Udo Nöger works in a minimalist tradition, reducing everything he does “to a point where there is no more, no less”— a statement that captures the delicate balance of his pared-down aesthetic. This quest toward a conscientious reduction of visual information, however, plays a supporting role to the artist’s primary interest: light. In his works, light passes through layers of oil, acrylic, and fabric, illuminating the painting from within and then returning to the surrounding space. Through his singular approach and unique suite of mediums, Nöger is ‘able to set the surface free’ and achieve the purest light possible.

Nöger grew up in Bielefeld where he studied painting from 1980 to 1983. He made his exhibition debut in 1984 in Germany. Since then, he has worked in studios in Berlin, Cologne, New York, and Miami. Nöger’s work has been exhibited throughout Europe, Asia, and the United States. In 2011 he had his first retrospective showing (1990 – 2011) at the Osthaus Museum in Germany. Currently, he maintains studios in Southern California and Geneva, Switzerland.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016   Yarger Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
2016   Callan Contemporary, New Orleans, LA
2016   Madison Gallery, San Diego, CA
2016   Karin Weber Gallery, Hong Kong
2016   Grossetti Arte Contemporanea, Milano, Italy
2016   Brintz Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
2015   Weight of Light, Kunsthalle Dresden, Germany
2015   Innen, Schultz Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
2015   Drawings from 2010 – 2015 – Galería Álvaro Alcázar, Madrid, Spain
2015   Geistlos – Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts , Miami, FL
2015   Unconscious Paintings – Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2014   Invisible Visible – Karin Weber Gallery, Hong Kong
2014   Beyond – Dolby Chatwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2014   Water has no figuration – Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2014   Minimal Paintings – Grossetti Arte Contemporanea, Milano, Italy
2014   reduced – 212 Gallery, Aspen, CO
2013   be water – Schultz Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
2013   the insight of the painting – Karin Weber Gallery, Hong Kong
2013   inner surface – Timothy Yarger, Beverly Hills, CA, USA
2013   new works – Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami, FL, USA
2013   Light – Guthrie Contemporary, New Orleans, LA, USA
2012   Weight of Light – Grossetti Arte Contemporanea, Milano, Italy
2012   Licht – Feichtner Gallery, Vienna, Austria
2012   Weight of light – Bachofner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2012   Galerie Lausberg, Toronto, Canada
2012   One Man Show at ART MIAMI 2012, Galerie Lausberg, Toronto/Düsseldorf
2012   me water and within – Walker Fine Art, Denver, CO, USA
2011   Bilder und Objekte von 1990-2011 – Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum, Hagen, Germany
2011   me water – Museum of Art Honolulu, HI, USA
2011   New paintings – Walker Contemporary, Boston, MA, USA
2011   One Man Show at Art Chicago, IL, Galerie Peithner-Lichtenfels, Vienna
2011   The Weight of Light – Sherry Leedy Contemporary, Kansas City, MO, USA
2011   inner distance – Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami, FL, USA
2011   Innere Ferne – Galerie Lausberg, Düsseldorf, Germany
2011   Gewicht des Lichtes – Galerie Peithner – Lichtenfels, Vienna, Austria
2011   One Man Show at Scope Miami, Galerie Feichtner, Vienna
2010   Kleine Inseln – Lukas Feichtner Galerie, Vienna, Austria
2010   Bachofner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2010   Galería Álvaro Alcázar, Madrid, Spain
2010   Light as a Material – Grossetti Arte Contemporanea, Milano, Italy
2010   Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA, USA
2009   Little Islands – Robin Rule Gallery, Denver, CO, USA
2009   new paintings – Gebert Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM, USA
2009   Walker Contemporary, Boston, MA, USA
2009   Little Islands – Bernhard Knaus Fine Art, Frankfurt, Germany
2008   me water – Morat Institut für Kunst und Kunstwissenschaft, Freiburg, Germany
