The artist

Born in 1963 in Germany, Franz Ackermann lives and works between Berlin and Miami. Travel as an experience, displacement and observation are the notions at the heart of his paintings and installations. Ackerman’s exuberant works with their saturated colours are inhabited with overlapping forms that merge with fragments of images taken directly from urban reality. Globalisation and the issue of tourism also play an important part in his artistic explorations.

Exhibitions

Multiple Locations

November 2 - December 22, 2023
New York
Don’t Move – Travel

October 28 - December 23, 2022
Brussels
A Range of Thoughts

May 14 - July 16, 2022
Paris - Grenier Saint Lazare
Our Houses

September 5 - October 19, 2019
Brussels
New Work

April 9 - May 28, 2016
Paris - Beaubourg

Biography

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Birth	Born in 1963, in Neumarkt St Veit, Germany
Residence	Lives and works in Berlin and Karlsruhe, Germany
Education	1984-88 Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Munich, Germany 1989-91 Hochschule für Bildende Kunst, Hamburg, Germany DAAD, Hong Kong, China

SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)

2023	Multiple Locations, Templon, New York, USA
2022	Don’t move – Travel, Templon, Brussels, Belgium A Range of Thoughts, Galerie Templon, Paris, France
2019	New Neigbours, Gió Marconi, Milan, Italy Franz Ackermann, Pifo Gallery, Beijing, China Our Houses, Galerie Templon, Brussels, Belgium
2018	Die Aufwertung der Lage, Meyer Riegger, Berlin, Germany
2017	Come On, Dirimart, Istanbul, Turkey
2016	Franz Ackermann, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France
2014	Classic Line, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland Mental Maps, Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany White Cube, Bermondsey, London, UK

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2013	Hügel und Zweifel. Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany
2012	Walking South, Faena Arts Center, Buenos Aires, Argentina Transit: Again / Always / Forever, Dirimart, Istanbul, Turkey Tomio Koyama Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
2011	New Ads for São Paulo, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil
2010	No Roof But The Sky, Galerie Neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Germany Wait, White Cube, London, UK
2009	Franz Ackermann, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany
2008	Terminal, Meyer Riegger, Karlsruhe, Germany Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland Kunstmuseum St Gallen, Switzerland
2007	From Eden to Lima, Neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Germany Domus Artium, Salamanca, Spain
2006	Home , Home Again, White Cube, London, UK Kestner Gesellschaft, Hanover, Germany
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 City, USA Tourist, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau, Munich, Germany Travelantitravel, neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Germany
2003	Naherholungsgebiet, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany Eine Nacht in den Tropen, Kunsthalle Nuremberg, Nuremberg, 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, Munich, Germany Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland Eine Nacht in den Tropen, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland 2001 Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York, USA Gió Marconi, Milan, Italy 2000 B.I.T., Castello di Rivoli, Turin, 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, 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, Mila,, 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, Cologne, Germany Condominium, Neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Germany 1991 Art Acker, Berlin, Germany 1990 Galerie Fischer, Hamburg, Germany 1989 Galerie Komat, Brunswick, Germany

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)

2023	LACE – Saison 1, Cité du Cinéma, Saint-Denis, France
2021	Jetzt order nie – 50 jahre sammlung LBBW, Kustmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany Paint it black, Meyer Riegger, Berlin, Germany
2020	A Means To An End, Meyer Riegger, Karlsruhe, Germany small is beautiful: (A)rtschwager to (Z)augg, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland Dirimart Presents VII: Still Life, Dirimart, Istanbul, Turkey Cities in Dust, Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2019	Été pourri, peinture fraiche, FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, France Installationen Aus 25 Jahren Sammlung Falckenberg, Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg, Germany Now Is The Time, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
2018	Memory Palace, White Cube, London UK Germany Is Not An Island : Acquisitions 2012 – 2016, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany Choes and Awe : Painting for the 21st Century, Ingram Gallery Frist Art Museum, Nashville, Tennessee ; Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginie, USA The Flâneur, Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany 200th anniversary programme of Badischer Kunstverein, Karrlsruhe, Germany
2017	Show Room, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Germany And Then There Were None, Meyer Riegger, Berlin, Germany Person of the Crowd : The Comtemporary Art of Flânerie ; Barnes Foundation, Philadelphie, USA Tobias Rehberger ‘presently’, Neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Germany Deutschland 8 – German Art in China, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China Everyday Abstraction : Image at Work, Abstract Room, Paris, France São Paulo nao é uma cidade, Invençoes do centro, SESC 24 e Maio, São Paulo, Brazil Mentales Gelb. Sonnenhöchststand, Lenbachhaus München, Munich, Germany
2016	Wolfsburg Unlimited : Eine Stadt als Weltlabor, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany Aspects of German Art (Revisited), Ben Brown Fine Arts, Hong Kong, China Fora da ordem – Obras da Coleçāo Helga de Alvear, Pinacoteca do Estodo de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

