Gunther Uecker

Günther Uecker is a German Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1930. His work is currently being shown at multiple venues like Galerie Diehl in Berlin. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Kunsthalle Mannheim have featured Günther Uecker’s work in the past.Günther Uecker’s work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from $3 USD to $3,209,481 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2002 the record price for this artist at auction is $3,209,481 USD for Spirale I, sold at Christie’s London in 2017. Günther Uecker has been featured in articles for Ocula, The Art Newspaper and caa.reviews. The most recent article is ‘Pushing the Boundaries’: The Collection of Gerard Valkier written for Christie’s Daily in October 2021.

Past exhibitions

Biography

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2021
  • ONLINE: Günther Uecker: Waldgarten, Galerie Diehl, Charlottenburg, Berlin, Germany
2020
  • Günther Uecker: Lichtbogen, Lévy Gorvy, Paris, 3e, Paris, France
2019
  • Günther Uecker: Notations, Lévy Gorvy, New York, Upper East Side, New York, USA
2016
  • Günther Uecker: Verletzte Felder, Lévy Gorvy, London (Old Bond Str), Mayfair, London, UK
  • Günther Uecker: Hammerstrokes, Galerie Terminus, Munich, Germany
2015
  • Uecker, K20, Kunstsammlung NRW, Düsseldorf, Germany
2012
  • Günther Uecker, Haunch of Venison, New York, Midtown, New York, USA
2011
  • Günther Uecker: The Early Years, L & M Arts, New York, Upper East Side, New York, USA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021
  • No Line on the Horizon, Levy Gorvy, Palm Beach, Palm Beach, Florida, USA
  • Insights: Art from the National Bank Collection, CCA Andratx, Andratx, Spain
  • International Graphic Printings, Galerie Welz, Salzburg, Austria
  • Think Big: It’s All About Space, Walter Storms Galerie, Munich, Germany
  • Collection König-Lebschik KUB Collection Showcase, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria
  • Trees for memories, Fondation Boghossian, Brussels, Belgium
  • ONLINE: Sculptures 2021, Galerie Thomas / Thomas Modern, Munich, Germany
  • Go back to the future, EAC, Espace de l’Art Concret, Mouans-Sartoux, Mouans-sartoux, France
  • Turi Simeti. In the Context of the European Concrete Art Movement of the 60s and 70s, Walter Storms Galerie, Munich, Germany
2020
  • Czas Nasz – Unsere Zeit – Our Time, SKD, Albertinum, Dresden, Germany
  • The Sky as a Studio. Yves Klein and his contemporaries, Centre Pompidou Metz, Metz, France
  • Collection König-Lebschik KUB Collection Showcase, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria
  • A Space Full of Drawings and a Drawing in Space, Daniel Marzona, Berlin, Germany
  • Writing Beyond, Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Wijnegem, Wijnegem, Belgium
  • From Munch to Uecker: Masterpieces from Classic Modernism to Contemporary Art, Galerie Thomas / Thomas Modern, Munich, Germany
  • Zero Is Infinity: Zero And Yayoi Kusama, Yayoi Kusama Museum, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan
  • Prints + Editions, Walter Storms Galerie, Munich, Germany
  • Printing Without Ink: Graphic Experiments from 1960, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany
2019
  • Sculptures, Galerie Thomas / Thomas Modern, Munich, Germany
  • L’empreinte, Olivier Malingue Gallery, London, UK
  • Best Friends. 50 Years of the Association of Friends at the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, K20, Kunstsammlung NRW, Düsseldorf, Germany
  • Masterpieces Modern, Galerie Thomas / Thomas Modern, Munich, Germany
  • Neuerwerbungen Frühjahr 2019, Gallery Ludorff, Düsseldorf, Germany
  • Travelling the World: Art from Germany. Artworks from the ifa Collection, 1949 to the Present, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
2018
  • Visual Play, Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen Am Rhein, Germany
  • Kollektion2: auf [aus] Papier, Galerie M + R Fricke, Mitte, Berlin, Germany
  • A Gathering: Sculpture from the Collection, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, Purchase, New York, USA
  • Lord Duveen, My Pictures Never Look So Marvellous As When You Are Here, Lévy Gorvy, London (Old Bond Str), Mayfair, London, UK
  • Neuerwerbungen Herbst 2018, Gallery Ludorff, Düsseldorf, Germany
  • Mack: ZERO-Amicizie. Germania – Italia. 1958-1967, Beck & Eggeling Dusseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
  • Corpus, Beck & Eggeling Dusseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
  • A Luta Continua. The Sylvio Perlstein Collection, Hauser & Wirth, New York, 22nd Street, Chelsea, New York, USA
  • Kedem-Kodem-Kadima, CCA Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
  • Arts & Nature Social Club, Circle Culture Art GmbH, Berlin, Berlin, Germany
