1966 | Born Mannheim, Germany |
1987-90 | Wood carving, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany |
1990-98 | Staatliche Kunstakademie, Dusseldorf, Germany |
Lives and works in Dusseldorf, Germany |
Solo Exhibitions
2024 | Labor, Pedro Cera, Lisbon, Portugal Studio Paloma Varga Weisz, Piéce Unique, Paris, France |
2023 | Glass, Sadie Coles HQ, Bury Street, London, England Wilde Leute, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Berlin, Germany |
2021 | Glory Hole, Le Consortium, Dijon France, curated by Éric Troncy (touring) |
2020 |
HOMEWORK #5: HOMEWORK, Sadie Coles HQ online Bumped Body, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, England (touring) |
2019 |
Bumped Body, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, The Netherlands (cat.) (touring) Multiface, in collaboration with Georg Hornemann, Georg Hornemann studio, Berlin, Germany Wundergestalt, Gladstone Gallery, Gladstone 64, New York NY, USA |
2018 |
Wild Bunch, Sadie Coles HQ, Davies Street, London, England |
2017 |
Pedro Cera, Lisbon, Portugal Skulpturenhalle, Thomas Schütte Foundation, Neuss/ Holzheim, Germany (cat.) |
2016 |
Gerhardsen Gerner, Oslo, Norway Kabinettstück, Fürstenberg Zeitgenössisch, Donaueschingen, Germany |
2015 |
Root of a Dream, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy (cat.) Glory Hole, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, Austria (touring) bois dormant, Gladstone Gallery, Brussels, Belgium |
2014 |
Sadie Coles HQ, South Audley Street, London, England |
2013 |
Krummer Hund, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland (touring) Krummer Hund, Kabinett für aktuelle Kunst, Bremerhaven, Germany (touring) Unfired, CAPRI, Dusseldorf, Germany |
2012 |
Maison de Plaisance, with Rosemarie Trockel, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany (cat.) Sadie Coles HQ, New Burlington Place, London, England |
2011 | Spirits of My Flesh, Chapter, Cardiff, Wales |
2009 | Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel |
2008 |
Gladstone Gallery, New York NY, USA Konrad Fischer Galerie, Berlin, Germany Bumped Body, Kunsthalle Wien project space, Karlsplatz, Vienna, Austria (cat.) |
2007 | Sadie Coles HQ, South Audley Street, London, England |
2006 | Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland |
2005 |
Chor, Gladstone Gallery, New York NY, USA (cat.) Sadie Coles HQ, Heddon Street, London, England |
2004 | Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve, Germany (cat.) |
2003 |
Stubaifrau, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Dusseldorf, Germany |
2002 |
Big Trip, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Dusseldorf, Germany Waldfrau, Castello di Rivara, Turin, Italy Kunstraum Galerie der Stadt Schwaz, Tirol, Austria |
2001 |
Kabinett für aktuelle Kunst, Bremerhaven, Germany Kunstverein Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany |
2000 |
Paloma Cabaret, in cooperation with Alexander Jasch, Adelin Morlon Art Direction, Dusseldorf, Germany Demut, Galerie Vera Munro, Hamburg, Germany |
1999 | Collection Ackermans, Xanten, Germany |
1998 | Wilde Leute, Galerie Bochynek, Dusseldorf, Germany |
Group Exhibitions
2024 |
Gazing Bodies, CFHILL, Stockholm, Sweden |
2022 |
Afterimage, MAXXI, L'Aquila, Italy Balancing Act, Massimo De Carlo, Milan, Italy REPEATER, Sadie Coles HQ, Kingly Street, London, England HDTS 2022: The Searchers, High Desert Test Sites, Joshua Tree CA, USA |
2021 |
Cracked, Tristan Hoare, London, England Fourth Plinth Shortlist Exhibition, The National Gallery, London, England |
2020 |
MOUNT KAPLAN, Angles Mewes Gallery, Berlin, Germany – a breath? a name? – the ways of worldmaking, Biennale Gherdëina 7, Ortisei, Italy Jubel Jubel - Es rolle der Rubel, Tiefkeller, Bonn, Germany The effects of crossings and self-aggrandization in the human kingdom, Mario Mauroner Gallery, Vienna, Austria, curated by... scrum (Seamus Kealy & Tilo Schulz) |
2019 |
Animalesque / Art Across Species and Beings, BALTIC Center for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, England (touring) HOMO FABER. Craft in Contemporary Sculpture, ACC Creation, Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, South Korea MASK. In Present-Day Art, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland Animalesque / Art Across Species and Beings, Bildmuseet, Umeå, Sweden (touring) The Enigma of the Hour: 100 Years of Psychoanalytic Thought, Freud Museum, London, England The Palace at 4am, NEON Foundation, Archaeological Museum of Mykonos, Mykonos, Greece A COOL BREEZE, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague |
2018 |
Al dio ortopedico, Galleria Gentili, Florence, Italy Material: Wood, Messums Wiltshire, Salisbury, England Death is Irrelevant: Selections from the Marc and Livia Straus Collection, 1975-2018, Hudson Valley MOCA, Peekskill NY, USA Topologies, THE WAREHOUSE, Dallas TX, USA Parcours, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland Von fremden Ländern in eigenen Städten, Düsseldorf central station, MAP Markus Ambach Projekte, Dusseldorf, Germany [IM]MATERIELL.Über das Geistige im Stofflichen, Galerie Altes Feuerhaus, Städtische Galerie Bad Reichenhall, Bad Reichenhall, Germany Nudes, Sadie Coles HQ, Davies Street, London, England ISelf Collection: Bumped Bodies, Whitechapel Gallery, London, England (cat.) The Beautiful Escape, CFHILL, Stockholm, Sweden A MIND OF WINTER, Fundaziun de Planta Samedan, Samedan, Switzerland Black White, Städtische Galerie im Park Viersen, Viersen, Germany |
2017 |
At Sea. Works from the Kunsthalle Bremerhaven Collection, Städtische Galerie Delmenhorst, Delmenhorst, Germany ISelf Collection: The End of Love, Whitechapel Gallery, London, England (cat.) Dreamers Awake, White Cube, London, England (cat.) EDITION 12-21, me Collectors Room Stiftung Olbricht, Berlin, Germany Luther and the Avantgarde, Old Prison, Wittenberg, Germany (cat.) Lucas Cranach the Elder, Museum Kunstpalast, Dusseldorf, Germany (cat.) Physical Mind Restless Hand, Galerie Micky Schubert, Berlin, Germany |
2016 |
Revolt of the Sage, Blain Southern, London, England (cat.) Behind the curtain. Concealment and Revelation since the Renaissance, Museum Kunstpalast, Dusseldorf, Germany (cat.) NO MAN’S LAND: Women Artists from the Rubell Family Collection, National Museum of Women in the Art, Washington DC, USA (cat.) Cloud and Crystal – Jackson Pollock Meets Bruce Nauman, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Germany (cat.) The Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, England With a touch of pink, with a bit of violet, with a hint of green – Dorothee Fischer in memoriam, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Dusseldorf, Germany The Distance of a Day – New in Contemporary Art, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel Sulta Croce – Giubileo 2016, Collezione Giancarlo e Danna Olgiati, Lugano, Switzerland QUEENSIZE – Female Artists from the Olbricht Collection, Museum Arnhem, Arnhem, The Netherlands (cat.) Ceramix. Ceramic art from Gauguin to Schütte, La Maisen Rouge Paris, Paris, France; Cité de la céramique, Sevres, France(cat.) (touring) -1 moulage collection of the Berlin Medical Historical Museum at the Charité, tiefkeller, Bonn, Germany |
2015 |
NO MAN’S LAND: Women Artists from the Rubell Family Collection, Rubell Family Collection/Contemporary Arts Foundation, Miami FL, USA Mother of the Year. Between Empowerment and Crisis: Images of Motherhood from 1900 to Today, Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Linz, Austria (cat.) Ceramix. Ceramic art from Gauguin to Schütte, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, The Netherlands (cat.) (touring) The Problem of God, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Germany (cat.) The Marked Self: Between Annihilation and Masquerade, BRUSEUM,Neue Galerie Graz, Graz, Austria (cat.) Plaster: Casts and Copies, The Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield, England THENnow: Paloma Varga Weisz and Giorgio Morandi, miart, Milan, Italy Du sollst Dir (k)ein Bild machen, Tauf – und Traukirche des Berliner Doms, Berlin, Germany |
2014 |
QUEENSIZE – Female Artists from the Olbricht Collection, Me Collectors Room Berlin / Olbricht Foundation, Berlin, Germany (cat.) Basic Research – Notes on the Collection, Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve, Germany (cat.) The Human Factor, Hayward Gallery, London, England (cat.) 1984?, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland Sculpture Unchaperoned, Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman, Vienna, Austria |
2013 |
Die Bildhauer. Kunstakademie Dusseldorf, 1945 bis heute (Sculptures from the art academy Dusseldorf since 1945), Kunstsammlung NRW Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Germany (cat.) Adventures of truth - Painting and philosophy, Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-De-Vence, France
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2012 |
Exquisite Corpses: Drawing and Disfiguration, MoMA Museum of Modern Art, New York NY, USA Prima Materia: Works in Ceramic, Gladstone Gallery, Brussels, Belgium Kabinettstücke, Weserburg, Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen, Germany Gillian Wearing, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Germany Alone Together, Rubell Family Collection, Miami FL, USA Eröffnung des erweiterten Museums & Mein Rasierspiegel. Sammlungspräsentation, Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve, Germany Body Double: The Figure in Contemporary Sculpture, Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids MI, USA |
2011 |
Memories of the Future: The Olbricht Collection, La Maison Rouge, Fondation Antoine de Galbert, Paris, France Neupräsentation und Leihgaben, Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten, Marl, Germany Folkstone Triennial, Folkstone, England (cat.) |
2010 |
Neues Rheinland, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany (cat.) Multiple Pleasures: Functional Objects in Contemporary Art, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York NY, USA Intensif-Station, Kunstsammlung NRW Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Germany Contemporary Eye: Crossovers, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, England Roll-On/Roll-Off, Kunsthalle Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany Lebenslust und Totentanz, Kunsthalle Krems, Krems, Austria Larger than life - stranger than fiction, 11. Triennale Kleinplastik, Fellbach, Germany Aber Schwarz ist doch garm keine Farbe!, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Dusseldorf, Germany Silent Revolution, Sammlungspräsentation, Kunstsammlung NRW Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Germany |
2009 | cargo, Autocenter, Berlin / Bayrische Staatsoper München, Munich, Germany |
2008 |
Vom Gehen in viele Richtungen, KIT Kunst im Tunnel, Dusseldorf, Germany Der Symbolismus und die Kunst der Gegenwart, Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal, Germany The Krautcho Club / In and Out of Place, 176 Gallery, London, England Forgotten Bar Project, Galerie im Regierungsviertel, Berlin, Germany „Go for it! Olbricht Collection (a sequel)“, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany |
2007 |
Effigies, Stuart Shave Modern Art, London, England Makers and Modelers, Gladstone Gallery, New York NY, USA Die Kunst zu Sammeln, museum kunst palast, Dusseldorf, Germany |
2006 |
Of Mice and Men, 4th Berlin Biennale, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany Unikate 0 / 6 - 12 Statements aus Rheinland-Pfalz, Kunstverein Germersheim, Germersheim, Germany Kunst-Körperlich, Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche, Osnabrück, Germany Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Art, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel Zoo Story, Fischer Landau Center for the Arts, Long Island City NY, USA |
2005 |
The Addiction, Gagosian Gallery, Berlin, Germany Always a Little Further, 51st International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy Blickachsen, Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve, Germany Sammlung 2005, Neupräsentation Kunstsammlung im K21, Dusseldorf, Germany The Wonderful Fund Collection, Musée de Marrakech, Marrakech, Morocco |
2004 |
raumfürraum, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen und Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany (cat.) actionbutton, Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia Reflections, Artuatuca Festival, Tongeren, Belgium 9. Triennale der Kleinplastik, Fellbach, Germany (cat.) My Father's Eyes, Galerie Andreas Bruening, Dusseldorf Sammlung Plum, Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve, Germany Woodwork, Anthony Grant, New York NY, USA All Creatures Great and Small, Comme ci Comme ca II, Salon d'Art, Cologne, Germany Kunst- und Foerderpreis Rheinland-Pfalz 2004 für Bildhauerei, Schloss Waldthausen, Dörentrup, Germany |
2003 |
Falling Angels, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York NY, USA Poeme-Image, Schloss Wendlinghausen, Dörentrup, Germany actionbutton, Ankäufe der Bundesrepublik, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany (cat.) Not Afraid, Rubell Family Collection, Miami FL, USA (cat.) |
2002 |
Paloma Varga Weisz, Cecilia Edefalk and Michael Bach, Landesvertretung Bremen, Berlin, Germany The Galleries Show, Essor Gallery, Royal Academy, London, England Cabinet with Outfit, Galerie Andreas Brüning, Dusseldorf, Germany on paper, Grimm / Rosenfeld, Munich, Germany |
2001 | Städtische Gallerie am Bunten Tor, Bremen, Germany |
2000 |
Aroma, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Dusseldorf, Germany Galerie Andreas Grimm, Palma de Mallorca, Spain |
1998 | Moving images without tears, Galerie Vera Munro, Hamburg, Germany |
1996 | Zeitgenossische Kunst aus Nordrhein-Westfalen, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden (cat.) |
Awards
2017 | Holbach-Award, Stiftung zur Förderung der Kunst in der Pfalz, Germany |
2007 | Marianne-Werefkin Award, Berlin, Germany |
2004 |
Art and Sponsorship Award Rheinland-Pfalz 2004 for Sculpture, Schloss Waldthausen, Budenheim, Germany |
2000-01 | Bremerhaven-Fellowship, Bremerhaven, Germany |
Public collections
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Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands ISelf Collection, London, England Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve, Germany MoMA Museum of Modern Art, New York NY, USA Olbricht Collection, Berlin, Germany Panos and Sandra Marinopoulos Collection, Athens, Greece The Rachofsky Collection, Dallas TX, USA Rubell Family Collection, Miami FL, USA
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