SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium
Kadel Willborn, Düsseldorf, Germany
2023 Changes, Har-El, Jaffa, Israel
2022 Several Points of Beginning, SpazioA, Pistoia, Italy
Come again, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, NY
2021 ll (elle elle) (long lines), Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium
2020 Riesenchance, Kadel Willborn, Düsseldorf, Germany
Maybe it can be different, Fondazione Giuliani, Rome, Italy
2019 Start, The Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
2018 Second Future, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, NY
Earth, SpazioA, Pistoia, Italy
HORIZONTE, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium
2017 ola/wave, Proyecto AMIL, Lima, Peru
2016 BET WEEN, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, NY
Our Reality (more), SpazioA, Pistoia, Italy
2015 Our Reality, Fondazione Brodbeck, Catania, Italy
Esther Kläs Platform 16, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA
CHERE: Sculpture, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium
2014 GIRARE CON TE, Marino Marini Museum, Florence, Italy
Palomar, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, NY
2012 Esther Kläs: Better Energy, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY
Corpo Naturale, SpazioA gallery, Pistoia, Italy
2011 Nobody Home, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, NY
2009 You and the Dance with the Tortoise, Parkhaus, Düsseldorf, Germany
OFFICIAL, Envoy Gallery, New York, NY
SELECTED TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2022 All Living Things, with Prinz Gholam, Halfhouse, Barcelona, Spain
Time is Doing, STUK Arts Center, M Museum, Leuven, Belgium
2017 Esther Kläs & Linda Matalon, Kadel Willborn, Düsseldorf, Germany
2015 Whatness, Esther Kläs and Johannes Wald, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
2011 Rise, Rose, Risen, with Harold Ancart, Emily Harvey Foundation, Venice, Italy
STONE SOUP, with Thomas Fougeirol, C L E A R I N G, Brooklyn, NY
Opossums Persimmons, with Nancy de Holl, Bureau Gallery, New York, NY
Esther Kläs and Elizabeth Newman, SpazioA, Pistoia, Italy, curated by Chris Sharp
2008 Concrete Jungle, Theatergalerie, Mönchengladbach, Germany
Paramount, Bel-Etage, Cologne, Germany
2007 Give Me a Piece of Your Mind, Art Academy, Düsseldorf, Germany
2006 Commander 3000, Acapulco, Düsseldorf, Germany
Miss Commander and her Boxing Boyfriend, MAXIM, Cologne, Germany
2005 Crystal Cowboys, with Martin Weidemann, Acapulco, Düsseldorf, Germany
eme3, with Susanne Karrasch, Barcelona, Spain
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Fabric, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, NY, USA
More-than-Human Curiosity, Orlické Mountains, Czech Republic
I Cannot Hide My Anger, Gallery Har-El, Jaffa, Israel
2022 Cutting through with laser, L21 LAB, Palma, Islas Baleares, Spain
TIME IS DOING, Playground Live Arts Festival Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
We didn’t ask permission, we just did it…, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
Decolonizing the Onconscious, Lore Deutz, Cologne, Germany
After Image, MAXXI L'Aquilla, L'Aquilla AQ, Italy (forthcoming)
2021 The subtle interplay between the I and the me, The Kolumba in Cologne, Germany
Kunst in Puurs, Puurs, Belgium
2020 Flow, SpazioA, Pistoia, Italy
ONLINE Group Exhibition, Kadel Willborn, Düsseldorf, Germany
Das kleine Spiel zwischen dem Ich und dem Mir, Kolumba, Cologne, Germany
Abstracting Representation, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, NY [online]
