(C) denotes that a catalogue was published in conjunction with the exhibition.
Born 1967 Gummersbach, Germany
Lives and works in Berlin, Germany
Selected Press
Contemporary Art Daily, Michaela Eichwald: Letzte Arbeiten, July 2022
Frieze, The Top 10 Shows in the EU of 2021, Chloe Stead, December 2021
Kunsthalle Basel, November 2021
Frieze, Michaela Eichwald's Material Imaginaries, Sarah E. James, November 2021
Solo Exhibitions
2023
Freie Bahn ins Glück, Neue Galerie Gladbeck, Gladbeck, Germany (C)
hirnlose problemlösung gerade verworfenm, Marian Goodman, Paris, France
2022
Letzte Arbeiten, Gaga & Reena Spaulings, Los Angeles, USA
2021
Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
2020
Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany
Walker Art Center, Minnesota, USA
2019
Kartoffelschälgruppe Fragmentkörper, Maureen Paley: Morena di Luna, Hove, UK
bitte abholen und wegbringen, dépendance, Brussels, Belgium
2018
Seid ihr doof, oder was??!!?, Works from 20 Years, Kunstverein Schwerin, Schwerin, Germany
IST DOCH KEIN ZUSTAND: Ungeklärtheitszustände als Voraussetzung für die Suchende soll dahin gehen, Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin, Germany
Popanz Moloch Muff und Puff, Condo 2018: Maureen Paley hosting dépendance, Maureen Paley, London, UK
2017
Frank, Reena Spaulings, New York, USA
2016
Absolution, Silberkuppe, Berlin, Germany
2015
Overduin & Co., Los Angeles
Gesellschaft III. Die Bamberger Kondition unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Auslegung allen Geschehensn, Villa Concordia, Bamberg, Germany
2014
dépendance, Brussels, Belgium
Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Galerie Meyer-Kainer, Vienna, Austria
2013
Ergriffenes Dasein. Artist, Writer, Mentalist, Reena Spaulings, New York, USA
Knotti Times, Silberkuppe, Berlin, Germany
2012
Prix Lafayette, Paris, presented by Reena Spaulings, New York, USA
Der Meteorit soll kommen, Mathew, Berlin, Germany
William, New York, USA
Pierre Vogel, Marquise Dance Hall, Istanbul, Turkey (with Stefanie Popp)
2011
Contemporary Art Daily, dépendance, Brussels, Belgium
Reena Spaulings, New York, USA
2010
Morror, with Michael Krebber, International Project Space Birmingham, UK
Pofalla in Wien, Pro Choice, Vienna, Austria
Pofalla, willst du mir jetzt komplett Garaus machen? After the Butcher, Off-Space, Berlin, Germany
2009
The Classical, Vilma Gold, London, UK
Total Awareness Of All Dimensions (Dimensions Variable), Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, Germany
Resident Nr. 14, Caribic Ausstellungsraum, Frankfurt, Germany
2008
Ergriffenes Dasein. Artist, Writer, Mentalist, Reena Spaulings, New York, USA
Projektion, European Kunsthalle c/o Ebertplatz, Cologne, Germany
2005
God of Emptiness, Privilège, dépendance, Brussels, Belgium
Niemand ist eine Insel, Brunn, Berlin, Germany
2004
Stunde Null, 100 Uhr, Commi si comme ca II, Cologne, Germany
2003
Verrecke, Du fiese Buppe, Galerie Meerrettich, Berlin, Germany
2000
Ich kann nicht zulassen, dass eine Differenz auftritt zwischen dem, was ich bejahe und dem, was ich verneine, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Brunswick, Germany
1997
Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany
Selected Group Exhibitions
(C) denotes that a catalogue was published in conjunction with the exhibition.
2024
This Might be it, Galerie Hussenot, Paris, France
2023
Zeitfresser vs Silberling, Scheusal, Berlin, Germany
JUBGWGGS #1, JUBG, Cologne, Germany
We smell gas, Reena Spaulings Fine Art, NY, United States
2022
Bells, Galerie Buchholz, Cologne, Germany
Among the Others, Jahn und Janj, Munich, Germany
2020
J U N E, dépendance, Brussels, Belgium
Alles war klar/ Everything was clear, Künstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria
2019
You: Works from the Lafayette Anticipations Collection, Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris , Paris, France
J A N U A R Y, dépendance, Brussels, Belgium
CONDO New York: Queer Thoughts hosting dépendance, Brussels, New York, NY, USA
Seven Painters, Greene Naftali, New York
YOU, Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris
2018
Michaela Eichwald, Stefan Tcherepnin + Sanity, Jo Brand, Glasgow, UK
2017
Ungestalt, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Pelamide, Gladstone Gallery, Brussels Zur Rebschänke, Weiss Falk, Basel, Switzerland
Gebärden und Ausdruck, Halle für Kunst Lüneburg, Lüneburg Infected Foot, Greene-Naftali, New York, USA
CONDO Maureen Paley hosting dépendance, London, UK
Aftermieter, Haus Mödrath – Räume für Kunst, Erkrath, Germany
2016
Incidentals in the Day World, JTG Detroit Project, Detroit, USA
Painting 2.0, Mumok, Vienna, Austria
Rennes Biennale, Rennes, France
2015
The Noing Uv It, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway
Painting 2.0: Expression in the Information Age, Museum Brandhorst, Munich
Raw And Delirious, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Off Broadway, CCA Wattis Institute of Contemporary Art, San Francisco, USA
Künstler und Dichter, curated by Ugo Rondinone, Secession, Vienna, Austria
Call and Response, Gavin Brown, New York
Das unbekannte Meisterwerk, Meyer-Kainer, Vienna, Austria (C)
The Pleasure of the Text, Campoli Presti, London
dépendance | Opposite the Other Side, Sommer, Tel Aviv, Israel
2014
The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World, MOMA, New York, USA
8th Berlin Biennale, Berlin, Germany
Tif Sigfrids, Los Angeles, USA
The Hawker, dependance at Carlos/Ishikawa, London, UK
Cocu ou Marron, CAN, Neuchatel, Switzerland
Die Antwort der Dinge, Lothringer Halle, Munich, Germany
Chat Jet, KM, Graz, Germany
EFFI B. SILBERKUPPE, Berlin, Germany
2013
Das Allerletzte Professor Winkler Stipendium. Kunstverein Weiden, Germany
Fellbach Triennial of small-scale sculpture since 1980, Fellbach, Germany
Café Paradiso, With Barker, Flood, Pfisterer, Arthur-Boskamp-Stiftung, Hohenlockstedt, Germany
Reckless Head, Michael Benevento Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Catch as Catch Can, Locks-Gallery, Philadelphia. KUKUK. Debora Schamoni, Munich
Purple Glass, Overduin and Kite, Los Angeles
Painting Forever, Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin Festival der Kleinskulptur. Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg, Germany (C)
Some End of Things, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland
2012
Night Studio, Vilma Gold, London
Style, Galerie Micky Schubert, Berlin, Germany
At the Speed of Stone, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York. Curated by Anthony Huberman
Pierre Vogel, Marquise Dance Hall, Istanbul, Turkey
Context Message, Zach Feuer, New York, USA
Redundanz, Gesellschaft für Landschaftskunst, Halle Süd, Bad Tölz, Germany
Erntedank, ISI 8, Berlin, Germany
2011
Firstsight, Colchester, Essex, UK
The Great White Way Goes Black, Vilma Gold, London
Augusts Lle, Vienna, Austria
Villa Merkel, Esslingen, Germany
Sommer Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel (with Nick Mauss and David Lieske)
2010
Novel, dépendance, Brussels, Belgium
BigMinis. Fetishes of Crisis, curated by Alexis Vaillant, CAPC musée d’art contemporain Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
ZINGERpresents, curated by Rob Tufnell, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2009
Ho is No Substitute for Anything, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna, Austria
Precarious Forms 1 (Prekare Skulpturen), Galerie Mayer Kainer, Vienna, Austria
2008
European Kunsthalle c/o Ebertplatz #1, Cologne, Germany
Written on spiders, SILVERMAN, San Francisco, USA
Egypted, curated by Will Benedict, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, Austria
Aurora, Zwischen Nacht und Tag II, curated by Olga Lewicka and Roseline Rannoch, Berlin, Germany Zuordnungsprobleme, Galerie Johann König, Berlin, Germany
Bar Ornella No. 33, Cologne, Germany
Legend, curated by Alexis Vaillant, France
Vertrautes Terrain, Aktuelle Kunst in / Über Deutschland, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
Various sketches for leaving the room, STARSHIP Poster, LUDLOW 38 New York, USA and Rauchslon, Vienna, Austria.
Looking Back: The White Columns Annual, selected by Jay Sanders, White Columns, New York, USA
2007
Ich Hätte Durchaus die Kraft, gar nichts zu tun, Kunstverein Hamburg, Germany
Blindness, Pudel-Kollektion, Hamburg, Germany
Evangelisch-katholisch, Montgomery, Berlin, Germany
Artists In and Out of Cologne, MCA Miami and Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, Washington, USA
dépendance at Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany
2006
Make Your Own Life: Artists In and Out of Cologne, ICA Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (C)
Verdunklung /Darkening, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Germany
2005
Servus, union, curated by Jens Mentrup
Solo Publications
2023
F.B.I.G., published by Neue Galerie Gladbeck, Gladbeck
Selected Projects
2023
Period, SUEZAN STUDIO, cover artwork “Untitled” 2019
Selected Bibliography
2023
Schlotterbeck, Luisa, ’Freie Bahn ins Glück' by Michaela Eichwald now opening at Neue Galerie Gladbeck, artdaily.com, 25 August 2023
2022
Ghassemitari, Shawn, The Drawing Centre Reveals Artist List for 2022 Benefit Auction, hypebeast.com, 17 August 2022
–––, Michaela Eichwald: Letzte Arbeiten, contemporaryartdaily.com, July 2022
B. Valtorta, Maddalena, Kunsthalle Basel, Review, juliet-artmagazine.com, 21 January 2022
–––, Michaela Eichwald at Kunsthalle Basel, artwritingdaily.com, 18 January 2022
–––, Michaela Eichwald “Auf das Ganze achten und gegen die Tatsachen existieren” at Kunsthalle Basel, moussemagazine.it, 19 January 2022
–––, Michaela Eichwald, Auf das Ganze achten und gegen die Tatsachen existieren, contemporaryartdaily.com, 18 January 2022
2021
Blättner, Martin, Städitshce Galerie im Lenbachhaus (Kunstbau), München, Kunsthalle Basel, KUNSTFORUM International, Issue 273, p. 294
Blättner, Martin, Städitshce Galerie im Lenbachhaus (Kunstbau), München, Kunsthalle Basel, kunstforum.de, 23 February 2021
Dieffenbacher, Christoph, Bilderrätsel auf Kunstleder in der Kunsthalle, Basler Zeitung, 1 November 2021
E. James, Sarah, Michaela Eichwald’s Material Imaginaries, Frieze, Issue 222, 3 November 2021, pp. 200 - 201
Elbaor, Caroline, Here Are the 13 U.S. Museum Shows That Matter This Fall, From a Survey of 21st-Century Feminisms in Berkeley to Radical Art
Rediscovery in Atlanta, news.artnet.com, 13 September 2021
Fuchs, Rainer, On View, Flash Art No. 334 Spring 2021, p. 22
Stead, Chloe, The Top 10 Shows in the EU of 2021, frieze.com, 3 December 2021
Walker, Melissa, Is the Walker open? How about Mia? Twin Cities museums and attractions that are open or opening soon, startribune.com, 4 February 2021
Woodcock, Victoria, Inside art collector Valeria Napoleone’s ‘little Guggenheim’, ft.com, 26 November 2021
---, Michaela Eichwald, Auf das Ganze achten und gegen die Tatsachen existieren, Kunsthalle Basel, Kunsthalle Basel, kunsthallebasel.ch, 17 November 2021
2020
Aeler, Alicia, Walker Art Center hosts a live conversation across three continents, startribune.com, 22 April 2020
Smith, Roberta, Jackie Saccoccio, Painter of Explosive Abstraction, Dies at 56, nytimes.com, 28 December 2020
Eler, Alicia, German artist makes painting weird again in solo debut at the Walker, startribune.com, 18 November 2020
Walker, Melissa, Is the Walker open? How about Mia? Twin Cities museums and attractions that are open or opening soon, startribune.com, 4 February 2021
2019
Nam, Hiji, The Custom of the Country, artforum.com, 29 June 2019.
2018
Speed, Mitch, The Teeming Symbols and References in Michaela Eichwald’s Paintings, frieze.com, 19 October 2018.
Baghramian, Nairy, Artists’ Artists: Michaela Eichwald, Women, 1999, Frieze Masters no. 7, October 2018, p. 106.
—-, Michaela Eichwald at Maureen Paley, contemporaryartdaily.com, 8 February 2018
2017
I Ain’t the Noing of it Im Just Onle the Showing uv it, Martin Clarke and Stephen Claydon (eds.), Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway (C)
2015
Larios, Pablo, Trust Communicator, frieze.com, 23 August 2016.
Hudson, Suzanne, OVERDUIN & Co, Artforum, November 2015,pp 312-313
2014
Prince, Mark, Reviews: Micaela Eichwald, frieze.com, 5 March 2014
2010
Raum, Judith, After the Butcher: Michaela Eichwald, Flash Art, vol. XLIII, no. 272, May – June 2010
2009
Kissik, Dean, Michaela Eichwald, Flash Art, vol. XLII, no.268, October 2009
Fite-Wassilak, Chris, Michaela Eichwald at Vilma Gold, frieze online, December 10, 2009
2008
Smith, Roberta, Is Painting Small the Next Big Thing?, New York Times, April 19, 2008
Doran, Anne, Michaela Eichwald: Ergriffenes Dasein, Artist, Writer Mentalist, Time Out New York, April 27, 2008
Organisation Todt, Starship, no. 11, Berlin
Ode an die Hummeln, in S. Fischer, Yearbook of Lyric, Frankfurt
2007
Tombola de malades – she was so strong, in Transgression/ Excess and Paralipomena, Space Other, Boston
2006
Archangels, Patrons and Friends, Spex, June 2006
Mehr Licht, mehr nicht, mehr Broschen, in Kreuz Wort Raetsel, ed. Thomas Gann / Armin Krämer, Hamburg
Es muß etwas Lebendiges in den Deich, in Neue Probleme, ed. Mario Lasar and Markus Boesch
2005
Odlicht, Oedland, Kampf um Relevanz, Brochure
Der Feinkosthändler, in The sky is thin as paper here, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne
Siepen, Nicolas, Kampf um Relevanz oder die Mühlenn des Lebens, Texte zur Kunst, Dec. 2005
2004
Die Heiligtümer der Heiden: Matthias Schaufler, Texte zur Kunst, no. 54, 2004
Abes, Peter, Michaela Eichwald, Spex, July 2004
2003
Agricolas Dunststrecke, Texte zur Kunst, no. 51, 2003 “OSMOSE,” Galerie Meerettich, Berlin
2002
Seligkeit ist nichts Verheissenes, in Kai Althoff: Gebaerden und Ausdruck, Berlin: Lukas and Sternberg, 2002
Operation am offenen Pferd, on a exhibition curated by Albert Oehlen, Koelnischer Kunstverein, Texte zur Kunst, no. 47, 2002
Public Collections
Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Lenbachhaus Munich, Munich, Germany
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, USA
The Moulin Family Endowment Fund, Paris, France
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA