WOLFGANG STAEHLE
149 Ludlow Street
4th floor
New York, NY 10002
WOLFGANG STAEHLE
1950
Born Stuttgart, Germany.
Attended Freie Kunstschule, Stuttgart, Germany
and School of Visual Arts, New York (BfA).
Lives and works in New York City since 1976.
One-Person Exhibitions:
2001
Postmasters Gallery, New York City.
2000
Kunstverein Schwaebisch Hall, Germany.
1996
"Installations Video," Art & Public,
Geneva,
Switzerland.
1993
"Point de Mire," Centre Pompidou, Paris, France.
1991
Massimo De Carlo Gallery, Milan, Italy.
1990
Marimura Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan.
Galleri Wallner, Malmo, Sweden.
Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf, Hamburg, Germany.
Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany (cat.).
Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, Germany (cat.)
Daniel Buchholz Gallery, Cologne, Germany.
Koury Wingate Gallery, New York.
1989
Galerie Sylvana Lorenz, Paris, France.
The Kitchen, New York.
Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT.
1988
T'Venster Museum, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
"Requiem," The New Museum, New York.
Daniel Newburg Gallery, New York.
1987
Daniel Newburg Gallery, New York.
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2003
"Slowness," curated by Mercedes Vincente
Dorsky Curatorial Projects, Queens, NY
2002
"Monitor 2," Gagosian Chelsea, New York.
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"EMPIRE/STATE," Artists Engaging Globalization,
Whitney Museum of American Art, Independent Study
Program Exhibition at the Art Gallery of The Graduate
Center, The City University of New York
"Outside the Box," curated by Margaret Miller and
Jade Dellinger, University of South Florida
Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, Florida.
"Transmediale.02 — Current Positions in Media
Art," curated by Andreas Broeckmann, Susanne Jaschko,
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany, February
5 – 24, 2002 (catalogue).
2001
"Tele[Visions]," curated by Joshua Decter, Kunsthalle
Wien, Vienna, Austria (including Vito Acconci, Michel
Auder, Chris Burden, Maurizio Cattelan, Larry Clark,
Thomas Demand, Martin Kippenberger, Miltos Manetas,
Tony Oursler, Daniel Pflumm, Tobias Rehberger,
Christoph Schlingensief, Olav Westfalen, and others),
October 2001 – January 2002 (catalogue).
"Media Connection," curated by Gianni Romano, Onmitel
MediaLab, Rome, Italy (including Nam June Paik,
Bertrand Lavier, Jenny Holzer, Doug Aitken, Carsten
Nicolai, Antonio Muntadas, Kazuo Miyajima, Mattheew
McCaslin, et al).
"Ephemera," curated by Mark Tribe/Rhizome, Moving
Image Gallery, New York City.
2000
Postmasters Gallery, New York City.
"Loans from the nvisible museum," Yerba Buena Art
Center (curated by Peter Fleissig), San Francisco.
1999
"net_condition," ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany (cat.)
1998
"Kunst der Gegenwart—Blickwechsel," selected works
from the permanent collection of the Center for Art
and Media/ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany.
"Modular Composite," group show at Central Fine Arts
Gallery, New York City.
1996
"Photographs," group show at John Gibson Gallery,
York (other artists include Berndt & Hilla Becher,
Joseph Beuys, Candida Hofer, and others).
"Lightboxes," group show curated by Susanne
Ehrenfried, Galerie Wittenbrink, Munich, Germany
(other artists include Ecke Bonk, Alfredo Jaar, Matt
Mullican, Cindy Sherman, Rolf Walz, and others).
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"No Wave Cinema, 1978-87," curated by Matthew
Yokobosky, Whitney Museum of American Art for the
museum’s ongoing series "New American Film and Video
Series), New York (included: "Space Party," by Steven
Pollack and Wolfgang Staehle, 1985).
"Electronic Undercurrents," Statens Museum for
Kunst/The Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Copenhagen,
Denmark.
1995
"Expose," Goethe Institute, Hong Kong, organized by
IFA, Stuttgart, Germany.
1994
"Expose," Kunstverein Rostock (organized by IFA
Stuttgart, Germany.
1993
"What To Say What Not To Say," Achim Kubinski
Gallery,
New York.
"Contemporains," Centre Pompidou (Le Vestibule),
Paris, France.
"Manifesto," Hohenthal und Bergen, Munich, Germany
"NaturalUnnatural," TZ'Art Gallery, New York, NY.
"Schirmherrschaft," Kunstmuseum Heidenheim, Germany
"Expose," IFA Galerie, Stuttgart, Germany.
1992
John Good Gallery, New York, NY.
"Generiques," Hotel des Arts, Paris, France.
"Ballots or Bullets," curated by Roger Denson, Sally
Hawkins Gallery, New York, NY.
"Floating Gallery," curated by Ken Ikeda, Tokyo,
Japan.
Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY.
"Up to You," Achim Kubinski Gallery, New York, NY.
"Tableaux volees," Sylvana Lorenz, Paris, France.
1991
"Ashley Bickerton, Robert Fosdick, Imi Knoebel,
Wolfgang Staehle, Alan Uglow," Ealan Wingate Gallery,
New York,NY.
"Cruciformed: Images of the Cross Since 1980,"
Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
(cat.).
"Gulliver's Travels," Galerie Sophia Ungers, Cologne,
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Germany.
Natalie Rivera/Booth 12, curated by Alan Jones, New
York, NY.
Blast Art Benefit exhibition, X-Art Foundation, New
York, NY (cat.).
"Non Peinture et Sculpture," Galerie 1900-2000,
Paris, France.
"La Revanche de l'Image," Galerie Pierre Huber,
Geneva, Switzerland.
1990
"Stuttering," Stux Gallery, New York.
"Small Works," Koury Wingate Gallery, New York.
"Parterres," Galerie Martina Detterer, Frankfurt,
Germany.
Richard Foncke Gallery, Gent, Belgium.
"Stendhal Syndrome: The Cure," Andrea Rosen Gallery,
New York (cat.).
"On the Edge: Between Sculpture and Photography,"
Cleveland Center of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH.
Anthony Ralph Gallery, New York.
"Stripes, Bands and Bars," Schmidt-Markow Gallery,
St. Louis, MO.
"The Young and the Restless," Baltimore Museum of
Art, Baltimore, MD.
"The 8th Biennale of Sydney", organized by Rene
Block,
Sydney, Australia (cat.).
1989/90
"The Play of the Unsayable - Wittgenstein and the Art
of the 2Oth Century," curated by Joseph Kosuth,
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium (cat.).
1989
"Urrealism," curated by Alan Jones, Paul Kasmin
Gallery, New York.
"Videoworks," Galleri Nordanstad-Skarstedt,
Stockholm, Sweden.
Koury Wingate Gallery (with General Idea, Cary
Smith), New York.
"Unbesehen," curated by Janis Hendrickson, Halle 3,
Kampnagelfabrik, Hamburg, Germany.
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"Six German Artists," curated by Gregorio Magnani,
Castello di Rivara, in collaboration with Gallerie
Franz Paludetto, Turin, Italy (cat.).
"Filling the Gap," curated by Saul Ostrow, Feigen
Gallery, Chicago, IL, cat.).
"On Subversion," Galerie Sophia Ungers, Cologne,
Germany (cat.).
Galerie Pierre Hubert, Geneva, Switzerland.
Koury Wingate Gallery, New York.
"Jet Lag," curated by Jan Avgikos and Michael Corris,
Turon Travel, New York.
Koury Wingate Gallery (with Serge Kliaving), New
York.
"Science, Technology, Abstraction - Art at the End of
the Decade," University Art Galleries, Wright State
University, Dayton, OH (cat.).
Daniel Newburg Gallery, New York.
"Natura Naturata (An Argument for Still Life),"
curated by Cornelia Lauf and Joseph Kosuth, Josh Baer
Gallery, New York.
"Repetition," Hirschl & Adler Gallery Modern, New
York.
Galerie Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium
1988
Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston, MA.
"Works, Concepts, Processes, Situations,
Information," Galerie Hans Mayer, curated by Robert
Nickas, Dusseldorf, Germany (cat.).
"24 Cubes," curated by Saul Ostrow, Fine Arts Center,
University Gallery, University of Massachusetts,
Amherst, MA (cat.).
"Monochrome Experiment," Musee St. Pierre, Lyons,
France (cat.).
"A choice," KunstRai, Amsterdam,The Netherlands.
"Fatal Strategies," curated by Klaus Ottmann and
Leslie Tonkonov, Stux Gallery, New York.
"Fine Arts Alumni, School of Visual Arts," Leo
Castelli Gallery, New York.
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1987
Colin de Land/American Fine Arts Company, New York.
"The Four Corners of Abstract Painting," White
Columns, New York.
"Selections...," Landesmuseum Munster, Munster,
Germany.
"D'Ornamentation," curated by Paul Groot, Daniel
Newburg Gallery, New York (cat.).
1985
"Art in Action," Sogetsu Museum, Tokyo, Japan, in
collaboration with Stephen Pollack, (cat.).
"Art in the Anchorage," The Brooklyn Bridge
Anchorage, New York, in collaboration with Stephen
Pollack.
1981
"Parade of Products," White Columns, New York.
1980
"Times Square Show," New York.
Bibliography:
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