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Paloma Varga Weisz

 
PALOMA VARGA WEISZ
Born 1966 Mannheim, Germany
Lives and works in Düsseldorf, Germany
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Education
1990-1998
Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, under Tony Cragg and Gerhard Merz
1987-1990
Wood carving in Garmisch–Partenkirchen, Bavaria, Germany
Awards and Fellowships
2017
Holbach-Award, Stiftung zur Förderung der Kunst in der Pfalz
2007
Marianne-Werefkin Award, Berlin
2004
Art and Sponsorship Award Rheinland-Pflaz 2004 for Sculpture, Schloss Waldthausen, Budenheim
2000-2001
Bremerhaven-Fellowship, Bremerhaven
Solo Exhibitions
2021
"Glory Hole," Le Consortium, Dijon, France
Konrad Fischer Galerie, Berlin
2020
"Bumped Body," The Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK
2019
“Paloma Varga Weisz: Wundergestalt,” Gladstone 64, New York
“Bumped Body,” Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, The Netherlands
2018
“Wild Bunch,” Sadie Coles HQ, London
2017
“Paloma Varga Weisz,” Galeria Pedro Cera, Lisbon
“Skulpturenhalle,” Thomas Schütte Stiftung, Neuss, Germany
2016
“Paloma Varga Weisz,” Gerhardsen, Gerner, Oslo
“Kabinettstück,” Fürstenberg Zeitgenössisch, Donaueschingen, Germany
2015
“Root of a Dream,” Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy
“Glory Hole,” Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, Austria
“Bois Dormant,” Gladstone Gallery, Brussels
2014
“Paloma Varga Weisz,” Sadie Coles HQ, London
2013
“Krummer Hund,” Kabinett für aktuelle Kunst, Bremerhaven, Germany [traveled to: Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin]
“Unfired,” Capri, Düsseldorf, Germany
2012
“Maison de Plaisance: Rosemarie Trockel, Paloma Varga Weisz,” Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
“Paloma Varga Weisz,” Sadie Coles HQ, London
2011
“Spirits of My Flesh,” Chapter Arts Center, Cardiff
2009
“Paloma Varga Weisz,” Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
2008
“Paloma Varga Weisz,” Gladstone Gallery, New York
“Paloma Varga Weisz,” Konrad Fischer Galerie, Berlin
“Bumped Body,” Kunsthalle Wien Project Space, Karlsplatz, Austria
2007
“Paloma Varga Weisz,” Sadie Coles HQ, London
2006
“Paloma Varga Weisz,” curated by John Hutchinson, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin
2005
“Chor,” Gladstone Gallery, New York
“Paloma Varga Weisz,” Sadie Coles HQ, London
2004
“Paloma Varga Weisz,” curated by Guide de Werd, Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve, Germany
2003
“Stubaifrau,” Galerie Konrad Fischer, Düsseldorf, Germany
2002
“Big Trip,” Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany
“Waldfrau,” Castello di Rivara, Turin, Italy
“Paloma Varga Weisz,” curated by Martin Janda, Kunstraum Galerie der Stadt Schwaz, Tirol, Austria
2001
“Paloma Varga Weisz,” Kunsthalle Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany
“Paloma Varga Weisz,” curated by Jürgen Wesseler, Kabinett für aktuelle Kunst, Bremerhaven, Germany
2000
“Paloma Cabaret,” in cooperation with Alexander Jasch, Adeline Morlon Art Direction, Düsseldorf, Germany
“Demut,” Galerie Vera Munro, Hamburg, Germany
1999
“Paloma Varga Weisz,” Collection Ackermans, Xanten, Germany
1998
“Wilde Leute,” Galerie Bochynek, Düsseldorf, Germany
Group Exhibitions
2023
Konrad Fischer Galerie, Gallery Weekend Berlin 2023
2022
"Afterimage," MAXXI - National Museum of 21st Century Art, L'Aquila, Italy
"HDTS 2022: The Searchers," curated by Iwona Blazwick OBE, High Desert Test Site, Joshua Tree, California
“Rhythm Repeater,” Sadie Coles HQ, London
"PUPILS. When we look at each other our eyes blossom," Casa Masaccio centro per l’arte contemporanea, San Giovanni Valdarno, Italy
2021
"Skogspromenad,” CF Hill, Stockholm
“Cracked,” Tristan Hoare Gallery, London
“Les Fleurs du Mal,” Parotta Contemporary Art, Cologne, Germany
“TREES DIE STAND: Plants and Humans,” curated by Freda Uziyel, Pi Artworks, London
Fourth Plinth Shortlist Exhibition, The National Gallery, London, Trafalgar Square
2020
“Mount Kaplan,” Angela Mewes Gallery, Berlin
"-a breath? a name? - the ways of worldmaking," Biennale Gherdëina 7, Dolomites, Italy
"Jubel Jubel - Es rolle der Rubel," Tiefkeller, Bonn, Germany
"The effects of crossings and self-aggrandization in the human kingdom, Curated by... scrum (Seamus Kealy & Tilo Schulz)," Mario Mauroner Gallery, Vienna
2019
“Animalesque/Art Across Species and Beings,” Bildmuseet Umea, Sweden [traveled to: BALTIC Center for Contemporary Arts, Gateshead, United Kingdom (2019-2020)]
“The Enigma of the Hour - 100 Years of Psychoanalytic Thought,” Freud Museum, London
“A Cool Breeze,” Galerie Rudolfinum, Praha
“The Palace at 4 a.am.,” NEON Foundation, Archeological Museum, Mykonos
“Beyond the Vessel,” Koç Foundation, Istanbul
“The American Scene,” National Museum of Ceramics, Sèvres, France
“Mask: In Present Day Art,” Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland
“Homo Faber: Craft in Contemporary Sculpture,” Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, South Korea
"Multiface," Georg Hornemann studio, Berlin
2018
“Al Dio Ortopedico,” Galleria Gentili, Florence
“Death is Irrelevant: Selections from the Marc and Livia Straus Collection, 1975 –2018,” Hudson Valley MOCA, Upstate New York
“Topologies,” THE WARHOUSE, Dallas
“Parcours,” Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland
“Von fremden Ländern in eigenen Städten,” MAP Markus Ambach Projects, Düsseldorf, Germany
“[IM]MATERIELL. Über das Geistige im Stofflichen,” Galerie Altes Feuerhaus, Städtische Galerie Bad Reichenhall, Bad Reichenhall, Germany
“Nudes,” Sadie Coles HQ, London
“ISelf Collection: Bumped Bodies,” Whitechapel Gallery, London
“The Beautiful Escape,” CFHILL, Stockholm
"A Mind of Winter,” Fundaziun de Planta Samedan, Samedan, Switzerland
“Black White,” Städtische Galerie im Park Viersen, Viersen, Germany
2017
“At Sea. Works from the Kunsthalle Bremerhaven Collection,” Städtische Galerie Delmenhorst, Germany
“ISelf Collection: The End of Love,” Whitechapel Gallery, London
“Dreamers Awake,” White Cube, London
“EDITION 12-21,” me Collectors Room Stiftung Olbricht, Berlin
“Luther and the Avantgarde,” Altes Gefängnis, Wittenberg, Germany
“Lucas Cranach the Elder,” Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Germany
“Physical Mind Restless Hand,” Galerie Micky Schubert, Berlin
2016
“Revolt of the Sage,” Blain|Southern, London
“Behind the Curtain. Concealment and Revelation since the Renaissance,” Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Germany
“NO MAN’S LAND: Women Artists from the Rubell Family Collection,” National Museum of Women in the Art, Washington, D.C.
“Cloud and Crystal – the collection of Dorothee and Konrad Fischer,” Kunstsammlung Nordrhein Westfalen K20, Düsseldorf, Germany
“The Summer Exhibition,” Royal Academy of Arts, London
“With a touch of pink, with a bit of violet, with a hint of green – Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany
“The Distance of a Day – New in Contemporary Art,” The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
“Sulta Croce – Giubileo 2016,” Collezione Giancarlo e Danna Olgiati, Lugano, Italy
“QUEENSIZE – Female Artists from the Olbricht Collection,” Museum Arnhem, The Netherlands
“1 moulage collection of the Berlin Medical Historical Museum at the Charité,” Tiefkeller, Bonn, Germany
2015
“Mother of the Year. Between Empowerment and Crisis: Images of Motherhood from 1900 to Today,” Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Linz, Austria
“Ceramix,” Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, Netherlands 
“The Problem of God,” Kunstsammlung Nordhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
“The Marked Self: Between Annihilation and Masquerade,” BRUSEUM, Neue Galerie Graz, Graz, Austria
“Plasters: Casts and Copies,” The Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield, United Kingdom
“THENnow: Paloma Varga Weisz and Giorgio Morandi, miart Mailand, Milan, Italy
“Du sollst die (k)ein Bild machen,” Berliner Doms, Berlin
2014
“QUEENSIZE – Female Artists from the Olbricht Collection,” Stiftung Olbricht, Berlin
“Basic Research – Notes on the Collection,” Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve, Germany
“The Human Factor: Uses of the Figure in Contemporary Sculpture,” Hayward Gallery, London
“1984?” Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich
2013
“Sculptures from the Art Academy Düsseldorf since 1945,” Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen K20, Düsseldorf
“Adventures of Truth – Painting and Philosophy: a narrative,” Foundation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France
2012
“Exquisite Corpses: Drawings and Disfiguration,” Museum of Modern Art, New York
“Kabinettstücke,” Weserburg, Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen, Germany
“Prima Materia,” Gladstone Gallery, Brussels
2011
“Memories of the Future: The Olbricht Collection, La Maison Rouge,” Fondation Antoine de Galbert, Paris
“Neupräsentation und Leihgaben,” Sculpturenmuseum Glaskaten, Marl, Germany
“Paul Clay,” Salon 94, New York
“Folkestone Triennial,” Folkestone, England
2010
“Neues Rheinland,” Musueum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
“Multiple Pleasures: Functional Objects in Contemporary Art,” Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
“Intensif Station,” Kunstsammlung NRW, Düsseldorf, Germany
“Contemporary Eye: Crossovers,” Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, England
“Roll-on / Roll-off,” Kunsthalle Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany
“Lebenslust und Totentanz,” Kunsthalle Krems, Krems, Austria
“Larger than life stranger than fiction,”Triennale Kleinplastik, Fellbach, Germany
“Aber Schwarz ist dochgar keine Farbe!" Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany
“Silent Revolution,” Kunstsammlung NRW, Düsseldorf, Germany
2009
“cargo,” Autocenter, Berlin / Bayrische Staatsoper München, München, Germany
2008
“Vom Gehen in viele Richtungen,” KIT Kunst im Tunnel, Düsseldorf, Germany
“Der Symbolismus und die Kunst der Gegenwart,” Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal, Germany
“The Krautcho Club / In and Out of Place,” 176 Gallery, London
“Forgotten Bar Project,” Galerie im Regierungsviertel, Berlin
“Go for it! Olbricht Collection (a sequel),” Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany
2007
“Effigies,” Stuart Shave Modern Art, London
“Makers and Modelers,” Gladstone Gallery, New York
“Die Kunst zu Sammeln,” Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, Germany
“Revue,” Zehn Jahre Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve, Germany
“re-dis-play,” Kunstverein Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
2006
“Of Mice and Men, 4th Berlin Biennale,” curated by Maurizio Cattelan, Massimiliano Gioni and Ali Subtonik, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
“Unikate 0/6 - 12 Statements aus Rheinland-Pfalz,” Kunstverein Germersheim, Germersheim, Germany
“Kunst-Körperlich,” Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche, Osnabrück, Germany
“Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Art,” The Israel Museum, Jerusalem 
“The Wonderful Fund,” Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, England
“Zoo Story,” Fisher Landau Center for the Arts, New York
2005
“The Addiction,” Gagosian Gallery, Berlin 
“Always a Little Further,” Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
“Blickachsen,” Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve, Germany
“Sammlung 2005,” Neupräsentation Kunstsammlung im K21, Düsseldorf, Germany
“The Wonderful Fund Collection,” Musée de Marrakech, Marrakech, Morocco
2004
“Actionbutton,” The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
“raumfürraum,” Kunstverein und Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany
“Triennale der Kleinplastik,” Fellbach, Fellbach, Germany
“Reflections,” Artuatuca Festival, Tongeren, Belgium
“My Father’s Eyes,” Galerie Andreas Brüning, Düsseldorf, Germany
“Sammlung Plum,” Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve, Germany
“Woodwork,” Anthony Grant, New York
“All Creatures Great and Small,” Comme ci Comme ca II, Salon d’Art, Cologne, Germany
“Kunst- und Foerderpreis Rheinland-Pfalz 2004 für Bildhauerei,” Schloss Waldthausen
"European Triennial of Small-Scale Sculpture," Murska Sobota, Slovenia
2003
“Falling Angels,” Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
“Poeme-Image,” Schloß Wendlinghausen, Dörentrup, Germany
“Actionbutton,” Ankäufe der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
“Not Afraid,” Rubell Family Collection, Miami
2002
“Paloma Varga Weisz, Cecilia Edefalk und Michael Bach,” Kunsthalle Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany
“The Galleries Show,” Royal Academy of Arts, London
“Cabinet with Outfit,” Galerie Andreas Brüning, Düsseldorf
“on paper,” Andreas Grimm, Munich, Germany 
2001
Städtische Galerie am Bunten Tor, Bremen, Germany
2000
“Aroma,” Galerie Konrad Fischer, Düsseldorf, Germany
Galerie Andreas Grimm, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
1998
“Moving images without tears,” Galerie Vera Munro, Hamburg, Germany
1996
“Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Nordrhein-Westfalen,” Kulturhuset Stockholm, Stockholm