Benjamin Appel (artist)

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Benjamin Appel (* 1978 in Augsburg ) is a German painter and sculptor . He lives in Leipzig .

Career

Benjamin Appel was born in Germany and grew up in Ecuador. From 2000 to 2002 he lived in Santiago de Chile . From 2003 to 2010 he studied painting and graphics at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe , with Gerd van Dülmen, Thomas Zipp and Daniel Roth, among others. In 2009 he had his first solo exhibition at the Kunsthalle Mannheim . Various exhibitions at home and abroad followed, including in the USA, Chile, Ecuador, Switzerland, France and China.

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In his paintings, sculptures, videos and text works, Benjamin Appel deals with the rectangle and the resulting right angle . Appel's research focuses on the relationship between humans and space. An important topic is the relationship of the subject to reality and how this is influenced by the rectangle. The constructability of a reality in a rectangular space is shown e.g. B. in a landscape photo, a wall, a carpet, a bed, a door or a concrete slab.

Awards and scholarships (selection)

  • 2018: Working grant Art Fund Foundation , Bonn
  • 2015: Laureate Josef David Art Prize, Landau
  • 2014: Art Foundation Baden-Württemberg , Stuttgart
  • 2013: Erich Hauser workshop award, Rottweil
  • 2012: Art Prize Forum Art, Karlsruhe
  • 2010: Graduate scholarship from the state of Baden-Württemberg, Karlsruhe
  • 2009: Hector Förderpreis, Kunsthalle Mannheim
  • 2008: 17th Swabian Art Prize, Augsburg
  • 2007: Cusanuswerk scholarship , Bonn
  • 2007: Art Prize of the City of Augsburg
  • 2006: Darmstädter Sezession Award , Darmstadt

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • Flowerbed in the basement , Galeria PIFO, Beijing 2017
  • Filling the cellar with concrete , Sindelfingen City Gallery , 2017
  • Lay the wall on the floor , Gallery ASPN, Leipzig 2017
  • The fish in fish , Gallery ASPN, Leipzig 2015
  • Burying the floor in the garden , Weingrüll Gallery, Karlsruhe 2015
  • A drip lives between a circle and a rectangle , with Carolina Pérez Pallares, Schauraum, Multipleart, Zurich 2015
  • Filling the puddle with water , Art Association Nürtingen 2014
  • Too big for my room , Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg , Stuttgart City Hall 2014
  • Si las paredes no son rectas , with Carolina Pérez Pallares, Museum of Modern Art, Quito 2014
  • If white is not a color, why are the walls straight? with Carolina Pérez Pallares, Neue Galerie der K. Augsburg 2014
  • Floors are stairs without walls , Erich Hauser Art Foundation, Rottweil 2013
  • Playing under the table , ASPN Gallery, Leipzig 2013
  • Cellar and Kitchen , Art Basel Hong Kong, Weingrüll Gallery, Hong Kong 2013
  • Walls are stairs without floors , Weingrüll, Karlsruhe 2013
  • Fallen on a tree , H2 Center for Contemporary Art, Augsburg 2012
  • The Hermit's Room , Weingrüll Gallery, NADA, Miami 2010
  • The basement with garden , construction site Schaustelle, Essen 2010
  • The threshold of the house , studio control, Karlsruhe 2010
  • The inner walls are the outer walls of outside , Weingrüll, Karlsruhe 2010
  • Like the bird in its nest , Kunsthalle Mannheim , 2009

Group exhibitions (selection)

  • After abstraction - Concepts of image-making in contemporary Germany , Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangdong 2018
  • Resonances , ZKM, Karlsruhe 2017
  • Four positions from four locations , Kunstverein Nürtingen 2017
  • Yesterday Tomorrow , Thermen am Viehmarkt, Trier 2017
  • Decade: Abstract Art 10 , PIFO Gallery, Beijing 2017
  • Rompeflasche , curated by Benjamin Appel, Dr. Thomas Elsen and Carolina Pérez Pallares, Museum of Modern Art, Quito 2017
  • Poetique , PIFO Gallery, Beijing 2017
  • Beyond all dimensions , Erich Hauser Art Foundation, Rottweil 2017
  • Rompeflasche , H2 Center for Contemporary Art, Augsburg 2017
  • A Visual Odyssey , Jing Gallery, Beijing 2015
  • New Art Collection 7 , H2 Center for Contemporary Art, Augsburg 2015
  • Laying down , Kunstraum L6, Freiburg 2015
  • Art in public space , Josef David Foundation, Landau 2015
  • Multipleart , Kunsthaus Zofingen, CH 2014
  • Cognitive Dissonance , Weingrüll Gallery, Karlsruhe 2014
  • Uninhabitable Objects , Bündner Kunstmuseum, Chur 2013
  • Young West , Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, 2013
  • Being Specific , Kunsthaus Baselland, CH 2013
  • The Karlsruhe Connection and other Stories , Kunst Raum Riehen, CH 2013
  • Territorial and narrative expeditions , Kunstraum L6, Freiburg 2013
  • Pretty Vacant , Villa Renata Basel, CH 2013
  • Un hombre habla en el bosque , MAC, Museum of Modern Art, Santiago de Chile 2012
  • Really beautiful but wrong is also beautiful , Atelierfrankfurt, Frankfurt 2012
  • From the edges , Kunsthalle Palazzo Liestal, CH 2012
  • New Art VI Collection , H2 Center for Contemporary Art in the Glaspalast, Augsburg 2012
  • Optimismo Radical II , Josée Bienvenu Gallery New York, USA 2012
  • unit / room , ASPN spinning mill, Leipzig 2011
  • In focus space , Villa Merkel, Esslingen 2011
  • Young West , Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, 2011
  • The unstoppable rise of daredevils and bottles , Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe, 2010
  • Retrospective and current , H2 Center for Contemporary Art in the Glaspalast, Augsburg 2010
  • Top09 , Villa Merkel, Esslingen 2009
  • Silent Spaces , H2 Museum for Contemporary Art, Augsburg 2009
  • Ostrale 09 , Ostrale, Dresden 2009
  • Class 07 , Galerie Supper, Baden-Baden 2008
  • Class 06 , Galerie Supper, Baden-Baden 2007
  • Serendipity 26 views , Flottmann-Hallen, Herne 2006
  • Trends , Darmstadt Secession, Darmstadt 2005

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personal data
SURNAME Appel, Benjamin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH augsburg