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Frank Badur

(German, born 1944)

Frank Badur

s.t., 1977

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Biography

Timeline

1944: Born in Oranienburg near Berlin, Germany
1963 - 1969: Studies painting at the School of Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
1973: Establishes a permanent studio in Finnland
1975: Founding member of the international group Systhema
1982: Fellowship by the Hand-Hollow-Foundation of George Rickey (East Chatham, NY), spends study period in the U.S.
: Grant from the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Commission)
: Participates in National Gallery’s, Berlin, exhibition Homage to Barnett Newman
1984: Awarded TetraPak Art Prize
: Receives grant from the Foundation for Art, Bonn, Germany
: Receives the Prize for Fine Art from the citizens of Mülheim
1985: Appointed professor at the University of the Arts in Berlin
1986: Completes The Medial Section, a 12-part largescale sculpture for the Spring Hill Site Projects, Virginia
1989: Installs in the Synagogue in Oerlinghausen the environment Hommage á Otto Freundlich
1990: Participates in Ambiente Berlin at the Venice Biennale
1993: Participates in Ambiente Berlin at the Venice Biennale
1994: Work period in New York City. Creates in cooperation with Katsuhito Nishikawa the Walk in sculpture for the Art Cologne
1997: Farben sind Taten des Lichts (Colours are deeds of light), an installation with works on paper in the St. Petri church in Ystad, Sweden
: Participates in the L.A. International Biennial, Los Angeles
2003: Visiting Professor at the China Academy of Art, Hangzhou
2007: Visiting Artist at the Georgia State University, Atlanta
: Lives and works in Berlin and Finland

Exhibitions

2015: See Me, Feel Me - Works by Frank Badur, Teo Gonzalez, Ted Larsen, Nan Swid, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, USA
2014: Frank Badur, Saarlandmuseum, Moderne Galerie, Saarbrücken, Germany (solo exhibition)
: ART=TEXT=ART – Private Languages / Public Systems, Work by Contemporary Artists from the Collection of Sally and Wynn Kramarsky, New York, UB Anderson Gallery, Buffalo NY, USA
: Zeichnung der Gegenwart (cat.), Galerie Parterre, Berlin, Germany
: Kunst in Berlin 1945 bis heute. Sammlungspräsentation, Berlinische Galerie, Landesmuseum für Moderne Kunst, Berlin, Germany
: Cabinet de dessins, Jordan / Seydoux – Drawings & Prints, Berlin, Germany
: Papier/Paper IV – Collagen, kunstgaleriebonn, Bonn, Germany
: Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, USA
2013: MA / in between, Galerie Jordan/Seydoux - Drawings & Prints , Berlin, Germany (solo)
: GEBAUTE BILDER, ERNST BARLACH HAUS - Stiftung Hermann F. Reemtsma, Hamburg, Germany
: Max Cole | Frank Badur, Gruppenausstellung »System und Sinnlichkeit«, Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Germany
: about color, Galerie Wenger, Zurich, Switzerland (solo exhibition)
: about drawing, Galerie Bernard Jordan, Zurich, Switzerland (solo exhibition)
: Work – Work – Work, Museum Liner, Appenzell, Switzerland
: ANSCHLÜSSEL LONDON / BERLIN, A survey selected by Andrew Hewish, Centre for Recent Drawing, London, United Kingdom
: Seeing Red, Hamish Morrison Galerie, Berlin, Germany
: LAProjects, Landshut, Germany (solo exhibition)
2012: Galerie Michael Sturm, Stuttgart, Germany (solo exhibition)
: Berlin zeichnet, Stadtgalerie Kiel, Germany
: Treffpunkt, Hamish Morrison Galerie, Berlin, Germany
: Drawn /Taped/ Burned: Abstraction on Paper ́, Katonah Museum of Art, New York, United States of America
: Frank Badur, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, United States of America
: Papier/Paper, kunstgaleriebonn, Bonn, Germany
: Mostly RED and works on Paper , Margaret Thatcher projects, New York, United States of America
: Neue Arbeiten, Hamish Morrison Galerie, Berlin, Germany
: Een keuze hedendaagse duitse tekeningen / Eine Auswahl zeitgenössischer deutscher Zeichnungen / Selection of contemporary german drawings , Drawing Centre Diepenheim, The Netherlands
: Back from The Island , Projektraum Hamish Morrison Galerie, Berlin, Germany (solo)
2011: Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, USA (solo exhibition)
: ART=TEXT=ART , Richmond Museum, Virginia, United States of America
2010: Frank Badur - Holzschnitte, Galerie Bernard Jordan, Zürich, Switzerland
: Ganz konkret 2, Haus Konstruktiv Zürich, Switzerland
: Berlin zeichnet, Ludwigmuseum Koblenz, Germany
: Summerspecial, Galerie Schlegl, Zürich, Switzerland
: Colour Recall, Hamish Morrison Galerie, Berlin
: Why Pattern?, fruehsorge contemporary drawings, Berlin
: aus / gezeichnet / zeichnen, Akademie der Künste, Berlin
: Editionen, Jordan Seydoux – Drawings & Prints, Berlin
: A Time Goes By. Kunstwerke über Zeit, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin
: DRAWING, M. Thatcher Projects, New York
2009: DEUCE Painters draw - Drawers paint, Hamish Morrison Galerie, Berlin
: NOTATION – Form und Kalkül in den Künsten, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
2008: Edges of Darkness, Hamish Morrison Galerie, Berlin
: NOTATION, Akademie der Künste, Berlin
: Farbsinn, Galerie Nicole Schlégl, Zürich,  Switzerland
: Raumwechsel 10, Kunstraum Alexander Bürkle, Freiburg, Germany
: New Drawings, M. Thatcher Projects, New York
: gestern war - heute ist, Museum gegenstandsfreier Kunst, Otterndorf, Germany
: Galerie Carmen Weber, Zug, Switzerland (solo)
: Art construit - Art concret, Musée Cambrai, France
2007: A Tribute to Brice Marden, Fruehsorge Contemporary Drawings, Berlin
: Simple Lines - Deep Spaces, Frühsorge Contemporary Drawings, Berlin (solo)
: Die Aufregende Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
2006: Frank Badur - Espace Fanal, Basel, Switzerland (solo)
: Horizontales verticales seules, Musée de Pontoise, Pontoise, France
: Arena der Abstraktion, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
: Berlin - Tokyo / Tokyo - Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
: Frank Badur, berlin/new york, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York (solo)
: Drawings, 560 Broadway, New York
: The Mark of Minimalism, Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
2005: Frank Badur, Grid Drawings, Galerie Nicole Schlègl, Zürich (solo)
: Art construit - Art concret, Musée de Cambrai, Cambrai, France
2004: Frank Badur, Galerie Michael Sturm, Stuttgart, Germany (solo)
: stets konkret, Leopold-Hoesch-Museum, Düren, Germany
: Frank Badur, Grid Drawings, Fruehsorge Contemporary Drawings, Berlin (solo)
: Frank Badur - works on paper, Kiyo Higashi Gallery, Los Angeles, USA (solo)
2003: Frank Badur - Galerie Carmen Weber, Zug, Switzerland (solo)
: La Donation Jeunet, Musée d’art, Neuchatel, Switzerland
: Frank Badur - Galerie Verger, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
: Frank Badur, new work, Fassbender-Stevens Gallery, Chicago, USA (solo)
: Räume des XX. Jahrhunderts, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
: Frank Badur - Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, USA (solo)
: Chroma, Espace de l’Art Concret, Mouans-Sartoux, France
2002: Frank Badur, Hommage à Mies van der Rohe´, Mies van der Rohe Haus, Berlin (solo)
: Frank Badur, Malerei - Zeichnungen, Kunst-Museum Ahlen, Germany (solo)
2001: Kiyo Higashi Gallery, Los Angeles, USA (solo)
: Finely Drawn, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, North Carolina, USA (solo)
: Frank Badur, cadmium paintings, Galerie Nicole Schlègl, Zürich, Switzerland (solo)
: Mondiale Echo’s, Mondriaanhuis, Amersfoort, Netherlands
2000: Zen und die westliche Kunst, Museum Bochum, Bochum, Germany
: Arte em Berlimno Sécullo XX, Museu Serralves, Porto, Portugal
: Frank Badur, Mönchehaus Museum, Goslar, Germany
: Frank Badur, Sehen und Denken, Akademie der Künste, Berlin (solo)

