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Markus Vater    (German, 1970)

 Markus Vater - Invitation
Markus Vater
Invitation
 
 Markus Vater - Together we can defeat capitalism (Paintings) h: 150 x w: 200 cm / h: 59.1 x w: 78.7 in
Markus Vater
Together we can defeat capitalism 2006
 
 

Biography
1970 Born in Duesseldorf/Germany
1990 University of Trier / Philosophy / Arthistory
1997 Kunstakademie Duesseldorf (MA)
1998 Oliver Sweeny-Esquire Award
1998 DAAD-Scholarship for England
1999 Bundy Travel Award (RCA), New York
2000 Royal College of Art (MA)
2003 Villa Romana Stipendium, Florence

Exhibitions
2009 Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany (solo)
2008 A meeting between the tragic and the funny, HessenHuis, Antwerpen, Belgium (solo)
2008 Ludwig Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany (solo)
2008 Museum kunst palast, Düsseldorf, Germany (solo)
2008 Sies + Höcke, Düsseldorf, Germany (solo)
2008 Die Fremden, a project in the public sphere invited by the Fundament Foundation, Tilburg (solo)
2008 The golden record, Edinburgh
2007 The oubliettes of Wolstenholme, Liverpool, England
2007 At the End of the World, art agents gallery, Hamburg (solo)
2007 Solo show, Museum Badem, Baden, Germany (solo)
2007 Death and his Combineharvester,ZINGER presents, Amsterdam (solo)
2007 Grundformen der Angst und Gespräche mit Tieren, art agents out of space, art agents gallery, Hamburg (solo)
2007 Doppelpack - Hans Schulte und Markus Vater, Museum Baden, Solingen, Germany
2006 Sies + Höke Galerie, Duesseldorf , Germany (solo)
2006 Memory / Kunstsommer 2006, Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden, Germany
2006 Metropolis Rise: New Art from London, 798 Art District,Chaoyang District, Beijing
2006 Lantana Projects, Memphis, Tennessee, USA,
2006 Sculpture Garden Phoenix Garden, Stacey Street, London
2006 made in germany _ Malerei der Gegenwart, gip, International Fine Art, Burgdorf,Switzerland
2006 Pleasuring the black sun, Zinger presents, Tilburg, Netherlands
2005 " ? ", art agents gallery, Hamburg (solo)
2005 Goethe Abwaerts, The Falckenberg Collection, Helsinki City Art Museum Meilahti, Helsinki ,Finnland
2005 2. Int. Lueckerinnerungstreffen, WBD, Berlin
2005 Firewall 2, Würtembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany
2005 Direct painting, Kunsthalle Mannhein, Mannheim, Germany
2005 Villa Romana (new positions), Kunstverein Willhelmhoehe, Ettlingen, Germany
2004 Strike, including 100 Artists curated by Gavin Wade, at basekamp, Philadelphia
2004 " ? ", art agents gallery, Hamburg (solo)
2004 "Bilder", at Sies + Hoeke Galerie, Duesseldorf, Germany (solo)
2004 (26.09.04) Malereiausstellung , Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany
2004 "Year Zero" ,with Luke Caulfield, Lali Chetwynd, Alan Michael, David Salle, Daniel Sinsel, Richard Wathen, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland
2004 "Firewall", with Jonas Dahlberg, Andreas Koepnik, Julie Mehretu, Aernout Mik, Julia Scher, Magnus Wallin, Johannes Wohnseifer, Ausstellungshalle fuer Zeitgenoessiche Kunst Muenster, Germany
2004 "Tonight", curated by Paulo'Neill , with Brian Griffith, Dj Simson, Declan Clarke, Lawrence Wiener, Liam Gillick and others, Studio Voltaire
2004 "Mutanten", invited by Tatjana Doll, PS1, New York
2004 Malerei, together with Rodney Graham, Slawomir Elsner, Guenther Foerg , Olaf Holzapfel,Frank Nitsche, Rafael Bujnowski, Galerie Schoettle, Munich, Germany
2004 Malerei IV, Johnen und Schoettle Galerie, Cologne
2003 Villa Romana 2003, together with Norbert Kueppers, Geelke Gayken, Sven Ole Frahm, Salone Villa Romana, Florence, Italy
2003 "Hydrophobia" , together with Heike Kathi Barath, Gereon Krebber, Frenk Meeuwsen, Dirk Skreber, Sophie von Hellermann, Esther Rutenfranz, Tim Stoner, Markus Willeke, Dietmar Lutz at Henry Peacock Gallery, London
2003 Foerderkoje (Statements) at Art Cologne with artagents gallery Hamburg, Cologne (solo)
2003 The greatest show on earth, a collaboration with Martin Clark
2003 The theory of everything, Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France
2002 The New Old School, ibid Projects, Stasiulyte, Vilnius, Lithuania
2002 The Gallery Show, Royal Academy, Piccadilly, London
2002 HobbypopMuseum, Bonner Kunstverein, August Macke Platz, Bonn, Germany
2002 Am Anfang der Bewegung stand ein Skandal, Lehnbachhaus Muenchen, Germany
2002 Paintings, Vilma Gold Gallery, London (solo)
2002 "At the end of the world...", Escale, Duesseldorf, Germany (solo)
2002 Drawings and Animations, Sies + Hoeke Gallery, Duesseldorf, Germany (solo)
2002 Die harten Realitaeten, with Sophie von Hellermann, art agents gallery, Hamburg, Germany
2000 The Hans Albers Project”, SITE Ausstellungsraum, Duesseldorf, Germany (solo)
1998 “her hands smell of architecture“, Ginsa, Tokio (solo)
1997 “Vaterboy leckt Mutterboy “ (mein Gehirn sagt Guten Tag .), Mehrwert, Aachen, Germany (solo)
1997 “Ich moechte Dein Schlauchboot streicheln !“, Galerie 102, Duesseldorf, Germany (solo)
1996 Short Cuts , Galerie 102, Düsseldorf Drive In , Hansaallee, Düsseldorf, Germany
1996 Good News , Galerie 102, Düsseldorf, Germany
1996 Büro für konkrete Symmetrie, Künstlerhaus Dortmund, Germany (solo)
1996 Wir tarnen uns für die Sintflut, Galerie 102, Düsseldorf, Germany (solo)
1995 Coole Bilder,Old Trainworkshopbuilding, Cologne, Germany

Literature
2003 Happy Pappy, edited by Malin Stal, published by Milch, London
2001 Here, There, Elsewhere, edited by David Blamey
2000 Know what I mean?, Katalog, Young German artists in Britain, Goethe Institut London
2000 HobbypoMUSEUM, Katalog, HobbypopMuseum, Duesseldorf
1999 SITE 3, ID Cards, Duesseldorf
1998 Das banale Schoene, Katalog, Helga Meister
1997 Komm ! Kämpf mit mir, Tropen-Verlag, Cologne
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