Charlotte Posenenske (b. 1930, Wiesbaden, d. 1985, Frankfurt) was born in Wiesbaden, Germany, and spent the majority of her childhood in hiding during Nazi rule. The artist began studying painting in 1951 under Willi Baumeister in Stuttgart before working as a set and costume designer in Darmstad until 1955. She later focused her attention towards art, participating in her first exhibition in 1959 at Galerie Weiss, Kassel. Her first solo show, in 1961, was at Galerie Dorothea Loehr in Frankfurt. Throughout the sixties her work gained wide recognition in Germany and abroad until, in 1968, she turned instead to sociology, the study of which she pursued until the end of her life in 1985. In 2007, when she was featured in documenta 12, her work was rediscovered on a broader scale.
Since then, Posenenske’s work has been the subject of many solo exhibitions including ones at Dia: Beacon, New York (2019), Galerie Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin (2017), Take Ninagawa, Tokyo (2016), Artists Space, New York (2010), K21, Düsseldorf (2012), and Kunsthalle Wiesbaden (2012). Recent group exhibitions include Museum Heilbronn, Germany (2018), National Gallery, Singapore (2018), MMK, Frankfurt (2017), Bortolami Gallery, New York (2016), the 2011 Istanbul Biennial, and the 2012 Bienal de São Paulo. Her work is in the permanent collections of many prestigious institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art (New York), Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), Centre Pompidou (Paris), Tate Modern (London), Museum Ludwig (Cologne), and MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst (Frankfurt am Main).
BIOGRAPHY
1930 Born in Wiesbaden, Germany.
Early 1950s Studied painting with Willi Baumeister.
1956 Made first autonomous works of art, after working for several years as set and costume designer.
1968 Stopped working as an artist; started career as Sociologist.
1985 Died in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 Mehdi Chouakri Wilhelm Hallen, Berlin. Anfänge der Form: Charlotte Posenenske auf Papier
(15 February – 12 April)
Haugar kunstmuseum, Tønsberg, Norway. Installation Views
(1 February – 27 April). Catalogue.
2024 Mehdi Chouakri Wilhelm Hallen, Berlin. Charlotte Posenenske: Wahlverwandtschaften
(16 November 2024 – 1 February 2025)
Mehdi Chouakri Wilhelm Hallen, Berlin. Charlotte Posenenske: Monotonie Ist Schön
(7 September – 26 October)
2023 Mehdi Chouakri Wilhelm Hallen, Berlin. Archiv Charlotte Posenenske
(12 September – 4 November)
Mehdi Chouakri Wilhelm Hallen, Berlin.
Charlotte Posenenske: B/C/D/DW/E – Schöne neue Plastik Teil III (4 March – 15 April)
2020 Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf. Charlotte Posenenske
(13 March – 21 August)
2019 Galerie Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin. Charlotte Posenenske: Prototypes D Series
(29 June – 2 August)
Kröller-Müller Museum at Otterlo, the Netherlands. Lexicon of Infinite Movement
(18 May – 15 September)
Dia: Beacon, New York. Charlotte Posenenske: Work in Progress
(8 March – 9 September). Exhibition travelled: Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain
(18 October 2019 – 8 March 2020); Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
(4 April – 2 August 2020); Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
(2 October 2020 – 10 January 2021). Catalogue.
Modern Art London, UK. CONDO. Charlotte Posenenske
(12 January – 16 February)
2017 Galerie Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin. Charlotte Posenenske 1967
(29 April – 10 June)
Galerie Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin. Charlotte Posenenske 1957
(29 April – 17 June)
Konrad Fischer Galerie, Berlin. Charlotte Posenenske: Dasselbe anders
(13 January – 25 February)
2016 Take Ninagawa, Tokyo. Charlotte Posenenske
(1 October – 19 November)
2015 Muhka, Antwerp, Belgium. Charlotte Posenenske
(24 April – 26 July)
Gallery Sofie van de Velde, Antwerp, Belgium. That’s All
(23 April – 31 May)
2014 Deutscher Künstlerbund Projektraum, Berlin. Charlotte Posenenske, Aufhören; Weitermachen
(12 September – 7 November)
Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Belgium.
