MARKUS
LINNENBRINK
b. 1961,
Germany
Currently
lives and works in Brooklyn, New York and Dortmund, Germany
Education
1985-88 Academy
of Fine Arts, Berlin
1982-85 Gesamthochschule,
Kassel
Selected
Solo Exhibitions
2009 The
Columns, Seoul, Korea
Galerie
MaxEstrella, Madrid
Patricia
Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco
2008 TRICKY
FEVER,
Galerie
Fiedler Contemporary, Cologne
2007 FIFTEEN
MINUTES WITH YOU, Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, CA
CECIN'ESTPASDUDISCO, The
Columns Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
Fiedler
Gallery, Cologne, Solo exhibition in Basel,
Switzerland
AUFSTEIGEND
(WALKABOUT), Kunstverein Kreis Gütersloh
2006 EVERYTHING
ECSTATIC,
Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco
VIELLEICHT
LASS UNS DAS ALLEES NEHMEN, Galerie Robert Drees, Hannover
MAYBEICANTAKEEVERYTHING, Roy
Boyd Gallery, Chicago
ALLES
EKSTASE,
Märkisches Museum, Witten, Germany
DARKER
THAN BLUE (DIAMOND IN THE BACK), Kunstverein Münsterland, Coesfeld
2005 WorksonPaper, Sean
Rudolph Projects, Houston
SCHICK
SCHNACK SCHNUCK, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York
2004 EVOKE AN
OBJECT,
Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, IL
Galerie
Renate Schröder, Köln
SCHIEFEBAHN, Museum
Neue Galerie, Kassel (wall painting)
2003 THE
BEAUTY YOU ARE, Margaret Thatcher Projects, NYC, NY
MYSELF
OUTSIDE,
UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA (wall painting)
Roy
Boyd Gallery, Chicago, IL
Patricia
Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2002 Margaret
Thatcher Projects, NYC, NY (wall painting)
MITTIGLIGHT,
Museum
Katharinehof, Kranenburg, Germany (wall painting)
Reflect
What You Are, Renate Schröder Gallery, Köln
2001 Poured
Milled Pressed, Margaret Thatcher Projects, NYC, NY
Patricia
Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Renate
Schröder Gallery, Köln
Roy
Boyd Gallery, Chicago
2000 Layered
Over,
Wassermann Gallery, Munich
Renate
Schröder Gallery, Köln
1999 Neues
Gestirn,
Singel 74 Gallery, Amsterdam (with Matthias Lanfer)
Let
Run,
Wassermann Gallery, Munich
The
Bottom Line, Kunstverein Ahlen/Westf.
Renate
Schröder Gallery, Köln
Roy
Boyd Gallery, Chicago
1998 FIND AN
UNIDENTICAL TWIN, Wolfgang Werth Gallery, Düsseldorf
circumambient,
Kunstverein Recklinghausen
Only
Zebras?, Wassermann
Gallery, Munich
Renate
Schröder Gallery, Köln
1997 Renate
Schröder Gallery, Köln
1996 stripes, Verein
für aktuelle Kunst, Oberhausen
stripes
do not a zebra make, Vincenz Sala Gallery, Brüssel
1995
Foundation,
Clemens-Sels-Museum, Neuss (floor painting)
Colorado,
Wolfgang Werth Gallery, Düsseldorf
Renate
Schröder Gallery, Köln
1994 Colorado,
Vincenz Sala Gallery, Berlin
1993 RGB+CO,
Wolfgang Werth Gallery, Düsseldorf
On
the Floor,
Weber Gallery, Münster (floorpainting)
1992 Charchut
& Werth Gallery, Düsseldorf
Striped, Museum
am Ostwall (Studio), Dortmund
1991 Vincenz
Sala Gallery, Berlin (also 1988)
1990 Hete
A.M. Hünermann Gallery, Düsseldorf
City
Gallery, Kulturring Sundern
1988 Produzentengalerie,
Kassel
Selected
Group Exhibitions
2008 ..einen
AUGEN-Blick, bitte" / Please cast an eye...! Kunstverein Bad
Salzdetfurth e.V., Bodenburg
Abstrakt
- Malerei und Skulpturen, Krammig & Pepper Contemporary, Berlin
Print
Publishers Spotlight: center street studio, The Barbara
Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
DESIGNS
FROM WALLPAPERLAB, Visual Arts Center of Richmond, VA
FUNDAMENTAL
ABSTRACTION II, Haines Gallery, San Francisco
2007
BRIGHT,
I
SPACE, The Chicago Gallery of the University of Illinois, Chicago
HOT
AND COLD, abstract
prints from the center street studio, Trustman Art Gallery, Simmons College Boston
HOLIDAY
READING,
Number35, New York
AN
ECLECTIC EYE, Selections from the Dean Leach Collection, Tucson
Museum of Art, AZ
2006
Transparent,
Aquarellmalerei der Gegenwart, XYLON Museum Schwetzingen
THE
SCENT OF KOREA, Daegu National Museum, South Korea
2005
KLASSE
GIRKE,
Verein fur aktuelle Kunst, Oberhausen
Sammlung
Weisshaupt,
Museum for Kondrete Junst, Ingolstadt
COLOR
THEORY,
Schweinfurt Memorial Art Center, Auburn, NY
2004 Kinetic, bank
Gallery, Los Angeles
Leben
Mit Kunst - Sammlung Weishaupt, Museum fuer Konkrete Kunst
Ingolstadt
Prints
and Portfolios from the Center Street Studio, Boston, Iris
and B. Gerald Cantor Art
Gallery,
College of the Holy Cross, Worchester, MA
ABSTRACTION
PURE & IMPURE, Fine Arts Center Galleries, University of
Rhode Island,
Kingston,
RI. Curated by Judith Tolnick.
