Kai Schiemenz
1966
born in Erfurt
1990 - 1991
studies at Kunsthochschule Berlin
1992 - 1998
studies Visual Cultural Studies at Universität der Künste, Berlin
1999
master class Professor Lothar Baumgarten, UdK Berlin
lives and works in Berlin
Scholarships & Prizes
2010
New York stipend of the Berlin Senate Chancellery - Cultural Affairs, USA
2009
MADA residency, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
2006
Work grant of the City of Madrid, Spain
2005
Villa Aurora grant, Los Angeles, USA
2001 - 2004
Work grant visual arts of the Berlin Senate Chancellery
1999
GASAG art prize, Berlin
Solo exhibitions (selection)
2024
PRIEL, Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin, Germany
Clear Height, Goethe-Institut Hong Kong, China
2023
Eye Hight, with Yangpin Jin, HOW Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Order and Chaos, AKI Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2022
SCHURF, Orangerie am Schloss Rheda, Wiedenbrück, Germany
2021
Glass Stones, Grassi Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Leipzig, Germany
Kolk, Galerie EIGEN + ART Leipzig, Germany
2018
Reflection, AKI Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
Once Over Easy, Galerie EIGEN + ART Leipzig, Germany
2017
IN FARBE, Mies van der Rohe Haus, Berlin, Germany
2016
Steine, Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin, Germany
Große und Kleine Pistazie/ Malve/ Koralle, Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg, Germany
2014
SPLITTER, Deutsche Werkstätten Hellerau, Dresden, Germany
TAKE FIVE, Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin, Germany
2013
Host, Neuer Kunstverein Wuppertal, Germany
2012
Mr. Hyde, PayneShurvell London, United Kingdom
Mr. Hyde II, Kunstraum Sellerstraße, Griffelkunst-Vereinigung Hamburg, Germany
2010
Islands of Swarm, Light Projects, Melbourne, Australia
2009
Reihe: Ordnung sagt - Zukunft, Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Hamburg, Germany
Now I'll go and fix my garden, Deutsche Werkstätten Hellerau, Germany
2008
Suspended Empire, Kappatos Gallery, Athens, Greece
Tower of nowhere, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Berlin, Germany
Rural Delights, Villa Romana, Florence, Italy
2007
Shrunken Theatre, Galerie Fahnemann, Berlin, Germany
Dwelling for Clandestine Clementine, Kunstverein Kreis Ludwigsburg, Germany
2005
Total Cinema, Hochschulgalerie der HfbK, Berlin, Germany
Hysterische Avantgarde, Galerie Koch und Kesslau, Berlin, Germany
Group exhibition (selection)
2024
Il rifugio del quadrato felice, Galerie Born, Germany
2022
Fragile – Alles aus Glas! Grenzbereich des Skulpturalen, Kunstmuseum Ahlen, Germany
Travelling light. Sculptures & Installations, Postwerk Tegel, Berlin, Germany
IDENTITY NOT PROVEN. New aquisitions in the federal collection., Bundeskunsthalle Bonn, Germany
2021
Fragile! Alles aus Glas, Grenzbereiche des Skulpturalen, Kunsthalle Vogelmann, Städtische Museen Heilbronn, Germany
Summer Time Rolls, Am Tacheles, Berlin, Germany
Ways of Seeing Abstraction, PalaisPopulaire, Berlin, Germany
METAMODELL, Die Möglichkeit der Insel, Berlin, Germany
2020
Time for Take-Off! Images of Flight from Albrecht Dürer to Jorinde Voigt, Kupfersstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Germany
Glas und Beton, Museum Marta Herford, Herford, Germany
Stand 1D08, Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin, Germany
2019
Gifts for you, Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin, Germany
West Lake: Breaking Open, Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin, Germany
Bunte Steine. William Tucker, Kai Schiemenz, Stefan Guggisberg, Gerog Kolbe Museum, Berlin, Germany
2017
Copy / Paste, Azad Art Gallery, Teheran, Iran
2016
WWW – Wasser, Wolken, Wind, Sammlung Würth, Schwäbisch-Hall, Germany
Wir suchen das Weite, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin/Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin, Germany
Grün stört. Im Fokus einer Farbe, Marta Herford, Germany
Braunschweiger Lichtparcours 2016, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany
Drawings Q, Galerie Fahnemann, Berlin, Germany
2015
Fokus, Galerie EIGEN + ART Leipzig, Germany
2013
on paper, EIGEN + ART Lab, Berlin, Germany
Förderkoje, Galerie EIGEN + ART, Art Cologne, Germany
2012
POSITIONS, Galerie EIGEN + ART Leipzig, Germany
2011
Total Theatre III, UBE Biennale, Japan
Neue Realitäten, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin/Kupferstichkabinett, Germany
We are all astronauts – Universe Richard Buckminster Fuller reflected in contemporary art, Marta Herford, Germany
Concrete Geometries, AA London, UK
2010
lush life, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, USA
Light Projects, Melbourne, Australia
11th International Garden Festival, Grand-Métis, Canada
The Knot, Bucharest, Warsaw, Berlin, Germany
Berlin Transfer, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany
2009
NATURE, Fahnemann Projects, Berlin, Germany
Where the earth is the sky is the earth, Bundesgartenschau Schwerin, Germany
Black Little Curly Hair, Kappatos Gallery, Athens, Greece
2008
Skulpturen Quadriennale Riga, Lithuania
Eclipse, Stedefreund, Berlin, Germany
Drawings, Galerie Fahnemann, Berlin, Germany
2007
Domain of the Great Bear Part III, Kunstraum München, Germany
Transatlantische Impulse, Villa Aurora Berlin, Germany
2006
Invisible City - Ideal City, Potsdam und Zamosc, Poland
Demokratie üben, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster, Germany
urban ceatures, Pori Art Museum, Pori, Finland
Madrid Procesos 06, Spain
2005
Wittgenstein in New York - Stadt und Architektur in der neueren Kunst auf Papier, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin/Kupferstichkabinett, Germany
Kritische Gesellschaften, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany