Kai Schiemenz

Biography

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

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