Markus Linnenbrink

Born 1961 in Germany, lives and works in Brooklyn, New York Education 1985-88 Academy of Fine Arts, Berlin 1982-85 Gesamthochschule, Kassel Selected Solo Exhibitions2015WHENTHEPASTWASPRESENTSOWILLBENOW taubert contemporary, BerlinTHEFIRSTISCRAZYANDTHESECONDISNUTS Wassermann Projects, Detroit, with Nick Gelpi and Jon Brumit2014THEGRASSISALWAYSGREENER MaxEstrella Gallery, Madrid, SpainTHERIDENEVERENDS Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts Museum, PhiladelphiaEVERYBODYWILLBEDANCINGIFE’REDOINGITRIGHT Ameringer McEnery Yohe Gallery, New York2013day after day it reappears Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco 2012 so here is what your gonna do ft-contemporary, Berlinthere were songs before there was radio Ameringer McEnery Yohe Gallery, Ne YorkAna Serratosa Gallery, Valencia, Spain2011 too early and always and all over again Patricia Sweetow Gallery San Francisco come a little closer Kong Tomlinson Contemporary, New York, 2010LISTENALLTHEWAYTHROUGH, ftc gallery, BerlinNOMATTERWHEREYOUGOTHEREYOUARE, number35, New York2009 BIGOUTREAGEOUSSOUND Galerie MaxEstrella, Madrid ALLTHETHINGSTHATAREOUTSIDEOFME The Columns, Seoul, Korea EVERYTHINGEVERYWHEREALLTHETIME Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco 2008 TRICKY FEVER, Galerie Fiedler Contemporary, Cologne 2007 FIFTEEN MINUTES WITH YOU, Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, CA CECIN'ESTPASDUDISCO, The Columns Gallery, Seoul, South Korea Fiedler Gallery, Cologne, Solo exhibition in Basel, Switzerland AUFSTEIGEND (WALKABOUT), Kunstverein Kreis Gütersloh 2006 EVERYTHING ECSTATIC, Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco VIELLEICHT LASS UNS DAS ALLEES NEHMEN, Galerie Robert Drees, Hannover MAYBEICANTAKEEVERYTHING, Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago ALLES EKSTASE, Märkisches Museum, Witten, Germany DARKER THAN BLUE (DIAMOND IN THE BACK), Kunstverein Münsterland, Coesfeld 2005 SCHICK SCHNACK SCHNUCK, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York 2004 EVOKE AN OBJECT, Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, IL Galerie Renate Schröder, Köln SCHIEFEBAHN, Museum Neue Galerie, Kassel (wall painting) 2003 THE BEAUTY YOU ARE, Margaret Thatcher Projects, NYC, NY MYSELF OUTSIDE, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA (wall painting) Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, IL Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2002 Margaret Thatcher Projects, NYC, NY (wall painting) MITTIGLIGHT, Museum Katharinehof, Kranenburg, Germany (wall painting) REFLECTWHATYOUARE, Renate Schröder Gallery, Köln 2001Poured Milled Pressed, Margaret Thatcher Projects, NYC, NY Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, CA Renate Schröder Gallery, Köln Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago 2000 Layered Over, Wassermann Gallery, Munich Renate Schröder Gallery, Köln 1999 Neues Gestirn, Singel 74 Gallery, Amsterdam (with Matthias Lanfer) Let Run, Wassermann Gallery, Munich The Bottom Line, Kunstverein Ahlen/Westf. Renate Schröder Gallery, Köln Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago 1998 FIND AN UNIDENTICAL TWIN, Wolfgang Werth Gallery, Düsseldorf circumambient, Kunstverein Recklinghausen Only Zebras?, Wassermann Gallery, Munich Renate Schröder Gallery, Köln 1997 Renate Schröder Gallery, Köln 1996 stripes, Verein für aktuelle Kunst, Oberhausen stripes do not a zebra make, Vincenz Sala Gallery, Brüssel 1995 Foundation, Clemens-Sels-Museum, Neuss (floor painting) Colorado, Wolfgang Werth Gallery, Düsseldorf Renate Schröder Gallery, Köln 1994 Colorado, Vincenz Sala Gallery, Berlin 1993 RGB+CO, Wolfgang Werth Gallery, Düsseldorf On the Floor, Weber Gallery, Münster (floorpainting) 1992 Charchut & Werth Gallery, Düsseldorf Striped, Museum am Ostwall (Studio), Dortmund 1991 Vincenz Sala Gallery, Berlin 1990 Hete A.M. Hünermann Gallery, Düsseldorf City Gallery, Kulturring Sundern 1988 Produzentengalerie, Kassel Vincenz Sala Gallery, Berlin Selected Group Exhibitions2014Off The Walls, Painting Installations, Kunsthalle Nuernberg, Germany curated by Harriet ZilchThe Skull Show, Bedford Gallery, Lesher Center for the Arts, curated by Carrie LedererOpening Day, Odetta Gallery, Bushwick, NYSelections of the Cleve Carney Collection, curated by Barbara Wiesen, Cleve Carney Art Gallery, College of Dupal, Glenn Ellyn, Ilinois 2013Art Connects New York, Queens Community Houses New York, curated by Brad SilkStrom Festival, Kunsthaus Rhenania Cologne, curated by Maria Wildeis3+4 B/W taubert-contemporary, Berlin 20 years of printmaking at CCS, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston2012BUZZ Nara Roesler Gallery, Sao Paulo, curated by Vik MunizLocal Color San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA 2011ROY G BIV Waterhouse&Dodd Gallery New York 2010 Beijing Biennial 2010, Beijing, China"out of the office“, Kunstmuseum Bochum im raum nichts als farbe sehen, Galerie oqbo, Berlin2009two degrees of separtion, Sartori Gallery, New YorkA Measure of Humanity – The Harcos-Huneke Collection, Grand Galleries, Grand Theatre Center, Tracy, CAwe are all going to die, Number35 Gallery, New Yorkwe are all going to die, Sue Scott Gallery, New York IMPACTE! Collecio Olor Visual, Fundacio Vallapalou, Spain2008 …einen AUGEN-Blick, bitte" / Please cast an eye...! Kunstverein Bad Salzdetfurth e.V., Bodenburg Abstrakt - Malerei und Skulpturen, Krammig & Pepper Contemporary, Berlin Print Publishers Spotlight: center street studio, The Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA DESIGNS FROM WALLPAPERLAB, Visual Arts Center of Richmond, VA FUNDAMENTAL ABSTRACTION II, Haines Gallery, San Francisco Material Color, Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, New Jersey2007 BRIGHT, I SPACE, The Chicago Gallery of the University of Illinois, Chicago HOT AND COLD, abstract prints from the center street studio, Trustman Art Gallery, Simmons College Boston HOLIDAY READING, Number35, New York AN ECLECTIC EYE, Selections from the Dean Leach Collection, Tucson Museum of Art, AZ2006 Transparent, Aquarellmalerei der Gegenwart, XYLON Museum Schwetzingen THE SCENT OF KOREA, Daegu National Museum, South Korea 2005 KLASSE GIRKE, Verein fur aktuelle Kunst, Oberhausen Weisshaupt Collection, Museum for Konkrete Kunst, Ingolstadt COLOR THEORY, Schweinfurt Memorial Art Center, Auburn, NY 2004 Kinetic, bank Gallery, Los Angeles Prints and Portfolios from the Center Street Studio, Boston, Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery, College of the Holy Cross, Worchester, MA ABSTRACTION PURE & IMPURE, Fine Arts Center Galleries, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI. Curated by Judith Tolnick. PRIVATGRÜN: Kunst im privaten Raum, Cologne (outdoor installation).Curated by Jochen Heufelder. Colors & Stripes, Robert Drees Gallery, Hannover Hard & Soft, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY STOP & STORE, Luxe, New York, NY THE COLOR LINE, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY. Curated by Lisa Hatchadoorian. 2003 STRATA, Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney, Australia Summer Color, Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY patricasweetowgallery.com Markus Linnenbrink 3 of 3 Chilufim/Transfer, Kunstmuseum Bonn (wall painting) Haus Esters, Krefeld (wall painting) 2002 Breathing Room, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY Transit, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY Floor-to-Ceiling, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT Chilufim/Transfer, Herzliya Museum of Art, Herzliya; Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel; Kunstverein Heinsberg, Germany 2001 Heat, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY Encaustics, Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago (4 Person) 2000 Painting Today-Overseas and Here, Renate Schröder Gallery, Köln, Germany Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, CA Seems: Work at the Edge of the Exhibition Space, The Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL (wall painting) After Zürich, La Ferronerie Gallery, Paris The Color Got Me, Verein für aktuelle Kunst, Oberhausen Abstrakt Eins, Gallery Fahnemann, Berlin 1999 Passages, Exhibition in various churches in Recklinghausen (light installation) 1998 architectural exhibition, Wetter (floor painting) Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, IL 1997 what you missed in ‘96, Vincenz Sala Gallery, Brüssel 1985 - 1997, Verein für aktuelle Kunst , Oberhausen 1996 works on paper, Stefan Rasche Gallery, Münster state of affairs, Gustav-Lübke-Museum, Hamm 1994 KunstKreuzKirche, Heilig-Kreuz-Kirche, Dortmund (wall painting) 1993 Painterly Proposals, Weber Gallery, Münster 1992 “1986”, Vincenz Sala Gallery, Berlin 1991 cross section, Karl-Ernst-Osthaus Museum, Hagen Stipend Märkisches Stipendium, Städtische Galerie Lüdenscheid 1989 6. exhibition of the Jürgen Ponto Foundation, Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Pels Leusden Gallery, Berlin 1988 Play off, Academy of Fine Arts, Berlin Bibliography Artner, Alan G. review Chicago Tribune, October 2006. Artner, Alan G. Linnenbrink’s Abstractions, Chicago Tribune, October 2004. Babias, Marius. Purifikation und Künstlichkeit, Zitty Berlin, November 1988. Baker, Kenneth. Painting turns conceptual as you look. San Francisco Chronicle September, 22 2007. Baker, Kenneth. Review. San Francisco Chronicle. May 26, 2001. Bauer, Helmut, Rosemarie Pahlke. Markus Linnenbrink. (catalog) Helmut Bauer 1991. Braun, Alexander. Markus Linnenbrink, review. Artis, Zeitschrift für neue Kunst, July/August 1992. Braun, Alexander. Colorado. (catalog 1994. Camper, Fred. Imperfect Worlds, Chicago Reader, November 5, 1999 Cohen, David. Gallery Going, The New York Sun. September 13, 2003. Ermen, Reinhard. Markus Linnenbrink. (catalog) Renate Schröder Galerie, Köln, 2001 Ermen, Reinhard. Nebeneinander III. (catalog) Renate Schröder Galerie, Köln, 2001 Fink, Andrea. Im Grunde, (catalog) Kunstverein Ahlen (Westf.) Fricke, Harald. Glatt Gefönt, Zitty Berlin, November 1991Galloway, David. Jeune Artistes Allemand, Artpress, Paris, Mai 1992 Galloway, David. Back to Basics, Artnews, October 1995. Galloway, David. Markus Linnenbrink, Galerie Renate Schröder Cologne, Review. Artnews. March 2003 Goodman, Jonathan. Markus Linnenbrink at Margaret Thatcher Projects, Art in America, July 2002 Götte, Gisela and Alexander Braun. Grund & Boden. (catalog) Clemens Sels Museum Neuss 1995 Harrison, Helen A. Color Lines, Review. The New York Times, Sunday, March 7, 2004. Heinz, Dr. Marianne, Schiefebahn, Junge Kunst im Kasseler Raum Huston, Johnny Ray. San Francisco Bay Guardian September 12-18, 2007 Klein, Richard. Floor to Ceiling. (catalog) The Aldrich Museum of Art, Ridgefield, CT, 2002 Keeffe, Linda, Stripes, Design Between The Lines, The Monacelli Press, 2012Klement, Carmen. Transfer Im Rückblick (catalog) Kultursekretariat NRW, 2003 Kraft, Hartmut. Kunst auf Rezept, (catalog) Hartmut Kraft, Salon Verlag Köln, 2001 Kunst-Stücke 1998 (catalog) Deustche Ausgleichdbank/Georg Elben, 1998 Lüttgemeyer, Markus. Die Kunst mit Füssen Treten Gig Münster, August 1998 Murray, Derek Conrad. Art in America, February 2010Müller, Michael Gerog. Zeitgenössische Kunst in Düsseldorf, Welt am Sonntag, Nr. 9, 1998 Nahas, Dominique. Markus Linnenbrink, (catalog) UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA. May 2003 Palmer, Laurie. Seems: Integrations with the Physical and Social Periphery of the Museum. (catalog) Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 2000 Pagel, David. Is it Truth in Advertising? The Los Angeles Times, May 2003. Prinz, Susanne. Abstrakt Eins, (catalog) Galerie Fahnemann, Berlin, 2000 Puvogel, Renate. Markus Linnenbrink. (catalog) Renate Schröder Galerie, Köln 1997. Puvogel, Renate. Ca. 257. (catalog) Jochen Heufelder, Kunstraum Fuhrwerkswaage, Köln, 1999 Roth, David M. Squarecylinder.com, January 2010Scelfo, Julie. Vases That Seem to Say ”Please Touch” , New York Times April 29th 2010Schmidt, Katharina. Sechste Ausstellung der J. Ponto Stiftung, Studenten der HdK Berlin (catalog) 1989 Schmieder, Peter and Willi Otremba. Die Farbe Hat Mich. (catalog) Michael Fehr, Klartext Verlag Essen, 2000 Schmieder, Peter. Chilufim/Transfer. (catalog) Kultursekretariat NRW, Wuppertal 2002 Schuster, Marina. Bauausstellung (catalog) Richard Schmalöer 1998 Smith, Roberta. Varieties of Abstraction, New York Times august 5 / 2010Schwalm, Hans-Jürgen. Drumherum. Kunstverein Recklinghausen, (catalog) Kunsthalle Recklinghausen 1998. Vielhaber, Christiane. Kunst und Bau, (catalog). Ministerium für Bauen und Wohen des Landes NRW, 1998 Werth, Wolfgang. Markus Linnenbrink. (catalog) Stadtgalerie Sundern 1990 Zeitz Lisa, “Irgendwann werden wir ein Museum brauchen”, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, April 3rd 2011Zemter, Wolfgang. Schramm, Uwe. Schreier, Christoph. Markus Linnenbrink : Alles Ekstase. (catalog) Märkisches Museum, Witten 2006; Kunstverein Münsterland, Coesfeld 2006; Kunstverein Kreis Gütersloh 2007 Collections AOK, Paderborn AXA Insurance, LuxembourgThe Art CollTrust, Bellevue, WA Bank One, Chicago, IL Capitol One Bank, Chicago Ciba GmbH Bergkamen (floor painting) City of Stuttgart (wall painting) Clemens - Sels - Museum, Neuss Commerzbank Landeszentrale, ErfurtCollection Jorge Perez, Miami FloridaDeutsche Ausgleichsbank, Bonn Deutsche Effecten - und Wechsel - Beteiligungsgesellschaft, Frankfurt/Main Center Court, The Hague, The Netherlands (wall painting) Ergo DuesseldorfFidelity Investments, Boston Gerling Kozern, Köln The Hague, Ministry of Culture, The Netherlands Harvard Business School, Cambridge, MA Herzliya Museum of Art, IsraelJustiz Vollzugs Anstalt Duesseldorf Rath (wall floor ceiling painting) KfW Bankengruppe, Bonn Harvard College, Cambridge Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, NH Hotel Künstlerheim-Luise, Berlin (wall paintings) Krupp Konzern, Berlin Kunsthalle Recklinghausen Landesverband Lippe Lemgo (wall painting) Land Nordrhein Westfalen / Fachhochschule Niederrhein (wall painting) Museum Neue Galerie, Kassel Morrison Foerster, New YorkNordstern Versicherung, Köln Norddeutsche Landesbank, Hannover NBC Rockefeller Center, New YorkPresbitarean Hospital, New YorkThe Progressive Corporation, Ohio, USA Sammlung Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt/Main San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA San Jose Museum of Art, CaliforniaSenat der Stadt, Berlin Collection Julien J. Studley Inc., Chicago, IL UCLA Hammer Museum, University of California Los Angeles, CA UBS GermanyVolksbank, Ahlen Volksbank, Heilbronn/Neckarsulm Wellington Corporation, London Wellsley College, MA Werner Richard - Dr. Carl Dörken Stiftung Herdecke, Depositum Museum am Ostwall West Collection, Philadelphia