September 6, 2017

Dieter Nuhr (b. 1960, , ) : Works From Other Worlds – Photography on Textile 9th September – 7th November 2017

Pékin Fine Arts (Beijing) in co-operation with Matthias Küper Galleries is pleased to host the premiere exhibition of Dieter Nuhr in China.

“Works From Other Worlds – Photography on Textile”

Opening: Saturday 9th September 2017, 2 – 6 p.m.

Dieter Nuhr will be personally present at the opening

The internationally active Matthias Küper Galleries could not have found a better co- operation partner than the gallery of Pékin Fine Arts to show the premiere China exhibition of the prominent German visual artist and cabaret performer Dieter Nuhr.

Dieter Nuhr is well known from numerous TV programs like “Nuhr im Ersten” broadcasted by the First German Public TV station. For more than 15 years, Dieter Nuhr continues to achieve extraordinary high audience ratings in the German speaking world. Like almost no other cabaret artist Dieter Nuhr reaches his audience with his satirical and humorous texts. He is the only German cabaret artist who won not only the German Art Award but also the German Award for Cabaret Artists.

Dieter Nuhr is also a visual artist. He studied fine art at the Folkwang School in and he never stopped to create images, first as a painter, later as a photographer. First he worked with home-made cameras and later he added digital equipment. Many of his art works can be found in German museums and private collections.

His images are thoughtful, meditative and aesthetic and are resulting from his passion for travelling. In Beijing, a selection of 30 works will be presented with themes from 5 continents and more than 21 countries including Mali, India, Bhutan, Nepal, Jordan, Chile, Peru, New Zealand, Island, Oman, Mexico and may other countries.

“My work as a visual artist is just as important to me as my work on the stage. The fact that I reached more people with the one form than with the other says nothing about the quality of this work or the degree of intensity”, says Dieter Nuhr.

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As a visual artist, Dieter Nuhr is concentrated on photography. His works should not be understood as travel impressions, but rather as an attempt to direct the eye away from one’s own daily experiential world, toward foreign countries and cultures. They do not show the presumed beauty or even the romantic side of these exotic worlds. They show the “foreign”, the details that are representative of a larger context, and guide us to memory sites of cultures, strange and charming at the same time, or to foreign landscapes that are not shown as tourist impressions, but as an impressive stage for natural events. Dieter Nuhr has a uniquely direct view, that always appears to capture a staged space of his own making.

For more information, please contact us at [email protected] or tel: (8610) 5127 3220.

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Pékin Fine Arts Dieter Nuhr (b.1960 Wesel, Germany) Artwork List

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Artist: Dieter Nuhr (b.1960 Wesel, Germany) Title: Thanjavur 089, India Medium: Color Photography On Textile Dimension: 200 x 200 cm Date： 2015 Edition: Unique Piece

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Artist: Dieter Nuhr (b.1960 Wesel, Germany) Title: Thanjavur 090, India Medium: Color Photography On Textile Dimension: 200 x 200 cm Date： 2015 Edition: Unique Piece

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Artist: Dieter Nuhr (b.1960 Wesel, Germany) Title: Kochi 03, India Medium: Color Photography On Textile Dimension: 200 x 200 cm Date： 2015 Edition: Unique Piece

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Artist: Dieter Nuhr (b.1960 Wesel, Germany) Title: Kochi 02, India Medium: Color Photography On Textile Dimension: 200 x 200 cm Date： 2015 Edition: Unique Piece

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Artist: Dieter Nuhr (b.1960 Wesel, Germany) Title: Wesel 30, Germany Medium: Color Photography On Textile Dimension: 200 x 200 cm Date： 2015 Edition: Unique Piece

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Artist: Dieter Nuhr (b.1960 Wesel, Germany) Title: Wesel 32, Germany Medium: Color Photography On Textile Dimension: 200 x 200 cm Date： 2015 Edition: Unique Piece

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Artist: Dieter Nuhr (b.1960 Wesel, Germany) Title: Kyoto 46, Japan Medium: Color Photography On Textile Dimension: 200 x 200 cm Date： 2015 Edition: Unique Piece

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Artist: Dieter Nuhr (b.1960 Wesel, Germany) Title: Kyoto 50, Japan Medium: Color Photography On Textile Dimension: 60 x 60 cm Date： 2015 Edition: Unique Piece

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Artist: Dieter Nuhr (b.1960 Wesel, Germany) Title: Kyoto 55, Japan Medium: Color Photography On Textile Dimension: 200 x 200 cm Date： 2015 Edition: Unique Piece

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Artist: Dieter Nuhr (b.1960 Wesel, Germany) Title: Yiti 51, Oman Medium: Color Photography On Textile Dimension: 60 x 60 cm Date： 2016 Edition: Unique Piece

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Artist: Dieter Nuhr (b.1960 Wesel, Germany) Title: Yiti 54, Oman Medium: Color Photography On Textile Dimension: 60 x 60 cm Date： 2016 Edition: Unique Piece

