Biography
 
1973
Born in Maglegaard
 
Lives and works in Berlin, Cologne and New York
 
 
Education
 
1999-2002
Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main
 
 
Solo Exhibitions
 
2024
“Older Works and Shadow Paintings”, White Cube, London 
 
2022
“Sergej Jensen”, Le Consortium, Dijon
“The Adult Light”, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
 
2021
“Sergej Jensen“, Kunsthalle Bern
Avlskarl Gallery, Copenhagen
 
2020
“Abstract Paintings”, Galerie Neu, Berlin
 
2019
Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel, Rio de Janeiro
 
2018
“Fabric Paintings”, Galerie Buchholz, New York
“Strips”, Peder Lund, Oslo
 
2017
“Sergej Jensen”, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden
“The Weather”, Galerie Neu, Berlin
 
2016
“Silkscreens and clumsy allegories”, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen
“Edvard Munch in Denmark” (with Andrea Fourchy), Avlskarl Gallery, Copenhagen
“Moneybags”, White Cube, London
 
2015
“Sounds of the Earth”, dépendance, Brussels
Galerie Buchholz, New York
 
2014    
“Classic”, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
Avlskarl Gallery, Copenhagen
“We not” (with Michael Krebber and Cosima von Bonin), Galerie Buchholz, Cologne
“Evian”, White Cube, Hong Kong
 
2013
Regen Projects, Los Angeles
“Fred Thieler-Preis for Painting 2013”, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin
Anton Kern Gallery, New York
 
2012
Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo
Anton Kern Gallery, New York
 
2011
“Master of Color”, Galerie Neu, Berlin
“Sergej Jensen”, MoMA PS1, New York
“Master of Colors”, dépendance, Brussels
 
2010
“Dog Show Painting Show”, Kunsthalle Portikus, Frankfurt am Main
“Sergej Jensen”, Aspen Art Museum
“Sergej Jensen”, Hydra Workshop
“The Last Twenty Minutes of 2001”, White Cube, London
 
2009
KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
 
2008
Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich (with Henrik Olesen)
“Schmoll”, Bergen Konsthall
“Pictures and Paintings”, Anton Kern Gallery, New York
“Pictures and Paintings”, Galerie Neu, Berlin
“Sergej Jensen”, Kunsthalle Malmö
 
2007
“Nomadic bags and bag faces”, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin
 
2006
“La chambre de la peinture”, White Cube, London
“Nature and Nothing”, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo
 
2005
“Paintings (I come from the computer)”, Anton Kern Gallery, New York
“Bad Dreams”, Patrick de Brock Gallery, Knokke-Heist
 
2004    
“Arbeiten und ein Feuerwerk”, Galerie Neu, Berlin
Kunsthalle Bremerhaven
“Die Jahresrückblicklampe” (with Josef Strau), Galerie Meerrettich, Berlin
 
2003
“Stürme der Jugend (Storms of the Youth)”, dépendance, Brussels
“Sergej Jensen” (with Stefan Müller), Greene Naftali, New York
“Hofheim New York Braunschweig” (with Stefan Müller), Kunstverein Braunschweig
 
2002
“Sergej Jensen”, Galerie Nicolas Krupp, Basel
“Sergej Jensen” (with Stefan Müller), Kreishaus Hofheim am Taunus
 
2001
“Sergej Jensen”, Galerie Neu, Berlin
 
2000
“Sergej Jensen”, Galerie Nomadenoase, Hamburg
 
 
Group Exhibitions
 
2024
“Composition for the Left Hand, with works from the Erling Kagge Collection”, Kode Bergen Art Museum
 
2023
“Before Tomorrow. Astrup Fearnley Museet 30 Years”, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo
“Order & Disorder”, Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels
“HEATWAVE: a screening”, Galerie Neu, Berlin
 
2022
“Bells”, Galerie Buchholz, Cologne
“Picture Gallery in Transformation: Recent Gifts”, MASP - Museu de arte de São Paulo
“I Could Eat You - Part I”, Casa da Cultura, Comporta
“Collection”, Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo
“Open Storage: 25 Years of Collecting”, The Warehouse, Dallas
 
2021
“Abstraction Reload”, Siegfried Contemporary, London
“Selections: Gallery Artists”, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
“The Sun Also Rises”, Jenny’s, New York
“Angespannte Zustände”, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart
“Ganz anders gleich. Kunst aus Deutschland und Österreich”, Crone, Berlin
 
