Chris Bierl

Koelga Marble, 2020, fine art print, 160x120cm, ed. 1/3 + AP

Curriculum vitae

*1980 in Cham
lives and works in Berlin, DE

www.chrisbierl.com

Education

2011-2013 Meisterschüler - post graduate, Media Arts, Academy of Visual Arts, Leipzig, DE
2004-2008 Diploma Photodesign, University of Applied Sciences, Munich, DE
2001-2004 Informatics and architecture, TU Munich, DE

Awards, Grants, Projects

2023 nominee Fine Art Photography Awards
2022 Book funding by VG Bild-Kunst, DE
2021 Kallmann-Prize, DE
2018 awardee International Photography Grant
2015 residency / grant at Goethe-Institute / Villa Kamogawa Kyoto, JP
2015 residency / grant at Villa Arson in Nice, FR
2014 project funding by the LebensArt - Foundation
2014 funding purchase of the Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen, DE
2013 project funding by Bezirksamt Pankow-Berlin & the dutch embassy Berlin, DE & NL
2013 residency / grant, Land Schleswig-Holstein, Künstlerhaus Lauenburg / Elbe, DE
2011 JungArt Berlin Artprize, DE

Sammlungen

Sammlung des Kunstfonds der Staatlichen Kunstsammlung Dresden, DE

Private Collections

Solo and Two-Person Shows (selection)

2023	(upcoming) "Graben", Emde Gallery, Mainz, DE
2022	"Mutual Adaption", Kallmann Museum, Ismaning, DE
2019	"Erbgut", two-person show with Burkard Blümlein, Neue Galerie Landshut, DE
2018	"Planimal In a Trashbin", Nigdevo, RU
2013	"HIGH WICHITA", Project Space, Gallery Eigen+Art, Leipzig, DE "(H)EUREKA", Künstlerhaus Lauenburg Elbe, DE
2012	"everything was so different, before it all changed", two-person show with Bram Braam, Freies Museum Berlin, Berlin, DE
2010	"2HO + 2OH- ->O2 + H2O + 2e-", two-person show with Stefanie Sabatier, Städtische Galerie im Cordonhau, Cham, DE
2010	"Tandem 2", two-person show with Guillaume Bresson, Espace Croix Baragnon, Toulouse, FR

Group Shows (selection)

2023	(upcomig) Kunstverein Neukölln, Berlin, DE "Indiecon", Independent Publishing Festival Hamburg, Hamburg, DE "The Velvet Cell Book Fair", Book and Sons, Tokyo, JP
2022	"Artifizielle Ökologien", Kasseler Kunstverein, DE "The Sensation of Biting Into a Peach and Letting the Juice Run Down Your Chin", DOCK11, Berlin, DE "Verbindungsstücke - つなぐものがたり", CLB Berlin, Berlin, DE
2021	"Verbindungsstücke - つなぐものがたり", Villa Kamogawa Kyoto, JP "9:9:2", KW Institute for Contemporary Art & Studio 8, Berlin, DE
2020	"10+", Galerie Frank Taal, Rotterdam, NL
2019	"Catplanet", Tete, Berlin, DE
2016	"Potnia Theron. Das Tier in Wissenschaft und Kunst", Universitätssammlungen. Kunst + Technik der Altana Galerie der TU Dresden, Dresden, DE
2015	"Kindred Spirits", Galerie Frank Taal, Rotterdam, NL "La souris et le perroquet", Villa Arson – Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Nice, FR
2014	3rd Land Art Mongolia Biennial 360°, Orkhon Valley & UMA National Mongolian Modern Art Gallery Ulaanbaatar, MN
2013	"Denn alles was den Gesetzen des Verstandes und der Vernunft widerstreitet, ist freilich unmöglich", Kunsthaus Meinblau, Berlin & HAU Berlin, Belrin, DE "An die Substanz. Das Material in der zeitgenössischen Kunst", Syker Vorwerk – Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Syke, DE "displaying the instant", L'Atelier KSR, Berlin, DE "b2 lädt ein", Galerie b2, Leipzig, DE
2012	"this is not the end – a group exhibition", Loyal Arts Club Kassel, DE "Kunst- und Wunderkammer – revisited", Kooperation Neue Galerie Landshut & Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, DE
2011	"Die Linie überschreiten", Eine Zeichnungsausstellung, Schau Fenster Berlin, Berlin, DE "Narrative Sequences", CBA New York, US
2010	"Pavillon X", Galerija Jakopic, Ljubljana, SI
2009	"Seven Gates", BJCEM Biennial Skopje, MK
2008	"von dir zu mir", Kunstbunker Tumulka, München, DE