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Biography

Daniel Knorr, born in Romania in 1968, moved to Germany with his parents at the age of 14. He now lives and works in Berlin and Hong Kong.

Since 2005, when representing Romania at the 51st Venice Biennale, Daniel Knorr has been one of the most active conceptual artists in the world, working on themes that address the relationship between urban public space and the private sector. In his works he explores historical, socio-political and economic fields, questioning and attempting to engage in discussion in his unique artistic context. He is best known for his installation Expiration Movement at the Documenta 14 in 2017, in which a massive amount of smoke rose from the watchtower of the the Fridericianum pavilion, even causing many of Kassel’s local residents to call the fire service. The aim of Documenta is also to bring us back to the history of the museum, which was destroyed in World War II more than 70 years ago, and to bring about a reflection on the devastation of the war.

Solo Exhibitions (Selection)

2022Golden Peardrop Theatre, PILEVNELI Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey

ALPENPFÜTZEN, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, Germany

Pezzi di Ricambio, Fonti Gallery, Napoli, Italy

2021Materialization, Pingshan Art Museum, Shenzhen, China

Flagship Store, IKOB – Museum of Contemporary Art, Eupen, Belgium

2020Canvas Sculptures, Galerie Nächst St. Stephan,Wien, AT

Daniel Knorr, Kunsthalle Tübingen, Tübingen, DE

Daniel Knorr, MANGROVEGALLERY, Shenzhen, CN

Pony, Johyun Gallery, Busan, KR

2019Laundry, Art Basel Unlimited, Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder / Meyer Riegger, Basel, CH

Dip in the Past, Meyer Riegger, Berlin, DE

Calligraphic Wig, Chung King Mansion, Hong Kong, CN

2018Back to the Basics – Daniel Knorr: Artist Book, Oi! Street Art Space, Hong Kong, CN

2017Navel of the World, Art Basel Miami Beach, The Bass Museum of Art, Miami, U.S.

Reduce Speed Now, Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna, AT

Daniel Knorr. Die Frau meines Lebens liebt mich noch nicht, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, DE

Höhen der Tiefen, Meyer Riegger, Karlsruhe, DE

2016Solo – Bunker, abc Berlin, Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Berlin, DE

State of Mind, Manière Noire, Berlin, DE

2015Vieni Vidi Napoli, Galleria Fonti, Naples, IT

Pietra della Rinascita, GAMeC, Bergamo, IT

2014Lunarium, Galerie nächst St. Stephan, Vienna, AT

2013Depression Elevations, Kayne Griffin Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles, U.S.

Vulkanstr., Galleria Fonti, Naples, IT

Instant Community, tranzit.ro/cluj, Cluj, RO

2012Piggy Bank, with Coate Goale, Salonul de Proiecte, Bucharest, RO

Explosion, Kunsthalle Vienna, Karlsplatz, Vienna, AT

Official Fire, Arnsberg Art Association, Arnsberg, DE

2011Dead Letter Office, Galerie nächst St. Stephan, Vienna, AT

M, eine Stadt sucht ihren Mörder, Lothringer_13_Halle, Munich, DE

Limits of Jurisdiction, Romanian Cultural Institute Stockholm and Färgfabriken, Stockholm, SE

2010Family Jewels, Kunstverein Arnsberg, Arnsberg, DE

Urlo, Galleria Fonti, Naples, IT

2009Led R. Nanirok, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, CH

Awake Asleep, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, PL

Block, Artspace, Auckland, NZ

2008Scherben bringen Glück, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, DE

The Way Politics Influence Art and Vice Versa, Fondazione March, Padova, IT

Awake Asleep, Borges Libreria, Guangzhou; Fei Contemporary Art Center, Shanghai; space e6, Shenzhen, CN

20071 Year Warranty, Skulpturenpark Berlin Mitte, public space, Berlin, DE

2006¡Extranjero ven a votar!, Studio Protocol, Cluj-Napoca, RO

2005European Influenza, Romanian Pavilion, 51st Venice Biennale, Venice, IT

Group Exhibitions (Selection)

2022Dip in the past, Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany

2021mit Adam Szymczyk, Polizeistation Zürich, Zurich, CH

THE WORLD:REGLITTERIZED, Haus der Kunst, Munich, DE

Miriam Cahn, Enzo Cucchi, Nevin Aladağ, Daniel Knorr, MANGROVEGALLERY, Shenzhen, CN

2019Come together, Meyer Riegger, Berlin, DE

Collection LBBW (Landesbank Baden-Württemberg), art berlin, Berlin, DE

Words Are Very Unnecessary, group exhibition on the occasion of the inauguration of the new building, Arter, Istanbul, TR

