
Elger Esser; Portrait by Nicolas Cattelain
1967 | born in Stuttgart |
1991-97 | after training as a photographer, studied photography at the Düsseldorf Art Academy with Bernd Becher |
1998 | Award for fine arts of the city of Düsseldorf; travel grant "Italy |
1996 | Master student with Bernd Becher |
2006-09 | Professor of media art at the State Academy of Design in Karlsruhe |
2010 | Rhineland Art Prize |
2016 | Oskar Schlemmer Prize |
lives in Düsseldorf | |
Solo exhibitions (selection) | |
2020 | Musée de la Mer,Ile Sainte Marguerite, Cannes, France |
Inherent time, Bruce Silverstein, New York, USA | |
2019 | De Sérignant à Giverny, Tour46, Belfort, France |
L'autre côte du vent, Elger Esser and Felix Schramm, Kunsthaus Lempertz, Brussels, Belgium | |
Morgenland, Fondation Fernet Branca, Saint-Louis, France | |
2018 | Oeuvres choisies, Bae Bien-U, Elger Esser, Galerie RX, Paris, France |
Galleria Alessandra Bonomo, Rome, Italy | |
2017 | Du Nil à la Loire, Chateau de Chaumont, Chaumont sur Loire, France |
El tiempo en suspenso, Patio Herreriano, Valladolid, Spain | |
Morgenland, Schirmer/Mosel Showroom, Munich, Germany | |
Elger Esser - De sublime, Fondazione Stelline, Milan, Italy | |
Morgenland, Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art, London, England | |
Elger Esser - Aetas, Landesgalerie Linz. Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Linz, Austria. | |
2016 | From Shivta to Lifta, Loushy Art & Projects, Tel Aviv, Israel |
Elger Esser - Zeitigen, Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany | |
2015 | Cabinet de travail, Katz Contemporary, Zurich, Switzerland |
2014 | Combray, The Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, Tampa, USA |
Nimfees i Ondines, Fundació Palma Espai d'art, Casal Solleric, Palma de Mallorca, Spain | |
Ninfa, Sonnabend Gallery, New York, USA | |
2013 | Giverny, Pôle Image Haute-Normandie, Rouen, France |
Giverny, Schirmer/Mosel Showroom, Munich, Germany | |
Méséglise, Institute for Modern Art Nuremberg, Nuremberg, Germany | |
Group exhibitions (selection) | |
2020 | Mediatons Biennale Polska, Warsaw, District Hall Warsaw i Cukry Praga, Poland |
NEAR - FAR, Cosar HMT, Düsseldorf, Germany | |
BLUE, Loushy Art & Projects, Tel Aviv, Israel | |
Seria Gracioso, TEA Las Catalinas, Costa Rica | |
In the Garden of Colors, PEAC, Paul Ege Art Collection, Freiburg i. Br. , Germany | |
The Staging of Nature in Works of the Würth Collection, Würth Collection, Chur, Switzerland | |
The Sonnabend Collection, Remai Modern, Saskatoon, Canada | |
2019 | Light Sensitive 2, Photography from the Schaufler Collection, Schauwerk Sindelfingen, Germany |
Oeuvres Choisies, Galerie RX, Paris, France | |
Land and Water, Galerie de Zaal, Delft, Netherlands | |
L'invention d'un monde - Photographies des collections Robelin, FRAC - Auvergne., Clermont Ferrand, France | |
Between Proximity and Distance: Construction of Realities. From Goya to Picasso, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Germany | |
The Moment is Eternity - Works from the Olbricht Collection, me Collectors Room Berlin | |
As Far as the Eye Can See, Museum Würth, Künzelsau, Germany | |
2018 | A Look at the Collection: Landscape - Transformation - Space, SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne, Germany |
Geste 2018, Binary / Non-Binary, Geste Paris, Paris, France | |
The Pulse Of The Body. Uses And Representations Of Space, Bombas Gens, Valencia, Spain | |
The Sonnabend Collection: Half a Century of European and American Art. Part II, Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugal | |
Unleashed Nature, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany | |
Water & Wine, New Presentation of Collection I, Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Germany | |
Bernd, Hilla and the Others, HUIS MARSEILLE, Amsterdam, Netherlands | |
Rooms of the Others II, Villa Streccius, Landau, Germany | |
2017 | Esser.McCaw.Mann.Wylie,, Neal Guma Fine Arts, Charlottesville, USA |
Luther and the Avant-garde, Contemporary Art in Wittenberg, Berlin and Kassel, Old Prison, Wittenberg, Germany | |
Water, Clouds, Wind, Kunsthalle Würth, Schwäbisch Hall, Germany | |
Split - Mirror. Light. Reflection, SCHAUWERK Sindelfingen, Germany | |
2016 | On Escape and Concurrence: Inverting the Gaze, Espaço Novo Banco, Lisbon, Portugal |
Water, Clouds, Wind., Kunsthalle Würth, Schwäbisch Hall, Germany | |
Viehof Collection, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany | |
Split - Mirror. Light. Reflection, SCHAUWERK Sindelfingen, Germany | |
Langmatt, Light, Dragonflies - Impressionism Today?, Museum Langmatt, Baden, Germany | |
From the collection: Landscape. Landesgalerie Linz, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Linz, Austria | |
The Typological View - Exhibition for Hilla Becher., Photographic Collection/SK Foundation for Culture, Cologne, Germany | |
Gardens of the World., Museum Rietberg, Zurich, Switzerland | |
Monet's Gardens. Contemporary Photographs., Eutin Castle, Eutin, Germany. | |
2015 | Fascination Photography., Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg, Vienna, Austria |
Déjà vu in photographic art., ART FOYER, DZ BANK Art Collection, Frankfurt am Main, Germany | |
Foucault - Plossu - Shore., Musée des impressionnismes Giverny, Giverny, France | |
Eolie 1950/2015. mare motus., Chiesa di Santa Caterina ed ex carcere, Lipari, Italy | |
The Idea of Landscape., ART FOYER, DZ Bank Art Collection, Frankfurt am Main, Germany | |
Open Rhapsody. A journey into photography and video collections, Beirut Exhibition Center, Beirut, Lebanon | |
Landscape in my Mind - Landscape photography today., Kunstforum Wien, Vienna, Austria |