| 1965 |
Born Gribbohm, Germany Fine Arts studies, Hochschule für bildende Künste, Hamburg, Germany |
| 1999 | “Ars Viva” – prize, BDI, Germany |
| Lives and works in Berlin, Germany |
Solo Exhibitions
| 2024 |
DIE EIERLEGENDEWOLLMILCHSAU DES HERREN SCHWARZKOGLER MIT MELKFETT EINSCHMIEREN, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria |
| 2023 |
PARA-SCHIZO, ensnarled, Anton Kern Gallery, New York NY, USA |
| 2022 |
The Ex-Ego Assembles a Lump of Fume in the Everyman, Gallery Kula, Split, Croatia |
| 2021 |
Twilight Proximity Corpus, Anton Kern Gallery, New York NY, USA |
| 2020 |
Peer Gynt, Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Berlin, Germany WINDOW, Anton Kern Gallery, Walker Street, New York NY, USA |
| 2019 |
Focus Collection: John Bock. Auraaroma Ω-Beule, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany Light Scribble on Neck Muscle, Gió Marconi, Milan, Italy im AntliTZ des SchädelapparaTZ, n.b.k. Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany |
| 2018 |
Unheil, Sprüth Magers, Berlin, Germany Dead + Juicy, Anton Kern Gallery, New York NY, USA The Next Quasi-Complex, Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy |
| 2017 |
Dead + Juicy, The Contemporary Austin, Austin TX, USA Slipping on the armpit's beaded sweat, MO.CO. Panacea, Montpellier, France Hell’s Bells: A Western, Sadie Coles HQ, Kingly Street, London, England Im Moloch der Wesenspräsenz, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany |
| 2016 | Sandwich, After the Butcher, Berlin, Germany |
| 2015 |
Three Sisters, Regen Projects, Los Angeles CA, USA UN-EX-SURROGAT, Kulturhuset Stadsteatern, Stockholm, Sweden |
| 2014 |
Appeldorn, Art Unlimited, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland Große Erscheinung der ins Licht getretenen TRIEBKREATUR, ABC Art Fair, Berlin, Germany Knick-Falte in der Schädeldecke, Sprüth Magers, Berlin, Germany Sweet Sub-NOTHING-Spores, Gió Marconi, Milan, Italy |
| 2013 |
Above the point of the glowing silence, Anton Kern Gallery, New York NY, USA Im Modder der Summenmutation, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany Kreatürliche Unschuld, The Hindelooper Room, Fries Museum Netherlands, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands Der Pappenheimer, Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany The Calligari Shintaro Western, ACCA Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia |
| 2012 |
Die Walze, Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens, Greece Die abgeschmierte Knicklenkung im Gepäck verheddert sic him weiβen Hemd (The Buggered Articulated Steering in the Luggage Gets Entangled in the White Shirt), Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, Germany Video work from CCA Project, CCA Kitakyushu Project Gallery, Kitakyushu, Japan Danube Festival, Kunsthalle Krems, Krems, Austria Presenza Activa / Active Presence, MARCO Museo de Arte Contemporánea De Vigo, Vigo, Spain |
| 2011 |
Im Schatten der Made, Anton Kern Gallery, New York NY, USA Lost-Egg in the Desert, Jumex Foundation, Mexico City, Mexico iRonic, Kunstpalais Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany Ohr-Walachei, Klosterfelde Gallery, Berlin, Germany Schweige Stille im UN-Sinn-Ding, Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin, Germany Howdy Bamington, Third Streaming, New York NY, USA Lichterloh / roh, Regen Projects, Los Angeles CA, USA |
| 2010 |
Nöle, CAC Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga, Malaga, Spain Der FischGrätenMelkstand,Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin, Germany Curve-Vehicle incl. π-Man-(.), The Curve, Barbican Centre, London, England Sexy Socks, Stella Lohaus Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium Anton Kern Gallery, New York NY, USA |
| 2009 |
The Big Sleep, Sadie Coles HQ, Balfour Mews, London, England No Screws, Eleni Koroneou Gallery,Athens, Greece Die abgeschmierte Knicklenkung im Gepäck verheddert sich im weissen Hemd, HKW Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany |
| 2008 |
PARA - SCHIZO ensnarled, IAS Insa Art Space, Arts Council Korea, Seoul, South Korea Inside Beyond, Gió Marconi, Milan, Italy Palms, REDCAT, Los Angeles CA, USA 2 handbogs in a pickle, Arko Arts Center, Seoul, South Korea Die Tiefe, Stella Lohaus Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium |
| 2007 |
Stapelung, MoMA P.S.1, New York NY, USA Films, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany Buggelpiste, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria Malträtierte Fregatte, Klosterfelde, Berlin, Germany Dandy, Sadie Coles HQ, Heddon Street, London, England Regen Projects, Los Angeles CA, USA DESTE Foundation Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece |
| 2006 |
Mit Schisslaveng, Anton Kern Gallery, New York NY, USA Lütte mit Rucola, Klosterfelde, Berlin, Germany (……) – Surrogat, NIMk Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| 2005 |
A-Buba, Stella Lohaus Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium Skipholt, Kling&Bang, Reykjavik, Iceland Antonin Artaud und die Pest, Frac Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, Marseille, France |
| 2004 |
MultiplexKomplex Petit-four transmits the BeWorldMigraineSolution through the metallic NoseAirHairPeriscope + Gast, Klosterfelde, Berlin, Germany Which Feeder?, Anton Kern Gallery, New York NY, USA Wenn ich in ‘ne scheune gehe und kein stroh ist da, dann bin ich falsch, Galerie Michael Neff, Frankfurt, Germany Meechfieber, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan, Italy |
| 2003 |
Klynken I knæk, ARKEN Museum for Moderne Kunst, Ishoj, Denmark Gió Marconi, Milan, Italy The Death of Raymond Roussell, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, Sao Paulo, Brazil |
| 2002 |
MeechHouse, Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany Saltimbocca, Oldenburger Kunstverein, Oldenburg, Germany Accobmitlas, Galerie Michael Neff, Frankfurt, Germany |
| 2001 |
Sadie Coles HQ, Heddon Street, London, England Lehm, Lehm, Lehm, Regen Projects, Los Angeles CA, USA Meech City, Untitled (Tent), Anton Kern Gallery, New York NY, USA Ma’am Prociutto Crudo, Helga Maria Klosterfelde, Hamburg, Germany |
| 2000 |
Four Lectures, MoMA Museum of Modern Art, New York NY, USA |
Group Exhibitions
| 2023 |
My Last Will, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Germany Am Seegarten, Kirchmöser, Germany |
| 2022 |
Keep on Movin’, Stories from the Morra Greco Collection, Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples, Italy Immer feste druff, Haus Mödrath, Kerpen, Germany Dream On, NEON in collaboration with the Hellenic Parliament, Tobacco Factory, Athens, Greece Space for Imaginative Actions: New Presentation of the Collection, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany never mind the burnout, Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin, Germany |
| 2021 |
On the level of the man who fell out of bed, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria Out Now, Uferhallen Berlin, Germany Armand Schultess, Galleria Periferia, Luzern, Switzerland Mies in Mind, Sprüth Magers, Berlin, Germany Tales of Manhattan, Anton Kern Gallery, New York NY, USA The Third Woman, Actionism, Performance and Attitudes, Art Encounters Foundation, Romania Selections: Gallery Artists, Regen Projects, Los Angeles CA, USA Der Katalysator – Joseph Beuys und Demokratie heute, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany Same Same but Different, Crone and Crone Side, Berlin, Germany and Vienna Austria |
| 2020 |
Freedom & Independence, Ebensperger, Berlin, GermanyMy Cartography: The Erling Kagge Collection, Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles, Arles, France WALKING. Movements North of Bolzano” – The Collection of Erling Kagge, Fondazione Museion Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea, Bolzano, Italy STUDIO, Boros Foundation x Berghain, Berlin, Germany Großes Welttheater - 100 Jahre Salzburger Festspiele, Salzburg Museum, Salzburg, Austria KölnSkulptur #10, Skulpturenpark Köln, Cologne, Germany No lo utilizamos (We don’t use it), MAC Museo de Arte Contemporáneo online, Santiago, Chile |
| 2019 |
Installationen aus 25 Jahren Sammlung Falckenberg, Sammlung Falckenberg, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany LAUFRICHTUNG, SMAC, Berlin, Germany Cursed images, Galerie Kandlhofer, Vienna, Austria Territorium, Kunsthalle Schlieren, Zurich, Switzerland Creatures: When Species Meet, CAC Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati OH, USA Fuzzy Dark Spot, Falckenberg Collection, Hamburg, Germany Uferhallen Kunstaktien, n.b.k. Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany |
| 2018 |
New Acquisitions. 2017-2018, EMST National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece ankst, Städtische Galerie Cordonhaus, Cham, Germany NGORONGORO II, Lehderstrasse 34, Berlin, Germany Ausstellen des Ausstellens. Von der Wunderkammer zur kuratorischen Situation (Exhibiting the Exhibition. From the Cabinet of Curiosities to the Curatorial Situation), Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden, Germany Pizza is God, NRW-Forum, Dusseldorf, Germany The Art of Recollecting, G2 Kunsthalle, Leipzig, Germany Club Conscious, Observatorium, Meatpack, Antwerp, Belgium |
| 2017 |
Portfolio Berlin 03, Kunsthalle Rostock, Rostock, Germany Atopia: Migration, Heritage, and Placelessness. Works from the TBA21 Contemporary Collection, MAC Lima Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Lima, Peru Center of the World, Galerie Ebensperger, Salzburg, Austria On the Move, Anton Kern Gallery, New York NY, USA ATLAS I, Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy THE INNER SKIN, Marta Herford, Herford, Germany ODOIPORIKO, Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens, Greece |