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Artist: Dieter Nuhr (b.1960 Wesel, Germany) Title: Zugdidi 46, Georgia Medium: Color Photography On Textile Dimension: 100 x 100 cm Date： 2016 Edition: Unique Piece

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Artist: Dieter Nuhr (b.1960 Wesel, Germany) Title: Zugdidi 49, Georgia Medium: Color Photography On Textile Dimension: 100 x 100 cm Date： 2016 Edition: Unique Piece

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Artist: Dieter Nuhr (b.1960 Wesel, Germany) Title: Zugdidi 50, Georgia Medium: Color Photography On Textile Dimension: 100 x 100 cm Date： 2016 Edition: Unique Piece

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Artist: Dieter Nuhr (b.1960 Wesel, Germany) Title: El Alto 94 02, Bolivia Medium: Color Photography On Textile Dimension: 200 x 200 cm Date： 2016 Edition: Unique Piece

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Artist: Dieter Nuhr (b.1960 Wesel, Germany) Title: Riga 25, Latvia Medium: Color Photography On Textile Dimension: 100 x 100 cm Date： 2016 Edition: Unique Piece

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Artist: Dieter Nuhr (b.1960 Wesel, Germany) Title: Riga 80, Latvia Medium: Color Photography On Textile Dimension: 100 x 100 cm Date： 2016 Edition: Unique Piece

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Artist: Dieter Nuhr (b.1960 Wesel, Germany) Title: Oaxaka 02, Mexico Medium: Color Photography On Textile Dimension: 100 x 100 cm Date： 2017 Edition: Unique Piece

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Artist: Dieter Nuhr (b.1960 Wesel, Germany) Title: Oaxaka 03, Mexico Medium: Color Photography On Textile Dimension: 100 x 100 cm Date： 2017 Edition: Unique Piece

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Artist: Dieter Nuhr (b.1960 Wesel, Germany) Title: San Juan Chamula 68, Mexico Medium: Color Photography On Textile Dimension: 60 x 60 cm Date： 2017 Edition: Unique Piece

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Artist: Dieter Nuhr (b.1960 Wesel, Germany) Title: Pomuch 06, Mexico Medium: Color Photography On Textile Dimension: 100 x 100 cm Date： 2017 Edition: Unique Piece

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Artist: Dieter Nuhr (b.1960 Wesel, Germany) Title: Pomuch 39, Mexico Medium: Color Photography On Textile Dimension: 100 x 100 cm Date： 2017 Edition: Unique Piece

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Artist: Dieter Nuhr (b.1960 Wesel, Germany) Title: Mladost 66, Bulgaria Medium: Color Photography On Textile Dimension: 100 x 100 cm Date： 2017 Edition: Unique Piece

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Artist: Dieter Nuhr (b.1960 Wesel, Germany) Title: Mladost 75, Bulgaria Medium: Color Photography On Textile Dimension: 100 x 100 cm Date： 2017 Edition: Unique Piece

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Artist: Dieter Nuhr (b.1960 Wesel, Germany) Title: Sant Antoni de Portmany 06, Spain Medium: Color Photography On Textile Dimension: 60 x 60 cm Date： 2017 Edition: Unique Piece

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Artist: Dieter Nuhr (b.1960 Wesel, Germany) Title: Bender 06, Moldavia Medium: Color Photography On Textile Dimension: 200 x 200 cm Date： 2017 Edition: Unique Piece

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Artist: Dieter Nuhr (b.1960 Wesel, Germany) Title: Bender 14, Moldavia Medium: Color Photography On Textile Dimension: 200 x 200 cm Date： 2017 Edition: Unique Piece

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Artist: Dieter Nuhr (b.1960 Wesel, Germany) Title: Moldova 34, Moldavia Medium: Color Photography On Textile Dimension: 60 x 60 cm Date： 2017 Edition: Unique Piece

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Artist: Dieter Nuhr (b.1960 Wesel, Germany) Title: Moldova 35, Moldavia Medium: Color Photography On Textile Dimension: 60 x 60 cm Date： 2017 Edition: Unique Piece

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Artist: Dieter Nuhr (b.1960 Wesel, Germany) Title: Moldova 36, Moldavia Medium: Color Photography On Textile Dimension: 60 x 60 cm Date： 2017 Edition: Unique Piece

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Artist: Dieter Nuhr (b.1960 Wesel, Germany) Title: Nyaung U 13, Myanmar Medium: Color Photography On Textile Dimension: 60 x 60 cm Date： 2014 Edition: Unique Piece

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Artist: Dieter Nuhr (b.1960 Wesel, Germany) Title: Nyaung U 14, Myanmar Medium: Color Photography On Textile Dimension: 60 x 60 cm Date： 2014 Edition: Unique Piece

For further information, please contact [email protected] or call: (8610) 5127 3220.

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Undated September 6, 2017

Dieter Nuhr (b. 1960, Wesel, Germany) CV

1960 Born in Wesel, Germany

1989 Bachelor’s Degree from Studies of Art and History at University Essen (former Folkwangschule)

1986 First Stage Acts as Comedian

1995 Starting Photography

Lives in Germany

Solo Exhibitions:

2017 Images from Other Worlds - Photography on Textile: (G), Matthias Küper Galleries Stuttgart/Beijing, Beijing, China

2016 Nuhr from Wesel: Wesel (G), Museum Wesel, Germany

Rheada (G), Orangerie Castle Rheda, Germany

Nuhr Around the World: Coesfeld (G), Museum Kolvenburg/Billerbeck, Germany

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Nuhr Traveling - New Photo Works: Mönchengladbach (G), Gallery Löhrl, Germany

2015 Nuhr Around the World: Ratingen (G), Museum Ratingen, Germany

Foreign Territory: Essen (G), Gallery Obrist, Austria

Nuhr Around the World: Siegen (G), Siegerlandmuseum, Germany

2014 Mönchengladbach (G), Gallery Löhrl, Germany

2012 Nuhr Takes Pictures, Regensburg (G), Museum and Gallery im, Germany

Nuhr Takes Pictures: Lüdinghausen (G), Münsterlandmuseum Castle Vischering, Germany

Nuhr Takes Pictures: Langenfeld (G), Museum, Cultural Forum, Germany

2011 Nuhr for SOS - Childrens Village: Imst, Austria (A), Ubuntu Forum, Germany

Nuhr for SOS: Berlin (G), Gallery of SOS Childrens Villages World Wide, Germany

Nuhr Takes Pictures: Kempen (G), Kramer Museum, Germany

Nuhr Takes Pictures: Rheine (G), Monastery Bentlage, Germany

2010 Nuhr Takes Pictures: Ratingen (G), Museum Ratingen, Germany

Nuhr Takes Pictures: Siegen (G), Siegerlandmuseum, Germany

Nuhr Meets Rubens: Siegen (G), Museum Oberes Schloß, Germany

Nuhr Takes Pictures: Siegburg (G), Museum Siegburg, Germany

2008 Nuhr on Tour: Hamburg (G), Gallery Robert Morat, Germany

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2004 Smile Landscape: Langenfeld (G), Kunstwerk in der alten Weberei, Germany

Group Exhibitions

2015 Mönchengladbach (G), Gallery Löhrl, 250 - Anniversary Exhibition, Germany

2013 Carl Schuch and the Temporary Still Life Photography: Ratingen (G), Museum Ratingen, Germany

Carl Schuch and the Temporary Still Life Photography: Siegburg (G), Museum Siegburg, Germany

Carl Schuch and the Temporary Still Life Photography: Siegen (G), Siegerlandmuseum, Germany

Carl Schuch and the Temporary Still Life Photography: Kempen (G), Kramer Museum, Germany

2012 Carl Schuch and the Temporary Still Life Photography: Herford (G), Herford Artist Association, Germany

2010 Awakenings, Düsseldorf (G), Galerie Felix Ringel, Germany

1999 Landscapes by Young Photographers: Düsseldorf (G), Kulturbahnhof Eller, Germany

Art Fair Participations:

2015 Köln (G), Art Cologne, Galerie Löhrl

Dornbirn (A), Art Bodensee, Galerie Obrist

2016 Köln (G), Art Cologne, Galerie Löhrl

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Köln (G), Cofa Contemporary - Cologne Fine Art, Galerie Löhrl

Publications:

2010 “Nuhr Takes Pictures”, Museum Ratingen, Kerber - Publisher 2010

2015 “Nuhr Around The World”, Museum Ratingen, Publisher Kettler 2015

2015 “Nuhr From Wesel”, Museum Wesel, Publisher Kettler 2015

Books 1995 Nuhr am nörgeln

1996 Nuhr weiter so

1998 Nuhr nach vorn

2006 Gibt es intelligentes Leben? Die Wahrheit über Deutschland

2007 Wer´s glaubt wird selig….

2008 Nuhr unterwegs

2010 Nuhr auf Sendung 2“ Ein Radiotagebuch 2010

2013 Das Geheimnis des perfekten Tages

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Nuhr um die Welt

2016 Nuhr auf Sendung 2, Ein Radiotagebuch 2016

2017 “Die Rettung der Welt”, Meine Autobiographie

Awards

1998 German Cabaret Award

2003 German Comedy Award ( Best Stage Act)

2007 Cabaret Award Nordrhein/Westfalen (G)

2008 German IQ Award

2009 German Comedy Award (Best Comedian)

2010 German Comedy Award (Best Comedian)

2014 Cultural Award for , Jakob-Grimm Award

2015 German Comedy Award

For further information, please contact [email protected] or call: (8610) 5127 3220.

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