Klaus Hack
Born 1966 in Bayreuth
lives and works in Seefeld/Brandenburg
Hack, who studies in Nuremberg and Berlin, presents his first solo exhibition in the Georg-Kolbe-Museum in Berlin just one year after graduating as a master student. This is followed by numerous exhibition participations in renowned institutions such as the Kunsthalle Nuremberg, the Städtische Museen Heilbronn, the Gerhard-Marcks-Haus in Bremen or the Kunsthalle Marburg. Hack succeeds in being recognized as a relatively young artist by the institutional art scene as well as the art market.
The sculptor’s handwriting is unmistakable. Although Hack uses native wood of various densities and grains, he achieves an ever-recognisable effect by setting the surface in white. He also remains consistently true to the perforation and hollowing out of the form, which gives the works their peculiar fragility and plasticity in black and white.
Hack occupies a special position in the spectrum of wood sculpture, which deals with ‘being’ and ‘appearance’.
Career
1989-91 Academy of Arts, Nuremberg
1991-95 Academy of Arts Berlin, master student
1995 NaFöG-Fellowship, Senate of Berlin for Science, Research and Culture
1996 Fellowship for fine arts, Kulturstiftung Offenburg
1997 Fellowship, Stiftung Kulturfonds
1998 Work scholarship, Künstlerhaus Ahrenshoop
2004-2005 Lecturer for Sculpture, Academy of Arts Berlin-Weißensee
Solo Exhibitions (selection)
1996 Georg-Kolbe-Museum Berlin
1998 Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche, Osnabrück
2000 Museum Junge Kunst, Frankfurt/Oder
2004 Kunsthalle Erfurt; Städtische Kunstsammlung Schweinfurt
2005 Kunstverein Göttingen
2006 Museum Lothar Fischer, Neumarkt/Oberpfalz
2009 Kunstmuseum St. Annen, Lübeck
2010 Kunsthalle Marburg
2014 Museum Kloster Bentlage, Rheine
2017 Museum im Kleinhues-Bau / Städtisches Museum Kornwestheim
2018 Kunstverein Eislingen
2018 LAING Gallery, Münster
2019 Neue Galerie of the Kunstverein Erlangen
2020 Leipzig Opera and Stage for Lohengrin
2020 Art Collection Neubrandenburg (with Manfred Zoller)
2021 Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern
2021 LAING Gallery, Münster
Important prizes (selection)
1996 Rüdiger-Hurrle – Art prize, Offenburg
1998 Art prize, Federal State of Brandenburg
1999 Art prize, Ciy of Limburg
2005 Lothar-Fischer-Prize for Sculpting
2010 Friedrich-Baur-Prize of the Bayerische Akademie of Fine Arts, München
Other
Works by Klaus Hack can be found in many museums and public collections, including:
Museum Beelden aan Zee, Scheveningen (NL), Berlinische Galerie, Landesmuseum für Moderne Kunst Berlin, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlung, Städtische Kunstsammlungen Schweinfurt, Städtische Galerie Offenburg, Museum Lothar Fischer, Neumarkt/Oberpfalz, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Kunstmuseum St. Annen, Lübeck, Kupferstichkabinett Staatliche Museen Berlin, Kunstmuseum Pfalzgalerie, Kaiserslautern