| 2016 | ILLUMINATION, Louisiana Museum, Humlebæk, Denmark Imagine, Brand New Gallery, Milan, Italy Wolfsburg Unlimited, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany Nothing Happens, Twice: Artists Explore the Absurdity of Life, Harris Museum, Preston, UK Me, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany |
| 2015 |
H.D. Buttercup’s Apartment, H.D. Buttercup, Los Angeles CA, USA, curated by Michael Fuchs Galerie Walkers: Hollywood Afterlives in Art and Artifact, Museum of the Moving Image, New York NY, USA Selbstjustiz durch Fehleinkäufe - Neuerwerbungen der Sammlung Falckenberg 2011- 2014, Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg, Germany Schaufenster, Raum für Kunst, Berlin, Germany Kunstakademie Karlsruhe, Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany Flying Over the Abyss, NEON at The Contemporary Art centre of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece Winter in America, Jack Shainman Gallery: The Shop, New York NY, USA Paperworlds, Buchheim Museum, Bernried am Starnberger See, Bavaria, Germany Poor Art - Rich Legacy. Arte Povera and Parallel Practices 1968-2015, Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway Avatar und Atavismus: Outside der Avantgarde, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany Storylines: Contemporary Art at the Guggenheim, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York NY, USA FluxLabyrinth, Randall’s Island, Frieze Project Exhibition, New York NY, USA NGORONGORO, Berlin Artist Weekend, Berlin, Germany Bare Wunder, Sies + Höke, Dusseldorf, Germany Cannibalism? On Appropriation in Art, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland Yes, We’re Open, Gió Marconi, Milan, Italy A Man Walks into a Bar..., me Collectors Room Berlin / Olbricht Foundation, Berlin, Germany La La La Human Steps, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands |
| 2014 |
Broken. Slapstick, Comedy und schwarzer Humor, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany Letter from Mr. Faustus: Seven Adaptations from Berlin, Herzliya Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel I’m Still Here, Magasin 3, Stockholm, Sweden SLAPSTICK!: The Art of Comedy, LENTOS Kunstmuseum Linz, Linz, Austria The Sting Of The Scorpion, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, Germany PAPERWORLDS. Childhood Drawings by Contemporary Artists, me Collector’s Room Berlin / Olbricht Foundation, Berlin, Germany |
| 2013 |
do it, Socrates Sculpture Park, New York NY, USA, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist (touring) John Bock, Keren Cytter, paul Pfeiffer, Gillian Wearing, Akrm Zaatari, Regen Projects, Los Angeles CA, USA Il Palazzo Enciclopedico, 55th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy Le Grand Macabre, Opera, Chemnitz, Germany Exquisite Corpse, Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris, France \ARTZUID 2013, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Nur Skulptur, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany Number Six: Flaming Creatures, Julia Stoschek Collection, Dusseldorf, Germany HEIMsuchung-Unsichere Räume (Unsafe Spaces in Contemporary Art), Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany |
| 2012 |
Active Presence: Action, Object & Audience, LABoral Centro de Arte y Creacíon Industrial, Asturias, Spain Number Six: Flaming Creatures, Julia Stoschek Collection, Dusseldorf, Germany Inaugural Exhibition by Gallery Artists, Regen Projects, Los Angeles CA, USA DECADE: Contemporary Collecting 2002–2012, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo NY, USA Funny, Flag Art Foundation, New York NY, USA, curated by Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson Skulptur, Meyer Riegger, Karlsruhe, Germany Alpenrepublik, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria Arsenale 2012, Ukrainian Biennale of Contemporary Art, Kiev, Ukraine Track, SMAK Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent, Belgium Rohkunstbau XIX Moral, Rokunstfestival 2012, Marquardt, Germany Various stages, Kunsthaus Dresden, Dresden, Germany First International Biennale of Contemporary Art in Ukraine 2012, Kiev, Ukraine 30 Räume/ 30 Künstler (30 rooms / 30 artists), Staatliches Museum für Kunst und Design, Nuremberg, Germany; Michael Fuchs Galerie, Berlin, Germany Active Presence, Action, Object and Public, MARCO Vigo Museum of Contemporary Art, Vigo, Spain Accelerating Toward Apocalypse: Works from the Doron Sebbag Art Collection, ORS Ltd., Givon Art Forum, Tel Aviv, Israel Hang on, Michael Fuchs Galerie, Berlin, Germany |
| 2011 | MakeUp, A Palazzo Gallery, Brescia, Italy Surreal versus Surrealism in Contemporary Art, Institut Valencia d'Art Modern, Valencia, Spain The Art Magazine Becomes Art, Louise Blouin Foundation, London 6th Curitiba Biennial, Curitiba, Brazil Berlin 2000-2011: Playing Among the Ruins, Musuem of Contemporary Art, Tokyo Coleccion Art Foundation Mallorca 2011, CCA Andratx, Andratx, Spain The Collectors Show, The Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven, Eindhoven, Netherlands Geschmack, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden, Germany Knock, Knock!, Anderson Gallery VCU Arts, Richmond, Virginia Clap, Hessel Museum of Art, Annadale-on-Hudson, Red Hook, NY Luminous Interval (Daskalopoulos Collection), Guggenheim, Bilbao, Spain 8 1/2: Thirteen artists celebrating the 100th anniversary of Trussardi, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan, Italy Transformed Objects, KAI 10 Raum für Kunst, Düsseldorf, Germany |
| 2010 |
Michael Stumpf: Rubble Stir, The Glue Factory, Glasgow, Scotland FischGrätenMelkStand, Kunsthalle Berlin, Germany, curated by John Bock Adaptation: Between Species, The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada Art Parcours, Art 41 Basel, Basel, Switzerland The Surreal House, Barbican Art Gallery, London, England Behind the Curtain,Gio Marconi, Milan, Italy 25 Reasons We Still Need Superman, Video Art Touring Festival, Sarai CSDS, New Delhi, India; Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong, Hong Kong The Library of Babel / In and Out of Place, Zabludowicz Collection, London, England |
| 2009 |
Künstlergesprach mit Julia Stoschek, Münster, Germany (films: Urhütte, Hysterie im Nonchalance, Inside Beyond) FPM Collection: John Bock, Erik van Lieshout, Manfred Pernice, Raymond Pettibon, Keith Tyson, FPM Collection, Schillingstraβe, Berlin, Germany Fashionshow, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany Group Show, Klosterfelde, Berlin, Germany Precarious Form, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna, Austria Transitory Objects, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria My Summer Show, Gallerie LeLong, New York NY, USA Stressed Spaces, multistory car park, KW14,‘s- Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands Filmshooting for Kie Ellens, Walhouse Film, Groningen, The Netherlands Highlights from the Cologne KunstFilmBiennale in Berlin, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France;Kunstwerke, Berlin, Germany (film: Palms) Time Out Beijing Video art festival, Beijing, China, touring to Shanghai, China; Hong Kong; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Singapore; Bangalore, India; Mumbai, India; Dubai, United Arab Emirates; and Tokyo, Japan Vlassis Caniaris. In Contrapunto, National Bank of Greece Cultural Foundation / MIET, Athens, Greece über den PARA-Behälter Sympton, Helga Maria Kolsterfelde, Berlin, Germany Berlin 2000, Pace Wildenstein, New York NY, USA Performative Impulses, Pinacoteca di Bari, Bari, Italy Tank TV, online Repeat all, MIS, Museu da Imagem e do Som, Sao Paulo, Brazil Sur Le Dandysme Aujourd'hui, Centro Huarte de Arte Contemporáneo, Pamplona, Spain |
| 2008 |
2008 Feelgood things, Mulier Mulier Gallery, Knokke-Heist, Belgium A Lower World: Excesses and Extremes in Film and Video, Pleasure Dome, Toronto, Canada, (films: Meechfieber, Gast Boxer) Videozone 4, International Video Art Biennial, Tel Aviv ome-in. Interior Design as a Contemporary Art Medium in Germany, Galeri Nasional Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia When It’s a Photograph, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles CA, USA Film Retrospective at Mikrokosmos Cinema, Athens, Greece Number Two: Fragile, Julia Stoschek Collection, Dusseldorf, Germany Beyond the Country, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, University College, Cork, Ireland La Fete Est Permanente / The Eternal Network, FRAC, Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France Wunder Der Prarie, Festivalzentrum, zeitraumexit, Mannheim, Germany(film: Palms) The Sublime is Now, Palazzo Santa Margherita, Modena, Italy, curated by Marco De Michelis Body Amock, Kunsthallen Brandts,Odense,Denmark (film: Skipholt) ICA Auction Exhibition, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England WunderKammer: A Century of Curiosities, Museum of Modern Art, New York NY, USA ForgottenBar Project, Galerie Im Regierungsviertel, Berlin, Germany TARANTULA, Piazza Del Duomo, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan, Italy, curated by Massimiliano Gioni, Streng verdaulich, ZKM/ Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe, Germany, curated by Ludwig Seyfarth, (film with installation: Arbeitstitel Diagramm) Call it what you like, Collection Rik Reinking, Kunst Centret Silkeborg bag, Silkeborg, Denmark Vertrautes Terrain, Aktuelle Kunst in und über Deutschland, ZKM Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Germany E-flux Video Rental, Centro de Arte Moderna José de Azeredo Perdigão, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal The Hamsterwheel, Malmö Konsthall, Sweden (cat.) Tempo Tempo! Opelvillen Rüsselsheim/ Zentrum für Kunst, Rüsselsheim, Germany Kunstgeschichte: Was ist Gegenwartskunst?, Institut für Kunstgeschichte der Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria Pivot Points Part 1, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami FL, USA Second Thoughts, Hessel Museum of Art & Center for Curatorial Studies Galleries at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson NY, USA Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, Barbican Art Gallery (Barbican Centre), London, England (work: Lütte mit Screening Program, Potential Estate at Korraalberg Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium Rucola, Tisch mit Objekten und Film) Laughing in a Foreign Language, Hayward Gallery, London, England Depletion, Works from the Doron Sebbag Art Collection, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel |
| 2007 |
Sculpture exhibition, Stella Lohaus Gallery, Antwerp, The Netherlands Unmonumental: The Object In The 21st Century, New Museum, New York NY, USA Come, come, come into my world, Ellipse Foundation, Alcoitao, Portugal Voci della luna: ommaggio a Federico Fellini, GC.AC and MAN, Galleria Comunale d'Arte Contemporanea di Monfalcone, Monfalcone, Italy; Museo d’Arte di Nuoro, Nuoro, Italy Fit to Print: Printed Media in Recent Collage, Gagosian Gallery, New York NY, USA Performa 2007, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York NY, USA Beyond the Country, Lewis Glucksman Gallery University College Cork, Ireland The High Desert Test Sites, Los Angeles CA, USA When We Build, Let Us Think That We Build Forever, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, England To Be Continued…, Magasin 3, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden Fractured Figure: Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection, Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece 1st Athens Biennial, Athens, Greece Franz West: Soufflé, Kunsraum Innsbruck, Austria Mayflies, Site Gallery, Sheffield, England Ginnungagap / Pavilion of Belief, Galerie im Regierungsviertel, Berlin, Germany Ironie der Objekte, Museo Bozen, Italy The Harder You Look, Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens, Greece E-flux Video Rental, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris, France From the Earth to the Moon, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy La città che sale, ARCOS, Museo di Arte Contemporanea del Sannio, Benevento, Italy Absolumental 2, Les Abattoirs, Musée d’art modern et contemporain, Toulouse, France Quotidian, BUIA Gallery, New York NY, USA E-flux Video Rental, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge MA, USA Panic Room: Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection, Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece All about laughter, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan Timer 01, Triennale Bovisa, Milan, Italy Repeat All, M100 Centro Cultural Matucana 100, Santiago, Chile Hamsterwheel, Centre d’Art Santa Mònica, Barcelona, Spain Re-dis-play, Kunstverein Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany Artists as Collectors, Kunstverein Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany The High Desert Test Sites, organized by Andrea Zittel, Shaun Caley Regen, Lisa Anne Auerbach, John Connely and Andy Stillpass,Los Angeles CA, USA |
| 2006 |
Anstoss Berlin, Kunst Macht Welt, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, Germany Dada’s Boys, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland The Hugo Boss Prize 2006, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York NY, USA Nöle, Schauspielhaus, Zurich, Switzerland Into Me/Out of Me, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York NY, USA; KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany; MACRO Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Roma, Rome, Italy, curated by Klaus Biesenbach (cat.) Pied de Porc, Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse, France |
| 2005 |
Girls on Film, Zwirner & Wirth Gallery, New York NY, USA, curated by Kirsty Bell The Addiction, Gagosian Gallery, Berlin, Germany Abnormal, Nyehaus, New York NY, USA Dionysiac, Fondation Cartier Pour L’Art Contemporain, Paris, France LI Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy Vas-Y!, 8th Biennale d’Art Contemporaian de Lyon, Lyon, Paris, France Rough Diamond, Program, London, England Reykjavík Arts Festival 2005, Reykjavík Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland Der Raumspanncholeriker, Klosterfelde Gallery, Berlin, Germany |
| 2004 |
Works from the Boros Collection, Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe, Germany (cat.) Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan, Italy Manifesta 5, European Biennial of Contemporary Art, Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain Die Klütterkammer, Klosterfelde Gallery, Berlin, Germany Die Klütterkammer, ICA Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England |
| 2003 | Gió Marconi, Milan, Italy |
| 2002 |
Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany mieses BrutCashFlow ist NeutraKnecht, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna, Austria |
| 2001 |
Interest, Yokohama Triennale, Yokohama, Japan Im Dilemma der ExistoEntropie, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany MultiplexQuasiSiena – “le repubbliche dell’ arte germania”, Palazzo delle Papesse, Centro d’Arte Contemporanea, Siena, Italy Freestyle: Werke aus der Sammlung Boros, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany (cat.) Dionysische Monologicus – Gelüste eines Schwachomaten “Aller Anfang ist Merz – von Kurt Schwitters bis heute”, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany Ma’am prosciutto crudo, Klosterfelde, Hamburg, Germany MEECHbuildings – “playing among the ruins”, RCA Galleries, London, England “New Settlements”, Jacob Fabricius, Copenhagen, Denmark |
| 2000 |
1 = 2 + Kleinodtod, Berlin, Germany ArtemisiaSoqJod ? Meechwimper lummerig, Klosterfelde, Berlin, Germany; MEECHbuilding, Berlin, Germany Paramoderne = Rokokkogobrot., “Zeitwenden – Rückblick & Ausblick”, Vienna, Austria MienGribbohmWien – la forma del mondo – la fine del mondo, PAC Milan, Italy (cat.) Schon bezahlt, schon Dir, “RE_public”, Grazer Kunst Verein at the EXPO 2000, Hannover, Germany Dionysische Monologicus – Gelüste eines Schwachomaten. Multiple Quasi-Maybe-Me-Be updown, recent works, Jacob Frabricius, Copenhagen, Denmark Captain Sheriff Schippert Dröge, Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen, Germany Pizza Kiwi Nazionale, Auckland, New Zealand Schon bezahlt, schon Dir, Steirischer Herbst, Graz, Austria ArtemisiaSoqJod ? Meechwimper lummerig, “hypermental - Wahnhafte Wirklichkeit (surreal reality) 1950 – 2000, Salvador, Brazil Dalí to Jeff Koons, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland (cat.) Ma’am prosciutto crudo, OK – Zentrum für Gegenwartskunst, Linz, Austria |
| 1999 |
Berlin Biennal, Heu in der Kadernwelle, Berlin, Germany $ 1.000.000 Knödel Kisses, pfüti, Galerie der Stadt Schwaz, Austria, November Rasputin ist Mütterchel, Marstall, Munich, Germany, February Regardez le Diskjockey Long John Silver, Eleni Koroneu, Athens, Greece Maybe-Me-Be-Microworld, Anton Kern Gallery, New York NY, USA SoonSonicShySONSupernovaSide UP, group exhibition with Siegrun Appelt and Matthew Antezzo,Charim Klocker, Vienna, Austria Lombardi Bängli, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland (cat.) Memme muss schlafen, opening exhibition of S.M.A.K., Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent, Belgium opt. APE trouvé Moving 50 Diagram, Gió Marconi, Milan, Italy ApproximationRezipientenbedürfniscomaUrUltraUseMaterialMiniMax, 48th Biennale, Venice, Italy (cat.) MolkeMeHindVehikel Klosterfelde, Statement ArtBasel, Basel, Switzerland Quasi-Ich-Isoquantenschar-Kammer “Nachbar”, Galerie Krinziger / Benger Park, Bregenz, Austria Paramoderne = Rokokkogobrot “Kraftwerk Berlin”, Kunstmuseum Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark Existo – Tour 99 “ars viva – Gernzgänge”, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg Der Försterfall im Hirschfall oder das Loch der positiven Vernunft, Austellungsraum Schnitt, Cologne, Germany Der Fall des reinen Tausches in der Edgeworth – Box, “home and away”, Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover, Germany (cat.) Von der Kunst bis zum Warten + drinnen Jungtiere, “Education. Information, communication and didactics in contemporary fine art.”, Steirischer Herbst, Graz, Austria NaiAristotelesOchi – Nichtsabsolut, The Athens School. German art today”. Technopolis, Athens, Greece (cat.) MolkeMeHindVehikel “Children of Berlin”, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York NY, USA Lombardi Bängli – “German Open 1999 – Contemporary Art in Germany”, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany Paramoderne = Rokokkogobrot “Zeitwenden – Rückblick & Audblick”, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany (cat.) Koppel op Kop. ars viva 1999-2000, Kunstverein Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany (cat.) Yes Sir No Sir, Stella Lohaus, Antwerp, Belgium |
| 1998 |
Meechfieber im Paradoxonmodderkarton, Klosterfelde, Hamburg, Germany BommelbabyfaceNelson, Laurids & Mattheus, Karlsruhe, Germany Kunst und Papier auf dem Laufsteg [Art and paper on the catwalk], Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin, Berlin, Germany Silageproppen verstopft den Streptopenfluss im Love-Time-Mluiplikator, Ausstellungsraum Hafen 2, Offenbach, Germany MienGribbohmWien, secession,Vienna, Austria (cat.) Regardez le Diskjockey Long John Silver, “El Niño”, Museum am Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany |
| 1997 |
Die molekulare Heimsuchung des Herrn 0,47, Hochschule für bildende Kunst, Hamburg, Germany Molloch, Hochschule für bildende Kunst, Hamburg, Germany Das Gängelband der Kunstwohlfahrt, Klosterfelde, Berlin, Germany Rasputin ist Mütterchen, Performatrix, KX, Hamburg, Germany Am Tüddelband der Liebeselastizität, Element, Berlin, Germany |
| 1996 |
Gribbohm, Hochschule für bildende Kunst, Hamburg, Germany Die Dreckschleuder, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany Die dynamische Nacht des Titerus, Hochschule für bildende Kunst, Hamburg, Germany Der heilige Anwalt in Antwerpen, Lokaal 05, Antwerp, Belgium Der Onkel im Koffer, Maastricht, Belgium |
| 1995 |
Das Kunstwerk des 21. Jahrhunderts, Friedensallee 12, Hamburg, Germany Das Feld, Hochschule für bildende Kunst, Hamburg, Germany Der Fremde in der 4. Etage, Das Trojanische Schiff, Hamburg, Germany |
| 1994 |
Kunstkarton, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany Heilung Nr. 4, Hochschule für bildende Kunst, Hamburg, Germany Törtchen der Leidenschaft, Westwerk, Hamburg, Germany |
| 1993 |
Haschkeks, Hochschule für bildende Kunst, Hamburg, Germany Drei Räume, not executed Der kleine Rezipient und der grosse Rezipient, Hochschule für bildende Kunst, Hamburg, Germany Komparativer Kunstfähigkeitsvorteil, Friedensallee 12, Hamburg, Germany Die Kunstwohlfahrtsmaschine, Hochschule für bildende Kunst, Hamburg, Germany 4 x Rezipientenmodelle, Hochschule für bildende Kunst, Hamburg, Germany Elephant, Hochschule für bildende Kunst, Hamburg, Germany |
| 1992 |
Wie werde ich breühmt?, Hochschule für bildende Kunst, Hamburg, Germany Paul Eluard Gesichtskorrektur, Hochschule für bildende Kunst, Hamburg, Germany Jackson – Action, Hochschule für bildende Kunst, Hamburg, Germany Kunst – Mädchen – Erfolg – Tod, Hochschule für bildende Kunst, Hamburg, Germany Mord und Robotermalerei, Pudelsclub Hamburg, Germany |
Performances & Lectures |
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| 2021 |
Berlin Story: A Re-Imagining of Story, Radialsystem, Berlin, Germany Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen, Schaubühne theatre, Berlin, Germany |
| 2019 |
Berlin Story. A re-imagining of Merce Cunningham’s original Story from 1963, Tanz im August, Volksbühne Berlin, Berlin, Germany 23 – 25 August live lectures, n.b.k. Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany, 17, 25, 28 June |
| 2018 |
Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy Ausstellen des Ausstellens – Von der Wunderkammer zur kuratorischen Situation, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden, Germany |
| 2015 |
An Evening of Performances, David Roberts Art Foundation, London, England Abay hoch Bock hoch zwei ist gleich Wurzel aus Eierschale tangiert Kaugummikurve, (with Aydo Abay), Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany spiel/raum:kunst, Hochschule für Bildende Künste Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany |
| 2014 |
Little by Little, Independent Art Fair, New York NY, USA Große Erscheinung der ins Licht getretenen TRIEBKREATUR, ABC Art Fair, Berlin, Germany Appeldorn, Art Unlimited, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland |
| 2013 |
Der Pappenheimer, Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany Above the point of the glowing silence, Il Palazzo Enciclopedico, 55th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy |
| 2012 |
Vas-Y, MAC Museo de Arte Contemporáneo De Vigo, Vigo, Spain FixKosten, Galerie Michael Fuchs, Berlin, Germany Lecker Puste (Delicious Breath), Métamatics Research Initiative, The Watermill Center, Watermill NY, USA Geteilte Autorschaft, Tempelhofer Park, Berlin, Germany Into the Quasi-Me-Hill, DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, Barneys, New York NY, USA Kleiner Stiel dran, Albright - Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York NY, USA Die abgeschmierte Knicklenkung im Gepäck verheddert sic him weiβen Hemd (The Buggered Articulated Steering in the Luggage Gets Entangled in the White Shirt), Offen für Gegenwartskunst) Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, Germany |
| 2011 | Schweige Stille im UN-Sinn-Dung, Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin, Germany |
| 2010 |
Seewolf, Art 41 Basel, Parcours, Basel, Switzerland Curve-Vehicle incl. π-Man-(.), The Curve, Barbican Centre, London, England |
| 2009 |
KerleMann am WERK, Sadie Coles HQ, London, England Klütterkammer ICA book launch, Walther König Buchhandlung, Germany |
| 2008 |
Mehr Tuttifrutitiopflappen an Backen ran, ist doch alles Tabellenfeller. So’n Bergmann schwenkt in seiner Kuttelsuppe, Stella Lohaus Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium A lecture on a City Bus, on board of a city bus through the streets of downtown Athens, Strategien Zur Unglücksvermeidung, Graz Kunsthaus/Space 04/Steirischer Herbst, Austria Film Retrospective at Mikrokosmos Cinema, Athens, Greece Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea of Trento, Trento, Italy Urhütte, Anton Kern Gallery, New York NY, USA Der Silberloffel in der Spirale, Arko Arts Center, Seoul, South Korea Die Tiefe, Stella Lohaus Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium Ein Lümmel dreht am Wurzelrad, Cablecar Trento - Sardagna, Trento, Italy The bar of Wesenspräsenz is in a good Mood, Gió Marconi, Milan, Italy Zeitkomplex 10 sec + x / 995, Kunsthaus Graz, Steirischer Herbst, Graz, Austria |
| 2007 | Tierauflauf, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria |
| 2006 | 8 ½ x 11 mit Schisslaveng, Anton Kern, New York (NY) Medusa im Tam Tam Club, Staatsoper Unter Den Linden, Berlin, Germany Zero Hero, The Moore Space, Miami, FL Gute Stube, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Wien, Austria |
| 2005 | PestKOP im Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Hamburger Bahnhof Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Preis der Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany |
| 2004 | Die Klütterkammer, ICA Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England |
| 2003 | Zero Hero, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany |
| 2002 |
Neurasthenieskorbut in KopabEis, Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany Trail of Dead, Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany Weißschweißproduktion, Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany Koppel Margherita, Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany Wühl um den Klumpen, Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany Quasi Me's im H&M-Store, Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany 1 Millionen $ Knödelkisses, Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany A gentleman works when a gentleman works a work, Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany Foetus Gott, Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany Direkte Rezipienten Elastizitäten, Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany |
| 2001 | When I am Looking Into the Goat Cheese Baiser, Anton Kern Gallery, New York NY, USA |
| 2000 |
Aller Anfang ist Merz – von Kurt Schwitters bis heute, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany Dionysische Monologicus – Gelüste eines Schwachomaten, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany Death Race 2000, Thread Waxing Space, Brooklyn NY, USA ArtemisiaSogJod Meechwimper lummerig, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland 1= 2 + KleinOdTot, Berlin, Germany Intro Inside Cash Flow – Box, MoMA Museum of Modern Art, New York NY, USA |
| 1999 |
Paramoderne = RokokkoGoBrot, Aarhus Art Museum, Aarhus, Denmark ApproximationRezipientenbedürfniscomaUrUltraUseMaterialMiniMaxi, 48th Biennale Venice, Venice, Italy Nai Aristoteles Ochi, Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens, Greece Lombardi Bängli, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland |
Screenings & Events |
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| 2021 |
Skipholt, book signing, Buchhandlung Walther & Franz König, Berlin, 18 September Hell’s Bells, e-flux Video & Film online, curated by by Irmgard Emmelhainz, 04 – 18 August |
| 2020 |
Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen, A Main-Brain-Drain-Drama by John Bock and Lars Eidinger, Schaubühne Theatre, Berlin, Germany |
| 2019 |
UNHEIL, JSC Julia Stoschek Collection, Dusseldorf, Germany, 13 April |
| 2018 |
Hell’s Bells, Limbo Lichtspiele (Stuck in Limbo), M+M für das Museum VILLA STUCK, Munich, Germany, 15 September Hell's Bells, EMAF – 31st European Media Art Festival, Osnabrueck, Germany, 18 – 22 April |
| 2017 |
The Western: An Epic in Art and Film, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada Hell’s Bells, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany |
| 2015 |
The Scorpion's Sting, (screening Härchen mit Momsen dran) Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne, Australia Storylines, (screening of Dandy) Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York NY, USA Videoart at Midnight, Babylon Mitte, Berlin, Germany, curated by Olaf Stüber |
| Awards | |
| 2017 |
Hell’s Bells, Best VFX, 7th Dada Saheb Phalke Film Festival 2017, Alipur, Delhi, India Hell’s Bells, Best Supporting Actress: Josephine Schneider, 7th Dada Saheb Phalke Film Festival 2017, Alipur, Delhi, India |