Michael Kalmbach

Michael Kalmbach (born May 7, 1962 in Landau in the Palatinate ) is a German painter and sculptor. He created numerous drawings , watercolors , sculptures and installations .

Career

Michael Kalmbach studied from 1983 to 1989 at the Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste - Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main with Professor Michael Croissant . In his watercolors, sculptures and picture book illustrations, he deals with the themes of family, childhood and adulthood in a partly satirical-grotesque, partly melancholy color. Interpersonal relationships play a formative role in his works. His sculptural works consist of plaster of paris , clay and paper mache .

In 1987 he received a scholarship from the State of Rhineland-Palatinate at the Künstlerhaus Edenkoben . From 1989 to 1990 he completed a foreign scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation in New York / USA. In 1996 he received the Frankfurter Künstlerhilfe e. V. and in the same year the "Young Art Special Prize". In 1997 a working grant from the Hessian Ministry for Science and Art followed. In 1999 Kalmbach received a travel grant from the Hessian Cultural Foundation in Wiesbaden. In 2000 he received the Karl Ströher Prize 1999 at the Museum of Modern Art (MMK) in Frankfurt am Main . In the same year Kalmbach received a work grant from the Kunstfonds Foundation , Bonn.

Kalmbach lives and works in Berlin .

Solo exhibitions

1988 - Künstlerhaus Edenkoben , Palatinate
1992 - Ute Parduhn Gallery, Düsseldorf (with Peter Schubert)
1995 - 96 - Jürgen and Michael am Brunnen in the exhibition room of Florian Haas and Martin Schmidl, Frankfurt am Main (with Jürgen Kisch)
1995 - A happy family , Zimmergalerie Ulf Wetzka, Berlin
1995 - Free access, Friedensallee 12, Hamburg and Haus am Lützowplatz , Berlin
1998 - "Förderkoje", Thomas Rehbein Gallery, Art Cologne, Cologne
2000 - Various backgrounds , de Ligt exhibition room, Frankfurt am Main
2002 - people soup ; Museum of Contemporary Art; Basel
2002 - Unsch , Galerie Springer, Berlin
2004 - Mobile , living machine, Berlin
2004 - Art collection in the City Museum, Jena
2004 - Thomas Rehbein Gallery, Cologne
2005 - Father and Son , Olin Gallery, Roanoke College, Virginia, USA
2005 - Giant Mountains , Robert Miller Gallery, New York, USA
2007 - Monday, Tuesday, March, April, May, again May , Thomas Rehbein Gallery, Cologne
2008 - 7th member , Bielefelder Kunstverein
2010 - Michael Kalmbach - Füsik , Thomas Rehbein Gallery, Cologne
2011 - Arangelo , Loock Gallery, Berlin
2011 - The good uncle , Kunstverein Ludwigsburg
2012 - Drawings and watercolors , Kunstmuseum Basel
2012 - Christopherus doll , Kunsthalle Mainz
2012 - "Arcangelo", Loock Gallery, Berlin
2013 - "the moon shines round for everyone", Thomas Rehbein Gallery, Cologne
2013 - "Michael Kalmbach" (with Christian Denzler), Thomas Rehbein Gallery, Brussels
2014 - In the eye of the zebra (with Nina Lola Bachhuber), Galerie Knut Hartwich, Rügen
2014 - "Zebra" (with Nina Lola Bachhuber), Hartwich Gallery, Sellin on Rügen
2016 - "Two jugglers at once" (with Christoph Deckel), Association for Original Etching , Munich
2016 - "Bubenballett", Goldstein Gallery, Frankfurt a. M.
2017 - "my Venus", Thomas Rehbein Gallery, Cologne

Group exhibitions (selection)

1985 - Art in Frankfurt , Kunstverein Frankfurt am Main
1988 - Galerie Daeppen, Frankfurt am Main
1990 - Art in Frankfurt's Kunstverein Frankfurt am Main
1991 - Galerie Detterer, Frankfurt am Main
1995 - Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen
1995 - Brandenburg Art Collections, Cottbus
1995 - Museum Sankt - Wendel Mia Munster House
1995 - Change of scene XII, Museum of Modern Art, Frankfurt am Main
1998 - HAMKPS + JK , Thomas Rehbein Gallery, Cologne
2000 - On Reality , Diözesanmuseum, Cologne
2000 - One of those days , Mannheimer Kunstverein
2000 - Change of scene XVII, Museum of Modern Art, Frankfurt am Main
2001 - Cabinet of Drawings , Art Association for the Rhineland and Westphalia, Düsseldorf
2002–2003 - group exhibition at Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam
2004 - 9th Triennial Small Sculpture , Fellbach
2005 - World Interiors - The Hanck Collection, German Society for Christian Art , e. V., Munich
2006 - Made out of earth , City Museum in the Spital, Crailsheim
2007 - From the collection: Graphics in Light, Berlinische Galerie , Berlin
2008 - Betty and Paul , Speyer, Kunstverein, Flachsgasse
2009 - The Myth of Childhood, Kunsthaus Uri, Altdorf, Switzerland
2010 - Riders Polard-Hardouin , Art Contemporary, Paris
2010 - Boys and girls , MMK, Frankfurt am Main
2011 - 20 years of present , MMK, Frankfurt am Main
2012 - The mind was dreaming - The world was its dream , Solstice Art Center, Navan, Ireland
2012 - "Silent Heroes", Schacher Raum für Kunst, Stuttgart
2013 - "Moist hands", Thomas Rehbein Gallery, Cologne
2014 - "All Artists Are Either Cowboys Or Indians", Hermannshof e. V., Springe-Völksen
2016 - "Come on, sorry for the night. Works on paper and sculpture", C & K Galerie, Berlin
2016 - "Face to Face", Metzger Gallery, Aschaffenburg
2016 - "de Lirio - rarities store Vol. I", Braubach five gallery, Frankfurt a. M.

Collections

Berlinische Galerie
Hessian State Museum Darmstadt
Museum of Modern Art Frankfurt
Kolumba Art Museum, Cologne
Kunstmuseum Basel, Kupferstichkabinett
Kunstpalast Düsseldorf

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personal data
SURNAME	Kalmbach, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH	May 7, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH	Landau in the Palatinate