Born in Sigmaringen, Germany, 1967
Lives and works in Berlin.

Education

1995 MA, Fine Art and Visual Communication at the HdK-Berlin "FREIE KLASSE" (Free Class).

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2008
Secession Gallery, Vienna, Austria.
2007
Shape of the Ape, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY
The Big Giving, Hayward Gallery, London, England
2006
The Big Giving (small group), Herald St, London, England
2005
Allee der Schlaflosigkeit (Avenue of Wakefulness), new production, Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany
Der Geist ist ein Wasserfall ‚ MAMA showroom, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2004 Unfolding Cul-de-Sac, installation including the "Side walk mushrooms", Cubitt Gallery, London, England
Sick Fox, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY
2003
Public Fountain LSD Hall, commissioned by the Frieze Foundation, London
2002
Brutstube, Public installation, Berlin, Germany
Fountain Loma Dr / W 6th St., Public installation, Los Angeles.
2001
Demo Inverse, Public performance, Berlin, Germany
2000
Death Disco Club, Public performance, Berlin, Germany
1999
Magic Info, Performative lecture and guided exhibition, Kunstbank, Berlin, Germany
1998
Tour de Force, Public action with loudspeaker car, Berlin, Germany

Museum Exhibitions

2008
Manifesta 7 The European Biennial of Contemporary Art, Trentino-South Tyrol, Italy
2005
Ecstasy: In and about Altered States, The Geffen Contemporary Art MOCA, LA
The Imaginary number, KW Institute of Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany

Selected Group Exhibitions

2008
The object is the mirror, Wilkinson Gallery, London, England
Santhal Family: Positions Around an Indian Sculpture. Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, Belgium
2007
RealismusStudio: Syntropia, Neue Gasellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Kreuzberg, Germany
Youíll never know: Drawing and Random Interference, Hayward Gallery, London, England (curated by Jeni Walwin and Henry Krokatsis)
Design by accident, Dover Publications, Inc., NY, 1968 croy nielsen Berlin, Germany
2006
FASTER! BIGGER! BETTER!, Signet works of the collections, ZKM-Karlsruhe, Germany
Just Off Focus, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY
Music and Art, COMA Centre for Opinions in Music and Art, Berlin, Germany
it is, what is it?, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY
Judith Hopf, Michaela Schweiger, Klaus Weber u.a.Galerie Ursula Walbröl, Duesseldorf, Germany
You'll Never Know: Drawing and Random Interference, Hayward Gallery, UK
After Cage Künstlerinterventionen, Nationaal Jenevermuseum, Hasselt, Belgien
Satom, Weber, Schweiger, Hopf & Pesch, Galerie Walbröl, Düsseldörf, Germnay
beton wurst und andere teamgeister, after the butcher, Berlin 2005
Not a drop but the Fall, Kunstlerhaus Bremen, Germany
Communism, curated by Grant Watson, Project Arts Centre, Dublin, Ireland
Transatlantische Impulse, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany
Ecstasy - In and About Altered States, MOCA THE GEFFEN CONTEMPORARY, Los Angeles, CA
The Imaginary Number, Kunst-Werke Berlin e.V. - KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
Hugh Lane - Off-Site, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Dublin, Ierland
2004
World Watchers, Kunsthaus, Dresden, Germany
Never Never Landscape, curated by Kirsty Bell, c/o Atle Gerhardsen, Berlin, Germany
Black Friday-Exercises in Hermetics, Kamm Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2003
Murated Zen. The Art of surviving, The Nunnery, London, England
LUX OPEN, Royal Academy, London. Sektion Utopia /Whitechapel Art Gallery (curated by Ian White)
Boolteg, Spitalfields Market, London, England
2002
Violence is at the margin of all things, Generali Foundation, Vienna, Italy
2001
Surprise 3, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungry
2000
ticker 6, Galerie Carlier|Gebauer, Berlin, Germany
1999
they came by taxi, Parabolica Spaces, Berlin, Germany
1998
we are somewhere else (already), Swiss Institute, New York, NY

Selected Collaborative Works

1997-2005
Ping Pong d¥amour. Television Soap Opera series, Berlin and Munich, Germany
1996-2003
A-clip, founder of collective film project, Los Angeles, London, and Berlin
1995-2003
ZigarettenRauchen. Co-founder of music project, Berlin, Germany
1999
THE HALL of FAME, Curator, Schr–derstr|Jazzclub, Berlin, Germany
1995-1999 v KLASSE ZWEI. Co-founder of artist group and project space for political and theoretical discussion, Berlin, Germany
1997
MicroStudio surplus - 11 Tage des didaktischen Liedes. (11 days of didactic song), KLASSE ZWEI, Berlin, Germnay
INNENSTADTAKTION. (InnerCityAction), nation wide political campaign

Bibliography

2008
Liz Craft/Klaus Weber, Printed Project, Visual Artists Ireland, Dublin, Ireland
Mack, Joshua. "Klaus Weber, Shape of the Ape". Time Out New York. January 17
Schwendener, Martha. "Klaus Weber, Shape ot the Ape". New York Times. December 28
2007
"Art Notes: War News". Art Monthly. September, No 309
Aly, Remona. "In the Future Memoriam: IRAQ". emel magazine 37, July
Sooke, Alastair. "Memorial to the Iraq War", Frieze, issue 109, reproduct
Ruyter, Thibaut de. "Dsign by accident", Artpress 334, reproduct
"Itís like being a figure in an architecture model - mmh-hhm." sidselnelund.wordpress.com. July 14
Coburn, Tyler. "Klaus Weber's Fountain Art". www.tomorrowunlimited.com. July 17
Darwent, Charles. "Oh what a lovely war", Independent on Sunday, May 27
Hanks, Robert. "Bringing the dead home", Independent, April 27
2006
Linden, Liz (editor)."Communism". The Best Surprise is No Surprise. e-flux, JRPIRinger. p.158.
Ebner, Jörn. "Schneeskulpturen und Fontänen". FAZ, Kunstmarkt. November 4
Plender, Olivia. "Top Ten". Artforum. April
Davis, Erik. "Ecstasy: In and About Altered States". Artforum
2005
Bell, Kirsty. "Enclosed in a circular systems". Interview, Untitled#35 :reproduction
Stark, Frances. "Los Angeles". Artforum. December
Schulze, Karin. "Kinder der Revolution".Financial Times Deutschland. December 23
Kimmelman, Michael. "Art for the tuned inÖ". International Herald Tribune. November 9
Kimmelman, Michael. "A mind bending trip Down a rabbit hole". The New York Times. November 4
Chang, Richard, "Exhibit: Ecstasy". The Orange County Register. October 16
Rose, Steven. "More Ecstasy, less agony". Dailynews.com. October 11
Knight, Christopher. "Take a mind excursion". Los Angeles Times. October 11
Hunter, Drohojowska-Philip. "The Art Trip". artnet.com
Smith, Roberta."Tune In, Turn On, Dig Art". New York Times. September 11
Gutmair, Ulrich. "Macht nur soviel Ihr k–nnt". NETZEITUNG. August 2
Knight ,Christopher. "A portal to the new Berlin". Los Angeles Times. July 24
Van Halen, Annelieke. "The city is full of potential". Tubelight. June
2004
Elmgreen & Dragset. "Artists' Picks: Klaus Weber: Unfolding Cul-De-Sac". Artforum. December
O'Reilly, Sally. "Klaus Weber, Cubitt, London". frieze. September
Stone, Katie. " Klaus Weber, Andrew Kreps, New York, Cubitt, London". The Brooklyn Rail. June
2002
Klaus Weber. "Los Angeles Buhlerin des Lichts - Lieblingsstadt der Solipsisten" ("Los Angeles: Favourite City of the Solipsists"). Junge Welt News.
1998
"Klaus Weber, Didaktische Phä”nomene und der allgemeine Kampf um das Imagin”re."("Didactic Phenomena and the Social Imaginary.") ANYP, No. 8

Catalogues

2007
Stipendiaten und Stpendiatinnen der Senatsverwaltung für Wissenschaft, Forschung u. Kultur
Make Everything New-A Project On Communism, Edited by Grant Watson, Gerrie van Noord & Gavin Everall (2006)published by Book Works and Project Arts Centre, Dublin
2006
"Klaus Weber" After Cage Network c/o Marres Capucijnenstraat , The Netherlands
2005
Ecstasy In and About Altered States. catalogue exhibition. The Museum of Contemporary Art. Los Angeles, CA. Ed. Lisa Mark, Wenn sonst nichts klappt: Wiederholung wiederholen, materialverlag & b_books/polypen: audio cd
2003
Frieze Art Fair Yearbook
Buchmann, Sabeth. "Travelling in closed spaces". From Work To Text org./ed. Jürgen Bock, ccb project room: reproduct.
Violence is at the margin of all things, ed. Creischer, Siekmann, Generali Foundation. Walther König: reproduct

Monographic Catalogues

Klaus Weber, Unfold! You Cul de Sac, Revolver Verlag

Selected Filmography

2004
Menschenloop, DVD, 60mn
2003
Fountain Loma Dr// W 6^th St., DVD, 60mn
7 lives and 2 beside, A-clip, 35mm, 60 sec.
Embrace the hyper rational. A-clip, 35 mm, 70 sec
Watching 03, Music Video, DVD, 59 sec
1997-2005
Ping Pong d¥amour., A Nouvelle Vague Soap, 4 parts, Beta SP , 120 min.
2002
DEMO INVERSE. Documentation of the performance, DVD, 60 min.
1999
Surplus (K in the basement), Beta SP, 15 min loop.
1998
Anstiftung Warentest, A-clip II, 35mm film, 1 min. 55 sec.
1997
Infosäule, A-clip |, 35mm film, 1 min. 29 sec.
1996
Absichtserklärung A-clip, VHS-Video and 35 mm Film, 1 min. 57 sec.
Morgen!, Music Video, S-VHS, 2 min 44 sec.
Melancholie in der Großstadt., Music Video, S VHS, 1 min 6 sec.
1995
Blickwinkelpräferenzen., Music Video, S-VHS, 1 min 38 sec.
alucarD. Fabrikkörper, Nebel, Markt und Vampirismen., S-V HS, 9 min

Selected Discography

2004
Kranke Fuchs, LP, Self Released
exijudile, the sound of the LSD Fountain, LP, Self Released
2001
Death Disco Club, Audio-CD, tete-à-tete.
2000
ZigarettenRauchen feat. Rosa, Maxi-CD, Sony Music.
1998
ZigarettenRauchen männer, Single, Monika records.
1998 ZigarettenRauchen surplus, Audio-CD, b_books records.

Selected Distinctions

2006
Fellowship, Department of Science, Research and Culture, Berlin
2005
Fellowship Kunstfonds, Bonn, Germany
2004
Catalogue Grant, Department of Science, Research and Culture, Berlin
2002/3
Artist in residence, Whitechapel Art Gallery/ Delfina Studio Trust, London.
Artist in residence, Villa Aurora, Los Angeles. Project
Sponsorship, Cultural Fund of the Capital of Germany.
2000
Project Sponsorship, Department of Science, Research & Culture, Berlin.
1998
Fellowship, Department of Science, Research & Culture, Berlin.