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Lothar Hempel
German artist based in Berlin (born 1966)
Lothar Hempel (born 1966 in Cologne) is a German artist[1] based in Berlin.
He attended Kunstakademie Düsseldorf from 1987 to 1992.
Born in Cologne Lives and works in Berlin Education – Kunstakademie Düsseldorf Solo Exhibitions.
Artistic practice
Hempel transforms the exhibition space into a stage on which the visitor becomes an actor in a story full of cross-references and contradictions.[citation needed] The works are at once the synopsis, the set, the characters and the props of a play.
They represent the different parts of a narrative created out of references to German history, psychology, Greek tragedy, cinema, music, political and social history, neurology, and modern dance, for instance.[citation needed].
Hempel borrows a number of different styles and strategies, whether invented by Dada, Constructivism, the Bauhaus or Joseph Beuys. He uses visual metaphors by incorporating images or found objects.[2]
Exhibition history
In 2007 Hempel's work was the subj