The Lewis Baltz Library - Steidl

Andreas Hofer
Phantom Gallery
Agile appropriation and the reinvention of existing locations are at the heart of Andreas Hofer’s exhibition practice. His
shows are often set in spaces cut loose from any associations with the presentation of art: rooms and abodes that are
either still occupied or marked by the histories of those who have previously dwelt or worked in them. For Phantom
Gallery Hofer built rooms characterized by emptiness and absence. There were no pictures, only the shadows of
objects as traces on the walls. His love of doubling spaces, of confusing and dismantling boundaries, led to the
exhibition being shown simultaneously in two cities: in Zurich visitors entered a room within a room, a gallery within the
Hauser & Wirth gallery; in Los Angeles the show appeared as a gallery within a commercial stretch of a street on
Sunset Boulevard.
Andreas Hofer was born in 1963 in Munich and lives in Berlin. Between 1991 and 1997 he attended the Academy of
Fine Arts in Munich and the Chelsea College of Art & Design in London. In 2007 he had solo exhibitions at the MARTa
Museum in Herford The Long Tomorrow, at Metro Pictures in New York Only Gods Could Survive and in Paris Sweet
Troubled Souls. Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus in Munich dedicated the first comprehensive museum exhibition
to Hofer in 2005, entitled Welt ohne Ende. Hofer’s works have also been shown in numerous group exhibitions, most
recently in Euro-Centric at Rubell Family Collection in Miami, in Paul Thek – In the Context of Today’s Contemporary
Art, at ZKM Centre of Art and Media, Karlsruhe and There is never a stop and never a finish – In memoriam of Jason
Rhoades at Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin, and Made in Germany at the Kestner Gesellschaft, Sprengel Museum and
Hanover Kunstverein.
Andreas Hofer
Phantom Gallery
Contributions by Ursula Panhans-Bühler and Roberto Ohrt
Book design by Philipp Arnold
96 pages with color plates throughout
8.2 x 11.6 in./21 x 29.5 cm
Softcover
US$45.00/£25.00/€30.00
ISBN 978-3-86521-738-7
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