Michael Sailstorfer
Shake Hands
2025
Bronze cast, florescent paint
118 × 6 × 13 cm
M. 90
2024
Aluminium
90 × 90 × 12 cm
Knotenpunkt
2025
Aluminium cast
10 m ø 120 cm
MS 4
2022
Aluminium, paint
31 × 23 × 8 cm
Tränentrockner Paris
2019
Steel
140 × 130 × 30 cm
37
2020
Salt
15 × 28 × 16 cm
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Antiherbst
2013
12 archival pigment prints
42 × 62 cm
Edition of 4 + 2 AP
Antiherbst
2012/2013
Video, 12 min. loop
Edition of 3 + 2 AP
Maze 74
2013
Acrylic screen print and acid on copper primed canvas
230 × 190 cm
Tränen
2015
12 photographs
40 × 53 cm
Tränen
2015
Video, 8 min. 33 sec.
Edition of 5 + 2 AP
Himmel Berlin
2012
Truck tire inner tubes
Dimensions variable
Zeit ist keine Autobahn – Friedrichshafen
2010
Tire, iron, electric motor
95 × 65 × 80 cm
Versuchsreaktor (7k)
2008
Concrete, steel, epoxy resin, polyster resin, polyurethane resin, microphones, mixer, loudspeaker
Dimensions variable
Waldputz
2000
250 × 480 × 480 cm
Edition of 3
T 72 (black)
2008
Tank dummy, blower, controller
250 × 270 × 700 cm
Shake Hands 2025 Bronze cast, florescent paint 118 × 6 × 13 cm
M. 90 2024 Aluminium 90 × 90 × 12 cm
Knotenpunkt 2025 Aluminium cast 10 m ø 120 cm
MS 4 2022 Aluminium, paint 31 × 23 × 8 cm
Tränentrockner Paris 2019 Steel 140 × 130 × 30 cm
37 2020 Salt 15 × 28 × 16 cm
Antiherbst 2013 12 archival pigment prints 42 × 62 cm Edition of 4 + 2 AP
Antiherbst 2012/2013 Video, 12 min. loop Edition of 3 + 2 AP
Maze 74 2013 Acrylic screen print and acid on copper primed canvas 230 × 190 cm
Tränen 2015 12 photographs 40 × 53 cm
Tränen 2015 Video, 8 min. 33 sec. Edition of 5 + 2 AP
Himmel Berlin 2012 Truck tire inner tubes Dimensions variable
Zeit ist keine Autobahn – Friedrichshafen 2010 Tire, iron, electric motor 95 × 65 × 80 cm
Versuchsreaktor (7k) 2008 Concrete, steel, epoxy resin, polyster resin, polyurethane resin, microphones, mixer, loudspeaker Dimensions variable
Waldputz 2000 250 × 480 × 480 cm Edition of 3
T 72 (black) 2008 Tank dummy, blower, controller 250 × 270 × 700 cm
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Born in Bavaria in 1979, Michael Sailstorfer ranks among the most compelling artists of his generation. Though his practice resists formal or material boundaries, it remains unmistakably his own defined by an acute observational intelligence that translates complex, often existential concerns into works that engage all the senses. Across sculpture, installation, performance, video, photography, and even olfactory experiments, Sailstorfer’s art reveals a finely tuned balance of wit and gravity, sensory excess and conceptual clarity. His works always come with an intensity that cannot be ignored. However, they do not violently tear us out of our comfort zone, but rather lure us out of it in a clever and charming manner.
In the broadest sense, Sailstorfer’s work could be described as conceptual art that perpetuates kinetic, minimalist approaches. At the core of Sailstorfer’s oeuvre lies a fascination with transformation, movement, and cyclical processes—often through their disruption. The photo and video work Antiherbst (Anti-Fall, 2012), for example, captures such an anti-cyclical action. We observe a solitary tree in autumn, its leaves turning yellow and falling to the ground. Then an eight-person team begins to paint the fallen leaves green and reattach them to the tree with cable ties. Suddenly, a green tree appears again in the autumn landscape. Earlier works such as Waldputz (Forest Cleaning, 2000) already explored similar paradoxes—here, the artist “sculpts” by removal, polishing tree trunks and clearing forest ground to reveal the very act of removing as a sculptural gesture. In both, Sailstorfer exposes humanity’s persistent desire to control, idealize, and aestheticize nature, while quietly conceding nature’s inevitable reclamation.
Beneath this playfulness runs a distinctly Romantic sensibility. Sailstorfer revisits the German tradition of the “Sehnsuchtslandschaft”, the landscape as a projection of longing and metaphysical inquiry, only to invert it through contemporary irony. His work also contains the counterpart to the idealization of nature: works in which the monotony, isolation, and automation of modern urban working life are laid bare and made painfully tangible, displaying the tension between purpose and futility.
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In Zeit ist keine Autobahn (“Time Is Not a Highway,” ongoing since 2005), a single tire spins endlessly against a wall, leaving behind traces of soot, sound, and exhaustion. Similarly, T72 (2008), an inflatable tank that perpetually inflates and deflates, renders military might both ridiculous and fragile. Each work is a kinetic allegory: an absurd theatre of persistence, entropy, and human endeavor.
In recent years, Sailstorfer has distilled his practice into emblematic motifs—clouds, tears, teeth, knots—each functioning as a conceptual vessel for transformation and paradox. Teeth become lozenges, tears oscillate between destruction and renewal, clouds are recontextualized as sculptural ready-mades, and knots, symbols of provisional binding, are cast into monumental permanence. Through these metamorphoses, Sailstorfer continually probes the boundaries between materiality and metaphor, humor and melancholy, the tangible and the transcendental.
With unwavering precision and imaginative audacity, Sailstorfer illuminates the perennial questions of human existence—mortality, authenticity, violence, morality, love, and meaning—without resorting to moral prescription. His works invite reflection not through confrontation but through seduction.
Michael Sailstorfer studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and at Goldsmiths College, London. His works are held in leading international collections, including the Centre Pompidou, Paris; Städel Museum, Frankfurt; S.M.A.K., Ghent; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and Berlinische Galerie.
For Art Week 2026, Galerie Judin will present as Sailstorfer’s debut a large-scale installation at Potsdamer Straße, preceded by a Viewing Room presentation during Berlin Gallery Weekend 2026. The artist is jointly represented by Galerie Judin (Berlin), Livie Gallery (Zurich), Proyecto Monclova (Mexico City), and Carbon 12 (Dubai).
Chronology
Biography
1979
Born in Velden / Vils
1999–2005
Bachelor at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich (Prof. Olaf Metzel)
2003–2004
MA Fine Arts, Goldsmiths College, London
2006
International Studio Program, Office for Contemporary Art Norway, Oslo
2010–2011
Guest Professor, Grundklasse Bildhauerei, Braunschweig University of Art, Brunswick
2018–2019
Guest Professor, Projektklasse für Bildhauerei, Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg
Lives and works in Berlin.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2025
Michael Sailsdorfer: Air Electric, Carbon12, Dubai
Michael Sailsdorfer: Speaking through Substance, Livie Gallery, Zurich
2024
Michael Sailsdorfer: Dead Short, Salon Kennedy, Frankfurt/Main
Michael Sailsdorfer: Elektrosex, Tick Tack, Antwerpen
2023
Michael Sailsdorfer: To the People, Pejman Foundation, Argo Factory, Teheran
Michael Sailsdorfer: Brainwashed, Galerie Jahn, Munich
Michael Sailsdorfer: Batterie, Livie Gallery, Zurich
Michael Sailsdorfer: Clearing, Projectos Monclova, Mexico City
2022
Michael Sailsdorfer: Heavy Eyes, Carbon12, Dubai
Michael Sailsdorfer: Heavy Eyes, König Seoul
2021
Michael Sailsdorfer: Plumbum, Livie Gallery, Zurich
Michael Sailsdorfer: Ariadne Raum, Museen der Stadt Landshut, Landshut
Michael Sailsdorfer: Heavy Eyes, Avlskarl Gallery, Copenhagen
2020
Michael Sailsdorfer: 1-32, Galerie Zink, Waldkirchen
2019
Michael Sailsdorfer: Sink. Sank. Sunk, König Galerie, Berlin
Michael Sailsdorfer: Tear Show, Galerie Perrotin, New York
Michael Sailsdorfer, BNKR, München
2018
Michael Sailsdorfer: We Love Them All, Carbon12, Dubai
Michael Sailsdorfer: Brainspotting, Avlskarl Gallery, Copenhagen
Michael Sailsdorfer: Troubling Matter II, Galerie Jahn, Landshut
Michael Sailsdorfer: Tear Show, König London
