Vera Lutter

Clock Tower, Brooklyn, XIX : June 3, 2009

Vera Lutter investigates the camera obscura and its process of recording light on photographic paper. She draws inspiration from architecture and her works explore urban landscapes, industrial sites, mythical landscapes, and the views from her artist studio. These are a selection of the many places where she reframes images to reveal different layers of spatial perception. Her large-scale photographs often require several hours or days of light exposure. She chooses to work with room-sized cameras allowing the size of the resulting image to reflect the architecture in which it was made. The prolonged exposure allows her to record images that give evidence to time passed. The resulting ephemera and movement dissolve time into the image, sometimes enabling ghostly forms to surface. These photographs don’t simply translate the real; they also reveal an intermediate world, a space of corresponding apparitions. The images radiate a fluid and otherworldly feeling that allows the gaze to drift and linger on certain details captured with startling precision.

Artworks

*Grace Building: March 4*

Vera Lutter
Unique camera obscura, silver-gelatin print
61 x 51cm
2005

*Paris Moon*

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Archival pigment print
40,5 x 31 cm

*Maria Laach VI: October 20*

Vera Lutter
Unique fiber based silver gelatin print, mounted on museum board and framed behind plexi glass
158,5 x 137 cm
2010

*Cold Spring III: March 9*

Vera Lutter
Unique fiber based silver gelatin print, mounted on museum board and framed behind plexi glass
242 x 287 cm
2013

*155 West 66th Street, New York City, I : August 22*

Vera Lutter
Unique camera obscura, silver-gelatin print
222 x 143,5 cm
2005

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Vera Lutter

Civilization: The Way We Live Now

13 September 2019 – 2 February 2020 13.09.2019 – 02.02.2020

National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (AU)

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Artists

Biography

Born in Germany. Lives and works in New York.

EDUCATION

1993-95

MFA, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, USA.

1985-91

Akademie der Bildenden Künste München, Munich, Germany.

AWARDS

2002

Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant

2001

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
Artist-in-Residence, International Artists Studio Program in Sweden (IASPS)

1999

Kulturstiftung der ZF Friedrichshafen Grant

1997

International Center for Advanced Studies Grant, Project on Cities and Urban Knowledge, New York University

1993

Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2018

Vera Lutter, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO.
Vera Lutter: Turning Time, Gagosian Gallery, London, UK.

2017

Painting on paper: Vera Lutter’s Old Master Photographs, TEFAF, New York, United-States (October 28 – November 1)

2016

Paestum, Vera Lutter, Alfonso Artiaco Gallery, Naples, Italy
Vera Lutter, Galerie Xippas, Genève, Suisse
Vera Lutter : Inverted Worlds, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA
Vera Lutter : Inverted Worlds, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, USA

2015

Vera Lutter, Gagosian Gallery, New York, USA 2014 Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Vera Lutter, Spot On, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Germany Max Hetzler Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Edwynn Houk Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
Clock Tower, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, Colorado, USA

2013

Folding Four in One, Galerie Xippas, France

2012

Carré d’Art – Musée d’art contemporain de Nîmes, Nîmes, France 2011 Alfonso Artiaco, Naples, Italy
Galerie Max Hetzler, Eifel, Germany
Egypt, Gagosian Gallery, London, UK
A ghost still is like a place, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO, USA

2009

Galerie Xippas, Paris, France
Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Samar Hussein, Carolina Nitsch Project Room, New York, NY, USA

2008

Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO, USA

2007

Galleria Nicolo Cardi, Milan, Italy.
Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY, USA

2005-06

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, USA
Galerie Xippas, Athens, Grece

2005

Nabisco Factory, Beacon, Dia:Beacon, Beacon, NY, USA 2004 Battersea, Gagosian Gallery, London, UK
Galerie Max Hetzler, Zimmerstraße 90/91, Berlin, Germany Galerie Max Hetzler, Holzmarktstraße 15-18, Berlin, GermanyInside In, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria

2003

Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY, USA

2002

Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL, USA
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany

2001

Kunsthalle Basel, avec Hanspeter Hofmann, Basel, Switzerland 2000 Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
Barbara Flynn Gallery, Sydney, Australia

1999-00

Time Traced: Vera Lutter and Rodney Graham, Dia Center for the Arts, New York, NY, USA

