Otto Piene

Otto Piene was a German Postwar & Contemporary painter who was born in 1928. His work is currently being shown at multiple venues like Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg . Numerous key galleries and museums such as Sprüth Magers, Berlin have featured Otto Piene’s work in the past.Otto Piene’s work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from $4 USD to $899,530 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 1998 the record price for this artist at auction is $899,530 USD for Dynamisches Volumen, sold at Ketterer Kunst Munich in 2015. Otto Piene has been featured in articles for HYPEBEAST, Christie’s Daily and ArtDaily. The most recent article is A Sense of Place: Nashoba Valley Artists & Historical Legacy Celebrated in Groton written for Artscope Magazine in September 2021. The artist died in 2014.

Past exhibitions

Biography

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2021
  • ONLINE: Otto Piene, Sprüth Magers, Berlin, Berlin, Germany
  • Otto Piene. Blue Star Linz, Centre Pompidou Metz, Metz, France
2020
  • Otto Piene: Rasterbilder / Ceramics, Sperone Westwater, Lower East Side, New York, USA
  • Otto Piene: The Sun is Coming Closer, Haus Konstruktiv, Zürich, Switzerland
2019
  • Otto Piene. Works from the Kemp Collection, Museum Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
  • Otto Piene in Groton: Fire and Light, 1983–2014, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, Massachusetts, USA
  • Otto Piene, Sprüth Magers, Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2018
  • Otto Piene: Hommage zum 90. Geburtstag, Galerie Löhrl, Mönchengladbach, Germany
2017
  • Light Ballet, Sprüth Magers, Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2016
  • Otto Piene: Black Melt & Light Rays, Gallery Ludorff, Düsseldorf, Germany
  • Otto Piene: Tandem, Galerie Thomas / Thomas Modern, Munich, Germany
  • Otto Piene: Rainbow And Light, Plutschow Gallery, Zürich, Switzerland
  • Otto Piene: Ceramic Marks, Galerie Michael Schultz, Berlin, Charlottenburg, Berlin, Germany
  • Otto Piene, Sperone Westwater, Lower East Side, New York, USA
2015
  • Otto Piene, ARNDT Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2014
  • Otto Piene: The Objects, Plutschow Gallery, Zürich, Switzerland
  • Otto Piene: More Sky, PalaisPopulaire by Deutsche Bank, Mitte, Berlin, Germany
  • Otto Piene, The Mayor Gallery, Mayfair, London, UK
2013
  • Otto Piene: Graphite drawings, Museum Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
2011
  • Otto Piene: Lichtballett, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
2010
  • Otto Piene, Walter Storms Galerie, Munich, Germany
  • Otto Piene: Light Ballet and Fire Paintings, 1960-1967, Sperone Westwater, Lower East Side, New York, USA
2008
  • Otto Piene: Anthropomorphe Architektur, Dortmunder Kunstverein e.V., Dortmund, Germany
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021
  • Chaos & Order, Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Wijnegem, Wijnegem, Belgium
  • Art For Happiness, Gallery Ludorff, Düsseldorf, Germany
  • Images of Humanity, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
  • Nothing is Lost. Art and Matter in Transformation,, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (GAMeC), Bergamo, Italy
  • Art. Moves. 20: New Acquisitions, Stiftung Museum Schloss Moyland, Bedburg-Hau, Germany
  • Spaces Of Light: Piero Dorazio and the International Zero Movement, Cortesi Gallery, Milan, Milan, Italy
  • Mies In Mind, Sprüth Magers, Berlin, Berlin, Germany
  • Three Colours: Red-White-Blue, The Mayor Gallery, Mayfair, London, UK
  • Showroom, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria
  • Red celebrating Chinese New Year, The Mayor Gallery, Mayfair, London, UK
2020
  • The Sky as a Studio. Yves Klein and his contemporaries, Centre Pompidou Metz, Metz, France
  • Messe in St. Agnes, König Berlin (St. Agnes), Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
  • Group Exhibition, Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie, Bielefeld, Germany
  • Zero Is Infinity: Zero And Yayoi Kusama, Yayoi Kusama Museum, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan
  • Prints + Editions, Walter Storms Galerie, Munich, Germany
  • 65 Jahre Galerie Koch, Galerie Koch, Hannover, Germany
  • New Acquisitions Spring 2020, Gallery Ludorff, Düsseldorf, Germany
  • Post-War. European Masterpieces, Cortesi Gallery, Lugano, Lugano, Switzerland
2019
  • Annual Editions 2019, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany
  • Otto Piene, Lucio Fontana, Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie, Bielefeld, Germany
  • Epidermis, Conditio Humana, Cosmos: Works from the Hilti Art Foundation, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein
  • While I Kiss The Sky, Gabriele Senn Galerie, Wien, Austria
  • Kinetic Serendipity, Galerie Eva Meyer, 3e, Paris, France
  • 25 Years of Passion, Beck & Eggeling Dusseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
  • Now Is The Time: 25 Years Collection Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
  • Manzoni in Holland, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Schiedam, Netherlands
  • Marabu, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany
  • Spotlight, Galerie Terminus, Munich, Germany
  • Travelling the World: Art from Germany. Artworks from the ifa Collection, 1949 to the Present, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
2018
  • New Treasures on Paper, Galerie Terminus, Munich, Germany
  • Around Zero: 1958 – 2018, Cortesi Gallery, London, London, UK
  • Visual Play, Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen Am Rhein, Germany
  • Signals: If you like I shall grow (part II), Kurimanzutto, New York, Upper East Side, New York, USA
  • Neuerwerbungen Herbst 2018, Gallery Ludorff, Düsseldorf, Germany
  • Mack: ZERO-Amicizie. Germania – Italia. 1958-1967, Beck & Eggeling Dusseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
  • Reflections, Galerie Terminus, Munich, Germany
  • Thank you for the flowers, Beck & Eggeling Dusseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
  • Otto Piene Selected Works 1957 – 2014 / Meret Oppenheim & Daniel Spoerri, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria
  • Heinz Mack & Otto Piene: From Zero to Hero, Plutschow Gallery, Zürich, Switzerland
  • Ornament and Crime, Eykyn Maclean, New York, Upper East Side, New York, USA
  • From ZERO to 2018, Upstream Gallery Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Pictures without shadows, Museum Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
  • Heinz Mack & Otto Piene, Plutschow Gallery, Zürich, Switzerland
2017
  • Pontresina Inaugural Group Show, Plutschow Gallery, Zürich, Switzerland
  • Greatest Hits, Kunstpalais Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany
  • Selected Works, Galerie Thomas / Thomas Modern, Munich, Germany
  • Installation Art. Walk-in and expansive works from the Museion Collection, Museion, Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bolzano, Italy
  • Neuerwerbung Herbst 2017, Gallery Ludorff, Düsseldorf, Germany
  • Kunstsalon Art Salzburg, Beck & Eggeling Dusseldorf, Salzburg, Austria
  • East meets West, AB43 Contemporary, Thalwil, Switzerland
  • From the collection: Europe 1960 – Azimuth, Concrete Art, Nouveau Réalisme, Zero, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein
  • The New Inflatable Moment, Boston Society of Architects, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
  • Socle du Monde 2017, Herning Museum of Contemporary Art, Herning, Denmark
  • Black and White, Galerie Löhrl, Mönchengladbach, Germany
2016
  • Strategies Against Clay, Plutschow Gallery, Zürich, Switzerland
  • I Am the Sun, The Art Institute of Chicago, Loop, Chicago, Illinois, USA
  • Zero Group, Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow / Moscow House of Photography, Moscow, Russia
  • Favorties II – for sale, Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt, Germany
  • The Seventh Heaven, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia
  • SPLOTCH, Sperone Westwater, Lower East Side, New York, USA
  • Rethinking Space: Work from Post-War Italy, De Buck Gallery, New York, Chelsea, New York, USA
2015
  • Blue Chip Christmas Exhibition, Conny Dietzschold Gallery, East Sydney, Sydney, Australia
  • HORIZONS, Plutschow Gallery, Zürich, Switzerland
  • Painting after Painting, Jerome Zodo Contemporary, Milan, Milan, Italy
  • 40 Jahre 40 Meisterwerke, Gallery Ludorff, Düsseldorf, Germany
  • Zero: Countdown To The Future, Sakip Sabanci Museum, Emirgan, Istanbul, Turkey
  • Student Loan Art Program Exhibition and Lottery, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
  • 250 – Jubiläumsausstellung der Galerie Löhrl, Galerie Löhrl, Mönchengladbach, Germany
  • Destructive Beginnings: Works from Post-War Masters, De Buck Gallery, New York, Chelsea, New York, USA
  • zero: let us explore the stars, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Space and Matter, Sperone Westwater, Lower East Side, New York, USA
  • Prime Paper, Walter Storms Galerie, Munich, Germany
  • 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
  • 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
  • Intermedial, 401contemporary, Berlin, Germany
2013
  • The Sixties: Art and Culture of the 60ies in Germany, Daimler Contemporary, Tiergarten, Berlin, Germany
  • EXPO 1: New York, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, New York, USA
  • Generosity. Donations and Loans from the ZKM Collection, ZKM | Center for Art & Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
  • Howard Wise Gallery: Exploring the New, Moeller Fine Art New York, Upper East Side, New York, USA
2012
  • Ghosts in the Machine, New Museum, New York, Lower East Side, New York, USA
  • Explosion: Painting as Action, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden
  • Ashes and Gold A World’s Journey, Marta Herford, Herford, Germany
2011
  • The Ephemeral, ARNDT Berlin, Berlin, Germany
  • Ploy, Plan, Process: Works on Paper from the 1960s to Now, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, Chelsea, New York, USA
2010
  • 55 Years of Art in Düsseldorf, Museum Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
  • Art Unlimited, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland
  • Personal Structures: Time – Space – Existence, Galerie Georg Kargl, Vienna, Austria
2009
  • Burn, Baby, Burn!, DUVE Berlin, Berlin, Germany
  • ZEROplus, 401contemporary, Mitte, Berlin, Germany
2008
  • ZERO in New York, Sperone Westwater, Greenwich Village, New York, USA

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