Lisa Oppenheim

Born New York City, USA, 1975. Lives and works in New York City

We tend to think of archives as impersonal collections of documents, but behind any archive there is a person (or many people), a purpose and an agenda. Lisa Oppenheim is fascinated by the human stories hidden within archives – the notes handwritten in the margins of historical documents, the scribbled descriptions on the backs of old photographs. She’s also fascinated by the many ways in which archives allow us to slip between past and present. For International 06, Oppenheim will make use of the archive of Liverpool photographer Edward Chambré Hardman, but with a twist, setting words alongside images and past alongside present to create a uniquely fluid portrait of the changed – and changing – city.

Solo Exhibitions

2006 Story, Study, Print, Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London, UK
Lisa Oppenheim/Alexandra Leykauf, FOAM, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2005 Split Screen, Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands  
Parallax View, Galerie Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Lisa Oppenheim/Andreas Zybach, 51 Rohrbachstr. Gallery, Frankfurt, Germany (two-person show)
Damaged, De Nederlandsche Bank Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 
 

Selected Group Exhibitions and Screenings

2006 Metaminimal, Bellwether Gallery, New York, USA
For Hollis, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, Austria; Deutches Film Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
Re:Visie, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Open Ateliers, Rijksakademie van bedeelnde Kunsten, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Cinematexas, Austin, TX, USA

2005 European Media Arts Festival, Osnabrück, Germany
Botany, Sonoma County Museum of Art, Sonoma, CA, USA

2004 Documentary Evidence, Galerie Chez Valentin, Paris, France
Open Ateliers, Rijksakademie van bedeelnde Kunsten, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
World of Plants, in collaboration with Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, USA

2003 Good Words and Credentials, LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York, USA
Float, Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens, NY, USA
Hard Times, Jessica Murray Projects, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Open Studios, Whitney Independent Study Program, New York, USA
Drive Into the Sunset, Western Front Society Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada

2002 Tonight, Schnittraum Gallery, Cologne, Germany
Art in General’s 4th Annual Video Marathon, Art in General, New York, USA

Further Reading

Sophie Berrebi, The Document as Idea, Jong Holland (December 2005)

Sven Lutticken, ‘Lisa Oppenheim’, ArtForum review (December 2005)

Roos Gortzak, ‘Lisa Oppenheim’, ArtReview review (September 2005)

Sandra Smallenburg, ‘Old Words, New Images: Lisa Oppenheim at Gallerie Juliette Jongma’, NRC Handelsblad, 1 July 2005

Up and Coming Photographers of 2005, ArtReview (October 2005)