Jörg Obergfell

CV

1976

born in St.Georgen im Schwarzwald

 

EDUCATION

1997 – 2000

Vocational school for woodcarving Garmisch-Partenkirchen

2002 – 2003

Exchange studies École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Lyon

2000 – 2006

Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg, 2006 Meisterschüler Ottmar Hörl

2006 – 2007

Master of Fine Arts, Goldsmiths College, London

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2019

Schleichweg, Kunstraum Königsfeld

2017

Koya, Ausstellungsraum für Brauchbarkeit, Köln

Strange Folly, galleryem, Seoul

2015

Out on a Limb, gradus, Köln

2013

Towers and Trees, galleryem, Seoul

2011

Tout est construit, CEAAC, Strasbourg

Kunsthalle Mainz

2009

Kompakter Ereignishorizont, Kunstbunker Nürnberg

Vollversammlung, Wewerka Pavillion 2, Münster

Tower blocks and tunnels, Bearspace, London

2005

Frischzelle 1, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart

Debut, Kunstverein Offenburg

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022

Fliegende Bauten, Kunstverein Global Forest, St. Georgen Schwarzwald

Fliegende Bauten, Neuland, Köln

2021

Art Attacks!, Neues Museum Nürnberg

2020

biegen, beugen, brechen, Matjö, Köln

2019

Harold & Traugott, Kunstraum Königsfeld

2018

Objekt. Plastik. Skulptur, Bildhauerei am Bodensee, Kunstmuseum Singen

Open, SSA, Scottish National Gallery/RSA, Edinburgh

Zona deformabile, Städtische Galerie, Fürth

Urbane Zukunft, Kunstvilla Nürnberg

Künstler aller Länder vereinigt Euch, KM9, Trier

Geldrausch, Tufa, Trier

2017

best of, Auf AEG, Nürnberg

made up, Glasgow Arts Club, Glasgow

Tiefkeller -3, Tiefkeller, Bonn

2016

Denn sie wissen was sie tun, NKV Aschaffenburg

The Pierrot Studio, Display Gallery, London

2015

The Office (Art Pop for Pop Montreal), Montreal

2014

Robo con Fractura, Local, Santiago de Chile

Dentons Art Price, Dentons, London

The Ringenberg Biennale, Ringenberg

The Pierot Project, Generation & Display, London

Hagulane, Lovis Kabinett, Villingen-Schwenningen

2013

Exchange, Planting the seed, ACAC, Aomori

Preview, Incheon Art Platform, Incheon

2012

Phänomen Wohlstand, Motorenhalle, Dresden

Ultracave, The Hardy Tree Gallery, London

Containing the possible, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London

2011

Modeled Realities, Galerie Heike Strelow, Frankfurt

Burgers Simultanhalle, Simultanhalle, Köln

Schwarzwald - Zwischen Idylle und Provinzialität, Dominikaner Museum Rottweil

2010

Diving for pearls in your own soup, Lothringer 13, München

Supermarket 2010, Kulturhuset, Stockholm

Down the Road of Globalisation, Crypt, St Martin-in-the-fields, London

Am Rande der Balance, Internationale Sommerausstellung, Galerie 5020, Salzburg

New German ART, German Embassy, London

Odd Place, Gallery Artside, Seoul

2009

The kiss of a lifetime, Rogue Project Space, Manchester

Notes from the underground, James Taylor Gallery, London

On concrete, Tokyo Wonder Site, Institute of Contemporary Art and Intl. Cultural Exchange, Tokyo

9. Triennale der Kleinplastik, Fellbach

Viking Mountain Funeral, The Celestial Suitcase, New York

2008

me, myself and city, The National Art Studio Changdong, Seoul

Monumental Vacancies, galleryem, Seoul

wastestate, Bearspace, London

Diving For Pearls in Your Own Soup, New Quebec Street, London

2007

Kunststudentinnen & Kunststudenten stellen aus 2007, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn

Edge, Kings Lynn Arts Centre, Kings Lynn

A letter from overseas, Kyunghee University Museum of Art, Seoul

Allotment, sevenseven contemporary art, London

Jungle Juice, galleryem, Seoul

2005

Junge Kunst 10. Sebastian Stumpf Jörg Obergfell, Galerie Kleindienst, Leipzig

Art Project Khora 2, Adbk Nürnberg

2004

Positionen und Tendenzen, Zumikon Nürnberg

Wenn Feuer dann Rauch, Kunstverein Nürnberg

 

AWARDS, RESIDENCIES, SCHOLARSHIPS

2018

SSA Award

2017

Kunststiftung NRW, project funding

2016

ACAC, Aomori, Japan

2014

Schloss Ringenberg

2013

ACAC residency, Aomori, Japan

Incheon Art PLatform, Incheon

2012

Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris

2011

CEAAC, Strasbourg

2010

USA-scholarship of the Bavarian State Department for Science and Art

2008

Britisch Council travel grant

2007

Changdong Art Studio, short-term residency, Seoul

2006

Black Forest Culture Award

Postgraduate Award from the German Academic Foundation

Acadamy Award from the Acadamy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg

Postgraduate Award, Arts and Humanities Research Council, UK

2004

Grant from the German Academic Foundation

 

TEACHING

since 2017

Professor Fine Art, University of Applied Sciences, Trier

2015-2017

Lecturer, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles - Study Abroad Bonn