2017
Michael Sailsdorfer: Clouds And Tears, Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City
Michael Sailsdorfer: Altenheim für Populisten, Grieder Contemporary, Zurich
Michael Sailsdorfer: Altenheim für Kosmonauten, Kunsthal 44 Møen, Askeby
Michael Sailsdorfer: Kopf und Körper Bad Driburg, Gräflicher Park, Bad Driburg
Michael Sailsdorfer: Hitzefrei, König Galerie, Berlin
2016
Michael Sailsdorfer: Troubling Matter, Galerie Jahn, Landshut
2015
Michael Sailsdorfer, CentrePasquArt, Biel/Bienne
Michael Sailsdorfer: Freundschaft, Galerie Michael Zink, Waldkirchen
2014
Michael Sailsdorfer: Every piece is a new problem, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati
Michael Sailsdorfer: It might as well be spring, Rochester Art Center, Rochester
Michael Sailsdorfer: B-Seite, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin
Michael Sailsdorfer: Kopf und Körper, Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Ewald Mataré Collection, Kleve
Michael Sailsdorfer: Antiherbst, König Galerie, Berlin
Michael Sailsdorfer: Reibungsverlust am Arbeitsplatz, Grieder Contemporary, Zurich
Michael Sailsdorfer: Breakwater, Loushy Art & Projects, Tel Aviv
2013
Michael Sailsdorfer: Freedom Fries am Arbeitsplatz, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris
Michael Sailsdorfer: Young West, Kunsthalle, Recklinghausen
Michael Sailsdorfer: Try to reach the goal without touching the walls, Carbon12, Dubai
2012
Michael Sailsdorfer: Hauptweg und Nebenwege, König Galerie, Berlin
Michael Sailsdorfer: Solarkatze, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg
Michael Sailsdorfer: Forst, Vattenfall Contemporary, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin
Michael Sailsdorfer: Nettoyer la Forêt, FRAC Haute-Normandie, Sotteville-lès-Rouen
Michael Sailsdorfer: Solarkatze, Galleria Zero, Milan
2011
Michael Sailsdorfer: Tornado, Public Art Fund New York, Doris C. Freedman Plaza, Central Park, New York
Michael Sailsdorfer: Raum und Zeit, S.M.A.K. Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst Ghent, Ghent
Michael Sailsdorfer: Für immer Strom, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nuremburg
Michael Sailsdorfer: Clouds, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford
Michael Sailsdorfer: Sona. Implicit Sound, ESPAI 13 / Fundación Joan Miró, Barcelona
Michael Sailsdorfer: T-72 Sculpture, Galleri K, Oslo
Michael Sailsdorfer: Crash, Zeppelin Museum und Kunstverein, Friedrichshafen
2010
Michael Sailsdorfer: Forst, Kestnergesellschaft, Hanover
Michael Sailsdorfer: Wolken, K20, Düsseldorf
Michael Sailsdorfer: Knoten wie Wolken, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo
Michael Sailsdorfer: T-72, Kunsthalle Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven
Michael Sailsdorfer: Schwarzwald, Leopold Hoesch Museum, Düren
Michael Sailstorfer, Goethe Institut Moscow, Moscow
2009
Michael Sailsdorfer: backyardoutdoorsculptureseries #2. Wohnen mit Verkehrsanbindung, König Galerie, Berlin
Michael Sailsdorfer: Pulheim gräbt, Pulheim
Michael Sailsdorfer: No Light, Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin
Michael Sailsdorfer: No Light, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris
2008
Michael Sailsdorfer: 10 000 Steine, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt/Main
Michael Sailstorfer, König Galerie, Berlin
Michael Sailsdorfer: Mollstraße, Galleri K, Oslo
Michael Sailsdorfer: Weytterturm, Kulturpreis der Dr. Franz und Astrid Ritter-Stiftung für Bildende Kunst 2008, Straubing
2007
Michael Sailsdorfer: U1-U13, Galleria Zero, Milan
Michael Sailsdorfer: Wand über Kopf, Sorry We’re Closed, Sébastien & Rodolphe Janssen Project Space, Brussels
Michael Sailsdorfer: U6. 14 Grad 34, 790N. 60 Grad 50, 969W, Kasseler Kunstvereinsheim, Kassel
2006
Michael Sailstorfer, König Galerie, Berlin
Michael Sailsdorfer: High. Studio im Zumikon, Institut für Moderne Kunst Nürnberg, Nuremberg
2005
Michael Sailsdorfer: Der Schein trügt, Jack Hanley Gallery, Los Angeles
Michael Sailsdorfer: Skulptur, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal
Michael Sailsdorfer: Hoher Besuch, MARTa Herford, Herford
Michael Sailsdorfer: Zeit ist keine Autobahn, Galleria Zero, Milan
Michael Sailsdorfer: My Private, Cernusco sul Naviglio, Milan
2004
Michael Sailsdorfer: Dämmerung, Attitudes – espace d’art contemporain, Geneva
2003
Michael Sailsdorfer: Welttour, Galerie Markus Richter, Berlin
Michael Sailsdorfer: D-IBRB, Transit, Mechelen
2002
Michael Sailsdorfer: Und sie bewegt sich doch!, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich
Michael Sailsdorfer: Heimatlied, Galerie Markus Richter, Berlin
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025
Shells, Max Goelitz, Berlin
Theater of Speaking Things, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nuremberg
Dem Himmel so nah, Kunsthalle Emden, Emden
Other People Think, MARTa Herford, Herford
Konstellationen, Sammlung Pohl, Marburg
2024
Shared Spaces, Kunsthalle Barmen, Wuppertal
Streetspace Banger, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Recklinghausen
2023
Das Gehirn in Kunst und Wissenschaft, Medizinhistorisches Museum, Berlin
Tourismus: Let‘s do it all, Stadtgalerie Kiel, Kiel
2022
Schatzhaus & Labor, Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve
Blanc de Blancs, Villa Schöningen, Potsdam
Das Gehirn: In Kunst & Wissenschaft, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn
2021
Ende Neu, KINDL Zentrum für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Berlin
BOUT DE SOUFFLE, Carbon 12, Dubai
Three Connections, Kulturstiftung Basel H. Geiger, Basel
2020
Mourning: On Loss and Change, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
Nine to Know, Ruttkowski 68, Paris
Wolken in der zeitgenössischen Kunst. Fluchtig. Zeichenhaft. Bedrohlich, Oldenburger Kunstverein, Oldenburg
2019
Fly me to the Moon: 50 Jahre Mondlandung, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich and Museum der Moderne, Salzburg
The Big Sleep, Haus der Kunst, Munich
2018
Kunst und Kohle. Hommage an Jannis Kounellis, MKM Museum Küppersmühle für Moderne Kunst, Duisburg
Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Riga
Rehearsal, Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong
Eruption from the Surface: The Origami Principle in Art, MARTa Herford Museum, Herford
2017
On with the Show, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nuremberg
Deutschland 8: German Art in Beijing, White Box Museum of Art, Beijing
La lama di Procopio, Nuovo Spazio di Casso, Casso
Art and Alphabet, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
Transaktionen, Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin
Mexibility, Museum Casa del Lago, Mexico City
Warten, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
2016
Jeder sollte in der Lage sein Kunst zu erwerben, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Recklinghausen
Drama Queens, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen
ach, die sind ja heut so unpolitisch, Salon Dahlmann, Berlin
Brutal schön: Gewalt und Gegenwartsdesign, MARTa Herford, Herford
ICH, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt
2015
About Trees, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern
Zero: Infinite Possibilities, The Farjam Collection, Dubai
TRIO Bienal, Rio de Janeiro
A Focus on Sculpture in the Würth Collection. The Winners of the Robert Jacobsen Prize of the Würth Foundation, Museum Würth, Künzelsau
Lichtparcours: Auftakt, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig
Ärger im Paradies, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn, Bonn
Sammeln für morgen: Neue Werke im Museion, Museion, Museum für moderne und zeitgenössische Kunst, Bozen
2014
Folkestone Triennale 2014, Folkestone
Ciclo, CCBB SP e BH / Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil São Paulo, São Paulo
Scheinwerfer: Lichtkunst in Deutschland im 21. Jahrhundert Teil 2, Kunstmuseum Celle, Celle
Das Mechanische Corps: Auf den Spuren Jules Vernes, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin and HMKV im Dortmunder U, Dortmund
A Place Like This: Klöntal Triennale 2014, Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus
Arsenale der Gegenwart, Villa Schöningen, Potsdam
Paperworlds: Kinder und Jugendzeichnungen zeitgenössischer Künstler, me collectors room, Stiftung Olbricht, Berlin
2013
Transferts, Dernières Acquisitions du FRAC, Maison des Arts – Solange Baudoux and Musée d’Art, Histoire et Archéologie, Evreux