Public Collections

: Taidemuseo, Kemi, Finland
: M.K. Ciurlionis-Kunstmuseum, Kaunas, LIT
: Colorado Springs Fine Art Center, Colorado Springs, CO, USA
: Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf
: Kunstmuseum Bonn
: Kunsthalle zu Kiel
: Kunsthalle Bremen
: Werner H. and Sarah Ann Kramarsky, New York, NY, USA
: Davis Museum, Wellesley, MA, USA
: Kássak Muzeum, Budapest, H
: Sammlung Hoffmann-La Roche, Basel, Switzerland
: Haus Konstruktiv, Zürich, Switzerland
: Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen
: Mondriaanhuis, Amersfoort, Netherlands
: Mönchehaus Museum f. mod. Kunst, Goslar
: Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
: Menill Collection, Houston, TX, USA
: Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, NH, USA
: Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE, USA
: Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt
: Botschaft d. Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Tokio, Japan
: Bermingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL, USA
: Berlinische Galerie, Berlin
: Barmenia, Wuppertal
: Ausstellungsges. Zollverein, Essen
: Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR, USA
: Amos Anderson Museum, Helsinki, Finland
: Alaska Museum, Fairbanks, AK, USA
: Ahrenberg Collection, Los Angeles, USA
: Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME, USA
: City of Lund, Lund, Sweden
: Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, IA, USA
: BW-Bank, Stuttgart
: Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, MA, USA
: Sammlung der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Berlin
: Bundesministerium f. Arbeit u. Sozialordnung, Berlin
: Bundesministerium der Justiz, Berlin
: Botschaft d. Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Tokio, Japan
: Malmö Konstmuseum, Malmö, Sweden
: Leopold-Hoesch-Museum, Düren
: Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin
: Kunstraum A. Bürkle, Freiburg
: Muzeum Okregowe, Chelm, Poland
: Sammlung Stinnes, Mülheim
: Svenska Handelsbanken, Stockholm, Sweden
: Städtisches Museum, Mülheim
: Städtische Galerie, Berg. Gladbach
: Staatsbibliothek München
: Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Kassel
: Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, USA
: San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA, USA
: Sammlung Rosskopf, Freiburg
: Saarland Museum, Saarbrücken
: Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, USA
: Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Köln
: Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro NC, USA
: Sammlung UBS, Zürich, Switzerland
: The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI, USA
: TetraPak Collection, Hochheim
: Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz, Poland
: Bois Art Museum, Boise, ID, USA
: Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
: Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin
: Kunstmuseum Lichtenstein, Vaduz, Lichtenstein
: Kunstmuseum Heidenheim
: Museum Schloss Morsbroich, Leverkusen
: Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, USA
: Museum Liner, Appenzell, Switzerland
: Museum gegenstandsfreier Kunst, Otterndorf
: Museum für Konkrete Kunst, Ingolstadt
: Museum für bildende Künste, Budapest, H
: Musee des Ursulines, Macon, France
: Musée de Cambrai, France
: Musée d’art, Neuchatel, Switzerland
: Progressive, Mayfield Heights Ohio, USA
: Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR, USA
: Pfalzgalerie, Kaiserslautern
: Janus Pannonius Muzeum, Pécs, Hungary
: New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM, USA
: Neuberger Museum Purchase, New York, NY, USA
: Botschaft d. Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Helsinki, Finland