Katja Strunz
1970 born in Ottweiler
Lives and works in Berlin
Education
1989
Studies of Philosophy, History and History of Art, Johannes Gutenberg-
Universität Mainz, Mainz
1991
Studies of Philosophy and Fine Arts, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität
Mainz, Mainz
1993
Studies of Fine Arts, Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste
Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe
1998
Meisterschüler, Prof. Meuser, Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste
Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe
1999
Scholarship of the Staat Baden-Württemberg Lectureship for Painting and
Installation, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Mainz
2002
Scholarship, Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn
2003
Residency Program, Delfina Studio Trust, London
2004
“ars viva 04/05 – Zeit,” Art Prize of Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft im
Bund deutscher Industrie e.V.
2006
“Art Scope DaimlerChrysler Japan,” DaimlerChrysler, Tokyo
Adolph-Luther-Preis, Art Prize of the Adolph Luther Foundation, Krefeld
2007
International Artist-in-Residence, Artpace, San Antonio
Solo Exhibitions
2012
Modern Institute, Glasgow (upcoming)
2011
“Nachzeit”, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin
“Tick-Tock, Crick-Clock”, Almine Rech Galerie, Brussels
2010
“Zeittraum # 9”, Muzeum Sztuki w Lodzi, Lodz
"Canopy Curtain," Kunststation Sankt Peter Koln, Koln
“Im Geviert,” Saarlandmuseum, Saarbrucken
2009
“Sound of the Pregeometric Age,” Camden Arts Centre, London
“The Great Bear,” Mount Stuart Gallery, Mount Stuart, Scotland
“Katja Strunz,” Cruise&Callas, Berlin
2008
“Einbruchstellen,” Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin
2007
“Guten Morgen Erwachen,” Galerie Almine Rech, Paris
“Lazy Corner and the Suicide Walls,” The Modern Institute/Toby Webster
Ltd, Glasgow
“Lazy Corner,” Artpace, San Antonio
2006
“Faltgestalt,” Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld
“Whose Garden Was This,” Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York
2005
“ta pedia tou pirea,” Art Statement, Basel Art Fair, Basel
2003
“Time of the Season,” The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow,
and Doggerfisher, Edinburgh
“Collagen,” Ausstellungsraum Ursula Werz, Tübingen
“Unendlich,” Els Hanappe Underground, Athens
2002
“Zeittraum,” Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin
2001
Katja Strunz, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York
Katja Strunz, The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow
2000
Katja Strunz, Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin
1997
“Country,” former officers’ mess, Karlsruhe
Group Exhibitions
2012
The Imminence of Poetics, Thirtieth Bienal de São Paulo, Brasil (upcoming)
Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicska, Salzburg, Austria
Sculpture Park at Frieze Art Fair, New York, Gavin Brown's enterprise
Nymphius Projekte at CCAntratx, CCA Andratx, Mallorca
Collaborations & Interventions, CCA Andratx, Mallorca
2011
"Hieros Glyphos," kuratiert von Jan Hoet, Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerpen
"Abstrakte Skulptur, Georg-Kolbe-Museum, Berlin
"Welttheater. Die Sammlung migros museum für gegenwartskunst," Zürich, Kunstmuseum
Liechtenstein, Vaduz
"Train Fantome," Cruise & Callas, Berlin
"Verbrechen und Bild," Künstlerverein Walkmühle, Wiesbaden
"Wert / Sache," Potsdamer Straße 87, Berlin, kuratiert von Anna-Catharina Gebbers
"Space Oddity," Centro Cultural Andratx, Mallorca
"Nit al Jardí del Bé I el Mal," Centro Cultural Andratx, Mallorca
"Private/Corporate VI," Daimler Kunst Sammlung, Berlin
"Hotspot Berlin - eine Momentaufnahme," Georg- Kolbe- Museum, Berlin
"The Black Goddess," Autocenter, Berlin
2010
"Never the Same River (Possible Futures, Probable Pasts),"Camden Arts Center, London
"Christmas in July," Yvon Lambert Gallery, New York
“Just a Matter of Time,” Galerie Iris Kadel, Karlsruhe
“Chrystaline Architecture,” Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
“A Relative Expanse,” Renwick Gallery, New York
“Skulpturengarten Villa Schöningen,” Villa Schöningen, Potsdam
“Cage Mix: Sculpture & Sound,” BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead
"elles@centrepompidou. Artistes femmes dan les collections de centre pompidou," Centre Pompidou, Paris
“Bilder uber Bilder,” MUMOK, Wien
“High Ideals and Crazy Dreams,” Galerie Vera Munro, Hamburg
“Berliner Metallplastik,” Nymphius Projekte, Berlin
“The Berlin Box,” Centro Cultural Andratx, Mallorca
“The Big Rip Off,” Camden Arts Centre, London
“100th Exhibition,” Autocenter, Berlin
“Neugierig? Kunst des 21. Jahrhunderts. Private Sammlungen,” Kunst-und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn
“Wall & Floor,” Galerie Almine Rech, Paris
"Missing Beat," Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
"Physical," Autocenter, Berlin
"step in the arena," Quartier Eurobahnhof, Saarbrücken
"monochrome (part two)," galerie lange + pult, Zürich
"Schwarz," Märkisches Museum Witten, Witten
2009
“Minimal Means,” Frank Cohen Collection, Initial Access, Wolverhampton
“Schickeria-High Society,” BDA Galerie, Braunschweig
“Private View,” Stadtische Galerie Villingen-Schwenningen, Villingen-Schwenningen
“Cargo Manifest,” Under Construction, Bayrische Staatsoper, Munich
“elles@centrepompidou: Artistes femmes dans les collections du Centre Pompicdou,” Centre Pompidou, Paris
“Abstractionists Unite! Who Give You Just Enough to Last a Lifetime,” Glendale College Art Gallery, Glendale, CA, curated by Nancy Chaikin
“Constructivismes,” Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels
“Geoplay,” Galerie Pilar Parra & Romero, Madrid
“Berlin 2000,” Pace Wildenstein, New York
2008
“Rooming In!,” Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad
Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels
“Material Presence: Sculpture and Installation from the Zabludowicz Collection,” Project Space 176, London NY
“Red Wind,” Blum & Poe, Los Angeles CA
“Chapter One,” About Change Collection, Berlin
“Boros Collection,” Sammlung Boros, Berlin
“Private/Corporate V,” Daimler Contemporary, Berlin
“The Driller Killer,” Forgotten Bar Project, Berlin
“Whole Lotta Love,” Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin
“andersen’s wohnung revisited 1996-1999,” Andersen’s Contemporary, Berlin
“Life on Mars,” 55th Carnegie International, Pittsburgh, PA
"De Réalité – pratiques contemporaines de l'abstraction", école régionale des beaux-arts de Nantes, France
“Zuordnungsprobleme,” Galerie Johann Konig, Berlin
“So ist es und anders,” Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach
“Wenn ein Reisender in einer Winternacht –Variationen über Max Bill“, Marta Herford
Museum, Herford
2007 “Joseph Kramhöller, Gerhard Merz, Anselm Reyle, Haim Steinbach, Katja Strunz.”
COMA, Berlin
“Winter Palace,” De Ateliers, Amsterdam
“Delusive Orders,” Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz
“Grit and Vigor,” Light & Sie, Dallas
“You will be re-materialized through your secrets,” Michael Benevento/Orange Group, Los Angeles
“Re-Dis-Play”, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg
“Art Scope. Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Japan und Deutschland”, DaimlerChrysler Contemporary, Haus Huth, Berlin
“Lines, squares and cubes,” Produzentengalerie, Hamburg
“Half Square Half Crazy”, Villa Arson, Nizza
“Inky Toy Affinitas”, Cerealart, Philadelphia
“Big Bopp – 15 Jahre Boppstraße”, Boppstr 26, Mainz
2006
“Music and Art,” Coma – Centre for Opinions in Music and Art, Berlin
“Sammlung migros museum für gegenwartskunst,” migros museum für
gegenwartskunst, Zurich
“Art Scope 2005/2006 – Interface Complex,” Hara Museum of
Contemporary Art, Tokyo
“Strange I’ve Seen That Face Before,” Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach
“Delete/How to Make a Perfect Ghost,” Anton Kern Gallery, New York
“Optik Schröder,” Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig
“Conversation with Art, on Art, bauhaus to contemporary Art,” Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo
"Wir hatten das land gern weit und rund und sie...," showroom berlin, Berlin
2005
“36 x 27 x 10,” White Cube Berlin at the former Palast der Republik, Berlin
“Lichtkunst aus Kunstlicht,” ZKM Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe
“The Addiction,” Gagosian, Berlin
“The The,” Modern Art, London
“ars viva 04/05 – Zeit / time,” Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, and Zacheta Narodowa Galeria Sztuki, Warsaw
“Mallorca Open 05. Principles of construcion,” Kunsthalle Centro Cultural Andratx, Majorca
“Sculptures d’appartement,” Musée departemental d’art contemporain de Rochechouart, Rochechouart
“Abstraktes Material“ (with R. Levi, Meuser, F. Penker), Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz
“Die gute Form,” Galerie Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin
“Dead/Undead,” Galerie Six Friedrich Lisa Ungar, Munich
2004
“Regard sur l’abstraction dans la scène berlinoise,” Nosbaum & Reding Art
Contemporain, Luxembourg
“Formalismus. Moderne Kunst, heute,” Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg
“Zwei oder drei Dinge, die ich von ihr weiß,” Produzentengalerie, Hamburg
“ars viva 04/05 – Zeit / time,” Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim
“I Feel Mysterious Today,” Palm Beach ICA, Lake Worth, Florida
“Keep Your Head to the Sky,” Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York
“Black Friday,” Galerie Kamm, Berlin
“It’s All An Illusion, A Sculpture Project,” Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich
“Specific Objects,” Galerie Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin
“Sans Soleil,” Galerie Neu, Berlin
“Barraque d’dull odde,” Galleria Continua, San Gimignano
“Contemporary Art of the DaimlerChrysler Collection,” The Detroit Institute
of Arts, Detroit, Museum Africa, Johannesburg, and South African National
Gallery Cape Town, Cape Town
2003
“Sammlung DaimlerChrysler,” ZKM Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe
“Silver Convention,” Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin
“Splendor Geometrik,” Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne
“Comme des Garcons: 40 views of an Icon,” Moscow, Zurich, Berlin
“Land, Land!“ (with Rivane Neuenschwander and Helen Mirra), Kunsthalle
Basel, Basel
“HELP,” Els Hanappe Underground, Athens
“Inaugural Group Exhibition,” Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York
“Hands Up, Baby, Hands Up!,” Oldenburger Kunstverein, Oldenburg
“Renderings,” Delfina Studio Trust, London
“Hot, Blue & Righteous,” Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin
“Fallen Angels,” Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
“Minimalism and After II,” DaimlerChrysler Contemporary, Haus Huth, Berlin
2002
“RomaRomaRoma,” project space Toby Webster, Gavin Brown and Franco Noero, Rome
“My Head Is On Fire But My Heart Is Full Of Love,” Charlottenborg
exhibition space, Copenhagen
“Waiting For The Ice Age,” Galerie Georg Kargl, Vienna
2001
“Privat, zu Gast bei Hannibal Collector,” Harald Falckenberg, Hamburg
“Not At Home,” Schloß Solitude, Stuttgart
“Circles 5,” ZKM Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe
“Wandbilder,” Atelier J. Rosenmeyer, Berlin
“Die Vertreibung der Händler aus dem Tempel,” Kunstfabrik am
Flutgraben, Berlin
2000
“Sympathie,” Montparnasse, Berlin
“Bernd Krauß, Katja Strunz, Dieter Detzner, Berta Fischer, Anselm Reyle,
Hansjörg Meyer,” Büchsenhausen Ausstellungsraum, Innsbruck
“Landscape,” Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin
1999
“Nordwestpassage,” Städtische Galerie Lüdenscheid, Lüdenscheid
1998
“Katja Strunz, Bernd Krauß, Thomas Zipp, Thilo Heinzmann,” Andersen’s Wohnung, Berlin
“Gangbang,” Galerie Margit Haupt, Karlsruhe
“Meisterschüler der Staatlichen Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe,” Schloss Bruchsal, Bruchsal
Bibliography
2011
Borcherdt, Gesine. Interview with Katja Strunz, Flash Art April/March p. 106
2010
“Alte Meister, Von Neuen Geliebt,” Monopol, no. 2, February 2010, p. 28
" A relative Expanse", Art Forum, June 2010
"A relative Expanse", Curator's Notebook, June 2010
2009
Boros Collection / Bunker Berlin, Boros Foundation: Ostfildern 2009, p. 100-101
Strunz, Katja, Einbruchstellen, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Snoeck Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Koln 2009 (Monograph)*
The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection Catalogue Raisonne, Museum of Modern Art: New York, 2009, p. 261*
Berlin 2000, Pace Wildenstein: New York, 2009, p. 108-109, 116-117*
Lange, Christy, “Katja Strunz,” in: Vitamin 3-D: New Perspectives in Sculpture and Installation, Phaidon: 2009, p. 296-297
Chevron, Doris, “Cohas kmomt von Hzreen,” Fled Homme, no. 01/09, Summer 2009, p. 116
Sonna, Birgit, and Gregor Hohenberg, “Auf den Kopf gestellt,” Art, no. 5, May 2009, p. 18-26
Nedo, Kito, “Mit Schaum und Crème gegen den Schrott der Geschichte, Berliner Zeitung, no. 79, March 4, 2009, p. 28
Bell, Kirsty, “Katja Strunz,” Frieze, issue 121, March 2009, p. 169-70
Klonk, Charlotte, “Standing With One’s Back to Utopia,” Tate Etc., Issue 15, Spring 2009,
p. 104-107
Sommer, Tim, “Bilanz 2008: Welche Krise?” Art, no. 1, January 2008, p. 58
Ackermann, Tim, “Neuer Glanz des Abstrakten,” Welt am Sonntag, Nr. 1, Jan. 4, p. 51
2008
Reber, Simone: Batman stürzt ab. In: Der Tagesspiegel, Nr. 20114, 13/12/2008, p. 29.
Zeitz, Lisa: In Berliner Galerien. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, Nr. 49,
07/12/2008, p. 69.
Glauner, Max: Prinzessin auf der Falte. In: Zitty, Nr. 24, 20/11/2008, p. 104.
Vanity Fair: Berliner Harmonie. In: Vanity Fair, Nr. 42, 09/10/2008, pp. 98-99.
Vogue: wanderlust. In: Vogue (USA), Nr. 9, 09/2008, pp. 666-667
Monopol: Katja Strunz. In: Monopol kompakt – Art Forum Berlin, Nr. 2/2008, 11/2008, p. 48.
Pesanti, Heather: Katja Strunz. In: Life on Mars. 55th Carnegie International (Ed.), Pittsburgh 2008, pp. 306-311.*
Czöppan, Gabi: Täglicher Lustmarsch. In: Focus, no. 24, 06/2008, pp. 60-62.
Hohmann, Silke: Die Mauer ist offen, Monopol no. 5/2008, pp. 48-57.*
Fundación Juan March – Daimler Chrysler Collection: MAXImin-Maximum Minimalization in Contemporary Art, Madrid, 2008, p. 53, pp. 140 – 141.*
Marta Herford gGmbH (Ed.):Wenn ein Reisender in einer Winternacht – Variationen über Max Bill, Herford 2008*
2007
Gupta, Anjali: Glenn Kaino + Robert Pruitt + Katja Strunz. San Antonio. In:
Art Papers, no. 5, 05/2007, p. 73.
Grässlin, Karola & Alexander Schröder (Ed.): Optik Schröder. Köln 2007,
p. 33, fig. 189-191.
Buhr, Elke: Blechschirme und Batmans Mantel. In: Frankfurter
Rundschau, no. 7, 09/01/2007, p. 16.
Adolf-Luther-Stiftung (Ed.): Katja Strunz. With essays by Suzanne Hudson
and Lutz Niethammer, 200 pages. König Books London 2007.*
(Monograph)
2006
Adolf-Luther-Stiftung (Ed.): Katja Strunz. Faltgestalt. Krefeld 2006.*
Ozawa, Yuko, Akiko Hida & Atsuo Yasuda: Art Scope 2005/2006 – Interface Complex. Tokyo 2006, pp. 34-43, 60-61.*
Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach & DuMont Verlag, Köln (Ed.): Strange I've Seen That Face Before. Objekt, Gestalt, Phantom. Köln 2006, pp. 32-33.*
Wittneven, Katrin: PreView. Ein Blick ins Atelier von Katja Strunz vor ihrer Retrospektive in Krefeld. In: Monopol, no. 5, 10/2006, pp. 126-129.
Clifton, Michael & Alissa Bennett: In absence of the figure. In: Issue, no. 9, 03/2006, p. 18.
Hudson, Suzanne: Suzanne Hudson on Katja Strunz. In: Artforum International, no. 8, 04/2006, pp. 234-235.
Buhr, Elke: Arts blooming in Berlin. In: Modern Painters, 03/2006, pp. 93-97.
