Helmut Lang

Helmut Lang works with form, volume, light and the material history of objects and things to create enigmatic sculptural presences that hover in the space between abstraction and figuration. His use of everyday materials—sometimes industrial, sometimes organic—rather than those commonly associated with fine art, become a starting point for a larger meditation on acts of creative destruction and gestures of reassembly and renewal. His engagement with art started in the mid 1990's, when he collaborated with Louise Bourgeois and Jenny Holzer.

Previously a world-renowned fashion designer, Lang has devoted himself solely to his art since 2005 and exhibited since 1996 in Europe and the United States. Lang has exhibited, among others, at the Florence Biennale, Florence (1996), Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (1998), The Journal Gallery, New York (2007), kestnergesellschaft, Hanover (2008), The Fireplace Project, Long Island (2011), Schusev State Museum, Moscow (2011), Mark Fletcher, New York (2012), Deste Foundation, Athens (2013) and Sperone Westwater, New York (2015).

Courtesy of Henzel Studios