Jochen Lempert lives and works in Hamburg, Germany. Selected solo exhibitions include Cincinnati Art Museum (2015); ProjecteSD, Barcelona; Overbeck-Gesellschaft Verein von Kunstfreunden e.V., Lübeck, Germany; Städtische Galerie Nordhorn, Germany (2014); Hamburger Kunsthalle; Lulu, Mexico City; Norma Mangione gallery, Torino (2013); Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis; Rochester Art Center (2012); Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Front Room. Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (2010); Domaine de Kerguéhennec Centre d’Art Contemporain, Bignan, France; Culturgest, Lisbon (2009).
His work has recently been included in group exhibitions at Fotomuseum Antwerp; Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland; Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Germany; Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna; Fondation D’Enterprise Ricard, Paris; The Photographers’ Gallery, London; Marian Goodman, Paris; Biennial for Contemporary Art, FRAC Bretagne, Rennes; Heidelberger Kunstverein, Germany; Sprengel Museum, Hanover; and the Paris Triennial, among many others.
His work is held in many public collections including Fundació “La Caixa,” Barcelona; Colección Banco de España, Madrid; Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Paris; FRAC Bretagne, Rennes; Kadist Art Foundation, Paris; Fondation Norac, Rennes; Les Abbatoirs–Musée d’art modern et contemporain and Frac Midi-Pyrénées, Toulouse; Museum Ludwig Köln; Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany; and Kunstmuseum Bonn, among many others. In 2005 Lempert was the winner of the Edwin-Scharff Preis, Hamburg, and was shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2014. He is represented by ProjecteSD, Barcelona.