PRESSING YOUR FACE IN WET GRASS by Henning Strassburger

Born 1987 in Heidelberg (D), lives and works in Frankfurt am Main (D) 2009-2013: AdBK Karlsruhe with Prof. Toon Verhoef
2013-2015: Städelschule Frankfurt am Main with Prof. Willem de Rooij

Solo and Two Person Shows
2017
Solo Show / Duve Berlin / Berlin (D) (Upcoming in April)
Zona Maco / Mexico City (MX) with Iris Touliatou
2016
Aware Of Being Naive / Basis Showroom / Frankfurt am Main (D) with Martin Kähler
2015
Reasonable Doubt / DUVE Berlin / Berlin (D) MiArt / Milan (IT) with Roman Liška
2014
At The End Of Days Zombies Are Crawling Up The Walls / Im Hinterzimmer Showroom / Karlsruhe (D) with Christian Falkner
The Show Must Go Wrong / Salon Kennedy / Frankfurt am Main (D)
2013
Tu, Io, Noi / V8 Showroom / Karlsruhe (D) with Henry Staschik
2012
Cannot See Straight / Kensington Gardens Square / London (UK) by Salon Kennedy

Selected Group Shows
2017
Painting Or Not / Kaviar Factory / Henningsvær (NOR) (Upcoming in May)
Pressing Your Face In Wet Grass / PrivateOffspace / Frankfurt (D) (Upcoming in April)
Tutti Meno Un Etto / Im Hinterzimmer Showroom / Karlsruhe (D)
2016
Shades Of Grey / Kunstraum Riehen / Riehen, Basel (CH) Encoding The Urban / Kunsthaus Baselland / Muttenz, Basel (CH)
My Third Wish Has Always Been Three More / Infinite Berlin / Berlin (D)
Von meinem iPhone gesendet / Alte Fleischmarkthalle Karlsruhe / Karlsruhe (D) Art Cologne / Cologne (D)
The Art Of The Matter / CAM St. Louis / St. Louis (US)
2015
Parked Like Serious Oysters / MMK Frankfurt am Main (D)
If it can’t burn us, can it still warm our hearts? / Mindscape Universe Showroom / Berlin (D) Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost / Villa Gellertstraße / Karlsruhe (D)
NADA / New York (US)
2014
Paint Me A River / Flur11 Showroom / Braunschweig (D) Flumen / Kunsthalle Mulhouse / Mulhouse (FR)
2013
Being Specific! / Kunsthaus Baselland / Muttenz, Basel (CH) 1985 / Sammlung Fiede / Schlachthaus Aschaffenburg (D) V8 Anniversary Exhibition / V8 Showroom / Karlsruhe (D)
2012
A Retrospective of Tomorrow’s Artists / Schillerpalais Showroom / Berlin (D)
2011
GVS Art Award for Young Artists / GVS Süddeutschland / Stuttgart (D)

Awards / Grants
2013-2015
Grant of the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)
2012
Awardwinner of Heinrich Hertz Grant at Annual Exhibition / AdBK Karlsruhe (D)

Publications
2014
Artist book for Tramp.The Edition Space, initiated by Ferial Nadja Karrasch / Members Exhibition at Badischer Kunstverein / Karlsruhe (D)
2013
Contribution in Cahier artist book #1, initiated by Nele-Marie Gräber, Simone Häfele and Julia Sinner /
Members Exhibition at Badischer Kunstverein / Karlsruhe (D)

Bibliography / Press
2016
Indechs Magazine and Independent Collectors, Field Trip 33-Studio Visit Maximilian Arnold
2015
MMK Frankfurt am Main, catalogue Parked Like Serious Oysters
KubaParis, Maximilian Arnold@DUVE Berlin
Sichtbeton, text Reasonable Doubt
Cultured Magazine, Fall Issue, article The Season in Art by Laura de Gunzburg
2014
Milan Ther, text Screen Culture: Open Paintings in a Closed System
Frankfurter Neue Presse, 17.02.2014, review about Städelschule Rundgang
2013
BZ Basel, 13.12.2013, review about the show Being Specific! kunst:art magazine, issue 34, review about the show Being Specific! Ferial Nadja Karrasch, text Bildversuche
Indechs Magazine, interview Young Painters-Maximilian Arnold

Writing
Text about the work of Martin Kähler, Why Not Hang With Painters?