Happy Birthday Galerie Perrotin. 25 ans Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris
Köln Skulptur #6, Skulpturenpark Köln, Cologne
Disaster: The End of Days, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg
The Unanswered Question: Iskele 2, TANAS and Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin
When Now is Minimal: Die unbekannte Seite der Sammlung Goetz, Neues Museum / Staatliches Museum für Kunst und Design in Nürnberg, Nuremberg
Sociétés Secrètes, FRAC Haute-Normandie. Sotteville-lès-Rouen
Nuage: Marseille – Provence 2013, Musée Réattu, Arles
2012
I Wish This Was a Song. Music in Contemporary Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo
Sculpture is Everything: Contemporary Works from the Collection, Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA), Queensland
Wie kommt das Neue in die Welt? Neun internationale Bildhauer in Berlin, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin
From A to B, CCA Andratx., Andratx, Mallorca
Mobile immobile, FRAC Picardie, Amiens
Atelier + Küche = Labore der Sinne, MARTa Herford, Herford
Arrivi e Partenze Europa, Fondo Mole Vanvitelliana, Ancona
Goldrausch, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nuremberg
2011
Kunstpreis ‘junger westen’ 1948 bis 2011, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Recklinghausen
Werke aus der Sammlung MARTa, Kunst und Kulturzentrum Monschau, Monschau
Is that True? Possibilities of (Non-)Knowledge, Kunsthaus, Dresden
Commercial Break, Garage Moscow, Venice
Car Fetish: I drive, therefore I am., Museum Tinguely, Basel
Under Destruction Chapter 1, SI Swiss Institute, New York City
Echoes, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris
Unwetter/Thunderstorm, Ayala Museum, Makati City
2010
FischGrätenMelkStand, Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin
Trailer Park, Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples
Under Destruction, Tinguely Museum, Basel
Unsichtbare Schatten. Bilder der Verunsicherung, MARTa Herford, Herford
Starter Works from the Vehbi Koc, Foundation Contemporary Art Collection – ARTER – space for art, Istanbul
Unwetter, AdK Akademie der Künste, Berlin
Arrivals and Departures, Fondo Mole Vanvitelliana, Ancona
As soon as Possible, CCCS – Strozzina, Florence
2009
The Quick and the Dead, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
The Secret Live of Objects, Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis
Inclemencia del Tiempo, Centro de Exposiciones Subte, Montevideo
Cargo manifest, Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich
Romantische Maschinen: Kinetische Kunst der Gegenwart, Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin
Micro House, Bielefelder Kunstverein, Bielefeld
Intemperie, 2. Bienal del Fin del Mundo, Ushuaia
KölnSkulptur #5, Skulpturenpark Köln, Cologne
2008
God is Design, Galpão Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo
Heavy Metal: Die unerklärliche Leichtigkeit eines Materials, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel
Archeology of Mind, Kuntsi Museum of Modern Art, Vaasa
Zeitblick: Ankäufe aus der Sammlung Zeitgenössischer Kunst der Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1998–2008, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
Malcolm McLaren: Musical Painting, Scheibler Mitte, Berlin
younivers, Bienal de Arte Contemporáneo de Sevilla, biacs3, Sevilla
Biacs 3, BIACS – Fundación Bienal Internacional de Arte
Contemporáneo de Sevilla, Sevilla
Archeology of Mind, Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples and Malmö Konstmuseum, Malmö
Fabricateurs d’espaces, Institut d’art contemporain, Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes, Villeurbanne
Walls in the Street, Siemens Art Program, Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade, Belgrade
Ad Absurdum: Zeitgemäße Apparate, Städtische Galerie Nordhorn and MARTa Herford, Herford
Merkwürdige Maschinen, Phaenomenale 2008, Kunstverein, Wolfsburg
Pop! Goes the weasel, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe
2007
Made in Germany, Kestnergesellschaft, Kunstverein, Sprengel Museum, Hanover
Perspektive 07, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich
Rubin: Institut für moderne Kunst Nürnberg 1967 – 2007, Institut für moderne Kunst Nürnberg, Nuremberg
True Romance. Allegorien der Liebe von der Renaissance bis heute, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
Disorder in the House, Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels
Ironie der Objekte, Museion, Bolzano
Tell-Tale: Ars Viva 2006/2007, House of the Lords of Kunštát, Brno
Absent without Leave, Victoria Miro Gallery, London
Still Life. Art, Ecology and the Politics of change, Sharjah Biennial 8, Sharjah
Preisträgerausstellung des Schering Kunstpreises, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin
My Private escaped from Italy, Centre d’art contemporain, Ile de Vassivière
Footnotes on Geopolitics, Market and Amnesia, 2 Moscow Biennale, Moscow
2006
Bucolica, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg
Momentum. Nordic Biennial of Contemporary Art 2006, Nordic Biennial of Contemporary Art, Moss
Young Bavarian Artists, Gagosian Gallery, Berlin
Bühne des Lebens. Rhetorik des Gefühls. Kunstbau, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich
Und es bewegt sich doch…, Museum, Bochum
On The Move: Verkehrskultur II, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster
Eigenheim, everything but the kitchen sink, Kunstverein Göttingen, Göttingen
2005
Favoriten: Neue Kunst in München, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, München
Transatlantische Impulse, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
Things Fall Apart All Over Again, Artists Space, New York
Kunstpreis der Böttcherstraße in Bremen 2005, Kunsthalle, Bremen
Lichtkunst aus Kunstlicht, ZKM, Karlsruh
Talk to the Land, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York Cit
Yokohama 2005, International Triennale of Contemporary Art, Yokohama
Rückkehr ins All, Kunsthalle Hamburg, Hamburg
Light Lab: Alltägliche Kurzschlüsse, Museion, Bolzano
Kunstpreis der Böttcherstraße in Bremen 2005, Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen
Bewegliche Teile, Formen des Kinetischen, Museum Tinguely, Basel
2004
Manifesta 5: San Sebastian 2004, International Foundation, Amsterdam
On Reason and Emotion: 14th Sydney Biennale, Sydney
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2004, Barbican Centre, London, The Coach Shed, Liverpool
Bewegliche Teile: Formen des Kinetischen, Kunsthaus, Graz
Liverpool Biennial 2004, Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art, Liverpool
2003
Wings of Art, Ludwig-Forum für internationale Kunst, Aachen
Prototipi.03, Fondazione Adriano Olivetti, Rome
8. Biennale Havanna 2003, Biennial Havanna
2002
At least begin to make an end, w139, Amsterdam
Oltre il giardino, Stadtpark, Rimini
2001
Junger Westen 2001, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Recklinghausen
Acht x anders, centro de arte joven, Madrid
Awards and Residencies
2017
August-Macke Art Prize
2014
Artisti per Frescobaldi Art Award
2012
Vattenfall Contemporary Award
2011
Junger Westen Art Prize
2008–2010
Scholarship of the Günther-Peill-Foundation, Düren
2007
Preis der Dr. Franz- and Astrid-Ritter Foundation, Straubing
2006
Ars viva Prize for visual Art of the Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft im BDI e. V. (Association of Arts and Culture of the German Economy at the Federation of German Industries e. V.)
2005
Villa Aurora Residency, Los Angeles
2003
Sholarship by the German Academic Scholarship Foundation
2002
Prize of the Darmstadt Secession, Sponsorship Award of Christian Karl Schmidt e. V.
Winner of the Dena Foundation Art Price for Contemporary Art, ParisArt Forum Berlin Foundation – Ida Wolff Memorial Prize of the City of Munich, Berlin
1. T. Kearney Akademiepreis
Collections
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Fondazione Morra Greco, Neapel
Leopold Hoesch Museum, Düren
Mariano Pichler Collection, Milano
MARTa Herford, Herford
MUSEION – Museum für moderne und zeitgenössische Kunst, Bolzano
Museum Kurhaus Kleve / Ewald Mataré Sammlung, Kleve
S.M.A.K. Gent, Gent
Sammlung Boros, Berlin
Sammlung Goetz, Munich
Sammlung Wemhöner, Berlin
Städel Museum, Frankfurt/Main
Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus & Kunstbau, München
Stiftung Museum Modern Art Hünfeld – Sammlung Jürgen Blum, Hünfeld
Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brüssel
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis