MICHAEL BEUTLER

Michael Beutler (1976 Oldenburg, Germany), lives and works in Berlin.

EDUCATION
1997-2003
Städelschule Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany

2000-2001
Master of Fine Arts Department at Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, UK

SOLO SHOWS

2025

Michael Beutler, Z33, Hasselt, Belgium

Bozar Monumental (site-specific Installation), Brussels, Belgium

2022
Stardust, Wilhelm Hack Museum, Germany
Plonger et puiser, HAB galerie, Nantes, France

2020
Keep beating below 65°, Pinksummer, Genoa, Italy

2018

Råby Planet, Västerås, Sweden

Birds, Oldenburger Kunstverein, Oldenburg

2017

Guest at JoyCom’s, Galerie Nagel Draxler, Berlin

Pipeline Field, Frac Alsace, Sélestat, France

Criss cross garage, Pinksummer, Genoa, Italy
Galerie Bärbel Grässlin, Frankfurt, Germany

2016
Pump House, Spike Island, Bristol, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK
Galeria Heinrich Ehrhardt, Madrid, Spain

2015
Moby Dick, Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany
Wechselstuben, Kunstverein am Rosa Luxemburg Platz, Berlin, Germany

2014
Arbeiten, Produzieren, Verhalten, Verhandeln“, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland
Polder Peil, WIlhelmina Polder, Zeeland, The Netherlands
Haus Beutler, Bielefelder Kunstverein, Bielefeld, Germany
Pipeline field, Chapelle St Jacques, Saint-Gaudens, France
Ballenernte, Kunstareal München/ Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
Galerie Bärbel Grässlin, Frankfurt, Germany
Kunsthalle Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany
Haus Beutler, La Loge, Bruxelles, Belgium

2013
Galerie Nagel Draxler, Berlin, Germany
Maison Saucisson, Atelier Calder, Saché, France
Knock Knock, Le Grand Café, Saint-Nazaire, France

2012
Sensor, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany

2011
Kunsthalle Lingen, Lingen (Ems), Germany

2010
Galerie Bärbel Grässlin, Frankfurt, Germany
Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne, Germany

2009
7×14 Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany
Fortino #1, Fondazione Broadbeck, Catania, Italy
Kunstverein St. Pauli, Hamburg, Germany

2008
Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
Stuck o flab, dèpendance, Bruxelles, Belgium
Spitta steige, After the butcher, Berlin, Germany
Sopra / Sotto, Franco Soffiantino Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy

2007
Galerie Christian Nagel, Berlin, Germany
Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany

2006
Aluminium Pagode, LAC Lufthansa Aviation Center, Aeroporto di Francoforte, Germany (permanent installation)
Manin City, Villa Manin, Passariano di Codroipo, Italy

2005
pecafil, Galerie Michael Neff, Frankfurt, Germany
Franco Soffiantino Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy
Museumsstraße Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany
outdoor-yellow12/irrgarten, Botanischer Garten, Munich, Germany
Taking the Matter into Common Hands, IASPIS, Stockholm, Sweden

2004
Signal, Malmö
Oldenburger Kunstverein, Oldenburg, Germany
Kunstverein Heilbronn, Heilbronn, Germany
Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
Kunstverein Solothurn, Solothurn, Switzerland
Nicht innen sondern außen – nicht drinnen sondern draußen, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
Flip, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
Proper en Droog, dèpendance, Bruxelles, Belgium

2003
Galerie Michael Neff, Frankfurt, Germany
Galerie Barbara Wien, Berlin, Germany

2002
Wiener Secession, Vienna, Austria

2001
dontmiss, Frankfurt, Germany

GROUP SHOWS

2025

SUPERMÖBEL, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany

2023

HOME IS WHERE YOU’RE HAPPY, Haus Mödrath, Kerpen

2021

1ST MESEBERG INTERNATIONAL FOR CONTEMPORARY ART, Galerie Nagel Draxler, Meseberg, Gransee

2019

Werkleitz Festival, Dessau, Germany

Art Encounters Biennial, Timisoara, Romania

Freundschaftsspiel Sammlung Grässlin: Museum für Neue Kunst, Freiburg

2018

Luz, Galeria Heinrich Erhardt, Madrid, Spain

Birds, Oldenburger Kunstverein, Oldenburg, Germany

Soziale Fassaden. Ein Dialog der Sammlungen des MMK und der DekaBank, MMK, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany

Pictorial Goose Turn – Pinksummer goes to Palermo, Palermo, Italy

Yesterday, Today, Today, Kunstraum Buchberg, Schloss Buchberg am Kamp, Österreich

2017
Primary Structures, MMK2, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
Viva Arte Viva, 57th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy

2016
Wetransform, Neues Museum, Nuremberg, Germany
Fever variations, Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korean
Kenpoku Art Festival, Hitachi-Omiya, Japan

2015
Eppur si muove, MUDAM, Luxembourg
Ärger im Paradies, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Gegen den Strich, Kunstfestspiele Herrenhausen, Hannover, Germany

2014
Body Life in your Head, Geneva, Switzerland
Living in the Material World, Kunstmuseum Krefeld, Krefeld, Galerie imTaxispalais, Innsbruck, Austria
Backdoor Fantasies Kai 10 Arthena Foundation, Düsseldorf, Germany
Plastic Age, ERES-Stiftung, Munich
Play Time, Rennes Biennale, Rennes, France

2013
Decorum, Musée d‘Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
Risk Society, MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan
I knOw yoU, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland

2012
Slg. Wilhelm Otto Nachf., Leopold-Hoesch-Museum, Düren, Germany
No Desaster, Sammlung Haubrok bei Falckenberg / Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
Wie kommt das Neue in die Welt, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, Germany
La vie des formes, Les Abattoirs / Frac Midi-Pyrénées, Toulouse, France
Das Atelier. Orte der Produktion, Kunstmuseum Lucerne, Switzerland
30 Künstler/30 Räume, Kunstverein Nürnberg, Nuremberg, Germany
Manufacture, CentrePasquArt, Bienna, Switzerland
Sammlung Marx, National Museum in Szczecin, Poland

2011
Skulpturales Handeln, Haus der Kunst, Munich
Thomas Bayrle kuratiert (ungern) Schrippenkönig mit p?, Galerie Mezzanin, Vienna, Austria
Melanchotopia, Witte de With, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Flaca“, Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany
MMK 1991 – 2011, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
Manufacture, Parc Saint Leger / Centre d´Art Contemporain, Pougues-les-Eaux, Frankreich, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, UK
Open House, Biennale di Singapore, Singapore

2010
People meet in Architecture, Venice Biennale of Architecture, Venice, Italy
Material World: Extraordinary Environments from Ordinary Things, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, MASS MoCA, North Adams , Massachusetts, USA
Sketches of space, MUDAM, Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
Werk 2010, Heidenheim an der Brenz, Germany
Galerie Christian Nagel, Antwerp, Belgium
Leinen los! 85. Herbstausstellung niedersächsischer Künstler, Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover, Germany
Paradise Lost – Holidays In Hell, Centro Cultural Andratx – CCA, Andratx, Spain
Arrivals and Departures, Fondo Mole Vanvitelliana, Ancona, Italy
New works, Basis Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany

2009
Open Source, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Bulletin Board Blvd., Pro Choice, Vienna, Austria

2008
My Space.Cosa vuol dire “pubblico”? PAN – Palazzo delle Arti di Napoli, Neaples, Italy
Casa sem dono, Casa Triangulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Uturn“, Quadriennal for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
Fusion/Confusion, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
Ad Absurdum, Städtische Kunsthalle Nordhorn/MARTA Herford, Herford, Germany
APPELL, Museum Felix de Boeck, Bruxelles, Belgium
Vertrautes Terrain ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
Kunstmaschinen Maschinenkunst, Tinguely Museum, Basel, Switzerland
Psychobuildings, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
Personal Protocols and other Preferencies CCS Bard College, New York, USA

2007
Modelle für Morgen, European Kunsthalle, Cologne, Germany
dèpendance at galerie neu Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany
Encuentro Internacional de Medellín 07, Medellín, Colombia
Made in Germany, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany
perspektive 07, Lenbachhaus, Munich
Verwendungsnachweis, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
Kunstmaschinen Maschinenkunst Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
Into it Kunstverein Hildesheim, Hildesheim, Germany

2006
Von Mäusen und Menschen, 4th Berlin Biennale, Berlin, Germany
Playstation, Sprengelmuseum, Hannover, Germany
Bonanza, Tilton Gallery, New York, USA
Bühne des Lebens. Rhetorik des Gefühls, Kunstbau Lenbachhaus, Munich
Don Quixote, Witte de With, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Fever Variations, 6th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea
Housewarming, SWISS Institute, New York, USA

2005
From our cold hands, VTO, London, UK
Dialectics of hope, 1. Moscow Biennale, Moscow, Russia
Bench, Kunsthalle St. Gallen, St. Gallen / Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany
Memphis, Flaca Gallery, London, UK
Lore, Project Room, Glasgow, UK
Negotiating Realities, Göteborg International Biennial For Contemporary Art 2005, Göteborg, Sweden
Quattro Flaca, Kunsthaus Langenthal, Langenthal, Switzerland
Frieze Projects, Frieze Art Fair, London, UK
Present Future, Artissima, Turin, Italy

2004
Was ist in meiner Wohnung, wenn ich nicht da bin?, Greifswalderstr.212, Berlin, Germany
The Savoy, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
Sculpture Garden, Old Street Roundabout, London, UK
Universal Outstretch, Flaca Gallery, London, UK
Heimweh, Haunch of Venison Bruton Street, London, UK
No money, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany

2003
Utopia Station Sindelfingen, Städtische Galerie, Sindelfingen, Germany
Total motiviert/The state of the upper floor: Panorama, Kunstverein München, Munich, Germany
Make it new!, Portikus/Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, Frankfurt, Germany

2002
Terrassen, mit / with Henning Bohl, Kjubh Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany
Origami rückwärts, Technoplus, Paris, France
Fluten, Hinterconti, Hamburg, Germany
easy-heavy, mit / withSunah Choi, Luftraum, Frankfurt, Germany
Whitecubeponderosa, Griesinger Schule, permanent installation, Frankfurt, Germany
Michael Pfrommer / Mandla Reuter, Lothringerstraße 13/Laden, Munich

2001
Sour Cherry Soup (Meggyleves), Mafuji Gallery, London, UK
Interim, Mackintosh Gallery, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, UK
Trash Art Festival, Gazi, Athens, Greece
Ausstellung Wohnung Draschan/Wolff, mit / with Lise Harlev, Vienna, Austria
Museumsshop, Stellwerk, Kassel, Germany
Haiku Installation, Unit2, London und / and Podium Gallery, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, UK
Vasistas, Technische Universität, Istanbul, Turkey
New Heimat, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany

2000
Und was machen wir heute, Steinweghalle, Oldenburg, Germany
Städelschule Frankfurt am Main – Büropark Neu Isenburg, Frankfurterstrasse 127, permanent installation, Neu Isenburg, Germany
ISBN 3-9805670-3-6, Hanauer Landstrasse 133, Frankfurt, Germany
Membersshow, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, UK
Festival Junger Talente, Messehallen Offenbach am Main, Offenbach, Germany

1999
Neue Räume, c/o Rathenaustrasse, Offenbach, Germany
Jailbreak, Phantombüro at Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
Transformation Delta, Stellwerk, Kassel, Germany

1998
Stuttgart, 17.7.1956 – Salem (Wis.)/USA, 3.3.1977, Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany

PREMI
2013 Atelier Calder, Saché, Frankreich (residency)

2007 mfi-Preis Kunst am Bau

2006 Kunstfonds Arbeitsstipendium

2005 / 2006 IASPIS Stipendium, Stockholm (residency)

2005 Preis für Skulptur und Installation der Öffentlichen Versicherung Oldenburg

2004 Förderpreis für Kunst des Landes Niedersachsen

2003 / 2004 Pontostiftung, Dresdner Band, Frankfurt