Charlotte Posenenske: Square Tubes Series DW (24 July 2014 – 23 May 2015)
Peter Freeman, Inc., New York. Early Works
(17 April – 31 May)
2013 Galerie Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin. Line and Space
(6 June – 27 July)
2012 K21, Düsseldorf.
2011 Galerie Mehdi Chouaki, Berlin. Charlotte Posenenske: Dasselbe Anders (The Same but Different)
(7 September – 22 October)
Galerie Nelson‑Freeman, Paris. Le même autrement – The same, but different
(4 June – 10 September)
Metropol Kunstraum, Munich. Charlotte Posenenske
(6 April – 8 July)
Galerie Schmela, Schmela‑Haus, Düsseldorf.
Vierkantrohre Serie DW (1967) / Square Tubes DW Series (1967) (10 February)
John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, UK. Charlotte Posenenske
(25 January – 9 March). Catalogue.
Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf. Vierkantrohre, Reliefs, Faltungen und Arbeiten auf Papier
(21 January – 5 March)
2010 Artists Space, New York. Charlotte Posenenske
(23 June – 15 August)
Palais de Tokyo, Paris. Charlotte Posenenske: Retrospective
(19 February – 16 May)
2009 Art Basel, Switzerland. Art Unlimited Performance (Conversations),
Charlotte Posenenske: Corrugated Series (10–13 June)
2008 Peter Freeman, Inc., New York. Prototypes for Mass Production (1965-1967)
(6 November 2008 – 10 January 2009). Catalogue.
2007 Galerie Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin. Charlotte Posenenske
(3 November – 15 December)
Between Bridges, London. Charlotte Posenenske: Series DW (corrugated cardboard) 1967
(15 April – 24 June)
2005 Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck, Austria. Charlotte Posenenske – Retrospektive
(19 March – 15 May). Exhibition travelled: Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Siegen, Germany
(2 June – 28 August). Catalogue.
2003 Galerie Konstantin Adamopoulos, Frankfurt am Main.
1999 Galerie ak, Hans Sworowski, Programm Konstantin Adamopoulos, Frankfurt am Main.
Charlotte Posenenske ‑ Malerei 1959‑1965 / Objekte 1966‑1968
(19 November 1999 – 15 January 2000). Catalogue.
1990 Museum für Moderne Kunst, Jahrhunderthalle Hoechst, Frankfurt am Main.
(September – December)
1989 Lufthansa hangar, Hauptbahnhof Frankfurt, Germany. Vierkantrohre aus Wellpappe, Serie DW
(5–10 November). Catalogue.
Rathausgarage, Stuttgart; Rotunde der Neuen Staatsgalerie.
Bundesbahndruckerei Stuttgart, Germany. Charlotte Posenenske,
curated by Werner Esser. Catalogue.
Zentrale der Deutschen Bank, Frankfurt am Main. Charlotte Posenenske
Catalogue.
1988 Großmarkthalle Frankfurt, Germany. Square Tubes of Corrugated Cardboard, Series DW
(17–19 June). Catalogue.
1986 Galerie Paul Maenz, Cologne.
Main airplane hangar, Lufthansa Airlines, Frankfurt am Main.
Galerie Grässlin-Ehrhardt, Frankfurt am Main.
1968 Galerie Art & Project, Amsterdam.
1967 Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf. Vierkantrohre DW / (Square Tubes)
(December)
Galerie h, Hanover, Germany. Posenenske
(15 April – 6 May)
Kleine Galerie, Schwenningen, Germany.
Galerie Le Sous-Sol, Gießen, Germany.
1966 Galerie Dorothea Loehr, Frankfurt am Main. Spachtelarbeiten
1961 Galerie Dorothea Loehr, Frankfurt am Main. Spachtelarbeiten
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Musée d'art moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg. New Collection Display
(4 April 2025 – 4 January 2026)
Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany.
HOW’S MY PAINTING? Malerei aus der Sammlung Falckenberg (1 March – 7 September)
Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp, Belgium. The Wall of She
(22 February – 23 March)
Metropol Kunstraum, Munich. VOLUME FOR THOUGHT
(16 January – 9 April)
2024 Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany. Dreams of an Owl, Who the Bær and the Wounded Planet
(30 November 2024 – 23 February 2025)
Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen Am Rhein, Germany.
