Born 1967 Gummersbach, Germany
Lives and works in Berlin, Germany

Selected Press

Contemporary Art Daily, Michaela Eichwald: Letzte Arbeiten, July 2022
Frieze, The Top 10 Shows in the EU of 2021, Chloe Stead, December 2021
Kunsthalle Basel
, November 2021
Frieze
, Michaela Eichwald's Material Imaginaries, Sarah E. James, November 2021

Solo Exhibitions

(C) denotes that a catalogue was published in conjunction with the exhibition.

2023

Freie Bahn ins Glück, Neue Galerie Gladbeck, Gladbeck, Germany (C)
hirnlose problemlösung gerade verworfenm, Marian Goodman, Paris, France

2022

Letzte Arbeiten, Gaga & Reena Spaulings, Los Angeles, USA

2021

Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland

2020

Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany
Walker Art Center, Minnesota, USA

2019

Kartoffelschälgruppe Fragmentkörper, Maureen Paley: Morena di Luna, Hove, UK
bitte abholen und wegbringen, dépendance, Brussels, Belgium

2018

Seid ihr doof, oder was??!!?, Works from 20 Years, Kunstverein Schwerin, Schwerin, Germany
IST DOCH KEIN ZUSTAND: Ungeklärtheitszustände als Voraussetzung für die Suchende soll dahin gehen, Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin, Germany
Popanz Moloch Muff und Puff, Condo 2018: Maureen Paley hosting dépendance, Maureen Paley, London, UK

2017

Frank, Reena Spaulings, New York, USA

2016

Absolution, Silberkuppe, Berlin, Germany

2015

Overduin & Co., Los Angeles
Gesellschaft III. Die Bamberger Kondition unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Auslegung allen Geschehensn, Villa Concordia, Bamberg, Germany

2014

dépendance, Brussels, Belgium
Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Galerie Meyer-Kainer, Vienna, Austria

2013

Ergriffenes Dasein. Artist, Writer, Mentalist, Reena Spaulings, New York, USA
Knotti Times, Silberkuppe, Berlin, Germany

2012

Prix Lafayette, Paris, presented by Reena Spaulings, New York, USA
Der Meteorit soll kommen, Mathew, Berlin, Germany
William, New York, USA
Pierre Vogel, Marquise Dance Hall, Istanbul, Turkey (with Stefanie Popp)

2011

Contemporary Art Daily, dépendance, Brussels, Belgium
Reena Spaulings, New York, USA

2010

Morror, with Michael Krebber, International Project Space Birmingham, UK
Pofalla in Wien, Pro Choice, Vienna, Austria
Pofalla, willst du mir jetzt komplett Garaus machen? After the Butcher, Off-Space, Berlin, Germany

2009

The Classical, Vilma Gold, London, UK
Total Awareness Of All Dimensions (Dimensions Variable), Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, Germany
Resident Nr. 14, Caribic Ausstellungsraum, Frankfurt, Germany

2008

Ergriffenes Dasein. Artist, Writer, Mentalist, Reena Spaulings, New York, USA
Projektion, European Kunsthalle c/o Ebertplatz, Cologne, Germany

2005

God of Emptiness, Privilège, dépendance, Brussels, Belgium
Niemand ist eine Insel, Brunn, Berlin, Germany

2004

Stunde Null, 100 Uhr, Commi si comme ca II, Cologne, Germany

2003

Verrecke, Du fiese Buppe, Galerie Meerrettich, Berlin, Germany

2000

Ich kann nicht zulassen, dass eine Differenz auftritt zwischen dem, was ich bejahe und dem, was ich verneine, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Brunswick, Germany

1997

Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany

Selected Group Exhibitions

(C) denotes that a catalogue was published in conjunction with the exhibition.

2023

Zeitfresser vs Silberling, Scheusal, Berlin, Germany

JUBGWGGS #1, JUBG, Cologne, Germany

We smell gas, Reena Spaulings Fine Art, NY, United States

2022

Bells, Galerie Buchholz, Cologne, Germany
Among the Others, Jahn und Janj, Munich, Germany

2020

J U N E, dépendance, Brussels, Belgium
Alles war klar/ Everything was clear, Künstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria

2019

You: Works from the Lafayette Anticipations Collection, Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris , Paris, France
J A N U A R Y, dépendance, Brussels, Belgium
CONDO New York: Queer Thoughts hosting dépendance, Brussels, New York, NY, USA
Seven Painters, Greene Naftali, New York
YOU, Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris

2018

Michaela Eichwald, Stefan Tcherepnin + Sanity, Jo Brand, Glasgow, UK

2017

Ungestalt, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Pelamide, Gladstone Gallery, Brussels Zur Rebschänke, Weiss Falk, Basel, Switzerland
Gebärden und Ausdruck, Halle für Kunst Lüneburg, Lüneburg Infected Foot, Greene-Naftali, New York, USA
CONDO Maureen Paley hosting dépendance, London, UK
Aftermieter, Haus Mödrath – Räume für Kunst, Erkrath, Germany

2016

Incidentals in the Day World, JTG Detroit Project, Detroit, USA
Painting 2.0, Mumok, Vienna, Austria
Rennes Biennale, Rennes, France

2015

The Noing Uv It, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway
Painting 2.0: Expression in the Information Age, Museum Brandhorst, Munich
Raw And Delirious, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Off Broadway, CCA Wattis Institute of Contemporary Art, San Francisco, USA
Künstler und Dichter, curated by Ugo Rondinone, Secession, Vienna, Austria
Call and Response, Gavin Brown, New York
Das unbekannte Meisterwerk, Meyer-Kainer, Vienna, Austria
The Pleasure of the Text, Campoli Presti, London
dépendance | Opposite the Other Side, Sommer, Tel Aviv, Israel

2014

The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World, MOMA, New York, USA
8th Berlin Biennale, Berlin, Germany
Tif Sigfrids, Los Angeles, USA
The Hawker, dependance at Carlos/Ishikawa, London, UK
Cocu ou Marron, CAN, Neuchatel, Switzerland
Die Antwort der Dinge, Lothringer Halle, Munich, Germany
Chat Jet, KM, Graz, Germany
EFFI B. SILBERKUPPE, Berlin, Germany

2013

Das Allerletzte Professor Winkler Stipendium. Kunstverein Weiden, Germany
Fellbach Triennial of small-scale sculpture since 1980, Fellbach, Germany
Café Paradiso, With Barker, Flood, Pfisterer, Arthur-Boskamp-Stiftung, Hohenlockstedt, Germany
Reckless Head, Michael Benevento Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Catch as Catch Can, Locks-Gallery, Philadelphia. KUKUK. Debora Schamoni, Munich
Purple Glass, Overduin and Kite, Los Angeles
Painting Forever, Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin Festival der Kleinskulptur. Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg,
Some End of Things, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland

2012

Night Studio, Vilma Gold, London
Style, Galerie Micky Schubert, Berlin, Germany
At the Speed of Stone, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York. Curated by Anthony Huberman
Pierre Vogel, Marquise Dance Hall, Istanbul, Turkey
Context Message, Zach Feuer, New York, USA
Redundanz, Gesellschaft für Landschaftskunst, Halle Süd, Bad Tölz, Germany
Erntedank, ISI 8, Berlin, Germany

2011

Firstsight, Colchester, Essex, UK
The Great White Way Goes Black, Vilma Gold, London
Augusts Lle, Vienna, Austria
Villa Merkel, Esslingen, Germany
Sommer Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel (with Nick Mauss and David Lieske)

2010

Novel, dépendance, Brussels, Belgium
BigMinis. Fetishes of Crisis, curated by Alexis Vaillant, CAPC musée d’art contemporain Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
ZINGERpresents, curated by Rob Tufnell, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2009

Ho is No Substitute for Anything, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna, Austria
Precarious Forms 1 (Prekare Skulpturen), Galerie Mayer Kainer, Vienna, Austria

2008

European Kunsthalle c/o Ebertplatz #1, Cologne, Germany
Written on spiders, SILVERMAN, San Francisco, USA
Egypted, curated by Will Benedict, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, Austria
Aurora, Zwischen Nacht und Tag II, curated by Olga Lewicka and Roseline Rannoch, Berlin, Germany Zuordnungsprobleme, Galerie Johann König, Berlin, Germany
Bar Ornella No. 33, Cologne, Germany
Legend, curated by Alexis Vaillant, France
Vertrautes Terrain, Aktuelle Kunst in / Über Deutschland, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
Various sketches for leaving the room, STARSHIP Poster, LUDLOW 38 New York, USA and Rauchslon, Vienna, Austria.
Looking Back: The White Columns Annual, selected by Jay Sanders, White Columns, New York, USA

2007

Ich Hätte Durchaus die Kraft, gar nichts zu tun, Kunstverein Hamburg, Germany
Blindness, Pudel-Kollektion, Hamburg, Germany
Evangelisch-katholisch, Montgomery, Berlin, Germany
Artists In and Out of Cologne, MCA Miami and Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, Washington, USA
dépendance at Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany

2006

Make Your Own Life: Artists In and Out of Cologne, ICA Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Verdunklung /Darkening, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Germany

2005

Servus, union, curated by Jens Mentrup

Solo Publications

2023

F.B.I.G., published by Neue Galerie Gladbeck, Gladbeck

Selected Projects

2023

Period, SUEZAN STUDIO, cover artwork “Untitled” 2019

Selected Bibliography

2023

Schlotterbeck, Luisa, ’Freie Bahn ins Glück' by Michaela Eichwald now opening at Neue Galerie Gladbeck, artdaily.com, 25 August 2023

2022

Ghassemitari, Shawn, The Drawing Centre Reveals Artist List for 2022 Benefit Auction, hypebeast.com, 17 August 2022
–––, Michaela Eichwald: Letzte Arbeiten, contemporaryartdaily.com, July 2022
B. Valtorta, Maddalena, Kunsthalle Basel, Review, juliet-artmagazine.com, 21 January 2022
–––, Michaela Eichwald at Kunsthalle Basel, artwritingdaily.com, 18 January 2022
–––, Michaela Eichwald “Auf das Ganze achten und gegen die Tatsachen existieren” at Kunsthalle Basel, moussemagazine.it, 19 January 2022
–––, Michaela Eichwald, Auf das Ganze achten und gegen die Tatsachen existieren, contemporaryartdaily.com, 18 January 2022

2021

Blättner, Martin, Städitshce Galerie im Lenbachhaus (Kunstbau), München, Kunsthalle Basel, KUNSTFORUM International, Issue 273, p. 294
Blättner, Martin, Städitshce Galerie im Lenbachhaus (Kunstbau), München, Kunsthalle Basel, kunstforum.de, 23 February 2021
Dieffenbacher, Christoph, Bilderrätsel auf Kunstleder in der Kunsthalle, Basler Zeitung, 1 November 2021
E. James, Sarah, Michaela Eichwald’s Material Imaginaries, Frieze, Issue 222, 3 November 2021, pp. 200 - 201
Elbaor, Caroline, Here Are the 13 U.S. Museum Shows That Matter This Fall, From a Survey of 21st-Century Feminisms in Berkeley to Radical Art
Rediscovery in Atlanta, news.artnet.com, 13 September 2021
Fuchs, Rainer, On View, Flash Art No. 334 Spring 2021, p. 22
Stead, Chloe, The Top 10 Shows in the EU of 2021, frieze.com, 3 December 2021
Walker, Melissa, Is the Walker open? How about Mia? Twin Cities museums and attractions that are open or opening soon, startribune.com, 4 February 2021
Woodcock, Victoria, Inside art collector Valeria Napoleone’s ‘little Guggenheim’, ft.com, 26 November 2021
---, Michaela Eichwald, Auf das Ganze achten und gegen die Tatsachen existieren, Kunsthalle Basel, Kunsthalle Basel, kunsthallebasel.ch, 17 November 2021

2020

Aeler, Alicia, Walker Art Center hosts a live conversation across three continents, startribune.com, 22 April 2020
Smith, Roberta, Jackie Saccoccio, Painter of Explosive Abstraction, Dies at 56, nytimes.com, 28 December 2020
Eler, Alicia, German artist makes painting weird again in solo debut at the Walker, startribune.com, 18 November 2020
Walker, Melissa, Is the Walker open? How about Mia? Twin Cities museums and attractions that are open or opening soon, startribune.com, 4 February 2021

2019

Nam, Hiji, The Custom of the Country, artforum.com, 29 June 2019.

2018

Speed, Mitch, The Teeming Symbols and References in Michaela Eichwald’s Paintings, frieze.com, 19 October 2018.
Baghramian, Nairy, Artists’ Artists: Michaela Eichwald, Women, 1999, Frieze Masters no. 7, October 2018, p. 106.
—-, Michaela Eichwald at Maureen Paley, contemporaryartdaily.com, 8 February 2018

2017

I Ain’t the Noing of it Im Just Onle the Showing uv it, Martin Clarke and Stephen Claydon (eds.), Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway (C)

2015

Larios, Pablo, Trust Communicator, frieze.com, 23 August 2016.
Hudson, Suzanne, OVERDUIN & Co, Artforum, November 2015,pp 312-313

2014

Prince, Mark, Reviews: Micaela Eichwald, frieze.com, 5 March 2014

2010

Raum, Judith, After the Butcher: Michaela Eichwald, Flash Art, vol. XLIII, no. 272, May – June 2010

2009

Kissik, Dean, Michaela Eichwald, Flash Art, vol. XLII, no.268, October 2009
Fite-Wassilak, Chris, Michaela Eichwald at Vilma Gold, frieze online, December 10, 2009

2008

Smith, Roberta, Is Painting Small the Next Big Thing?, New York Times, April 19, 2008
Doran, Anne, Michaela Eichwald: Ergriffenes Dasein, Artist, Writer Mentalist, Time Out New York, April 27, 2008
Organisation Todt, Starship, no. 11, Berlin
Ode an die Hummeln, in S. Fischer, Yearbook of Lyric, Frankfurt

2007

Tombola de malades – she was so strong, in Transgression/ Excess and Paralipomena, Space Other, Boston

2006

Archangels, Patrons and Friends, Spex, June 2006
Mehr Licht, mehr nicht, mehr Broschen, in Kreuz Wort Raetsel, ed. Thomas Gann / Armin Krämer, Hamburg
Es muß etwas Lebendiges in den Deich, in Neue Probleme, ed. Mario Lasar and Markus Boesch

2005

Odlicht, Oedland, Kampf um Relevanz, Brochure
Der Feinkosthändler, in The sky is thin as paper here, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne
Siepen, Nicolas, Kampf um Relevanz oder die Mühlenn des Lebens, Texte zur Kunst, Dec. 2005

2004

Die Heiligtümer der Heiden: Matthias Schaufler, Texte zur Kunst, no. 54, 2004
Abes, Peter, Michaela Eichwald, Spex, July 2004

2003

Agricolas Dunststrecke, Texte zur Kunst, no. 51, 2003 “OSMOSE,” Galerie Meerettich, Berlin

2002

Seligkeit ist nichts Verheissenes, in Kai Althoff: Gebaerden und Ausdruck, Berlin: Lukas and Sternberg, 2002
Operation am offenen Pferd, on a exhibition curated by Albert Oehlen, Koelnischer Kunstverein, Texte zur Kunst, no. 47, 2002

Public Collections

Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Lenbachhaus Munich, Munich, Germany

Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, USA

The Moulin Family Endowment Fund, Paris, France

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA