Biography
Lives and works in Frankfurt am Main, D
1959
Born in Schlüchtern, D
1980-86
Städelschule, Frankfurt, D
1996–98
Collaboration with the MPI for Brain Research, Frankfurt, D
1998
College of Fine Arts and Design, Zurich, CH
2005
Academy of Fine Arts, Bern, CH
2008
ICC Tokyo, JP
2008/09
Goldsmiths University, London, GB
2011/12
Bath School of Art and Design, GB
2013/14
Professorship at the Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg, D
Numerous lectures at international Academies and Museums in the past 25 years
Awards / Grants
1995
Travelling Scholarship from the Cultural Foundation of Hesse, D
1993
Villa Romana Prize, Florence, I
1990
Recipient of the City of Nuremberg Scholarship for Drawing, D
1988
Frankfurt Artists Aid Scholarship, D
Solo Exhibitions (selection)
2015
Solar Union, Union Investment, Frankfurt/M., D
2014
Revolutionäres Archiv, Studiengalerie der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, D
2013
The New Art Gallery Walsall Birmingham, GB
Galerie Vincenz Sala, Paris, F
Intercontinental Avatar, Thomas Rehbein Galerie, Köln, D
2012
John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, GB
Haus Konstruktiv, Zürich, CH
2011
Crime Terror Riots, Thomas Rehbein Gallery, Köln, D
2009
Front Windows, Haus Konstruktiv Zurich, CH
2007
Haunch of Venison, London, GB
2005
Cold Birds, Thomas Rehbein Gallery, Köln, D
2003
Figurine (sans bras avec police), Thomas Rehbein Gallery, Köln, D
2002
Legal Crimes, Kunstverein Freiburg, D
2001
Flash, Kunsthalle St. Gall and Susanna Kulli Gallery, St. Gall, CH
2000
3.281.579 Grains of Sand, Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt, D
1998
attitudes, espace d'arts contemporains, Geneva, CH
1997
Tears, Vincenz Sala Gallery, Brussels, B
1996
Lesen, Kunsthalle St. Gall, CH
Reality, ak Gallery, Frankfurt a. M., D
1995
Aus der Sammlung, Kunsthalle Nuremberg, D
Bibliothek, Museum Suermondt Ludwig, Aachen, D
1994
Lesezimmer-Sprechzimmer, Museum of Modern Art Frankfurt at the Union Club, Frankfurt a. M., D
1992
Augenzeichnungen, Vincenz Sala Gallery, Berlin, D;
Kunstverein Frankfurt a. M., D
1991
ak Gallery, Frankfurt a. M., D
1990
Kunstverein Freiburg, D
Kunsthalle Nuremberg, D
Group Exhibitions (selection)
2021
XL/XS, Galerie Vincenz Sala, Berlin, D
2020
traumatic lines, Galerie Vincenz Sala, Berlin, D
2018
aufzeichnen..., Galerie Vincenz Sala, Berlin, D
2017
Attitude, Yun Art Center, Shanghai, CH
Wetterbericht, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn, D
2016
Echtzeit, Kunstmuseum Bonn, D
Innere Sicherheit/The State I Am In, Labor am Ebertplatz, Photoszene Köln, D
In Deutschland: reloaded (II), curated by Wilhelm Schürmann, Galerie Kicken, Berlin, D
Drawing after Digital, XPO Gallery, Paris, F
2015
Le Soufleur, Schürmann trifft Ludwig, Ludwig Forum Aachen, D
Minimal extensions – sixties versus contemporary, Galerie Vincenz Sala, Paris, F
2014
Second Life, Kentucky Museum of Art, USA
Twenty Thousand Years of Yarn, Future Gallery, Berlin, D
Stalke Galleri, Kirke Saaby, DK
2013
Metropolis, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, GB
Tattoo City, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, GB
2012
Fresh Widow, K20 Kunstsammlung NRW, Düsseldorf, D
Wir sind die Anderen, Art Foyer, DZ Kunstsammlung, Frankfurt, D
2011
Big Picture, K21 Kunstsammlung NRW, Düsseldorf, D
See Yourself Sensing, Work Gallery, London (K), GB
Identity Theft, Mimmo Scognamiglio Arte Contemporanea, Mailand, I
2010
Dead or Alive, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, USA
Metropolis, The New Art Gallery Walsall, GB
Funktionen der Zeichnung, Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt, D
2009
Cocker Spaniel and Other Tools for International Understanding, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, D
Mythologies, Haunch of Venison, London, GB
2008
Take Me There, Haunch of Venison, New York, USA
Light InSight, ICC Tokyo, JP
Shifting Boundaries/Fluid Meanings, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton NY, USA
2007
Le Souvenir, Kult, Kitsch, Kunst, ACC Gallery, Weimar, D
2006
And Therefore I Am, The Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga Springs, USA
2005
Rundlederwelten, Gropiusbau Berlin, curated by Dorothea Strauss, based on an idea of Harald Szeemann
What’s New Pussycat?, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, D
2004
Ich will, dass du mir glaubst, Triennale Kleinplastik Fellbach, D
Schöner Wohnen, Centre for Contemporary Art, Waregem, B
2003
Verwandlungen, Kunstverein Freiburg, D
Gibt’s mich wirklich, Schürmann Collection, K21, D
Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, D
2002
Triennale di Milano, Mailand, I
2001
010101: Art in Technological Times, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, USA
Szenenwechsel XX, Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt, D
Frankfurter Kreuz, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, D
2000
Szenenwechsel XVIII, Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt, D
3 Active Eye Tracker, Expo 2000, Hannover, D
1999
Mayday, Centre d’Art Neuchâtel, CH
Storymakers, Casino Luxemburg, Forum for Contemporary Art
50 Jahre Deutschland, Gropius Bau, Berlin, D
Invisioning Knowledge, Burda Academy to the Third Millennium, Munich, D
1995
Kunstzeitung/Zeitungskunst, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, D
1994
Multiples, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, D
Version 1.0, Saint-Gervais Genève, Geneva, CH
1993
More than Zero, National Center of Contemporary Art, Magasin, Grenoble, F
Zeichnung, Kunsthalle St. Gall, CH (with Marlène Dumas and Miriam Cahn)
Ars Electronica, Linz, AT
The Lure of Object, Goethe Institute, London, UK
1991
ars viva 91/92, Westphalian Kunstverein and Province Museum Münster, D
Szenenwechsel I, Museum of Modern Art Frankfurt, D
