* 1971 | in Emsdetten, DE lives and works in London, UK and Emsdetten, DE |
1999 | Master of Fine Art, Central St. Martins College of Art and Design, London, UK |
1997 | Diploma at Hochschule für bildende Künste, Hamburg, DE |
Solo Exhibitions (selected)
2025 | St Carthage Hall, Lismore Castle Arts, Lismore, IR (upcoming) Produzentengalerie Hamburg, DE (upcoming) |
2024 | Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, US (upcoming) Day Care, The Common Guild, Glasgow, UK |
2022 | P4aM2aRF!, Herald St. London, UK Rockdispenser (NYCPNNJCN), comission by the Government Art Collection for the residence of Commissioner General of the UK in New York, US Emscher Folly, Emscherkunstweg, Duisburg, DE Reclining Fanmail, Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus, CH |
2020 | Grace before Jonas, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK |
2019 | solo presentation at FIAC, VHN Gallery, Paris, FR Emscher Folly, Urbane Künste Ruhr, Oberhausen, DE (permanent installation) |
2018 | Earring for Cambridge, Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, GB Women between buildings, Kunstverein in Hamburg, DE Manners, Tate Britain, London, GB Eigenmischung, installation in outdoor vitrines of Motto Books, Berlin, DE |
2017 | Grundstück, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, US |
2016 | Givers & Takers, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, US |
2015 | Night Gallery, Los Angeles, US |
2014 | The London Shape, Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston University, Kingston upon Thames, London, UK |
2013 | Manners, special commission for the cafe, restaurant and members’ room at Tate Britain, London, UK Austern mit Senf, Galeria S.A.L.E.S., Rome, IT |
2012 | Food in Spaces, Pigna Project Space, Rome, IT Spray, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, US |
2011 | Buhuu Suites, Herald Street, London, UK Hotel Biron, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Dusseldorf, DE |
2010 | Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, US |
2009 | Public Rain Fries, Georg Kargl Box, Vienna, AT |
2008 | Public Rain, Herald St, London, UK Anti Baby Pille (with Alexandra Bircken), Aktualisierungsraum, Hamburg, DE |
2007 | Masse und Auflösung, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado, US Filialen, Produzentengalerie Hamburg, DE (cat.) |
2006 | Reiche Verwandte, Herald St, London, UK Earring, Kunst im öffentlichen Raum, Projekt, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK Iduna Nova, (with Alexander Heim), c/o Anna cat.harina Gebbers, Berlin, DE |
2004 | Chemie, Secession, Vienna, AT (cat.) Katzensilber, Millers Terrace, London, UK |
2003 | Galerie Borgmann-Nathusius, Cologne, DE |
2002 | French Junkies, Produzentengalerie Hamburg, DE |
1998 | Laden, Gunther Resky, Berlin, DE |
Group Exhibitions (selected)
2024 | Die Schönheit der Dinge. Stillleben von 1900 bis heute, Kunsthalle Emden, DE to display, to support, to care, Angewandte University Gallery, Vienna, AT |
2023 | Your Home Is Where You’re Happy, Haus Mödrath, Kerpen, DE |
2022 | By a Thread, curated by Emie Diamond, Tenter Ground, Spitalfields, London, UK On Equal Terms, curated by Arkadij Koschew, Uferhallen, Berlin, DE Undermining & Oversharing, Klasse Wermers & friends at Produzentengalerie Hamburg, DE Identität nicht nachgewiesen, Neuerwerbungen der Sammlung des Bundes, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn, Neues Museum, Staatliches Museum für Kunst und Design Nürnberg, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Museum Gunzenhauser, DE SSSSSSSSSCULTURESQUE, Kiang Malingue, Hong Kong, CN |
2021 | Undermining & Oversharing, Klasse Wermers & friends at Galerie der Stadt Schwaz, CH A Women Qualities, Kunstmuseum Moritzburg, Halle (Saale), DE |
2020 | More More More, curated by X Zhu-Nowell, Tank Shanghai, CN Via dell’Inferno, Galeria Spazia, Bologna, IT Magical Soup, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, DE Crack up Crack Down, 33rd Biennial of Graphic Arts Ljubljana, Warsaw’s Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, PL Museum for Preventive Imagination, MACRO, Rome, IT Design by Time, Gregg Museum of Art and Design, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, US Every Other Space, curated by Gregorio Magnani with displays by Nicole Wermers, Mutina for Arte, Fiorano/ Modena, IT |
2019 | Unfinished Stories/ Geschichten aus der Sammlung, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Galerie der Gegenwart, Hamburg, DE we need more than one term for these big things, Galerie der Universität für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna, AT When a chair is more than a chair, R&Co., New York, US Mein Blick, Hamburger Kunsthalle, DE Unexplained Parade (follow the river), Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver, CA Emscher Kunst/ Das Ruhr Ding, Dortmund, DE 33rd Biennal of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, SL Design by Time (touring exhibition), Pratt Institute, Knoxville Museum of Art, College of Wooster Art Museum etc., US Tainted Love (south club edit), Villa Arson, Nice, FR The Common Guild, Glasgow, GB Magical Soup, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, DE Emscher Folly, permanent outdoor Artist book show, Mutina for Art, Fiorano, IT Skulptur, Produzentengalerie Hamburg, DE |
2018 | Athens Biennale, Greece, GR EUROVISIONS: Contemporary art from the Goldberg Collection, Heide Museum, Melbourne, AU Vous me rappelez quelqu’un/You Remind Me of Someone, FRAC Lorraine, Metz, FR Die Zelle, Kunsthalle Bern, CH Dime-Store Alchemy, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, US Kinship, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, CA Pine Barrans, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, US Seasons, Herald St, Museum St, London, UK |
2017 | Tainted Love (Where Did Our Love go), Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers, France Wie werden wir uns wieder erkennen?, Künstlerhaus Bremen, DE In Awe, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, AT An Idea of Boundary,San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, US Hot Pot. Further Thoughts on Earthy Materials,GAK Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen, DE Elevation 1049, Gstaad, CH I am not my target audience, Kunsthaus Dresden – Städtische Galerie für Gegenwartskunst, DE Home Is No Place, German Embassy, London, GB |
2016 | Everything is About to Happen, Fundacao de Serralves, Porto, PT The Kids Want Communism, MoBY-Museums of Bat Yam, IL The Display Show, Stroom, Den Haag, NL Quiz 2, MUDAM Luxembourg, LU |
2015 | Turner Prize 2015, Tramway, Glasgow, UK The Display Show, Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK Überschönheit, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, AT Dora, Stanley-Picker-Gallery, Kingston University, Kingston upon Thames, UK Function Follows Vision, Vision Follows Reality, Kunsthalle Wien Karlsplatz, Vienna, AT X, Herald St, London, UK Robert & Trix Haussmann/Klaus Weber/ Nicole Wermers, Herald St, Golden Square, London, UK Partial Presence, Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK |
2014 | Some Things, Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City, MX Hier und Jetzt/ Hic Et Nuc, Stift Klosterneuburg, DE Quiz, Ensemble Poiret, Nancy, FR A Singular Form, Secession Wien, Vienna, AT |
2013 | Perspectives on Collage, Photographers Gallery, London, UK Villa Massimo, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, DE Krazy House, selection of the museum collection, MMK Museum of Modern Art, Frankfurt, DE Formal Alchemy, Fuse Projects, San Franciso, US No Brow, Galerie Emanuel Layr, Vienna, AT |
2012 | Re-Generation, MACRO, Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome, IT Out of Focus: Photography, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK A wavy line is drawn across the middle of the original plans, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, DE Évasion, Lanchaster Gallery Projects, Coventry, UK |
2011/12 | A darkness more than night, Quad Gallery, Derby, UK |
2011 | Please go around the construction area by the lights and over the traffic island (and other stories), Kunstverein Schattendorf, AT The shape we are in, 176 Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK |
2011/2010 | The New Decor, Hayward Gallery, London, UK / The Garage Centre, Moscow, RU |
2010 | The Library of Babel / In and Out of Place, Projectspace 176, London, UK |
2009 | Natural Wonders, Baibakov Art Projects, Moscow, RU Artists Furniture, Fortescue Avenue, London, UK Monument For Study, Herald St, London, UK Collider, Galeria Margini, Massa, IT |
2008 | Experimenta Folklore, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main, DE (cat.) M 25, Centre Cultural Andratx, Mallorca, ES Der Garten der Pfade, die sich verzweigen, Galerie Thaddeus Ropac im Kunstraum der Deutschen Bank, Salzburg, AT (cat.) Art Sheffield 08, S1 Artspace, Sheffield, UK (cat.) Cohabitation, Galeria Francesca Kaufmann, Milan, IT |
2007 | The Office, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, US Fit For Print, Gagosian Gallery, New York, US Less is more – more could be less, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, IE What We Bought, Camera Austria im Kunsthaus Graz, AT (cat.) Weltempfänger, Galerie der Gegenwart, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, DE (cat.) Lines, Squares and Cubes, Produzentengalerie Hamburg, DE Wonderwall – Constructing the Sublime, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, JP Half Square, Half Crazy, Villa Arson Centre d’Art, Nizza, FR (cat.) Abstraction: Extracting from the World, Millennium, Galleries Sheffield, UK (cat.) |
2006 | Friederich, Doggerfisher, Edinburgh, UK Around The World In 80 Days, ICA, London, UK (cat.) 100 Tage=100 Videos, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg, DE It is hard to touch the real, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, AT Acht plastische Ansätze, Neuer Kunstverein Gießen e.v., Gießen, DE Finding Neverland, Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad, CH Wrong, Galerie Klosterfelde, Berlin, DE Tate Triennale,Tate Britain, London, UK (cat.) The Subversive Charm Of The Bourgeoisie, Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, NL The Endless Summer, West London Projects, London, UK La Maison Gregoire, Brussels, BE Structure Unit, Lisboa20, Lisbon, PT |
2005 | Jaybird, Galeria Zero, Milan, IT The Addiction, Gagosian Gallery, Berlin, DE Contained, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, US The The, Modern Art Inc., London, UK Alles in einer Nacht, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, US Other Peoples Projects: Herald Street, White Columns, New York,US herefore Beautiful, Ursula Blickle-Stiftung, Kraichtal, DE (cat.) |
2004 | Pin Ups, Contemporary Collage and Drawing, Tate Modern, London, UK Reality Real, Galerie Gebrüder Lehmann, Dresden, DE At The Palace At 4AM, Alison Jaques, London, UK 9. Triennale Kleinplastik Fellbach, DE The Future Has A Silver Lining, Migros Museum, Zurich, CH (cat.) 2 oder 3 Dinge, die Ich von dir weiss, Produzentengalerie Hamburg, DE Curb Your Enthusiasm, Millers Terrace, London, UK |
2003 | A Nova Geometria, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, Sao Paulo, BR (cat.) Reisefreiheit, Kunsthaus Hamburg, DE (cat.) Help, Els Hanappe Underground, Athens, GR Cinepolis, Hamburger Architektursommer, Hamburger Botschaft, DE (cat.) Renderings, Delfina Gallery, London, UK Handlungsräume, Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg, DE (cat.) |
2002 | Dorothea-von-Stetten Kunstpreis, Kunstmuseum Bonn, DE (cat.) Building Anxiety, Ten in One Gallery, New York, US Ich ging im Wald so vor mich hin, Galerie Borgmann-Nathusius, Cologne, DE The Day After, Galerie Cookie Snoie, Rotterdam, NL |
2001 | Szenarien, Kunstverein Bonn, Stadthaus Ulm, DE (cat.) Selection of the Videonale Bonn, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, DE Szenenwechsel XX, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt/Main, DE (cat.) A Sport and A Pastime, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, US Liminal, Minimal, Nominal, Architectual Traces, John Hansard Gallery, Southhampton, UK; Produzentengalerie Hamburg, DE German Leitkultur, Kunsthalle Friedericianum, Kassel, DE (cat.) Videonale Bonn, Kunstverein Bonn, DE (cat.) Zero Gravity, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Dusseldorf, DE (cat.) Hamburg Stipendiaten, Kunsthaus Hamburg, DE (cat.) Sammlung Karl-Ernst-Osthaus Museum, City of Hagen, DE |
2000 | Auf Papier, Produzentengalerie Hamburg, DE Include Me Out, Old Street, London, DE Pallisades, Centre D´Art, Bretigny-sur-Orge, FR And If There Were No Stories, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK |
1999 | New Contemporaries ´99, Liverpool Biennale, Liverpool und South London Gallery, London, UK (cat.)Know What I Mean, Young German Artists in Britain, Goethe Institute, London, UK |
1998 | Osygus, Produzentengalerie Hamburg, DE Echopark, Mission, Biber-Haus, Hamburg, DE |
Awards and Grants
2015 | Shortlisted for Turner Prize, UK |
2012 | Artist in residence at the German Academy (Villa Massimo), Rome, IT |
2005 | Residency, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK |
2004 | Residency, Delfina Studio Trust, London, UK Kunstfonds Bonn – Grant, DE |
2003 | Travel grant, Neue Kunst In Hamburg e.V., DE |
2002 | Dorothea-von-Stetten Artprice, Kunstmuseum Bonn, DE |
2001 | Work grant of the City of Hamburg, DE |
1999 | DAAD grant for London, UK |
1997 | Ditze Stiftung, Hamburg, DE |