  • #WeDoo, Galerie Diehl, Charlottenburg, Berlin, Germany
  • Giant Size, Mehdi Chouakri, Fasanenplatz, Berlin, Germany
2017
  • Tonic of Wildness, Marianne Boesky Gallery, Aspen, Aspen, Colorado, USA
  • Aspects of German Art (Part Two), Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, London, UK
  • Kinderstern, Galerie Boisséree, Cologne, Germany
  • 40 Jahre Walter Storms Galeris Part II, Walter Storms Galerie, Munich, Germany
  • Never Ending Stories, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
  • Installation Art. Walk-in and expansive works from the Museion Collection, Museion, Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bolzano, Italy
  • Kunstsalon Art Salzburg, Beck & Eggeling Dusseldorf, Salzburg, Austria
  • Serielle Formationen. 1967/2017, Daimler Contemporary, Tiergarten, Berlin, Germany
  • Socle du Monde 2017, Herning Museum of Contemporary Art, Herning, Denmark
  • Black and White, Galerie Löhrl, Mönchengladbach, Germany
  • The Creative Act: Performance • Process • Presence, Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
2016
  • The Serial Attitude, Eykyn Maclean, New York, Upper East Side, New York, USA
  • Collection Highlights: Listening, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
  • Zero Group, Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow / Moscow House of Photography, Moscow, Russia
  • Group Show: Cut, Folded, Pressed & Other Actions, David Zwirner, New York (20th Street), New York, USA
  • From Point to Line, Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, Chelsea, New York, USA
  • Accrochage, Punta della Dogana, François Pinault Foundation, Venice, Italy
  • TeleGen: Kunst und Fernsehen, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein
2015
  • TELE-GEN: Kunst und Fernsehen, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
  • The Collection Alison and Peter W. Klein, Ketterer Kunst Munich, Munich, Germany
  • From Hockney to Holbein, Gropius-Bau, Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
  • Zero: Countdown To The Future, Sakip Sabanci Museum, Emirgan, Istanbul, Turkey
  • 250 – Jubiläumsausstellung der Galerie Löhrl, Galerie Löhrl, Mönchengladbach, Germany
  • zero: let us explore the stars, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Prime Paper, Walter Storms Galerie, Munich, Germany
  • Burning, Cutting, Nailing, Skarstedt Gallery, London, St. James’s, London, UK
  • Mack, Piene, Uecker: Works on Paper from 1962-2012, The Mayor Gallery, Mayfair, London, UK
  • Fontana, ZERO and the Results, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-baden, Germany
  • TELE-Gen, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
  • ZERO: The international art movement of the 50s and 60s, Gropius-Bau, Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
2014
  • ZERO: Countdown to Tomorrow, 1950s–60s, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Upper East Side, New York, USA
  • From Ackermann to Zabotin, ZKM | Center for Art & Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
  • The Art of Zero: Heinz Mack, Otto Piene, Günther Uecker & Friends, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, Purchase, New York, USA
  • Forty Years of the Collection – Ten Years of the Museum, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-baden, Germany
  • Love Story: Anne and Wolfgang Titze Collection, Lower Belvedere, Vienna, Austria
  • Black | White, Mnuchin Gallery, Upper East Side, New York, USA
2013
  • The Sixties: Art and Culture of the 60ies in Germany, Daimler Contemporary, Tiergarten, Berlin, Germany
  • Generosity. Donations and Loans from the ZKM Collection, ZKM | Center for Art & Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
2012
  • ARTandPRESS – Art. Truth. Reality., ZKM | Center for Art & Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
  • Lucerne Art Summer 2012 – International modern & contemporary art, Fischer Auctioneers, Lucerne, Switzerland
  • Ghosts in the Machine, New Museum, New York, Lower East Side, New York, USA
  • Explosion: Painting as Action, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden
2011
  • The Art of Deceleration, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
  • Dan Flavin: Three Works, L & M Arts, New York, Upper East Side, New York, USA
2010
  • 10 Dialogues: Richard Demarco, Scotland and the European Avant Garde, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, UK
  • Islands Never Found, MOMus Modern, Thessaloniki, Greece
2009
  • Castellani / Flavin / Judd / Uecker, Haunch of Venison, London, London, UK
  • From Picasso to Warhol – Avant – Garde Artists’ Jewellery, Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany
2007
  • Nouveau Réalisme Revolution des Alltäglichen, Sprengel Museum Hannover, Hannover, Germany

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