Harding Meyer
Harding Meyer (*1964, Porto Alegre) is a German-Brazilian painter who, since the early 1990s, has engaged with the human face as a pictorial motif within a media-shaped contemporary reality. His paintings unite the immediate impact of portraiture with the visible traces of a complex and layered painterly process.
Many of his works originate from photographic or digital image fragments, which Meyer progressively transforms in the course of painting. In this process, the original references relinquish their concrete identity and dissolve into an autonomous pictorial reality.
Following his studies at the State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe (1987–1993), Meyer developed a visual language concerned with the translation of photographic imagery into painting. His work unfolds at the intersection of figurative clarity and painterly transformation.
For more than three decades, Meyer has exhibited internationally. His works have been presented in numerous solo and group exhibitions and are now held in private and institutional collections across Europe and North America. Notable collections include the Würth Collection (Germany), the Frieder Burda Collection in Baden-Baden, the AMMA Foundation in Mexico, as well as the collection of Isaac Andic, founder of the fashion brand Mango, in Barcelona.
Solo exhibitions
presence, Galerie Voss, Düsseldorf, DE
Momento, Peter Frey Gallery, Verona, IT
Audience, Galerie Voss, Düsseldorf, DE
being faced, Galerie Frey, Salzburg, AT
Eye to Eye, Odon Wagner Gallery, Toronto, CA
moving curtains, Galerie Frey, Wien, AT
known unknowns, Galerie Voss, Düsseldorf, DE
Im Angesicht, Galerie Frey, Salzburg, AT
New works, Galerie Voss, Düsseldorf, DE
Recent paintings, Galerie Frey, Salzburg, AT
Humanize, Galerie Voss, Düsseldorf, DE
Omnsicence, Odon Wagner Gallery, Toronto, CA
BLINK, Galerie Jarmuschek+Partner, Berlin, DE
Liaison Pittoresque, Galerie Frey, Wien, AT
The others, Galerie Voss, Düsseldorf, DE
Archaeology of the Face, Odon Wagner Gallery, Toronto, CA
New works, Galerie Frey, Wien, AT
Recent paintings, Galerie Voss, Düsseldorf, DE
Paintings, Galerie Ilka Klose, Würzburg, DE
Eye to Eye, Katara Doha, QA
Likeness, Galerie Frey, Salzburg, AT
Features, Galerie Voss, Düsseldorf, DE
Eye to Eye, Galerie Ross+Ross, Stuttgart, DE
To be a real vision, Galerie Voss, Düsseldorf, De
Auf Augenhöhe, Galerie Frey, Wien, AT
Humanise, Kunstverein Emsdetten, DE
New faces, Galerie Lausberg, Toronto, CA
Galerie Jarmuschek und Partner, Berlin, DE
Blind Date, Galerie Voss, Düsseldorf, DE
Solo at Volta6, Galerie Jarmuschek+Partner, Basel, CH
New Portraits, Galerie Lausberg, Toronto, CA
About Face, Galerie Jarmuschek und Partner, Basel, CH
First View, Gallerie Verrengia, Salerno, IT
In Sight, Galerie Voss, Düsseldorf, DE
Straight Faced, Galerie Frey, Wien, AT
Let ́s face it!, Galerie Lausberg, Toronto, CA
Surface, Galerie Jarmuschek und Partner, Berlin, DE
Roberta Lietti Arte Contemporanea, Como, IT
In-direct, Galerie Voss, Düsseldorf, DE
Bildstörung, Galerie Voss, Düsseldorf, DE
Heads, James Coleman Gallery, London, UK
Tête à tête, Galerie Voss, Düsseldorf, DE
Harding Meyer - Malerei, Galerie Jahn, Landshut, DE
Headhunter, Kunstraum 34, Stuttgart, DE
TV-Paintings, Galerie Voss, Düsseldorf, DE
Malerei, Kunstverein Karlsruhe, DE
Group exhibitions
Arquetipas, la imagen de la mujer a través de la Colección Würth, Museo Würth, La Rioja, ES
The Face as Medium and Reflection: The Biometric Rebellion, Museo ALL, Valparaiso, CCL
40 Jahre Emsdettener Kunstverein, Emsdetten, DE
Kunst. Leben. Leidenschaft. - 10 Jahre Museum Angerlehner - Die Sammlungsschau, Museum Angerlehner, Thalheim bei Wels, AT
10 Jahre Galerie Frey, Salzburg, AT
Von Kopf bis Fuss, Menschenbilder im Fokus der Sammlung Würth, DE
Forum Kunst Rorschach, CH
Touch me, Biennale, Strasbourg, FR
Blickkontakt, Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe, DE
Till Freiwald, Andreas Lau, Harding Meyer, Galerie Jahn, Landshut, DE
De la tete aux pieds, Musée Würth France Erstein, FR
Sin limites, Arte al limite, Santiago, CL
Vivid dimensions, Odon Wagner Gallery, Toronto, CA
Real summertime, Galerie Frey, Wien, AT
Auf Augenhöhe, Galerie Frey, Salzburg, AT
Even better than the real thing, Galerie Frey, Salzburg, AT
AtrrACTION, Punto sull`Arte, Varese, IT
Art in progress, Galerie Frey, Vienna, AT
Dismantling Galerie Jarmuschek+Partner, Berlin, DE
Boys n Girls Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, DE
Von Kopf bis Fuß. Porträts und Menschenbilder in der Sammlung Würth Kunsthalle Würth, Schwäbisch Hall, DE
Nervous Women, Museum Dr. Guislain, Gent, BE
Face to Face, with Sandra Ackermann, Till Freiwald, Davide Larocca. Neue Galerie Gladbeck, Gladbeck, DE
Features, with Till Freiwald, Andreas Lau and Gabi Trinkaus, Galerie Jarmuschek und Partner, Berlin, DE
Preview, Galerie Frey, Salzburg, AT
Upstairs Downstairs, Galerie Lausberg, Toronto, CA
Shadows of the Bright, Berlin Art Projects-Showroom, Berlin, DE
Bildschön, Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe, DE
Love, Palazzo Ducale, Genua, IT
Nuovo Realismi, 58. Premio Michetti, Palazzo San Domenico, Museo Michetti, IT
Auftakt, Galerie Voss, Düsseldorf, DE
Face to face, Galerie Judith Walker, Weizelsdorf/Rosental, AT
Impact, Galerie Assiociative Européene de la Photographie et de la vidéo, Strassbourg, FR
Pintura, Mario Sequeira Gallery, Braga, PT
Baby Gang, Spirale Arte, Milano, IT
Galleria Roberta Lietti, Como, IT
Wahrnehmung des Anderen, Galerie für zeitgenössische Kunst, Krefeld, DE
Love you always Galerie Damasquine & Aeroplastics, Brüssel, BE
Self and the Other, Galerie Christa Burger, München, DE
Frank Bauer, Harding Meyer, Kate Waters, Galerie Jahn, Landshut, DE
Impact, Galerie Assiociative Européene de la Photographie et de la Vidéo, Strassbourg, FR
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