Biography

1970

Born in Osnabrück

2022

Died in Los Angeles

Education

1992-1997
Degree in Cultural Studies, University of Hildesheim

1995-1996
Fine Arts, M.A. Chelsea College of Art and Design, London

2008
Artist in Residence, Augarten Contemporary, Belvedere, Vienna

Solo Exhibitions

2024
“Bühnenbilder”, Hamburger Kunstverein

2023
Regen Projects, curated by Kitty Scott, Los Angeles
“Artist Selects: Silke Otto-Knapp: The Living We Are Doing, Always Among Others”, LACMA, Los Angeles

2022
“Versammlung”, Galerie Buchholz, New York
Casa Mutina Milano, Milan
 
2020
“What are the directions on a map?”, Galerie Buchholz, Berlin
“In the Waiting Room”, Renaissance Society, Chicago
 
2019
“Land and Sea”, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
 
2018
“Violets”, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
“Sverre Bjertnæs”, Galleri Ismene, Trondheim
 
2017
“Bühnenbilder”, Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis
“Monotones”, Mary Boone / Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York
“Normalbühne (Zürich)”, Taylor Macklin, Zurich
“Lari Pittman / Silke Otto-Knapp: Subject, Predicate, Object”, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
 
2016
“Seascapes”, Greengrassi, London
 
2015
“Land Lies in Water”, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
 
2014
“Cold Climate”, Museo Marino Marini, Florence
Fogo Island Arts, Newfoundland
“Seascapes and Moondresses”, Galerie der Stadt Schwaz, Schwaz
“Questions of Travel”, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
“Monday or Tuesday”, Camden Arts Centre, London
“Silke Otto-Knapp & Florian Pumhösl: Ratio of distance,” Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
 
2013
“Geography and Play”, Charlottenborg Kunsthal, Copenhagen
“Seascapes”, Overduin and Kite, Los Angeles
 
2012
“North & South”, Galerie Buchholz, Berlin
 
2011
The Artist’s Institute, Hunter College, New York
“Voyage Out”, greengrassi, London
“Lilac Garden (Rehearsal)”, Sadler’s Wells, London
“The Light of the Moon”, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, California
 
2010
“Many Many Women”, Kunstverein München, Munich
“Interiors”, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York
 
2009
“Standing anywhere in the space in a relaxed position”, Walter Phillips Gallery,
Banff Center, Banff
“Winterlong”, Overduin & Kite, Los Angeles
“Present Time Exercise”, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford
 
2007
“Quartets”, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne
“Rehearsal in yellow”, greengrassi, London
 
2006
“Standing anywhere in the space in a relaxed position”, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
“Love in a Void” (with Jutta Koether), Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Vienna
“Figures and groups”, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York
“Position”, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
 
2005
“50ft Queenie”, Tate Britain, London
 
2004
greengrassi, London
 
2003
“25th Floor”, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne
“Orange View”, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf
 
2002
Galerie Karin Günther, Hamburg
 
2000
Galerie Karin Günther, Hamburg

Group Exhibitions

2025

“Fictions of Display”, MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles

2024

“Ei Arakawa-Nash. Paintings Are Popstars”, The National Art Center, Tokyo

“To Exalt the Ephemeral: The (Im)permanent Collection”, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive
“Isa Mona Lisa”, Hamburger Kunsthalle
“In:Sight. The Donation Schröder”, Hamburger Kunsthalle

2023

“Joan Didion: What She Means”, Pérez Art Museum Miami
“the last thing you see is the first”, greengrassi, London
“I MET. Recent Painting Acquisitions”, Mutina for Art collection, Fiorano Modenese
“Highlights from the Contemporary Collection”, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto

2022
“Joan Didion: What She Means”, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
“Drawing Down the Moon”, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
“Michael Clark: Cosmic Dancer”, V&A Dundee
“I Walk Through Solitude of Dust with Glimpses of Gardens: Reynek in Dialogue”, 8SMIČKA, Humpolec
“Reading a Wave”, Palomar, Pognana Lario
“Face-à-Face”, Mudam, Luxembourg

2021
“Jahresgaben Editionen 2021”, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn
“Though it’s Dark, Still I Sing”, 34th Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo
“Houseguest: Shadow Fall Down”, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
“South South Tokyo”, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
“The Going Away Present”, Kristina Kite Gallery, Los Angeles
“Avant-garde and the Contemporary. The Belvedere Collection from Lassnig to Knebl”, Belvedere, Vienna
“An Ego of Her Own”, Kaufmann Repetto, Milan
“Selections: Gallery Artists”, Regen Projects, Los Angeles

2020
“Michael Clark”, Barbican Centre, London

2019
“A New Moma”, Museum of Modern Art, New York
“Survived!”, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
“STAGES biennieal”, Plug In Institue of Contemporary Art, Winnipeg
“Just what is it that makes today so different, so appealing?”, Gavin Brown’s enterprise at Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris
“Performer and Participant”, Tate Modern, London

2018
“Class Reunion. Works from the Gaby and Wilhelm Schürmann Collection”, MUMOK, Vienna
“Beautiful world, where are you?”, 18th Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool
“Vision Valley”, organized by The Pit, Brand Library & Art Center, Glendale
“Inaugural Show”, The Gallery at Michael’s, Santa Monica
“Le spectacle du monde”, Chateau des Eveques, Monistrol-sur-Loire
“Hummadruz”, Newlyn Art Gallery, Newlyn

2017
“Il Paesaggio Invisibile”, Galeria Raucci / Santamaria, Napoli
“Calgon Take Me Away”, The Riverview School, East Sandwich, Cape Cod
“Belonging To A Place”, FOGO Island Group Show, Toronto
“Chalk Circles”, curated by Jose Luis Blondet, Red Cat, Los Angeles
“Marching to the Beat”, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco
“Chalk Circles”, REDCAT, Los Angeles
“A boat is a floating piece, toward the Horizon”, Alfonso Artiaco, Naples
“Sashay with and without history”, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Chicago
“Elizabeth McIntosh, Monique Mouton, Silke Otto-Knapp”, Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver
“Serralves Collection: 1960-1980”, Serralves Foundation, Porto
“Spaces without drama or surface is an illusion, but so is depth”, Graham Foundation, Chicago
“Málverkasýning”, i8, Reykjavik, Iceland
“Thinking Out Loud: Notes For An Evolving Collection”, The Warehouse, Dallas
“February”, Roberta Pelan, Toronto

2016
“Moved”, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
“Putting Rehearsals to the Test”, BOX Contemporary Image, Montréal
“Made in L.A. 2016: a, the, though, only”, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
“8 Femmes”, Office Baroque, Brussels
“A quoi tient la beauté des étreintes”, FRAC Auvergne, Clermont Ferrand
“Pure Romance: Art and The Romantic Sensibility”, The Redfern Gallery, London

2015
“The Longest Bridge”, Off Vendome, New York
“The Longest Bridge”, Off Vendome, Düsseldorf
“A New Rhythm”, Park View, Los Angeles
“No Man’s Land”, Rubell Family Collection and Contemporary Arts Foundation, Miami
“Call and Response”, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York
“Le Souffleur. Schürmann trifft Ludwig”, curated by Wilhelm Schürmann, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen

2014
“Persion Rose Chartreuse Muse Vancouver Grey”, Equinox Gallery, Vancouver
“The Sea - Salut D’honneur Jan Hoet”, Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Oostende
The Drawing Biennial 2014, Tegnerforbundet Drawing Biennial, Oslo
“Sacré 101: An Exhibition Based on The Rite of Spring”, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich

2013
“Pleinairism”, Banff Centre, Banff
“Why Painting now?”, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna
“Nur hier”, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn
“Art Is: New Art - Reflexionen zu Schönberg in der Gegenwartskunst”, Arnold Schönberg Center, Vienna
“Portmanteau” Johan Berggren Gallery, Malmö
“The Collection #3” Belvedere 21, Vienna

2012
“A Ciel Ouvert - Le nouveau pleinairisme”, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Quebec
“Janice Kerbel, Hilary Lloyd, Silke Otto-Knapp”, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne
Jahresgabenausstellung, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne
“Le nouveau pleinairisme”, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Québec City
“The Happy Fainting of Painting”, Zwinger Galerie, Berlin

