Andreas Blank German, b. 1976

Andreas Blank was born in Ansbach in 1976. He attended the Karlsruhe State Academy of Art (Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste) and was Meisterschüler under Prof. Klingelhöller. He held a scholarship with the German National Academic Foundation and received his MFA from the Royal College of Art in London. In 2009 he was a finalist for the New Sensations Award by Channel 4 and the Saatchi Gallery. Blank lives and works in London and Berlin.

EDUCATION

2001-2006     

Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe with Prof. Harald Klingelhoeller

2007               

Hochschule für Bildende Künste Hamburg, guest student with Andreas Slominksi

2008-2009     

Royal College of Art London

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2021   

ANATOMY OF WORDS II, CHOI&LAGER, Cologne

2019   

The Imprint of the Space Someone Used 2, Galerie Knecht und Burster, Karlsruhe

Landscape Metaphor 2, Humboldt-Universität, Geographical Institute, Berlin

Reverse Metaphysik 2, Sotheby´s Munich, Artist Quarterly, Munich

2017   

Reverse Metaphysik, Schlicht Barock Fine Art, Feldbach, Austria

2014   

The Imprint of the Space Someone Used, Galerie Christian Ehrentraut, Berlin

Hors-champ, Junge Kunst e. V., Wolfsburg

2013   

Landscape Metaphor, Benrimon Contemporary, New York

Anatomy of Words, Galerie Choi&Lager, Cologne

2012   

Shadows of Words Spoken, Galerie Christian Ehrentraut, Berlin

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022   

FLOWER, CHOI&CHOI Gallery, Seoul

2021   

Points of Resistance, Zionskirche, Berlin

A Rose is a Rose, Artists against FGM, Online Exhibition

2020   

Werke von und um Michael Buthe, Galerie Kleiner von Wiese, Berlin

Werk im Werk X, Artspring, Berlin

Elysium, Galerie Kleiner von Wiese, Berlin

2019   

Bonum et Malum, Villa Erxleben, Berlin

The Coke Side of Art, Galerie Frank Schlag, Essen

Water(Proof), Momentum, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin, curated by Rachel

Rits-Volloch & Taniá Guedes

In Living Memory (Contemporary Still Life), Oliver Sears Gallery, Dublin

Small, Schaufenster, Berlin, curated by Oliver Mark

2018   

Für immer Blau, Kunstverein Duisburg, Duisburg

ANDREAS BLANK & HELENA PARADA KIM, Choi&Lager, Seoul

Ansbach Biennale, Ansbach Contemporary 2018, Ansbach

Beauty is Everywhere, Salon Waldorf Astoria, Berlin, curated by Ingrid Manthe

Die Nächte des Heliogabalus - Hommage to Otto Piene, Schlachthaus.fresh&fine art,

Berlin

NGORONGORO II, Artistweekend, Berlin

SEGRETE, Palazzo Ducale, Genova

2017   

Private Choices, Central for Contemporary Art, Brussels

Landscapes of Loss, Ministry of Environment, Berlin

Fünfklang, Choi & Lager Gallery, Cologne, curated by Andreas Blank and

Stefan von Wiese

Material Boys & Girls Part 2, Bernheimer Contemporary, Berlin

We All Love Art, Schlachthaus Fresh & Fine Art, Berlin, curated by Ryszard Wasko

Mixed Realities, Bernheimer Contemporary, Berlin

People Places Things, AT Kearney, Berlin, curated by Ingrid Manthe

2016  

The Pleasure of Love, 56th October Salon, City Museum, Belgrad, curated by

David Elliot

Why?, Secret Garden, Berlin

Plastic Obsession, Department of Environment, Dessau

Umweltfestival, Gasometer, Berlin

What would I die for?, Bernheimer Contemporary, Berlin

KIK EIGHT, Kino International, Berlin

2015   

Looking Forward Looking Backwards, Bernheimer Contemporary, Berlin

Works on Paper III, Momentum Berlin, Berlin

Objects in a Room, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin

NGORONGORO, Artistweekend, Berlin

CREDITS, Galerie Christian Ehrentraut, Berlin

2014   

Kolibri. Neue Tendenzen an einem aus der Zeit gefallenen Ort, Ballhaus Kolibri, Berlin

Aus dem Fundus der botanischen Semantik, Cruise & Callas, Berlin

Always Crashing in the Same Car, Galerie Knecht und Burster, Karlsruhe

2013   

Tresholds, Trafo Kunsthalle, Stettin

The Scene changes to an empty room, De Fabriek, Eindhoven

Oh Plastiksack!, Musee de Design et d´art appliqués contemporains, Lausanne

2012   

Carving in Britain from 1910 to Now, The Fine Art Society, London

Recasting the Gods, Sumarria Lunn Gallery, London

Ein weißes Feld, Sammlung FIEDE, Aschaffenburg

Dividing Line, High House Gallery, Oxfordshire

Memory. International Contemporary Sculpture, Palazzo Arti Napoli (PAN), Naples

Oh, Plastiksack!, Gewerbemuseum Winterthur, Winterthur

Stillstehende  Sachen aus der Sammlung SOR Rusche, Museum Abtei Liesborn,

Wadersloh-Liesborn

 2011  

Galerie Christian Ehrentraut, Berlin

Stressing Spiritual Needs Even When Selling Ice Cream, DNA-Galerie, Berlin

Memory, Rosenfeld Porcini Gallery, London

Please Write, Posted Projects, London

2010   

Transcending, LARMgalleri, Copenhagen

New German Art/Neue Deutsche Kunst, German Embassy, London

2008   

2007   

GRANTS & AWARDS

2009   

2008   

Scholarship for Great Britain, Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes

2007   

Residency, Stiftung Vorwerk, Hamburg

2005   

Scholarship Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes