Benjamin Appel
1978 born in Augsburg, Germany, Grew up in Ecuador
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
since 2021 member of the German Association of Artists
Awards, grants and residencies
2022 Neustart, Deutscher Künstlerbund
2021 Scholarship, Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony, Germany
2020 Denkzeit, Scholarship, Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony, Germany
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
2022 Das Haus mit Beton füllen, Gallery Grölle Pass Projects, Wuppertal
undo ending, with Carolina Perez Pallares, St. Moritzkirche, Augsburg Germany
2021 Basement and garden, ASPN Gallery, Leipzig Germany
2019 Between the washing machine and the wall, MAC Contemporary Art Museum, Santiago Chile
Fill the gap between the wall and the washing machine, ASPN Gallery, Leipzig Germany
2017 Flowerbed in the cellar - PIFO Gallery, Beijing China
Fill the cellar with concrete, Museum of the City of Sindelfingen, Germany
Lay the wall on the floor, ASPN Gallery, Leipzig Germany
2015 The fish in the fish, ASPN Gallery, 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
Bird house in the room, 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,
CAC Contemporary art center, Quito Ecuador
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, ASPN Gallery, 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. Studio Control Karlsruhe, Germany
2009 As the bird in its nest, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany
Group exhibitions
2021 Win / Win, Hall 14, Center for Contemporary Art, Leipzig Germany
Listing, PIFO Gallery, Beijing China
You shouldn't drive from Mannheim to Karlsruhe via Leipzig, Gallery B2, Leipzig Germany
We have the silence but don't use it. Ortloff art space, Leipzig Germany
You shouldn't drive from Leipzig to Mannheim via Karlsruhe, Projektraum V8, Karlsruhe Germany
On the quiet. Municipal gallery Fruchthalle, city of Rastatt Germany
Ignescent: Group Exhibition of Xennial Artists, Holly’s Space, Beijing China
2020 No lo utilizamos, MAC Contemporary Art Museum, Santiago Chile
FLUID. The whole of the part - final exhibition. KV Freunde aktueller Kunst, Zwickau
Logical Freedom. Epoch Art Museum, Wenzhou, China
We don’t use it. Art foundation Erich Hauser, Rottweil
On the Quiet. Kunsthalle Mannheim
2019 Äpfel Birnen Ananas, Christine König Gallery, Vienna Austria
On the Quiet, Gallery City Sindelfingen, Sindelfingen Germany
Vanitas Contemporary, H2 Center for contemporary art, Augsburg Germany
In Abeyance. ASPN Gallery, Leipzig Germany
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 Center for contemporary art, Karlsruhe Germany
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, H2 Centre for Contemporary Art, Augsburg Germany
2015 Art Tour 2015, Art Foundation Baden Wurttemberg, Stuttgart 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, Kunsthaus Baselland, Switzerland
The Karlsruhe Connection and other Stories, Kunstraum Riehen, Switzerland
Pretty Vacant, Villa Renata, Basel, Switzerland
Junger Westen, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Germany
Territorial and narrative expeditions, art space L6, Freiburg Germany
2012 Collection of new art VI. H2 Center for Contemporary Art, Augsburg Germany
A man speaks in the forest. MAC Contemporary Art Museum, Santiago, 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, Gallery of the city 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, Augsburg Germany
Retrospective and Current, H2 Center for Contemporary Art, Augsburg Germany
2009 The instantaneous paradise, Zeißholz in Dresden, Germany
Ostrale 09, Center for Contemporary Art, Dresden Germany
Top 09, Villa Merkel, Esslingen Germany
Silent Spaces - spaces of silence, H2 Center for Contemporary Art, Augsburg Germany
2008 Local 08, Kunsthalle Basel exhibition at Klingental, Basel Switzerland
2007 Augsburger sponsorship support Visual Arts 1997 - 2007, H2 Center for Contemporary Art, Augsburg Germany
Klasse 07, Gallery Supper, Baden-Baden Germany
2006 Serendipity 26 views, Flottmann-Hallen, Herne Germany
Klasse 06, Gallery Supper, Baden-Baden, Germany
2005 Tendenzen, Darmstädter Sezession, Darmstadt Germany
Collections (selection)
Art collections of Dresden, Germany
MAC Contemporary Art Museum, Santiago, Chile
Museum Voorlinden, DenHaag, Netherlands
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
Art collections of the City Karlsruhe, Germany
Galerie der Stadt Sindelfingen, Germany
Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe, Germany
Kunst Raum Riehen, Switzerland
Galleries
Gallery ASPN, Leipzig, www.aspngalerie.de
PIFO Gallery, Beijing China, www.pifo.cn
Art Fair
Art Basel Hong Kong
Art Rotterdam
Viennacontemporary
Art Brussels
NADA Miami
Artissima Turin
Artinternational Istanbul
DNA Shenzhen
Arto21Shanghai
Art Cologne NADA