Wir werden bis zur Sonne gehen. Pionierinnen der geometrischen Abstraktion
[We Will Go Right Up to the Sun. Female Pioneers of Geometric Abstraction]
(16 November 2024 – 24 April 2025)
Kunthalle Mainz, Germany. Bodies in Motion: Form in the Making
(8 November 2024 – 16 February 2025)
Peter Freeman, Inc., Paris. En travaux
(16–26 October)
Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp, Belgium. Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right
(16 May – 16 June)
Mehdi Chouakri Wilhelm Hallen, Berlin. Wilhelm Hallen & Charlotte Posenenske:
Documentation and Photographs of Gallery Exhibitions from the 1960s (27 April – 20 July)
FRAC Lorraine, Metz, France. Presque Partout
(23 February – 18 August)
Artspace Aotearoa, Auckland, New Zealand. Charlotte Posenenske & Peter Robinson: Priorities
(10 February – 6 April)
The Warehouse, Dallas. For What It’s Worth: Value Systems in Art since 1960
(2 February – 29 June)
2023 Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin. Extreme Tension: Art Between Politics And Society 1945-1990
(18 November 2023 – 28 September 2025)
MGKSiegen, Germany. Thinking outside the box
(3 November 2023 – 1 April 2024)
CaixaForum, Barcelona. El Árbol De Lo Que Aún No Sabes
(25 October 2023 – 11 February 2024)
Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt, Germany. Channeling
(23 September 2023 – 11 February 2024)
Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany. Brauchen und Haben: Blick in die Sammlung #6
(19 August – 12 December)
Gallery Baton, Seoul. Brilliant Cut
(12 July – 12 August)
Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Japan. Collection: Frame and Wave
(27 June – 24 September)
Take Ninagawa, Tokyo. 15
(20 May – 22 September)
Mehdi Chouakri Wilhelm Hallen, Berlin. Konstantin Grcic & Charlotte Posenenske: CPKG
(28 April – 22 July)
Haubrok Foundation, Berlin. The Collection
(23 April – 3 December)
Mehdi Chouakri Wilhelm Hallen, Berlin. Monochromes
(4 March – 15 April)
2022 Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna. Changes
(8 October 2022 – 29 January 2023)
Lenbachhaus, Munich. The Remains of 100 Days...
(19 July 2022 – 12 May 2023)
Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg. Minimal Art
(12 February – 24 April)
2021 Carré d'Art, Musée d'art contemporain de Nîmes, France. Suspension / Stillness
(7 December 2021 – 27 March 2022)
Officine Grandi Riparazioni, Turin. Vogliamo Tutto. An Exhibition About Labor:
Can We Still Want It All? (23 September 2021 – 16 January 2022)
LAYR Vienna, Austria. Sculpture in Search of an Author
(4 September – 9 October)
Lodos Gallery, Mexico City. Sala-Jardín-Bar: The Things We Make
(21 August – 18 September)
Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Germany. Concrete Women Artists
(26 June – 17 October)
Fondation CAB Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France. Lightness of Being. Perspective of the collection
(24 June 2021 – 31 March 2022)
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany. OUT OF SPACE
(18 June – 28 November)
Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp, Belgium. Over ritme, motief en ruimte
(10 April – 9 May)
2020 Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Illinois. Unfinished Business
(1 December 2020 – 4 July 2021)
Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Germany. Wände I Walls
(26 September 2020 – 30 May 2021)
Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Belgium. MONOCULTURE: A Recent History
(25 September 2020 – 25 April 2021)
Peter Freeman, Inc., New York. In Situ: a changing installation
(15 September – 19 December)
Fondation CAB Brussels, Belgium. Figures on a Ground: Perspectives on Minimal Art
(10 June – 12 December)
Daimler Contemporary, Berlin. Art From A Hundred Years:
Highlights Of The Daimler Art Collection 1920-2020 (9 February 2020 – 25 April 2021)
Neues Museum Nürnberg, Germany. Out of Order: Works from The Haubrok Collection, Part 2
(17 January – 1 March)
Mehdi Chouakri Wilhelm Hallen, Berlin. Material Matters
(14 January – 1 February)
Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp, Belgium. Implicit Movement
(11 January – 1 March)
2019 Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany. Installations From 25 Years Of The Falckenberg Collection
(30 November 2019 – 24 May 2020)
Neues Museum Nürnberg, Germany. Out of Order: Works from The Haubrok Collection, Part 1
(25 October 2019 – 6 January 2020)
Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp, Belgium. Charlotte Posenenske and Ilse D’Hollander
(22 October – 30 November)
Over the Influence, Los Angeles. Shifts in Time
(4–31 August)
M+, Hong Kong. Five Artists: Sites Encountered
(7 June – 20 October)
Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf. Hanne Darboven, Charlotte Posenenske & Merrill Wagner
(10 May – 27 July)
Schinkel Pavillion, Berlin. Straying from the Line
(13 April – 28 July)
Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp, Belgium. The Bare Necessity
(16 March – 5 May)
Daniel Marzona, Berlin. Memento Mori,
curated by Burkhard Brunn (18 January – 9 March)
2018 Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum Für Gegenwart, Berlin. Local Histories
(15 December 2018 – 29 September 2019)
ArtScience Museum, Singapore, and National Gallery, Singapore. Minimalism: Space. Light. Object.
(16 November 2018 – 14 April 2019)
Städtische Museen Heilbronn, Kunsthalle Vogelmann, Germany.
Sculptors, From Kollwitz to Genzken (11 November 2018 – 7 April 2019)
Josee Bienvenu Gallery, New York. Nowhere Without No
(18 October – 30 November)
Hayward Gallery, London. Space Shifters
(26 September 2018 – 6 January 2019)
Parra & Romero, Madrid. Martina Klein | Charlotte Posenenske: Unfinished Installation
(12 September – 3 November)
Galerie Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin. 1968 – The times they are a-changin’,
arranged by Paul Maenz (6 July – 1 September)
Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York. The Mechanics of Fluids,
curated by Melissa Gordon (21 June – 3 August)
Thomas Rehbein Galerie, Cologne. Backstage: Die Rückseite – The Rear Side
(26 May – 7 July)
Take Ninagawa, Tokyo. Take Ninagawa 10th Anniversary
(12 May – 23 June)
Daimler Contemporary, Berlin. Freedom of Art
(18 March – 8 July)
Fondation CAB Brussels, Belgium. The Brutal Play
(17 March – 26 May)
Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany. Germany Is Not an Island
(8 March – 27 May)
Gordon Robichaux, New York. A Page from My Intimate Journal (Part I)
(11 February – 8 April)
2017 Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt, Germany. A Tale of Two Worlds.
Experimental Latin American Art in Dialogue with the MMK Collection 1940s – 1980s
(25 November 2017 – 2 April 2018)
The Wattis Institute, San Francisco. Mechanisms
(12 October 2017 – 24 February 2018)
Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain. MACBA Collection. Beneath the Surface
(11 October 2017 – 11 November 2018)
Daimler Contemporary, Berlin. Serielle Formation. 1967 / 2017
(3 June – 19 November)
Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp, Belgium. Backstage: Die Rückseite – The Rear Side
(7 September – 15 October)
Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Porto. Serralves Collection: 1960-1980
(8 May 2017 – 28 January 2018)
Eli & Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing. The Transported Man
(29 April – 22 October)
Haubrok Foundation, Berlin. Collected Attitudes
(29 April – 16 July)
Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland. The Revolution is dead. Long live the Revolution!
(13 April – 9 July)
Kunsthalle Vogelmann, Heilbronn, Germany. Sculptures Made of Paper
(19 March – 2 July)
Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon. Variable Dimensions
(8 February – 29 May)
Konrad Fischer Galerie, Berlin. Hanne Darboven Charlotte Posenenske
(13 January – 25 February)
2016 Portikus, Frankfurt. House of Commons
(3 December 2016 – 29 January 2017)
Front Desk Apparatus, New York. Interiors
(21 November 2016 – 17 February 2017)
Galerie Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin. In Retrospect: Good & Plenty, Too
(12 November – 22 December)
Gallery Clement & Schneider, Bonn, Germany. Modi des Minimierens
(4 November – 22 December)
Zentrum für Kunst und Medien, Karlsruhe, Germany. Kunst in Europa 1945-1968
(22 October 2016 – 29 January 2017)
Bloomberg Space, London. The Mobility of Facts
(30 September – 17 December). Catalogue.
Bortolami Gallery, New York. I Beam U Channel
(30 June – 12 August)
Haus Konstruktiv, Zürich. Think Outside the Box
(2 June – 4 September)
Stills Centre for Photography, Edinburgh.
Lewis Baltz with works by Carl Andre and Charlotte Posenenske (30 April – 9 July)
Bienvenu Steinberg & Partners Gallery, New York. Radical Drawings
(21 January – 27 February)
2015 Daniel Marzona, Berlin. Reduzieren,
curated by Burkhard Brunn (20 November 2015 – 30 January 2016)
Galerie Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin. Charlotte Posenenske x Saâdane Afif,
Gerold Miller, Gerwald Rockenschaub, Luca Trevisani (20 November 2015 – 15 January 2016)
Pavillon de L’Arsenal, Paris. Dimensions Variables: Artists and Architecture,
curated by Didier Gourvennec Ogor and Gregory Lang (15 October 2015 – 16 January 2016)
Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas. Charlotte Posenenske & Peter Roehr
(9 October 2015 – 1 August 2016)
Uncle Brothers, Hancock, New York.
curated by Rirkrit Tiravanija (11 July – 31 August)
David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles. Flat World
(26 June – 15 August)
Tauba Auerbach, Rome. Studio Indipendenza
(23 April – 21 June)
Kai 10, Düsseldorf. Broken Spaces
(10 April – 18 July)
Meyer Riegger, Karlsruhe, Germany. Of The Few Things We Do,
The Only One We Really Do Is To Imagine What We Will Do. (27 March – 23 May)
Karma Gallery, New York. Ladies and Gentlemen, We are Floating in Space
(6 March – 7 April)
The Warehouse, Dallas. Geometries On and Off the Grid: Art from 1950 to the Present,
curated by Allan Schwartzman (2 February – 30 November)
Gallery Martina Detterer, Frankfurt am Main. nur das – just that
(24 January – 7 March)
Gallery Sofie van de Velde, Antwerp, Belgium. Geometric Abstractions
(23 January – 8 March)
Gallery Alison Jacques, London. Matter & Memory
(16 January – 15 February)
2014 Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt, Germany. Boom She Boom
(19 October 2014 – 14 June 2015)
Thomas Rehbein Galerie, Cologne. Schwarz
(6 September – 18 October)
Museum Tinguely, Basel. Play objects. The Art of Possibilities
(19 February – 11 May)
Alison Jacques Gallery, London. Matter & Memory
(16 January – 15 February)
2013 Galerie der Stadt Sindelfingen, Berlin. The Sixties: Art and Culture of the 60s in Germany
(15 September – 12 November)
Miguel Abrueu Gallery, New York. Conspicuous Unusable
(28 June – 17 August)
Haubrok Foundation, Berlin. Art & Project Bulletins 1968-1989
(24 April – 29 June)
Galerie Lelong, New York. Edge, Order, Rupture: Geometric Abstraction
(4 April – 4 May)
Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf. D’Hollander, Posenenske, Warboys, paintings
(22 March – 27 April)
Wentrup Gallery, Berlin. Miriam Böhm, Charlotte Posenenske, James Turrell. The Other Space
(9 March – 19 April)
Daimler Contemporary, Berlin. Novecento Mai Visto
(8 March – 30 June)
Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris. A Stone Left Unturned
(1 February – March)
Kayne Griffin Corcoran Gallery, Santa Monica, California. From Triple X to Birdsong
(12 January – 2 March)
2012 São Paulo Biennial, Brazil. The Imminence of Poetics
(8 September – 9 December)
Museum Wiesbaden, Germany. Line and Space: American Drawings and Sculpture
Since 1960 From a Private Collection (28 July – 25 September)
Kunsthaus Wiesbaden, Germany. Dasselbe anders/Immer dasselbe:
Charlotte Posenenske und Peter Roehr (9 June – 23 September). Catalogue.
Public Art Festival, Zürich. Vierkantrohre Serie D (1967/2012), Art and the City
(9 June – 23 September)
Daimler Kunst Sammlung, Stuttgart. Minimalism in Germany. The Sixties II
(31 March – 23 September)
K21, Düsseldorf. Dasselbe anders
(11 January – 29 June)
2011 White Flag Projects, St. Louis. Day of the Locust
(11 November – 10 December)
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Illinois. The Language of Less (Then and Now)
(8 October 2011 – 18 April 2012)
König Berlin, Germany. Group Show
(8 October – 12 November)
12th Annual Istanbul Biennial, Turkey.
(17 September – 13 November)
Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich. Line and Space: American Drawings and Sculpture
since 1960 from a Private Collection (28 July – 25 September)
Museum für Moderne Kunst, Munich. MMK 1991-2011: 20 Years of Presence
(19 June – 9 October)
2010 White Columns, New York. Looking Back: The Fifth White Columns Annual
(11 December 2010 – 29 January 2011)
Daimler Contemporary, Berlin. Minimalism and Applied II
(29 October 2010 – 27 March 2011)
Galerie Medhi Chokori, Berlin. EINE AUSSTELLUNG BESONDERER FRÜHWERKE VON
JOHN M ARMLEDER HANS‑PETER FELDMANN GEROLD MILLER
CHARLOTTE POSENENSKE GERWALD ROCKENSCHAUB UND PETER ROEHR /
Absolute Beginnings: A special exhibition of Early Work of John M Armleder,
Hans-Peter Feldman, Gerold Miller, Charlotte Posenenske, Rockenschaub and Peter Roehr
(24 September – 30 October)
Fundación Malba, Buenos Aires. Geometry in the Twentieth Century: The Daimler Contemporary,
curated by Renate Wiehager (13 August – 25 October)
Haus Konstruktiv, Zürich. Monotonie ist schön: Charlotte Posenenske and Peter Roehr
(25 March – 23 May). Catalogue.
Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main. Radical Conceptual
(19 February – 22 August)
Palais de Tokyo, Paris. PERGOLA
(19 February – 16 May)
2009 Zentrum für Kunst und Medien, Karlsruhe, Germany. Just what is it ...
(5 December 2009 – 11 April 2010)
Palais de Tokyo, Paris. Chasing Napoleon
(15 October 2009 – 17 January 2010)
The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
In & Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art, 1960-1976 (19 July – 5 October)
Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany. 1968: Die Große Unschuld
(15 March – 9 August)
Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt, Germany. Yellow and Green
(7 March – 30 August)
2008 Zachęta Narodowa Galeria Sztuki, Warsaw. Revolutions 1968
(16 September – 9 November)
Museion, Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea Bolzano, Italy.
Peripherer Blick und kollektiver Körper / Peripheral Vision and Collective Body
(24 May – 21 September)
Johann König, Berlin. Zuordnungsprobleme / Problems of Assignment
(3–27 April)
Daimler Contemporary, Berlin. Classical: Modern II
(7 March – 1 June)
2007 Kassel, Germany. documenta 12
(16 June – 23 September)
2006 Tokyo Opera Art Gallery, Japan. Conversation with Art, on Art, Bauhaus to Contemporary Art:
From the DaimlerChrysler Art Collection (8 January – 26 March)
2005 Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin. 25 Jahre Sammlung Deutsche Bank
(30 April – 19 June)
2004 Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Dependent Objects
(18 September 2004 – 2 January 2005)
Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Austria. Kurze Karrieren / Short Careers
(20 May – 1 August)
2003 The Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan. On the Edge:
Contemporary Art from the DaimlerChrysler Collection (29 October 2003 – 18 January 2004)
Daimler Contemporary, Berlin. Minimalism and After II
(14 February – 18 May)
2002 Generali Foundation, Vienna.
Die Gewalt ist der Rand aller Dinge / Violence is at the margin of All Things (17 January – 21 April)
2001 Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main. Frankfurter Kreuz
(16 June – 12 August)
1972 Galerie Art & Project, Amsterdam.
1969 Galerie plus-kern, Ghent.
1968 Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Germany.
Deutscher Künstlerbund ‘68 / German Association of Artists 16 Exhibition (20 July – 15 September)
Galerie Rene Block, Berlin. ABC Art, Cool Art, Minimum Art, Minimal Art,
Primary Structure, Neue Monumente, IMI Art (June – July)
Galerie Dorothea Loehr, Frankfurt am Main.
Kunsthaus, Hamburg. Public Eye
1967 Galerie Jülicher, Mönchengladbach, Germany. Neue Kunsttendenzen
(December)
Galerie Hauptstrasse 1, Berlin. Gelsenkirchen
Galerie Dorothea Loehr, Frankfurt am Main. Dies alles, Dies alles, Herzchen, wird einmal gehören /
All this, sweetheart, will one day be yours, curated by Paul Maentz (9 September)
Studiogalerie, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main.
Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden, Germany. Freie Gruppe Hofheim‑Frankfurt und ihr Gäste
(12 March – 16 April)
1966 Marielies-Hess-Stiftung, Hessischer Rundfunk, Frankfurt am Main.
1961 Städtische Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Germany.
1959 Galerie Kaess-Weiss, Kassel, Germany.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2019 Morgan, Jessica, and Alexis Lowry, eds. Charlotte Posenenske: Work in Progress
(New York: Dia Art Foundation, 2019). Exhibition catalogue.
2016 Coleman, Henry, and Rupert Norfolk. Giuseppe Gabellone, Siobhán Hapska, Charlotte Posenenske
(London: Bloomberg SPACE, 2016). Exhibition catalogue.
2012 Brunn, Burkhard, and Philipp Kaiser. Charlotte Posenenske: Die frühen Arbeiten / The Early Works
(Berlin: Distanz, 2012).
Brunn, Burkhard, et al. Charlotte Posenenske: Manifesto (Berlin: Distanz, 2012).
Brunn, Burkhard, et al. Charlotte Posenenske / Peter Roehr: Dasselbe Anders / Immer Dasselbe
(Berlin: Distanz, 2012). Exhibition catalogue.
2011 Behm, Meike, and Burkhard Brunn. Dies alles, Herzchen... Charlotte Posenenske / Michael Reiter
(Berlin: Distanz, 2011). Exhibition catalogue.
Morgan, Jessica, Astrid Wege, and Burkhard Brunn.
Charlotte Posenenske: The same but different / Dasselbe anders
(Southhampton: John Hansard Gallery, 2011). Exhibition catalogue.
2010 Strauss, Dorothea, et al. Monotonie ist Schön: Charlotte Posenenske and Peter Roehr
(Heidelberg: Kehrer Verlag, 2010). Exhibition catalogue.
2009 Wiehager, Renate, and Burkhard Brunn. Charlotte Posenenske: 1930-1985
(Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2009).
2008 Wiehager, Renate. Charlotte Posenenske: Prototypes for Mass Production
(New York: Peter Freeman, Inc., 2008). Exhibition catalogue.
2005 Brunn, Burkhard. Charlotte Posenenske (1930-1985): Erinnerungen an die Kunstlerin
(Frankfurt: Autor & Revolver, 2005).
Eiblmayr, Silvia, et al. Charlotte Posenenske (Innsbruck: Galerie im Taxispalais, 2005).
Exhibition catalogue.
1999 Adamopoulos, Konstantin, and Burkhard Brunn. Charlotte Posenenske: Malerei 1959-1965
(Frankfurt am Main: Galerie ak, 1999). Exhibition catalogue.
1990 Brunn, Burkhard, et al. Charlotte Posenenske
(Frankfurt am Main: Museum für Moderne Kunst, 1990).
1989 Brunn, Burkhard. Charlotte Posenenske: Deutsche Bank 1989
(Friedrichsdorf: P.R. Wilk, 1989). Exhibition catalogue.
Brunn, Burkhard, and Friederich Meschede. Charlotte Posenenske: Deutsche Lufthansa 1967-1986
(Cologne: Farbo-Druck, 1989). Exhibition catalogue.
Brunn, Burkhard, and Hans Ulrich Reck. Charlotte Posenenske: Hauptbahnhof Frankfurt 1989
(Frankfurt: 1989). Exhibition catalogue.
Brunn, Burkhard, and Werner Esser. Charlotte Posenenske: Stuttgart 1989
(Stuttgart: Bundesbahndruckerei, 1989). Exhibition catalogue.
1988 König, Kasper, and Burkhard Brunn. Charlotte Posenenske: Großmarkthalle Frankfurt 1988
(Frankfurt: 1988). Exhibition catalogue.
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Centre Pompidou, Paris
Daimler Art Collection, Stuttgart-Möhringen, Germany
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
Middelheim Museum, Antwerp, Belgium
Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Illinois
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Tate, London