Michael Krebber

Angeldust

4 December 2025 - 10 January 2026

This exhibition brings together important early works by Michael Krebber: sculptures, paintings, and works on paper from 1976 to 1993. Several of the works on view emerged through defining collaborations with other artists. The title of the exhibition, Angeldust, derives from a 1987 text by Krebber, a rant on the early work of Manzoni. The exhibition is conceived together with Michael Krebber and Michael Sanchez, the author of the artist’s catalogue raisonné.

Michael Krebber (born 1954 in Cologne) lives and works in New York and Cologne. Angeldust is his ninth solo exhibition with Galerie Buchholz since 1997, alongside numerous special projects and group exhibitions. Michael Krebber has had institutional solo shows at Kunsthalle Bern (2017), Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Porto (2016), Musée d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux (2012), Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne (2008), Secession, Vienna (2005), Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg (2000), Kunstverein Braunschweig (2000), and Villa Arson, Nice (1997), among others. Recent institutional group exhibitions include Les yeux dans les yeux, Pinault Collection, Rennes (2025); Graffiti, Museion, Bolzano (2025); Stop painting, curated by Peter Fischli, Prada Foundation, Venice (2021); No Dandy, No Fun, Kunsthalle Bern (2020); Abstraction: Aspects of Contemporary Art, National Museum of Art Osaka (2019); Spot On, Museum Brandhorst, Munich (2019); Optik Schröder II, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien (2018); Cómics: una nueva lectura, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid (2018); Jump Into the Future - Art from the 90’s and 2000’s, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2017); Painting 2.0. Malerei im Informationszeitalter, Museum Brandhorst, Munich (2015); Abandon the Parents, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen (2014), among many others. From 2002 through 2016 Michael Krebber was professor at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main. In 2015, Michael Krebber was awarded the Wolfgang-Hahn-Prize (together with R.H. Quaytman) by the Museum Ludwig, Cologne. Michael Krebber: Catalogue Raisonné Volume 1 was published in 2022 by Galerie Buchholz, Greene Naftali, and the Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König. In November of 2024, Michael Krebber presented a talk on Andy Warhol as part of the Artists on Artists lecture series hosted by Dia in New York City.