Benjamin Appel
1978 born in Augsburg, Germany
2003 - 2009 State Fine Arts Academy, Karlsruhe, Germany Studied with Gerd van Dulmen, Thomas Zipp and Daniel Roth
2009 - 2010 Student in Daniel Roth‘s masterclass
2010 lives and works in Karlsruhe and Leipzig, Germany
Awards, grants and residencies
2020 Scholarship, Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen, Denkzeit
2018 Scholarship, Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn
2015 Josef David Art Award, 2. Price, Landau, Germany
2014 Kunststiftung Baden-Wurttemberg, Stuttgart, Germany
Art Award pbr Osnabruck, Germany
2013 Erich Hauser Art Award, Rottweil Germany
2012 Promotional Prize granted by Forum Art Karlsruhe, Germany
2010 Graduate scholarship of Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany
2009 Hector Promotional Prize, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany
Winner of the Academy of Karlsruhe, Germany
Stephan Balkenhol Scholarship, France
2008 17th Swabian Art Prize, Germany
Winner of the Academy of Karlsruhe, Germany
2007 Scholarship granted by the Cusanuswerk, Bonn, Germany
Promotional Fine Arts Award, City of Augsburg, Germany 2006 - Promotional Award for Young Artists, Darmstadt Secession, Germany
Solo exhibitions
2019 Entre la lavadora y la pared, MAC (Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Chile), Santiago, Chile
Den Spalt zwischen Wand und Waschmaschine füllen, ASPN, Leipzig
2017 Flowerbed in the cellar - PIFO Gallery, Beijing
Fill the cellar with concrete, Museum of the City of Sindelfingen
Lay the wall on the floor, Gallery ASPN, Leipzig
2015 The fish in the fish, Gallery ASPN, Leipzig, Germany
The stool buried in the garden, Gallery Weingrull, Karlsruhe, Germany
Between A circle and a rectangle lives a drip, with Carolina Pérez Pallares, Showroom Multipleart, Zurich, Switzerland
Vogelhaus im Zimmer, Art Brussels, Gallery Weingrull
2014 Fill the puddle of water, Kunstverein Nurtingen, Germany
Too big for my room, Art Foundation Baden-Wurttemberg, Stuttgart, Germany
Si el blanco no es un color entonces porque, son rectas las paredes? with Carolina Pérez Pallares, Centro de arte contemporaneo Quito, Equador
If white is not a color, why are walls then now? with Carolina Pérez Pallares, Neue Galerie in Hohmannhouse, Augsburg, Germany
2013 Playing under the table, Galery ASPN, Leipzig, Germany
Do not place cabinets on exterior walls, Art Basel - Hong Kong, Galery Weingrull Karlsruhe, Hong Kong, China
Cellar and Kitchen, NADA Cologne with Galery Weingrull Karlsruhe, Cologne, Germany
Walls are stairs without soil, Galery Weingrull, Karlsruhe, Germany
2012 Like on a tree, H2 - Center for Contemporary Art Augsburg, Germany
The basement with garden, art space Baustelle Schaustelle, Essen, Germany
2010 The threshold of the house. (S) Studio Control Karlsruhe, Germany
2009 As the bird in its nest. (S) Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany
Group exhibitions
2020 No lo utilizamos. MAC Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Universidad de Chile, Chile
FLUID. Das Ganze vom Teil – finale Ausstellung. KV Freunde aktueller Kunst, Zwickau
Logical Freedom. Epoch Art Museum, Wenzhou, China
We don’t use it. Kunststiftung Erich Hauser, Rottweil
On the Quiet. Kunsthalle Mannheim
2019 Äpfel Birnen Ananas, Christine König Gallery, Vienna Austria
On the Quiet. Galerie der Stadt Sindelfingen, Sindelfingen
Vanitas Contemporary. H2 Zentrum für Gegenwartskunst im Glaspalast, Augsburg
In Abeyance. ASPN, Leipzig
2018 Painting after painting after painting after, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangdong, China
Another Aleph - Chinese and German Contemporary Art Exhibition, Museum Xiameng, China
Abstraction as painterly rhetoric. A case study between Germany and China, Galerie PIFO, Peking, China
2017 Resonanzen, ZKM, Karlsruhe
Four positions from four places, Kunstverein Nürtingen
Yesterday Tomorrow, Thermen am Viehmarkt, Trier
Decade: Abstract Art 10, Galerie PIFO, Peking
Art Rotterdam, Galerie ASPN Leipzig, Rotterdam
2016 Rompeflasche, curated by Benjamin Appel, Dr. Thomas Elsen und Carolina Pérez Pallares, Museum of Contemporary Art, Quito, Ecuador
Über alle Maßen, Art Foundation Erich Hauser, Rottweil
Poetique, PIFO Gallery, Peking, China
Art Rotterdam, Gallery ASPN Leipzig, Rotterdam
Rompeflasche, curated by Benjamin Appel, Dr. Thomas Elsen und Carolina Pérez Pallares, Centre for Contemporary Art H2 Augsburg, Germany
2015 Art Tour 2015. Art Foundation Baden Wurttemberg, Germany
A Visual Odyssey. Jing Gallery, Beijing, China
Sculpture - art in public space, Landau, Germany
Square Place. Kunsthaus L6, Freiburg, Germany
The Collection Contemporary Art VII, H2 Centre for Contemporary Art in Glass Palace, Augsburg, Germany
2014 Cognitive Dissonance, Galery Weingrull Karlsruhe, Germany
Multipleart, Kunsthaus Zofingen, Switzerland
2013 Uninhabitable Objects, Bundner Kunstmuseum Chur, Switzerland
Being Specific, Regionale 14, Kunsthaus Baselland, Switzerland
The Karlsruhe Connection and other Stories, Regionale 14, Kunstraum Riehen, Switzerland
Pretty Vacant, Regionale 14, Villa Renata, Basel, Switzerland
Junger Westen, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Germany
Territoriale und erzahlerische Expeditionen, Kunstraum L6 Freiburg, Germany
2012 Collection of new art VI. H2 - Center for Contemporary Art in Glass Palace Augsburg, Germany
Un hombre habla en el bosque. Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Santiago de Chile, Chile
Beautiful but is wrong too beautiful, Atelier Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
From the margins, Regionale 12, Kunsthalle Palazzo Liestal, Switzerland
Optimismo Radical II, Josee Bienvenu Gallery, New York, USA.
2011 Unit/room, Galery ASPN, Leipzig, Germany
Broadside - Focus on space, Villa Merkel, Esslingen am Neckar, Germany
2010 The rooms of the hermit, NADA Miami, with Galery Weingrüll, Miami, USA
The unstoppable rise of daredevils and other bottles, Stadtische Galerie Karlsruhe, Germany
Local 10. Kunstverein Ludwigshafen, Germany
The inner walls, the outer walls of Outside, John Doe Projects, Karlsruhe, Germany
The Collection of Contemporary Art IV H2 -. Center for Contemporary Art in Glass Palace, Augsburg, Germany
Retrospective and Current. H2 - Center for Contemporary Art in Glass Palace, Augsburg, Germany
2009 The instantaneous paradise, Zeißholz in Dresden, Germany
Ostrale 09. Center for Contemporary Art, Dresden, Germany
Top 09 Villa Merkel in Esslingen, Germany
Silent Spaces - spaces of silence. H2 - Center for Contemporary Art in Glass Palace, Augsburg, Germany
2008 Local 08 Kunsthalle Basel exhibition at Klingental, Basel, Switzerland
2007 Augsburger sponsorship support Visual Arts 1997 - 2007 guest at the H2 - Center for Contemporary Art in Glass Palace, Augsburg, Germany
Klasse 07, Galerie Supper, Baden-Baden, Germany
2006 Serendipity 26 views, Flottmann-Hallen, Herne, Germany
Klasse 06 - Galerie Supper, Baden-Baden, Germany
2005 Tendenzen, Darmstädter Sezession, Darmstadt, Germany
Collections (selection)
Museum Voorlinden, DenHaag, Holland
Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany
Kunstsammlungen der Stadt Augsburg, Germany
H2 Zentrum für Gegenwarts Kunst Augsburg, Germany
Kunststiftung Erich Hauser, Rottweil, Germany
Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Germany
Museum of Art Guangdong - China
Kunstsammlungen der Stadt Karlsruhe, Germany
Galerie der Stadt Sindelfingen, Germany
Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe, Germany
Kunst Raum Riehen, Switzerland
Galleries
Gallery ASPN, Leipzig,
PIFO Gallery, Beijing China,