Liz Larner

Liz Larner

Liz Larner - Galerie Max Hetzler Selected Works

Since the 1980's, Liz Larner (b. 1960) explores and extends the conditions and possibilities of sculpture. Her works are informed by the relationship between object, viewer and their surroundings as well as a deep interest in manifold materials and their particular qualities. Here, the artist puts a focus on the changes and symptoms of decay that certain materials undergo in the course of time. 
Larner discovered the material of ceramic for her artistic practice in the late 1990's. Fascinated by the autonomy of this ancient medium, the artist experiments with various compositions and forms. Especially the process of firing and glazing harbours a moment of unpredictability and chance that is significant for the final object and which adds an uncontrollable component to the work with ceramics.

„Liz Larner's earliest sculptural objects resembled experiments that were on the edge of running out of control. Having begun by making photographs of unstable mixtures in Petri Dishes […] and recording their changes, Larner became more interested in the objects themselves rather than the photographs she was making of them. Gradually she became a sculptor rather than a photographer. She has always retained, however, an interest in the instability of form. […] There is part of almost everyone that prizes stability and predictability, but there is also something that revels in decay and decomposition, especially when it happens in a way that can be made visible – where the entropic meets the abject.“

Russell Ferguson, Liz Larner Ceramics: An Introduction in Liz Larner, Aspen Art Museum/Karma, 2016

Image: ix (calefaction), 2016, ceramic, glaze, stones, minerals, 59 x 97,8 x 24,8 cm

Selected Works

Cultures, 1988

2 as 3 and Some, Too, 1997

RWBs, 2005
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Solo Exhibitions

Liz Larner - Galerie Max Hetzler

Liz Larner

57, rue du Temple, Paris

4 May – 3 June 2017
Liz Larner - Galerie Max Hetzler

Liz Larner

Goethestraße 2/3, Berlin

16 September – 22 October 2016
Liz Larner - Galerie Max Hetzler

Liz Larner

Window Gallery, Goethestraße 2/3, Berlin

15 September 2016 – 14 January 2017

Group Exhibitions

TRUE STORIES<br>A SHOW RELATED TO AN ERA - THE EIGHTIES: PART I - Galerie Max Hetzler

TRUE STORIES
A SHOW RELATED TO AN ERA - THE EIGHTIES: PART I

curated by Peter Pakesch
Herbert Brandl, Günther Förg, Robert Gober, Cristina Iglesias, Mike Kelley, Liz Larner, Zoe Leonard, Inge Mahn, Meuser, Markus Oehlen, Wilhelm Schürmann, Mariella Simoni, Franz West

Galerie Max Hetzler @ Kurfürstendamm 213, Berlin

14 September – 27 October 2018
MATIÈRE GRISE - Galerie Max Hetzler

MATIÈRE GRISE

Glenn Brown, André Butzer, Jeremy Demester, Günther Förg, Loris Gréaud, Raymond Hains, Charline von Heyl, Liz Larner, Navid Nuur, Albert Oehlen, Edmund de Waal

57, rue du Temple, Paris

10 June – 20 July 2017
Wilhelm Schürmann - Galerie Max Hetzler

Wilhelm Schürmann

Fotograf und Sammler
Monika Baer, Heinrich Dunst, Günther Förg, Ralph Gibson, Rodney Graham, Jenny Holzer, Liz Larner, Paul McCarthy, Ray K. Metzker, David Musgrave, Albert Oehlen, Stephen Prina, Wilhelm Schürmann, Arlene Shechet, Edmund de Waal, Christopher Williams, Heimo Zobernig

Bleibtreustraße 45, Berlin

16 September – 22 October 2016
la mia ceramica - Galerie Max Hetzler

la mia ceramica

Lynda Benglis, Ida Ekblad, Lucio Fontana, Günther Förg, Liz Larner, Fausto Melotti, Navid Nuur, Pablo Picasso, Sterling Ruby, David Salle, Josh Smith, Rosemarie Trockel, Rebecca Warren, Edmund de Waal

57, rue du Temple, Paris

4 June – 16 July 2016
Tom Henry III, Liz Larner, Jorge Pardo, Linda Roush, Sarah Seager, Thaddeus Strode - Galerie Max Hetzler

Tom Henry III, Liz Larner, Jorge Pardo, Linda Roush, Sarah Seager, Thaddeus Strode

(organized by Tim Neuger)