2020
“00s. Cranford Collection. The 2000s”, Mo.Co., Montpellier
“My Cartography. The Erling Kagge Collection”, Fundación Banco Santander, Madrid, travelled to Fondation Vincent van Gogh, Arles
“Walking. Movements North of Bolzano”, Museion, Bolzano
“Studio Berlin”, Berghain, Berlin
 
2019
“Now is the Time. 25 Jahre Sammlung Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg”, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
“So wie wir sind 1.0”, Weserburg, Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen
 
2018
“Hölle”, Galerie Buchholz, New York
“The Infinite Image”, Waldo, Searsport
“Double Lives - Visual Artists Making Music”, mumok - Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna
“One Color”, Philipp Pflug Contemporary, Frankfurt am Main
“The Collection”, Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles
“Memory Palace”, White Cube, London
“Optik Schröder II”, mumok - Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien
 
2017
“Eurovisions: Contemporary Art from the Goldberg Collection”, National Art School Gallery, Sydney
“Painting I or I not”, Kaviarfactory, Henningsvær
“Cool, Calm and Collected”, ARoS Aarhus Art Museum
“Infected Foot”, Greene Naftali, New York
“Condo 2017: Maureen Paley Hosting dépendance”, Maureen Paley, London
“Proof of Life / Lebenszeichen”, Weserburg Museum für Moderne Kunst, Bremen
 
2016
“The Squatter”, Gaudel de Stampa Gallery, Paris
“Zeitgeist: Arte da Nova Berlin”, Goethe Institut, Brasilia
“My Abstract World”, me Collectors Room, Berlin
 
2015
“Losing the Compass”, White Cube, Mason’s Yard, London
“Albert the kid is ghosting”, DRAF, London
“Love Story - Works from Erling Kagge‘s Collection”, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo
“Works on Paper”, Greene Naftali, New York
“Second Chances”, Aspen Art Museum
“For Real”, curated by Anne Pontégnie, Galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris
 
2014
“Le musée d’une nuit (script for leaving traces)”, Fondation Hippocrène, Paris
“Variations: Conversations in and Around Abstract Painting”, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
“20 Years Galerie Neu”, Galerie Neu, Berlin
“Painting & The Painterly”, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk
“Abandon the Parents”, National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen
“Galerie Neu at Gladstone Gallery”, Gladstone Gallery, New York
“Happier than the Morning Sun”, Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf
“Traces of Modernism”, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg
“Dépendance at Carlos Ishikawa - The Hawker” Carlos/Ishikawa, London
“Script for Leaving Traves”, David Roberts Art Foundation, London
 
2013
“Decorum”, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
“Painting Forever! Keilrahmen”, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
“Wall Works”, Nationalgalerie Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin
“Island”, Dairy Art Centre, London
“Happy Birthday”, Tripostal, Lille
“Experienz#2”, Contemporary Art Center, Brussels
“6 Artists”, Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens
“The Gesture and the Sign”, White Cube, São Paulo
“To Open Eyes. Art and Textiles from the Bauhaus to Today”, Kunsthalle Bielefeld
“Art & Textiles - Fabric as Material and Concept in Modern Art from Klimt to the Present”, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
“I knOw yoU”, IMMA, Dublin
“DSM-V”, The Future Moynihan Station, New York
 
2012
“More Light”, Avlskarl Gallery, Copenhagen
“No Helps: Jana Euler, Michael Callies, Sergej Jensen”, MD72, Berlin
“The Castle in the Air”, ZAMEK Culture Centre, Poznan
“Matter of Coices”, CCA Andratx, Mallorca
“Inaugural Exhibition by Gallery Artists”, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
“Everyday Abstract - Abstract Everyday”, curated by Matthew Higgs, James Cohan Gallery, New York
“Phantom Limb: Approaches to Painting Today”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
“Contemporary Painting, 1960 to Present: Selections from the SFMoMA Collection”, San Francisco
“Circus Wols”, Weserburg - Museum für Moderne Kunst, Bremen
“Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg Collection”, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
“Collaborations & Interventions”, CCA Andratx, Mallorca and Nymphius Projekte Berlin
“7 Artists”, Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens
“Fruits of Passion: Project for Contemporary Art”, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
“Contemporary Painting, 1960 to Present: Selections from the SFMoMA Collection”, Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
 
2011
“Printemps de Septembre Festival”, Toulouse
“Grand Opening, Pt. 1”, Mathew, Berlin
“Thomas Bayrle kuratiert (ungern) Schrippenkönig mit p?”, Galerie Mezzanin, Vienna
“Precarious Worlds: Contemporary Art From Germany”, Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis
“Structure & Absence”, White Cube, London
“Tableaux”, MAGASIN Centre National d’Art Contemporain de Grenoble
“Dystopia - An Exhibition Written by Mark von Schlegell”, curated by Alexis Vaillant, Centre d’Arts Plastiques Contemporains Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux
“Verschiebungsersatz”, Kimmerich, New York
“Time Again”, Sculpture Center, New York
“Provisional Painting”, Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London
“All of This And Nothing”, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
“Black Swan”, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
“Joshua Neustein, Sergej Jensen, N. Dash”, RENTAL, New York and Untitled, New York
“8 Artists”, Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens
“True Faith”, Andersen’s Copenhagen
 
2010
“The House of Wonder”, MD72, Berlin
“…”, Galerie Neu, Berlin
“Group Show”, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris
“Novel”, dépendance, Brussels
“Neue Alchemie. Kunst der Gegenwart nach Beuys”, Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Münster
“Fischgrätenmelkstand”, curated by John Bock, Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin
“Mehr Teppich/More Carpets”, Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin
“SHAZAM!”, Galerie Gerhardsen Gerner, Berlin
“ROLL-ON/ROLL-OFF”, Kunsthalle Bremerhaven
“The More Things Change”, Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
“20 Jahre Texte zur Kunst: Mit Deiner Kunst, Editionen 1990 - 2010”, Texte zur Kunst, Berlin
“BABEL”, FRAC - Auvergne, Clermont Ferrand
 
2009
“Carnegie Art Award”, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen and various locations
“My Summer Show”, Galerie Lelong, New York
“Your Gold Teeth II”, curated by Todd Levin, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
“Getting Nowhere”, Galleria Gentili, Prato
“The Splendour of Fear”, Michael Benevento, Los Angeles
“modern modern”, curated by Pati Hertling, Chelsea Art Museum, New York
“Black Summer”, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels
“Nothing to say and I am saying it”, Kunstverein Freiburg
“Minimal Means”, Initial Access, Wolverhampton
“Sergej Jensen, Wolfgang Breuer, Annette Kelm”, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
 
2008
“Friends and Family”, Anton Kern Gallery, New York
“Terms and Conditions”, De Ateliers, Amsterdam
“REVIEW”, Galerie Neu, Berlin
“No Information Available”, curated by Francesco Bonamie, Gladstone Gallery, Brussels
“The Art of the Real”, Oud Vliegveld, Oostende
“Painting Now and Forever, Part II”, Greene Naftali Gallery and Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
“Boxer”, Literaturhaus Frankfurt am Main
“Rauschende Gäste. Die Sammlung Rausch und die Städelschule zu Gast im Hotel Marienbad”, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
“Hotel Marienbad”, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
“Une Saison à Bruxelles”, dépendance, Brussels
“Group Show”, MD72, Berlin
“Johanna Billing, Isa Genzken, Sergej Jensen and Josef Strau”, Malmö Konsthall
 
2007
“SHANDYISMUS. Autorschaft als Genre”, Secession, Vienna and Kunsthaus Dresden
“Von Bill Viola bis Aernout Mik”, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
“Filaturen”, curated by Bettina Klein, Sies + Höke Galerie, Düsseldorf
“Albrecht Schnider, Rebecca Morris, Sergej Jensen”, Grieder Contemporary, Küstnacht/Zurich
“IT TAKES SOMETHING TO MAKE SOMETHING”, Portikus, Frankfurt am Main
“Made in Germany”, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Kunstverein Hannover and Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover
“Josef Strau and Galerie Meerrettich”, Vilma Gold, London
“Tension; Sex; Despair - Aber hallo/na und”, WUK Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna
“Dekade 1993 - 2007”, a project by Dirk von Lowtzow, Booth: Galerie Neu / Galerie Buchholz, Open Space, Art Cologne
“Conditions of Display”, The Moore Space, Miami and Locust Projects, Miami
“Very Abstract and Hyper Figurative”, Thomas Dane Gallery, London
“STUFF - International Contemporary Art from the Collection of Burt Aaron”, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit
“Dependance at Galerie Neu”, Galerie Neu, Berlin
 
2006
“Under Pressure”, curated by Bill Cournoyer, Art:Concept, Paris
“FASTER! BIGGER! BETTER!”, ZKM - Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe
“Momentum 2006”, Momentum - Nordic Festival of Contemporary Art, Oslo
“Of Mice and Men”, 4th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art, Berlin
“Down By Law”, a project by the Wrong Gallery for the Whitney Biennial, New York
“Optik Schröder. Werke aus der Sammlung Schröder”, Kunstverein Braunschweig
“Infinite Painting”, Villa Manin Centre for Contemporary Art, Codroipo
“A reverie interrupted by the police”, Galeria S.A.L.E.S., Rome
“Implosion (Ten Year Anniversary)”, Anton Kern Gallery, New York
“Delete / How to Make a Perfect Ghost”, curated by Michael Clifton, Anton Kern Gallery, New York
“Day for Night”, Whitney Biennale, New York
 
2005
“Nolens Volens”, Galerie Neu, Berlin
“IN CONCERT”, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main
“Mallorca Open”, CCA Andratx, Mallorca
“No competitive offers”, Artis, ‘s-Hertogenbosch
“Sergej Jensen and David Shrigley”, Anton Kern Gallery, New York
“Principles of Construction”, Nymphius Projekte, Berlin
 
2004
“Jetzt und Zehn Jahre davor”, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
“Jahresgaben 2004-2005 / Ausstellung”, Kunstverein Braunschweig
“Rheinschau 2004”, Rheinschau, Cologne
“Formalismus. Moderne Kunst, heute”, Kunstverein Hamburg
Art Contemporain, Luxembourg
“25ª Bienal de São Paulo”, São Paulo
“Happy Days are Here Again”, curated by André Schlechtriem, David Zwirner Gallery, New York
“Eclipse: Towards the Edge of the Visible”, White Cube, London
“Werke aus der Sammlung Boros”, ZKM - Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe
“Universal Outstretch”, Flaca, London
“Liquidation totale”, dépendance, Brussels
 
2003
“Westen”, Charlottenborg, Copenhagen
“Anke aus Kork”, Galerie Arkade, Mödling
“New Abstract Painting”, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen
“Malerei II Ausstellung Nulldrei”, Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne
“deutschemalereizweitausenddrei”, Frankfurter Kunstverein
“Dirty Pictures”, The Approach, London
 
2002
“HOSSA”, CCA Andratx, Mallorca
Lothringer 13 / Städtische Kunsthalle, Munich
“fluten”, Hinterconti Hamburg
“Urgent Painting”, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
“Waiting for the ice age”, Galerie Georg Kargl, Vienna
“Schöne Aussicht, Herr Schweins”, Galerie Otto Schweins, Cologne
 
2001
“Frankfurter Kreuz”, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt
Gesellschaft der Freunde Junger Kunst, Baden-Baden
“Papierarbeiten”, Bernadette Mittlup, Cologne
“Viva November”, Kunstverein Wolfsburg
“24, Rue du Faubourg Sint-Honoré”, Galerie Neu, Berlin
“Husain, Richter, Jensen”, Frankfurter Kunstverein
 
2000
“I.o.w.”, Frankfurt am Main
G.M., Berlin
“Deutsche Kunst in Moskau”, Central House of Artists, Moscow
 
1999
“Otto hat Besuch”, OTTO, Copenhagen
“Malerei, 01.09. - 31.10.1999”, Berlin
 
1998
“Miles“, Mannheim
Wisconsin, Frankfurt am Main
 
1997
Downtown, Frankfurt am Main
“Playground”, Portikus, Frankfurt am Main
W5, Munich
 
 
Collaborations
 
Since 1998 Jensen has performed with Claus Richter and Oliver Husain, and Michaela Meise joined in 2003. Since 2004 they have performed under the name Da Group (www.dagroup.de). They have performed extensively throughout Europe including Ledermuseum, Offenbach; Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart; Frankfurter Kunstverein; Expo, Hannover; Golden Pudel Club, Hamburg; C/O, Offenbach; Theater am Turm, Frankfurt am Main; Museum Fridericianum, Kassel; Galerie Wintergarten, Vienna; Kunstverein in Hamburg; Liste, Basel; Migros Museum, Zurich.
 
 
Projects
 
since 1998 Performances/Exhibitions with Claus Richter and Oliver Husain
since 2001 featuring Michaela Meise
since 2004 “Da Group” (www.dagroup.de)

Concerts, Releases, Film music etc.
 
“Sergej Jensen & Magnus Schaefer” (CD - Galerie Buchholz)
“Sud I” & “Sud II” (LP)
“Vivienne” (7″)
“Sergej Jensen Group” (7″)
“Tolerantes Brandenburg” (7″ Kraus Glucke)
“Songs of Nico” (CD - Neu Acustics)