2011
“Dance/Draw”, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
“Quodlibet III - Alphabets and Instruments”, Galerie Buchholz, Berlin
“Watercolour”, Tate Britain, London
“Hasta Manana”, Greene Naftali, New York

2010
“Watercolour”, Tate Britain, London
“The Other Tradition”, Wiels, Brussels
The Artists Institute, New York
“Captain Pamphile”, Städtische Galerie Waldkraiburg, Waldkraiburg
“While Bodies Get Mirrored”, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich
“At first I thought that It was difficult work”, Kunsthall Oslo, Oslo
“The Mass Ornament”, Gladstone Gallery, New York
“Self-Conscious”, VeneKlasen Werner, Berlin
“The Nice Thing About Castillo/Corrales…”, Castillo / Corrales, Paris
“The Library of Babel / In and Out of Place”, Projectspace 176, London
“At Home / Not at Home”, Hessel Museum of Art, New York

2009
“Quodlibet II”, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne
“Privat”, Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal
“Das Gespinst”, Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach
“Modern Modern”, Chelsea Art Museum, New York
“Strange and Close”, Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven

2008
“pleinairism”, i8, Reykjavik
“Janice Kerbel, Allen Ruppersberg, Silke Otto-Knapp”, Karin Guenther, Hamburg
“Idealismusstudio”, Kunstverein Graz, Graz
“Rendevouz Nowhere”, Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz
“Art Sheffield 08: Yes-No other options”, Contemporary Art Forum, Sheffield

2007
“Garten Eden”, Kunsthalle, Emden

2006
“Loveletter”, curated by Silke Otto-Knapp, Herald St. London
“The Grand Promenade”, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens
“Never for money, always for love”, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz
“Galerie Daniel Buchholz at Metro Pictures”, Metro Pictures, New York
“The Subversive Charm of the Bourgeoisie”, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
“The British Art Show 6”, various locations

2005
“René Daniels, Peter Doig, Silke Otto-Knapp”, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York
“Paris-Londres: Le Voyage Interieur”, Espace EDF Electra, Paris
“British Art Show 6”, Hayward Gallery Touring Exhibition, Baltic, Gateshead
9th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul
“Andersen Associations”, Galleri Specta, Copenhagen
“Thinking of the Outside - New art and the city of Bristol”, Bristol

2004
“We Disagree”, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
“Must I Paint You a Picture?”, Haunch of Venison, London
Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
“The Undiscovered Country”, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
“Quodlibet II”, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne
“Étrangement Proche/Seltsam Vertraut”, Saarland Museum, Saarbrücken
“Moon Absinthe”, Stichting noname, Rotterdam
“Sugar Hiccup”, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
“Winter Show”, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin

2003
“Creeping revolution 2”, Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö
“deutschemalereizweitausenddrei”, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main
“Creeping Revolution 2”, Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö
“Honey, I’ve rearranged the collection”, greengrassi, London
“Picture Room”, Gaswork, London

2002
“The unique phenomenon of a distance”, Magnani, London
“Metropolitan”, Galerie Jürgen Becker, Hamburg, Galerie Karin Guenther, Hamburg
“Imagining LA. Ed Ruscha & Silke Otto-Knapp”, Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg
“Get out! - exhibition on the subject of going away”, Galeria Arsenal, Bialystok

2001
“The Magic Hour. The Convergence of Art and Las Vegas”, Neue Galerie Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz
“Get out of Here - exhibition on the subject of going away”, Zacheta, Warsaw

2000
“songs sung by men from the point of view of a woman”, Platform, London
“Die Gefahr im Jazz”, Deutsch Britische Freundschaft, Berlin
“Kerstin Kartscher & Silke Otto-Knapp”, Galerie Karin Günther, Hamburg
“Include me out”, Provost Street, London

1999
“limit-less”, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna
“Where do you want to go today…?”, Cubitt, London
“Supernature,” Studio A, London

1997
“Thoughts, City Racing Interesting Painting”, City Racing, London

1996
“FAST”, with Painting Disorders Collective, King Street, Toronto, Canada, 1996
“weil morgen”, Eisfabrik, Hannover

Awards

2020
This Is Not A Prize #5, Mutina for Art