1981 Born in Cologne DE, Germany
Lives and works in Cologne DE, Germany
2004-09 Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (Albert Oehlen)
2009 Akademiebrief, Meisterschüler
Lives and works in Cologne, Germany
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2020 Lady Helen, London, UK
Lieber Nackt als Gefühlsleben, Jir Sandel, Copenhagen, Denmark
And going to infinity, (with Tobias Spichtig) Avant-Garde Insitute, Warsaw, Poland
Menschen, Bilder, Emotionen, Leeahn Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2019 Glas im Auge, Nuno Centeno, Porto, Portugal
Political Paintings, Sundogs, Paris, France
I strongly object, Richas Digest, Cologne, Germany
Political Correction, Piece Unique Cologne, Germany
2018 The thin red line, Sprüth Magers, London, UK
The Warsaw Pavilion, Wschód, Warsaw, Poland
2017 The third mind, with Jean Marie Appriou & Anthony Linell aka Abdulla Rashim, Carl Kostyál, Stockholm, Sweden
DONT, Halle9 Kirowwerk, Leipzig, Germany
Bei mir geht es in den Keller hoch, Blueproject Foundation, Barcelona, Spain
2016 Nothing Happened, with Michail Pirgelis, Sprüth Magers, Los Angeles, USA
One Trick Pony, Siegburger Straße 235, Cologne, Germany
Nothing Happened, with Michail Pirgelis, Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne, Germany
To Lose, with Michail Pirgelis, Leopold-Hoesch-Museum, Düren, Germany
2015 Ich bin gekommen um dir zu sagen dass ich gehe, 032c Workshop, Berlin, Germany
I want to die Forever, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria
The F Word, ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
2014 How to do things left, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL, USA
Just do it, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino, Italy
Emotional Paintings, Peres Projects, Berlin, Germany
Auch die schönste Frau ist an den Füssen zu Ende /
Even the most beautiful woman ends at her feet, Oko, New York, USA
Das Goldene Scheiss, Almine Rech Gallery, Paris, France
2013 Yes or let’s say no, Simon Lee Gallery, London, UK
A show about painting, with Michail Pirgelis, Jan Kaps, Cologne, Germany
Relax / Outline Paintings, Siegburger Straße 235, Cologne, Germany
F, Artothek, Cologne, Germany
'I'm OK.' Moments later, he was shot, Peres Projects, Berlin, Germany
2012 Tried and Failed, BolteLang, Zurich, Switzerland
From bad to worse, Ltd, Los Angeles, USA
David Ostrowski & Jack Henry, Nudashank, Baltimore, USA
Dann lieber nein, Figge von Rosen Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Sprechen sie dick, with Harmony Korine, Jagla Ausstellungsraum, Cologne, Germany
2011 Between Two Ferns, with Michail Pirgelis, Mike Potter Projects, Cologne, Germany
Die Lügnerin, with Philip Seibel, Format:C, Düsseldorf, Germany
2010 1981, with Luke Barber-Smith, Parkhaus im Malkasten, Düsseldorf, Germany
2008 Bilder mit Sonnenbrand, with Max Frintrop, First Floor Contemporary, Düsseldorf, Germany
2007 How to Look at Homegrown Terror, Fette’s Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Hulk vs. Hulk, with Max Frintrop, Kunstraum Acapulco, Düsseldorf, Germany
2006 Wie man aus einer Affäre gleich zwei macht, with Michail Pirgelis, Raum für Kunst und Musik, Cologne
2005 Das Goldene Scheiss, Raum für Kunst und Musik, Cologne, Germany
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021 WHITE DIMENSIONS, REVISITED, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany
2020 One Moment Please, Triest, New York, USA
Who Am I, Mèlange, Cologne, Germany
Rhythm and Calm, ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
Echo Chambers, Galerie Bärbel Grässlin, Frankfurt, Germany
Alles Notwendige, Braunsfelder, Cologne, Germany
When I dropped the rocket on the vacuum cleaner, Strizzi, Cologne Germany
Il Ghirigoro, Pio Pico curated by Francesco Tenaglia, Los Angeles, USA
2019 Geisterbahn, curated by Tenzing Barshee, Galerie Bernhard, Zurich, Switzerland
Bad Actors, KARST, Plymouth, UK
RAW, DuMont Kunsthalle, Cologne, Germany
3 Zimmer, Küche, Bad, with Sophie von Hellermann und Andreas Schulze, Braunsfelder, Cologne Germany
Bild & Schrift - Die Revolution in Hennef kann warten, curated by Nils Emmerichs, with Thomas Bayrle,
William N. Copley, Fabian Herkenhoener,
Konrad Klapheck, Ferdinand Kriwet, Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt, Susanne Neuerburg, Hennef, Germany
Im Grunde ist es die Wahrheit / Essentially it's the truth, with Sophie von Hellermann, Gerda Scheepers, Mark van Yetter,
Magenta Plains, New York, USA
Russian Morning, with Thea Djordjadze, Magnus Frederik clausen, Lito Kattou, Petros Moris, Oliver Osborne,
Michail Pirgelis, Max Ruf, Gerda Scheepers,
MD Bar Cologne, Germany
2018 Trance, curated by Albert Oehlen, Aïshti Foundation, Antelias, LB
Coccaro on paper, Masseria Torre Coccaro, Puglia, Italy
Ngorongoro, Berlin, Germany
2017 'How it’s made', curated by Matt Williams, Carl Kostyàl, Stockholm, Sweden
At he Bar, MD Bar, Cologne, Germany
Bild des Tages, plǝt-, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Inaugural exhibition, Syz Collection, Banque Syz, Geneva, Switzerland
The Art Show - Art of the New Millennium in Taguchi Art Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, JP
Benefit, White Columns, New York, USA
Lockers, a project by Diego Diez & Borja Llobregat, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Netherlands
2016 Progressive Praxis, de la Cruz Collection, Miami, USA
The Power and The Glory, Charles Riva Collection, Brussels, Belgium
Wax & Wane, curated by Albert Oehlen, Fondazione Carriero, Milano, Italy
Papier, ak-Raum, Köln, Germany
My Abstract World, me Collectors Room Berlin / Stiftung Olbricht, Berlin, Germany
Merci Raymond by Bertrand Lavier, Monnaie de Paris, Paris, France
Made in Germany: Contemporary Art from the Rubell Family Collection, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas, USA
You've Got to Know the Rules...to Break Them, de la Cruz Collection, Miami, USA
2015 Artists against Aids 2015, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
Full of Peril and Weirdness: Painting as a Universalism, M Woods Museum in Beijing, China
Falling Fictions, me Collectors Room Berlin / Stiftung Olbricht, Berlin, Germany
Benefit, Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin, Germany
Sprayed: Works from 1929–2015, Gagosian Gallery, London, UK
Enigmas: Martin Barré, David Ostrowski, Julian Schnabel, Reena Spaulings,
curated by Alison Gingeras, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, USA
A Man Walks Into a Bar, me Collectors Room, Berlin, Germany
The Shell curated by Eric Troncy, Almine Rech Gallery, Paris, France
2014 17 Abstract Paintings, selected by Warhus Rittershaus, Cologne, Germany
Benefit, Swiss Institute, New York, USA
Group show, Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland
The pipe at the gates of dawn, Jan Kaps, Cologne, Germany
Ordinary Freaks, Künstlerhaus, Halle für Kunst & Medien, Graz, Austria
Nowhere, Kosmetiksalon Babette, Berlin, Germany
Collective III, Gallery Guy Bärtschi, Geneva, Austria
Where were you?, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
Beware Wet Paint, ICA, London, UK
Group Spirit, Peres Projects, Berlin, Germany
Drive the Change, 100plus, Zurich, Austria
I may be wrong but I think you are beautiful, David Achenbach Projects, Düsseldorf, Germany
Walk the line, Simon Lee Gallery, Hong Kong, China
2013 Jahresgaben, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany
The Medium of Intensity, Carl Kostyál, Stockholm, Sweden
One from None, Autocenter, Berlin, Germany
The End, Q-Box, Athens, Greece
Degrees of Separation, Galerie Jeanrochdard, Paris, France
Papierarbeiten, Jagla Ausstellungsraum, Cologne, Germany
The Edge of Abstraction, Hopstreet, Brussels, Belgium
17/13, Kunstgruppe Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany
Space Whole Karaoke Middlemarch, Brussels, Belgium
The Gesture and the Sign, curated by Susan May, White Cube, São Paulo, Brazil
Beyond The Object, Brand New Gallery, Milan, Italy
2012 Große Jahresgabenausstellung, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany
Bread Box, ZieherSmith, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
En désordre, Sammlung Philara, Düsseldorf, Germany
Slowed & Throwed, Chinatown Arcade, New York, USA
Shoot the Lobster/Martos Gallery, New York, USA
Seriously connected old greyhair, Christopher Cresent, HD:Projects, New York, USA
Family Matters, Le Courant, Brussels, Belgium
Full House, Kunstgruppe Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany
New Gestural Painting, September, Berlin, Germany
Blitz, Rod Barton Gallery, London, UK
Neue Tiere 3, Kunstverein Koelnberg, Cologne, Germany
Tlk Drty, Amstel41, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Unterm Strich, Figge von Rosen Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Jonathan Binet, Lydia Gifford, David Ostrowski, BolteLang, Zurich, Switzerland
Neue Wände, Knust x Kunz +, Munich, Germany
2011 This is Tomorrow, Annarumma Gallery, Naples, Italy
Boo!, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Vor Gott ist alle Kunst Scheisse II, Boutique, Cologne, Germany
Jahresgaben, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany
GSK - Gesellschaft für streitorientierte Kulturforschung, Düsseldorf, Germany
Single Museum, Kunstraum Düsseldorf, Germany
Papierarbeiten, Jagla Ausstellungsraum, Cologne, Germany
Moraltarantula 5, Zollamt-Oberhafenkantine, Hamburg, Germany
Korrupte Talente, Avantrash, Munich, Germany
Single im Juli, Single Club, Düsseldorf, Germany
Dirty Dancing, Figge von Rosen Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Everything you ever liked about your mother, 15 Howie Street, London, UK
The Spur of the Moment, Nest, Den Haag, Netherlands
Pop Hits, Tanzschule, München; Autocenter, Berlin, Germany
2010 Addition and Subtraction, 304 days, Vancouver, Canada
GSK - Gesellschaft für streitorientierte Kulturforschung, Düsseldorf, Germany
Vor Gott ist alle Kunst Scheisse, Oktober, Düsseldorf, Germany
Moraltarantula 4, Elektrohaus, Hamburg, Germany
A thing is a thing in a whole which it’s not, Temporary Gallery Cologne, Cologne, Germany
We redefine when we come of age 1976-1987, Toldkammeret, Helsingør, Denmark
The rest is history, Mike Potter Projects, Berlin, Germany
Editionen + X, Artleib, Düsseldorf, Germany
The Destroyed Room, Whatspace, Perron 58, Tilburg, Netherlands
Forgotten Bar Project, Galerie im Regierungsviertel, Berlin, Germany
Nothing is wrong if it feels good, Mike Potter Projects, Cologne, Germany
2009 Lust auf Öl, Raum Kalk, Cologne, Germany
The last real painters, Resy Muijsers Contemporary Art, Tilburg, Netherlands
Painting on the Möve, kuratiert von Albert Oehlen, Wiensowski & Harbord, Berlin, Germany
Something strange will happen this summer, Mike Potter Projects, Oxford, England, UK
Whatbar 5, Whatspace, Gent, Belgium
Giganten, Mike Potter Projects, Cologne, Germany
Dolce Standards, Maverick, Cologne, Germany
2008 1001 Bild, Villa de Bank, Enschede, Netherlands
Great Expectations, Artlab21, Bergamont Station, Los Angeles, USA
2007 Unqualifiziertes Dunkel, Raum für Kunst und Musik, Cologne, Germany
Bye, Bye Acapulco, Kunstraum Acapulco, Düsseldorf, Germany
Kombilösung: Spiegelvision, Artleib, Düsseldorf, Germany
Achte oder zehnte Ausstellung im Blast Raum, Kunstraum Blast, Cologne, Germany
Royalbunker, Institut für zeitgenössische Beobachtung, Vienna, Austria
2006 I know you, but you don't know me, Fette’s Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Intersection, Resy Muijsers Contemporary Art, Tilburg, Netherlands
Jahresgaben, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, Germany
Bretter, die die Welt bedeuten, Kunstraum Acapulco, Düsseldorf, Germany
Vergeht mir Hören, Sehen und Denken, Galerie Tedden, Oberhausen, Germany
Public Folder #2, Raum für Kunst und Musik, Cologne; Museumsquartier, Vienna, Austria
Awards
2012 Atelierstipendium Kölnischer Kunstverein und Imhoff-Stiftung, Cologne, Germany
Public Collections
Fondazione Sandroretto Re Rebaudengo
Coleccion Jumex
Moderna Musset
