Overview

Rita Ackermann, a Hungarian-born artist based in New York, explores the interplay of creation and destruction in her evolving practice. Her compositions bridge the figurative and the abstract, with human forms simultaneously appearing and vanishing. Through her Chalkboard Paintings series, Ackermann conceptually erases and deletes figurative drawings and landscapes, leaving behind residual outlines that form a visual record of the process.

Works
Biography
Solo Exhibitions                    
 
2024 Fondazione Iris, 'Manna Rain', Bassano in Teverina, Italy
Hauser & Wirth, 'Rita Ackermann. Splits: Printing | Painting', New York NY
Hauser & Wirth, 'Rita Ackermann. Splits', New York NY
2023

MASI Lugano, 'Rita Ackermann. Hidden', Lugano, Switzerland

Hauser & Wirth, 'Rita Ackermann. Vertical Vanish', Los Angeles CA

2021

Hauser & Wirth, 'Rita Ackermann. Mama '21', Monaco

Fergus McCaffrey, 'Rita Ackermann & Andro Wekua: Chapter 4', Tokyo, Japan

2020

Hauser & Wirth, 'Rita Ackermann. Mama '20', Zürich, Switzerland

Hauser & Wirth, 'Rita Ackermann. Mama '19', New York NY

2019 Hauser & Wirth, 'Rita Ackermann. Brother and Sister', Zürich, Switzerland
2018

La Triennale di Milano, 'Rita Ackermann. Movements as Monuments', Milan, Italy

VIEWING ROOM, Marlborough Contemporary, 'Rita Ackermann and Carol Rama: Body Matters', New York NY

2017

Hauser & Wirth, 'Rita Ackermann. Turning Air Blue', Somerset, United Kingdom

KARMA, 'Rita Ackermann. Nudes and Jacket', New York NY

2016

Hauser & Wirth, 'KLINE RAPE', New York NY

Malmö Konsthall, 'The Aesthetic of Disappearance', Malmö, Sweden

Soccer Club Club, 'JEZEBELS', Chicago IL

FARAGO, 'JEZEBELS', Los Angeles CA

2015 Hauser & Wirth, 'Chalkboard Paintings', Zurich, Switzerland
2014 Sammlung Friedrichshof, 'Meditation on Violence-Hair Wash', Burgenland, Austria Sammlung Friedrichshof Stadtraum, 'Meditation on Violence-Hair Wash', Vienna, Austria
2013

Hauser & Wirth, 'Negative Muscle', New York NY

2012

Hauser & Wirth, 'Fire by Days', London, United Kingdom

Museum of Contemporary Art, 'Rita Ackermann', Miami FL

The Journal Gallery, 'Rita Ackermann: Fire by Days', New York NY

2011

Ludwig Museum, 'Bakos', Budapest, Hungary

The Journal Gallery, 'WARFILMS', New York NY

2010

Swiss Institute, 'Rita Ackermann and Harmony Korine: Shadow Fux', New York NY

Rebecca Camhi Gallery, 'CRASH / STOP', Athens, Greece

Le Confort Moderne, 'Last Exit to Poitiers', Poitiers, France

2009

Galerie Peter Kilchmann, 'Marfa / Crash', Zurich, Switzerland (travelling exhibition)

The Chinati Foundation, 'Marfa / Crash', Marfa TX (travelling exhibition)

2008 Andrea Rosen Gallery, 'Don't Give Me Salad (Nurses)', New York NY
2007 Hotel, 'Gentlemen, I Need Air', London, United Kingdom
2006 Galerie Peter Kilchmann, 'Court Toujours', Zurich, Switzerland
2005

Andrea Rosen Gallery, 'Collage 1993 - 2005', New York NY

Bonner Kunstverein, 'Jump On Me', Bonn, Germany

 2003

Andrea Rosen Gallery, 'Listen to the Fool's Reproach', New York NY

Galerie Peter Kilchmann, 'Mémoires d'une jeune fille rangée', Zurich, Switzerland

Almine Rech Gallery, 'Ördögök', Paris, France

 2002  Museum Het Domein, 'Snowfall in August', Sittard, Netherlands
 2001 The Deep Gallery, 'Style Show for the Levitation of the Strong American Woman', Paris, France

Galerie Peter Kilchmann, 'the only way to get to my vagina is through Jesus!', Zurich, Switzerland

Exhibitions