Dirk Bell
1969
born in Munich
Lives and works in Berlin
Solo Exhibitions
2012
Grid(love)r, Andreas Melas & Helena Papadopoulos, Athens, Greece
SOFT IS HARD (Work), Sadie Coles HQ, London, Great Britain
2011
The Modern Institute, Glasgow
Retour, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munchen
2010
The Modern Institue, Glasgow
Sadie Coles, London
Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead
Paradise Lost, Kunstverein Arnsberg
BQ, Berlin
2009
Dirk Bell LI’ve is LI’ve, Schinkel Pavillion, Berlin
2008
Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York
2007
BQ, Cologne
2006 Modern Institute, Glasgow
Kunsthalle Bremerhaven
Dirk Bell (with Kitty Kraus & Ulrich Wulff), 620A/ Gavin Brown’s enterprise, NY
2005
BQ, Cologne
2003
BQ, Cologne (C)
The Modern Institute, Glasgow
2002
Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York
2001
BQ, Cologne, (C)
2000
One day it will all make sense, The Modern Institute, Glasgow (with F.
Kunath), weekend-show
1999
Hobbypop, Düsseldorf (with A. Reyle)
1998
Why are my friends such finks, BQ, Köln (with F. Kunath), (C)
Group Exhibitions
2011
Gesamtkunstwerk, Saatchi Gallery, London
2010
At Home/Not at Home, Hessel Museum of Art, New York
2009
You will miss me when I burn, Mountgomery Gallery, Berlin
Modern Modern, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, curated by Pati Hertling
Berlin 2000, Pace Wildenstein, New York
2007
Every Eye sees differently as the Eye, The Drawing Room, London
Pure Self Expression, Kölnischer Kunstverein
2006
Blake & Sons, Model Arts and Niland Gallery ,The Mall, Sligo Ireland
Bonanza, Tilton Gallery, New York
Freier a magazine for sensibilities, Art:Concept, Paris
2005
Blake & Sons, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland (traveling)
The third peak, Art:Concept, Paris
2004
Kunst macht Schule – l’art fait ecole, Saarland Museum; Caves
Sainte Croix, Metz
Sommer Photo Ausstellung, Galerie Merettich im Glaspavillion an de Volksbuhne, Berlin
Jetz und 10 Jahre Davor, Kunst-Werke, Berlin
Der spate Liebhaber, Neue Dokumente, Berlin
2003
deutschemalereizweitausenddrei, Frankfurter Kunstverein (C)
Painting on the Roof, Staedtisches Museum Abteiberg, Moenchengladbach (C)
Minerals in the Water, The Changing Room, Stirling, (C)
Dirty Pictures, The Approach, London
EU3-Drawing, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London (September 2003)
Vom Horror der Kunst, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria
2002
RomaRomaRoma, Rome
Grosse Kunstausstellung Sommer 2002 im Pazifik, PAZIFIK, Berlin
Friede Freiheit Freunde, Maschenmode Galerie Guido W.Baudach, Berlin
Tiere 2003, Wohnung der Eheleute Hermann & Elfriede Paime, Immenstad
2001
Circles Nr. 5: Berlin – Montagna Sacra, ZKM, Karlsruhe, (C)
Viva November, Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg, (C)
1995-2001, BQ, Cologne
2000
Parking Meters, Köln
Make my paper sound, Studiogalerie Kunstverein Braunschweig (C)
‘Malerei VI’ Monika Sprueth Galerie, Cologne
1998
Junge Kunst im Zweiten, Staatstheater Braunschweig
Bibliography (selected)
2011
Clegg, James, Review, Art Review, April
2008
Harris, Susan, Review, Art in America, May, p. 194-5
Hudson, Suzanne, Review, Artforum, April, p. 366-7
2007
Dirk Bell “69,” published by Kunstverein Bremerhaven, Cologne
2006
Hamill, Jasper, Review, Skinny Magazine, Glasgow, 29 May 2006
2004
Higgie, Jennifer, Night for Day, Frieze, January, pp. 76-79.
2003
Dirk Bell Vol. One, published by BQ, Cologne
2002
Minerals in the Water, published by The Changing Room: Stirling, Scotland
2001
Frankfurt Darling, Dirk Bell, exhibition catalog, published by BQ: Cologne
Darling, version 2001 by Mo (EMD), 7-inch record, BQ, Cologne
1998
Friedrich Kunath/Dirk Bell, Why are my friends such finks, exhibition
catalog, published by BQ: Cologne
1997
Aura, Ars Futura, Zurich
Uberraschung (Surprise II) Kunsthalle, Nurnberg
1995
Malerei III, Monika Sprüth Galerie, Köln
1994
The easiest thing to grow in a garden is tired, Galerie Peters-Barenbrock, Braunschweig