GREGOR SCHNEIDER
1969 - born in Rheydt, Germany
1989-94 studies at the art colleges of Düsseldorf, Münster and Hamburg, Germany
1999 - Foreign Teacher at the De Ateliers Amsterdam
2000-2002 Foreign Professor at the HfbK Hamburg
2003 - Foreign Professor, University of California, Los Angeles
2009 - Professor at the University of Arts, Berlin
lives and works in Mönchengladbach, Rheydt
Grants and Awards
1995
Arts Award NRW
Grant from Kunstfonds Bonn e.V.
Grant from the Foundation Art and Culture NRW
1996
Project Fund from the Institute for Foreign Relations Stuttgart
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Grant
Peter Mertes Grant
Dorothea von Stetten Award
1997
Award for the Promotion of Catalogues from the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Fund
1998/99
Arts Award Bremerhaven
1999
Arts Award Villa Romana, Florenz
2001
Goldener Löwe, La Biennale di Venezia
2002
1st Award for the Paper-Art-Award for the Verband
Deutscher Paperfabriken VDP
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1985
Galerie Kontrast, Mönchengladbach, Germany
1985-99
construction of the house ur, Rheydt, Germany
1989-91
construction of the completely insulated dead room, Giesenkirchen, Germany
1990-91
construction of an unknown work in the disappearing village of Garzweiler, Germany
1992
Galerie Löhrl, Mönchengladbach, Germany (C)
1993
Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany
1994
Galerie Andreas Weiss, Berlin, Germany
1995
Galerie Luis Campaña, Köln, Germany, construction of the completely insulated guest-room, Rheydt,
1996
Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland (C), Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Germany
1997
Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany, Galerie Luis Campaña, Köln, Germany
Portikus, Kunsthalle Frankfurt a.M., Germany (C)
Wako Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Sadie Coles Gallery, London, GB
Galeria Foksal, Warszawa, Poland (C)
1998
Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany (C)
Musée d´Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France (C)
Aarhus Kunst Museum,Denmark (C)
Wako Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1999
Massimo De Carlo, Milano, Italy
Gallery Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
Kunsthalle Bremerhaven, Germany
Kabinett der aktuellen Kunst Bremerhaven, Germany
2000
„Hannelore Reuen. Alte Hausschlampe“, Galeria Foksal,
Warsaw, Poland
Secession, Wien (C)
Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Gartenhaus, Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld , Germany (C)
2001
La Biennale di Venezia, German Pavilion (C)
Kabinett für aktuelle Kunst, Bremerhaven
2002
Stiftung DKM, Duisburg (C)
Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf
Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Siegen (C)
2003
Kunsthalle Hamburg (C)
My Private # 1, via Pasteur 21, Milano
MOCA, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, California (C)
Aspen Art Museum (C)
2004
MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt a.Main (C)
Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin (C)
Artangel, London (C)
Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum, Okayama (C)
Kunst-Station Sankt Peter, Zentrum für zeitgenössische
Kunst und Musik, Cologne (C)
"Die Familie Schneider - At Home", Artangel, London, Great Britain
2005
Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto (C)
"Gregor Schneider - Schlafen", 28.8.2005 - , Kabinett für aktuelle Kunst, Bremerhaven, Germany
"Gregor Schneider", Konrad Fischer Galerie, Duesseldorf, Germany
"Gregor Schneider", Museu Serralves - Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto, Potugal
2006
"Totalschaden", Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany
"Gregor Schneider", Luis Campaña Galerie, Cologne, Germany
"Gregor Schneider - Fotografie", Kunstverein Arnsberg e.V., Arnsberg, Germany
"Gregor Schneider", Fondazione Morra Greco, Napoli, Italy
"Gregor Schneider", Kunst-Station Sankt Peter Köln, Köln, Germany
2007
"Gregor Schneider", K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen - im Ständehaus, Düsseldorf, Germany
"Currents 33: Gregor Schneider", Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI, USA
"Gregor Schneider - Bondi Beach - 21 Beach Cells", Bondi Beach, Australia
"Das schwarze Quadrat", Kunsthalle Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
2008
Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf & Berlin, Germany
Museum Abteiberg. Mönchengladbach, Germany
CUBE VENICE - Design and conception, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venezia, Italy
Gregor Schneider, MACRO Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Roma, Roma, Italy
Doublings, Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf, Switzerland
süßer duft, La Maison Rouge, Paris, France
2009
"13.06.09-", Herzliya Museum + Herzliya Beach, Israel (Solo)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1994
Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany
1996
Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany, Dorothea-von Stetten-Kunstpreis (C)
Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany, Peter-Mertes-Stipendium(C)
1997
„Niemandsland“ Museum Haus Lange/Esters, Krefeld, Germany (C)
„A Place (to be)“, Paul Andriesse Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1998
„vollkommen gewöhnlich“, Kunstverein Freiburg,
Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nürnberg, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Kunsthalle Kiel, Kunsthalle Gera, Germany
„Performing Buildings“, Tate Gallery, London, GB
„The Confined Room“, De Waag, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Center For Contemporary Art, Maastricht, Netherlands
1999
„Anarchitecture“, Stichting De Appel, Amsterdam, Netherlands (C)
„Focused“, Galerie Tanit, Munich, Germany
Elizabeth Cherry Contemporary Art, Tucson / Arizona, U.S.A.
