David Ostrowski

BIOGRAPHY
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DAVID OSTROWSKI
1981 Born in Cologne, D
  Lives and works in Cologne, D
   
Education
2009 Akademiebrief and Meisterschüler
2004-2009 Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, D
   
Solo and Two Person Exhibitions
2016 Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, DE
  To Lose, Leopold-Hoesch-Museum, Duren, DE
2015 How to do things left, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL
  The F World, Arken Museum, Ishoj, DK
  I Want Die Forever, Kunstraum Innesbruck, Innesbruck, AT
2104 Just Do It, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino, IT
  Das Goldene Scheiss, Almine Rech Gallery, Paris, FR
  Emotional Paintings, Peres Projects, Berlin, DE
  The medium of intensity, Carl Kostyal, Steckholm, SE
2013 Yes or let's say no, Simon Lee Gallery, London, UK
  Relax, Outline Paintings, Siegburger Strasse 235 w, Cologne, DE
  'I'm OK.' Moments later, he was shot, Peres Projects, Berlin, DE
  A show about painting, Jan Kaps, Cologne, DE
  F, Artothek, Cologne, DE
2012 Tried and Failed, BolteLang, Zurich, CH 
  From bad to worse, Ltd, Los Angeles, CA 
  David Ostrowski & Jack Henry, Nudashank, Baltimore, MD 
  Dann lieber nein, Figge von Rosen Galerie Cologne, Cologne, DE
  Sprechen sie dick (with Harmony Korine), Jagla Ausstellungsraum, Cologne, DE
2011 Between Two Ferns (with Michail Pirgelis), Mike Potter Projects, Cologne, DE 
  Die Lugnerin (with Philip Seibel),Format: C, Düsseldorf, DE
2010  1981 (with Luke Barber -Smith),Parkhaus im Malkasten, Düsseldorf, DE
2008 Bilder mit Sonnenbrand (with Max Frintrop),First Floor Contemporary, Düsseldorf, D
2007 How to Look at Homegrown Terror, Fette’s Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  Hulk vs Hulk (with Max Frintrop), Kunstraum Acapulco, Düsseldorf, DE
2006  Wie man aus einer, Affäre gleich zwei macht (with Michail Pirgelis),Raum für Kunst und Musik, Cologne, DE
2005 Das Goldene Scheiß, Raum für Kunst und Musik, Cologne, DE
   
Selected Group Exhibitions
2016 Made in Germany: Contemporary Art from the Rubell Family Collection, McNay Art Collection, San Antonio, US
2015 Full of Peril and Weirdness: Painting as a Universalism, M WOODS, Beijing, CN
  Sprayed: Works from 1929-2015, Gagosian Gallery, London, UK
  The Shell, Almine Rech Gallery, Paris, FR
  Martin Barré, David Ostrowski, Julian Schnabel, Reena Spaulings, curated by Alison Gingeras, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY
  A Man Walks Into a Bar, me Collectors Room, Olbricht Foundation, Berlin, DE
2014 Beware Wet Paint, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino, IT
  David Ostrowski, Justin Matherly, Oscar Murillo, Tobias Pils, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, CH
  Beware Wet Paint, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK
  The Pipe at the Gates of Dawn, Jan Kaps, Cologne, DE
  I may be wrong but I think you are beautiful, David Achenbach Projects, Dusserdolf, DE
  Collettive III, Galerie Guy Bartschi, Geneve, CH
  Where were you?, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
  Walk the Line, Simon Lee Gallery, Hong Kong, CN
  Group Spirit, Peres Projects, Berlin, DE
2013 The Medium of Intensity, Carl Kostyal, Stockholm, SE
  One from None, Autocenter, Berlin, DE
  Degrees of Separation, Galerie Jeanroch Dard, Paris, FR
  The Edge of Abstraction Hopstreet, Brussels, BE
  17/14, Kunstrgruppe Kunstverein, Cologne, DE
  The Gesture and the Sign, White Cube, Sao Paolo, BR
  Beyond the Object, Brand New Gallery, Milan, IT
2012  Groβe Jahresgabenausstellung, Koelnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, DE
  Bread Box, ZieherSmith, Nashville, TN 
  En désordre, Sammlung Philara, Duesseldorf, DE
  Family Matters, Le Courant, Brussels, BE
  Full House, Kunstgruppe Kunstverein, Cologne, DE
  New Gestural Painting, Berlin, DE
  Blitz, Rod Barton Gallery, London, UK
  Neue Tiere 3, Kunstverein Koelnberg, Cologne, DE
  TLK DRTY, Amstel41, Amsterdam, NL
  Unterm Strich, Figge von Rosen Gallery Cologne, DE
  Jonathan Binet, Lydia Gifford, David Ostrowski, BolteLang, Zurich, CH
  Neue Wände, Knust x Kunz, Munich, DE
2011 This is Tomorrow, Annarumma Gallery, Naples, IT
  Boo!, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, NL
  Vor Gott ist alle Kunst Scheiße II, Boutique, Cologne, DE
  Jahresgaben, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, DE
  GSK, Gesellschaft für streitorientierte Kulturforschung, Düsseldorf, DE
  Single Museum, Kunstraum Düsseldorf, DE
  Papierarbeiten, Jagla Ausstellungsraum, Cologne, DE
  Moraltarantula 5, Zollamt-Oberhafen, Hamburg, DE
  Korrupte Talente, Avantrash, Munich, DE
  Single Club, Düsseldorf, DE
  Dirty Dancing, Figge von Rosen Galerie, Cologne, DE
  Everything you ever liked about your mother, 15 Howie Street, London, UK
  The Spur of the Moment, Nest, Den Haag, NL
  Pop Hits, Tanzschule, München, Autocenter, Berlin, DE
2010 Addition and Subtraction, 304 days, Vancouver, CDN
  GSK, Gesellschaft für streitorientierte Kulturforschung, Düsseldorf, DE
  Vor Gott ist alle Kunst Scheiße, Oktober, Düsseldorf, DE
  Moraltarantula 4, Elektrohaus, Hamburg, DE
  A thing is a thing in a whole which it’s not, Temporary Gallery Cologne, Cologne, DE
  We redefine when we come of age 1976-1987, Toldkammeret, Helsingør, DK
  The rest is history, Mike Potter Projects, Berlin, DE
  Editionen + X, Artleib, Düsseldorf, DE
  The Destroyed Room,Whatspace, Perron 58, Tilburg, NL
  Forgotten Bar Project, Galerie im Regierungsviertel, Berlin, DE
  Nothing is wrong if it feels good, Mike Potter Projects, Cologne, DE
2009 Lust auf Öl, Raum Kalk, Cologne, DE
  The last real painters, Resy Muijsers Contemporary Art, Tilburg, NL
  Painting on the Möve, curated by Albert Oehlen, Wiensowski & Harbord, Berlin, DE
  Something strange will happen this summer, Mike Potter Projects, Oxford, UK
  Whatbar 5, Whatspace, Gent, BE
  Giganten, Mike Potter Projects, Cologne, DE
  Dolce Standards, Maverick, Cologne, DE
2008 1001 Bild, Villa de Bank, Enschede, NL
  Great Expectations, Artlab21, Bergamont Station, Los Angeles, CA
2007 Unqualifiziertes Dunkel, Raum für Kunst und Musik, Cologne, DE
  Bye, Bye Acapulco, Kunstraum Acapulco, Düsseldorf, DE
  Kombilösung: Spiegelvision, Artleib, Düsseldorf, DE
  Achte oder zehnte Ausstellung im Blast Raum, Kunstraum Blast, Cologne, D
  Royalbunker,Institut für zeitgenössische Beobachtung, Vienna, AT
2006 I know you, but you don't know me, Fette’s Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  Intersection, Resy Muijsers Contemporary Art, Tilburg, NL
  Jahresgaben, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, DE
  Bretter, die die Welt bedeuten, Kunstraum Acapulco, Düsseldorf, DE
  Vergeht mir Hören, Sehen und Denken, Galerie Tedden, Oberhausen, DE
  Public Folder #2, Raum für Kunst und Musik, Cologne; Museumsquartier, Vienna, AT