Frank Diersch

Frank Diersch (* 1965 in Berlin ) is a German draftsman and painter .

Life

After high school, Diersch completed his apprenticeship as a positive retoucher . After drawing courses with Wulff Sailer, he studied from 1985 to 1987 at the Technical College for Advertising and Design, Berlin with Bodo Müller and Manfred Paul. From 1987 to 1990 he worked in the Galerie Mitte, Berlin. From 1993 to 1994 he was a master class student / scholarship holder at the Academy of Arts in Berlin. Active in band projects since 1982, most recently in the "Max Punk Institute" until 2008. 2007 Foundation of the exhibition project "German Tatami" with the artist Kata Unger. From 2005 lecturer at the Art Academy Berlin-Weissensee , the University of Applied Sciences Hamburg , the University of Fine Arts Hamburg and at the University of Wuppertal .

Diersch lives and works in Berlin and Woltersdorf at the lock .

Awards

• 1993 master class / studio scholarship at the Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Pariser Platz
• 1998 Egmont Schaefer Prize for Drawing, Berlin
• 2016 Brandenburg Art Prize

Exhibitions (selection)

From 1989 Diersch was involved in numerous exhibitions at home and abroad:

• 2016 “How steep the stairs within kings' houses are” with Kata Unger, Artae Gallery, Leipzig
• 2015 The house on the mountain, old school, Woltersdorf
• 2015 But we have the giants, Babette, Berlin, curated by Laura Bruce
• 2015 Système D, Galerie Zeisler, Berlin
• 2015 To get meat on your nerves! Art Association Montez, Frankfurt Main
• 2014 last in 2014, Galerie Franzkowiak, Berlin
• 2014 "Salute! In honor of Goltzsche “Galerie Alte Schule, Berlin
• 2014 Salon Hansa, Galerie Holger John, Dresden
• 2014 XIII, Galerie Franzkowiak, Berlin
• 2014 Stahl + Papier, Galerie Flierl, Berlin
• 2013 audio collage with Inés Burdow in: Kontainer Berlin. Einar Schleef. Drawings, Galerie Parterre Berlin
• 2012 stars, Galerie Walden, Berlin
• 2012 * with Arno Bojak and Kata Unger, Galerie Alte Schule, Berlin
• 2012 Salon Hansa, Berlin
• 2011 Landgang II, Galerie Raskolnikoff, Dresden
• 2011 Landgang, Small Collection of Drawings, Galerie Walden, Berlin
• 2011 Exhibition for the Brandenburg Art Prize , Neuhardenberg Castle
• 2011 The last one turns off the light, Free Museum Berlin
• 2011 Parade, Cirque & Co., MLS Gallery, Bordeaux
• 2011 What does New York mean, artist for Arno Schmidt, Galerie Parterre, Berlin
• 2010 Black and Meat, Fish and White, Alte Schule Gallery, Berlin-Adlershof
• 2010 Frank Diersch, Henrik Jacob, Galerie Walden, Berlin
• 2010 Greatness, Anna Klinkhammer Gallery, Düsseldorf
• 2010 Nothing but drawings no. 4, Walden Berlin, Hamburg, Münster, Maastricht
• 2010 Prolog # 6, galerie parterre, Berlin
• 2010 artboys, Helter Skelter, Kunstpalast Wedding International
• 2010 8th Salon, Vandel, Hamburg
• 2009 Family & Friends, Komet, Berlin
• 2009 line up, Galerie Gesellschaft, Berlin
• 2009 6th Berlin Art Salon, Berlin, Walden Gallery
• 2009 Galerie Walden, with Ralph Bageritz and Georg Polke, Berlin
• 2009 artboys, Museum for Communication, Berlin
• 2009 artboys, Raskonikoff Gallery, Dresden
• 2009 Nothing but Drawings No. 3, Rondeel, Maastricht
• 2009 teaseart fair, Galerie Walden, Cologne
• 2009 Vandel # 3, Baahlsaahm, Berlin
• 2009 WIRTHUM BATTERIE, Goldener Pudel Club, Hamburg * with Lena Lambertz and Anton Engel
• 2008 Much Rauch, Galerie Hellenthal, Berlin
• 2008 Club 500, Kunsthaus Erfurt (F)
• 2008 German Tatami, GT # 3, 5th Berlin Art Salon, Berlin
• 2008 Getthobird, Berlin
• 2008 Club9, Arrenberg-Villa, Wuppertal
• 2008 Sen / Line 2008, Galerie Parterre, Berlin (F)
• 2008 artboys, art invasion, Berlin art gallery

Literature (selection)

• Frank Diersch, Drawings, Edition Drawing Room, Berlin 2005