Public Collections
Schufa Holding AG / Wiesbaden (D)

Wisconsin, USA, 1988

Studies

2014-2017       Staedelschule, Frankfurt am Main, DE, Prof. Amy Sillman and Monika Baer

2010-2014       Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Kuenste Karlsruhe, DE, Prof. Daniel Roth and Harald Klingelhoeller

2009-2010       Albert Ludwigs Universitaet, Freiburg im Breisgau, DE

2007-2009       University of Minnesota, Duluth and Twin Cities, USA, Philosophy department

Grants and prizes

2015                Kuenstlerhilfe Stipendium, Frankfurt am Main, DE

2013                Preistraeger der Rotary Club Karlsruhe fuer junge Kunst, DE

2012               Preistraeger der Jahresausstellung der Kunstakademie Karlsruhe, DE

Exhibitions (selection)

2016                Summertime Witchcraft, The Fort, US, (with Aileen Murphy)

                         Croissant, MMK 3 Zollamt, Frankfurt am Main, DE

                         Obscure Motions, Basis Project Room, Frankfurt am Main, DE, (with Lena Phillips)

Rundgang 2016, Staedelschule, Frankfurt am Main, DE

2015                Der Zweite Blick, Galerie Scharmann Laskowski, Cologne, DE, (group exhibition)

                         GO(O)D VIBRATIONS, Kunstverein Letschebach, Karlsruhe, DE, (with Xerxes Oakman)

                         Pentaposition, Orgelfabrik, Durlach, DE, (group exhibition)

                         Re:done (Ausstellung der Klasse von Daniel Roth), Ettlingen Kunstverein, Ettlingen, DE

                         Nachtwache, Ettlingen Kunstverein, Ettlingen, DE (with Marco Breu)

2014                Scheffelstrasse 14, Orgelfabrik, Durlach, DE, (group exhibition)

2013                Wood(s), Zwinger Gallery, Berlin, DE, (cur. by Lawrence Rickels

(b. 1990, New York) is currently based in Frankfurt am Main where she is studying at the Städelschule with Prof. Judith Hopf. She received her BFA Sculpture from Pratt Institute (Brooklyn, NY) in 2012 and has also studied at Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. Some recent exhibitions include, It’s all Natural…, Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden (2016), EVA, Interstate Projects, Brooklyn (2016), Autotomy, The White Page, Minneapolis (2015).

For full CV please contact the gallery.

*1991 in Ulm

studies

2011-2016 Kunstakademie Karlsruhe, P. Meuser and Henning Strassburger
2016-2017 Kunstakademie Karlsruhe, P. Ulla von Brandenburg

shows

2014 Jahresausstellung Kunstakademie Karlsruhe 2015 Jahresausstellung Kunstakademie Karlsruhe 2015 „Pentaposition“, Orgelfabrik Durlach
2015 „Self titled“, Ciao offspace, Karlsruhe 2016 Jahreausstellung Kunstakademie Karlsruhe
2016 “von meinem Iphone gesendet”, Fleischmarkthalle, Karlsruhe 2016 „Hold the line“ (solo) at Kunstverein Rastatt
2016 „I am a golden god“, curated by Henning Strassburger, Fiebach, minninger, Cologne

2016 exhibition prize of the art academy Karlsruhe

1984, Ireland

Lives and works in Frankfurt am main

Education:

2014-2018: HFBK Städelschule, (class Amy Sillman/Monika Bär), Frankfurt am main

2007: BFA Painting, NCAD, Dublin

2006: Erasmus exchange, HGB, Leipzig

Selected Exhibitions:

2016:

Jahresgaben 2016/2017, Düsseldorf Kunstverein, Düsseldorf

Comfort, One Foot In Door, Frankfurt am main

Summertime Witchcraft, The Fort, New York

Opals, Galleri Opdahl, Stavanger

Die Marmory Show III, Guilty Pleasures, Deborah Shamoni, Munich

The Limited Sphere, 321 Gallery, New York

Hands Laid On, (with Kathy Tynan), Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin

2015:

Stuffing, (with Bradley Davies) Johan (Staedelschule), Frankfurt am main

Stranger Shores, Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast

Panorama, Pallas Projects, Dublin

2014:

Patient Staring, The Wexford Arts Centre, Co. Wexford

1985 in Calgary, CANADA

Lives and works in Berlin, GERMANY

EDUCATION

2016            Meisterschülerin, Monika Baer/Amy Sillman Painting Class, Städelschule Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künst, Frankfurt am Main, GERMANY

2009            Bachelor of Fine Arts with Distinction, Concordia University, Montréal, CANADA

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2017            No R.E.M. (Upcoming) Ashley, Berlin, GERMANY

2016            Matador

Kunstverein Albrecht Dürer Gesellschaft, Nürnberg, GERMANY

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2017            IMPURE FICTION PRESENTS . . . CCC (Upcoming)

MADE IN GERMANY, Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover, GERMANY

Pressing your face in wet grass

PRIVATEOFFSPACE, Frankfurt am Main, GERMANY

Fifi CC My Playground

OCD Studios, Berlin, GERMANY

Young Positions

Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, GERMANY

Full Moon in Cancer presents . . . Friday the 13th

Cave 3000, Berlin, GERMANY

2016            Jahresgaben

Kunstverein Albrecht Dürer Gesellschaft Nürnberg, GERMANY

IMPURE FICTION PRESENTS . . . The Misanthrope

Montréal Biennale 2016, Montréal, CANADA

31 Women

Philipp Pflug Contemporary, Frankfurt am Main, GERMANY

Croissant

MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, GERMANY

Marianne-Defet-Malerei-Stipendium

Kunsthalle Nürnberg, GERMANY

2015            FookBair (with Pure Fiction)

Frankfurt am Main, GERMANY

Romeo and Juliet (with Pure Fiction) Frankfurt am Main, GERMANY

RANDOM RULES

Black Flagg, Aschaffenberg, GERMANY

Let me see you see me

AtelierFrankfurt, RAY International Photography Festival, Frankfurt am Main, GERMANY

2014            PATINA OVERHANG

Klondike Institute of Art and Culture, Dawson City, CANADA

This Area is Under 23 Hour Video and Audio Surveillance

Jackman Humanities Institute, University of Toronto, CANADA

Chips in the Night

Whippersnapper Gallery, Toronto, CANADA

2013            Effects of a Room

G Gallery, Toronto, CANADA

RESIDENCIES

2017            Berlin Program for Artists (with Angela Bulloch, Simon Denny and Willem de Rooij; Berlin, GERMANY

2016            Marianne-Defet-Malerei-Stipendium;  Nürnberg,  GERMANY

2012            Samband Islenskra Myndlistarmanna / The Association of Icelandic Visual Artists; Reykjavik, ICELAND

The Banff Centre Spring Thematic – LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL STOP PLEASE ALLOW FEATURES ASSUME EXPRESSION INDICATIVE OF AMUSEMENT JOY PLEASURE BENEVOLENCE STOP…(with

Angie Keefer, Isla Leaver-Yap, Will Holder and Robert Snowden); Banff, CANADA

DISTINCTIONS, GRANTS AND AWARDS

2017            Berlin Program for Artists Production Grant

2016            Marianne-Defet-Malerei-Stipendium, Da Vinci Pinselfabrik / Kunstverein Nürnberg Albrecht Dürer Gesellschaft

Linklaters LLP Preis, Staedelschule Rundgang

2012            Professional Development Award, British Columbia Arts Council Spring Thematic Financial Assistance Grant, Banff Centre  Artist Grant, Vermont Studio Center

2009            The Betty Goodwin Award in Studio Arts, Concordia University

Prix du centre des arts et des fibres du Québec, Concordia University / Diagonale Centre des arts et des fibres du Québec