Udo Nöger
German born, California USA based, Udo Noger presents luminous “white” paintings hand crafted to create a dimensional and ethereal experience upon engagement.
Udo Nöger aims to bring out the luminescence of paint in his practice. The artist is known for monochromatic gray works that give the impression of emitting light. Nöger achieves this effect by stretching multiple pieces of fabric or canvas onto one frame; he either paints on, or cuts shapes into, the different layers beforehand. The negative forms produce a vessel of sorts, holding the incoming light from the outside as well as returning it to the ambient space.
Contrary to first observation, no artificial light is being installed behind the matrix of the painting. Instead the structure is purely dependent on the surrounding lighting situation. Whereas some light installations draw the viewer with their dominance – loud and blinding – Udo Nöger’s works are sensitive, reserved, and refuse quick perception. Noger creates paintings as large as 15 feet across… showcasing the artist’s dedicated desire and technical skill toward the enhancement of space, not only around his painting, but within the art work itself.
Recent Artwork
Artist Information
Udo Nöger (German, b. 1961, Enger, Germany) aims to bring out the luminescence of paint in his practice. The artist is known for monochromatic gray works that give the impression of emitting light. Nöger achieves this effect by stretching multiple pieces of fabric or canvas onto one frame; he either paints on or cuts shapes into the different layers beforehand. As a result, the work appears lighter and more transparent in certain parts. Nöger has also been known to paint on the underside of the fabric, and to use materials of varying thickness and opacity.
Udo Nöger’s ongoing interest in the phenomena of light and its manifestation has led him to a remarkable and unique way of painting. Nöger’s paintings are composed of three layers of light transparent canvas stretched over each other in a frame. Forms are cut from the middle layer and the canvases painted and worked front and back to form a trap for luminosity. As a result, the work appears lighter and more transparent in certain parts. Light travels into the closed atmosphere of the interior of Nöger’s paintings, is changed, and sent on its way back into the world. The experience of the material quality of light in these beautiful white paintings feels as though the light source emanates from deep within space, floating, hovering, pulsing and dancing, a memory of sensory impressions, a metaphor for inner life and spiritual intelligence.
Udo Nöger has exhibited through the United States and Europe including Austria, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland and Holland as well as Costa Rica and Canada. His work is included in the private collections of such notables as Halle Berry, Sylvester Stallone, Dennis and Kimberly Quaid, Elton John, Axl Rose, George Lindermann, Monique Lhuillier, Bill Gates, and Kelsey Grammer.
Residence: Fallbrook, California
Born: 1961, Enger, Germany
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2022 Like the Ocean Like the Sea, Sundaramtagore Gallery, New York (Madison Avenue/Chelsea), Singapore, London UK
2021 Udo Noger, Sundaramtagore Gallery, New York (Madison Avenue/Chelsea), Singapore, London UK
2018
• Udo Nöger: The Inside of Light, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2017
• Udo Nöger: The Inside of Light, Bentley Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
2016
• Udo Nöger: Sublime, Callan Contemporary, New Orleans, LA
• No More – No Less, Madison Gallery, La Jolla, CA
2015
• GEISTLOS, Diana Lowenstein Gallery, Miami, FLWeight of Light, Kunsthalle Dresden, Germany
• Innen, Schultz Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
• Drawings from 2010 – 2015, Galería Álvaro • Alcázar, Madrid, Spain
• And Who Are You, Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts , Miami, FL
• Unconscious Paintings, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2014
• Invisible Visible, Karin Weber Gallery, Hong Kong
• Beyond , Dolby Chatwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• Water Has No Figuration, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
• Minimal Paintings, Grossetti Arte Contemporanea, Milano, Italy
• Reduced, 212 Gallery, Aspen, CO
2013
• Be Water, Schultz Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
• The Insight of the Painting, Karin Weber Gallery, Hong Kong
• Inner Surface, Timothy Yarger, Beverly Hills, CA
• New Works, Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami, FL
• Light, Guthrie Contemporary, New Orleans, LA
2012
• Weight of Light, Grossetti Arte Contemporanea, Milano, Italy
• Licht, Feichtner Gallery, Vienna, Austria
• Weight of light, Bachofner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
• Galerie Lausberg, Toronto, Canada
One Man Show at ART MIAMI
• Galerie Lausberg, Toronto/Düsseldorf
Me Water and Within, Walker Fine Art, Denver, CO
2011
• Bilder und Objekte von 1990-2011, Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum, Hagen, Germany
• Me Water, Museum of Art Honolulu, HI
New Paintings, Walker Contemporary, Boston, MA
