Andreas Slominski's works represent some of the most extraordinary contributions to German contemporary art. During the early 1990s, he mainly created sculptures in smaller dimensions, while in more recent years he has shifted towards larger-scale installations. Since his beginnings, Slominski unfailingly sought a direct dialogue with the viewer, probing ideas about art and its reception. His so-called 'traps' are absurd-looking baits, inspired by the sculptural qualities he observed in a vole trap and positioned somewhere between sculpture and functional object. They can be interpreted as comments on the deceptive, as well as the seductive, effects of art.
Slominski's cunning traps only form one of many components in his ironic universe, which also includes bicycles, windmills, found objects and non-traditional materials. In the legacy of Marcel Duchamp's readymades, he transforms these everyday objects through their inclusion in an art context, highlighting the ways in which perception and expectation condition how we see them. In 2006, he introduced paint and classical reliefs into his practice and, in keeping with his satirical approach, the fine marble usually associated with these forms is replaced with cheap polystyrene, while traditional painterly subjects are exchanged for kitschy motifs and colour schemes.
Born in 1959 in Meppen, Germany, Slominski attended the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Hamburg and now lives and works between Hamburg and Werder. His solo museum exhibitions include the Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg (1995 and 1997); Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin (1999); Serpentine Galleries, London (2005); Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt (2006); Museum Bojimans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (2007); Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin (2013 and 2014); Deichtorhallen Hamburg (2016); and Museum Jorn, Silkeborg, Denmark (2017).
2024
Residences versus Birthplaces, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
2022
St. Andreas Slominski, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland
Andreas Slominski: Captivating Campaign, Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris Marais, France
2021
Andreas Slominski: Captivating Campaign, Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
2018
Metro Pictures, New York, NY, USA
Neue Arbeiten, Galerie Bärbel Grässlin, Frankfurt, Germany
2017
SORRRING, Museum Jorn, Silkeborg, Denmark
Transhumanistisch, Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany
2016
Andreas Slominski, Gerhardsen Gerner, Oslo, Norway
New Works, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
The O of the Door, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Dre-omins, Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City, Mexico
A–ski, Galerie Bärbel Grässlin, Frankfurt, Germany
2015
De l'Amitié, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Pantin, France
2014
Werke aus der Sammlung Bärbel und Manfred Holtferich, Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, Germany
About Friendship, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany
Coffins, Galerie Bärbel Grässlin, Frankfurt, Germany
Metro Pictures, New York, NY, USA
2013
XYT, Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Über die Freundschaft (About Friendship), Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany
2012
Riding a Saddle Roof, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium
Ecce Homo, Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany
Andreas Slominski, Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, Paris, France
Walls, Villa Schöningen, Potsdam, Germany
Sperm, Metro Pictures, New York, NY, USA
2011
Sadie Coles, London, UK
X-RATED, me Collectors Room, Berlin (mit William N. Copley), Berlin, Germany
2010
Fallen Hochsprunganlage Berg Sportgeräte, MMK, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany
2009
Mandy, Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany
Neue Arbeiten, Jablonka Galerie, Berlin, Germany
New Works, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
2008
Benedictio (Aktion), Kunststation St. Peter, Cologne, Germany
Andreas Slominski/Thomas Bayrle, Dépendance, Brussels, Belgium
Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK
2007
Red Sand and a Happy New Year, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2006
Roter Sand und ein gefundenes Glück, MMK, Museum moderner Kunst, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Andreas Slominski: xHByz, Metro Pictures Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2005
Andreas Slominski, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
Andreas Slominski: moving energies #6, Aspekte der Sammlung Olbricht, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
2004
Kunstpreis Aachen 2004: Andreas Slominski, Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany
Andreas Slominski: The Wrong Door, Produzentengalerie Hamburg, Germany
Andreas Slominski: The Wrong Door, The Wrong Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Andreas Slominski: 2. April, Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany
2003
Andreas Slominski, Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK
Andreas Slominski, Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy
Weihnachtsdekoration für den Frühling, den Sommer und den Herbst, MMK, Museum für moderne Kunst, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
2001
Andreas Slominski: New Works, Wako Works of Art, Tokio, Japan
Andreas Slominski: DDR colection vol. 1, DRF Co. Ltd., Hiroshima-Shi, Japan
2000
Andread Slominski: Neue Arbeiten( New Works), Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany
1999
Andreas Slominski, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany
Andreas Slominski, Metro Pictures, New York, NY, USA
Andreas Slominski, Kabinett für aktuelle Kunst, Bremerhaven, Germany
1998
Andreas Slominski, Kunsthalle, Zurich, Switzerland
Andreas Slominski: Traps, Wako Works of Art, Tokio, Japan
1997
Traps, White Cube, London, UK
Andreas Slominski: heizen, Hamburger Kunsthalle; Galerie der Gegenwart zu Gast auf der Fleetinsel, Hamburg, Germany
Fallen, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastrich, Netherlands
1996
Andreas Slominski: Neue Arbeiten, Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Andreas Slominski, Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany
Zuspiel, Portikus, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
1995
Wir besitzen eine Arbeit von Andreas Slominski, Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany
Andreas Slominski: LINKS, Kunsthalle Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany
Andreas Slominski, Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld, Germany
Andreas Slominski: Fallen, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
1993
Andreas Slominski, Museum Robert Walser, Hotel Krone, Gais, Switzerland
Fallen, Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany
1991
Andreas Slominski, Kabinett für aktuelle Kunst, Bremerhaven, Germany
1989
Fallen, Produzentengalerie, Hamburg, Germany
1988
Andreas Slominski, Kabinett für aktuelle Kunst, Bremerhaven, Germany
1987
Fallen, Produzentengalerie, Hamburg, Germany
2019
Passion, Bündner Kunstmuseum Chur, Chur, Switzerland
Elementary Particles, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany
Face It!, Kunstmuseum Ravensburg, Ravensburg, Germany
2018
Optik Schröder II, Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, Austria
Im Zweifel für den Zweifel, NRW-Forum Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
50 Jahre Avantgarde, Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany
I Still Believe in Miracles – Works from Selvaag Art Collection, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway
2017
Primary Structures: Masterworks of Minimal Art, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
Deutschland 8, Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Beijing, China
Doing Identity, Kunstmuseum Bochum, Bonn, Germany
German Encounters, Fire Station, Qatar Museums, Doha, Qatar
Luther und die Avantgarde, Altes Gefängnis, Wittenberg, Germany
2016
An Imagined Museum: Works from the Centre Pompidou, the Tate, and the MMK, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany; Centre Pompidou Metz, Metz, France
I Prefer Life, Weserburg, Bremen, Germany
The Distance of A Day: New in Contemporary Art, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
2015
Albert the kid is ghosting, David Roberts Arts Foundation, London, UK
Collecting Lines: Drawings from the Ringier Collection, Villa Flora, Winterthur, Switzerland
Love Story – Works from Erling Kagge’s Collection, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway
KölnSkulptur #8, Skulpturenpark Köln, Cologne, Germany
Do it, KunstKraftWerk, Leipzig, Germany
2014
Claire Fontaine: Fighting Gravity, with Andreas Slominski and Philippe Thomas, Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany
Do it EA, Crawford Campus Center Gallery, Episcopal Academy, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, PA, USA
Do it Moscow, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
One Million Years, System und Symptom, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland
Do it, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
2013
Soli Deo Gloria, Braunschweig Festival, Bisdorf, Germany
Visionen. Atmosphären der Veränderung, Marta Herford, Herford, Germany
Do it, Stacion-Center for Contemporary Art Prishtina, Prishtina, Kosovo
Do it, Manchester International Festival, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
Do it, MU artspace, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Do it (outside), Socrates Sculpture Park, New York, NY, USA
2012
15 years of the Gallery of Contemporary Art, Kunsthalle Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
More Light, Avlskarl Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Believers, KOW, Berlin, Germany
Relocated, MD72, Berlin, Germany
Bouvard and Pécuchet's Compendious Quest for Beauty, DRAF, London, UK
Aus Passion, die Sammlung Hanck, Giamuseum Hentrich im Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, Germany
Atelier+Kitchen: Laboratories of the Senses, MARTa Herford, Herford, Germany
Curators’ Series #5. Bouvard and Pecuchet’s Compendious Quest for Beauty, The Roberts Arts Foundation, London, UK
2011
Nils Staerk, Kopenhagen, Denmark
H x W x D, Galerie Wentrup, Berlin, Germany
Deutsch, Galerie Crone, Berlin, Germany
Redefine: Readymade, Das Produkt, Kunstverein Schwerin, Schwerin, Germany
Play Time, Œuvres de la collection Klosterfelde, L.A.C., Lieu d'Art Contemporaine, Sigean, France
MMK 1991-2011: 20 Jahre Gegenwart, MMK, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Wasser Straße Schiene Luft - Mobilität am Bodensee, Zeppelin Museum, Friedrichshafen, Germany
THE LAST FIRST DECADE, Ellipse Foundation, Alcoitão, Portugal
2010
Exhibition, Exhibition, Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli, Italy
“...” , Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany
Säen und Jäten.,Volkskultur in der zeitgenössischen Kunst, Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
Städtische Galerie Bietigheim-Bissingen, Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany
GALLERY, GALERIE, GALLERIA, Norma Mangione Gallery, Torino, Italy
„SHAZAM!“, Galerie Gerhardsen Gerner, Berlin, Germany
2009
Zeigen. An Audio Tour through Berlin by Karin Sander, Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Defending our values- Lightbox/ The Module, Centro Cultural Andratx, Mallorca, Spain
Cargo, Autocenter, Berlin, Germany
Group Show, Jablonka Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Double, MMK, Museum moderner Kunst, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Slow Paintings, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
Cargo Manifest, Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich, Germany
Narcotica, presented by Galerie im Regierungsviertel, Schalter, Basel, Germany
Two Horizons. Works from the Collections of Charles Asprey & Alexander Schröder, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
2008
Curiosität, Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp, Belgium
Pictures, Wako Works of Art, Tokio, Japan
Review, Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany
Moments, MD72, Berlin, Germany
Wir nennen es Hamburg, Kunstverein Hamburg, Germany
Art Word Lovers, Anna-Catherina Gebbers, Berlin, Germany
German Angst, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany
The Krautcho Club / In and Out of Place, Forgotten Bar Project, Berlin, Germany
The Krautcho Club / In and Out of Place, 176/Zabludowizc Collection, London, UK
Whole lotta love, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
Less, Haubrokshows, Berlin, Germany
Vertrautes Terrain. Aktuelle Kunst in & über Deutschland, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
The Store, Tulips & Roses, Vilnius, Lithuania
Zuordnungsprobleme, Johann König, Berlin, Germany
Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK
…5 Minutes Later, KW Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2007
FOR SALE, Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisabon, Portugal
»Curiosities Encounteres«, Grieder Contemporary, Kusnacht / Zurich, Switzerland
MARTa schweigt, MARTa, Herford, Germany
bookish relations, Anna-Catharina Gebbers, Berlin, Germany
Affinities. Neuankäufe, Sammlung Deutsche Bank / Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany
1997–2007, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany
John Bock, Lothar Hempel, Manfred Pernice, Andreas Slominski, Dirk Stewen, Galleri MGM, Oslo, Norway
Wonderwall, Constructing the Sublime, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokio, Japan
INKY TOY AFFINITAS, Cerealart, Philadelphia, PA, USA
2006
Verglückt noch mal, Galerie Ute Parduhn, Düsseldorf, Germany
2nd International Biennial for Contemporary Art, Sevilla, Spain
Nothing Bit Pleasure, BAWAG Foundation, Vienna, Austria
Geld schießt keine Tore!, Opelvillen, Rüsselsheim, Germany
WRONG, Klosterfelde, Berlin, Germany
THE THREE CITIES: BERLIN, Berlin, Germany
Peter Mertes Stipendium 2005, Kunstverein Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Optik Schröder. Werke aus der Sammlung Schröder, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
Von Richter bis Scheibnitz, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
Dialog Skulptur, Kunstverein Ludwigshafen, Ludwigshafen, Germany
2005
Karlsruhe 1, Galeria Senda, Barcelona, Spain
The Addiction, Gagosian Gallery Berlin, ein Projekt der 4. Berlin Biennale für zeitgenössische Kunst, Berlin, Germany
39. Art Cologne ART NOW 2005, Art Cologne, Cologne, Germany
FRAC. Movement, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
NOT A DROP BUT THE FALL, Künstlerhaus Bremen, Bremen, Germany
Neue Freunde, Stadtgalerie Schwaz, Schwaz, Austria
Nach Rokytnik, Die Sammlung der EVN, MUMOK, Vienna, Austia
Sammlung 2005 – Neupräsentation, Kunstsammlung im Städtehaus, Düsseldorf, Germany
BILANZ IN ZWEI AKTEN, Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover, Germany
Visionäre Sammlung Vol.1, Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, Germany
LUNA PARK, Fantastic Art, Villa Manin, Codroipo, Italy
Bidibidobidiboo, Fondazione Sandtretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
25 Jahre Sammlung Deutsche Bank, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany
Private / Corporate III, Daimler Chrysler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
Kunst in Schokolade, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
2004
15 Jahre Deichtorhallen, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
Utopia Station, Haus der Kunst, München, Germany
FROM ABOVE, Georg Kargl, Wien, Austria
After Images, Kunst als soziales Gedächtnis, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany
9. Triennale Kleinplastik, Triennale Kleinplastik Fellbach, Germany
Braunschweig Parcours 2004, Braunschweig Parcours, Germany
Monument to No, Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece
Element ZEIT, Krypta 182, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
Sammlung Plum, Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Germany
Eclipse: Towards the Edge of Visible, White Cube, London, UK
State of Play, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
2003
Adorno – zum 100. Geburtstag, Kunstverein Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Adam Carr, floating ip, Manchester, UK
Patchworking, Produzentengalerie, Hamburg, Germany
Skulpturensommer Baden-Baden, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany
50. Biennale Venedig 2003, Biennale Venedig, Italy
Moltitudini-Solitudini, Museion Bozen, Bolzano, Italy
Spectacular I-V, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, Germany
Drawings, Metro Pictures Gallery, New York, NY, USA
HOSSA, Centro Cultural Andratx, Mallorca, Spain
2002
Das Museum unserer Wünsche, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Do It, ADDISON, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA, USA
2001
Yokohama Triennale 2001, Yokohama, Japan
Vom Eindruck zum Ausdruck, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
Einräumen, Kunsthalle Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
2000
La Biennale de Montréal 2000, Biennal Montreal, Canada
1999
Kabinett für aktuelle Kunst, Bremerhaven, Germany
1998
1. Berlin Biennale für zeitgenössische Kunst, Berlin, Germany
Manifesta 2 Luxemburg 1998, Internaitonal Foundation Manifesta, Amsterdam, Netherlands
fast forward 2 »trade marks«, Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Wako Works of Art, Tokio, Japan
1997
Deutschlandbilder, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany
47. Biennale Venedig, Venedig, Italy
Skulptur. Projekte in Münster 1997, Skulptur Projekte Münster, Münster, Germany
1996
Nach Weimar, Neues Museum Weimar, Weimar, Germany
Zuspiel, Portikus, Frankfurt am Main
Zeitspiegel I, Städt Museum, Leverkusen, Germany
Views From Abroad: European Perspectives on American Art II, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
Views From Abroad: European Perspectives on American Art II, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA
do it, Bangkok University Art Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
1994
Cloaca Maxima - Museum für Stadtentwässerung, Zürich, Switzerland
Some Went Mad, Some Run Away - Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
KARAOKE (Fußball-WM), Portikus, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Backstage-Topologie zeitgenössischer Kunst, Kunstmuseum, Luzern, Switzerland
Some Went Mad, Some Ran Away... , Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
Some Went Mad, Some Ran Away... , Nordic Arts Center, Helsinki, Finland
Some Went Mad, Some Ran Away... , Kunstverein, Hannover, Germany
Some Went Mad, Some Ran Away... , Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, USA
1993
Backstage, Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Hotel Charlton, Paris, France
Viennese Story, Seccession, Vienna, Austria
1992
Szenenwechsel 2, MMK, Museum für moderne Kunst, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Joy & Pain, ICA, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Qui quoi ou, Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris, France
1991
Centre Nationale d’Art Contemporain, Grenoble, France
1990
Berlin März 1990, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
1988
43. Biennale Venedig 1988, Venice, Italy
Belgium
SMAK Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent
France
FRAC, Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkerque
FRAC, Languedoc-Roussilon, Montpellier
Germany
Sammlung Haubrok, Berlin
Sammlung Goetz, Munich
Kunstmuseum Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven
Kunsthalle Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven
MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig
Kunstraum Grässlin, St. Georgen
Israel
Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Italy
Villa Manin, Centro d'arte contemporanea, Codroipo
Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples
Nomas Foundation, Rome
MART Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto
Fondazione Prada, Milan
Portugal
Ellipse Foundation, Alcoitão
Spain
CAC Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Málaga, Málaga
Switzerland
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel
Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Emanuel Hoffmann-Stiftung, Basel
USA
MOCA, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
2013
Lichtwark Preis, Hamburg
Hannah Höch Preis, Berlin
2004
Kunstpreis Aachen
1999
Edwin-Scharff-Preis, Hamburg
1995
Katalogpreis Alfred Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Foundation
Sprengel-Preis, Hannover
1994
Kunstpreis Adolf-Luther Foundation, Krefeld Kunstpreis des Landes Bremen
1991
Karl-Ströher Preis, Frankfurt am Main
1990
Elisabeth-Schneider Preis, Freiburg im Breisgau