
Volker Hüller’s large-format canvases and hand-coloured etchings engulf the viewer in a world where shapes and meaning are fragmented and interconnected to present an eerily abstract sense of portraiture and narrative. Both paintings and etchings distill Hüller’s exploration of collage, where line plays a fundamental role. Constantly shifting between figuration and abstraction, Hüller’s works disassemble their materials – both physically and conceptually – to compose new forms. For example, in the large-scale etchings, fragmented figures seemingly dance, love, fight. Movement is conveyed by dissecting forms, through a clear lineage from Cubism and Duchamp’s experiments such as Nude Descending a Staircase.
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Volker Hüller’s large-format canvases and hand-coloured etchings engulf the viewer in a world where shapes and meaning are fragmented and interconnected to present an eerily abstract sense of portraiture and narrative. Both paintings and etchings distill Hüller’s exploration of collage, where line plays a fundamental role. Constantly shifting between figuration and abstraction, Hüller’s works disassemble their materials – both physically and conceptually – to compose new forms. For example, in the large-scale etchings, fragmented figures seemingly dance, love, fight. Movement is conveyed by dissecting forms, through a clear lineage from Cubism and Duchamp’s experiments such as Nude Descending a Staircase.
Hüller has presented two solo exhibitions at Timothy Taylor (2010 and 2013), as well as recent solo exhibitions at 11R Gallery, New York, NY, USA (2016); L.I.T.S. Homo Naledi, Grimm Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2016); Loushy, Tel Aviv, Israel (2015); Eleven Rivington, New York, USA (2012 and 2013); Produzentengalerie, Hamburg, Germany (2012) and Grimm Gallery, Amseterdam, The Netherlands (2011). Recent group exhibitions include: Young Collections 01, Weserburg Museum for Modern Art, Bremen, Germany and Windows, curated by Marc Mulders, KAdE, Amersfoort, The Netherlands (both 2014); Gesamtkunstwerk: New Art from Germany, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK (2011); Weißer Schimmel (You Can Observe a Lot by Watching), curated by Nicola Torke and Christoph Grau, Falckenberg Collection, Hamburg, Germany, In Dreams, Timothy Taylor, London and EAGLES, curated by Timo Hanen, Gallery Metro, Manila, Philippines (all 2010). Hüller’s work is held in the Saatchi Collection.
Volker Hüller was born in 1976 in Forchheim, Germany. He studied at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg, under Professor Norbert Schwontkowski.
1976 | Born in Forchheim, Germany |
2004–05 | Scholarship from the Bargheer Foundation |
2006 | Residency in Mexico City, supported by Ditze Foundation |
2008 | Graduated in Fine Arts at Academy of Fine Arts Hamburg |
(class of Prof. Norbert Schwontkowski) | |
2012 | Residency at Steep Rock Arts, Washington, Connecticut, USA |
2018 | Tonics, Van Doren Waxter, New York, NY, USA |
2017–2018 | Volley, Produzentengalerie Hamburg, Germany |
2016 | Volker Hüller, 11R Gallery, New York, NY, USA |
L.I.T.S. Homo Naledi, Grimm Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands | |
2015 | Volker Hüller, Loushy, Tel Aviv, Israel |
2013 | Volker Hüller, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK |
Volker Hüller, Eleven Rivington, New York, NY, USA | |
2012 | Volker Hüller: Arsen, Produzentengalerie, Hamburg, Germany |
2011 | Ahnen, Grimm Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
Volker Hüller, Eleven Rivington, New York, NY, USA | |
2010 | Volker Hüller, The Viewing Room at Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK |
2009–10 | Volker Hüller, curated by Anna-Catherina Gebbers, Salon 94 / Eleven Rivington, New York, NY, USA |
2009 | Sky Above, Mud Below, Grimm Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
Morgengrauen, Produzentengalerie, Hamburg, Germany | |
Death in the Afternoon, Forgotten Bar Project, Berlin, Germany | |
2008 | Nachtwandeln im Laubengang, curated by Anna-Catharina Gebbers, Bibliothekswohnung, Berlin, Germany |
2005 | VOLVOX Nomadenoase, Golden Pudel Club, Hamburg, Germany |
2018 | Pop-up GRIMM Brussels, Grimm Gallery, Brussels, Belgium |
2016 | Still, Produzentengalerie Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany |
Volker Hüller & Emily Noelle Lambert, Van Doren Waxter, New York, NY, USA | |
2015 | Substance, Timothy Taylor, London, UK |
2014 | Young Collections 01, Weserburg Museum for Modern Art, Bremen, Germany |
Windows, an exhibition curated by Marc Mulders, KAdE, Amersfoort, The Netherlands | |
Huidige Zaken, Grimm Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands | |
2011–12 | Seminal Education, Gavlak Gallery, Palm Beach, FL, USA |
2011 | Gesamtkunstwerk: New Art from Germany, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK |
Viele Köpfe, Produzentengalerie, Hamburg, Germany | |
2010 | In Dreams, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK |
Weißer Schimmel (You Can Observe a Lot by Watching), curated by Nicola Torke and Christoph Grau, Falckenberg Collection, Hamburg, Germany | |
New Paintings, Grimm Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands | |
EAGLES, curated by Timo Hanen, Gallery Metro, Manila, Philippines | |
Guatavita, Eleven Rivington, New York, NY, USA | |
2009 | Cargo, Autocenter, Berlin, Germany |
Narcotica, Wirtshaus im Schalter, Basel, Switzerland; Galerie im Regierungsviertel, Berlin, Germany | |
Ventriloquist, curated by Emma Dexter, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK | |
Pulp Fiction, Eleven Rivington, New York, NY, USA | |
C" I : Yesim Akdeniz Graf, Tjorg Douglas Beer, Volker Hüller, Ruth May, Produzentengalerie, Hamburg, Germany | |
2008 | Ein Pferd frisst keinen Gurkensalat Kunsthochschulen II - Klasse Norbert Schwontkowski, Städtische Galerie Delmenhorst, Germany |
Michael Conrads, Volker Hüller and Malte Urbschat, Wiensowski & Harbord, Berlin, Germany | |
Wert-Schätzung, curated by Anna-Catharina Gebbers, Sammlung Sander, Berlin, Germany | |
Lumen Christi, students of the classes of Prof Pia Stadtbäumer, Prof. Werner Büttner and Prof. Norbert Schwontkowski, St. Katharinen Church, Hamburg, Germany | |
10 Jahre Feinkunst Krüger, Galerie Feinkunst Krüger, Hamburg, Germany | |
2007–08 | Lotte Gertz & Volker Hüller: The Mouse, the Bird and the Sausage, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK |
2007 | A und O, curated by Abel Auer, Galerie Jürgen Becker, Hamburg, Germany |
You will be Re-Materialized through your Secrets (Charlie Hammond, Volker Hüller, Gedi Sibony, Valeska Soares, Katja Strunz), curated by Michael Clifton, Michael Benevento/ Orange Group, Los Angeles, CA, USA | |
Immer noch im Sommerloch: Volker Hüller & Michael Conrads, Feinkunst Krüger, Hamburg, Germany | |
Frozen Cirrostratus, curated by Kerstin Niemann, Galerie Sækkers, Eindhoven, The Netherlands | |
bookish relations, curated by Anna-Catharina Gebbers, Bibliothekswohnung, Berlin, Germany | |
Inky Toy Affinitas, curated by Anna-Catharina Gebbers, Cerealart, Philadelphia, PA, USA | |
2006 | Wo warst Du! All Ambra, initiated by Abel Auer, Dorota Jurczak, and Armin Krämer, Kunstpavillon Innsbruck, Austria |
Top to bottom end to end, Westbahnhof, Vienna, Austria | |
Home Sweet Home: Michael Conrads, Volker Hüller & Malte Urbschat, Wallstreet One Gallery, Berlin, Germany | |
2005 | Palsteg, Westwerk, Hamburg, Germany |
index05, Kunsthaus, Hamburg, Germany | |
2004 | Teilen, was du weißt, Ausstellung zur Kunstmeile, Hamburg, Germany |
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY |
Saatchi Gallery, London, UK |
The Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX |
2012 | Volker Hüller, text by Daniel Kunitz, Cologne: Snoeck |
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