Luhring Augustine Hetzler, 1330 Fourth Street, Santa Monica, CA

26 May – 23 June 1990
Drawings - Galerie Max Hetzler

Drawings

Donald Baechler, Werner Büttner, Michael Byron, Jory Felice, Günther Förg, Kenji Fujita, Tom Henry III, Georg Herold, Jon Kessler, Hubert Kiecol, Martin Kippenberger, Liz Larner, Meuser, John Miller, James Nares, Albert Oehlen, Stephen Prina, Thaddeus Strode, Franz West, Christopher Williams, Christopher Wool

Luhring Augustine Hetzler, 1330 Fourth Street, Santa Monica, CA

14 April – 19 May 1990
Prints and Multiples - Galerie Max Hetzler

Prints and Multiples

Donald Baechler, Werner Büttner, Michael Byron, Günther Förg, Georg Herold, Mike Kelley, Jon Kessler, Hubert Kiecol, Martin Kippenberger, Jeff Koons, Liz Larner, Albert Oehlen, Stephen Prina, Christopher Williams, Christopher Wool

Luhring Augustine Hetzler, 1330 Fourth Street, Santa Monica, CA

20 January – 24 February 1990

Selected Institutional Exhibitions

Liz Larner

Liz Larner

Aspen Art Museum, Colorado

26 February – 5 June 2016
LIZ LARNER

LIZ LARNER

The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago

23 April – 27 September 2015

Biography

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Videos

Adam Pendleton

TALK: TRUE STORIES
A SHOW RELATED TO AN ERA - THE EIGHTIES

Peter Pakesch in conversation with Wilhelm Schürmann, Heimo Zobernig and Bettina Steinbrügge

Goethestraße 2/3, Berlin

15 November 2018

Publications

True Stories. A Show Related to an Era – The Eighties - Galerie Max Hetzler

True Stories. A Show Related to an Era – The Eighties

Galerie Max Hetzler Berlin | Paris | London / Holzwarth Publications, Berlin 2019
With texts by Peter Pakesch, Lutz Eitel and Wilhelm Schürmann and a conversation between Peter Pakesch, Max Hetzler and Hans Werner Holzwarth

€ 80.00

Leaf through book
Liz Larner - Galerie Max Hetzler

Liz Larner

Galerie Max Hetzler Berlin | Paris / Holzwarth Publications, Berlin 2016
With an essay by Peter Pakesch

€ 45.00

Leaf through book
la mia ceramica - Galerie Max Hetzler

la mia ceramica

Lynda Benglis, Ida Ekblad, Lucio Fontana, Günther Förg, Liz Larner, Fausto Melotti, Navid Nuur, Pablo Picasso, Sterling Ruby, David Salle, Josh Smith, Rosemarie Trockel, Rebecca Warren, Edmund de Waal
Galerie Max Hetzler / Holzwarth Publications, Berlin 2016
With an introduction by Edmund de Waal

€ 35.00

Leaf through book

Selected Press

Forbes 2016

News

Liz Larner

Reef, 2019
now part of the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago

We are pleased to announce that Liz Larner's sculpture Reef from 2019 is now part of the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. The work is also currently on view at the institution.

Art Institute of Chicago
Liz Larner

Liz Larner et al.

New Time: Contemporary Art and Feminisms in the 21st Century
Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley
25 August 2021 – 30 January 2022

New Time: Art and Feminisms in the 21st Century is a major survey exploring recent feminist practices in contemporary art. In 1980 Lucy Lippard argued that feminist art is “neither a style nor a movement” but rather “a value system, a revolutionary strategy, a way of life.” Taking Lippard’s ...
Liz Larner

Liz Larner

Don’t put it back like it was (solo show)
SculptureCenter, New York: 20 January – 28 March 2022
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis: 24 April – 4 September 2022

For the past three decades, Los Angeles–based artist Liz Larner (US, b. 1960) has explored the material and social possibilities of sculpture in innovative and surprising ways. Today she is one of the most influential artists of her generation engaged with the medium. Larner’s use of materials ...
Liz Larner

Liz Larner

below above (solo show)
Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich
11 June – 21 August 2022

Over the past thirty years Californian artist Liz Larner has, together with artists such as Phyllida Barlow, Trisha Donnelly, Nicole Eisenman, Vincent Fecteau and Sarah Lucas, played with our idea of sculpture. Larner’s sculpture revolves around presence and absence – communicating bodies, that is. ...
Liz Larner