PRIVATGRÜN:
Kunst im privaten Raum, Schrebergarten of Familie Kunz, Cologne
(outdoor installation).Curated
by Jochen Heufelder.
Colors
& Stripes, Robert Drees Gallery, Hannover
Hard
& Soft,
Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY
STOP
& STORE, Luxe, New York, NY
THE
COLOR LINE,
Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY. Curated by Lisa Hatchadoorian.
2003 STRATA,
Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA
Conny
Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Summer
Color,
Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
Chilufim/Transfer,
Kunstmuseum Bonn (wall painting)
Haus
Esters, Krefeld (wall painting)
2002 Breathing
Room,
Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY
Transit,
Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY
Floor-to-Ceiling,
Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
Chilufim/Transfer,
Herzliya Museum of Art, Herzliya; Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel;
Kunstverein
Heinsberg, Germany
2001 Heat, Margaret
Thatcher Projects, New York, NY
Encaustics, Roy
Boyd Gallery, Chicago (4 Person)
2000 Painting
Today-Overseas and Here, Renate Schröder Gallery, Köln, Germany
Patricia
Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Seems:
Work at the Edge of the Exhibition Space, The Block Museum
of Art, Northwestern
University,
Evanston, IL (wall painting)
After
Zürich,
La Ferronerie Gallery, Paris
The
Color Got Me, Verein für aktuelle Kunst, Oberhausen
Abstrakt
Eins,
Gallery Fahnemann, Berlin
1999 Passages,
Exhibition in various churches in Recklinghausen (light installation)
1998 architectural
exhibition, Wetter (floor painting)
Roy
Boyd Gallery, Chicago, IL
1997 what you
missed in ‘96, Vincenz Sala Gallery, Brüssel
1985-97 Verein
für aktuelle Kunst , Oberhausen
1996
works
on paper,
Stefan Rasche Gallery, Münster
state
of affairs,
Gustav-Lübke-Museum, Hamm
1994 KunstKreuzKirche,
Heilig-Kreuz-Kirche, Dortmund (wall painting)
1993 Painterly
Proposals,
Weber Gallery, Münster
1992 Vincenz
Sala Gallery, Berlin
1991 cross
section,
Karl-Ernst-Osthaus Museum, Hagen
Stipend
Märkisches Stipendium, Städtische Galerie Lüdenscheid
1989-86 exhibition
of the Jürgen Ponto Foundation, Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Pels
Leusden Gallery, Berlin
1988 Play off,
Academy of Fine Arts, Berlin
Collections
AOK,
Paderborn
The Art
CollTrust, Bellevue, WA
Bank
One, Chicago, IL
Block
Museum of Art, Evanston, IL
Capitol
One Bank, Chicago
Ciba
GmbH Bergkamen (floor painting)
City of
Stuttgart (wall painting)
Clemens
- Sels - Museum, Neuss
Commerzbank
Landeszentrale, ErfurtDeutsche Ausgleichsbank, Bonn
Deutsche
Effecten - und Wechsel - Beteiligungsgesellschaft, Frankfurt/Main
Center
Court, The Hague, The Netherlands (wall painting)
Fidelity
Investments, Boston
Gerling
Kozern, Köln
The
Hague, Ministry of culture, The Netherlands
Harvard
Business School, Cambridge, MA
Herzliya
Museum of Art, Israel
KfW
Bankengruppe, Bonn
Harvard
College, Cambridge
Hood
Museum, Dartmouth College, NH
Hotel
Künstlerheim-Luise, Berlin (wall painting)
Krupp
Konzern, Berlin
Krupp
Konzern, Hannover (floor painting)
Kunsthalle
Recklinghausen
Landesverband
Lippe Lemgo (wall painting)
Land
Nordrhein Westfalen / Fachhochschule Niederrhein (wall painting)
Museum
Neue Galerie, Kassel
Nordstern
Versicherung, Köln
Norddeutsche
Landesbank, Hannover
The
Progressive Corporation, Ohio, USA
Sammlung
Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt/Main
San
Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Senat
der Stadt, Berlin
Collection
Julien J. Studley Inc., Chicago, IL
UCLA
Hammer Museum, University of California Los Angeles, CA
Volksbank,
Ahlen
Volksbank,
Heilbronn/Neckarsulm
Wellington
Corporation, London
Wellsley
College, MA
Werner
Richard - Dr. Carl Dörken Stiftung Herdecke, Depositum Museum am Ostwall
West
Collection, Philadelphia
Museum
am Ostwall, Dortmund
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