Artists & Agents: Performance Art and Secret Services, HMKV, MedienKunstVerein, Dortmund, DE

Mask. The Art of Transformation, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, DE

Past and Recent Stories of the Romanian Avant-Garde, Espace Niemeyer, Paris, FR

2018Neuer Norden Zürich – Public Art Zurich, CH

Germany Is Not an Island. Acquisitions 2012–2016, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, DE

Rechts, Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin, DE

Just So Stories 1978 I 2018, Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna, AT

Møenlight Sonata – Homage to the Starry Sky of Møn, Kunsthal 44 Moen, Askeby, DK

Shōzō Shimamoto in Conversation with…, Galleria Fonti, Naples, IT

2017documenta 14, Athens, GR, and Kassel, DE

Produktion. Made in Germany 3, Kestner Gesellschaft, Kunstverein Hannover and Sprengel Museum Hannover, Hannover, DE

Mentales Gelb. Sonnenhöchststand, Lenbachhaus, Munich, and Kunstmuseum Bonn, DE

And Then There Were None, Meyer Riegger, Karlsruhe, DE

The Materiality of the Invisible, Marres, House for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht, NL

Odysse, Arnsberg Art Association, Möhnesee, DE

Collection on Display: Communities, Migros Museum, Zurich, CH

The History Show, Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg, DE

2016The Soul Of Money, DOX Center for Contemporary Art, Prague, CZ

Remember Lidice, Städtische Galerie Nordhorn, Nordhorn, DE

Face to Face, Palazzo Fruscione, Salerno, IT

Show Us Your Type: Berlin Revisited 2016, Kulturspace, Berlin, DE

Ende vom Lied, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, DE

Passengers, Salon Dahlmann, Berlin, DE

2015Feiert das Leben! | Celebrate Life! , Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, Vienna, AT

Europa. Die Zukunft der Geschichte, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich, CH

Unendliche Bibliothek, Alte Fabrik, Gebert Stiftung für Kultur, Rapperswil-Jona, CH

Tabs – Temporary Artist Book Shop, LAGE EGAL Contemporary Art Space, Berlin, DE

Remember Lidice, Edition Block, Berlin, DE

Lismore Castle Arts, Lismore, IR

Neuer Berlin Herbstsalon, Gorki Theater, Berlin, DE

Con(temporary) De(materialized), Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg, DE

Re Discovery, Autocenter Berlin, Berlin, DE

2014Inundumumumum, Kunstverein Arnsberg, Arnsberg, DE

Made in LA, LAMOA project, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, U.S.

Input/Output – Schnittpunkt Worpswede, Worpsweder Kunsthalle, Worpswede, DE

Show Us Your Dreams, Museum of Modern Art Warsaw, Warsaw, PL

Mobile Biennale 1, Turul Olteniei in 7 Zile, MNAC, Bucharest, RO

Dispozitii in timp si spatiu, MNAC, Bucharest, RO

Fractures, The Jerusalem Show VII, Qalandiya International, Gaza, PS

2013Le Pont, Mac Musée d’Art Contemporain de Marseille, FR

La empresa soy yo. Trabajo y subjetividad, Casa del Lago Mexico City, MX

Sammeln, L40, Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin, DE

Living in the Ruins of the Twentieth Century, UTS Gallery, Sydney, AU

Nation Building, Maxim Gorki Theater, Berlin, DE

The Way of the Shovel. Art as Archaeology, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, U.S.

Monkey Business, Galerie Sophie Scheidecker, Paris, FR

In The Heart Of The Country, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, PL

Berliner Herbstsalon, Maxim Gorki Theater, Berlin, DE

Cattedrale, Instituto Svizzero di Roma, Rome, IT

2012Openings Out to Reality. Unità di Dismisura. Una Moneta per San Lorenzo, Istituto Svizzero di Roma, Rome, IT

Papierwelten, Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna, AT

Goldrausch. Gegenwartkunst aus, mit oder über Gold, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Villa Merkel, Esslingen, DE

Kunstpreis der Böttcherstraße in Bremen, Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, DE

Say it Loud, District, Berlin, DE

The Archeology of Memory, Sorø Art Museum, Sorø, DK

At Your Service, Technisches Museum Vienna, Erste Bank Stiftung, Vienna, Museum Neue Arbeitswelt, Steyr, AT

In anderen Worten. Der Schwarzmarkt der Übersetzungen – mit zeitgenössischen Kulturen handeln, NGBK and Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, DE

Reflecting Fashion, MuMOK, Vienna, AT

Pigsty, Salonul de Proiecte, Bucharest, RO

How to Make – Ideen, Notationen, Materialisierungen, Kunsthaus Dresden, Dresden, DE

2011Art on Lake, National Museum of Fine Art, Budapest, HU

Collection of Migros Museum, Fridericianum, Kassel, DE

Nova Galerija, Zagreb, HR

Zweite Welt. Wohin schreitet der Fortschritt? Steirischer Herbst, Graz, AT

Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, SL

Ogni cosa a suo tempo. Capitilo II: Daniel Knorr, GAMeC, Bergamo, IT

2010The Promises of the Past, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR

Early Years, Kunstwerke Berlin, DE

Artefact Festival, STUK Kunstencentrum, Leuven, BE

The Romanian Cultural Resolution, Baumwollspinnerei, Leipzig, DE

Post Monument, Biennale Internazionale di Scultura di Cararra, Cararra, IT

Fokus, Lodz Biennial, Lodz, PL

Touched, Liverpool Biennale, Liverpool, UK

La Ciudad Interpretada – CGAC, Xacobeo 2010, Santiago de Compostela, ES

New Mobility, Art Today Association, Plovdiv, BG

No Ifs No Buts, Open Space, Vienna, AT

Correct Me If I Am Critical, Felleshus of Nordic Embassy, Berlin, DE

2009Viva l Italia, Galleria Astuni, Bologna, IT

Various Platonisms, Elisa Platteau Gallery, Brussels, BE

The Archeologists, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal, DE

Reading the City, EV+A, Limerick, IR

Simple Gesture, Trafo, Budapest, HU

Fake or Feint, Alexanderplatz, Berlin, DE

2008When Things Cast No Shadow, 5th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, Berlin, DE

The Principle of Hope, Manifesta 7, European Biennial of Contemporary Art, Rovereto, IT

U-Turn, Quadriennale, Copenhagen, DK

Art as a Gift, Periferic 8, Bienniale, Iasi, RO

Antwerp Sculpture Show, t’Zuid, M HKA Antwerp, BE

Between the Pictures, Xposeptember Festival, Stockholm, SE

Afterthought, IrmaVepLab, Reims, FR

2007Wir haben keine Probleme, Bergen Kunsthalle, Oslo, NO

Invisible Invincible, Curators Without Borders, Berlin, DE

Beneath the Underdog, Gagosian Gallery, New York, U.S.

Bodycheck, 10th Small Sculpture Triennial Fellbach, Fellbach, DE

Spatiul Public, Bucharest, RO

Parallel Moments, Azad Gallery, Tehran, IR

Place Makers, Curators Without Borders, Berlin, DE

Chocolates, Anti Museo Ojo Atómico, Madrid; Palau Ducal, Valencia, ES

2006Chocolates, Museo Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, MX

Outdoors, Danielle Arnaud Contemporary Art, London, UK

Mafia or an Unopened Pack of Cigarettes, Standard, Oslo, NO

Check-in: Europe, EPO, Munich, DE

2005Ortsbegehung, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, DE

Ein Arkadien der Moderne? 100 Jahre Villa Romana, Neues Museum, Weimar, DE

ADAM, Smart Project Space, Amsterdam, NL

Collections (selection)

Belvedere, House of 21, Vienna, AT
Collection GAMeC, Bergamo, IT A
Folkwang Museum, Essen, DE
Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, DE
Kunstmuseum Bonn (KiCo Collection), Bonn, DE
Lenbachhaus, Munich, DE
Migros Museum of Contemporary Art, Zurich, CH
Museum im Stasi-Bunker, Leipzig, DE
Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, PL
M HKA, Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, Antwerp, BE
Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, DE

LBBW Collection, Stuttgart, DE
ARTGAL Inc, Tavernier, Florida, U.S.
Collezione Tullio Leggeri, ALT Museum, Bergamo, IT
La collection Samuel-Weis d’art contemporain, Mulhouse, FR
Die Kunstsammlung der Erste Group and ERSTE Stiftung, Vienna, AT
The Lune Rouge Collection, Ibiza, ES
Mezzanin Stiftung für Kunst, Schaan, LI
Migros Museum of Contemporary Art, Zurich, CH
The Nancy A. Nasher und David J. Haemisegger Collection of Contemporary Art, Dallas, Texas, US
Kienbaum Collection, Gummersbach, DE
Contemporary Art Collection of the Federal Republic of Germany, DE
Vehbi Koç Foundation, Istanbul, TR
Pohl Collection, Marburg, DE
Collezione Ernesto Esposito, Naples, IT