Kunstpalast
2019 ALLES II, Studio im Hochhaus, Berlin

2018 Blooom Award, Art Düsseldorf
2018 Weiss, Galerie Sebastain Fath Contemporary, Mannheim
2018 Suspended Sculpture, Antichambre, Düsseldorf
2018 In neuen Räumen, Gallery Christian Lethert, Cologne
2018 Schwarz, Gallery Sebastina Fath Contemporary, Mannheim
2018 ALLES, Studio im Hochhaus, Berlin

2017 Palisesti de Arte Contempera, San Vito, Italy
2017 Groupshow, Gallery Christian Lethert, Cologne
2017 Kunst vom Bau, Gallery Sebastian Fath, Art Association Mannheim

2016 Groupshow, Gallery Christian Lethert, Cologne
2016 Wendezeiten, CCA Andraxt, Mallorca, Spain
2016 Position konstruktiv, Art Association Mönchengladbach.

2015 Kahnweiler Price, Museum Pachen Construct, German Association of Artists, Berlin, Das Weisse Haus, Wien
2015 Konnexion, Association of German Architects, Essen Rhine Prize, Bonn Groupshow, Gallery Christian Lethert, Cologne Accorage, Galerie Sebastian Fath, Mannheim

2014 Raw Materials, Urban Gallery, Delmenhorst Now, Spam Contemporary, Düsseldorf
2014 in_between_out, Donopoulos Fine Arts, Thessaloniki, Griechenland
2014 Groupshow, Gallery Christian Lethert, Cologne
2014 Raw Materials, Städtische Galerie Biettigheim-Bissingen

2013 Groupshow, Gallery Christian Lethert
2013 Totale, Maschienenhaus, Essen
2013 22 Fachgeschäfte, Lichthof, Mönchengladbach

2012 Herbst.Zeit.Lose, GKG, Bonn
2012 Raw Materials, Museum für Konkrete Kunst, Ingolstadt, Groupshow, Galerie Christian Lethert, Cologne

2011 Skulpturenpark, Waldorf
2011 Abstrakt-3 Positionen, Stadtgalerie Sundern Construction Site, Con-Sum Düsseldorf Groupshow, Gallery Christian Lethert, Cologne

2010 Konstruktiv, Galerie Beck und Eggeling, Düsseldorf groupshow, Galerie Christian Lethert, Cologne
2009 Fully Booked, Hotel Beethoven, Bonn
2009 Trendwände, Art Room Düsseldorf
2009 Urbane Welten, Franken Shopping Center, Nürnberg
2009 Gehäuse Untergeschoss, Walzwerkstr, Düsseldorf
2009 Groupshow Gallery Christian Lethert, Cologne
2008 Das Gelände, Art Gallery Nürnberg, Projekt Gras wächst
2008 Galerie für Zeitkunst, Kitzbühl, Österreich

2006 Und Es Bewegt sich doch, Museum Bochum
2006 East Belgian Art Award, IKOB Museum, Eupen, Belgien

2005 Kunststudenten stellen aus, Federal Art Gallery Bonn

2003 Bergische Kunstausstellung, Museum Baden, Solingen

Collections

Collection of Concrete Art, Ingolstadt
Kolumba, Art Museum of the Archbishopric of Cologne
Collection of the Kunsthalle Mannheim

Contests

Art-on-Building Competition, German Embassy Moscow – Residence BBR-Berlin
Art-in-building competition, Erlangen depot, City of Erlangen
Art-in-building competition, new building of the Audimax of the University of Wuppertal, BLB, NRW

Scholarships

2021 CCA Andraxt, Mallorca, Spain
2019 CCA Andraxt, Mallorca, Spain
2019 Artist in Residence, Berlin
2018 Blooom Award
2016 Lichtenberg Studios, Berlin
2015 Kahnweiler Art Prize for Sculpture
2014 CCA Andraxt, Mallorca, Spain
2013 Anna Lobner Fellowship Glasgow
2012 Künstlerhaus Eckernförde
2011 Art Fund Bonn
2009 German-Korean Artist Exchange Seoul, Korea
2007 Travel Grant Finland of the City of Düsseldorf
2003 Cité des Arts, Paris
2000 Working grant Kunstverein Greven

Exhibitions

Past

goes

Hillside Projects (Stockholm/SE)
Kai Richter (Düsseldorf/GER )
Gabriele Horndasch (Düsseldorf / GER)
Camenisch / Vetsch (Basel/CH)
Jonas Hohnke (Wuppertal/GER)
Sibylle Feucht (Bonn/GER)
Jolijn van den Heuvel (Veghel/NL)
Johannes S. Sistermanns (Cologne/GER)
Stijn Peeters (Eindhoven/NL )
Doris Schmid (Berlin/GER)
Doris Scheuermann (Bonn/GER)
Eunice Martins (Berlin/GER)

PASSAGE

26.03.2021 – 31.12.2021

The art project “PASSAGE” uses the temporary vacancy in the Kaiserpassage, in the center of Bonn, and turns it into a pop-up exhibition space that enables art experiences independent of opening times and contact regulations.

Events

Past

Jonas Hohnke (Wuppertal/GER)
Kai Richter (Düsseldorf/GER )

Exhibition opening ”PASSAGE”: Kai Richter and Jonas Hohnke

15.07.2021 18:00 – 20:00

Opening of the exhibition ”PASSAGE” with Kai Richter (Düsseldorf/GER) and Jonas Hohnke (Wuppertal/GER) at Kaiserpassage, Bonn.