2008   recent works – Gebert Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2008   recent works – Gebert Contemporary, Scottsdale, AZ, USA
2008   me water – Beck & Eggeling International Fine Art, Düsseldorf, Germany
2008   Lukas Feichtner Gallery, Vienna, Austria
2007   Gebert Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM, USA
2007   me water – Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2007   me water – Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami, FL, USA
2007   Espaces Transitoires – Galerie Pascal van Hoecke, Paris, France
2006   Light as a Material – Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, MO, USA
2006   Light as a Material – Art & Cultural Center Maui, HI, USA
2006   Light as a Material – Chiaroscuro Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM, USA
2006   Buschlen-Mowatt Galleries, Palm Desert, CA, USA
2005   Light as a Material – Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO, USA
2005   Light as a Material – Chiaroscuro Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ, USA
2005   New Paintings – Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA
2005   Light as a Material – Robin Rule Gallery, Denver, CO, USA
2005   bewegend – Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami, FL, USA
2005   bewegend – Beck & Eggeling International Fine Art, Düsseldorf, Germany
2005   One Man Show at Art Cologne, Beck & Eggeling, Düsseldorf
2005   bewegend – Lukas Feichtner Galerie, Vienna, Austria
2004   Light as a Material – Chiaroscuro Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM, USA
2004   Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA, USA
2004   Fassbender Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
2004   Galerie Peter Borchardt, Hamburg, Germany
2003   Light as a Material 2 – Lowe Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA
2003   Light as a Material 1 – Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami, FL, USA
2003   Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA, USA
2003   Rule Gallery, Denver, CO, USA
2003   Light as a Material 1 – Galerie Feichtner & Mizrahi, Vienna, Austria
2002   Buschlen-Mowatt Galleries, Palm Desert, CA, USA
2002   riechend – Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA, USA
2002   Fassbender Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
2002   Jacob Karpio Gallery, San Jose, Costa Rica
2001   works 1990 – 2000 – Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO, USA
2001   me water – Fassbender Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
2001   Light as a Material 1 – Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA, USA
2001   white – Artcore Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2001   riechend – Beck & Eggeling International Fine Art, Düsseldorf, Germany
2001   me water – Galerie Peter Borchardt, Hamburg, Germany
2001   riechend – Kunstverein Lippstadt, Lippstadt, Germany
2000   Jacob Karpio Gallery, San Jose, Costa Rica
2000   Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA, USA
2000   me water – Galerie Feichtner & Mizrahi, Vienna, Austria
2000   Galerie Beck & Eggeling, Leipzig, Germany
2000   Galerie Hänel, Wiesbaden, Germany
2000   me water – Art Cologne, Galerie Hänel, Cologne, Germany
2000   me water – Art Frankfurt, Galerie Hänel, Frankfurt, Germany
1999   Heads and Vessels 2 – Contemporary Art Center of Peoria, Peoria, IL, USA
1999   innen – Kunsthalle Bielefeld (Studiengalerie), Bielefeld, Germany
1999   Heads and Vessels 2 – Peyton Wright Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, USA
1999   Eine andere Art von Licht – Galerie Bernd Dürr, Munich, Germany
1999   Zwischenräume – Beck – Eggeling – Schlag, Düsseldorf, Germany
1999   Zwischenräume – Feichtner & Mizrahi, Vienna, Austria
1999   Zwischenräume – Ruth Sachse, Hamburg, Germany
1999   Zwischenräume – Frank Schlag & Cie., Essen, Germany
1998   Paintings and Drawings – Fassbender Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
1998   Heads and vessels 2– Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA, USA
1998   Jan Maiden Fine Art, Columbus, OH, USA
1998   Jacob Karpio Gallery, San Jose, Costa Rica
1998   Heads and Vessels – Galerie Hans-Jürgen Siegert, Basel, Switzerland
1998   Eine andere Art von Licht – Galerie Hänel, Frankfurt, Germany
1997   Jain Marunouchi Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1997   Heads and Vessels – Peyton Wright Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, USA
1997   Heads and Vessels – Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA, USA
1997   mixed media paintings – Olga Dollar Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
1997   Bilder – Galerie Maria Sels, Düsseldorf, Germany
1996   Galerie Bernd Dürr, Munich, Germany
1996   Galerie van Alom, Berlin, Germany
1996   Heads and vessels – Galerie Hänel, Frankfurt, Germany
1995   with bird – Sherry Frumkin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
1995   with bird – Jain Marunouchi Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1995   Marcia Rafelman Fine Arts, Toronto, Canada
1994   Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA, USA
1994   recent works – Mindy Oh Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
1994   Neue Arbeiten – Galerie van Alom, Berlin, Germany
1994   Autogen Gallery, Dresden, Germany
1993   between everything – Tamenaga Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1993   between everything – Hypo Bank Foundation, New York, NY, USA
1993   Lowe Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
1993   Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA, USA
1993   between everything – Siegerlandmuseum, Siegen, Germany
1993   Zwischen Papier und Skulptur – Bernd Dürr, Munich, Germany
1993   Galerie van Alom, Berlin, Germany
1992   reaches – Jain Marunouchi Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1992   reaches – Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA, USA
1992   reaches – Lowe Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
1992   reaches – Mackey Gallery, Denver, CO, USA
1991   Payton Rule Gallery, Denver, CO, USA
1991   reach in the dust – Bernd Dürr, Munich, Germany
1991   Neue Bilder – van Alom, Berlin, Germany
1989   Galerie van Alom, Berlin, Germany
1989   rongo-rongo Südseebilder -Kunstverein Paderborn, Germany
1988   Euro Gallery, London, England
1988   rongo-rongo Südseebilder – Galerie Delta, Rotterdam, Netherlands
1988   rongo-rongo Südseebilder – Bernd Dürr, Munich, Germany
1988   Südseebilder – Galerie Trost, Lippstadt, Germany

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016   Bentley Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
2016   Walker Fine Art, Denver, CO
2016   Art Miami, Walker Contemporary, VT
2016   212 Gallery, Aspen
2015   Echo – 212 Gallery, Aspen, CO
2015   The Buoyancy of Nothing, Walker Fine Art, Denver, CO
2015   large paintings – Melissa Morgan Fine Art, Palm Desert, CA
2015   Summer of Color – Tansey Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM            
2014   Dialogue 5:5, Kunstraum Villa Friede, Bonn, Germany
2014   Paintings – Hollis Taggart, New York
2014   25 Years – Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami, FL
2014   Group Show – Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2013   Cross Pollinate – Walker Fine Art, Denver, CO, USA
2013   Zwischen Himmel und Erde – Galerie Kudlek, Cologne, Germany
2013   beyond the moment – Grossetti Arte Contemporaneo, Milano, Italy
2012   EENI – Grossetti Arte Contemporaneo, Milano, Italy
2012   five Gallery artists – Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2012   Light revealed – Karin Weber Gallery, Hong Kong
2012   Summer Special Exhibition – Lausberg Contemporary, Toronto, Canada
2012   Winter Group Exhibition – Lausberg Contemporary, Toronto, Canada
2012   small works – Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2011   Entering Abstraction – Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2011   Present Tense – Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO, USA
2011   Walker Fine Art, Denver, CO, USA
2011   Upstairs Downstairs – Lausberg Contemporary, Toronto, Canada
2011   Etablierte und neue Positionen – Galerie Peithner-Lichtenfels, Vienna, Austria
2010   White Meditation Room – Grossetti Arte Contemporaneo, Milano, Italy
2010   Gebert Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM, USA
2010   Gallery Artists – Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO, USA
2010   Walker Contemporary, Boston, MA, USA
2010   Bernhard Knaus Fine Art, Frankfurt, Germany
2009   Bande -Künstler der Galerie – Galerie Borchardt, Hamburg, Germany
2009   Gebert Contemporary, Scottsdale, AZ, USA
2009   White Show – Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2009   Lukas Feichtner Galerie, Vienna, Austria
2009   Künstler der Galerie – Beck & Eggeling International Fine Art, Düsseldorf, Germany
2008   Landscapes – Gebert Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM, USA
2008   Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami, FL, USA
2007   Galería Álvaro Alcázar, Madrid, Spain
2007   Klaus Steinmetz Arte Contemporaneo, San Jose, Costa Rica
2006   Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2006   Summer Specials – Lukas Feichtner Gallery, Vienna, Austria
2006   Winter 2006 Group Exhibition – Rule Gallery, Denver, CO, USA
2006   Open House and Introduction – Donna Rogers Fine Art, Houston, TX, USA
2006   Beck & Eggeling International Fine Art, Düsseldorf, Germany
2005   Chiaroscuro Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM, USA
2005   Summer Group Exhibition – Rule Gallery, Denver, CO, USA
2005   preview – Galerie Pascal van Hoecke, Paris, France
2005   Summer Exhbition – Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2005   Galerie Hollenbach, Ausstellungsraum Zürich, Switzerland
2005   Galerie Hollenbach, Stuttgart, Germany
2004   Gallery Artists – Buschlen-Mowatt Galleries, Palm Desert, CA, USA
2004   Summer Group Show – Rule Gallery, Denver, CO, USA
2004   paintings – Chiaroscuro Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ, USA
2004   Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2004   Ciudado Pinta o (de)construcciones pictoricas – MADC Museo de Arte y      DisenoContemporaneo, San Jose, Costa Rica
2003   small works – Chiaroscuro Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM, USA
2003   Gallery Artists – Buschlen-Mowatt Galleries, Vancouver, Canada
2003   Beck & Eggeling International Fine Art, Düsseldorf, Germany
2003   Galerie Peter Borchardt, Hamburg, Germany
2002   Landscape and the natural order – Lawrence University, Wriston Art Center, Wisconsin, USA
2002   Departure American Contemporary Landscape – Indiana University, Center of Contemporary Art, Indiana, USA
2002   Coleccionismos Contemporaneos – Publico/Privado – MADC Museo de Arte y DisenoContemporaneo, San Jose, Costa Rica
2002   Galerie Feichtner & Mizrahi, Vienna, Austria
2001   sublime landscape – Strich University Museum, Milwaukee, WI, USA
2001   Galerie Beck & Eggeling, Leipzig, Germany
2001   Galerie Hollenbach, Stuttgart, Germany
2001   Works – Artcore Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2000   beyond borders – Coninx Museum, Zürich, Switzerland
2000   Galerie Beck & Eggeling, Düsseldorf, Germany
2000   Artcore Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1999   year in preview – Fassbender Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
1999   Galerie Beck & Eggeling, Leipzig, Germany
1999   Galerie van Alom, Berlin, Germany
1998   Paintings – Jain Marunouchi Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1998   Positions – Peyton Wright Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, USA
1998   Galerie Feichtner & Mizrahi, Vienna, Austria
1997   Summer show – Fassbender Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
1997   Galerie Hänel, Frankfurt, Germany
1997   Künstler der Galerie – Galerie Bernd Dürr, Munich, Germany
1997   Galerie Hans-Jürgen Siegert, Basel, Switzerland
1996   Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA, USA
1996   rewind – Mindy Oh Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
1996   Galerie Maria Sels, Düsseldorf, Germany
1996   Nachlese 96 – Lichte Bilder – Galerie David, Bielefeld
1996   Galerie Hans-Jürgen Siegert, Basel, Switzerland
1995   Künstler der Galerie- neue Arbeiten – Galerie Hänel, Frankfurt, Germany
1994   Tamenaga Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1994   Galerie Bernd Dürr, Munich, Germany
1993   Jain Marunouchi Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1993   Bilder – Galerie Hänel, Frankfurt, Germany
1992   Paintings – Tamenaga Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1989   Kunst ’89 – Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany

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