Markus Vater (born 1970 in

Düsseldorf Düsseldorf ( , , ; often in English sources; Low Franconian and Ripuarian: ''Düsseldörp'' ; archaic nl, Dusseldorp ) is the capital city of North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous state of Germany. It is the second-largest city in ...

) is a German

artist An artist is a person engaged in an activity related to creating art, practicing the arts, or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse refers to a practitioner in the visual arts only. However, t ...

. He studied at the

Kunstakademie Düsseldorf The Kunstakademie Düsseldorf is the academy of fine arts of the state of North Rhine Westphalia at the city of Düsseldorf, Germany. Notable artists who studied or taught at the academy include Joseph Beuys, Gerhard Richter, Magdalena Jetelov� ...

and the

Royal College of Art The Royal College of Art (RCA) is a public research university in London, United Kingdom, with campuses in South Kensington, Battersea and White City. It is the only entirely postgraduate art and design university in the United Kingdom. It of ...

London London is the capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary dow ...

. From 2012 to 2016 he had been teaching at the

in London. In 2014 he had a guestprofessorship at the

Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg The ''Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg (HFBK Hamburg)'' is the University of Fine Arts of Hamburg. It dates to 1767, when it was called the ''Hamburger Gewerbeschule''; later it became known as ''Landeskunstschule Hamburg''. The main build ...

and from 2016 to 2019 at the

Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe The State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe () is an art school located in Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. History The Academy was founded in 1854 by Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden, with the landscape painter Johann Wilhelm Schirm ...

. Currently he is teaching at the Hochschule der bildende Künste Essen. His studio is at

Studio Voltaire Studio Voltaire is a non-profit gallery and artist studios based in Clapham, South London. The organisation focuses on contemporary arts, staging a celebrated public programme of exhibitions, performances, and live events. Studio Voltaire i ...

. Vater lives in London and works in

and

Essen Essen (; Latin: ''Assindia'') is the central and, after Dortmund, second-largest city of the Ruhr, the largest urban area in Germany. Its population of makes it the fourth-largest city of North Rhine-Westphalia after Cologne, Düsseldorf and ...

Exhibitions, installations (selection)

Solo exhibitions (selection)

* 2018 "Ich bin der Riss der durch die Welt geht", Galerie Rupert Pfab, Duesseldorf * 2018 "What You See is not What You Look at", Kunstverein Ludwigsburg, Ludwigsburg * 2017 "Sitting in a hole that has the shape of a frightened cat", Union Gallery, London * 2016 "In einer anderen Sprache bin ich ein anderer Mensch", Orangerie Schloss Rheda Wiedenbrueck, Kunstverein Bleichhaeuschen, Rheda Wiedenbrueck * 2015 "I imagine how You imagine I imagine You", Galerie Rupert Pfab, Duesseldorf * 2014 "Wogegen ist eigentlich die Gegenwart?", Kunstverein Rostock, Rostock * 2013 "Die Unendlichkeit ist auch nicht mehr was sie mal war", Galerie Peter Zimmermann, Mannheim * 2013 "..at the end of the world", No.82, Deptford, London * 2010 "Das Metapherproblem", Spot on 05, Animated-Installation, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf * 2009 "Heute denke ich mich in ein Blatt hinein", Rudolf Scharpf Galerie des Wilhelm Hack Museums, Ludwigshafen am Rhein * 2008 "Briefe an die Schmetterlinge", Sies+Hoeke Galerie, Düsseldorf * 2007 "At the end of the world", art agents gallery, Hamburg * 2006 Sies + Höke Galerie, Düsseldorf * 2005 agents gallery, Hamburg * 2004 Sies + Höke Galerie, Düsseldorf * 2002 "The Dandileon-fairy-mass-suicide", Vilma Gold Gallery, London * 2002_At the end of the world_, Escale, Düsseldorf * 2002 "Drawings and Films", Sies + Höke Gallerie, Düsseldorf * 2000 "The Hans Albers Project", SITE Ausstellungsraum, Düsseldorf * 1998 "her hands smell of architecture", Ginsa, Tokio * 1997 "Malerei", Galerie Geviert, Berlin * 1997 "Vaterboy leckt Mutterboy (mein Gehirn sagt Guten Tag)", Mehrwert, Aachen * 1996 "Wir tarnen uns für die Sintflut", Galerie 102, Düsseldorf * 1996 "Büro für konkrete Symmetrie", Künstlerhaus Dortmund, Dortmund

Group exhibitions (selection)

* 2021 "Videocitta - Video Art Program 3rd Edition" at Palazzo dei Congressi, Eur district, Rome * 2020 "UNSTILLED LIFE: Artist Animations 1980-2020” at Ron Mandos Gallery, Amsterdam * 2019 "Zwischen Nähe und Distanz: Konstruktion von Wirklichkeiten. Von Goya bis Picasso” at the

Museum Kunstpalast The Kunstpalast, formerly Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf is an art museum in Düsseldorf. History The roots of the museum go back around 300 years. In 1932, the collection of the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (Academy of Art) was housed in the Kunstmu ...

, Duesseldorf * 2018 “Bild und Blick – Sehen in der Moderne" at the Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen * 2018 “Battalion D’Amour” curated by Sebastian Nebe at Galerie Kleindienst Leipzig * 2017 "Drawing Biennale 2017", The Drawingroom , London * 2016 "HOW TO FIND TRUE LOVE AND HAPPINESS IN THE PRESENT DAY" at Bikini Berlin, Germany * 2016 "ORBITAL EXPLORER"at Kulturforum Alte Post, Staedtische Galerie Neuss, Germany * 2016 "1. – 21. Mai 2016, Griffelkunst e.V. zur 361. und 362. Bilderwahl Editions" at Griffelkunst-Vereinigung Hamburg e.V., Hamburg * 2015 "In Schoenheit auferstehen", Galerie Patrick Ebensperger, Berlin * 2015 "A man walks into a bar...", me Collectors Room, Berlin * 2014 "Equal goes it loose", News of the world, Enclave, Deptford, London * 2014 "Hands" invited by

Sven Sachsalber Sven Sachsalber (8 May 1987 – December 2020) was an Italian artist.https://www.de24.news/en/2020/12/mourning-the-deceased-artist-sven-sachsalber.html Biography Sachsalber was born in Südtirol (Italy) and raised in Laatsch, Malles in Vinschga ...

, Museion, Bozen, Italy * 2013 " Die Woerter in den vier Ecken", Kunstbunker, Ausstellungsraum fuer zeitgenoessische Kunst, Nuernberg * 2013 "Video Weekends", Works out of the Museums Collection, Museum Kunstpalast, Duesseldorf * 2013 "Drawing Bienale", Drawingroom, London * 2012 "I love Aldi", Wilhelm Hack Museums, Ludwigshafen am Rhein * 2012 "A Perfect day" at WestergasFabrik, Amsterdam * 2011 "Der Menschenklee", KIT, Kunsthalle Duesseldorf, Mannesmannufer, Düsseldorf * 2010 "Linea,Line,Linie", Kunstmuseum Bonn, an exhibition of the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen * 2010 "Shudder", Drawingroom, London * 2009 "Rank" curated by Alistar Robinson, Northern Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sunderland * 2008 "Vertrautes terrain", " Streng verdaulich", curated by Ludwig Seyfarth and Gregor Jansen, ZKM, Museum fuer Neue Kunst * 2007 Black Mountain, Hans Schulte und Markus Vater, Museum Baden, Solingen * 2007 frisch gestrichen, Franz Gertsch Museum, Schweiz * 2006 Metropolis Rise: New Art from London, 798 Art District, Chaoyang District, Beijing * 2005 Goethe Abwaerts, Deutsche Jungs etc.,The Falckenberg Collection, Helsinki City Art Museum Meilahti, Helsinki, Finland * 2005 SV05, Selected by Enrico David and Catherine Wood, Studio Voltaire, London * 2005 "Direct painting", Kunsthalle Mannhein, Mannheim * 2004 "Year Zero",Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, England * 2004 "Malerei", Galerie Schoettle, Munich * 2003 "The theory of everything", with hobbypopMuseum, Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, rue des Haudriette, Paris * 2001 "Death to the fascist insect...", Anthony D'Offay Gallery, London * 2000 "Paintings", Timothy Taylor Gallery, London * 2000 orking-title Stanley Pricker Gallery, Kingston * 1999 "Live Marslandung", Videoinstallation, hobbypopMUSEUM, Düsseldorf * 1998 "Keep on Riding , volkstümliche Malerei ", Forum Kunst, Rottweil * 1996 "Drive In ", Hansaallee, Düsseldorf * 1996 "Good News ", Galerie 102, Düsseldorf

References

External links

Homepage

Instagram feed
* Galerie Rupert Pfab, Düsseldorf

* Sies + Höke Galerie, Düsseldorf
Markus Vater, biography, bibliography, works
* Studio Voltaire, London

{{DEFAULTSORT:Vater, Markus 1970 births Living people Alumni of the Royal College of Art 20th-century German painters 20th-century German male artists German male painters 21st-century German painters 21st-century German male artists Kunstakademie Düsseldorf alumni