SHORT INFO
Joachim Grommek's geometric-abstract works are characterized by playing with illusion and deception. The inherent materiality of the image becomes the theme and subject of the painting. A recurring pictorial model is chipboard, which the artist primes in white and paints again with the structure of chipboard. The adhesive strips painted very precisely on the illusionistically reproduced picture carrier in layers of colored lacquer appear so real that you think you can peel them off. Joachim Grommek's works require the viewer to look closely; they question the medium of painting as well as the status of pictures as a sensual means of knowledge.
Joachim Grommek was born in Wolfsburg in 1957 and lives and works in Berlin.
STIPENDIES
| 1984 | Young talent scholarship from the state of Lower Saxony |
| 1989 - 1991 | Working stay in Valencia, Spain |
| 1995 | Working grant from the Berlin Senate for Culture |
| 2012 | Work grant from the Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn |
INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS (selection)
| 2023 | Friends & Others, Taubert Contemporary, Berlin |
| 2022 | Either none, Gallery Mathias Güntner, Hamburg |
| 2019 | happy ghost, Taubert Contemporary, Berlin |
| 2018 | Art Rotterdam High End, Taubert Contemporary, Berlin |
| 2017 | High End, Gallery Mathias Güntner, Hamburg |
| 2016 | Screenprints, Sebastian Fath I Contemporary, Mannheim (with Rolf Rose) |
| 2015 | Without taste is also something, taubert contemporary, Berlin |
| 2014 | kick down beach babyface, Gallery Mathias Güntner, Hamburg |
| 2013 | AHOI, Palais für aktuelle Kunst, Glückstadt ubrgalerie, Salzburg/AT Visionary Collection Vol. 21: Joachim Grommek - ... Painting Show, Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich |
| 2012 | ?, FS.Art, Berlin Ohne Eichhörnchengrün, Galerie der Stadt Remscheid never know, Rudolf-Scharpf-Galerie/Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen |
| 2011 | Kung Fu Panda 4, Joachim Grommek, VOUS ETES ICI, Amsterdam Kung Fu Panda III, Joachim Grommek, Galerie Mathias Güntner, Hamburg Painting 3000, Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg |
| 2010 | Joachim Grommek, rahncontemporary, Zurich 2009 This is my Choice (1980 -2009), VOUS ETES ICI, Amsterdam Malerie |
| 2009 | FS.Art, Berlin Horst Schuler, Düsseldorf |
| 2008 | ubrgalerie, Salzburg |
| 2007 | Galerie Mathias Güntner, Hamburg Sebastian Fath | Contemporary, Mannheim (with Beat Zoderer) Kunstverein Ravensburg, Ravensburg Galerie K4, Munich |
| 2006 | TILT, VOUS ETES ICI, Amsterdam TILT, Kunstverein Springhornhof, Neuenkirchen Sebastian Fath | Contemporary, Mannheim Künstlerverein Malkasten, Düsseldorf |
| 2005 | TRE STANZE SPAZIO A, SpazioA, Pistoia VOUS ETES ICI, Amsterdam |
| 2004 | Gallery Mathias Güntner, Hamburg Fleisch, Berlin |
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selection)
| 2024 | Illusion - Dream, Identity, Reality, Hamburger Kunsthalle Paint, Museum Ritter, Waldenbuch Piece Of Cake #2, Gallery Mathias Güntner, Hamburg Once In A Blue Moon, Gallery Mathias Güntner, Hamburg |
| 2023 | 100, KWADRAT, Berlin Klare Kante, Sebastian Fath Contemporary, Mannheim Re-inventing Piet. Mondrian And The Consequences, Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen 12 x 1, Jupiter, Hamburg friends & others, taubert contemporary, Berlin |
| 2022 | Jubilee X, Frontviews, Berlin |
| 2021 | Grün, La Raum, Berlin 100% Dance Music, Glue, Berlin Krisenpoesie, Galerie Mathias Güntner, Berlin Long Time - No See, taubert contemporary, Berlin |
| 2020 | Hamburg / Berlin, Galerie Mathias Güntner, Berlin All Over, Gallery Mathias Güntner, Hamburg Lars Arrhenius & Friends - A-Z · A Memento, taubert contemporary, Berlin |
| 2019 | Color impulses. Color in Modern Art, Art Collections of the Ruhr University Bochum Trompe L'Oeil, Galerie Mathias Güntner, Hamburg whodunnit, taubert contemporary, Berlin 1919-2019 - Works from the Marli Hoppe-Ritter Collection, Museum Ritter, Waldenbuch Entering, Permanent, Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin Delighting the world, Mies van der Rohe Haus, Berlin |
| 2018 | Guest at Ketterer Kunst Berlin, Ketterer Kunst, Berlin |
| 2016 | 30 years of Kunststiftung Poll- Insight into the collection I-IV / Part III, Kunststiftung Poll, Berlin glue Berlin presents PS Amsterdam, Kunstraum Kreuzberg Bethanien, Berlin Linked. Haleh Redjaian and the Collection, Museum of Concrete Art, Ingolstadt |
| 2015 | AMERICANA, Collection FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkerque TAOP, Schau Fenster, Berlin POLYVALENZ, glue im Kunstquartier Bethanien - Projektraum, Berlin |
| 2014 | Happy Warriors, Part III, Galerie Mathias Güntner, Hamburg |
| 2013 | Why Painting Now? - Cover-Up, Krinzinger Projekte, Wien 3 + 4 b/w - taubert contemporary, Berlin Revised Abstraction, Grieder Contemporary, Zürich |
| 2012 | The Line of Beauty, Lothar Goetz + Special Guests, DOMOBAAL, London Departure. Painting and real space, mpk, Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern Akademie der Künste, Berlin Museum im Kulturspeicher Würzburg / Kunsthalle Rostock Virtual Insanity, FTC, Berlin |
| 2011 | Departure. Painting and real space, Situation Kunst (for Max Imdahl). Art Collections of the Ruhr University Bochum The Multiple Show #2, Vous Etes Ici, Amsterdam I LOVE ALDI, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen Abstract Overture, Bochenska Gallery, Warschau Double Take, M.1 – Arthur Boskamp-Stiftung, Hohenlockstedt actual fact / factual fact, Märkisches Museum, Witten The Nunnery Gallery, London Out of Storage, Timmerfabriek, Maastricht Happy warriors, Galerie Mathias Güntner, Hamburg Poisson d’Avril, VOUS ETES ICI, Amsterdam |
| 2010 | Topic Woman, September, Berlin Optical Shift. Illusion and Deception, b-05 Art and Culture Center, Montabaur Telephone, Matthew Brown Galerie, Berlin ALLES BERLINER, Galerie Niels Borch Jensen, Berlin The foundation of art - sculpture and its pedestal since Alberto Giacometti, Arp Museum, Remagen The foundation of art - Sculpture and its pedestal since Alberto Giacometti, Gerhard Marcks House, Bremen |
| 2009 | The foundation of art - sculpture and its pedestal since Alberto Giacometti, Municipal Museums, Heilbronn Large fall exhibition, KWADRAT, Berlin Art Minded V, Stedelijk Museum, Schiedam ALLES, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen Homage to the square: works from the Marli Hoppe-Ritter Collection, Museum Ritter, Waldenbuch C.D.R.D.E.E.J.G.M.S., rahncontemporary, Zürich Joachim Grommek - Mary Waters, the solo project, Basel, VOUS ETES ICI, Amsterdam Joachim Grommek – Rolf Rose, Galerie Mathias Güntner, Hamburg Power To The Paint, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam |
| 2008 | Variations on the black square, Kunstverein Pforzheim THERE IS DESIRE LEFT (KNOCK, KNOCK), works from the Mondstudio Collection, Kunstmuseum Bern & Kunstmuseum Wiesbaden on/off paper, K4, München Berlin ... 2008, KWADRAT, Berlin I don't wanna talk about it, glue Berlin Positions of Reduced Painting, Sebastian Fath | Contemporary, Mannheim |
| 2007 | Perplex, Künstlerhaus Dortmund De Gerhard Richter - Markus Sixay. Particules d ́Histoire, LAAC, Dunkirk, Frankreich Picture Exchange 2, Marli Hoppe-Ritter Collection, Museum Ritter, Waldenbuch Whether I see that, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg |
| 2006 | MINIMAL QUOTATION, Gallery Mathias Güntner, Hamburg GOETHE ABWÄRTS - DEUTSCHE JUNGS ETC, Mönchehaus Museum, Goslar HAPPY HOURS, Stefan Rasche Gallery, Münster Falckenberg, Mönchehaus-Museum, Goslar / Meilahti Art Museum Helsinki |
| 2005 | UWAGA BERLIN, Kunstraum Düsseldorf / Kunstverein Aichach Really important: Kunst uit Berlijn, P////AKT, Amsterdam Remix. Focus Painting, Columbus Art Foundation, Ravensburg IBAC - International Biennial of Conpemporary Art, National Gallery, Prague |