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Bernhard Martin    (German, 1966)

 Bernhard Martin - Bombay Saphire (Paintings) h: 185 x w: 165 cm / h: 72.8 x w: 65 in
Bernhard Martin
Bombay Saphire 2006
 
 Bernhard Martin - Darkroom (Installations) h: 400 x w: 380 x d: 420 cm / h: 157.5 x w: 149.6 x d: 165.4 in
Bernhard Martin
Darkroom 2006
 
 Bernhard Martin - Therapie (Paintings) h: 160 x w: 140 cm / h: 63 x w: 55.1 in
Bernhard Martin
Therapie 2007
 
 Bernhard Martin - Wegweiser (Paintings)
Bernhard Martin
Wegweiser 2007
 
  

Biography
1966 Born in Hanover, Germany
1983 - 1989 Academy of Fine Arts, Kassel, Germany
1990 - 1991 DAAD Scholarship, Barcelona
1993 Scholarship Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
1998 Scholarship Hessische Kulturstiftung
2003 Scholarship Villa Arson, Nice, France
2006 Visiting Professor at the Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Geneva
2008 Art Award of the City of Wolfsburg
Lives and works in Berlin

Exhibitions
2009 Thema verfehlt, Kunsthalle Lingen, Lingen, Germany (solo)
2008 - 2009 Städtische Galerie, Wolfsburg, Germany
2008 Daydreams & Dark Sides, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
2008 Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany
2008 Tonight forget about your Houses and Cars, Union, London, UK
2008 Thema verfehlt, Kunstpreis der Stadt Wolfsburg Kunstpreisträger - Junge Stadt sieht Junge Kunst
2008 Prognosefehler, Team Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
2008 Galería Joan Prats, Barcelona, Spain (solo)
2008 Gott und ich wir wissen’s schon, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
2008 Galerie Parisa Kind, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (solo)
2007 Neverend in Everland, Union Gallery, London (solo)
2007 Nonvillages et Ouivillages, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France (solo)
2007 Exposures, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
2007 Hamsterwheel, Le Printemps de Septembre à Toulouse, Toulouse, France / Centre d’Art Santa Mònica, Barcelona, Spain
2007 Foodscape, Solares Foundation, Parma, Italy
2007 Cosmic Dreams, Centro Cultural Andratx - CCA, Andratx, Mallorca, Spain
2007 Delicious, Sylvie Fleury, Bernhard Martin, Tom Sachs, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac - Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
2006 Spiel, Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum, Salzburg, Austria (solo)
2006 Brennholz+Ravioli, Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad, Switzerland
2006 Full House, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany
2006 partenaire/particulier, Espace Paul Ricard, Paris, France
2006 Big City Lab, cur. Friederike Nymphius, Art Forum Berlin, Berlin , Germany
2006 Blind Date, Sammlung Deutsche Bank, Museum Moderne Kunst, Passau, Germany
2006 Verpasste Gelegenheiten, Arario Museum, South Korea (solo)
2005 Lichtkunst, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
2005 Passion beyond reason / Wallstreet One, curated by Gerold Miller and Gerwald Rockenschaub, Berlin, Germany
2005 Von Bild // zum Bild, museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria
2005 Max Ernst und die klassische Moderne, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany
2005 Security Check-Painting after Romanticism, curated by Florian Illies, Arndt+Partner, Zurich, Switzerland
2005 Villa Arson, Nice, France (solo)
2005 Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France (solo)
2004 Bahnhofsviertel, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria (solo)
2004 The future has a silver lining, Migrosmuseum, Zurich, Switzerland
2004 TV Today, Montevideo, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2004 Direkte Malerei, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany
2003 Gartencenter, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
2003 My way home, Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery, Paris, France (solo)
2003 Drawings, Unlimited Contemporary Art Athens, Greece (solo)
2003 New works, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France (solo)
2003 selected paintings, Max Wigram MW projects, London, UK
2003 Lee 3 Tau Ceti Central Armory Show, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2003 cartoon, Riva Gallery, New York, USA
2003 small works, Max Wigram projects, London
2003 deutschemalereizweitausenddrei, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2003 How high can you fly, Kunsthaus Glarus
2003 Final Cuts, Union, London
2002 Ich zeige Ihnen gerne meinen Nassbereich, MAMCO Genève, Genf (solo)
2002 Né un 3 septembre, FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon, France
2002 Die Kunst des Festes, Brixen/ South Tyrol, Italy
2002 Dark Spring, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal, Germany
2001 I love Dijon, nouvelles scène, le consortium, Dijon, France
2001 Tirana Biennale I, Tirana, Albania
2001 over, Unlimited, Athens, Greece
2001 Neue Welt, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2001 softcore, Mannheimer Kunstverein, Mannheim, Germany (solo)
2001 PS.1, MOMA, New York, USA (solo)
2001 Futterstadl, Galerie Voges + Deisen, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (solo)
2000 Puderdöschen, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
2000 Ein|räumen, Kunsthalle Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
2000 Back to Kassel, Kunstverein Kassel, Kassel, Germany
2000 Voilà - le monde dans la tete, Musée D´Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
2000 Camping-Camping, Volksbad, Nuremberg, Germany
1999 Zeichnungen, Galerie Almut Gerber, Cologne, Germany
1999 Das Lachen des Ovid, Galerie Voges + Deisen, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
1999 Sympathicus, Städtisches Museum am Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany
1999 Surprise I, Kunstraum B2, Leipzig, Germany
1999 D`anys collaterals, Galerie Alejandro Sales, Barcelona, Spain (solo)
1999 Members Only, Junge Kunst e.V., Wolfsburg, Germany (solo)
1999 D'Anys col.laterals, Galerie Alejandro Sales, Barcelona, Spain
1999 Members Only, Junge Kunst Wolfsburg, Germany
1998 untitled job getting image 1, Galerie Almut Gerber Cologne, Germany
1998 untitled job getting image 2, Serge Ziegler Galerie Zurich, Germany
1998 Untitled Job getting Image I, Galerie Almut Gerber, Cologne, Germany (solo)
1998 Untitled Job getting Image II, Serge Ziegler Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
1997 Health Pack, Galerie Voges + Deisen Frankfurt am Main, Germany
1996 Al Dente, ID Galerie Düsseldorf, Germany
1995 Ein Bad in der Menge, Galerie Siegfried Sander Kassel, Germany

Literature
2009 Bernhard Martin - Thema verfehlt, Dumont Verlag
2006 New German Painting, Ed. Christoph Tannert, Prestel, Munich/New York
2006 Kunst Station Berlin, Ed. Mark Gisbourne (photos Jim Rakete), Knesebeck, Munich
2006 Berlin Art Now, Ed. Mark Gisbourne (photos Jim Rakete), Thames Hudson, London/Abrams New York
2005 vom bild // zum bild. Metamorphosen, Ed. Agnes Husslein-Arco, Anton Pustet, Salzburg
2005 Bernhard Martin – Touch of Charme, Villa Arson, Nice, essays by Laurence Gateau, Heike Munder, Marc Gisbourne, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern
2004 Spur 04, The cheap Champagne issue-X, Material Verlag, Hamburg
2004 Fest Kunst, Folio Verlag, Vienna/Bozen
2004 Not Afraid, Rubell Family Collection, Phaidon, London
2003 deutschemalereizweitausenddrei, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Ed. Nicolaus Schafhausen, Lukas & Sternberg, New York/Berlin
2002 Dark Spring, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, essays by Nicolaus Schafhausen and Vanessa J. Müller, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal
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