1969 Born in Stuttgart, Germany. Lives and works in Geneva, Switzerland
EDUCATION
1992-1999 Hochschule für Bildende Künste Hamburg, Germany
Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach, Germany
Kunstakademie Stuttgart, German
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS / TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
(* indicates a publication)
2021 Part One, Herald St, London, England Galerie Karin Gùˆnther, Hamburg,
Germany
2018 Seasons, Markus Amm & Nicole Wermers, Herald St, London, England
Markus Amm, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2017 *Markus Amm, curated by Ines Goldbach, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel,
Switzerland
2015 Markus Amm, Sammlung Lenikus, Vienna, Austria
2014 Herald St, London, England
2012 Galerie Karin Guenther, Hamburg, Germany
Herald St, London, England
2011 David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2010 *Frischzelle_13: Markus Amm, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
2009 Basement and Ground Floor, The Breeder, Athens, Greece
2008 Herald St, London, England
2007 Art 38 Basel: Statements, Galerie Karin Guenther, Basel, Switzerland
2006 David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Galerie Karin Guenther, Hamburg, Germany
The Breeder Gallery, Athens, Greece
westlondonprojects, London, England
2005 Herald St, London, England
2004 Projektraum, Rheinschau, Cologne, Germany
2003 Spate Blatter, Galerie Karin Guenther, Hamburg, Germany
Ladybird, Gastatelier Goldbekhaus, with Ellen Gronemeyer, Hamburg,
Germany
2002 Projektraum vier 5, Fiedler/Reichert, Frankfurt, Germany
2001 Galerie Karin Guenther, Hamburg, Germany
Galerie 45 with Kerstin Stoll, Fiedler/Reichert, Frankfurt, Germany
Katsura, KX-Kampnagel, Hamburg, Germany
2000 Die Mandarin Emphase, HfbK-Hamburg, Dipl.-Ausstellung, Hamburg,
Germany
Lumiere Aluminique, video projection, Robert Johnson, Frankfurt, Germany
Post, Galerie Nomadenoase (Golden Pudel Club), Hamburg, Germany
1999 1, video projection with Stefan Panhans, Fahrradhalle Offenbach, Germany
tele 5, Hamburg, Videos shown: Eau Savage and Monochrome Orange
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
(* indicates a publication)
2021 Spring, Fondation Thalie, Brussels, Belgium ABSTRAKT, Wentrup Gallery, Berlin,
Germany
2020 A little After The Millennium, Gallery Baton, Seoul, South Korea
2018 Sky Above Clouds, curated by Meredith Darrow and Olivia Davis,
Performance Ski, Aspen, CO
2017 La Cabale du cheval Pégase, Hard Hat, Geneva, Switzerland
2016 Fritto Misto, C L E A R I N G, New York, NY
2015 X, curated by Sarah McCrory, Herald St, London, England
Markus Amm, Alexandra Bircken, Michael Dean, Herald St, London, England
2014 Variations: Conversations in And Around Abstract Painting Today, Los Angeles
County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
2013 Winter Show/Exposition d’Hiver, Marc Jancou, New York, NY
Mind is Outer Space, organized by Alice Conconi and Loring Randolph,
Casey Kaplan, New York, NY
Die Geometrie der Dinge, GAK Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen,
Germany
*Only here: The Federal Republic of Germany’s Contemporary Art Collection
Acquisitions from 2007 to 2011, curated by Anne-Marie Bonnet, Hans- Jörg
Clement, Yilmaz Dziewior, Ingrid Mössinger, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany
Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out, White Flag Projects, St. Louis, MO
*Very New Works*, DUVE Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2011 Painting Extravaganza, Cardi Black Box, Milan, Italy
The Minimal Gesture, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, England
*Actual Fact / Factual Fact, Märkisches Museum Witten, curated by Oliver
Zybock, Witten, Germany
konkret.analytisch.radikal.oder so, Overbeck-Gesellschaft, Lübeck, Germany
Abstract & Traces, Ribordy Contemporary, Geneva, Switzerland
2010 Photogenic- Abstract Photography, Blanket Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Quantos Queres, MARZ Galeria, Lisbon, Portugal
Burn Baby Burn!, Galerie Duve, Berlin, Germany
SUPERNATURE: An exercise in loads, AMP, Athens, Greece
Gruppenausstellung, Artleib, Düsseldorf, Germany
2009 My Summer Show, Galerie Lelong, New York, NY
A Twilight Art, Harris Lieberman, New York, NY
2008 The Krautcho Club / In and Out of Place, Forgotten Bar Project, Berlin,
Germany, and Project Space 176, London, England
Never Seen Before, Deutsche Bank, Berlin, Germany
Johann König, Berlin, Germany
Le Retour, Nice & Fit, Berlin, Germany
*Triumph of Painting 4: Germania, Saatchi Gallery, London, England
2007 Ballet Mécanique, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, England
The Language of Vision, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesbrough,
England
*Neuer Konstruktivismus, Bielefelder Kunstverein, Museum Waldhof, Bielefeld,
Germany
STUFF: International Contemporary Art from the Collection of Burt Aaron,
Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, MI
Lines, Squares and Cubes, Produzentengalerie, Hamburg, Germany
Very Abstract and Hyper Figurative, curated by Jens Hoffmann, Thomas
Dane Gallery, London, England
2006 Blind Date Passau, curated by Araine Grigoteit and Jessica Morgan, Museum
Moderner Kunst Stiftung Worlen, Passau, Germany
Friedrich, curated by Bruce Haines, Doggerfisher Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
Dereconstruction, curated by Matthew Higgs, Gladstone Gallery, New York
Finding Neverland, Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad, Switzerland
Blind Date, Sammlung Deutsche Bank Collection, Galerie Kunstforum,
Seligenstadt, Germany
The Figs Play Fox Dead, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
West London Projects with Yesim Akdeniz, curated by Christiane Schneider,
London, England
Freitagskueche, Berlin, Germany
2005 liquid soft lightning touch, Doggerfischer Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
Meet you at the corner, Fortescue Ave Gallery, London, England
Inaugural, Herald St., London, England
Alles. In einer Nacht., Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, NY
*William Blake & Sons, Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland
Irrational thoughts…, Galerie Hauf, Stuttgart, Germany
The addiction, Gagosian Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Square Dance, Galerie Jacky Strenz, Frankfurt, Germany
2004 *Formalismus, Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
New Party, The Breeder Projects, Athens, Greece
Lokaltermin, Haus der Kunststiftung, Stuttgart, Germany
Kunstraum Walcheturm, Zürich, Switzerland
Ausstellungsraum Taubenstrasse 13, Hamburg, Germany
Black Friday – Exercises in Hermetics, Galerie Joanna Kamm, Berlin, Germany
2003 EASTinternational, curated by Toby Webster and Eva Rothschild, Norwich Gallery,
Norwich, England
Kaiserpassage 16/21a, Karlsruhe, Germany
Reisefreiheit, Stipendiatenausstellung, curated by Rita Kersting, Kunsthaus
Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Work on Paper, Dumbo Art Center, Brooklyn, NY
2002 Yes, We’re Excerpts, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY
Metropolitan, Galerie Jürgen Becker, Galerie Karin Guenther, Hamburg, Germany
Ich ging im Walde, Galerie Borgmann/Nathusius, Cologne, Germany
Rraum02-ideoblast, Manifesta, Frankfurt, Germany
Metropolitan, Galerie Borgmann/Nathusius, Cologne, Germany
Kunsthaus Hamburg, Stipendiatenausstellung, Hamburg, Germany
Jahresgaben, Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Kaiserstrasse 21a, Karlsruhe, Germany
tele 5, Hamburg, Germany, Videos shown: Eau Savage and Monochrome Orange
2001 First Review, Galerie 45, Frankfurt, Germany
Street of tomorrow, Galerie 45, Fielder/Reichert, Frankfurt, Germany
Temple Bar Gallery, Cooperation with Cadiophon, (A. Rischer/F. Lüsing), Dublin, Ireland
1999 1, Video, Videolounge Messehalle 2, Bremen, Germany
Space and other infinities, Passau, Germany
1998 Osygus, Produzentengalerie, Hamburg, Germany
Echo-Park, Bieber-haus, Hamburg, Germany
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2015 Artist in Residence, Sammlung Lenikus, Vienna, Austria
2005 Residency Delfina Studio Trust, London
2003 Neue Kunst in Hamburg; travel grant for New York
2002 Grant from Kunstfonds Bonn
Grant from Goldbekhaus Hamburg
2001 Grant from Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg
1997 Dietze-Award, Dietzestiftung, Hfbk Hamburg
BIBLIOGRAPHY
(*indicates non-periodical book, catalog, or other publication)
2019 “Markus Amm on his Process,” IndependentHQ.com, March 2019
Huet, Judith Benhamou, “The abundant market of the fairs in New York: while
Armory falls short due to a lack of quality, Independent allows for
numerous discoveries,” JudithBenhamouHuet.com, March 2019
Freeman, Nate, "What Sold during Armory Week," Artsy.net, March 11, 2019 Weber,
Jasmine, "The Independent Art Fair Embraces Color and Abstraction,"
Hyperallergic.com, March 8, 2019
2018 Crippa, Karim, "LA (Un)confidential – Exhibitionary goes West!,"
Exhibitionary.com, 2018
Lempesis, Dimitris, "ART CITIES: Los Angeles-Markus Amm," DreamIdeaMachine.com,
March 21, 2018
Ollman, Leah, “Layers of luminosity,” Los Angeles Times, March 18, 2018, p. F2
Cooke, Rylie, “Mark Bradford, Robert Irwin, Zoe Buckman and More Must-See Shows
in Los Angeles,” Whitewall.art, March 1, 2018
Morris, Ali, “Markus Amm: painting’s modern alchemist reflects on perfecting
pigments,” Wallpaper.com, February 26, 2018
2017 *Markus Amm, texts by Ines Goldbach and Jan Verwoert, Basel and New York:
Kunsthaus Baselland and Karma, 2017
Heim, Christoph, “Soll ich kaufen, soll ich nicht?,” BazOnline.ch, June 14, 2017
2016 “Artist Spotlight: Markus Amm,” Booooooom.com, July 13, 2016
“Frieze New York Announces 2016 Randall Island Park Line Up,” ArtLyst.com,
January 22, 2016
2014 Griffin, Jonathan, “The New Dealer,” T Magazine, September 14, 2014, p. 124-128
2013 *Nur hier: Sammlung zeitgenössischer Kunst der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
Ankäufe von 2007 bis 2011, curated by Anne-Marie Bonnet, Hans-Jörg
Clement, Yilmaz Dziewior, Ingrid Mössinger, Bonn: Bundeskunsthalle,
2013, p. 22-23
Smith, Roberta, “Mind Is Outer Space,” The New York Times, Art in Review, July 26,
2013, p. C 23
2012 “Markus Amm at Karin Guenther,” Contemporary Art Daily, December 27, 2012
“Markus Amm,” PlugProjects.com, September 2, 2012
2011 “Must-See Paintings Shows: November,” New American Paintings, November 27, 2011
Moxon, David, “Markus Amm: Subtle Minimalism,” Painters-Table.com, November 14, 2011
“The subtle minimalism in the paintings of Markus Amm, David Kordansky Gallery,
Culver City, CA,” Abstraktion.org, September 28, 2011
“Timothy Taylor Gallery Brings Together a Group of Cross-Generational Artists
for Exhibition,” ArtDaily.org, June 6, 2011
2010 *Schimpf, Simone, Frischzelle_13: Markus Amm, Stuttgart: Kunstmuseum Stuttgart,
2010, p. 7-10
2009 Rosenberg, Karen, “Into the Darkroom, With Pulleys, Jams, and Snakes, “The New York
Times, November 5, 2009
2008 *Germania: New Art from Germany, Saatchi Gallery. Jonathan Cape, Random House:
London, 2008
Coomer, Martin, “Markus Amm,” Time Out London, April 18, 2008, p. 186-187
Ward, Ossian, “Gothic Art Revival,” Time Out London, January 2, 2008
2007 *Heraeus, Stefanie, ed., Neuer Konstruktivismus – Markus Amm, Florian Baudrexel, Dieter
Detzner, Karsten Konrad, Simon Dybbroe Møller, Bernd Ribbeck, Bielefelder
Kunstverein. Kerber Verlag: Bielefeld, 2007, p. 16-21
“Minimalism and After,” Daimlerchrysler, Germany, 2007, p. 148-149
2006 Brooks, Amra, “Regional Roundup: Los Angeles,” Artinfo.com, December 27, 2006
Brooks, Amra, “Must See Art,” LAWeekly.com, December 20, 2006
Birckett, Richard, “Lichtspiel,” Fairy Tale, Fall 2006
2005 *William Blake & Sons, Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland
Birkett, Richard, “Markus Amm,” Untitled, Issue 36, Autumn 2005, p. 64
Herbert, Martin, “Markus Amm,” Time Out London, September 14-21, 2005
Smith, Roberta, “Art in Revivew; Alles. In Einer Nacht.,” NYTimes.com, July 15, 2005
2004 *Dziewior, Yilmaz, ed., Formalismus. Moderne Kunst, heute (Formalism. Modern Art, today),
Kunstverein Hamburg. Hamburg: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2004, p. 228
SELECTED PRESS
2018 The Los Angeles Times, Layers of luminosity, Leah Ollman
2017 Markus Amm, Foreword, Ines Goldbach
Markus Amm, Generative Disappearances: On the Paintings of Markus Amm,
Jan Verwoert
Markus Amm, Ines Goldbach in Conversation with Markus Amm, Ines
Goldbach
2010 Frischzelle_13: Markus Amm, 2010, The Crack in the Surface, Simone Schimpf
2004 Kunstverein Hamburg, 2004, Formalismus, Annette Freudenberger