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HERBERT HAMAK BIOGRAPHY


1952

Born in Unterfranken, Germany
Lives and works in Hammelburg, Bavaria


SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2008

Museum Schnütgen, Köln, Germany

2007

Castelvecchio, Verona, Italy
Christopher Grimes Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Museum Civica G. Segantini, Arco, Italy

2006

Outdoor installation, main garden at The Peggy Guggenheim Collection,
Venice, Italy
Geukens & De Vil, Knokke-Zoute, Belgium
Galerie Christian Roellin, St. Gallen, Switzerland

2005

Studio Giangaleazzo Visconti, Milano, Italy
Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo and Nagoya, Japan
Renos Xippas, Athens Greece
Flash Art Museum, Trevi, Italy

2003

Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, California
Galerie Studio La citta, Verona, Italy
Studio Giangaleazzo Visconti, Milano, Italy

2002

Köln Skulptur, Art Cologne (Studio la Citta, Galerie Springer & Winckler
Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, California
Galerie Springer & Winckler, Berlin, Germany
Galerie Kenji Taki, Tokyo and Nagoya, Japan

2001

Studio La Cittá, Verona, Italy
Galerie Windows, Brussels, Belgium

2000

Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, California
Galerie Kenji Taki, Tokyo and Nagoya, Japan

1999

Galerie Springer and Winkler, Berlin, Germany
Galerie Grimm, Mallorca, Spain
Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, California
Galerie Tanit, Munich, Germany
Galeria Blu, Milano, Italy
Galerie Art & Public, Geneva, Switzerland

1998

Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Galerie Van Damme, Brussels, Belgium
Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Hamburg, Germany

1997

Galerie Renos Xippas, Paris, France
De Beyerd, Museum Breda, the Netherlands
Kanji Taki Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
Studio La Citta, Verona, Italy

1996

Galleria Sergio Tossi, Florence, Italy
Galleria Trisorio, Naples, Italy
Galerie Tanya Rumpff, Haarlem, the Netherlands
Wurttembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany
Galerie Hollenbach, Stuttgart, Germany

1995

Galerie Renos Xippas, Paris, France
Galerie Tanit, Munich, Germany

1994

Galerie Tanya Rumpff, Haarlem, the Netherlands
Studio La Citta, Verona, Italy
Galerie Rolf Ricke, Cologne, Germany

1993

Museum of Modern Art, Frankfurt, Germany
Daniel Newberg Gallery, New York, New York
Galerie Van Damme, Antwerp, Belgium
Galerie Art & Public, Geneva, Switzerland

1992

Galerie Tanya Rumpff, Haarlem, the Netherlands
Galerie Luis Campagna, Frankfurt, German

1991

Galerie Tanit, Munich, Germany
Galerie Albert Baronian, Brussels, Belgium
Galerie Ryszard Varisella, Frankfurt, Germany
Karmeliterkloster, Frankfurt, Germany

1990

Galerie Ryszard Varisella, Frankfurt, Germany
Daniel Newberg Gallery, New York, New York

1986

Galerie Ryszard Varisella, Frankfurt, Germany

1984

Im Klapperhof 33, Cologne, Germany

1981

Galerie Erhard Klein, Bonn Germany


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2007

Il Settimo Splendore, La modernitá della malinconia, Palazzo della
Ragione, Curator Giorgio Cortenova, Verona, Italy

2006

Full House – Gesichter einer Samnlung , Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany

2005

The Dazzling Show, Galerie Roellin/Duerr, St. Gallen, Swiss,
curated by Rolf Ricke
Je ne regretted rien , Studio La Cittá, Verona, Italy
Utopie réalisée , Präsentation L’Espace de l’Art Concret, Mouans-Sartoux/Cöte d’Azur, France

2004

The L.A. Years, Part 1, 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Luci Da Mente, Isola Palmaria, Fortezza de Mare, Genus
Art Seasons 2004, Cas Pellers, Binissalem, Mallorca, Spain
Post Impact, Portalakis Collection, Athens, Greece
Nouvelle Simplicite, Espace de l’Art Concret, Chateau de Moans, Mouans-Sartoux, France

2003

Breaking the Charmed Circle, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, California
Kunstahalle II, Museum Manniheim, Manniheim, Germany
Blanc de Blanc, Galerie Xippas, Paris Basilika Atri, Italy
Galerie Xippas, Athens, Greece
Perpetuum Mobile, Galerie Ricke, Köln, Germany

2002

Intermezzo, Studio La Cittá, Verona, Italy
Präsentation von Malerei im KMW, Krefelder Kunstmuseen/Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld

2001

L.A. International, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, California
Between you and me, (with Wilhem Mundt and Paul Goede),
Galerie Tanya Rumpff, Haarlem, Netherlands
Materia-Niente, Fondazione Bevilaqua La Masa, Venice, Italy
Figure astratte, Confederazione Nazionale Coltivatore Diretti, Rome, Italy

2000

Von Albers bis Paik, Slg. Daimler Chrysler, Stiftung fur konstruktive und konkrete Kunst, Zurich, Switzerland
Malerei, Galerie Grostrkinsky & Brummer, Karlsruhe, Germany
Exhibition Espace Gantner, Multimedia Cultural Center, Private
Collection Anne-Marie Charbonneaux, Bourogne, France
Carte blanche a Helen de Franchis, Galerie Lucien Durand Le Gaillard, Paris, France

1999

Geometrie als Gestalt, Slg. Daimler Chrysler, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
Think Colour, Laure Genillard Gallery, London, UK
Special Offer, (curated by Rolf Ricke), Malerei, Kunstverein, Kassel, Germany
Galerie Higer, Wien, Austria
Galerie Tanja Rumpff, Haarlem, The Netherlands

1998

Horizontal Vertikal, Das Museum fur Moderne
Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
Object Obscure, Todd Gallery, London, UK
Musee d'Art Moderne at Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland

1997

Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
Galerie Tanit, Munich, Germany
Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Radicaal-beeld, Stedlijk Museum, the Netherlands
Musee d'Art Moderne at Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
Galerie Ausstellungsraum Hubner, Frankfurt, Germany

1996

Studio La Citt‡, Verona, Italy
Starck Gallery, New York, New York
Szenenwechsel X, Museum of Modern Art, Frankfurt, Germany
Polymere Musee d'Art Contemporain, Nice, France

1995

The Mutated Painting, Galerie Martina Detterer, Frankfurt, Germany
Lapislazuli - Gold, Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Hamburg, Germany
Pittura Immedia, Neue Galerie in Landesmuseum, Graz, Austria
Das Abenteuer der Malerie, Wurttembergischer
Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany and Kunstverein fur die Rheinlande u. Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Germany
Am Rande der Malerei, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Abstrakte Kunst aus Ostschweizer Privatbesitz, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland

1994

Bob van Orsouw, Zurich, Switzerland

1993

ECART, Geneva, Switzerland
Galerie Susanna Kulli, St. Gallen, Switzerland

1992

Galerie Rolf Ricke, Cologne, Germany
Das offene Bild, Museum MŸnster and Museum Leipzig, Germany

1991

The Painted Desert, Galerie Renos Xippas, Paris, France
Four Painters, Laure Genillard Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Bildlicht (curated by Peter Weibel), Museum of Modern Art, Vienna, Austria



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