• One Man Show at Art Chicago, IL, Galerie Peithner-Lichtenfels, Vienna
• The Weight of Light, Sherry Leedy Contemporary, Kansas City, MO
• Inner Distance, Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami, FL
• Innere Ferne, Galerie Lausberg, Düsseldorf, Germany
• Gewicht des Lichtes, Galerie Peithner – Lichtenfels, Vienna, Austria
• One Man Show at Scope Miami, Galerie Feichtner, Vienna
2010
• Kleine Inseln, Lukas Feichtner Galerie, Vienna, Austria
• Bachofner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
• Galería Álvaro Alcázar, Madrid, Spain
• Light as a Material, Grossetti Arte Contemporanea, Milano, Italy
• Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA, USA
2009
• Little Islands, Robin Rule Gallery, Denver, CO
• New Paintings, Gebert Contemporary, Santa Fe
• NM
Walker Contemporary, Boston, MA
• Little Islands, Bernhard Knaus Fine Art, Frankfurt, Germany
2008
• Me Water, Morat Institut für Kunst und Kunstwissenschaft, Freiburg, Germany
• Recent Works, Gebert Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
• Recent Works, Gebert Contemporary, Scottsdale, AZ
• Me Water, Beck & Eggeling International Fine Art, Düsseldorf, Germany
• Lukas Feichtner Gallery, Vienna, Austria
2007
• Gebert Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
• Me Water, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
• Me Water, Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami, FL
• Espaces Transitoires, Galerie Pascal van Hoecke, Paris, France
2006
• Light as a Material, Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, MO
• Light as a Material, Art & Cultural Center Maui, HI
• Light as a Material, Chiaroscuro Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM
• Buschlen-Mowatt Galleries, Palm Desert, CA
2005
• Light as a Material, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO
• Light as a Material, Chiaroscuro Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
• New Paintings, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
• Light as a Material, Robin Rule Gallery, Denver, CO
• Bewegend, Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami, FL
• Bewegend, Beck & Eggeling International Fine Art, Düsseldorf, Germany
• One Man Show at Art Cologne, Beck & Eggeling, Düsseldorf
• Bewegend, Lukas Feichtner Galerie, Vienna, Austria
2004
• Light as a Material, Chiaroscuro Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM
• Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Fassbender Gallery, Chicago, IL
• Galerie Peter Borchardt, Hamburg, Germany
2003
• Light as a Material 2, Lowe Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
• Light as a Material 1, Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami, FL
• Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Rule Gallery, Denver, CO
• Light as a Material 1, Galerie Feichtner & Mizrahi, Vienna, Austria
2002
• Buschlen-Mowatt Galleries, Palm Desert, CA
• Riechend, Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Fassbender Gallery, Chicago, IL
• Jacob Karpio Gallery, San Jose, Costa Rica
2001
• Works 1990 – 2000, Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO
• Me Water, Fassbender Gallery, Chicago, IL
• Light as a Material 1, Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA
• White, Artcore Gallery, Toronto, Canada
• Riechend, Beck & Eggeling International Fine Art, Düsseldorf, Germany
• Me Water, Galerie Peter Borchardt, Hamburg, Germany
• Riechend, Kunstverein Lippstadt, Lippstadt, Germany
2000
• Jacob Karpio Gallery, San Jose, Costa Rica
Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA
• Me Water, Galerie Feichtner & Mizrahi, Vienna, Austria
• Galerie Beck & Eggeling, Leipzig, Germany
• Galerie Hänel, Wiesbaden, Germany
• Me Water, Art Cologne, Galerie Hänel, Cologne, Germany
• Me Water, Art Frankfurt, Galerie Hänel, Frankfurt, Germany
1999
• Heads and Vessels 2, Contemporary Art Center of Peoria, Peoria, IL
• Innen, Kunsthalle Bielefeld (Studiengalerie), Bielefeld, Germany
• Heads and Vessels 2, Peyton Wright Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
• Eine andere Art von Licht, Galerie Bernd Dürr, Munich, Germany
• Zwischenräume, Beck – Eggeling – Schlag, Düsseldorf, Germany
• Zwischenräume, Feichtner & Mizrahi, Vienna, Austria
• Zwischenräume, Ruth Sachse, Hamburg, Germany
• Zwischenräume, Frank Schlag & Cie., Essen, Germany
1998
Paintings and Drawings, Fassbender Gallery, Chicago, IL
Heads and vessels 2, Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Jan Maiden Fine Art, Columbus, OH
Jacob Karpio Gallery, San Jose, Costa Rica
Heads and Vessels, Galerie Hans-Jürgen Siegert, Basel, Switzerland
Eine andere Art von Licht – Galerie Hänel, Frankfurt, Germany
1997
• Jain Marunouchi Gallery, New York, NY
• Heads and Vessels, Peyton Wright Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
• Heads and Vessels, Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA
• Mixed Media Paintings, Olga Dollar Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• Bilder, Galerie Maria Sels, Düsseldorf, Germany
1996
• Galerie Bernd Dürr, Munich, Germany
• Galerie van Alom, Berlin, Germany
• Heads and Vessels, Galerie Hänel, Frankfurt, Germany
1995
• With Bird, Sherry Frumkin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
• With Bird, Jain Marunouchi Gallery, New York, NY
• Marcia Rafelman Fine Arts, Toronto, Canada
1994
• Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA
• Recent Works, Mindy Oh Gallery, Chicago, IL
• Neue Arbeiten, Galerie van Alom, Berlin, Germany
• Autogen Gallery, Dresden, Germany
1993
• Between Everything, Tamenaga Gallery, New York, NY
• Between Everything, Hypo Bank Foundation, New York, NY
• Lowe Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA
• Between Everything, Siegerlandmuseum, Siegen, Germany
• Zwischen Papier und Skulptur, Bernd Dürr, Munich, Germany
• Galerie van Alom, Berlin, Germany
1992
• Reaches, Jain Marunouchi Gallery, New York, NY
• Reaches, Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA
• Reaches, Lowe Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
• Reaches, Mackey Gallery, Denver, CO
1991
• Payton Rule Gallery, Denver, CO
• Reach in the Dust, Bernd Dürr, Munich, Germany
• Neue Bilder, van Alom, Berlin, Germany
1989
• Galerie van Alom, Berlin, Germany
• Rongo-Rongo Südseebilder, Kunstverein Paderborn, Germany
1988
• Euro Gallery, London, England
• Rongo-Rongo Südseebilder, Galerie Delta, Rotterdam, Netherlands
• Rongo-Rongo Südseebilder, Bernd Dürr, Munich, Germany
• Südseebilder, Galerie Trost, Lippstadt, Germany
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018
• Artist as Subject: 20th Anniversary Show, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2016
• White on White, Melissa Morga Fine Art, Palm Desert, CA
2015
• Echo, 212 Gallery, Aspen, CO
• The Buoyancy of Nothing, Walker Fine Art, Denver, CO
• Large Paintings, Melissa Morgan Fine Art, Palm Desert, CA
• Summer of Color, Tansey Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
2014
• Dialogue 5:5, Kunstraum Villa Friede, Bonn, Germany
• Paintings, Hollis Taggart, New York
• 25 Years, Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami, FL
• Group Show, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2013
• Cross Pollinate, Walker Fine Art, Denver, CO
• Zwischen Himmel und Erde, Galerie Kudlek, Cologne, Germany
• Beyond the Moment, Grossetti Arte Contemporaneo, Milano, Italy
2012
• EENI, Grossetti Arte Contemporaneo, Milano, Italy
• Five Gallery Artists, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
• Light Revealed, Karin Weber Gallery, Hong Kong
• Summer Special Exhibition, Lausberg Contemporary, Toronto, Canada
• Winter Group Exhibition, Lausberg Contemporary, Toronto, Canada
• Small Works, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2011
• Entering Abstraction, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
• Present Tense, Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
• Walker Fine Art, Denver, CO
• Upstairs Downstairs, Lausberg Contemporary, Toronto, Canada
• Etablierte und neue Positionen, Galerie Peithner-Lichtenfels, Vienna, Austria
2010
• White Meditation Room, Grossetti Arte Contemporaneo, Milano, Italy
• Gebert Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
• Gallery Artists, Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
• Walker Contemporary, Boston, MA
Bernhard Knaus Fine Art, Frankfurt, Germany
2009
• Bande – Künstler der Galerie – Galerie Borchardt, Hamburg, Germany
• Gebert Contemporary, Scottsdale, AZ
• White Show, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
• Lukas Feichtner Galerie, Vienna, Austria
• Künstler der Galerie – Beck & Eggeling International Fine Art, Düsseldorf, Germany
2008
• Landscapes, Gebert Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
• Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami, FL
SELECTED PUBLIC & PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Metropolitan Museum, New York Art Institut, Chicago Bass Museum, Miami Museum Of Art, Honolulu Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, Missouri Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld (Germany) Siegerlandmuseum, Siegen (Germany) Morat Stiftung, Freiburg (Germany) Haus der Kunst, Munich (Germany) Museo de Arte y Diseno Contemporaneo, San Jose, Costa Rica Museo de Arte de Ponce, Puerto Rico Margulies Collection, Miami Ronald Lauder , New York Nixdorf Collection, Paderborn / Miami Sammlung Deutsche Bank, Essen and Frankfurt (Germany) UBS , Cologne (Germany) Nordstern Insurance, New York / Cologne Dresdner Bank, Bielefeld (Germany) Bayrische Hypotheken Bank, New York Norddeutsche Landesbank, Hannover (Germany) Microsoft, Chicago Microsoft, San Francisco Sagamore Hotel, Miami Beach Ritz Carlton Hotel, Miami Beach, FL Red Rock Hotel, Las Vegas, NV Ritz Carlton, Naples, FL Wynn Hotel, Las Vegas, NV Lombart Instrument, Norfolk, VA Ursula & Stephen Gebert, Santa Fe, Scottsdale Wrigley Collection, Chicago Thilmann Collection, Essen (Germany) Peter Thiel, San Francisco David Justice, Atlanta Udo Lindenberg, Hamburg Bruce Springsteen, Los Angeles Sylvester Stallone, Los Angeles Halle Berry, Los Angeles Dennis & Kimberly Quaid, Los Angeles Elton John, Atlanta, London Axl Rose, Los Angeles George Lindemann, Miami Monique Lhuillier, Los Angeles Bill Gates, San Francisco Kelsey Grammer, Hawaii Bovet Collection, Geneva/Miami
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