Known for his wooden sculptures, Stephan Balkenhol carves his figures directly from tree trunks – often wawa or cedar wood – using a mallet and a chisel, without trying to erase the traces left by his tools. This unique technique gives a sense of individuality to each sculpture, further reinforced by the colours chosen to structure and animate the figures. Placed at human height on raw wooden plinths, these men, women and even hybrid beings that seem plucked from a fable or opera, appear both distanced and in tune with the viewer.
Balkenhol's early works – male or female nudes on pedestals – echo classical Greek statues, while carefully positioned features and extraordinarily lifelike postures belie their apparent simplicity. This focus on the human form set him apart from the contemporary art movements of the 1970s, when the emphasis was on abstract, Minimal and Conceptual approaches and figuration had fallen from favour. By the 1990s, his repertoire had expanded to include animals and hybrid creatures, as well as the introduction of architectural motifs and reliefs. Recent works feature contemporary figures dressed in everyday attire. Showing few signs of emotion and bearing no socio-political references, these figures negate and transcend the specifics of any narrative, instead embodying the universal ideas of beings, objects and places.
Balkenhol was born in 1957 in Fritzlar, Germany, and studied at the University of Fine Arts, Hamburg from 1976-82. He lives and works between Kassel and Karlsruhe in Germany, and Meisenthal in France. His work has been shown in numerous solo exhibitions at institutions including the Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany (2020–21); Museum Jorn, Silkeborg, Denmark (2020); Kunsthalle Emden, Germany (2018); CAC Málaga (2018); Moscow Museum of Modern Art (2016); Landesmuseum Linz (2014–15); Ravensburg Art Museum, Germany (2014); Museum of Grenoble, France (2010); Deichtorhallen Hamburg (2008–09); and Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden (2006). He has also completed a number of public commissions around the world, including a tribute to Auguste Macke that was inaugurated in Bonn in 2018 and a larger-than-life figure of a man in Toronto in 2019.
2023
Stephan Balkenhol — Window in Time, Museum Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, Germany
2022
Stephan Balkenhol: Tout le monde, Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
2020
Stephan Balkenhol, Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany
Stephan Balkenhol, Museum Jorn, Silkeborg, Denmark
25 Years, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
Stephan Balkenhol. Le Prévu et l'Imprévu, Palais d'Iéna, Paris, France
2019
Stephan Balkenhol. Skulpturen und Bilder zum Tod, Museum für Sepulkralkultur, Kassel, Germany
Stephan Balkenhol, Le Portique, Le Havre, France
2018
Fabula, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
Stephan Balkenhol, Centro de arte contemporáneo de Málaga, Málaga, Spain
Stephan Balkenhol, Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland
Stephan Balkenhol, Nosbaum Reding Gallery, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
Stephan Balkenhol, Kunshalle Emden, Emden, Germany
2017
Neue Arbeiten, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
30 Years Stephan Balkenhol, Deweer Gallery, Otegem, Belgium
2016
Stephan Balkenhol, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Palais Gogolevski, Moscow, Russia
Stephan Balkenhol and Philippe Cognée, Fondation Fernet-Branca, Saint-Louis, France
Stephan Balkenhol, Nosbaum Reding Gallery, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
2015
New Sculptures, Akinci, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Stephan Balkenhol, Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland
2014
Stephan Balkenhol, Kunstmuseum Ravensburg, Ravensburg, Germany
Stephan Balkenhol, Nosbaum Reding Gallery, Luxembourg City, Luxeumbourg
Stephan Balkenhol, Deweer Gallery, Otegem, Belgium
Stephan Balkenhol, Landes Museum, Linz, Austria
Skulpturen, Skulpturenpark Waldfrieden, Wuppertal, Germany
2013
Universe, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
Alles gut!, Holger Priess Galerie, Hamburg, Germany
Stephan Balkenhol, Galleria Monica De Cardenas, Milan, Italy
Stephan Balkenhol, Galerie Jochen Hempel, Leipzig, Germany
Stephan Balkenhol, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, Germany
Stephan Balkenhol, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
Stephan Balkenhol, Johnen Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Stephan Balkenhol, Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland
Inauguration of the Wagner Memorial Sculpture, Leipzig, Germany
Big Head Column, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy
Stephan Balkenhol, Galerie des Wetzlarer Kunstvereins, Wetzlarer, Germany
2012
New Works, Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland
Stephan Balkenhol, Deweer Gallery, Otegem, Belgium
Stephan Balkenhol in St. Elizabeth, St. Elizabeth Church, Kassel, Germany
A Sign in the Forum of Caesar: Stephan Balkenhol more and more, Valentina Bonomo Gallery, Rome, Italy
Stephan Balkenhol, Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland
Stephan Balkenhol, Nosbaum Reding, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
2011
Stephan Balkenhol, Kunstforum Wuerth, Turnout, Belgium
Stephan Balkenhol, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
Stephan Balkenhol, Art Statements Gallery, Hong Kong
Stephan Balkenhol, Galerie Akinci, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Stephan Balkenhol, Johnen Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Stephan Balkenhol, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
2010
L'Art et la Manière, Musée de Grenoble, Grenoble, France
Stephan Balkenhol, Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland
Stephan Balkenhol, Deweer Art Gallery, Otegem, Belgium
Stephan Balkenhol: New Works, Lars Bohman Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
Stephan Balkenhol, Nosbaum & Reding Art Contemporain, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
Stephan Balkenhol, Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Stephan Balkenhol, Gary Tatintsian Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Stephan Balkenhol, Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland
Stephan Balkenhol, Monica De Cardenas, Milan, Italy
2009
Stephan Balkenhol, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
Druckgrafik 1992–2008, Kunstverein Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany
Stephan Balkenhol: Glücksach, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, Germany
Stephan Balkenhol, Dogenhaus Galerie, Leipzig, Germany
Stephan Balkenhol, Galerie de l'Erban, Nantes, France
2008
Stephan Balkenhol, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
Neue Arbeiten, Galerie Löhrl, Mönchengladbach, Germany
Stephan Balkenhol, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
Neue Abreiten, Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland
Stephan Balkenhol, Galleria Valentina Bonomo – Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
2007
Stephan Balkenhol, Monica De Cardenas, Milan, Italy
Stephan Balkenhol, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Stephan Balkenhol, Galeri Artist, Istanbul, Turkey
Stephan Balkenholl, MKM Museum Küppersmühle für moderne Kunst, Duisburg, Germany
Stephan Balkenhol, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria
Stephan Balkenhol, Galleri Lars Bohman, Stockholm, Sweden
Stephan Balkenhol, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
New Works, Deweer Art Gallery, Otegem, Belgium
New Work, Art Statements Gallery, Hong Kong
UMRAUM: Stephan Balkenhol: Architektur und Objekt, Wenzel-Hablik-Museum, Itzehoe, Germany
Stephan Balkenhol, Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland
Stephan Balkenhol, Johnen Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Stephan Balkenhol, PAC – Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
2006
Stephan Balkenhol, MKM Museum Küppersmühle für Moderne Kunst, Duisburg, Germany
Holzskulpturen und Bilder, Kunstverein Lippe – Lippische Gesellschaft für Kunst, Detmold, Germany
Stephan Balkenhol, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden, Germany
Stephan Balkenhol, Museum der Moderne Salzburg Mönchsberg, Salzburg, Austria
New Works, Galleri Bo Bjerggaard, Copenhagen, Denmark
Stephan Balkenhol, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2005
Stephan Balkenhol, National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
Esculturas, Galería Pepe Cobo, Madrid, Spain
Stephan Balkenhol, Deweer Art Gallery, Otegem, Belgium
Stephan Balkenhol, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Stephan Balkenhol, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
The Task of Solitary Man, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
Mann schwarz-weiß, Kunsthalle Göppingen, Göppingen, Germany
New Sculptures, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
2003
Stephan Balkenhol, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
Stephan Balkenhol, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany
Stephan Balkenhol, Le Rectangle and Goethe Institute, Lyon, France
Stephan Balkenhol, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Stephan Balkenhol und..., Stadtische Galerie Fellbach, Fellbach, Germany
Stephan Balkenhol, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
2002
Stephan Balkenhol, Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland
Stephan Balkenhol: Installation, Landeshauptstadt Erfurt, Stadtverwaltung, Erfurt, Germany
Stephan Balkenhol, Galería Pepe Cobo, Seville, Spain
Stephan Balkenhol, Deweer Art Gallery, Otegem, Belgium
Stephan Balkenhol, Begegnungsstatte Kleine Synagoge Erfurt, Erfurt, Germany
Stephan Balkenhol, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Stephan Balkenhol, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, Germany
Stephan Balkenhol, Galerie Löhrl, Mönchengladbach, Germany
2001
Stephan Balkenhol, Dogenhaus Galerie, Leipzig, Germany
Stephan Balkenhol, Monica De Cardenas, Milan, Italy
Stephan Balkenhol, Kunstforum Baloise, Basel, Switzerland
Stephan Balkenhol, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Stephan Balkenhol, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
Stephan Balkenhol, OMR Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico
Stephan Balkenhol, Dorrie Priess Galerie, Hamburg, Germany
Stephan Balkenhol, Barbara Wein Verlag/Galerie Berlin: S.B-Photographien, Berlin, Germany
Stephan Balkenhol, Fries Museum, Leauwarden, Netherlands
Stephan Balkenhol, Museum den bildenden Kunste Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
2000
Stephan Balkenhol, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Stephan Balkenhol, Galerie Johnen & Schottle, Cologne, Germany
Stephan Balkenhol, Kunstverein Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany
Stephan Balkenhol, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA
Stephan Balkenhol, Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
Stephan Balkenhol: New Works, Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO, USA
Stephan Balkenhol, Monica de Cardenas, Milan, Italy
Stephan Balkenhol, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanéa, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Stephan Balkenhol, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
Stephan Balkenhol, Galeria OMR, Mexico City, Mexico
Stephan Balkenhol, Galerie Mai 36, Zürich, Switzerland
Stephan Balkenhol, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
Stephan Balkenhol, Galerie Löhrl, Mönchengladbach, Germany
1999
Stephan Balkenhol, Galerie Akinci, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Stephan Balkenhol, BAWAG Foundation, Vienna, Austria
Sculptures Récentes, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
Stephan Balkenhol, Galleria civica di arte contemporanea, Trento, Italy
Stephan Balkenhol, European Foundation for Sculpture, Parque Tournay Solvay, Brussels, Belgium
Stephan Balkenhol, Galerie Löhrl, Berlin, Germany
Stephan Balkenhol, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Stephan Balkenhol, Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London, UK
1998
Stephan Balkenhol, Monica De Cardenas, Milan, Italy
Stephan Balkenhol, Skulpturen, Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Germany
Stephan Balkenhol, Skulpturen, Gerhard Marcks-Haus, Bremen, Germany
Stephan Balkenhol, Skulpturen, Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal, Germany
1997
Stephan Balkenhol, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
Stephan Balkenhol, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Stephan Balkenhol, Galerie Johnen & Schöttle, Cologne, Germany
1996
Stephan Balkenhol, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada
Stephan Balkenhol, Centre Européen d'Actions Artistiques Contemporaines, Strasbourg, France
Stephan Balkenhol, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Stephan Balkenhol, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
1995
Stephan Balkenhol, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Stephan Balkenhol, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
Stephan Balkenhol, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., USA
1994
Stephan Balkenhol: Skulpturen und Zeichnungen, Galerie Löhrl, Mönchengladbach; Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
Stephan Balkenhol: Skulpturen, Kunstraum Neue Kunst, Hannover, Germany
Stephan Balkenhol, Galerie Akinci, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Stephan Balkenhol, Musée departemental d’art contemporain de Rochechouart, Rochechouart; Musée des Beaux Arts, Haute-Normandie, Rouen, France
Stephan Balkenhol, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany
Stephan Balkenhol, Galerie Dörrie und Priess, Hamburg, Germany
1993
Stephan Balkenhol: Vier Männer auf Bojen, Elbe, near Museumshafen Ovelgünne, Hamburg-Altona; Suderelbe, Hamburg-Harburg; Serrahn, Hamburg-Bergdorf; Aussenalster, near Gurlittinsel, Hamburg-Mitte, Germany
Stephan Balkenhol, Kabinett für aktuelle Kunst, Bremerhaven, Germany
Stephan Balkenhol, Deweer Art Gallery, Otegem, Belgium
Outdoor installation, Amiens, France
Stephan Balkenhol, Galerie Johnen & Schöttle, Cologne, Germany
Stephan Balkenhol, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA, USA
1992
Stephan Balkenhol, Galerie Roger Pailhas, Paris & Marseille, France
Stephan Balkenhol: About Men and Sculpture, Witte de With Centre for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, Netherlands
1991
Six ours pour Paris, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Paris, France
Stephan Balkenhol: Skulpturen im Stadelgarten, Städtische Galerie, Städel, Frankfurt, Germany
Stephan Balkenhol, Galerie Johnen & Schöttle, Cologne; Kunstverein Ulm, Ulm, Germany
Stephan Balkenhol: Köpfe, Galerie Löhrl, Mönchengladbach, Germany; Mai 36 Galerie, Lucerne, Switzerland; Kunsthalle Hamburg, Germany; Mannheim Kunstverein, Germany
Stephan Balkenhol, The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
Stephan Balkenhol: Zeichnungen 1990 und Entwürfe fur Skulpturen, Deweer Art Gallery, Otegem, Belgium
Skulpturen und Zeichnungen, Westwerk, Hamburg, Germany
1989
Stephan Balkenhol, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, West Germany
Stephan Balkenhol, Mai 36 Galerie, Lucerne, Switzerland
Stephan Balkenhol, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, West Germany
1988
Stephan Balkenhol, Galerie Johnen & Schöttle, Cologne, West Germany
Stephan Balkenhol: Neue Skulpturen, Galerie Löhrl, Mönchengladbach, West Germany
Stephan Balkenhol, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland; Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany; Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nuremberg, West Germany
1987
Stephan Balkenhol: Skulpturen und Zeichnungen, Braunschweig, West Germany
Stephan Balkenhol, Deweer Art Gallery, Otegen, Belgium
1985
Stephan Balkenhol: Skulpturen, A.O. Kunstraum, Hamburg, West Germany
Skulpturen: Stephan Balkenhol, Kunstverein Bochum, Bochum, West Germany
1984
Neue Arbeiten, Galerie Löhrl, Mönchengladbach, West Germany
2023
Home Game: 15 Years of the Sculpture Park, Skulpturenpark Waldfrieden, Wuppertal, German
2022
OPEN, Heidi Horten Collection, Vienna, Austria
2019
Bêtes de scène, Villa Datris, L'Isle-sur-la-Sorge, France
2018
Abstract/ion, Galerie Klüser, Munich, Germany
The Myriad Forms of Visual Art: 196 Works with 19 Themes, National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
2016
Animalia, Marian Goodman Gallery, London, UK
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
Defining Sculpture, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, USA
2015
Space Age, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Pantin, France
Figure on Display: Stephan Balkenhol and Jeff Wall, Leopold-Hoesch-Museum, Düren, Germany
Inventory, Vol.5: Acquisitions from 1992 to 1996, FRAC Haute-Normandie, Rouen, France
Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
2014
Collector's Room #5: Pleasure, Deweer Gallery, Otegem, Belgium
Study from the Human Body, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
2013
Lost in LA, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Art is beautiful but hard work too, Kunstbau, Munich, Germany
The Art of the Present, Helga de Alvear Collection, CentroCentro, Madrid, Spain
Truth, El Segunda Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Je t'aime... moi non plus, Musée des Beaux-Arts Eugène Leroy, Tourcoing, France
2012
Unlimited Bodies, Palais d'Ièna, Paris, France
Re-opening, Deweer Gallery, Otegem, Belgium
The Drawing Room, Deweer Gallery, Otegem, Belgium
The Bear Necessities, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
2011
Art of the Loom – 32 Tapestries woven on the looms of Mark Deweer’s factory, Deweer Gallery, Otegem, Belgium
1985–2010, Deweer Gallery, Otegem, Belgium
Körper Codes, Museum der Moderne Salzburg Mönchsberg, Salzburg, Austria
MMK 1991–2011: 20 Jahre Gegenwart, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
BLICKE und GESTEN: Porträts aus der Sammlung MJK – Malerei / Grafik / Plastik, Museum Junge Kunst, Frankfurt am Oder, Germany
Zettels Traum, Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal, Germany
2009
The Core Marrow of Art, Art Statements Gallery, Hong Kong
Evan Penny & Stephan Balkenhol, TrépanierBaer Gallery, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Fuentes, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
2008
This is Not to be Looked At: Highlights from the Permanent Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Paixóns Privadas, Visións Públicas Collections D.O. Galicia, Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Vigo, Spain
UPDATE, Deweer Gallery, Otegem, Belgium
2007
Intersezioni 3: Balkenhol, Delwoye, Quinn al Parco Archeologico di Scolacium, Catanzaro PAC, Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan
Museum der Moderne Salzburg Mönchsberg, Salzburg, Austria
Monica De Cardenas, Milan, Italy
New Works, Deweer Gallery, Otegem, Belgium
Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
New Works, Art Statements Gallery, Hong Kong
UMRAUM. Stephan Balkenhol: Architektur und Objekt, Wenzel-Hablik-Museum, Itzehoe, Germany
Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland
Johnen Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Lars Bohman Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
2006
Le Force de l’Art: Grand Palais 2006, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, France
Galerie Löhrl, Mönchengladbach, Germany
Stephan Balkenhol, Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland
Museum Küppersmühle für Moderne Kunst, Duisburg, Germany
Holzskulpturen und Bilder, Kunstverein Lipp, Lippische Gesellschaft für Kunst, Detmold, Germany
Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden, Germany
Museum der Moderne Salzburg Mönchsberg, Salzburg, Austria
New works, Galleri Bo Bjerggaard, Copenhagen, Denmark
Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2005
figur/skulptur, Essl Collection, Klosterneuburg, Austria
Die obere Hälfte. Die Büste seit Rodin, Städtische Museen Heilbronn, Heilbronn, Germany
Die obere Hälfte. Die Büste von Rodin bis Funakoshi, Kunsthalle Emden, Emden, Germany
Museum Liner, Appenzell, Switzerland
Esculturas, Galería Pepe Cobo, Madrid, Spain
the task of solitary man, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
Mann schwarz-weiß, Kunsthalle Göppingen, Göppingen, Germany
National Museum of Art Osaka, Osaka, Japan
New Sculptures, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg
2004
Dogenhaus Galerie Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
2003
Durchgehend geoffnet: Kunsthalle Baden-Baden + Sammlung Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, Germany
Stephan Balkenhol / Christian Marclay, Sprengel Museum Hannover, Hannover, Germany
Lever House Art Collection, New York, NY, USA
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
2002
Avant que la mer fut au monde, Rochechouart portait les Ondes, Musée Départemental d’Art Contemporain de Rochechouart, Rochechouart, France
Das Tier in mir, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden, Germany
Photogenic Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Grünzeug Museum der Stadt Ratingen, Ratingen, Germany
Pop Art und die zeitgenössische Bildhauerkunst, Gerhard Marcks-Haus Bremen, Bremen, Germany
Time–Space–Motion, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
2001
De wereld folgens Duitsland, Odapark, Venray, Netherlands
Fotografierte Bilder, Museum Bochum, Bochum, Germany
Geometrie & Gestus, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
Dogenhaus Galerie Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
2000
Essensbilder, Dorrie Priess Galerie, Hamburg, Germany
Back to Kassel, Kasseler-Kunstverein, Kassel, Germany
And if there were no stories, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
1999
Skulpturen und Zeichnungen, BAWAG Foundation, Vienna, Austria
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea di Trento, Trento, Italy
1998
Women, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium
Skulpturen, Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve, Germany
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
1997
Fonds régional d'art contemporain Haute-Normandie, Rouen, France
1996
Sculptures and drawings, Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, Montréal, Canada
1995
Africus, Johannesburg Biennale ’95, Johannesburg, South Africa
1995 Carnegie International, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Sculptures and drawings, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., USA
Freiluftausstellung im Konventgarten, KUNSTFORUM Seligenstadt, Seligenstadt, Germany
1994
Das Jahrhundert der Multiple, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Lisbon, Cultural Capital of Europe ’94, Lisbon, Portugal
Ludwig’s Lust: Die Sammlung Irene und Peter Ludwig, Nuremberg, Germany
