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CCD Gallery Düsseldorf, 1983
Fotomuseum im Münchener Stadtmuseum, 1983
MoMA Museum of Modern Art New York, 1984, 1988
Museum für Kunsthandwerk Frankfurt am Main, 1991
Galerie Papel Aachen, 1992
The Israel Museum Jerusalem, 1994
DDD Gallery, Osaka, Japan, 1994
Von der Heydt Museum Wuppertal, 1995
Museo de Cartezas São Paulo, 1996
Museo Light Rio de Janeiro, 1996
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, 1997
Galerie Anatome, Paris, 2000
ggg ginza graphic gallery, Tokyo, 2002
PAN Kunstforum Emmerich, 2003
Kunsthalle Weimar, 2004
China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, 2006
Ruhrlandmuseum Essen, 2007
Deutsches Plakat Museum im Folkwang Museum Essen, 2010
National Museum Poznan, 2016
Klingspor Museum Offenbach, 2021




single exhibition

1983 Uwe Loesch: Fotografien
Fotomuseum im Münchner Stadtmuseum

1983 Abbilder. Fotografien von Uwe Loesch
CCD Galerie Düsseldorf

1986 Distance. Photographs by Uwe Loesch
Mishkan Le’Omanut Museum of Art, En Charod, Israel

1986 Uwe Loesch: Zeichenzitate – Plakate von 1968 bis 1986.
Fachhochschule Düsseldorf

1986 Posters by Uwe Loesch. 1st International Congress
for Visual Communication, Haifa, Israel

1988 Uwe Loesch: Signe de citations.
Ècole des Beaux Arts Besancon, France

1991 Der Ort, die Zeit und der Punkt.
Plakate von Uwe Loesch
Museum für Kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt am Main

1992 – 2000 The Goethe-Institut presents
The Place, the Time and the Point, Posters by Uwe Loesch in more than 30 countries.

1992 Sag mal Aa ... Plakate von Uwe Loesch.
Galerie Papel, Aachen

1993 Faire le beau. Affiches de Uwe Loesch.
Le quartier, Centre d‘art contemporain Quimper, France

1994 Posters by Uwe Loesch.
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem

1994 Posters by Uwe Loesch.
DDD Gallery, Osaka, Japan

1994 Keep Smiling. Posters by Uwe Loesch.
Fong Shu Chuen Hall, Hong Kong

1995 Where the Pepper Grows.
Posters by Uwe Loesch. Design Center, Jakarta

1996 à point. affiches de Uwe Loesch.
Galerie I.A.V. Orléans, France

1996 Cartazes de Uwe Loesch.
Museu de Artes Brasileira, São Paulo, Brasil

1996 Cartazes de Uwe Loesch.
Museu Light, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

1996 Zeitraffer. Kalender und Kalender von Uwe Loesch,
Museum für Kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt am Main

1997 Nichtsdestoweniger. Plakate von Uwe Loesch.
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg

1998 Carteles de Uwe Loesch,
Museo Nacional de la Estampa, Mexico City

2000 os intermaxilliaris, Affiches de Uwe Loesch,
Galerie Anatome, Paris

2000 Yer, Zaman ve Nokta, Uwe Loesch Afisleri, Istanbul

2002 Uwe Loesch. ggg ginza graphic gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2002 Uwe Loesch: Déjà vu. Galerie Condé, Paris

2003 Uwe Loesch ... nur Fliegen ist schöner.
PAN kunstforum niederrhein, Emmerich

2003 Á bientôt. Affiches de Uwe Loesch,
Centre culturel de l’Agdal, Rabat, Maroc

2004 Uwe Loesch_Polis. Politische Plakate.
Kunsthalle Harry Graf Kessler, Weimar

2006 Uwe Loesch: Posters.
China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China

2007 Uwe Loesch: Plakate für das Ruhrlandmuseum,
Ruhrlandmuseum Essen

2010 Punktum. Plakate von Uwe Loesch
Deutsches Plakat Museum im Museum Folkwang, Essen

2016 Uwe Loesch Plakaty,
Muzeum Narodowe w Poznaniu, Poznan, Poland

2021 0,nix.
Uwe Loesch im Klingspor Museum Offenbach



group exhibitions

1982 Kunst in der Werbung documenta 7, Kassel

1984 several posters in the permanent exhibition
of the Museum of Modern Art New York

