Harm Gerdes

b. 1994 (Darmstadt, DE)

Lives and works in Athens, Greece 

 

EDUCATION
2020
Kunstakademie, Dusseldorf, DE (Katharina Grosse)

 

 

UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
2026
Solo Exhibition at Kunsthalle Darmstadt, Darmstadt, DE

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025
Mother Tongue, Kalfayan Galleries, Athens, GR

2024

The Autotuned Mind, Peres Projects, Milan, IT 2023

Panorama, Peres Projects, Seoul, KR, 2022

Synthetic Spirits, Peres Projects, Berlin, DE 2021

Staying with the Trouble, Peres Projects, Berlin, DE

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025
The Air Is Subtle, Yet It Moves, AMA house, Athens, GR

2022

There is no sea but the sea, Meyer Riegger, Karlsruhe, DE

2021

werden/becoming: From Michelangelo to, Tiroler Landesmuseen, Innsbruck, AT
Utopia, Peres Projects, Berlin, DE
Coming to Voice. Graduates of the Düsseldorf Academy of Art 2020, K21, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, DE

2020

Degree show, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf, DE

2017

Klasse Katharina Grosse, Städtische Galerie Eichenmüllerhaus, Lemgo, DE
Akademie [Arbeitstitel], Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf, DE

Darmstadt Triennale: Kunstpunkte, Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt, Darmstadt, DE
Mit Kunst für die Kunst, Kunsthalle Darmstadt, Darmstadt, DE

 

 

AWARDS AND GRANTS

2020
Sponsorship Award, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf, DE

 

 

PUBLICATIONS
2025
Vogue Greece, Issue No.62, February 2025 Lifo Magazine, Issue 857, 22.05.2025, Greece Aegean Blue, Issue May-June, 2025, Greece

2023

Peres Projects at 20 Years, Berlin: Peres Projects, 2023 Kunst und Ökologie, Robert Fleck, Edition Konturen, 2023

2022

Assmann, Peter; Bonsanti, Giorgio et al (eds.), werden/ divenire: L’Accademia delle Arti del Disegno di Firenze und die Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Ex. cat., Munich: Hirmer Verlag, 2022

2021

Kunstakademie Düsseldorf 2020 Graduates, Ex. cat., Dusseldorf. Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, 2021

2017

Jansen, Gregor, Bergmann, Dana and Seiser, Anna Lena (eds.), Akademie [Arbeitstitel], Exh. cat., Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2017

 

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Athens Insider, Mothertongue: Harm Gerdes ́ Greek debut at Kalfayan Gallery, May 6, 2025
Vogue Greece, artist page, February issue
Lifo magazine, artist page, May issue

Becker, Noah, Harm Gerdes Talks to Noah Becker About Literal Magic and Painting with Special Colors, Whitehot Magazine, August 8, 2024
Tricarico, Andrea,
The Autotuned Mind. I dilemmi di Harm Gerdes da Peres Projects, Exibart, May 12, 2024

Sedini, Emma, La pouring art di Harm Gerdes arriva a milano, Artribune, May 8, 
Airoldi, Silvia,
10 mostre da vedere in Italia questa settimana, Elle Decor, May 4, 

Bessing, Joachim, (Un)Changed Masculinity, Fräulein Magazine, Issue 35, August 
Focus, Art in Culture, April 2023
Future Blossoms, Art in Culture, Global New Power Artists 60 Edition, January 

5 Emerging Artists Whose Colorful Works Stand Out in Artnet’s Gallery Network This Summer, Artnet News, August 16, 2022 Alarcón, David, Harm Gerdes: Following his Intuition, Metal Magazine, July 1, 2022

Urbancik, Johanna, In conversation with Harm Gerdes, Kaltblut Magazine, December 12, 2021
Schaarschmidt, Nina Maria,
“Utopia” opens at Peres Projects, Sleek Magazine, November 30, 2021

Harm Gerdes - Exports From The Digital Realm, Blackqube Magazine, September 
*Discoveries Harm Gerdes, Gallery Weekend Berlin, September 2021