HELGA NATZ

BIOGRAPHY

• 1975-80 Studied painting at the academies in Munster and Dusseldof
• 1981 Took a studio in Kirchhellen
• 1981-83 Works and objects related to painting
• 1984 Wall works in plaster
• 1985 First free-standing sculpture
• 1986-87 Development of two-part plaster sculptures/first pairs
• 1990 Use of other materials in addition to plaster (synthetic rubber, metal, wax, grease) Combination of two materials (aluminum-wax, copper-grease)
• 1994 Use of fluids as one of two materials
• 1995 Theoretical engagement with her works to date, division of her sculptures into groups: one material, one form; two materials - one form; two parts - one form; pairs
• 1998 First installation
• 2000 Took a second studio in Nova Scotia, Canada
• 2001 "Planar" wall works (pigments on plaster)
• 2003 First wall sculptures (two materials)
• 2005 Works on sandpaper

Selected One Person Exhibitions

• 2008 "Unity in Variety," Kouros Gallery, New York
• 2005 "Arnaud's Room," Gallery A. Lefebvre, Paris
• 2004 Gallery Deschler, Berlin
• 2002 Gallery A. Lefebvre, Paris
• 2001 "Sandpit-Event," NRW, art connection international, Dusseldorf, and Holly Solomon Gallery, New York
• 2000 Rohbau-Projekt, art connection international, Dusseldorf
• 2000 Gallery A. Lefebvre, Paris
• 2000 Atelier Brancusi/Centre George Pompidou, Paris
• 1988-99 Museum Ludwig - Projektraum, Koln
• 1994-99 Gallery A. Lefebvre, Paris
• 1990 Gallery Konrad Fischer, Dusseldorf

Selected Group Exhibitions

• 2007 Kouros Sculpture Center, Ridgefield, CT
• 2005 Berlin-Chicago location matters, artMbassy, Berlin
• 2003 Ernst Barlach Museum, Hamburg
• 2003 Gallery A. Lefebvre, Paris
• 2002-03 Gallery Tschudi, Zuoz/Engadin, Switzerland
• 2002 Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
• 1997 Grahan & Sons, New York
• 1996 Kunsthalle Recklinghausen
• 1995 Gallery A. Lefebvre, Paris
• 1994 "Selection from the Sol LeWitt Collection," Atrium Gallery, University of Connecticut
• 1993 Gallery Konrad Fischer, Dusseldorf
• 1991 Gallery Konrad Fischer, Dusseldorf

Further Presentations

• Art Cologne, 1991/92/93/95, Gallery Konrad Fischer
• FIAC Paris, 1994, Gallery A. Lefebvre
• Armory Show, New York, 1999, Gallery Holly Solomon, New York
• Collection Hoffmann, Berlin, 2001
• Visiting Artist, NSCAD - University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, 2003
• Installation Sculpture Nr. 150, Nova Scotia, Canada, 2004