FELIX SCHRAMM
DE, 1970
Born in 1970, Hamburg, Germany
Lives and works in Düsseldorf
EDUCATION
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1994 - 1998 Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany
1991 - 1993 Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze, Florence, Italy
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AWARDS AND GRANTS
2024 Stiftung Kunstfond Award
2017 Stiftung Kunstfond Award
2013 Lothar Fischer Prize
2006 Stiftung Kunstfonds Award
2006 Piepenbrock Award
2005 Kunststiftung NRW Award
2003 Kunststiftung NRW Award
2000 DAAD, Tokyo
INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED)
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2025 - Interferences, Fondazione Luca & Katia Tomassini (upcoming)
2025 - Trasversal Intersection, Kunst im öffentlichen Raum München, Munich (upcoming)
2025 - Ribot Gallery, Milan (upcoming)
2024 - The Dew Of Dust, Museum Heppenheim, Germany
2023 - The Shadow Of The Future, Werkschau LVM Münster, Germany
2022 - The Verge, Tobias Nähring Gallery, Leipzig
2021 - Galerie Markus Lüttgen, Mönchengladbach, Germany
2020 - Transition, Markus Lüttgen Gallery, Düsseldorf
2019 - Jannis Kounellis & Felix Schramm, Adrian Rosenfeld Gallery, San Francisco
2019 - Ace Of Space, Ribot Gallery, Milan
2019 - De L´autre Côté Du Vent ( with Elger Esser) Kunsthaus Lempertz, Brussels
2018 - Changes, Kienzle Art Fondation, Berlin
2018 - Taking Of, Bove, Düsseldorf
2017 - Crossings, Oktogon, Wuppertal, Germany
2016 - Duo, Fondazione Volume, Rome
2016 - Interface, Kunstverein Heppenheim, Heppenheim, Germany
2015 - Bent, Ribot Gallery, Milan
2014 - 4 Solos, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel
2014 - You Cant Beat Time, Frac Alsace, Sélestat
2014 - Felix Schramm, Museum Lothar Fischer, Neumarkt, Germany
2013 - Accumulation, Gallery Max Mayer, Düsseldorf
2012 - Intersection, Magazin4, Bregenz
2010 - Concealed Revealed, Institut für moderne Kunst, Nuremberg
2010 - Galerie Une, Neuchâtel
2010 - ZKB Kunstpreis, Zurich
2009 - Spy Numbers, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
2009 - él, Galerie Kenworthy-Ball Lange+Pult, Zurich
2009 - Heads & Holes, Galerie Thomas Flor, Düsseldorf
2008 - Savage Salvage, De Vleeshal, Middelburg
2008 - Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Hamburg
2007 - New Work: Felix Schramm, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
2006 - Soft Corrosion, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin
2006 - Galerie Thomas Flor, Düsseldorf
2005 - Project Space, NADA Art Fair, Miami
2005 - Comber, Grimm/Rosenfeld, New York
2005 - Schramm, Konsortium, Düsseldorf
2005 - Der Bau, Ausstellungsraum25, Zurich
2004 - Revealing the Pinnacles, Grimm/Rosenfeld, Munich
2003 - Room 64, Château Marmont, Hollywood, Los Angeles (with Matias Becker)
2002 - Van de Nieuwen Dingen, Tilburg
2002 - Galerie Andreas Grimm, Munich
2000 - Alpha-M gallery, Tokyo
1999 - Escale, Düsseldorf
1998 - Kunstmuseum Thun, Thun, Switzerland
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GROUP EXHIBITIONS
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2024 - Fragmenta, Ribot Gallery, Milan
2024 - The Traced Emptiness Of Just Before, Alex Serra Gallery. Cologne
2023 - Die Grosse, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf
2023 - Le paradis en rose, Galerie VogelArt, Nizza
2022 - Als wäre alles für immer, Kühlhaus Berlin, Berlin
2020 - Wände/Walls im Kubus, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart
2020 - The Place / Once Called Home, Reiterhof, Munich
2019 - Hocus Pocus, Museo d´Arte Contemporanea Lissone, Lissone, Italy
2018 - On Display III, Philara Collection,, Düsseldorf
2018 - Bove, Kunstraum, Düsseldorf
2017 - Skulptur #1. Klaus Gerrit Friese gallery, Berlin
2016 - Architecture Of Life, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley
2016 - Parmi Les Floraisons Du Ciel Incertain, Frac Alsace, Sélestat, Frankreich
2016 - My Castle Is Your Home, Kunstverein Wiesbaden
2015 - Au rendez-vous des amis, Fondazione Burri, Città di Castello, Italy
2014 - Vom Aussenraum zum Innenraum, Kunstverein Potsdam, Potsdam
2013 - Les Pleiades, Museum Les Abattoirs, Toulouse
2013 - Nuovo Bilancio, Ausstellungsraum Jung und Söhne, Wuppertal
2013 - Andratx on Paper, CCA Andratx, Mallorca
2012 - Mise-en-Scène: Skulpturale Rhetorik, Kwadrat, Berlin
2012 - Die 10 Kammern der Phylogenese, Institut Rheinumschlag, Düsseldorf
2012 - Wall-Space, Galerie Jochen Hempel, Berlin
2012 - Private View IV, Galerie Andreas Grimm, Munich
2011 - Abstrakt///Skulptur, Georg-Kolbe-Museum, Berlin
2011 - Auxiliary Constructions, Kunsthaus Dresden, Dresden
2011 - En Ombras, Coleçao Teixeira De Freitas, Santa Cruz de Tenerife
2011 - The More Things Change, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
2011 - Merz World: Yona Friedman and Tomas Saraceno, Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich
2010 - Insight-Outsight: Florian Peters-Messer Collection, Städtische Galerie
2010 - Viersen, Germany
2010 - Ich Wicht, Kunstraum Potsdam, Potsdam
2010 - Ursula Schulz-Dornburg, Felix Schramm, dok25a, Düsseldorf
2010 - Neues Rheinland, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen
2010 - Break, Villa De Bank, Enschede, The Netherlands
2010 - The Destroyed Room, Whatspace, Tilburg
2010 - The Destroyed Room, The Forgotten Bar, Berlin
2010 - Weessen, The Forgotten Bar, Berlin
2010 - Felix Schramm, Schmela Bar, Düsseldorf
2009 - Villa Massimo, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
2009 - Alpha, Pilot Projekt für Kunst e.V., Düsseldorf
2009 - All in One, Galerie Kenworthy-Ball Lange+Pult, Zurich
2009 - Private view II, Galerie Andreas Grimm, Munich
2008 - SKULPTUR!: Piepenbrock Skulpturenpreise 1988–2006, Nationalgalerie Berlin – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin
2007 - Umbau/Modification, Neue Kunsthalle St. Gallen, St Gallen
2007 - Einstellungen, Skulpturen und Räume, Kunstverein Lübeck, Lübeck
2007 - Einblicke, Privatsammlung Piepenbrock, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin
2007 - Less Roses, Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Beirut
2007 - Fearful Objects, Kavi Gupta Gallery, New York
2006 - Summer 2006, Grimm/Rosenfeld, Munich
2006 - Eigenheim, Kunstverein Göttingen, Göttingen
2006 - 4, Anna Helwing Gallery, Los Angeles
2005 - Schöne Aussicht, Museum Schloss Benrath, Düsseldorf
2005 - Regarding Düsseldorf, DIFA - Raum für Kunst, Düsseldorf
2004 - Nachstellungen: Junge Fotographie aus Düsseldorf, Halle 6, Düsseldorf
2004 - Achterland en Achterdocht, Lokaal 01, Antwerp
2004 - Private View, Grimm/Rosenfeld, Munich
2003 - Game over, Grimm/Rosenfeld, Munich
2003 - Vor der Arbeit, Kulturbahnhof Eller, Düsseldorf
2003 - Il Palazzo delle Libertá, Palazzo delle Papesse, Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena
2002 - 10 German Artists, Galerie de Zaal, Delft
2002 - Schramm, Pompa, Schellberg, Clarissenstraße, Düsseldorf
2002 - Galerie Dick de Bruyn, Amsterdam
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RESIDENCIES
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2008 - 2009 Villa Massimo, Rome
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​​COLLECTIONS
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San Francisco Museum Of Modern Art, San Francisco
Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley
Hall Art Fondation, Reading, USA
Hort Collection, New York
Collection of Jill and Peter Krauss, New York
Collection of James Keith Brown and Eric Diefenbach, New York
Collection Teixeira Freitas, Lisboa
Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf
Kunsthaus NRW, Kornelimünster, Aachen, Germany
LVM Collection, Münster, Germany
Bundeskunstsammlung, Berlin
Philara Collection, Düsseldorf
FPM Collection, Viersen, Germany
Frac Alsace, Seléstat, France
CCA Andratx Collection, Spain
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PERIODICS | SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
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2024 - Things To Come, DCV Verlag
2023 - Post-Vandalismus, Kunstforum International,, no.287 pp.1,100,101
2020 - Anne Vieth, Wände/Walls, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, pp.16-17
2019 - Elisabeth Mangini, Jannis Kounellis and Felix Schramm, Adrian Rosenfeld Gallery
2019 - (review), Artforum International, December, pp.225-226
2019 - Felix Schramm, Ace Of Space, exh. cat. Ribot Gallery, no.4, Milan
2019 - Lean-Marc Bodson, Vestiges de l´image et vice versa, (review), La Libre, May 8,
pp. 24
2018 - Felix Schramm, Changes, exh. cat. Kienzle Art Fondation, Berlin
2016 - Architecture Of Life, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive pp. 26, 271
2016 - Neue Düsseldorfer Kunstszene in 70 Porträts, Wienand Verlag, pp. 313-320
2016 - Felix Schramm, Duo, exh. cat. Fondazione Volume, Rome
2016 - Au rendez-vous des amis, exh. cat. Fondazione Palazzo Albizzini Collezione Burri,
pp.119-122
2015 - Felix Schramm, Bent, exh. cat. Ribot Gallery, no. 1, Milan
2015 - Marta Calcagno Baldini, „Felix Schramm, Ribot, Milano“ (review), Flash Art, no. 322, pp. 88
2015 - Margherita Zanoletti, „Le intersezioni materiche di Felix Schramm. Per l´esordio di
Ribot“ (review), Artribune, no. 25, pp.99
2014 - Angela Maria Piga, „Wall Blaster“, (review), Casa Vogue, no. 42, pp. 76 -79
2014 - Corine Girieud, Felix Schramm, You Can´t Beat Time, (review) Artline Magazine d´Art,
07/08.2014, pp. 8, 9
2014 - Addicted to walls, zeitgenössische Wandarbeiten im Ausstellungsraum, ed. Anne Vieth, Si
Schreiber Verlag, pp.281
2013 - Aaron Peck, Felix Schramm, Galerie Max Mayer (review), Artforum International,
October, p. 312
2013 - Pièces montrèes, Frac Alsace, 30 ans de collection, exh. cat. Frac Alsace, Musées de la Ville de Strasbourg, Fondation Fernet-Branca, pp.135,146,147
2012 - Intersection: Felix Schramm, exh. cat. Institut für Moderne Kunst, Nuremberg
(Nuremberg: Verlag für moderne Kunst)
2012 - MozArt: Pensiero esperienze forme del contemporaneo, ed. Bruno Corà (Perugia:
3Arte – Ali & No), pp. 76–79
2011 - Konsortium, 2004 – 2010, Extra Verlag, pp. 70, 73
2011 - Break, ed. Smax, exh. cat., Villa De Bank, Enschede, pp. 22, 23, 34–39, 53
2011 - Gesine Borcherdt, “Atelierbesuch bei Felix Schramm”,
http://www.artnet.de/magazine/atelierbesuch-bei-felix-schramm
2011 - Abstrakt////Skulptur, ed. Marc Wellmann, exh. cat. Georg-Kolbe-Museum, Berlin,
pp. 52–54
2010 - 2009 A–Z (From Yodeling to Quantum Physics), Palais de Tokyo, vol. 3, no. 18, p. 126
2010 - Neues Rheinland: Die postironische Generation, ed. Stefanie Kreuzer,
2010 - exh. cat. Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen (Berlin: Distanz Verlag), pp. 209–214
2009 - Vitamin 3-D: New Perspektives in Sculpture and Installation (London: Phaidon Press),
pp. 10, 268, 269
2009 - Roma, Felix Schramm, David Zink Yi, ed. Villa Massimo, Rome
2009 - PALAIS / SPY NUMBERS, Magazine no. 9
2008 - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 2007 Annual Report, San Francisco, pp.80
2008 - Felix Schramm: Savage, Salvage, exh. cat. De Vleeshal, Middelburg
2008 - SKULPTUR!: Piepenbrock Skulpturenpreise 1988-2006, exh. cat. Kulturstiftung Hartwig Pie-penbrock, Nationalgalerie Berlin – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, pp.136–143, 180, 187, 188
2007 - New Work: Felix Schramm, exh. cat. San Francisco Museum Of Modern Art, San Francisco
Glen Helfland, Felix Schramm, Museum of Modern Art San Francisco, (critics´picks),
2007 - Artforum International, October
2007 - R.M. Vaughan, Felix Schramm in San Francisco, Canadianart
2007 - Berin Golonu, New Work: Felix Schramm, Shotgun Review
2007 - Nicolai Ourousoff, New Work: Felix Schramm, New York Times
2007 - San Francisco Museum Of Modern Art, Jul, Aug 07, exhibition guide, pp.10
2007 - Umbau/Modification, exh. cat. Neue Kunsthalle St. Gallen, St Gallen, pp. 9–17
2007 - Einblicke: Privatsammlung Piepenbrock, exh. cat. Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, pp.134, 135
2007 - Schwarzweiss-Zwei, Düsseldorf-Amsterdam ed. Max Schulze and Katrin Menne, Düsseldorf, pp. 3–9, 91–97
2007 - Was ist gute Kunst?, ed. Wolfram Völker (Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz), p. 152
2006 - Felix Schramm, Soft Corrosion, exh. cat. Kulturstiftung Hartwig Piepenbrock, Berlin
2006 - Marc Spiegler, “Critic’s Pick: Felix Schramm” (review), Artnews, May, p. 184
2006 - Michael Wilson, “Felix Schramm, Grimm/Rosenfeld” (review), Artforum International, March, pp. 293, 294
2005 - Ken Johnson, “Felix Schramm: Comber” (review), The New York Times, 2 December
2005 - Regarding Düsseldorf: Junge Kunst in Düsseldorf, ed. 701 gGmbH, exh. cat., DIFA - Raum für Kunst, p. 48
2004 - Schöne Aussicht: 10 Kunstvorstellungen aus der Kounellis-Schule im Ostflügel von Schloss Benrath, ed. Helga Meister and Stiftung Schloss und Park Benrath, Düsseldorf, exh. cat. Museum Schloss Benrath, Düsseldorf, pp. 75 - 81
2003 - Il Palazzo delle Libertà, exh. cat. Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena, pp. 142–145
2000 - Saison Art Program Newsletter (no.8), Sezon Museum of Modern Art (review), Tokyo, pp. 5-6
2000 - Seeing and Closing One´s Eyes, exh. cat. (no.101), Alpha-M gallery, Tokyo
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