1985 L‘image des Mots, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris

1986 Salon International de l`Affiche Grand Palais Paris

1987 World Congress „Design 87“, Amsterdam

1988 The Modern Poster, Museum of Modern Art, New York

1988 Posters for Le Mouvement de la Paix,
Galerie l’Art et la Paix, Paris

1989 66 Affiches pour les droits de l’homme et du citoyen,
Couvent des Cordeliers, Paris

1989 Self image, Israel Museum, Jerusalem

1990 Words and images – Posters by Paul Davis, Uwe Loesch,
Alain le Quernec, David Tartakover, Gallery 400, Chicago

1990 International Posters, Péci Galéria, Pécs, Ungarn

1991 Capitales européennes du nouveau design Paris –
Düsseldorf – Milano – Barcelona Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris

1992 30 Posters on Environment and Development,
2nd United Nations Conference on Environment,
Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Jañeiro

1992 Grünflächen, International Posters for Environmental
Protection, Museum für Kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt am Main

1993 Images pour la lutte contre le sida,
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris

1993 Four Stars – Graphic Designers for Europe:
Pierre Bernard, Neville Brody, Graphiti, Uwe Loesch“,
Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome

1993 - 1995 I AM YOU – Artists against Violence,
open air exhibition of 20 billboards in 90 cities worldwide,
organized by Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen
and the Goethe-Institut Munich

1993 Observatoire international des prisons,
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris

1994 tasse oder unter tasse, Bazon Brock, Michael Badura,
Wolfgang Körber, Uwe Loesch, Ulrich Reif, Ursula Wevers,
Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal

1994 Sports and War, Centre Mondial de la Paix, des Libertés
et des Droites de l´Homme-Verdun, Verdun, France

1994 Image pour la Paix – Hiroshima 1945-1995,
Galerie l’Art et la Paix, Paris

1995 Views of posters – Five international artists:
Werner Jeker, Uwe Loesch, Gerard Paris-Clavel,
Volker Pfüller, Henryk Tomaszewski,
Brandenburgische Kunstsammlungen Cottbus, Germany

1995 David‘s Star. Felix Droese, Raimund Gierke,
Theo Lambertin, Uwe Loesch, Rune Mields, Axel Kasseböhmer,
C.O. Paeffgen, Jürgen Partenheimer, Otto Piene,
Norbert Prangenberg, Günther Uecker, Wolf-Dietrich Wolf
Kunstraum im PCC, Köln

1995 Poster Art from Toulouse Lautrec to Benetton,
Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Cologne

1995 Earth day, World Trade Center New York

1996 Gestalt, International Design Conference, Aspen / Colorado

1996 Kunst im Anschlag, Museum für Angewandte Kunst Köln,
Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern

1996 Handzeichen, Museum für Kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt am Main

1996 Inter Typo-Plakate ’96, Munkácsy Mihály Múzeum, Békéscaba, Ungarn

1996 International Posters, Péci Galéria, Pécs, Hungary

1997 Kyoto Environmental Poster Design
3rd Session of the Conference of the United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change, Japan

1997 Dans la rue. Rencontre européenne del’affiche culturelle,
Michel Bouvet, Massimo Dolcini, Werner Jeker, Uwe Loesch,
Piotr Mlodozeniec, Italo Lupi, Peret, Alain le Quernec,
Gunter Rambow, Niklaus Troxler, F. Starowieyski, Paris

1997 Duo Posters, DDD Gallery Osaka, Japan

1998 Real Emotion. Graphic Design of the 90ies
Museum for Art and Crafts, Hamburg

1998 Exhibition of the Jury of the Bienal Internacional
del Cartel en Mexico, Museo Nacional de la Estampa, Mexico City

1998 ÜberKreuz. Vom Zeichen zum Abzeichen.
Museum für Kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt am Main

1999 Cambio de Milenio, Corporation Cultural de las Condes
de Santiago de Chile

1999 Fashion and Culture. International Poster
Exhibition 1999 Ningbo, China

1999 China International Art + Design Expo, Beijing, China

1999 Furoshiki Graphics by 18 designers from around the world,
ggg Ginza Graphic Gallery Tokyo, Japan

1999 Cambio de Milenio, Maestros Alemanes, Suizos,
Austriacos del Cartel Contemporáneo, Corporación Cultural
de las Condes de Santiago de Chile und Viña del Mar, Chile

2000 4:3 Fifty Years Italien and German Design
in Comparison, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn

2000 Visual Disturbances, International Art Festival,
Mönchengladbach, Germany

2000 Graphic Message for Ecology.
ggg Ginza Graphic Gallery Tokyo, Japan

2000 a dios, 2000 – Gott im Bild.
Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt am Main

2001 International Poster Exhibition,
National Museum of Technology, Prag

2001 Graphisme(s), Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris

2001 coexistence. Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, Israel

2001 8 Global Designers Poster Exhibition,
Ningbo Museum of Art, China

2001 The Living Heritage, Hong Kong Heritage Museum

2001 Le Nouveau Salon des Cent.
Exposition international d’affiches.
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris

2001 L’ Europe unie contre l’esclavage.
Grande Arche La Défense,
Paris and United Nations Headquarter, Wien

2002 Mimmo Castellano, Alain Le Quernec, Uwe Loesch
Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Iran

2002 Red Cross International Poster Exhibition of China,
Chinese Modern Literary Museum, Beijing

2002 Typotektur.
Museum für Gestaltung, Zürich, Switzerland

2003 X-Power, Design Festival, Southern
Yangtze University, Wuxi, Jiangsu, China

2003 Dansk Plakatmuseum. 10 Års.
Jubilæumsudstilling. Århus, Dänemark

2003 Diseñadores para un Mito.
Homenaje a Toulouse-Lautrec.
Fundación „La Caixa“, Barcelona

2003 Wereldtop 2003.
Spectaculair werk uit Oost en West.
Affichemuseum, Hoorn, Niederlande

2003 summit.
Einladungsausstellung zur Eröffnung des PAN kunstforum
niederrhein, Emmerich

2003 schwarz und weiss.
Museum für Gestaltung, Zürich

2003 Chinese Character.
International Poster Exhibition.
Taiwan Design Association, Taipei

2005 Imagine, 5.5 Decade of Graphic Design,
Kunstbibliothek der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin,
Kulturforum, Berlin

2005 Chinese Character.
International Poster Exhibition, Taipei

2006 Exposer / S‘exposer, Design Graphique
Galerie Anatome, Paris

2006 The Graphic Imperative:
Posters for Peace Social Justice and the Environment 1965 - 2005
Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston

2006 80 + 80 photo_graphisme
Galerie Anatome and Galerie VU’, Paris

2006 Five Stars Designers‘ Banquet
Museum of Modern Art, Osaka, Japan

2006 Light of Hope for Indonesia
Forum Desainer Grafis Indonesia, Jakarta

2006 30 attacks, open air exhibition,
Heidelberg, Germany

2006 The Urban Forest Project, open-airexhibition,
Times Square, New York

2006 AGI Alliance Graphique Internacionale in Germany,
Klingspor Museum Offenbach, Germany

2006 Tomaszewski, Hommage á Henryk Tomaszewski
Museum at Wilanow, Warsaw, Poland

2007 Cultural Diversity
National Museum of Fine Arts of Havana
ICOGRADA World Design Congress 2007, Cuba

2008 Exhibition of the winners
of the International Poster Biennial Warsaw 2006

2008 kahlorivera100
Hommage á Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera, Mexico City

2010 World as Words.
The 20th Century in Europe and USA, Kulturforum Berlin

2010 Schräg gegenüber.
Kunstmuseum Dieselkraftwerk Cottbus

2011 De Sein - German Graphic Design from Postwar to Present
Innocentre Hong Kong

2011 The Poster must sing!
Muzeum Narodowe w Poznaniu, Poznan, Poland

2012 Aarhus International Poster Show (exhibition of the jury)
Dansk Plakat Museum, Aarhus, Denmark

2012 Culture Manifestations – The Poster Message
The Muncipal Art Gallery in Lodz, Poland

2012 Ostrale 12
International Exhibition for Contemporary Arts, Dresden

2012 Russia Rising: Votes for Freedom
School of Visual Arts, New York

2013 Fête du graphisme
Les Docks, Cité de la Mode et du Design, Paris

2013 Mayakovsky 1893 - 1930
Global Poster Event for the 120th Anniversary of the
birth of Vladimir Mayakovsky

2014 POST PAST
250 years of the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

2014 Views-Sarajevo 1914 - 2014
Ministry of Culture of Sarajevo Canton and
The Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo, Bosnia Herzegovina

2014 This is modern. Deutsche Werkbund Exhibition
Venice Biennial for Architecture

2015 Enduring, not ultimate form.
Design Center North-Rhine Westphalia, Essen, Germany

2015 Project „contact“ of the
International Triennial of Stage Poster, Sofia

2015 Design x Taipei
International Poster Invitational Exhibition

2015 Poster Exposition
on the Centenary of the Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Praha and Mexico City

2016 A Bridge Over Troubled Water: ggg Exhibition Posters 1986 - 2016
Ginza Graphic Gallery, Tokyo

2016 Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment, Moscow

2016 50/50/50 posters for the 50th anniversary
of the International Poster Biennial in Warsaw,
PROM Kultury Saska Kepa Gallery, Warsaw

2016 Exhibition of the Winners 1966 - 2014,
International Poster Biennial Warsaw

2016 Strelka‘ 2016 International Design Biennale
Poster Action Dostoyevsky, Nizhny Novgorod State Art Museum

2017 The Sibenik Festival of the Alternative and the Left, Sibenik, Croatia

2017 The Art of Utopia, The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, Jerusalem

2017 Tolerance Poster Show in over 40 countries since 2017,
organized by Mirko Ilic, New York

2017 The Sibenik Festival of the Alternative and the Left, Sibenik, Croatia

2017 The Art of Utopia,
The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, Jerusalem

2018 Tolerance Poster Show
International exhibition in over 100 cities, worldwide

2919 2degrees - visual petition for the climate emergency, Paris

2020 Rettet die Liebe! Internationale Plakate gegen AIDS
Deutsches Plakat Museum im Museum Folkwang, Essen

2021 Bolivia Poster Biennial BICeBé
National Museum of Art La Paz, Bolivia

2022 audio - grafisch, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg

2022 We Want You!, Deutsches Plakat Museum im Museum Folkwang, Essen

2022 In Honor of Korea, Cheongju Early Printing Museum

2022 Der Klang des Papiers, Brandenburgisches Landesmuseum
für moderne Kunst, Cottbus

2022 60 Posters Celebrating the Planet,
Centro Cultural Recoleta CCR, Buenos Aires

2022 Woman. Life. Freedom., global action in solidarity
with Iranien women, SVA New York

2022 First International Graphic Festival GraphicPécs, Pécs, Hungary

2022 When Walls Talk, House of European History, Brussels, Belgium

2022 We want you!, Deutsches Plakatmuseum im Museum Folkwang, Essen

2023 Posters from around thr world, Centra Culturel Hongrois Paris