1999

Roth Horowitz, New York, NY, USA

1998

Wooster Gardens, New York, NY, USA

1996

On New York, Wooster Gardens, New York, NY, USA

1995

Sight and Sense, Hypo Bank, New York, NY, USA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2018-2019

Civilization: The Collective Life, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea

2018

Then & Now, JPMorgan Chase Art Collection at Paris Photo 2018, France.
Vision of the Other Worlds, Sargent’s Daughters, New York, NY. Sun Pictures Then and Now: Talbot and his Legacy Today, Photo London, London, UK.
Poussières d’étoiles, group show, La Laiterie, Massignac, France. About
Photography, Gagosian, San Francisco, CA. Facing the Camera, Hans Kraus Jr.
Fine Photographs, New York, NY.

2017

Painting on Paper: Vera Lutter’s Old Master Photographs, LACMA Booth at TEFAF, Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY, October 28 – November 1, 2017.
The Mechanics of Expression: Vera Lutter, Sameer Makarius & Otto Steinert, Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York, NY.
Lunar Attraction, Essex Museum, Salem, United-States
Photography Reinvented: The collection of Robert E. Meyerhoff and Rheda Becker, National Gallery of Art, Washington, United-States

2016

30th Anniversary show, Artiaco Gallery, Naples Italy
Anniversary show, Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis, United-States
The Daguerreian Society’s Annual 19th century Photography conference and show, New York, United-States

2015

Industry, Now Contemporary Photographs From the Mast Collection, Group Show, MAST Foundation, Bologna, Italy
Framing Desire: Photography and Video, The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, United-States
The Memory of Time: Contemporary Photographs from the National Gallery of Art, Acquired with the Alfred H.Moses and Fern M. Schad Fund, National Gallery of Art, Washington, United-States

2014

SPOT ON, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Germany
Convergences: Selected Photographs from the Permanent Collection, Getty Center, Los Angeles, California, United-States
Now you see it : photography and concealment, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, United-StatesConvergences: Slected Photographs from the Permanent Collection, The Getty Center, Los Angeles, United-States

2013

40 Years Galerie Max Hetzler, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
Flowers & Mushrooms, Museum der Moderne, Mönchsberg, Salzburg, Austria
Legacy: Photographs from the Emily Fisher Landau Collection, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT, USA
The Distaff Side, The Granary, Sharon, CT, USA
Light Sensitive: Photographic Works from North Carolina Collections, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
Big Pictures, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, TX, USA

2012

Skyscraper: Art and Architecture Against Gravity, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL, USAMyths and Realities, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, USA
Accrochage, Carolina Nitsch Project Room, New York, NY, USA Art Unlimited, Basel, Switzerland
Measuring the World: Heterotopias and Knowledge Spaces in Art, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria
L’objet photographique: une invention permanente, Maison européenne de la photographie, Paris, France Prix Pictet Presentation, Rencontres internationales de la photographie, Arles, France
Prix Pictet Exhibition, Passage de Retz, Paris, France
Eye Wonder: Photography from the Bank of America Collection, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, Washington DC, USA
PROCESS, Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, NY, USA
New Prints 2011/Winter, International Print Center, New York, NY, USA

2010

Imaginário da Paisagem – obras da BESart / Colecçao Banco Espírito Santo, Centro de Artes Visuais, Coimbra, Portugal
Mixed-Use Manhattan: Photography and Related Practices 1970s to the present, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
Still / Moving, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Vaxination, Galerie Xippas, Athens, Greece
Entre glace et neige, Région Autonome Vallée d’Aoste, CourMayeur, Italy
Crash, Gagosian Gallery, London, UK

2009

Extended Family: Contemporary Connections, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, USA
elles@centre pompidou, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Contradictions in Black and White, Hasted Hunt Gallery, New York, NY, USA

2008-09

Images from Venice, Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland

2008

To: Night, Contemporary Representations of the Night, The Hunter College Galleries, Hunter College, New York, NY, USA
Palimpseste, un bon pre-texte, La Réserve – Galerie Xippas, Pacy-sur-Eure, France
Photography and Architecture, Mitterand + Cramer, Geneva, Switzerland

2007

World Images II, Helmhaus Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Taken with Time, The Atrium Gallery, Marion Center for Photographic Arts, Santa Fe, NM, USARückblende, Neue Galerie Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Germany
Taken with Time, The Atrium Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, USA
Façade Architecture, Space, Cook Fine Art, New York, NY, USA
The Big Picture, The North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC, USA

2006

Target Collection of American Photography; A Century in Pictures, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, USA
Alchemy: Twelve Contemporary Artists Exploring the Essence of Photography, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London, UKIn Sight: Recent Additions to the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL, USA
Out of the Camera: Analoge Fotografie Im Digitalen Zeitalter, Bielefelder
Kunstverein, Bielefeld, GermanyKunst und Photographie – Photographie und Kunst, Galerie Bernd Kluser, Munich, Germany
A la (re)découverte des collections photographiques de Musée de La Roche sur-Yon, Musée municipale d’Art de la Roche-sur-Yon, France
Carbonic Anhydride, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany

2005

El Diablo non es Tan Malo Colo se Pinta, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Buenos Aires, ArgentinaRoger Ballen, Alec Soth, Vera Lutter, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Strange Days, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, TX, USA
Contemporary Obscurists, Alan Klotz Gallery, New York, NY, USA

2004

Image Smugglers in a Free Territory, 25 Biennale of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Beginning Here/101 Ways, Visual Arts Gallery, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, USA
The Amazing & The Immutable, University of South Florida, Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL, USA

2003

Strange Days, Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA
The Eye and the Camera, A History of Photography, Albertina Museum, Vienna,
AustriaLandscapes of Man, Jean Paul Slussler Gallery, University of Michigan,
Ann Arbor, MI, USAWings of Art, Kunsthalle Darmstadt: Ludzig Forum Aachen, Germany
Defying Gravity: Contemporary Art and Flight, North Carolina Museum of Art,
Raleigh, NC, USASame time this year, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY, USA

2002

Visions from America: Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art 1940-2000, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA
Art on Paper 2002, Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC, USAWhitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA
Life of the City, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
Populated, IASPIS, Stockholm, Swenden
Exchange and Transform, Kunstverein München, Munich, Germany

2001

Enduring Love, Klemens Gasser and Tanja Grunert Gallery, New York, NY, USA
What’s New: Recent Acquisitions in Photography, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA 2000 Collectors Choice, Exit Art, New York, NY, USA
New York Now 2000: Contemporary Work in Photography, The Museum of the City of New York, NY, USA
Photography about Photography, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY, USA

1999

Big Picture: Large Format Photgraphy, Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, VT, USA
Low Tech, Light Factory, Charlotte, NC, USA
Views from the Edge of the World, Marlborough Gallery Chelsea, New York, NY, USANewton, Crary, Lutter, Ruth Horowitz, New York, NY, USA

1998

New York: A Divided City, New York University, Center for International Studies, New York, NY, USAAbout Painting: Part III, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY, USA

1997

Light, Bennington Art College, Bennington, VT, USACityScapes, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY, USA

SPECIAL PROJECTS

2017

LACMA Reimagined: Vera Lutter’s Transformative Photographs, résidence, Sotheby’s, Los Angeles Contre Museum of Art, United States

2009-10

Nowhere Near, 601 Artspace, New York, NY, USA. Exhibition curated by the artist

2008

Ariadne Unhinged, Gotham Chamber Opera, New York, NY, USA. Set design by the artist, choreographed by Karole Armitage

1997

Unmarked Helicopter (with Marvin Heiferman and Carole Kismaric of Look Out), book project for The Art of the X-Files, Ed. Chris Carter (New York: Harper Prism, 1998)

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Minneapolis Institute of Art, MN, USA
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, USA
Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY, USA
Dia Art Foundation, New York, NY, USA
Kunsthaus, Zürich, Switzerland
Middlebuty College Museum of Art, Middlebury, VT, USA
Musée national d’art moderne – Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, USA
Neue Galerie, New York, NY, USA
New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC, USA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, USA
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
The Davis, Wellesley, MA, USA
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel.
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, USA
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., USA
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA

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Vera Lutter

Civilization: The Way We Live Now

13 September 2019 – 2 February 2020 13.09.2019 – 02.02.2020

National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (AU)

Artists

Biography

EDUCATION

AWARDS

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

SPECIAL PROJECTS

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS