Christian Awe at the Löwenpalais of the Stiftung Starke

Opening hours during Gallery Weekend

Fri 27 April, Sat 28 April and Sun 29 April 2012

10 am – 9 pm

Presented by FAHNEMANN PROJECTS

Biography

1978 born in Berlin

2005 graduated from the Berlin University of the Arts – Professor Georg Baselitz

2006 Master-class student, Berlin University of the Arts – Professor Daniel Richter

2011 Artist in Residence / teaching, “Experimental Painting”, Princeton University, Princeton, USA

2012 Advisory board member and mentor, “The Young Mesopotamians” –

Baghdad University College of Fine Arts, Iraq / London

Solo shows (selection)

2012 “Resurrecting Color”, Fahnemann Projects, Berlin

2011 “Sea of Colours” (“Meer aus Farben”), Kunstförderverein Weinheim

2010 “Wynwood Kitchen and Bar”, Goldman Projects, Miami

2008 “Istanbul/Berlin”, Contemporary Istanbul, Istanbul

Group shows (selection)

2011 “New Abstraction” (“Neue Abstraktion”), Fahnemann Projects, Berlin

2011 “The Old Casino”, Circleculture Gallery, Hamburg

2011 “salondergegenwart”, Hamburg

2011 “The Urban Artist”, Circleculture Gallery, Soho House, Berlin

2011 “Orlando/Berlin”, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, USA

2011 “An exchange with Sol Lewitt”, Cabinet, New York / MASS MoCA – Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams

2010 “Boomerang. Perm Biennale of Graphic Arts”, Perm Museum of Contemporary Art, Perm, Russia

2010 “Berlin – We are alive!”, Galerie Favardin & Verneuil, Paris

2010 “Mirrors Of Continuous Change”, Taekwang Industrial, Seoul

2009 “Abstract Worlds – Sam Francis / Christian Awe” (“Abstrakte Welten – Sam Francis / Christian Awe”), Berlin Art Projects, Berlin

2008 “New Walls from Europe”, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York, USA

2008 “Checkpoint Ilgen #6”, Christian Awe/Megan Olson plus Barnett Newman, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and David Smith, from the Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch Collection, in honour of Irving Sandler, Berlin

Performance

2011 “Sea of Colours”, Kunstförderverein Weinheim

2010 “Spirit of Fugue II”, Emil Schumacher Museum, Hagen

2009 “Spirit of Fugue”, Royal Academy of Music, London

2006 “Driftwood” (“Treibgut”), painting performance, Contemporary Istanbul Art Fair, Istanbul