Kunststiftung Sabine Schwenk, Haigerloch, Germany
Museum Schloß Rheydt, Germany (C)
„The Space Is Everywhere“, Villa Merkel, Esslingen, Germany (C)
Kunstverein Wien, Austria
53. Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, U.S.A. (C)
„German Art“, Athens, Greece (C)
„Zeitwenden. Ausblick“, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany,
Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Austria (C)
„am Horizont“, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld, Germany (C)
New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, U.S.A.
„German Open“, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany (C)
„The Invisible City“, Centrum Beeldende Kunst, Maastricht, Netherlands
„Private Werte“, Künstlerwerkstatt Lothringer Straße 13, Munich, Germany
2000
„Wonderland“, The Saint Louis Art Museum, U.S.A. (C)
„Aller Anfang ist Merz - Von Kurt Schwitters bis heute“,
Sprengel Museum, Hannover (Expo 2000), Kunstsammlung NRW, Düsseldorf, Haus der Kunst,
München, Germany
„Drawn from life“, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
Kunsthalle Hamburg, Germany (C)
„1900-2000. Two Turns of the Century“.Göteborg
Konstmuseum and Nordic Institute of Contemporary Art, Sweden (C)
„Missing memory and desire“, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland (C)
Kunstakademie Dresden, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany (C)
„Apocalypse“, Royal Academy of Art, London, GB (C)
Henry Moore Foundation, Leeds, GB
2001
Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art (C)
F., Produzentengalerie Hamburg
„Ein gut plazierter Helm ist ein beruhigender Blick“, Kunsthalle Nürnberg (C)
ArchiLab, Fine Arts Museum in New Orleans
Quadrennial for Contemporary Art, Stedelijk Museum for Actuele Kunst (S.M.A.K.), Gent (C)
„Birnen, Bohnen & Speck“, Shanghai Art Musem (C)
Come-in, I.F.A., Moskau, Kiew (C)
„Lost Past“, Leper Tirana Biennale 1, Albania (C)
2002
Sammlung Haubrok, Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach (C)
„Self-portraits & portraits“, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo
„Der andere Raum“, Kunstverein Hamburg (C)
„Startkapital“, K21, Kunstsammlung NRW, Düsseldorf (C)
„Unheim, Capricci und Anarchitekturen“, Stadthaus Ulm (C)
„Paper Art. 8. Internationale Biennale der Papierkunst“, Düren (C)
"Lost Past 2002-1914", in corporation with Stedelijke Musea Leper, Belgien (C)
"Triennale der Photographie", Kunsthaus Hamburg (C)
"3. Umbau/Schrägspur", video installation from the collection, Hamburger Kunsthalle
"Das Museum, die Sammlung, der Direktor und seine
Liebschaften", MMK Museum for Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main (C)
"Come in", Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa), Moskau, Kiew (C)
"Self-Portraits & Portraits", Wako Works of Art, Tokyo
Sofia Underground Festival of Performance and Street Events, Bulgaria
"Performing Buildings", Moderna Museet, Swedish National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Stockholm
"Cardinales", Museo de Arte Contemporanea de Vigo, Spain (C)
2002
Deste Foundation, Centre for Contemporary Art, Athen
2003
"Home Sweet Home", Aarhus Kunstmuseum (C)
"Modellierte Wirklichkeiten", Oberösterreichisches Landesmuseum, Linz (C)
"Action button", Nationalgalerie Hamburg Bahnhof, Museum for Gegenwart-Berlin
"Das lebendige Museum", MMK Museum for moderne Kunst, Frankfurt a. Main (C)
"Photographs", Wako Work of Art, Tokyo
Busan Metropolitan Art Museum, Korea (C)
"Uneasy Space", SITESantaFe, New Mexico (C)
2004
"Hülle + Idylle", Galerie Gabriele Rivet, Köln, Germany (C)
2005
"What’s New Pussycat?", Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK), Frankfurt/Main, Germany
2006
"Shift - Im Spiegel der Verunsicherung", Galerie Grita Insam, Wien, Austria
"Gregor Schneider - Werke aus der Sammlung Olbricht", Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen, Germany
"The Sublime is Now! - Das Erhabene in der zeitgenössischen Kunst",
Museum Franz Gersch, Burgdorf, Austria
"Testigos / Witnesses", Fundación NMAC - Montenmedio Arte Contemporáneo, Cádiz, Spain
"Dark Places", Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
"Deutsche Wandstücke - Sette scene di nuova pittura germanica",
MUSEION - Museo d’arte moderna e contemporanea, Bozen
"Mapping the studio", Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, NL
"Andreas Slominski und Gregor Schneider", Kabinett für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremerhaven, Germany
"Andreas Slominski und Gregor Schneider", Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
"Jubiläum: 20 Jahre Peter Mertes Stipendium", Kunstverein Bonn, Bonn, Germany
"Gregor Schneider / Charlotte Vanden Eynde", Museum Dhondt Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium
"XIII. Rohkunstbau", Schloß Sacrow, Sacrow, Germany
"c/oncerning mg", Altes Museum im BIS Zentrum, Mönchengladbach, Germany
"My private escaped from Italy", Centre international d'art, Ile de Vassivière, France
2007
"Reality Bites - Making Avant-garde Art in Post-Wall Germany",
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO, USA
"spectacular space", Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zürich, Switzerland
"Wonderwall - Constructing the Sublime", Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
"What does the jellyfish want?", Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
"Timer 01", Triennale Bovisa, Mailand
"Raum. Orte der Kunst", Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany
"Collezione de Gaia", CeSAC Caraglio, Caraglio, Italy
"Ironie der Objekte", Museion, Bozen, Italy
"MARTa schweigt", MARTa Herford Museum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Herford, Germany
"TITLED/UNTITLED", Lismore Castle Arts, Lismore, Irland
"Fractured Figure", DESTE Foundation Centre for Contemporary Art, Athen, Greece
"Generational Issue", CGCA, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
"Paul Thek. Werkschau im Kontext zeitgenössischer Kunst", Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany
"OTHER THAN YOURSELF", Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Wien, Austria
"MAN SON 1969. Vom Schrecken der Situation", Kunsthalle Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
2008
"Estratos", Pac Murcia, Murcia, Spain (Cat), Curator: Nicolas Bourriaud
Wako works of art: 15 Years/Part IV, Gallery Wako Works of Art, Tokyo, Japan
You Dig the Tunnel, I'll Hide the Soil, White Cube Hoxton Square, London, Great Britain
Come-in, RMIT-Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Private passions, public visions, Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Vigo, Spain (Cat)
Paul Thek. Werkschau im Kontext zeitgenössischer Kunst, Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg, Germany
50 Jahre Förderpreis für Bildende Kunst des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen, Kunst aus NRW, Aachen, Germany
Noleftovers, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland (Cat)
Origins, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, New York, USA
2009
MAN SON. 1969 - Vom Schrecken der Situation, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
Subversive Spaces, The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchenster, Great Britain
Double, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Curator: Gregor Schneider, Moritz Wesseler
Cella, Complesso Monumentale Antica Casa di Correzione, Roma, Italy