Gabriel VORMSTEIN

Born: 1974 in Konstanz, Germany
Lives and works in Berlin, Germany

EDUCATION

1995 - 2001

Staatlichen Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Karlsruhe, Germany

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2016

Stefan Kaminiski & Gabriel Vormstein, The Holes of the World and the Whole World, KROME Gallery, Luxemborg

2015

La dolce immondizia, Kunstverein Dillingen, Germany

2014

Gabriel Vormstein: memory memory memory- Painting and Installation, KuBa, Saarbrucken, Germany

Exhume Consume, Koffer, Berlin, Germany

Gabriel Vormstein: In the world, MEWO Kunsthalle Memmingen, Germany

Papyrus containing the spell to preserve it´s possessor II,  Meyer Riegger, Berlin, Germany

2013

(There is) no death, Center Berlin, Germany

Tempus fungit – amor mannet, Monique Meloche, Chicago, IL

2011

Cornament & Rime, Patricia Low Contemporary, Geneva, Switzerland

News of today: Die feeling, The Breeder, Athens, Greece

Catch as Catch Can, Almine Rech, Paris, France

The Teeth of the Wind and Sea, Hudson(show)room, Artpace, San Antonio, TX

Gabriel Vormstein, Artist in Residence, CCA Andratx, Mallorca

2010

Baby ABC, Casey Kaplan, New York, NY

2009

Papyrus Containing the Spell to Preserve its Possessor, Meyer Riegger,

Berlin, Germany

2008

The Dream and the Ream, Jean Brolly Gallery, Paris, France

2007

To Crawl Under Ones Skin, Meyer Riegger, Karlsruhe, Germany

2006

The (oII (OO) oI) -:, Casey Kaplan, New York, NY

2005

Gabriel Vormstein, Deutsche Bundesbank, Frankfurt, Germany

2004

Seems to B: Soddisfaction, Incomplection, Putrefaction, Casey Kaplan,

New York, NY

La morte no trapassa Meyer Riegger Galerie, Karlsruhe, Germany

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2017

U Scope I’m God Say Hi Or Be John, Galerie Hervé Bize, Nancy, France

Freedom That I Mean…, MEWO Kunsthalle, Memmingen, Germany

2016

Clouds, Wind, Water, Kunsthalle Würth, Schwäbisch Hall, Germany

Suckstract, Kunstverein Weiden, Germany

Hermann tritt schüchtern herein, Meyer Riegger, Berlin, Germany

Suckstract, Kunstverein Konstanz, Germany

Erde, Holz, Polyester, Lungengasse, Cologne, Germany

 

2015

Mai Im Januar, Schau Fenster, Berlin

With Dominik Steiner, Einraumhaus, Mannheim

2014

Never Look Back When Leaving, Casey Kaplan, NY

Aus dem Fundus der botanischen Semantik, curated by Stefan Rinck, Cruise & Callas, Berlin, Germany

Suckstract, Staedtische Galerie Remscheid, Berlin, Germany

2013

Corridor V plateau, curated by Christian Freudenberger and Mark Karstieß, Autocenter, Berlin, Germany

Spiral, Bar Babette, Berlin, Germany

Domestic Animal Ghosts, Galeria Inés Barrenechea, Madrid, Spain

Grid´s World, Locust Projects, Miami, Florida

The legend of the shelves, Autocenter, Berlin, Germany

Suave, Medio, Duro, Galeria Heinrich Erhardt, Madrid, Spain

Be Tribal; Cornelia Brintzinger + Gabriel Vormstein, Kulturzentrum am Munster, Konstanz, Germany

2012/2013

From Head to Toe – Human Images in the Focus of the Würth Collection, Kunsthalle Würth, Schwäbisch Hall, Germany

2012

Stefan Rinck, Gabriel Vormstein, Fama – Good and bad speech after death, Patricia Low Contemporary, St. Moritz, Switzerland

No. 17, Casey Kaplan, NY

Von Kopf bis Fuß Menschenbilder im Fokus der Sammlung Würth, Kunsthalle Würth, Würth, Germany

The Newspaper Show, The Breeder, Athens, Greece

Le flair de lair, ISI, Berlin

Nymphius Projekte, CCA ANDRATZ, Mallorca

old news, Projektraum Kunst im Tauthaus, Berlin

Galerie NEXT, Dresden

2012/2011

One and More Chairs, Einraumhaus, Mannheim, Germany

2011

Time Process, Meyer Riegger, Karlsruhe, Germany

Time Process, Meyer Riegger, Karlsruhe, Germany

Everything Must Go!, Casey Kaplan, New York, NY

Unter Helden, Vor-Bilder in der Gegenwartskunst (Among Heroes: Pre-Images

in Contemporary Art, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Germany

Train Fantôme, Cruise & Callas, Berlin, Germany

Flickering in Shades of Orange and Yellow, the Unununium, Magazin Vienna,

Vienna, Austria

Intensif Station, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Germany

The Black Goddess, curated by Rick Buckley, Autocenter, Berlin, Germany

La Vallée Patibulaire, Gustav-Müller-Str. 18, Berlin, Germany

Captain Pamphile, Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg, Germany

Nouvelles du jour, curated by Elvire Bonduelle, Gallery JTM, Paris, France

From Berlin curated by Martin Asbaerk, Martin Asbaerk Gallery, Copenhagen,

Denmark

2010

Wenn Die Naht Am Tiefsten Ist, Ist Der Tag Am Nächsten, Stern Pissarro

Gallery, London, UK

Break-Dance-Montgomery, Raum für Freunde, Kunstverein Wolfsburg,

Wolfsburg

TBD, Galerie Koestlin, Berlin, Germany

Captain Pamphile – Bildroman in Stücken, Städtische Galerie, Waldkraiburg,

Germany

Intensif-Station, Kunstsammlung, Düsseldorf, Germany

Reflection: 15 Years, Casey Kaplan, New York, NY

Held Up By Columns, Renwick Gallery, New York, NY

Elbevenus, Zanderkasten, Dresden, Germany

Oliver Floessel + Gabriel Vormstein, Forgotten Bar Project, Galerie im

Regierungsviertel, Berlin, Germany

The Berlin Box, curated by Friederike Nymphius, CCA Andratx, Mallorca,

Spain

Seltsam, so lose im Raum, curated by Sabine Mila Kunz, Kulturstiftung

Schloss Agathenburg, Agathenburg, Germany

2009

Cargo Manifest, Kunsthalle Autocenter, Berlin, Germany, traveled to Bavarian

State Opera, Bayerische Straatsoper, Munich, Germany

Gallery III, Casey Kaplan, New York, NY

Berlin 2000, PaceWildenstein, New York, NY

Pamphile Show, JET / Lena Ziese, Berlin, Germany

Group Show Part 1: Don Brown, Daniel Lergon, R.H.Quaytman, Gabriel

Vormstein, Lawrence

Weiner, Almine Rech Gallery, Bruxelles, Belgium

2008

First Selection, Cruise & Callas, Berlin, Germany

Blast from the Past (part 1), Galerie Art Attitude Hervé Bize, Nancy, France

Subconchicness, Ballhaus Ost, Berlin, Germany

Nicole Bianchet, Sebastian Hammwöhner, Uwe Henneken, Anselm Reyle

Techne, Galerie Haas & Fuchs, Berlin, Germany

Menschen und Orte, curated by Dr. Axel Lapp, Kunstverein Konstanz and

Wessenberg Galerie, Berlin, Germany

2008/2007

Paul Thek: In the Context of Today’s Contemporary Art, ZKM Center for Art

and Media Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany

Fit to Print, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY

2007

This Winter, Casey Kaplan, New York, NY

Making and Finding, The Foundation to Life Exhibition Space,

Mount Kisco, NY

Evanelisch – Katholisch VII (Finale), Montgomery, Berlin, Germany

School Of Flowers. Come let us smile a little space/upon fond nature’s morbid

Grace, Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus, Switzerland

Made in Germany, Kestner Gesellschaft, Sprengel Museum Hannover,

Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover, Germany

May the Twelfth, STORE gallery, London, United Kingdom

2006

Nous tous sommes la pluie (We All Are the Rain), curated by Aurèlie Voltz, Galerie Jean Brolly, Paris, France

Within a Budding Grove, Clint Roenisch Gallery, Toronto, Canada

Of Mice + Men: 4th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art, curated by Maurizio Cattelan, Massimiliano Gioni, and Ali Subotnick, Berlin, Germany

2006/2005

William Blake & Sons: Alternative Lifestyles and Mysticism in Contemporary

Art, Lewis Glucksmann Gallery, Cork, Ireland; Model Arts & Niland Gallery,

Sligo, Ireland

Liquid Crystal, Lothringer Dreizehn, Munich, Germany

2004

Dani Jakob, Sebastian Hammwöhner, Gabriel Vormstein, Bowievanvalen,

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Deutschland sucht …, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Köln, Germany (K)

Strategies of desire, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel, Switzerland

Let the wind catch a rainbow on fire…, Filiale, Basel, Switzerland

2003

actionbutton, Sammlung zeitgenössicher Kunst der BRD, Hamburger

Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany (K)

deutschemalereizweitausenddrei, Kunstverein Frankfurt, Germany (K)

There´s no land but the land (up there is just a sea of possibilities), Meyer

Riegger Galerie, Karlsruhe, Germany

Painting on the roof, Städtisches Museum Abteiberg Mönchengladbach,

Germany (K), traveled to Paolo Curti, Milan, Italy

Quetzalcoatl comes through, Städtisches Museum Abteiberg

Mönchengladbach, Germany (K)

2002

Event Horizon, Lothringer 13, München, Germany

2001

Kunststudenten stellen aus 2001, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der

Bundesrepublik, Deutschland, Bonn, Germany (K)

Circles 05: Berlin – Montana Sacra, Zentrum für Kunst und

Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Gemany (K)

Der Wegelagerer, Meyer Riegger Galerie, Karlsruhe, Germany

Viva November,“ Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg, Germany (K)

Wandbilder, Atelier Jenny Rosemeyer, Berlin, Germany

2000

Moon white future, Hobbypop Museum, Düsseldorf, Germany

Sympathie, Montparnasse, Berlin, Germany

Corriger la Fortune, Montparnasse, Berlin, Germany

Genre Painting, G7, Berlin, Germany