robert lang

2020BasicNeccesities, Le code sono sparite da un momento al altro
, video, concept gallery SpazioY, Rome History boxes, concept and curator Reinhold Fiderer, Irmelshausen Online Gallery SingulartBoulevard du Montparnasse, Paris  

2019Naturalismosenza Natura
, Storie Contemporanee, Arte Visuali, Sculture, Società, Rome, 25° Edizione della Manifestazione degli incontri d’Arte Contemporanea al Majorana/MUDITAC, Rome BLACKOUT, curated by Trisha Kanellopoulos, Neue Gruppe in the Domagkateliers, Munich  

2018Picturesfrom the wayside
, solo exhibition at the gallery Freiraum16, Munich WhiteoutwhichNew group in the Domagkateliers, Munich You are Faust, on the occasion of the Faustfestival in Munich at Galerie Freiraum16, Munich Manifesta12curated by the SpazioY Gallery, in Palermo  

2017Artistsof the gallery
Gallery Freiraum16, Munich Terra, Madre Terracurated by Teresa Polidori and Arte Fuori Centro, with a text by Silvia Del Campo, in the framework of DNA Materacontemporanea and in the Galleria Trebisonda, Arte Contemporanea, Matera and Perugia 10° ed.
VIAGGIATORI sulla FLAMINIA Ibis redibis… curated by Franco Troiani and Emanuele de Donno, Borgo Cerreto and Palazzo Colicola, Spoleto  

2016L‘Istruttoria
organized and curated by Andrea Baffoni and Roberto Biselli, at the Old Weaving Mill in Ponte Felcino, Perugia Numero Unoexhibition of the Trebisonda group at Galerie Freiraum16, Munich Berlin-Pozzuolo-Perugiacurated by Andrea Baffoni and Mira Wunderer, at Palazzo Moretti, Pozzuolo Umbro, Castiglione del Lago The tower of Babelcurated by Mary Judge at the New York gallery Schema Project, Trebisonda Perugia and the Givatayim City Gallery in Tel Aviv La Leggerezza della SculturaXI Edizione Verso L’Arte, Turin, organized by the Istituto Nazionale d’Arte Contemporanea, at the Art Park, Cerrina Monferrato/ Allesandria The small formatGallery Freiraum16, Munich L’Istruttoria IIGallery Freemocco, Deruta  

2015AQUAEMUNDI
, with Mauro Faletti, Giu.ngo.Lab., Fukushi Ito, Matteo Mezzadri, e Robert Lang, organized and curated by Innerspace17, at the QC Terme Milano, Milano SIMBIOSI: OpenArt tra natura e storia
Installations, sculptures, drawings and paintings in the Pietra Porciana nature reserve, curated by Anna Cochetti, Siena Wundertüten
actions, sculptures and installations by Benedetta Galli, Lucilla Ragni, Danilo Fiorucci and Robert Lang.
Galleria SpazioY, Rome Italy. Porta Fortuna, Gallerie Varco, L’Aquila Italy  

2014ATLAS-NOVELLA-REVIVISCENZA
, exhibition with Danilo Fiorucci, Robert Lang and Lucilla Ragni, curated by A. Trespi, at Gallerie Haus 10, Fürstenfeldbruck/Munich Opposto/Contrario HORTUS ARTI, exhibition on the occasion of Altrocioccolato, at Palazzo Bufalini, Cittá di Castello AQUAE MUNDI, with Mauro Faletti, Giu.ngo.Lab., Fukushi Ito, Matteo Mezzadri, Walter Vallini, Tegi Canferi and Robert Lang, organized and curated by Innerspace17, at QC Terme Torino, Turin BACULUSat the Palazzo Collicola Arti Visive, curated by Emanuele De Donno, Gianluca Marziani and Franco Troiani, in Spoleto  

2013TREBISONDAZIONE
exhibition with Danilo Fiorucci, Robert Lang and Lucilla Ragni, curated by Giorgio Bonomi, at the Galleria Scoglio di Quarto, Milan  

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Ausstellungen seit 1986

Robert Lang, an Italian (art) story.
Robert Lang gained academic experience at the Academy of Arts in Munich at the end of the 1970s under Professor McZimmermann, who taught Fantastic Realism.
Everything he learned from many artists and various teachers up to that point was dedicated to traditional Nordic painting and drawing, which continues to have a fundamental influence on his work to this day.
In 1980, the Munich-born artist went to Italy and enrolled at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Perugia, where he met Bruno Corà, then Professor of Storia del Arte and Nuvolo (Giorgio Ascani), Professor of Painting.
Corà’s lectures introduced him to conceptual forms of art, such as Arte Povera, Pop Art and Fluxus, and led to an exploration of space, not only in the physical sense.
Thanks to Corà, he has the opportunity to get to know artists such as Michelangelo Pistoletto, Luciano Fabro, Giulio Paolini, Mario Merz, Kounellis, Sol LeWitt, Mattiaci and others, in some cases personally.
Their aesthetic models and theories completely absorbed him, but at the same time led to a major crisis in his hitherto figurative painting. During this time, Lang developed a very abstract style of painting that followed a spatial concept.
Born in 1958, he also developed a strong interest in the production of sculptures, studying sculpture for a year after completing his diploma in Italy.
During this period of conceptual exploration, Lang developed the Manneken, a small plaster figure, which he reproduced and “gave to the world as a gift” by first setting it up a hundred times himself, in Perugia and all the other places he visited during this time.
The artist also gave the mannequin as a gift to friends and acquaintances, had it distributed around the globe and at the same time documented its installation.
Ultimately, the artistic product is no longer the figure itself, but its journey around the world.
This concept of “passing on and distributing” gave rise to the idea of founding the artist group TREBISONDA in 1989, which initially consisted of various artists working together and organizing joint exhibitions.
Painting increasingly took a back seat in his work, while performative, plastic and sculptural elements, as well as photography, gained in importance.
At the beginning of the 1990s, Robert Lang returned to Germany for family reasons, where he became involved in art politics in and around Munich.
From 1995 to 2000, he was chairman and artistic director of an art association, which gave him the opportunity to incorporate his previous work in Italy. During this time, Lang began to make molds of the world.
Initially, he created molds using Japanese paper and plaster gauze, and later complex silicone molds.
At the end of the 1990s, he developed the concept of his “Pittura Transvisionaria”, with which he was represented in many exhibitions in Germany and Italy, including at the then Flash Art Museum Palazzo Lucarini.
The basis for these works is photography, with which Lang experimented for several years, resulting in photomontages and digital alienations that culminated in the exhibition “Il diritto dell’immagine” (The right to one’s own image), under the direction of the art critic Giorgio Bonomi.
The art historian Viviana Tessitore describes his work as a “plundering of reality”.
In all his exhibitions from then on, Lang tried to incorporate the exhibition space into his works and thus turn this space – for him actually a container – into an exhibited work.
He consistently incorporated this “spatial concept” into his art until 2020. From 2008, sculpture became the dominant form of expression in Lang’s work.
He created wire sculptures, which he exhibited at Tea Giobbio and Walter Vallini’s FusionArtGallery in Turin in 2012.
This exhibition already included works that he created interactively with bees.
This was also the beginning of his intensive exploration of the theme of nature, which culminated in the Munich solo exhibition “Bilder vom Wegesrand” in 2018, with which he presented a whole series of exhibitions, including his solo exhibition “Naturalismo senza Natura” in Rome in 2019. Philosophy and literature, such as “The Selfish Gene” by Richard Dawkins, have always had a strong influence on Lang’s artistic work; since 2018, Wolfgang Welsch’s natural philosophy has formed the theoretical basis of his artistic work. Wolfgang Welsch creates a completely new, anthropological world view with “Transculturality” and “Aesthetic World Experience – Contemporary Art between Nature and Culture”. He calls for a rethink that places people in a completely new relationship to the world. Since the beginning of 2021, Robert Lang has been devoting himself more to painting again, where he explores an emotional space that is equally related to the intensive examination of real space. He describes this – in combination with the preceding “Naturalismo Nuovo” – as “Emotional Expressionism”, which in all consistency represents a continuation of Abstract Expressionism, as it was and is realized by artists such as Cy Twombly in painting or Tony Cragg in sculpture. The artist develops his very own language: “At the end it’s me, Rob Lang.”