cornelius voelker


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1965	born in Kronach
1989-95	studies at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf with A.R. Penck and Dieter Krieg master student of Dieter Krieg
1991-92	six-month foreign scholarship at the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
1996	Cinarchea, Special Award of the Jury, Kiel
1996-98	Graduate scholarship from the state of North Rhine Westphalia

1997	Max Ernst Scholarship City of Duesseldorf Visual Arts Prize for Young Artists
1998	Scholarship from the North Rhine Westphalia Arts and Culture Foundation
1999	Art Prize of the Bergisches Land region
2004	Lingen Art Prize
2005	professorship for painting at the Kunstakademie Muenster
	lives in Düsseldorf and New York
solo exhibitions

2012	Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany (cat.) Neue Galerie Gladbeck, Germany Hosfelt Gallery San Francisco, USA
2011	Mönchehaus-Museum, Goslar, Germany (cat.) Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany (cat.) Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, Germany (cat.)
2010	Gallery Martina Detterer, Frankfurt/Main, Germany Schirmer/Mosel Showroom, Munich, Germany (cat.) Esbjerg-Museum of Art (with Michael Kvium), Esbjerg, Denmark (cat.) Kunst aus NRW, Ehemalige Reichsabtei Kornelimuenster, Aachen, Germany(cat.)
2009	Kunstverein/Kunsthalle Goeppingen, Germany (cat.) Deutsche Bank AG, Headquarter, Cologne, Germany
2008	Verein fuer Original-Radierung Muenchen e.V., Munich, Germany Gallery Martina Detterer, Frankfurt/Main, Germany Gallery Andreas Grimm, Munich, Germany
2007	Gallery Grimm/Rosenfeld, New York, USA
2006	Gallery Martina Detterer, Frankfurt/Main, Germany Gallery Edition Copenhagen, Kopenhagen, Denmark Forum Kunst Rottweil, Rottweil, Germany
2005	Gallery Grimm/Rosenfeld, Munich, Germany
2004	Kunsthalle Lingen, Germany (cat.) Schirmer/Mosel - Showroom, Munich, Germany Gip-contemporary, Zuerich, Switzerland Kuenstlerverein Malkasten, Duesseldorf Sies+Hoeke Gallery, Duesseldorf, Germany Kunstverein Bochum, Germany
2003	Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany (cat.) Gallery Martina Detterer, Frankfurt/Main, Germany Gallery im Park, Burgdorf, Switzerland Sies+Hoeke Gallery, Duesseldorf, Germany Gallery Edition Copenhagen, Kopenhagen, Denmark
2002	Edwin Scharff-Museum, Neu-Ulm, Germany (cat.) Staedtische Galerie Gladbeck, Germany Gallery Eugen Lendl, Graz, Austria
2001	Gallery Martina Detterer, Frankfurt/Main, Germany Gallery Andreas Grimm, Munich, Germany Museum Baden, Solingen, Germany (cat.) Museum Katharinenhof, Kranenburg (mit Tom Claassen), Germany
2000	Sies+Hoeke Gallery, Duesseldorf, Germany (cat.) Kunstmuseum Kastrupgard - Sammlungen, Kopenhagen, Denmark (cat.) Gallery Edition Copenhagen, Kopenhagen, Denmark (cat.) Kunstverein Leipzig, Germany Gallery Alfred Knecht, Karlsruhe, Germany Staedtische Galerie Muenster, Germany(cat.) Kunstverein Freiburg, Germany(cat.) Gallery Tate, New York, USA
1999	Gallery Tanya Rumpff, Haarlem, Netherlands Gallery Andreas Grimm, Palma, Spain Gallery Martina Detterer, Frankfurt/Main, Germany Gallery Christian Dam, Oslo, Norway
1998	Sies+Hoeke Gallery, Duesseldorf, Germany Gallery Edition Copenhagen, Kopenhagen, Denmark (cat.) Gallery Andreas Grimm, Palma, Spain
1997	Sies+Hoeke Gallery, Duesseldorf, Germany (cat.) Kunstraum Duesseldorf (mit Stefan Sous) Kunstverein Greven, Germany (cat.) Staedtische Galerie am Schloß, Brühl
1996	Gallery Timm Gierig, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
1995	Gallery Wolfgang Gmyrek (Studio), Duesseldorf, Germany
1992	Kunstverein Xanten, Germany
group exhibitions

2011	'Wiedersehen', Kunstverein Bochum, Germany 'Im Künstlersalon', Galerie Eugen Lendl, Graz, Austria "Sehen ist Denken", Museum Baden, Solingen, Germany 'Sprelacart', Gallery E105, Berlin, Germany 'Das dritte Nasenloch', Kulturhaus der Bayer AG, Leverkusen, Germany 'Druckgrafik aus dem Archiv des Frans Masereel Centrum', Radierverein Munich, Germany 'Ojenabner', Fyns Kunstmuseum, Odense, Denmark (Cat.) 'After the Goldrush', Kunstverein Speyer, Germany 'Litos Grafera', Stavanger Kunstmuseum, Stavanger, Norway (Cat.) 'Litos Grafera', KunstCentret Silkeborg Bad, Silkeborg, Denmark (Cat.)
2010	'Einfluss II', Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, USA 'Einfluss I', Hosfelt Gallery, New York, USA 'French Wall', Filipp Rosbach Gallery, Leipzig, Germany 'Glückwunsch Forum Kunst', Forum Kunst, Rottweil, Germany 'Sugarbabies II', Galerie Ebbers, Kranenburg, Germany
2009	'Painter Man', Filipp Rosbach Gallery, Leipzig, Germany '10 Jahre Kleine Formate', Gallery Martina Detterer, Frankfurt/Main, Germany 'Private View II", Andreas Grimm Gallery, Munich, Germany 'Sugarbabies', Galerie Ebbers, Kranenburg, Germany 'Rot', Forum Kunst, Rottweil, Germany (cat.) 'Mythos', Lippisches Landesmuseum, Detmold, Germany 'Konflikt', Museum Kalkriese, Osnabrueck, Germany (cat.) 'Edition Copenhagen Retrospektiv 1959-2009', Kunsthalle Den Frie, Kopenhagen, Denmark 'Achtung Rottweiler!', Landesvertretung Baden-Wuerttemberg, Brussels, Belgium
2008	'Repertorium', Gallery Eugen Lendl, Graz, Austria 'Kleine Formate', Gallery Martina Detterer, Frankfurt/Main, Germany 'Disentangle', Gallery Andreas Grimm, New York, USA 'Das letzte Hemd', Forum Kunst Rottweil, Germany
2007	'Frisch gestrichen', Franz Gertsch - Museum, Burgdorf, Switzerland 'Kleine Formate', Gallery Martina Detterer, Frankfurt/Main, Germany 'Zurueck zur Figur - Malerei der Gegenwart', Kunsthaus Wien, Austria Gallery Grimm/Rosenfeld, Munich, Germany 'Preistraeger - Die bergischen Kunstpreistraeger 1997 - 2006', Museum Baden, Solingen, Germany 'Cornelius Völker, Wilhelm Mundt, Perry Roberts, Henrik Eiben', POP UP I, Munich, Germany 'Baby Body - Babies in der zeitgenössischen Kunst', Kunsthalle Darmstadt, Germany (cat.) 'Die Kunst zu Sammeln', Museum Kunstpalast, Duesseldorf, Germany (cat.) 'Kennzeichen D', Galerie der Stadt Remscheid, Remscheid, Germany (cat.) 'Leve de Schilderkunst! Terug naar de figuur', Kunsthalle Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands (cat.)
2006	'Update East - West', MACUF - Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Union Fenosa, A Coruna, Spain (cat.) 'Winterschlaf', Gallery Martina Detterer, Frankfurt/Main, Germany 'Pictorial Research', Art Agents Gallery, Hamburg, Germany 'Zurück zur Figur - Malerei der Gegenwart', Franz Gertsch-Museum, Burgdorf, Switzerland (cat.) 'Verstehen braucht Kontext', Kuenstlerverein Malkasten, Duesseldorf, Germany 'Body Scenes', Gallery Wolfgang Gmyrek, Duesseldorf, Germany 'Summer 2006', Gallery Grimm/Rosenfeld, Munich, Germany 'Malerei der Gegenwart', Hypo-Kunsthalle, Munich, Germany (cat.) 'Summer in the city', Gallery Martina Detterer, Frankfurt/Main, Germany 'Made in Germany', gip contemporary, Burgdorf, Switzerland
2005	'Waltercio Caldas, Cornelius Voelker, Kyung Jeon', Galeria Theo Lindner, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 'Ironischer Realismus', Gallery Peter Tedden, Duesseldorf, Germany (cat.) 'Kleine Formate', Gallery Martina Detterer, Frankfurt/Main, Germany 'Jahresgaben', Westfaelischer Kunstverein, Muenster, Germany 'Square - Die Sammlung Marli Hoppe Ritter', Museum Ritter, Waldenbuch, Germany (cat.) 'Zur Kasse, bitte!', Ludwig Forum fuer Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany 'Petits Fours', Comme ci comme ca II, Koeln, Germany 'Welteninnenraeume', Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer christliche Kunst, Munich, Germany (cat.) 'Go figure', Gallery Grimm/Rosenfeld, New York, USA 'Kinderszenen - Child´s play', XII. Rohkunstbau, Schloß Groß Leuthen, Spreewald, Germany (cat.) 'Update.05 - Positionen zur Malerei in Deutschland', Gallery Wolfgang Gmyrek, Duesseldorf, Germany '150 Jahre', Gallery Martina Detterer, Frankfurt/Main, Germany 'Via Senese - 100 Jahre Villa Romana', Kunstraum Fuhrwerkswaage, Koeln, Germany (cat.)
2004	'Quinze Anos', Theodor Lindner Galeria de Arte, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 'Swimming Pool & Badefreuden in der Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts, Kunstmuseum Heidenheim, Germany 'Die Jaegerpruefung', Gallery Peter Tedden, Oberhausen, Germany (cat.) 'All Creatures Great and Small', Comme ci comme ca II, Koeln, Germany 'Diamonds... ', Gallery im Park, Burgdorf, Switzerland 'About Painting', The Tang Museum / Skidmore College, New York, USA 'Die Sammlung Hanck', Museum Kunstpalast, Duesseldorf, Germany
2003	'Hergestellt in Bonn', Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany 'Kleine Formate', Gallery Martina Detterer, Frankfurt/Main, Germany 'Passion - The Rokkedal Collection', Vendsyssel Kunstmuseum, Hjorring und Museum Sophienholm, Kopenhagen, Denmark (cat.) '16. Trienale Originaldruckgrafik', Kunsthaus Grenchen, Grenchen, Switzerland 'Wie gemalt', Staedtische Galerie im Buergerhaus, Neuenkirchen, Germany (cat.) 'Entdecken, Foerdern, Handeln', Wuerttembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany 'Game over', Gallery Grimm/Rosenfeld, Munich, Germany 'Tim Eitel, Cornelius Voelker, Matthias Weischer', Kunstallianz 1, Berlin, Germany (cat.) 'Wet Paint', Gallery Fons Welters, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2002	'Kleine Formate', Gallery Martina Detterer, Frankfurt/Main, Germany 'Wie gemalt', Kunstverein / Kunsthalle Goeppingen, Germany (cat.) 'Stand der Dinge - Dieter Krieg u. 9 ehemalige Meisterschueler', Gallery Schloss Mochental, Germany Gallery Moderne-Silkeborg, Silkeborg, Denmark 'Positionen zur Zeichnung', Museum Baden, Solingen, Germany (cat.) 'The 10th Int. Print Trienal, Graphica Creativa 2002', Jyvaeskylae Kunstmuseum, Finland 'On Paper', Gallery Andreas Grimm, Munich, Germany 'Barath, Elrod, Rapson,Tran, Voelker, Woods', Gallery Cohen, Lesley & Brown, New York, USA
2001	'Kleine Formate', Gallery Martina Detterer, Frankfurt/Main, Germany 'Duesseldorf - Gdansk', Atelier am Eck, Salzmannbau, Duesseldorf, Germany 'Nur noch 104', Galeria Punkt, Danzig, Poland 'Filme von Kuenstlern', Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Germany
2000	'(W)Interface', Gallery Tanya Rumpff, Haarlem, Netherlands 'Kleine Formate', Gallery Martina Detterer, Frankfurt/Main, Germany 'One of those days', Kunstverein Mannheim, Germany (cat.)
1999	'Pia Fries, Ingo Meller, Cornelius Voelker ', Gallery Tanya Rumpff, Haarlem, Netherlands 'Die Sammlung Hanck', Kunstmuseum Duesseldorf, Germany 'Bergische Kunstausstellung', Museum Baden, Solingen, Germany (cat.)
1998	'Das banale Schoene', Goethe-Institut, Rotterdam, Netherlands (cat.) 'Bergische Kunstausstellung', Museum Baden, Solingen, Germany (cat.) 'Toi,toi,toi',Tanzhaus NRW, Duesseldorf, Germany (cat.) 'Frauenbilder', Festung Rosenberg, Kronach, Germany (cat.) 'Das banale Schoene', Staedtisches Kunstmuseum Spendhaus, Reutlingen, Germany (cat.) 'Petshop', Sies+Hoeke Gallery, Duesseldorf, Germany
1997	'Das banale Schoene', Museum Baden, Solingen, Germany (cat.)
1996	'Eiskeller', Kunstverein Wilhelmshoehe und Gallery Art-Contact, Karlsruhe, Germany (cat.) 'Badefreuden', Dominikanerforum, Rottweil, Germany 'Casus Belli', Kunst in de Haven, Antwerpen, Belgium (cat.)
1994	'Dorothee Aschoff, Mirella Halfar, Cornelius Voelker', Gallery Timm Gierig, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
1991	'Die Klasse Krieg', Gallery Timm Gierig, Frankfurt/Main, Germany (cat.)