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2015	Aspects of German Art (Part One), Ben Brown Fine Arts, Hong Kong, China Mai 36 Showroom, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
2014	Montevideo Biennial, Montevideo, Uruguay Memory Palace, Contemporary Art Centre, Cincinnati, USA
2013	Expansion Plans, Galeria Fortes Vilaca, São Paulo, Brazil Do not call me urban!, Lokremise, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland For the Time Being: Hidden Behind Plaster, Kunsthalle Baden Baden, Germany Just What Is Not Is Possible, Museum Folkwang Essen, Essen, Germany CONTEMPORARY GERMAN ART: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
2011	Measuring the World: Heterotopias and Knowledge Spaces in Art, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria Precarious Worlds: Contemporary Art from Germany, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St Louis, Missouri, USA Tracks, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein
2010	Kupferstichkabinett: Between Thought and Action, White Cube, London, UK Lost and Found, Galerie Neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Germany Fremde Heimat, Mannheim Kunsthalle, Stuttgart, Germany
2009	Altermodern: Tate Triennial 2009, Tate Britain, London, UK Desenhos: A a Z (Drawings A to Z), Museu da Cidade, Lisbon, Portugal Against the Grain, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany Private Universes, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, USA Extreme Frontiers, Urban Frontiers, IVAM, Valencia, Spain Universal Code, Powerplant, Toronto, Canada The Social Critique 1993-2005, Kalmar Konstmuseum, Kalmar, Sweden The Symbolic Efficiency of the Frame, Tirana International Contemporary Art Biannual, Tirana, Albania
2008	All Inclusive: A Tourist World, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
2007	Imagination becomes Reality, ZKM Museum für Neue Kunst & Medienmuseum, Karlsruhe, Germany Reality Bites – Making Avant – Garde Art in Post-Wall Germany, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St Louis, MO, USA 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, UK Remote Viewing (Invented Worlds in Recent Painting and Drawing), Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO, USA Satellite of Love Witte de With, Rotterdam, The Nederlands The Triumph of Painting, Saatchi Collection, London, UK 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 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, Munich, 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, Germany Zur Vorstellung des Terrors: Die RAF Ausstellung, Kunst-Werke, Berlin, Germany Dosenhos: A-Z (Drawings: A-Z), Porta 33, Funchal, Madeira, 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, São Paulo, Brazil Un-built cities, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany Die Sehnsucht des Kartografen, Kunstverein Hannover, Hanover, 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 Berlin-Moskau/Moskau-Berlin, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany 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 Dreams and Conflicts - The Viewer's Dictatorship, Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy Painting abstract now, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany Mit Harald Klingelhöller, Meuser, Andreas Slominski, Galerie Georg Kargl, Vienna, 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, Majorca, 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., Ghent, 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 Hanover, 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 Glee: Painting Now, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, USA; Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Palm Beach, USA Home Ist Where the Heart is; Museum van Loon, Amsterdam, The Netherlands DAAD: Weltwärts, Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany Salon, Delfina Project Space, London, UK Millefleurs, picture show, Berlin, Germany Malkunst, Fondazione Mudima, Milan, Italy Kunst und Mode, Picture Show, Berlin, Germany Re_public; Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria Loneliness in the City, Migros Museum, Zürich, Switzerland 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., Lunenburg, 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, Cologne, 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 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, Hanover, 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 Munich, Germany Otto&, Otto, Kopenhagen, Denmark Kunstraum, Kreuzlingen, Switzerland 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 City, 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, The Netherlands 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 Nuremberg, Germany Atlas Mapping, Offenes Kulturhaus Linz, Austria Topping out, Städtische Galerie Nordhorn, Germany Giò Marconi, Milan, Italy Imbiss, Künstlerhaus, Stuttgart, Germany A summer group show, Neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Germany 1996 Wunderbar, Hamburger Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany Faustrecht der Freiheit, Sammlung Volkmann, Kunstsammlung, Gera/ Neues Museum Weserburg, Germany 1995 En passant... Hamburger Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany En passant... Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Vienna, Austria 1994 Cocktail, Kunstverein Hamburg, Germany Wiensowski & Harbord, Berlin, Germany 1991 BP, Hamburg, Germany

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS (SELECTION)

	FRAC Champagne Ardenne, Reims, France
	Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
	Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
	Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy
	Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Lichtenstein
	The Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
	Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland

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	Denver Art Museum, Denver, USA
	Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, New-York, USA Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA The Broad (museum/foundation), Los Angeles, USA Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Saint Louis, USA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA Miami Beach Convention Center, Miami, Florida, USA

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Franz Ackermann
ÉTé POURRI, PEINTURE FRAICHE – GROUP SHOW

FRAC CHAMPAGNE ARDENNE, REIMS, FRANCEFrom 17/05/2019 to 15/09/2019

The FRAC Champagne-Ardenne collection includes a series of remarkable paintings that, without retracing the entire history of this medium, highlight high-quality individual practices. “Eté pourri fresh paint” (rotten Summer, fresh paint) is the title of a series of drawings by Robert Malaval (FRAC Champagne-Ardenne collection) whose work, mixing rock, pop aesthetic, the end of the world, the festive and the tragic participated in the decompartmentalization of artistic practices. Painting, sculpture, performance and music were intertwined by Robert Malaval, whose practice has inspired many artists. A discrete tribute to this total and excessive commitment, the exhibition brings together artists whose approach is free from the weight of the millennial history of painting to reinvent it, to divert it, to imagine new rules.

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Exhibitions

Multiple Locations

Don’t Move – Travel

A Range of Thoughts

Our Houses

New Work