Floris M. Neusüss
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1937 Born in Lennep1955-1962 Mural painting studies at the Wuppertal Art Academy; Photography studies at the Bavarian State Facility for Photography, Munich; Experimental Photography studies at the University for Visual Arts, Berlin, under Heinz Hajek-Halke
1960 First body photogram in Berlin
1964-1971 Work on body photograms with chemical painting, folding pictures and plate pictures in Munich
1966 Lecturer for photography at the State Art Academy, Kassel
since 1972 Professor of Experimental Photography at the Kassel Art Academy; Founding of the Academy Gallery Fotoforum, Kassel
1971-1975 Work on photographic syntax
1976 "Dissolving Bodies" and photogram performances
1982 Photogram portraits
1984 Large-format photogram pieces; Start of "Nachtbilder" (Night Photos)
1985 Establishment of "Photogram" as main research at Kassel University
1989 Start of ULO (Unidentifiable Lying Object) photograms
1991 Start of the work group "Plants, Flowers and Fruits "
2000 Start of the work group "Anteidola"
> Lives and works in Kassel
Solo Exhibitions (Selection)
2009 Floris Neusüss – Early Works, Galleria Carla Sozzani, Milan, Italy
2008 Wunderkammer Museum, Deutsches Museum, Munich, Germany
2007 Floris Neusüss Fotogramme, Galerie Griesebach, Berlin, Germany
2006 Wunderkammer Museum, Naturhistorisches Museum Fribourg, Switzerland
2005 Floris Neusüss, Schattenwesen - Lichtgestalten (Shadow Beings - LightCreatures), Kunstverein Augsburg; Vor Troja, Winckelmann Museum, Stendal, Germany
2004 Helden, Herrscher und Passanten (Heroes, Rulers and Passers-By), photograms by Floris M. Neusüss, Georg-Kolbe-Museum, Berlin
2003 Tagesformen (Daily forms), Kunstverein Marburg; Floris Neusüss - Photograms, Gallery Camera Work, Berlin; Anteidola, Photograms by Floris M. Neusüss in the Glyptothek, Munich; Köpfe und Körper (Heads and Bodies), Gallery in focus, Cologne
2002 Floris Neusüss, Fotogramme - Neue Arbeiten (Photograms - New Works), Gallery Karin Melchior, Kassel; Lob des Eigensinns (Praise of Self-Will), Städtische Gallery im Cordonhaus, Cham
1999 ULOs(Unidentifiable Lying Objects) und ILOs(Identifiable Lying Objects), MultipleBox, Hamburg; Floris Neusüss - Fotogramme, Gallery Camera Work, Berlin; ULOs und schwarze Sonnen (ULO's and Black Sun), Gallery in focus, Cologne
1998 ULOs, Arte Fiera, Instituto di cultura germanica, Bologna; ULOs und ILOs, Gallery Arigo, Inter Artes, Stiftung Angelika Fessler, Zürich; Nachtstücke (Night Pieces), Gallery of the city of Remscheid
1997 Floris Neusüss, Nachtstücke (Night Pieces), Fotogramme von 1957-1997, Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn; Floris Neusüss, Nachtstücke (Night Pieces), Museum Schloß Arolsen
1995 Sander Gallery, New York; Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles; ULO, Connecticut State University
1993 ULo family, Bildo Gallery, Berlin
1992 Gallery Elke Dröscher, Hamburg; Kunstverein Heidelberger; Benteler Morgan Galleries, Houston; Kunstverein Gifhorn
1990 ULO's et Hommes (ULO's and Men), Gallery du Château d'Eau, Toulouse; Gallery Neugebauer, Basel; Group Exhibitions (Selection)
2004 Il Nudo (The Nude), Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna; Faszination der Linie (Fascination of the Line), Antikenmuseum, Leipzig
2003 Von Körpern und anderen Dingen, Deutsche Fotografie im 20. Jahrhundert (Of Bodies and Other Things, German Photography in the 20th Century), Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin
2002 Peter C. Ruppert Collection, Museum im Kulturspeicher, Würzburg
2001 SchattenRisse (ShadowRips), Lenbachhaus, Munich; Das Versprechen der Fotografie (The Promise of Photography), DG Bank Collection, Berlin, Hannover, Frankfurt/Main; Bilder die noch fehlen, (Pictures Still Missing), Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden
Schattenwesen - Lichtgestalten (Shadow Beings - Light Creatures), State Gallery Moritzburg, Halle
2000 Fotogrammas, KOWASA Gallery, Barcelona; Re-Tracing the Image, National Museum of Photography, Film and Television, Bradford Abstraktionen (Abstractions), Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Ansichten vom Künstler - fotografische Portaits (Views by Artists - Photographic Portraits), Museum Schloß Arolsen; Revelation, Gallery Purdy Hicks, London; Das Versprechen der Fotografie (The Promise of Photography), DG Bank Collection, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover; Fotogene (Photogene), Kunsthalle tmp, Steyr
1998 Fotografie in Deutschland seit 1945 (Photography in Germany Since 1945), Schupmann Collection, Museum Schloß Arolsen
Signaturen des Sichtbaren - ein Jahrhundert Fotografie in Deutschland (Signatures of the Visible - a Century of Photography in Germany), Gallery am Fischmarkt, Erfurt; Zärtliche Betrachtung schöner Damen (Tender Observations of Pretty Women), Photographs from the Gruber Collection, Museum Ludwig, Cologne
1997 Im Reich der Phantome, Fotografie des Unsichtbaren (In the Realm of the Phantom, Photography of the Invisible), Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach; Kunsthalle Krems; Fotomuseum Winterthur; Allemagne Années 80, Maison Europèenne de la Photographie, Paris; Deutsche Fotografie - Macht eines Mediums 1870 bis 1970 (German Photography - Power of a Medium 1870 to 1970), Kunsthalle Bonn; was ist (What Is), der deutsche Künstlerbund in Wismar and Rostock; Positionen künstlerischer Fotografie in Deutschland seit 1945 (Political Art Photography in Germany Since 1945), Berlinische Gallery, Landesmuseum für Moderne Kunst, Photographie und Architektur, Berlin; Klangbilder, Visuelle Umsetzung akustischer Wahrnehmungen (Sound Pictures, Visual Realization of Acoustic Perceptions), Kunstverein Heidelberg
1996 Zwischen Dokument und Abstraktion (Between Document and Abstraction), SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne; Goethe Institut Paris
Im Kunstlicht (In Art(ificial) Light, Photographs from the Collections in the Kunsthaus Zürich; Neuerwerbungen (New Aquisitions), Photo-collection of the Museum Ludwig, Cologne
1995 Moholy and present company, Art Institute of Chicago; Spectrum Fotogalerie, ein Rückblick (A Look Back), Sprengel Museum Hannover; Kobe Aid Fund, World Photo Art Exhibition and Auction, Tokyo
1994 Photogram 1994, Vernon Etzel Gallery, Chicago
1993 Deutsche Fototage, Frankfurt/Main; Experimental Vision, Denver Art Museum
1992 Sprung in die Zeit (Jump in Time), Berlinische Galerie, Landesmuseum für Moderne Kunst, Photographie und Architektur, Berlin
1991 Twelve Years Annelie Brusten Gallery, Kunsthalle Wuppertal
1990 Anweseneheit bei Abwesenheit (Presence in Absence), Kunsthaus Zürich; Kultur, Technik und Kommerz - die Photokina; Bilderschauen 1950-1980 (Culture, Technology and Commerce - The Photokina Picture Shows 1950-1980), Historisches Archiv der Stadt Köln; Selections from the Graham and Susan Nash Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Awards (Selection)
Hermann Claasen Prize, Cologne 1995
Collections (Selection)
Berlinische Galerie, Landesmuseum für Moderne Kunst, Photographie und Architektur, Berlin
Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn
Folkwang Museum, Essen
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg
Sprengel Museum, Hannover
Staatliche Museen, Kassel
Museum Ludwig, Cologne
Fotomuseum im Münchner Stadtmuseum, Munich
Sterckshof Museum, Antwerpen
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Bibliothèque national, Paris
Fonds national d'art contemporain, Paris
Università di Parma, centro studio e archivio della communicazione, Parma
Gallery du Château d'Eau, Toulouse
Erzbischöfliches Diözesanmuseum, Vienna (Sammlung Otto Mauer)
University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque
University of Texas, Gernsheim Collection, Austin
The Art Institute of Chicago
The Denver Art Museum
Houston Museum of Fine Arts
Graham Nash Collection, Los Angeles
LA County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Museum of Modern Art, New York
International Museum of Photography, George Eastman House, Rochester
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Photographic Collections
Nihon University Collection, Tokyo
Striped House Museum of Art, Tokyo
Floris M. Neusüss at La Chair
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