Charlotte Mumm, born in Germany, lives and works in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Grants/ Awards/ Residencies
2024 Project grant for an artistic garden project, het cultuurfonds, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2024 Residency Thread, Josef & Anni Albers Foundation, Sinthian, Senegal
2024 Travel grant for Thread. Stichting Gerbrandy Cultuurfond, Netherlands
2024 Project grant for Sculpture Quadrennial Riga. Mondriaan Fonds, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2023 Mobility grant for SQR24. Culture Moves Europe, funded by the European Union and the Goethe Institut
2023 Project grant for Kunstenfestival Watou. Mondriaan Fonds, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2023 Points Residency, Troy House Art Foundation, Wales/ London, Great Britain
2022 Artist residency at Kunsthuis SYB in Beetsterzwaag, Netherlands
Solo exhibitions (selection)
2025 Galerie Tanit/Beyrouth, Germany
2023 Espèces d'Espace, with Stéphanie Baechler, Whitehouse Gallery, Belgium
2023 parts of a closed world, Troy House Art Foundation, London, United Kingdom
2022 Thresholds and Their Phantoms, Phoinix, Bratislava, Slovakia
2022 Phases and Parallels, Krognoshuset, Lund, Sweden
2021 Pulse, Galerie Tanit/Beyrouth, Germany
2021 Days After Sight, Razklon Gallery, Chorbadzhiysko/ Tsarino, Bulgaria
Group exhibitions (selection)
2024 What Would Not Have Been, Sculpture Quadrennial Riga, Latvia
2024 Acts of Movement, 'HTMlles festival' in Montréal, Canada
2024 What are you looking at?, Galerie Tanit, Munich/Beyrouth, Germany
2023 Love, Galerie Coucou, Kassel, Germany
2023 Promises, Kunstverein, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2023 The last off-site show on the Earth, Plague Space, Krasnodar
2023 Landscape with a Roof, Square 28, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2023 /kom.po'zi.ci.o/, Kunstenfestival Watou, Belgium
2023 What My Hands Know, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2022 Handle with Care, Keramiekmuseum Princessehof, Leeuwaarden, Netherlands
2022 BlingBling ?, Musée de Carouge, Switzerland
2022 Liebe, Galerie Coucou, Kassel, Germany
2022 Space Identity, Square 28, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2022 Goldmarie und Fürstenkrone, Museum Brot und Kunst, Ulm, Germany
Publications (selection)
2023 Soft Eis, Issue 3, LOSS. Visual poem
2023 Vassar Review, Issue 8. Interiors & Intimacies. Images
2023 De Groene Amsterdammer: Handle with Care & What My Hands Know, Voortbrengen en aanraken. Review written by Roos van der Lint
2022 Metropolis M, online and printed, Charlotte Eta Mumm – a take on the concept of ‘Grund’ by Maia Paduraru
2022 Magazine VLNA 91 ̊ Farba/ Color. Images and text about the color brown.
2022 Magazine Dose 08. Pantone Blue 072 U collages and video.
Recent reviews
2023 De Groene Amsterdammer: Handle with Care & What My Hands Know, Voortbrengenen aanraken. Written by Roos van der Lint.
2022 Metropolis M: Charlotte Eta Mumm – a take on the concept of ‘Grund’ Frisian soils, palm reading, and glaze made of local soil. Written by Maia Paduraru.
2022 KUBAPARIS and Saliva.live Thresholds and Their Phantoms at Phoinix.
2022 Augsburger Allgemeine: Kartoffel in der Gegenwartskunst. Written by Franziska Wolfinger.
Collaborations/ other interactives
2024 Concept, curation and realization of the special comic edition: Kuš! š! #52, ‘Elastic Spaces’. In cooperation with David Schilter, kuš! a comic art publisher, Riga, Latvia
2023 Concept, organization and realization of the project What My Hands Know at ‘Arti et Amicitiae’ in Amsterdam, Netherlands. A group exhibition with/for 12 international artists. Supported by ‘Amsterdamse voor de Kunst’ and ‘Iona Stichting’.
2020 Member of Square 28, a sustainable, permanent studio space in Westpoort Amsterdam. It’s an artistic cooperative, members have an active part in how the place will be run.
Archive
Education
2007-2008 Meisterschülerin, master class, Prof. Urs Lüthi
, Kunsthochschule Kassel, Germany
2002-2003 Studies of Fine Arts, Prof. Yang Shu, Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing, China
2000-2007 Studies of Fine Arts, Prof. Urs Lüthi
, Kunsthochschule Kassel, Germany
Grants/ Awards/ Residencies
2024 Residency Thread, Josef & Anni Albers Foundation, Sinthian, Senegal
2024 Travel grant for Thread. Stichting Gerbrandy Cultuurfond, Netherlands
2024 Project grant for Sculpture Quadrennial Riga. Mondriaan Fonds, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2023 Mobility grant for SQR24. Culture Moves Europe, funded by the European Union and the Goethe Institut
2023 Project grant for Kunstenfestival Watou. Mondriaan Fonds, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2023 Points Residency, Troy House Art Foundation, Wales/ London, Great Britain
2022 Artist residency at Kunsthuis SYB in Beetsterzwaag, Netherlands
2021 Remote Residency, Sculpture Quadrennial Riga 2024, Riga, Latvia
2020 Gachang Art Studio Residency, Daegu, Korea (cancelled due to COVID-19)
2020 artbellwald.ch residency/ Artist-in-Residence fellowship, Valais, Switzerland
2019 Real Presence Symosium, sponsored by the Goethe-Institut Belgrad and NKA, Serbia
2018 Sundaymorning@EKWC grant, European Ceramic Work Centre, Oisterwijk, Netherlands
2018 Werkstattpreis / Art Foundation Grant, Kunststiftung Erich Hauser, Rottweil, Germany
2018 Projektförderung / project funding Alexander Tutsek Stiftung, Munich, Germany
2017 European project ‘The Spur’ fellowship at Sputnik Oz, Bratislava, Slovakia
2016 SV Arbeitsstipendium / project grant, Kulturförderung SparkassenVersicherung, Germany
2016 Villa Waldberta Stipendium / Artist-in-Residence fellowship, Stadt München, Germany
2016 Mondriaan Fonds, International Art Presentation, Netherlands
2016 Projektförderung/ project funding Erwin und Gisela von Steiner Stiftung München, Germany
2015 Saari Residency/ Artist-in-Residence fellowship, Kone Foundation, Hietamäki, Finland
2015 WOLO Artist Residency/ Artist-in-Residence fellowship, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2013 New Positions, international sponsorship program Art Cologne, Germany
2012 Arbeitsstipendium/ Artist-in-Residence fellowship, Künstlerhaus Schloss Plüschow, Germany
2012 Bellevue-Saal-Stipendium/ Artist-in-Residence fellowship, Wiesbaden, Germany
2011 Organhaus International Artist Workshop, sponsored by the Goethe-Institute, China
2009 Jahresstipendium/ working grant, Ministry of Culture Lower Saxony, Germany
2008 Kasseler Kunstpreis/ art award, Dr. Wolfgang Zippel Stiftung, Germany
2008 Förderpreis/ art award, Kulturstiftung der Öffentlichen Versicherungen Oldenburg, Germany
2006 Stipendium/ working grant, Otto-Braun-Fonds, Germany
2005 Birgitt-Bolsmann-Preis/ art award, Germany
Solo exhibitions (selection)
2023 Espèces d'Espace, with Stéphanie Baechler, Whitehouse Gallery, Belgium
2023 parts of a closed world, Troy House Art Foundation, London, United Kingdom
2022 Thresholds and Their Phantoms, Phoinix, Bratislava, Slovakia
2022 Phases and Parallels, Krognoshuset, Lund, Sweden
2021 Pulse, Galerie Tanit/Beyrouth, Germany
2021 Days After Sight, Razklon Gallery, Chorbadzhiysko/ Tsarino, Bulgaria
2019 Rübe und Stapel, with Anna Holzhauer, Galerie Coucou, Kassel, Germany
2018 so oft so soft, Werkstatthalle, Kunststiftung Erich Hauser, Rottweil, Germany
2018 where it dissolves, Rektorat, Kassel, Germany
2018 Die Vorstellung meiner Hände, Putte, Neu-Ulm, Germany
2018 Biased. Pause., Phoinix, Bratislava, Slovakia
2017 transmission error, with Urs Lüthi, Artothek Munich, Germany
2016 #35, Guestroom and Ghostroom, Code Rood, Arnhem, Netherlands
2016 stomach communities, Städtische Galerie Nordhorn, Germany
2015 retour <<, with Jörg Finus, Stellwerk, Kassel, Germany
2014 Charlotte Mumm, Anningahof Zwolle in cooperation with kunstwegen, Netherlands
2014 Räume, Kunstverein Trier, Germany
2013 diffusion, Gagarin, Düsseldorf, Germany
2013 capsulated drifts, Galerie Tanit, Munich, Germany
2013 New Positions, Art Cologne, with Galerie Tanit, Germany
2012 durch den Kopf fallen, Warte für Kunst, Kassel, Germany
2012 Hello, I’m Nobody and who are you?, Kunstverein Bellevue-Saal, Wiesbaden, Germany
2011 Sorry-Plünderung, Kunstverein Die Wassermühle Lohne, Germany
2010 but you are beautiful - that compensates for your laziness, Galerie Tanit, Munich, Germany
2010 Tamara Lorenz & Charlotte Mumm, race fast safe car, Cologne, Germany
2009 I'll feed you balance, Frisch, Halle am Wasser, Berlin, Germany
2008 Förderpreis - Skulptur und Installation, Stadtmuseum Oldenburg, Germany
2008 mein Ozean ist ein Tropfen Wasser, Nina Jansen, Kunstverein Kaponier, Vechta, Germany
2007 an idle brain is the devil’s workshop, Galleria Dieda, Bassano del Grappa, Italy
2004 Galleri Thomassen, with Helmtrud Nyström in the main space, Gothenburg, Sweden
Group exhibitions (selection)
2024 What Would Not Have Been, Sculpture Quadrennial Riga, Latvia
2024 Acts of Movement, 'HTMlles festival' in Montréal, Canada
2024 What are you looking at?, Galerie Tanit, Munich/Beyrouth, Germany
2023 Love, Galerie Coucou, Kassel, Germany
2023 Promises, Kunstverein, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2023 The last off-site show on the Earth, Plague Space, Krasnodar
2023 Landscape with a Roof, Square 28, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2023 /kom.po'zi.ci.o/, Kunstenfestival Watou, Belgium
2023 What My Hands Know, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2022 Handle with Care, Keramiekmuseum Princessehof, Leeuwaarden, Netherlands
2022 BlingBling ?, Musée de Carouge, Switzerland
2022 Liebe, Galerie Coucou, Kassel, Germany
2022 Space Identity, Square 28, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2022 Goldmarie und Fürstenkrone, Museum Brot und Kunst, Ulm, Germany
2021 Past the Time Between, Kunstverein hoast, Wien, Austria
2019 Presences, Gallery Ostavinska, Belgrade, Serbia
2019 Metaphyse, kjubh Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany
2019 Decoys and Deadheads, Werft 77, Düsseldorf, Germany
2018 Trugbild, Südflügel Kulturbahnhof, Kassel, Germany
2018 Odradek, Axel Obiger, Berlin, Germany
2018 Super Model Nein, Unisex Salon Gallery, New York, US
2018 abgefahren!, Bahnhof Münnerstadt, Project else!2, Germany
2018 Eigensinn, Künstlerhaus Dortmund, Germany
2017 Surf ’n’ Turf, Montagehalle, Berlin, Germany
2017 Interventionen, Kassel, Gemany
2017 Fern Hill, Galerie Tanit, Munich, Germany
2016 Old Masters, Water Tower Art Fest, Nuance Art Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
2016 One Egg a Day, PantaleonsMuehlengasse, Cologne, Germany
2016 Attitudes > sculpture#1, Eduardo Secci Contemporary, Florence, Italy
2015 Working Title, with Katie Shlon, Leena Kangaskoski, Galleria Titanik, Turku, Finland
2015 FRISCH aus Berlin, Stadtmuseum Oldenburg, Germany
2015 Connected in Art, Schloss Plüschow, Germany
2015 Rojak, with Florencia Levy and Vincent Chomaz, Wolo, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2014 PIN Auktion. Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
2014 about sculpture #3, Galerie Rolando Anselmi, Berlin, Germany
2014 Nopression, Kasseler Kunstverein, Germany
2013 fall win win fall, von einem Schloss zu keinem, Hinterconti, Hamburg, Germany
2013 Beyond the Map, Glamourmanifest, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2013 Anonyme Zeichner, Galerie Nord / Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin, Germany
2013 Local Heroes, Centrum Beeldende Kunst Zuidoost, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2012 Blackout, with Anna Holzhauer and Yvonne Wilczynski, Ringstube Mainz, Germany
2012 Eberhard-Dietzsch-Kunstpreis, Gera, Germany
2011 Gasunie Kunstprijs, Groningen, Netherlands
2011 Water Tower Art Fest, Central Mineral Bath, Sofia, Bulgaria
2011 Organhaus Art Space, Chongqing, China
2010 51° 18' 49'' N 9° 29' 51'' E, Kasseler Kunstverein, Germany
2010 Art&Co, Villa Contarini, Piazzola sul Brenta, Italy
2009 unter drei, with Philip Loersch and Chris Succo, Märkisches Museum Witten, Germany
2009 Nordwestkunst 09 Die Nominierten, Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven, Germany
2008 Tea Time Leben mit der Kunst, Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt, Germany
2008 Europa Neurotisch, Petersburg Project Space, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2007 Kunststudentinnen und Kunststudenten stellen aus, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn, Germany
2007 Urs Lüthi zeigt, Galerie Tanit, Munich, Germany
2006 Divided Nations, City Art Gallery B. Georgiev, Varna, Bulgaria
2002 Museum of Art Chongqing, China
2001 Real Presence, Museum 25th May and Galerija Zvono, Belgrade, Serbia
Publications (selection)
2023 Soft Eis, Issue 3, LOSS. Visual poem
2023 Vassar Review, Issue 8. Interiors & Intimacies. Images
2023 De Groene Amsterdammer: Handle with Care & What My Hands Know, Voortbrengen en aanraken. Review written by Roos van der Lint
2022 Metropolis M, online and printed, Charlotte Eta Mumm – a take on the concept of ‘Grund’ by Maia Paduraru
2022 Magazine VLNA 91 ̊ Farba/ Color. Images and text about the color brown.
2022 Magazine Dose 08. Pantone Blue 072 U collages and video.
2021 Magazine VLNA 87˚ More/ Sea. Work and interview with Petra Feriancova about Plankton
2020 Magazine VLNA 82˚ Manifest. Work and text, Die Vorstellung meiner Hände
2019 Charlotte Mumm: so oft so soft. so oft so soft - discrete intertwining of internal and external spaces of experience, written by Ursula Panhans-Bühler. Concept/design by Jozee Brouwer, Amsterdam. Editted by Kunstiftung Erich Hauser. Published by Archiving Air Press, Bratislava.
2017 Nopression. Texts: Heiner Georgsdorf, Milen Krastev, quotes from former students. Concept, design by Krastev + Krastev and Urs Lüthi .
2016 Charlotte Mumm, Stomach Communities. Between mind and gut, written by Thomas Niemeyer. Concept/design by Gabriele Franziska Götz, ambulant design, Amsterdam. Edited and published by Städtische Galerie Nordhorn.
2014 Duits Kunstwegen Paviljoen, Oberflächen und Zwischenräume, written by Thomas Niemeyer
2012 Bellevue-Saal Stipendium, Hello, I’m Nobody and who are you?, written by Yvonne Bialek
2010 51° 18' 49'' N 9° 29' 51'' E, Erkundung im Fragment, written by Yvonne Bialek
2009 I'll feed you balance, Spiel der Verweise, written by Barbara Heinrich
2008 more... and more, an idle brain is the devil's workshop, written by Ursula Panhans-Bühler
2008 Förderpreis Skulptur und Installation, Ein Labor des fühlenden Sehens, by Arie Hartog
Lectures/ workshops
2019 Guest lecturer, basic class, Kunsthochschule Kassel, Germany
2018 Guest lecturer, basic class, Kunsthochschule Kassel, Germany
2017 Was Passiert?, colloqium, Kunsthochschule Kassel, Germany
2016 Leben@kunst@leben, lecture in the basic class, Kunsthochschule Kassel, Germany
2015 Artist talk and discussion at the Saari Residence, Finland
2015 Artist talk and discussion organized by the Cracko Art Group, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia
2014 Artist talk and discussion with art major students from the Leibniz Schule, Berlin, Germany
2013 18/18, Pecha Kucha lecture in the auditorium, Kunsthochschule Kassel, Germany
2012 Leben@kunst@leben, lecture in the basic class, Kunsthochschule Kassel, Germany
2011 Artist talk and discussion in the Organhaus in Chongqing, China
2011 Activiteitendag OSB, workshop for the Open Schoolgemeenschap Bijlmer, the Netherlands
Collections (selection)
Sammlung Block Berlin, Sammlung Dr. Harald Frisch, Kunststammlung Landessparkasse zu Oldenburg, Sammlung Lothar Schirmer, Kulturstiftung der Öffentlichen Versicherungen Oldenburg, Artothek Kassel, Artothek Wiesbaden, Collection Technogel Italia, Collection Mammoth Empire Group