2019 L’homme qui marche Verkörperung des Sperrigen, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
Delirious, Lustwarande – Platform for Contemporary Sculpture, Tilburg, Netherlands
Katinka Bock, Esther Kläs, Helen Mirra, Hayley Tompkins, Modern Art, London, England
Presque Rien, curated by Marie-Paule De Vil & Peter De Meyer, Antwerp, Belgium
Presque Rien, Geukens & De Vil, Knokke, Knokke, Belgium
2018 10 Years of Love, SpazioA, Pistoia, Italy
Proof of Life, Weserburg Museum of Modern Art, Bremen, Germany
2017 After the Fall, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, NY
Fragments of Paradise, Agovino Collection, Church of St. Joseph in Pontecorvo, Naples, Italy
2016 Karl, Parkhaus, Düsseldorf, Germany
Lean, Embajada, Puerto Rico, curated by Elena Tavecchia
Corridor Plateau VI, Drei, Cologne, Germany
Che il vero possa confutare il falso, Palazzo Pubblico, Santa Maria della Scala, Accademia dei Fisiocritici, Siena, Italy
2015 Drawing Redefined, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA, curated by Jennifer Gross
Objects Food Rooms, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Andria Hickey
Houston, Island, Brussels, Belgium
2014 PART 2, Warhus Rittershaus, Cologne, Germany
playing by heart, KOLUMBA, Kunstmuseum des Erzbistums Köln, Cologne, Germany
Manners of Matter, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, Austria
BRACCIA #2, Museu Marino Marini, Florence, Italy
2013 Révolte logique, Part II: Slave to Art, Marcelle Alix, Paris, France
Prague Biennale 6, Flow, Prague, Czech Republic, curated by Zuzana Blochová and Patricia Talacko
Champs Elysées, at the Nouvelles Vague in Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France, curated by Julie Boukobza, Simon Castets,
and Nicola Trezzi
Art Unlimited, Basel, Switzerland, curated by Gianni Jetzer
Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict, Veneklassen Werner, Berlin, Germany
Corridor Plateau III, DREI, Cologne, Germany curated by Christian Freudenberger & Markus Karstieß
KölnSkulptur #7, Siftung Skulpturenpark Cologne, Germany, curated by Friedrich Meschede
2012 Two hands and a Head, SVIT, Prague, Czech Republic
A Stone Left Unturned, Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
klaer, uglee callamari, Ramiken Crucible, New York, NY
Configurations, Metro Tech Center Commons, Public Art Fund, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Andria Hickey
Lucie Fontaine: Estate, Marianne Boesky, New York, NY
Heat Waves, Peter Blum Chelsea, New York, NY
Cave-In, Cueva Arcillas, Puerto Rico, curated by Ramiken Crucible Gallery
2011 Antic Measures, Galerija Gregor Podnar, Berlin, Germany, curated by Chris Sharp
Dirt Don't Hurt, Jolie Laide, Philadelphia, PA, curated by Bill Saylor
Waiting Ground, Kate Werble Gallery, New York, NY
Tranches de Savoir, Cultural Services of the French Embassy, New York, NY, curated by CLEARING
2010 Everything in Moderation, 106 Green, Brooklyn, NY
Knight's Move, The Sculpture Center, New York, NY, curated by Fionn Meade
Shape Langage, Nicole Klagsburn, New York, NY
houseWarning, Hopkins Hall Gallery, Columbus, OH
Immaterial, Ballroom Marfa, TX, curated by Fairfax Dorn
2009 Jamsession, La Generale, Sèvres, France
2008 Believe Me, KIT, Düsseldorf, Germany
UNTER TAG (11min), Gloria Halle, Düsseldorf, Germany
On Producabillity, 5533, Istanbul, Turkey
Jamsession, Gloria Halle, Düsseldorf, Germany
Mousseux et Dames, Lepsien Art Foundation, Düsseldorf, Germany
46 Beard Street, Brooklyn, NY
2007 Venezia, Alte Post, Neuss, Germany
Von Oben Gesehen, KIK, Düsseldorf, Germany
BAMBY, Lepsien Art Foundation, Düsseldorf, Germany
2006 Wir Waren Mal Freunde Gewesen, Gloria Halle, Düsseldorf, Germany
Political Wellness, Kunst im Hafen, Düsseldorf, Germany
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2022 McGlynn, Tom. "New Social Environment: Esther Kläs in conversation with Tom McGlynn," The Brooklyn Rail via
Zoom, January 31
Artforum, “Must See: Esther Kläs, Come again,” January 28
Carey, Brainard. “ Interview with Esther Kläs,” WYBCX Yale University Radio, January 7, 2022
2021 Leuschner, Maximiliane. “Eight Commandments of Choreography”, The Brooklyn Rail, July/August
2020 Pane, Stefano.“ Esther Kläs. Qualcosa di differente”, Juliet Art Magazine, March 5
Canziani, Cecilia.“Esther Kläs ‚‘Maybe It Can Be Different‘ Fondazione Giuliani, Roma”,
FLASH ART, NO.358, VOL. 53, March/April
Giordano, Donatella. “L’arte “differente” di Esther Kläs alla Fondazione Giuliani di Roma”,
Artribune, February 21
2018 Kremer, Mark.“Life, I Eat You: On Esther Kläs”, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium
2015 Gross, Jennifer R.,“ Drawing Redefined: Roni Horn, Esther Kläs, Joëlle Tuerlinckx, Richard Tuttle and Jorinde Voigt deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum
2014 MacAdam, Barbara A., “Esther Kläs” ARTnews, pg 94, June
2013 KölnSkulptur #7, Buchhandlung Walther König: Cologne, Germany. pg 32-33, 124
“Art Basel Unlimited: Preview 79 Stunning Artworks That Cannot Be Contained (PHOTOS),” Huffpost Arts & Culture, April 17
2012 Vali, Muratza , " Esther Kläs," Critics’ Pick, ArtForum, September
Walsh, Brienne, “Esther Kläs: Better Energy,” ArtReview, September, issue 61
Russeth, Andrew, “Tire Tracks, Totems and Tricked-Out Trees: Lara Favaretto and Esther Kläs at MoMA PS1
Oscar Tuazon at Brooklyn Bridge,” New York
York Observer/GalleristNY, September 4
Zbengheci, Raul, “First Person: Esther Kläs at MoMA PS1.” Contemporary Performance. Contemporary Performance, 14 August
Goodman, Jonathan, "Esther Kläs," Sculpture, Vol 31 No. 4 pg 74-75, May
Boucher, Brian, "Esther Kläs," Art in America, pg 165, March
Tavecchia, Elena, "Esther Kläs," Mousse Magazine, Dec 2011 - Jan 2012 Issue 33 pg.5/6
"Goings On About Town Esther Kläs," The New Yorker, January 2
2011 Plagens, Peter, "Abstracts (Subtle or Semi) and Bold Dimensions," Wall Street Journal, December 10
Heinrich, Will, "Esther Kläs at Peter Blum Gallery," New York Observer, December 5
Bryant, Eric, "Brooding and Delicate," Modern Painters, pg 17, November
Giattino, Gabrielle, "Interview with Esther Kläs and Nancy de Holl" Opossums Persimmons, February 27 - March 27
PUBLICATIONS
2020 Days like this Kiss. Kolumba, Cologne, Germany.
Esther Kläs: Start. The Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel.
2018 Esther Kläs: ola/wave. Proyecto AMIL. Lima, Peru.
2016 BET WEEN. New York: Peter Blum Edition
2015 Whatness: Esther Kläs, Johannes Wald. Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany. Cologne: snoeck
2014 Not Now. New York: Peter Blum Edition
2013 Palomar. New York: Peter Blum Edition
SELECTED GRANTS, AWARDS, & COMMISSIONS
2017 Artist in residence, Proyecto AMIL, Lima, Peru
2015 Artist in residence, Fondazione Brodbeck, Catania, Italy
2010 Tony Smith Award
2009 DAAD – German Academy Exchange Service, New York
2007 Lepsien Art Foundation
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
MAXXI Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome, Italy
Kolumba, Cologne, Germany
Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
Agovino Collection, Naples, Italy