Clifton, Michael & Alissa Bennett: Seance. New York 2006.*
2005
Scheibitz, Thomas & Karsten Heller (Ed.): Diamondpaper (no. 5). Berlin 2005.
Wiensowski, Ingeborg: Strandgut der Zeit. In: Kulturspiegel, no. 3,
03/2005, p. 32.
Boecker, Susanne: ars viva 04/05. In: Kunstforum, no. 175, 04/2005, p. 293.
Gockel, Cornelia: Dead/Undead. In: Kunstforum, no. 176, 06/2005, pp.
355-356.
Preuss, Sebastian: Die neue Liebe zur Geometrie. In: Monopol, no. 3, 06/2005, pp. 50-63.
2004
Molon, Dominic: I Feel Mysterious Today. Lake Worth 2004, pp. 13, 41.*
Eichler, Dominic: Ravishing time. In: Bund deutscher Industrie (Ed.): Ars Viva 04/05 – Zeit/time. Frankfurt am Main 2004, pp. 90-119.*
2004 Kopsa, Maxine: Flirt Met Het oppervlak. In: Metropolis M, no. 6, 12/2004,
pp. 113-116.
Leith, Caoimhin & Mac Giolla: Formalismus. Moderne Kunst, heute. Hamburg 2004, pp.
185-191
Bell, Kirsty: The Salvage City. In: Art Review, no. 54, 07/2004, pp. 62-67.
Strunz, Katja & Kolja Gläser: Unerwartete Gestalt. In: Achtung, no. 2, 09/2004, pp. 112- 117.
Gebbers, Anna-Catharina: Anna-Catharina Gebbers über Katja Strunz. In: Artist Kunstmagazin, no. 1, 01/2004, pp. 30-33.
2003
Rehn, Florian: Kunst am Flakon. In: Style, no. 65, 11/2003, p. 32.
Heisser, Jörg: Katja Strunz. In: Frieze (Ed.): Frieze Yearbook 2003-4. London 2003.
Monaghan, Helen: Katja Strunz. Lost, found and recycled. In: The List Festival Guide, 31/07-07/08/2003, p. 75.
Eichler, Dominic: Something old, something new. In: Frieze, no. 74, 04/2003, pp. 84-85.
Lunn, Felicity: Land, Land! In: Contemporary, no. 49, 03/2003, pp. 91-92.
Edit: Basel. Helen Mirra, Rivane Neuenschwander, Katja Strunz in der
Kunsthalle. In: Kunst Bulletin, no. 3, 03/2003, p. 55.
Végh, Christina: Land, Land! Objekt des Begehrens: Bescheidene Modelle des Unendlichen. In: Kunsthalle Basel (Ed.): Land, Land!. Basel 2003.*
Nymphius, Friederike: Katja Strunz. In: DaimlerChrysler Contemporary (Ed.): DaimlerChrysler Collection. Minimalism and After II. Berlin 2003, pp. 44-45.*\
Böker, Carmen: Monotonie ist schön. Die Entdramatisierung des Minimalismus – jetzt zu sehen bei DaimlerChrysler. In: Berliner Zeitung, no. 41, 18/02/2003, p. 10.
2002
Keller, Christoph, Siemens Art Program & Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie (Ed.): Circles. Individuelle Sozialisation und Netzwerkarbeit in der zeitgenössischen Kunst. Frankfurt am Main 2002, pp. 213-265.*
Jäger, Susanne: Waiting for the ice age. In: Flash Art, no. 224, 05/2002, p. 82
Without Name: Focus Germany: Contemporary German art today. In: Flash Art, no. 224, 05/2002, p. 122.
Charlottenborg udstillingsbygning (Ed.): My Head is on Fire but my Heart is full of Love. Kopenhagen 2002, pp. 57, 76-77.*
2000
Meixner, Christiane: Montagen des Zufalls. Berliner Morgenpost, no. 203, 27/07/2000, p. 21.
1997
Strunz, Katja (Hg.): Country. Karlsruhe 1997. New edition, 2007.*
Public/ Private Collections (selected)
About Change, Collection, Berlin
Boros Collection, Berlin
Centre Georges Pompidou, MNAM, Paris
Daimler Art Collection, Berlin
Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples
migros museum für gegenwartskunst, Zurich
Musée Départemental d’Art Contemporain de Rochechouart, Rochechouart
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Sammlung der Adolf Luther Stiftung, Krefeld
Stiftung Saarlandischer Kulturbesitz
Zabludowicz Collection, London