1. Franz Ackermann
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| Mental Map: Evasion V 1996 Acylic on Canvas 275 x 305cm |
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| Helicopter XVI (on the balcony) 2001 Oil on Canvas 287 x 278cm |
BIO & STEPS
Born:
1963, Neumarkt
St Veit, Germany
Studies:
Between 1984 and 1988: Akademie der Bildenden Kunste in Munich,
Germany
Between 1989 and 1991: Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg,
Germany.
Nowadays…
Lives and works in Berlin and
Karlsruhe, Germany
Themes:
Travel, globalization, gamour, waste
and commercialization, big urban areas.
Also known of his “ cartoonist abstraction”.
Techniques:
Abstract Painting ( oil,
watercolour) vivid colours, and
Installation art
First Exhibition:
1989 Galerie Komat, Braunschweig, Germany
Solo Exhibitions:
2010 No Roof But The Sky, Galerie
Neugerriemschneider, Berlin
Wait, White Cube, London
2009 Franz Ackermann,
Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany
2008 Franz Ackermann, Terminal,
Meyer Riegger, Karlsruhe, Germany
Franz Ackermann, Mai 36 Gallerie, Zurich
Franz Ackermann, Kunstmuseum St Gallen, Switzerland
2007 From Eden to Lima, Neugerriemschneider, Berlin
Franz Ackermann, Domus Artium, Salamanca
2006 Home , Home Again, White Cube, London,
Kestner Gesellschaft, Hanover
2005 IMMA Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin,
Ireland
FRAC, Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France
Tomio Koyama gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2004 Nonstop with the hhc, Gavin Brown’s
Enterprise, New York, USA
Tourist, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau,
München, Germany
Travelantitravel, neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Germany
2003 Naherholungsgebiet, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg,
Wolfsburg, Germany
Eine Nacht in den Tropen, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nürnberg,
Germany
2002 Basel Public, Wandinstallation Nordtangente,
Basel Switzerland
The Waterfall, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA
Seasons in the sun, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL
Transatlantic, mit Rupprecht Geiger; Städtische Galerie
im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau, München
Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland
Eine Nacht in den Tropen, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland
2001 Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York, USA
Gió Marconi, Mailand, Italy
2000 B.I.T., Castello di Rivoli, Torino, Italy
Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil
Welt 1... and no one else wanted to play, Meyer Riegger
Galerie, Karlsruhe, Germany
Reisterrassen von basel, Wandmalerei, Rückwand der
Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland
1999 Works on paper Inc, Los Angeles, USA
Off, Kasseler Kunstverien, Kassel, Germany
Trawler, Mai 36, Zürich, Switzerland
1998 Neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Germany Das Haus am Strand und wie man dorthin kommt, Meyer Riegger Galerie,
Karlsruhe, Germany
Pacific, White Cube, London, UK
Songline, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, Germany
1997 Unexpected, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New
York, USA
Unerwartet, Kunstpreis der Stadt Nordhorn, 1997 Germany
Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland
Portikus, Fankfurt am Main, Germany
Gió Marconi, Mailand, Italy
1996 Das weiche Zimmer, kuratiert von Florian
Waldvogel, Hann. Münden, Germany
Neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Germany
1995 Thomas Solomon’s Garage, Los Angeles, USA
Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York, USA
1994 Ackermanns Wörterbuch der Tätigkeiten,
Buchpublikation
Dialo(o)g, Belgisches Haus, Köln, Germany (Cat..)
Condominium, Neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Germany
1991 Art Acker, Berlin, Germany
1990 Galerie Fischer, Hamburg, Germany
1989 Galerie Komat,
Braunschweig, Germany
Group
exhibitions:
2010
Kupferstichkabinett: Between Thought and Action, White Cube, London
Lost and Found, Galerie Neugerriemschneider, Berlin
Fremde Heimat, Mannheim Kunsthalle, Stuttgart
2009
Altermodern: Tate Triennial 2009, Tate Britain, London
Desenhos: A a Z (Drawings A to Z), Museu da Cidade, Lisbon
Against the Grain, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg
Private Universes, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas
Extreme Frontiers, Urban Frontiers, IVAM, Valencia
Universal Code, Powerplant, Toronto
The Social Critique 1993-2005, Kalmar Konstmuseum, Sweden
The Symbolic Efficiency of the Frame Tirana International Contemporary
Art Biannual, Albania
2008
All Inclusive: A Tourist World, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
2007
Imagination becomes Reality, ZKM Museum für Neue Kunst &
Medienmuseum, Karlsruhe
Reality Bites – Making Avant – Garde Art in Post-Wall Germany, Mildred
Lane Kemper Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO
2006
Berlin-Tokio / Tokio-Berlin. Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany
Infinite Painting – Contemporary Painting and Global Realism, Villa
Manin, Centro d’arte Contemporanea, Codroipo, Italy Anstoss Berlin, Haus am
Waldsee, Berlin, Germany
Archipeinture, Camden Arts Centre, London, England
Remote Viewing (Invented Worlds in Recent Painting and Drawing), Saint
Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO
Satellite of Love Witte de With, Rotterdam
The Triumph of Painting, Saatchi Collection, London
Tokyo-Berlin / Berlin-Tokyo, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Baroque and Neobaroque, The Hell of the Beautiful, Domus Artium 2002,
Salamanca, Spain
2005
36 x 27 x 10, White Cube Berlin im ehemaligen Palast der Republik,
Berlin, Germany
Lichtkunst aus Kunstlicht, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
Ecstasy: in and about altered states, MOCA the Geffen Contemporary, Los
Angeles, USA
Styles und Stile – Aktuelle Malerei aus der Sammlung Scharpff, Sofia Art
Gallery, Sofia, BG
Ackermann, Bächli, Balkenhol, Kluge, Slominski, Galeria Senda, Barcelona,
Spain
Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse, France (Cat..)
Wittgenstein in New York, Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin, Germany
Drawing from the Modern, 1975–2005, The Museum of Modern Art, New York,
USA
Biennale d’art Contemporain de Lyon, Lyon, France
Desired Constellations, Daniel Reich Gallery, New York, USA
Imagination Becomes Reality, Part I: Expanded Paint Tools, Sammlung
Goetz, München, Germany
La nouvelle peinture allemande, Carré d’art Nîmes, Nîmes, France
Remote Viewing (Invented Worlds in Recent Painting and Drawing), Whitney
Museum of American Art, New York, USA
Blumenstück Künstlers Glück, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
Works on Paper, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, D
Zur Vorstellung des Terrors: Die RAF Ausstellung, Kunst-Werke, Berlin,
Germany
Dosenhos: A-Z (Drawings: A-Z), Porta 33, Funchal, Ilha da Madira,
Portugal
The Triumph of Painting Part II, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
Colors and Trips, Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz A; Museum
der Stadt Ratingen, Austria
2004
Direkte Malerei, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany
Central Station, collection Harald Falckenberg, La maison rouge –
fondation Antoine de Galbert, Paris, France
150Jahre, Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe, Germany
Champs de vision, Musée des Beaux Arts, Rouen, France
Close by - time space architecture, Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland
Monument to now, The Dakis Joannou Collection, Deste Foundation for
Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
RealityReal, Arbeiten auf Papier, Galerie Gebr. Lehmann, Dresden, Germany
Global World/Private Universe, Kunstmuseum, St. Gallen, Switzerland
Treasure Island, 10 Jahre Sammlung Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
Werke aus der Sammlung Boros, Museum für neue Kunst, ZKM, Karlsruhe,
Germany
2003
A New Modernism For A New Millennium: Abstraction and Surrealism Are
Reinvented In The Internetage, The Logan Collection, Vail, USA
A Nova Geometria, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Un-built cities, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany
Die Sehnsucht des Kartografen, Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover, Germany
Heißkalt. Aktuelle Malerei aus der Sammlung Scharpff, Hamburger
Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany Frahm Ltd, London, UK
Outlook, The Factory, Athens school of Fine Arts, Athens, Greece
Supernova: Art of the 1990s from the Logan Collection, San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA (Cat..)
Berlin-Moskau/Moskau-Berlin, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany (Cat..)
Chaotic Order, Houldsworth, London, UK
EU3, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
Hands up, baby, hands up!, Oldenburger Kunstverein, Oldenburg, Germany
Global Navigation System, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France (Cat..)
Dreams and Conflicts - The Viewer's Dictatorship, Biennale di Venezia,
Venedig, Italy
Painting abstract now, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
Mit Harald Klingelhöller, Meuser, Andreas Slominski, Galerie Georg Kargl,
Wien, Austria
Love is a battlefield, New York, USA
There’s no land but the land (up there is just a sea of possibilities),
Meyer Riegger Galerie, Germany
Contemporary German Art: Recent Aquisitions, Washington University, St
Louis, Missouri, USA
Painting pictures, Malerei und Medien im Digitalen Zeitalter; Kunstmuseum
Wolfsburg, Germany
Away from Home, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, USA
2002
Psychodrome 02, Fundació Juan Miró, Barcelona, Spain
En Route, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
The 8th Baltic Triennial of International Art, Contemporary Art Center,
Vilnius, Lithuania
Drawing now – eight positions; Museum of Modern Art, Long Island City,
USA
Hossa. Arte Alemán del 2000, Centro Cultural Andratx, Mallorca, Spain
Lila, Weiss und andere Farben, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
Reverberator (curated. Michael Archer), Houldsworth, London, UK
Nashville II, Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Hamburg-Harburg, Germany
Kopfreisen, Seedamm Kulturzentrum, Pfäffikon Switzerland (Cat..),
Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland
XXV Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Paralela; Galeria Fortes Vilaça, Casa Triângulo, Galeria Luisa Strina,
Galeria Brito Cimino; São Paulo, Brazil
2001
Rotativa, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil
Arte Contemporáneo internacional, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico, Mexico
Brown Field, market, Glasgow, UK
EU; Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
Form follows fiction, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy
Patterns: Between Object and Arabesque, Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik,
Odense, Denmark
Freizeit, Kokerei Zollverein, Essen, Germany
Musterkarte, Modelos de Pintura en Alemania, Goethe Institut/ Centro
Cultural Conde duque/ Galeria Heinrich Erhard/ Galeria Elba Benitez, Madrid,
Spain
Casino 2001, S.M.A.K., Gent, Belgium
Tempted to pretend, Kunsthaus Kaufbeuren, Kaufbeuren, Germany
Field, Market, Glasgow, UK
Hybrids, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
Germania. La costruzione di un imagine, Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena,
Italy
Mirror’ s edge, Tramway, Glasgow, UK
Glee: Painting Now; Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Lake Worth,
USA
Close up; Kunstverein Hannover, Germany
Painting at the edge of the world, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA
Comfort: reclaiming place in a virtual world, Cleveland Center for
Contemporary Art, Cleveland, USA
Brown field, Rob Tufnell, Glasgow, UK
Abstraction and Hybridity, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
2000
More works about buildings and food; Fundição de Oeiras, Hangar K7,
Oeiras, Portugal (Cat..)
Glee: Painting Now, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield,
USA; Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Palm Beach, USA (Cat..)
Home Ist Where the Heart is; Museum van Loon, Amsterdam, NL
DAAD: Weltwärts, Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany
Salon, Delfina Project Space, London, UK
Millefleurs, picture show, Berlin, Germany
Malkunst, Fondazione Mudima, Mailand, Italy
Kunst und Mode, Picture Show, Berlin, Germany
Re_public; Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria (mit Rirkrit Tiravanija)
Loneliness in the City, Migros Museum, Zürich, Switzerland (mit Rirkrit
Tiravanija)
M Art in (n), M Art in (n) c/o Martin Schibli, Helsinborg, Sweden
LKW, Lebenskunstwerke, Kunst in der Stadt 4, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria
Bleibe, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany
[re:songlines], halle_für_kunst e.V., Lüneburg, Germany
Close up, Kunstverein Freiburg, Germany, Kunsthalle Baselland, Basel,
Switzerland
Hausschau - das haus in der kunst, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany
CITY-INDEX, Festspielhaus Hellerau, Dresden, Germany
Mysliwska, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
Utopische Bürger?, workweb.art, Köln, Germany
1999
German Open, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
Carnegie International 1999/2000, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA
Mirror´s Edge, BildMuseet, Umea, Sweden; Vancouver Art Gallery,
Vancouver, Canada; Castello di Rivoli, Italy; Tramway, Glasgow, UK;
Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall, Copenhagen,Denmark
1999
Officina Europa, Galleria d`Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy
Malerei, INIT Kunst-Halle, Berlin, Germany
Drawn from Artists´ Collections, The Drawing Center, New York, USA
Am Azonas Künstlerbücher, Villa Minimo, Hannover, Germany
Zoom, Sammlung Landesbank Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart; Museum Abteiberg,
Mönchengladbach, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany
Go away: Artists and travel, Royal College of Art, London, UK
Dream City, Kunstverein München, Germany
Otto&, Otto, Kopenhagen, Denmark
Kunstraum, Kreuzlingen, Switzerland
Frieze, ICA Boston, USA
1998
Franz Ackermann und Jonathan Meese, Sammlung Volkmann, Berlin, Germany
Ferien, Utopie, Alltag, Künstlerwerkstatt Lothringer Straße, München,
Germany
Osygus, Produzentengalerie, Hamburg, Germany
Deep Thought. Part II, Basilico Fine Arts, New York, USA
Painting: Now and Forever. Part I, Pat Hearn Gallery & Matthew Marks
Gallery, New York, USA
Hanging, Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paolo; Paco Imperial, Rio de
Janeiro; Museum of Modern Art, Recife, Brazil
Sehen Sehen, loop - Raum für aktuelle kunst, Berlin, Germany
Atlas Mapping, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria
1997
Urban Living, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, NL
Kunst...Arbeit, Südwest LB, Stuttgart, Germany
Heaven, P.S.1, New York, USA
Kunstpreis der Böttgerstraße in Bremen, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany
Time Out, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Germany
Atlas Mapping, Offenes Kulturhaus Linz, Austria
Topping out, Städtische Galerie Nordhorn, Germany
Giò Marconi, Milano, Italy
Imbiss, Künstlerhaus, Stuttgart, Germany
A summer group show, Neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Germany
1996
Wunderbar, Hamburger Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany (Cat..)
Faustrecht der Freiheit, Sammlung Volkmann, Kunstsammlung, Gera/ Neues
Museum Weserburg, Germany
1995
En passant... Hamburger Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany
En passant... Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Wien, Austria
1994
Cocktail, Kunstverein Hamburg, Germany
Wiensowski & Harbord, Berlin, Germany
1991
BP, Hamburg, Germany
Galleries:
Saatchi Gallery
White Cube Gallery
Mai 36 Galerie
Dirimart
Meyer Riegger
Parkett
Ben Brown Fine Arts
Tomio Koyama Gallery
In his Own words...
http://zkm.de/en/media/video/paul-thek-interview-mit-franz-ackermann
For more Information:
http://www.moma.org/collection/works?locale=es&utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=franz+ackermann&classifications=&date_begin=Pre-1850&date_end=2015&with_images=1
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2010/mar/03/artist-franz-ackermann
En Español:
http://www.elcultural.com/revista/arte/Franz-Ackermann/5973