SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
• I will watch with you, Center for Contemporary Arts Prague, Prague, Czech Republic, CZ

2023
• Changes, Gallery Har-El, Israel, IL

2022
• Several Points of Beginning, SpazioA, Pistoia, IT
• Come again, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, USA

2021
• ll (elle elle) (long lines), Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, BE

2020
• The subtle interplay between the I and the me, Art and Choreography, Kolumba Art museum of the Archdiocese of Cologne, Cologne, DE
• Riesenchance, Kadel Willborn, Düsseldorf, DE
• Maybe It Can Be Different, Fondazione Giuliani, Roma, IT

2019
• Start, CCA- Center for Contemporary Art Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel, IL

2018
• Second Future, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, USA
• Earth, SpazioA, Pistoia, IT
• Esther Kläs. HORIZONTE, Xavier Hufkens, Bruxelles, BE

2017
• ola/wave, Proyecto Amil, Lima, PE
• Esther Kläs / Linda Matalon, Galerie Kadel & Willborn, Düsseldorf, DE

2016
• Bet Ween, Peter Blum, New York, USA
• Our Reality (more), SpazioA, Pistoia, IT

2015
• Our Reality, Fondazione Brodbeck, Catania, IT
• Ferma (5), deCordova, Lincoln, Massachusetts, USA
• Whatness (together with Johannes Wald), Kunsthalle Bielefeld, DE
• CHERE: Sculpture, Xavier Hufkens, Bruxelles, BE

2014
• Girare Con Te, Museo Marino Marini, Firenze, IT
• Palomar, Peter Blum, New York, USA

2012
• Corpo Naturale, SpazioA, Pistoia, IT
• Better Energy, curated by Peter Eleey, MoMA PS1, New York, USA

2011
• Nobody Home, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, USA

2009
• You, and the Dance with the Tortoise, Parkhaus, Duesseldorf, DE
• OFFICIAL,Envoy Gallery, New York, USA

BIBLIOGRAPHY

– Esther Kläs – Start, published by CCA Tel Aviv (exh.cat.), 2020
– Esther Kläs, published by Kolumba, Köln / Esther Kläs (exh. cat), 2020
– C. Canzinani, Esther Kläs “Maybe It Can Be Different” Fondazione Giuliani / Roma, Flash Art, no. 348, marzo/aprile 2020, pp. 109-110
– C. Driessen ; H. Van Mierlo Eds., Delirious Lustwarande – Excursions In Contemporary Sculpture III, 2018
– Esther Kläs, ola/wave, published by Proyecto AMIL, Lima (exh.cat.), 2018
– K. Mark, Life, I Eat You: On Esther Kläs, published by Xavier Hufkens, Brussels
– G.Bazzani, Esther Kläs, Flash Art, no.326, marzo/aprile 2016 pp.82-83
– Esther Kläs. Each sculpture has to be complete, interview by Andrea Ruggieri, arte e critica 83, 2015
– G. Diana, I morbidi cementi di Esther Kläs, nr. 508, december 2015
– Drawing Redefined, deCordova, Lincoln, MA USA, exhibition catalogue, 2015
– Whatness, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany, exhibition catalogue, 2015
– Esther Kläs, Not Now, 2014
– Esther Kläs, Palomar, 2013
– B. A. MacAdam, Esther Kläs, Art News, June 2014
– R. Zbengheci, First Person: Esther Kläs at MoMA PS1, “contemporaryperformance.com”, August 14, 2012
– B. Walsh,Esther Kläs, Art Review:, September 2012
– A. Russet, Tire Tracks, Totems and Tricked-Out Trees: Lara Favaretto and Esther Kläs at MoMA PS1, Gallerist NY, September 2012
– M. Vali, Esther Kläs, MoMA PS1, Artforum.com, September 2012
– E. Tavecchia, Esther Kläs, interview, Mousse #31, Dec 2011 – Jan 2012
– Goings On About Town: Art, The New Yorker, January, 2012
– M. Prince, Antic Measures,“Frieze.com”, November 15, 2011
– P. Plagens, Abstracts (Subtle or Semi) And Bold Dimensions, “Wall Street Journal”, December 10, 2011
– It’s a Draw: Esther Kläs at Peter Blum Gallery and ‘Cory Arcangel vs. Pierre Bismuth’ at Team Gallery, “New York Observer”, December 5, 2011
– E. Bryant,Brooding and Delicate: Esther Kläs’s sculptures have weight, “Modern Painters”, November 2011
– Possible Press Vol. 1, issue 3, December 2010, Philadelphia
– Knight’s Move, exhibition catalogue, Sculpture Centre, New York, 2010
– Jahreskatalog des Förderprogramms 2007/08 der Lepsien Art Foundation, Lepsien Art Foundation, 2008
– Believe me, KIT, exhibition catalogue

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
• We didn’t ask your permission, we just did it…, guest curated by Manuela Paz and Christopher Rivera of Embajada, Contemporary Art Museum (CAM) St. Louis, MO, USA
• DECOLONIZING THE UNCONSCIOUS, LORE DEUTZ, Köln, DE
• Afterimage, MAXXI L’Aquila, L’Aquila, curated by Bartolomeo Pietromarchi e Alessandro Rabottini, L’Aquila, IT

2021
• WATOU 2021. Esther Kläs & Gustavo Gomes, Watou Arts Festival, Watou, Poperinge, BE

2020
• Flow, Francesco Carone’s studio, a project by Francesco Carone and SpazioA, Pistoia, IT

2019
• L’homme qui marche Verkörperung des Sperrigen, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, DE
• Delirious, Lustwarande, Tilburg, NL
• Presque Rien, curated by Marie-Paule De Vil & Peter De Meyer, Knokke, BE
• Presque Rien, curated by Marie-Paule De Vil & Peter De Meyer, Antwerp, BE

2018
• 10 Years of Love, SpazioA, Pistoia, IT

2017
• Proof of Life, Weserburg | Museum of Modern Art, Bremen. DE

2016
• Grammar, Coustof Waxman, New York, USA
• Karl, Parkhaus, Düsseldorf, DE
• Che il vero possa confutare il falso, curated by Luigi Fassi and Alberto Salvatori, Palazzo Pubblico / Santa Maria Della Scala / Accademia Fisiocritici, Siena, IT
• Corridor Plateau VI, curated by Christian Freudenberger, Markus Karstieß, DREI, Cologne, DE
• Lean, curated by Elena Tavecchia, Embajada, PR

2015
• Drawing Redefined, deCordova, Lincoln, MA, USA

2014
• KOLUMBA, Kunstmuseum des Erzbistums Köln, Cologne, DE
• PART 2, Warhus Rittershaus, Cologne, DE
• Manners of Matter, curated by Chris Sharp, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, AT
• Fortuna, Autocenter, Berlin, DE

2013
• braccia, Museo Marino Marini, Firenze, DE
• Art Unlimited, ART BASEL, Basel, CH
• Révolte Logique, Part II, Marcelle Alix Galerie, Paris, FR
• Several Species of Small Furry Animals gathered Together in a cave and grooving with a Pict, VW, Berlin, DE
• Prague Biennale #6, Prague, CZ
• Champs Elysées, curated by Julie Boukobza, Simon Castets and Nicola Trezzi, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR
• KölnSkulptur #7, curated Friedrich Meschede, Cologne, DE
• Corridor Plateau III, Galerie Drei, Cologne, DE
• Condensations – source code, KLEMM’S, Berlin, DE
• A Stone Left Unturned, Yvon Lambert, Paris, FR

2012
• Two Hands and a Head, SVIT, Prague, CZ
• klaer, uglee callamari, Ramiken Crucible, New York, USA
• Mexico City Blues, Shanaynay, Paris, FR
• Configurations, organized by Public Art Fund, curated by Andria Hickey, Metrotech Center Commons, New York, USA
• Cave In, Cueva Archillas, PR

2011
• RISE, ROSE, RISEN, with Harold Ancart, Emily Harvey Foundation, Venezia, IT
• Antic Measures, Galerija Gregor Podnar, Berlin, DE
• STONE SOUP, with Thomas Fougeirol, C L E A R I N G, New York, USA
• Tranches de Savoir, curated by C L E A R I N G, Cultural Services of the French Embassy, New York, USA
• Opossums Persimmons, with Nancy de Holl, Bureau, New York, USA
• Esther Kläs · Elizabeth Newman, SpazioA, Pistoia, IT

2010
• Everything in Moderation, 106 Green, Brooklyn, New York, USA
• Knight´s Move, curated by Fionn Meade, Sculpture Center, Long Island City, New York, USA
• Shape language, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, USA
• houseWarning, Hopkins Hall Gallery, Columbus, OH, USA
• Immaterial, curated by Fairfax Dorn, Ballroom, Marfa, TX, USA

2009
• Jamsession, La Generale, Sèvres, FR

2008
• Concrete Jungle, Theatergalerie, Mönchengladbach, DE
• Believe me, KIT, Duesseldorf, DE
• UNTER TAG (11min), Gloria Halle, Duesseldorf, DE
• On producabillity, 5533, Istanbul, TR
• Jamsession, Gloria Halle, Duesseldorf, DE
• Paramount, Bel-etage, Koeln, DE
• Mousseux et Dames, Lepsien Art Foundation, Duesseldorf, DE
• 46 Beard Street, Brooklyn, New York, USA

2007
• Venezia, Alte Post, Neuss, DE
• Von oben gesehen, KIK, Duesseldorf, DE
• BAMBY, Lepsien Art Foundation, Duesseldorf, DE

2006
• Wir waren mal Freunde gewesen, Gloria Halle, Duesseldorf, DE
• Commander 3000, Acapulco, Duesseldorf, DE
• miss commander and her boxing boyfriend, MAXIM, Cologne, DE
• Political wellness, Kunst im Hafen, Duesseldorf, DE

2005
• Es wird vielleicht Probleme geben, University of Bonn, Art History department, DE
• CRYSTAL COWBOYS, Acapulco, Duesseldorf, DE
• eme3, Barcelona, ESP

2004
• Bernadette, Reinraum, Duesseldorf, DE

2002
• Hotel Ufer, Duesseldorf, DE