NL Dordrecht: 51º 48-04º 40, Dordrecht, Netherlands
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Stipendium, Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
1992
Doubletake, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
Current Art in Public Spaces, Sevilla, Spain
Post Human, FAE Musée d’Art Contemporain, Lausanne, Switzerland
Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy
Deste Foundation, Centre for Contemporary Art, Nea Ionia, Greece
Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Qui, Qui Ou? Un regard sur l’art en Allemagne en 1992, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
1991
Karl August Burckhardt-Koechlin-Fonds: Zeichunungen des 20. Jahrhunderts, Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Zeitgenössiche Kunst aus der Deutschen Bank: Skulptur, Zeichnung, Photographie, Erholungshaus der Bayer, Leverkusen, Germany
Museion Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy
1990
Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
Das goldene Zimmer, Nymphenburger Schlosspark, Munich, Germany
Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, Germany
1988
Stadtisches Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
1987
Neue Kunst in Hamburg, Kampangelfabrik, Hamburg, Germany
Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Münster, Germany
Parc de la Pépinière, Nancy, France
Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany
Kunstlerwerkstatt Lothringerstrasse, Munich, Germany
1986
Kulturbehörde Hamburg, Jenisch Park, Hamburg, Germany
Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
Kasseler Kunstverein, Kassel, Germany
1985
15 junge Künstler: Die Karl-Schmidt-Rottluff Stipendiaten, Darmstadt, Germany
1984
Brucke-Museum, Berlin, Germany
Landesvertretung der freien und Hansestadt Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Jenis Park Skulptur, Kulterbehörde Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
1983
Impulse I, Galerie Löhrl, Mönchengladbach, Germany
Austria
BAWAG Contemporary, Vienna
Sammlung Essl, Klosterneuburg
Belgium
Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp
Stad Kortrijk, Veemarkt
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Ars Aevi Museum Of Contemporary Art Sarajevo, Sarajevo
Canada
Musée des Beaux Arts de Montréal, Montreal
China
Ordos Art Museum, Ordos, Inner Mongolia
France
Musée de Grenoble, Grenoble
Musée Départemental de Rochechouart, Rochechouart
Musée de Marseille, Marseille
Germany
Artothek, Nuremberg
Burger Collection, Berlin
Diözesanmuseum, Würzburg
Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
Kunsthalle Hamburg, Hamburg
Kunstsammlung im Ständehaus, Düsseldorf
Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn
Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen
Marta, Herford
Me Collectors Room, Berlin
Museum Küppersmühle, Duisburg
Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt
Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve
Museum Würth, Künzelsau
Museum der Bildenden Künste, Leipzig
Museum Folkwang, Essen
Museum Ludwig, Cologne
Museum Villa Haiss, Zell am Harmersbach
Museum im Kulturspeicher, Würzburg
Neues Museum, Nuremberg
Neue Pinakothek, Munich
Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
Sammlung Ströher, Darmstadt
Sammlung zeitgenössischer Kunst der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn
Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich
Städtische Galerie, Wolfsburg
Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin
Wilhelm-Lehmbruck-Museum, Duisburg
Ireland
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Italy
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
Museum of the Arts of Catanzaro, Cantanzaro
Japan
National Museum of Art, Osaka
Luxembourg
Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxemburg-Kirchberg
Netherlands
Museum De Paviljoens, Almere
Portugal
Elipse Foundation Art Centre, Alcoitao
Museu Berardo, Lisbon
South Africa
Museum Africa, Johannesburg
Spain
Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela
Switzerland
Attitudes, Geneva
Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel
Musée Cantonal des Beaux Arts, Lausanne
Schaulager, Basel
Museo Cantonale d'Arte, Lugano
UK
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
USA
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, NY
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
The Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica, CA
JCCC Overland Park, Overland Park, KS
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Nerman Museum, Overland Park, KS
Smithsonian Institution, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.