Manfred Mohr

Manfred Mohr is considered a pioneer of digital art. After discovering Prof. Max Bense's information aesthetics in the early 1960's, Mohr's artistic thinking was radically changed. Within a few years, his art transformed from abstract expressionism to computer generated algorithmic geometry. Encouraged by the computer music composer Pierre Barbaud whom he met in 1967, Mohr programmed his first computer drawings in 1969.

Some of the collections in which he is represented: Centre Pompidou, Paris; ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Joseph Albers Museum, Bottrop; Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Chicago; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Ludwig Museum, Cologne; Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen; Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Museum im Kulturspeicher, Würzburg; Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen; Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg; Daimler Art Collection Berlin / Stuttgart; Musée d'Art Contemporain, Montreal; The Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv; Espace D'Art Concret (EAC), Mouans- Sartoux; Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Cologne; Borusan Art Collection, Istanbul; McCrory Collection, New York; Esther Grether Collection, Basel; Estrellita B. Brodsky Collection, New York; Thoma Art Foundation, Chicago; Fondation Guy & Myriam Ullens, Geneva.

Mohr has had many one-person shows / retrospectives in museums and galleries like: ARC - Musée d'Art Moderne de la ville de Paris, Paris 1971; Joseph Albers Museum, Bottrop 1998; Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen 1987, 2002; Museum for Concrete Art, Ingolstadt 2001; Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen 2007; Museum im Kulturspeicher, Würzburg 2005; Grazyna Kulczyk Foundation, Poznan 2007; ZKM - Media Museum, Karlsruhe 2013; Featured Artist at Art Basel, Basel 2013; Center for the Arts, Virginia Tech 2014; Simons Center Gallery, Stony Brook 2015; Kunstverein, Pforzheim 1988, 2008; Museum Pforzheim Gallery, Pforzheim 1998, 2017.

He took part in innumerable group shows for example at: MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York 1980; MoMA-PS1, New York 2008; Centre Pompidou, Paris 1978, 1992, 2018; ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe 2005, 2008, 2010, 2018, 2019; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York 2019; Grand Palais, Paris 2018; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin 2018; LACMA | Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles Calif. 2023; Prague City Gallery (G HMP), Prague 2018; Victoria and Albert Museum (V & A), London 2009, 2018; Whitechapel Gallery, London 2016; CCCB, Barcelona 2016; Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart 2005, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2016, 2017; Kunstmuseum Bremen, Bremen 2007, 2017, 2018; Vasarely Museum, Budapest, 2007, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2017, 2018; Espace D'Art Concret (EAC), Mouans- Sartoux 1994, 1995, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2009, 2012, 2018; Museum Ritter, Waldenbuch 2005, 2006, 2008, 2013; Centro Cultural de la Villa, Madrid 1989; MoCA, Los Angeles 1975; National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo 1984; Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco 1973, 1977, 1980; MACM - Musée d'Art Contemporain, Montreal 1974, 1985, 2013; Fundacion Banco Santander, Madrid 2014; Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz 1981, 2011; Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, 1999; New Tendencies 5, Zagreb 1973; Leo Castelli Gallery, New York 1978; Galerie Paul Facchetti, Paris 1965 und Zürich 1970.

Among the awards he received are: elected to the SIGGRAPH Academy, 2018; ACM SIGGRAPH Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement in Digital Art, 2013; [ddaa] d.velop Digital Art Award, Berlin 2006; Artist Fellowship, New York Foundation of the Arts, New York 1997; Golden Nica from Ars Electronica, Linz 1990; Camille Graesser-Preis, Zürich 1990.

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Interview with Manfred Mohr

by Manfred Mohr

Watch Manfred Mohr speak about his generative artwork, Artificiata II - parity, which was included in the 10th Anniversary Exhibition of Galerie Charl...

P2610

by Manfred Mohr

Computer-generated real-time algorithmic animation
Computer, screen, metal case, custom software
Unique
2019

P2602_mm_10

by Manfred Mohr

Pigment ink on paper
Unique
40 x 40 cm
2019

P2602_mm_7

by Manfred Mohr

Pigment ink on paper
Unique
40 x 40 cm
2019

P2602_cc_14

by Manfred Mohr

Pigment ink on paper
Unique
40 x 40 cm
2019

P2602_cc_14

by Manfred Mohr

Pigment ink on paper
Unique
40 x 40 cm
2019

P2210-D
Artificiata II

by Manfred Mohr

Computer-generated real-time algorithmic animation

iMac, metal case, custom software
Unique piece
37 x 63 x 10,8 cm
2014-2015

P2210-D
Artificiata II

by Manfred Mohr

Computer-generated real-time algorithmic animation
iMac, metal case, custom software
Unique piece
46 x 66 x 10,8 cm
2014-2015

P2200_602

by Manfred Mohr

Pigment ink on paper
Unique piece
80 x 80 cm
2014

P2200_1577

by Manfred Mohr

Pigment Ink on Papier
80 x 80 cm
2014-2015

P2204_6671

by Manfred Mohr

pigment ink on paper
Unique
42 x 56 cm
2015

P2200_1896

by Manfred Mohr

Pigment ink on paper
Unique piece
80 x 80 cm
2014

Cubic Limit

by Manfred Mohr

16 mm algorithmic film generated by computer and converted into digital format
4 min
1973-1974

P1680-B, Artificiata II

by Manfred Mohr

Computer-generated real-time algorithmic animation
imac, LCD screen, software
46 x 65 x 11 cm
2014-2015

P1680
Artificiata II - parity

by Manfred Mohr

Generative installation
iMac, metal case, custom software
Unique piece
46 x 66 x 10,8 cm
2014-2015

P1682_1155

by Manfred Mohr

Pigment ink on paper
Unique piece
60x80 cm
2014

P1660-D

by Manfred Mohr

Generative work
Screen, computer, specific program
Unique piece
37 x 63 x 11 cm
2016

P1650_A

by Manfred Mohr

Pigment ink on paper
Unique piece
40 x 50 cm (each)
2014

P1622-C

by Manfred Mohr

LCD screen + Mac Mini
Unique piece
45 x 45 x 11 cm
2012

P-503-C

by Manfred Mohr

Plotter drawing on paper
Unique piece
70 x 70 cm
1996

P-452/453-C_4,5

by Manfred Mohr

Plotter drawing on laminated paper
35 x 35 cm
1990

P-455a

by Manfred Mohr

Plotter drawing on paper
Unique piece
70 x 70 cm
1990

P-370-PZ

by Manfred Mohr

Plotter drawing on paper
Unique piece
12 x 12 cm
1984

P-370-PZ

by Manfred Mohr

Plotter drawing on paper
Unique piece
12 x 12 cm
1984

P-370-PZ

by Manfred Mohr

Plotter drawing on paper
Unique piece
12 x 12 cm
1984

P-370-PZ

by Manfred Mohr

Plotter drawing on paper
Unique piece
12 x 12 cm
1984

P-370-PZ

by Manfred Mohr

Plotter drawing on paper
Unique piece
12 x 12 cm
1984

P-225-B

by Manfred Mohr

Plotter drawing on paper
42 x 75 cm
1978

Untitled

by Manfred Mohr

35 x 35 cm each
1968-1969

P-036

by Manfred Mohr

Plotter drawing on paper
Unique piece
75 x 94 cm
1970

P-122+

by Manfred Mohr

Plotter Drawing on paper
Unique
50 x 50 cm
1972

P-225-A

by Manfred Mohr

Plotter Drawing on paper
Unique
42 x 75 cm
1978

P-071

by Manfred Mohr

Plotter Drawing on tracing paper
Unique
37.5 x 45 cm
1970

p021-IR1-11_Zuse

by Manfred Mohr

Plotter drawing on paper
60 x 60 cm
1970

p231-CC

by Manfred Mohr

Plotter drawing on paper
70 x 105 cm
1978-80

P-090

by Manfred Mohr

plotter drawing on paper
39x39 cm
1971

P-031

by Manfred Mohr

plotter drawing on tracing paper
20.5x27.5 cm
1970

P-306-L

by Manfred Mohr

acryl/canvas/wood 4-parts
100x80 cm
1980-83

P-026-F

by Manfred Mohr

plotter drawing on paper
48x39 cm
1970

P-370-PZ

by Manfred Mohr

plotter drawing on paper, small series
12x12 cm each
1984

P-135a

by Manfred Mohr

plotter drawing on paper
45.5x45.5 cm
1973

P-185BB2 I, II, III

by Manfred Mohr

plotter drawing on paper 3-parts
(3x) 37x37 cm
1976

P-200//08

by Manfred Mohr

plotter drawing on paper
31x31 cm
1977-80

P-200//14

by Manfred Mohr

plotter drawing on paper
31x31 cm
1977-80

P-200//10

by Manfred Mohr

plotter drawing on paper
31x31 cm
1977-80

P-018-mf_11,14,20,21

by Manfred Mohr

light beam plotter drawings on photo paper
12x12 each
1969

Manfred Mohr @ Art Brussels
Rediscovery section

by Manfred Mohr

credits Dominique Libert
2019

Manfred Mohr @ Art Brussels
Rediscovery section

by Manfred Mohr

credits Dominique Libert
2019

P2286_53881

by Manfred Mohr

Pigment ink on paper
Unique
40 x 40 cm
2014

P2286_8309

by Manfred Mohr

Pigment ink on paper
Unique
40 x 40 cm
2014

P2286_8131

by Manfred Mohr

Pigment ink on paper
Unique
40 x 40 cm
2014

P2286_2415

by Manfred Mohr

Pigment ink on paper
Unique
40 x 40 cm
2014

P2285_16780

by Manfred Mohr

Pigment ink on paper
Unique
40 x 40 cm
2014

P2285_14737

by Manfred Mohr

Pigment ink on paper
Unique
40 x 40 cm
2014

P2285_8905

by Manfred Mohr

Pigment ink on paper
Unique
40 x 40 cm
2014

P2285_6260

by Manfred Mohr

Pigment ink on paper
Unique
40 x 40 cm
2014

P2285_5376

by Manfred Mohr

Pigment ink on paper
Unique
40 x 40 cm
2014

P2285_4829

by Manfred Mohr

Pigment ink on paper
Unique
40 x 40 cm
2014