Biography
 
Born 1960 in Wetzlar/Lahn
Lives and works near Cologne
 
1979-85 studies art education with first state examination,  biology and philosophy, with Prof. H-J. Imiela, Prof. Bernhard Engert, University of Mainz, with Ann Leda Shapiro, Prof. R. Colescott, and Prof. B. McGrew, University of Arizona Tucson, U.S.A.
1985-87 Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, student of David Rabinowitch, Kaspar König, joining video class
   
  Scholarships
2024 Résidence Courbet, Mouthier Haute Pierre, France
2022 NEUSTART KULTUR Kunstfonds e.V. Bonn (Color by Color)
2021 NRW Artist Scholarship (MKW)
  NEUSTART KULTUR – Stiftung Kulturwerk L’Opèra de Renèe
2020 NRW-Künstlerstipendium (MKW) CORONA FABULA
2014 1. Prize Art in Public Competition, Uniklinikum Regensburg, together with Peter Hochscheid >> Art in Public – Trans Chroma
2013 1. Prize sculpture competition, Lilienthal together with Peter Hochscheid
2011 MACtac Innovative Awards European Winner
2006 Industry Scholarship for Cremer and Breuer German Ceramics
1984 Special Cultural Enrichment Fund for Fulbright Grantees
1983 Scholarship German – American Club
  Fulbright Scholarship, University of Arizona, Tucson U.S.A.
   
  Teaching
2002 Lecturer for Painting, Thuringian Summer Academy, Böhlen
   
  Solo exhibitions
2019 Color by Color, Gallery Klaus Braun, Stuttgart
2017 VIEW ELBE, Gallery Klaus Braun, Stuttgart
  INTO THE SEA, Plus space for pictures, Cologne
  BE(E) HERE, Parc de Châteaubriant, Radevormwald
2015 COLORLINECUTS, galerie januar e.V., Bochum-Langendreer
  COLOR|LIGHT-GRAPHICMOMENTS, Space for Art, Frechen
2014 Line to Line, Villa Zanders Grand Hall, Bergisch Gladbach (K) >> Villa Zanders, Line to Line
2013 WATERCOLORS and DRAWINGS, GalleryKlaus Braun, Stuttgart
PAINTING, GallerySchütte, Essen
2011 The beauty of longing, Palace of  Benrath, Düsseldorf >> Art in Public
2010 Of figures and colors, Collection NRW Aachen-Kornelimünster, with Inge Schmidt (K)
2009 A THOUSAND SPLENDID COLORS, Commerzbank-Tower, Frankfurt >> Spatial Invention
2008 BEWEGEND, Ev. ref. church, Radevormwald (K) >> Spatial Invention
Coloured Lyrisms, Townhouse at the Cathedral, Wetzlar
Play of colors, Kahnweilerhaus, Rockenhausen
2007 Lyrisms of Light, Clemens-Sels-Museum, Neuss (K)
The beautiful side, Kunsthaus Wiesbaden, wall work
2006 Works on paper and canvas, Gallery Schütte, Essen
2005 Sehstücke, Art Association Heidelberg, Heidelberg (K)
Pure color, Museum St. Wendel, Mia-Münster-Haus (K)
Sehstücke, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund (K)
2003 Gallery Ulrich Mueller, Köln
2002 Color space work, Gallery Schütte, Essen
2001 Art Association House Martfeld, Wuppertal Schwelm
2000 Malerei, Galerie Schütte, Essen
1999 Gallery Ulrich Mueller, Köln
1998 Gallery Schütte, Essen (K)
Wall work in the Edith – Stein – House of the Abbey Michaelsberg, Siegburg >> Art in Public
1996 Gallery Ulrich Mueller, Köln
Color space work, Moltkerei workshop, Köln
About the color, Diözesanmuseum, Köln
1995 Gallery Schütte Essen
1991 Artothek, Köln
1990 Gallery Conrads, Neuss
Cabinet of the Cologne Art Association, Köln
1984 830 Gallery, Tucson U.S.A.
   
  Group exhibitions
2021 THE BIG, NRW FORUM, Art Palace, Düsseldorf (K)
Color on paper, with Ines Hock, Wonkun Jun, Susanne Stähli, Maria Wallenstal-Schoenberg, Gallery Braun, Stuttgart
2020 Baltic Bridges „FABULA“ watercolor biennale, Kaunas / Litauen (K)
2019 Colorful Neighbors, Art Church Dannewalde, Dannewalde Gransee
Paper – Color – Painting, Association for Contemporary Art/Ruhrgebiet, Oberhausen
Lightfast color, Werner Richard – Dr. Carl Dörken Foundation, Herdecke 
Visibility, survey exhibition of the Westdeutschen Künstlerbundes, Town Gallery Iserlohn, Iserlohn (K)
THE BIG, NRW FORUM, Art Palace, Düsseldorf (K)
Summary, Plus Room for Pictures, Köln (K)
Wide Angle, Viewpoint Gallery, Frechen
2018 Köln plus – Color Painting Positions, Association for Contemporary Art, Oberhausen
30 years Werner Richard – Dr. Carl Dörken Foundation, Herdecke
Baltic Bridges, „Lightfast“, Balta Galerie, Watercolor Biennale in Kaunas, Litauen
2017 hydrophil, Galerie Schmidt und Schütte, Köln
2016 Small but fine, small formats from the collection of Werner Richard – Dr. Carl Dörken Stiftung
2015 Be(e) here, Vorgebirgspark SKULPTUR 2015  >> PDF – Be(e) here, Art in Public Garden 2015
2014 THE BIG, NRW FORUM, Art Palace, Düsseldorf (K)
ARMIN TURK and friends, art room of theScheidt’schen Hallen, Essen
Showing  flags, Radevormwald
You and your exhibitions, Former Imperial Abbey Kornelimünster, (K)
2013 THE BIG, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf (K)
2012 “COLOR | R O O M |CO N C E P T” Gallery Schütte meets Kunstraum Dreieich, Dreieich (K)
2011 Walking the line 3, Galerie Kudlek van der Grinten, Köln
FARBE – RAUM – KONZEPT / Malerei, Galerie Schütte, Essen (K)
2009 Color, Light and Transparency, Gallery Netuschil, Darmstadt
GARDEN – From the flower picture to the digital garden, State Museum Schwerin, Schwerin (C)
2008 Walking the line, Galerie Kudlek van der Grinten, Köln
THE BIG, NRW Düsseldorf im Kunstpalast Ehrenhof, Düsseldorf (C)
2005 Paperworks, Gallery Martin Kudlek, Köln
2004 Color as color, pictures of the Werner Richard – Dr. Carl Dörken Stiftung (C),
Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum Hagen, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund
Jahresgaben, Kunstverein Münsterland, Coesfeld
2003 7 x Farbe pur, Städtische Galerie Villa Zanders, Bergisch Gladbach
Twighlight Zone, E-Werk, Hallen für Kunst Freiburg (C)
2002 Künstler der Galerie Ulrich Mueller
2001 Annual art gifts, Artassociation Frechen
2000 The COLOR got me, (C) COLORTIME, Association for Contemporary Art e. V., Oberhausen
1999 Naju International Art Festival, Naju, Korea (C)
1998 CologneArt, wall work in the Josef Haubrich Arthall, Köln (C)
Wall work in the Edith – Stein – House of the Abbey Michaelsberg, Siegburg
The slowness of the pictures, Gallery Schütte, Essen, Gallery Nohn, Trier, Gallery Markus Richter, Potsdam (C)
1997 Painting – the last years, Gallery Ulrich Mueller, Köln
Who protects us from Hansi, color space work “4 colors – 4 glazes”, Kunstwerk Köln – Deutz
1996 Four and six, Gallery Schütte, Essen
Positions on contemporary art, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund
1995 Cologne Art, Art Gallery, Cologne (C)
COLOR, Gallery Schütte, Essen
1992 COLORPAINTINGS, Städtische Gallery Kraichtal
1991 Color – painted paint, Brühler Kunstverein catalogue sponsored by Kunstfonds e. V. Bonn
1987 Kunstverein Euskirchen, Color space work behind glass