Anne Neukamp

Born in 1976 in Düsseldorf, Germany. Lives and works in Berlin, Germany.

“Neukamp plays with communication and understanding, deliberately choosing symbols in print and type that for the last century have symbolized an absolutist conveyance of information. Equally at play in her work are ubiquitous symbols, like the on and off button symbol, that hover like shadows of the actual objects they represent (hardly existing in their original form any longer). Neukamp renders these very “black and white” signs and logos that once signified a kind of road-map to clarity ineffective by amputating, oversizing, or super-abstracting them or just turning them on their head. She uses a confidence in painting in combination with more mechanical forms of production and duplication, such as stenciling and playing with computer generated images, the diverse techniques underscoring her invitation to the viewer to contemplate shifts in meaning rather than nailing them down. The figurative associations, the meanings both historical and implied, don’t ask for definition, they ask you to completely recondition the means by which you seek definition. Her images are not a game of catch, but an invitation to contemplate, to return to the quickening (away from the confirmation, illusory or otherwise) that realization can bring.”

Johanna da Rocha Abreu, A Quickening: Paintings by Anne Neukamp, 2019.

Selected solo exhibitions

2023
Leopold Hoesch Museum, Düren, Germany

2022
Pile ou Face, Galerie Greta Meert, Brussels, Belgium.

2020
Anne Neukamp: Pitching Pennies, Linn Lühn, Düsseldorf, Germany.

2019
ALT-MOA-BIT, Gregor Podnar, Berlin, Germany.

2018
Anne Neukamp, Galerie Valentin, Paris, France.
Anne Neukamp: The Prop Master, Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, USA.

2017
L’objet Familier, Galerie Greta Meert, Brussels, Belgium.
Anne Neukamp, Marlborough Contemporary, New York, USA.

2016
Rollladen 2016, Ludlow 38, New York, USA.

2015
Anne Neukamp: Afloat, Jr. Projects, Toronto, Canada.
Anne Neukamp: Faux Amis, Galerija Gregor Podnar, Berlin, Germany.

2014
Greta Meert, Brussels, Belgium.
Galeria Agustina Ferreyra, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Galerie Chez Valentin, Paris, France.

2013
Circuit, Oldenburger Kunstverein, Oldenburg, Germany.
Rezine, Galerija Gregor Podnar, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

2012
Wilhelm Hack Museum, Rudolf-Scharpf-Galerie, Ludwigshafen, Germany.
Mit oder ohne, Galerija Gregor Podnar, Berlin, Germany.

2011
Rebound, Galerie Chez Valentin, Paris, France.
Open Space, Art Cologne, Germany.

2010
George Henry Longly – Anne Neukamp, Art Nova, Art Basel Miami, Galerie Chez Valentin, Paris, France.
Anne Neukamp, Liste Basel, Galerie Chez Valentin, Paris, France.
Zeit 2, Parallel, with Heiner Binding, Susi Projektraum, Cologne, Germany.

2009
I no longer love the color of your sweaters, Galerie Chez Valentin, Paris, France.

2008
Feriengrüße vom Königssee, SOX, Berlin, Germany.

2006
Panorama, Ostra 20, Dresden, Germany.

Selected group exhibitions

2023
Cuteism: Between Abstraction and Figuration, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary

2022
Brave World, Telegraph Gallery, Olomouc, Czech Republic
New Entry. Vienna, Gregor Podnar Gallery, Vienna, Austria

2021
Théâtre Anatomique (with Raiko Sánchez), curated by Kerstin Flasche & Lucie Klysch, Galerie Stephanie Kelly, Dresden, Germany.
I saw the sign, curated by Anina Brisolla and Andrea Pichl, Schau Fenster, Berlin, Germany.
When Arts Meets Society / When Society Meets Art, curated by Ajna Maj, aqb Project Space, Budapest, Hungary.

2020
Salondergegenwart 2020, Salondergegenwart, Hamburg, Germany.
WIN/WIN – Die Ankäufe der Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen 2020, HALLE 14 – Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany.
Surreale Maßnahmen für surreale Zeiten // Nevin Aladağ, Christian Henkel, Anton Henning, Anne Neukamp, Susan Philipsz, Oktogon der HfBK Dresden, Germany.

2019
Painting – group exhibition, Galerie Greta Meert, Brussels, Belgium.
Christa Dichgans – Mit Freunden, Zeitgenossen, Weggefähten und Bewunderern/Innen, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany.
Eight Ball, Martos Gallery, New York, USA.

2018
Trust Your Brush, Towards, Toronto, Canada.
Doors of Paradise, Union Pacific, London, UK.
Recollection – A Journey After 28 Years, PROYECTOSMONCLOVA, Mexico City, Mexico.

2017
DIALOGUES. USA – Berlin, Berlin – USA, VDA, Berlin, Germany.
Late Breakfast, Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz, Austria.

2016
Das Moment, Neue Galerie Gladbeck, Gladbeck, Germany.
Scarlet Street, Lucien Terras Gallery, New York, USA.

2015
ICSP Fall Open Studios, ICSP International Studio & Curatorial Program, New York, USA.
13e Biennale de Lyon: Collection N°5, Lyon, France.
ARCADIA UNBOUND, Funkhaus Berlin Nalepastrasse, Berlin, Germany.
Anne Neukamp and Zachary Leener, Lisa Cooley Gallery, New York, USA.
To rectify a situation, Valentin, Paris, France.
L’oiseau présente- Be abstract, Kunstverein Schwäbisch Hall, Schwäbisch Hall, Germany.
Consistency, Drawing Storage and L40, Berlin, Germany.

2014
Jo Baer, Anne Neukamp and Diane Simpson, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, USA.
Late at night I fall asleep. Vladimír Houdek, Tillman Kaiser, Anne Neukamp, Bernd Ribbeck, Suse Weber, Polansky Galerie, Prague, Czech Republic.
Pale Fire, LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University School of the Arts, New York, USA.

2013
Painting forever!, Keilrahmen, KW, Berlin, Germany.
Let’s talk (again) about painting, Centre d’art et de Culture, Guyancourt, France.

2012
Beyond the Surface, KAI 10 | Raum für Kunst, Düsseldorf, Germany.
The happy fainting of painting, Zwinger Galerie, Berlin, Germany.
Choses vues, Ballhaus Ost, Berlin, Germany.

2011
Featuring, Galerie Chez Valentin, Paris, France.
Monotonie – Melancholie, GLUE, Schaufenster, Berlin, Germany.
A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again, Horton Gallery, Berlin, Germany.
Depeindre, 6B, Saint Denis, France.
A Skeleton in the Closet 2, ReMap 3, Curated by R. Lamarche-Vadel, Athens, Greece.
Markus Amm, Svenja Deininger, Anne Neukamp, Max Schulze, Petra Rinck Gallery, Dusseldorf, Germany.
Espaces de destin – Especes des dessins, Centre regional d´art contemporain Montbéliard, Montbéliard, France.
Antidote 7, Galerie des Galeries, Paris, France.
Dorothea, Ancient & Modern, London, UK.
A Skeleton in the Closet, Kunstverein Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
Based in Berlin, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany.
Prague Biennale 5, Section expanded Painting, Prague, Czech Republic.
The secret life of abstract forms, Hopstreet Gallery, Brussels, Belgium.
Invisible Spirit, GLUE, Schaufenster, Berlin, Germany.

2010
Hellmich, Persson, Anne Neukamp, Kretschmann, Galerie Marion Scharmann, Cologne, Germany.
Thriller, Xavier Mazzarol´s, Berlin, Germany.
Equinox, Grimmuseum, Berlin, Germany.
Fred Rapid, Glassworks, Zero Fold, Cologne and Autocenter, Berlin, Germany.
Düsseldorf, Forgotten Bar Project, Berlin, Germany.
Ins Blickfeld gerückt, Institut Francais, Berlin, Germany.

2009
Want, Galerie Arratia Beer, Berlin, Germany.
169 A 2, Flat in Paris, Paris, France.
Schickeria, BDA Ausstellungsraum, Braunschweig, Germany.
Bis ans Ende der Nacht, Forgotten Bar Project, Berlin, Germany.
Bank of Eden, Whitechapel Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Belzere invite, RX, Paris, France.

2008
Cent, Galerie Defrost, Paris, France.
The waste land, Caravan, Berlin, Germany.
Howl, Caravan, Berlin, Germany.
Vendanges de Printemps, Chamalot, Moustier-Ventadour, France.
4 artistes, Galerie Chez Valentin, Paris, France.

2007
Fünfzehn Meisterschüler, HfbK Dresden, Oktogon, Dresden, Germany.
Der Pinselhieb der Natur oder die betrogene Fläche, KIT, Düsseldorf, Germany.
Outre part, La Generale, France.
Kunststudenten stellen aus, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany.

2006
German spirit, Air Garten, Berlin, Germany.

2005
Adamskiklasse, Kunstverein Radolfzell, Germany.
Diplom 2005, HfbK Dresden, Dresden, Germany.

2004
Schule der Malerei, Dombergmuseum Freising, Freising, Germany.
Lichter, Grossenhainer 9, Dresden, Germany.