born 1964 in Rostock
lives and works in Berlin and in Bremen
instagram @katrin_von_maltzahn
| 1985–1991 | - HdK, Art Academy Berlin |
| 1988–1989 | - Cooper Union, School of Art, New York |
| 1993–1995 | - studies of Philosophy at FU Berlin & Humboldt University, Berlin |
| since 1995 | - artist-in-residences at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin; NIFCA, Suomenlinna, Helsinki, Finland; Cité des Arts, Paris, France; IASPIS, Göteborg, Sweden; Centro Cultural Asbaek Gallery, Andratx, Mallorca, Spain; RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia |
| 2009-2014 | - Professor of printmaking, department of Painting & Graphic Art, HGB Leipzig |
| since 2014 | - Professor of Fine Art (drawing/painting), HfK Bremen |
| Exhibitions | (selection) |
| 2023 | - Mein Japan Projekt: Wörter und Bilder (My Japan Project: Words and images), Dorothée Nilsson Gallery Berlin |
| - book talks and presentations at Worlds end garden, Kobe / JDZB Berlin / Galerie Druck & Buch Wien / Weserburg, Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen / Dorothée Nilsson Gallery Berlin | |
| 2022 | - Daily Poem: collaborate drawing by Katrin von Maltzahn & David Atwood, Ulotamlo, Fukuoka, Japan |
| - Katrin v. Maltzahn, David Atwood: Outside the studio, C.A.P., Kobe, Japan | |
| - Japan Connection (with Alexa Daerr), Kunstraum Claudia Delank, Berlin | |
| 2021 | - Japan Connection, Galerie Herold, Bremen |
| - weiße Wochen, oqbo, Berlin | |
| 2020 | - Meeting in Language, Städtische Galerie Delmenhorst |
| - Home Studio, (in collaboration with David Atwood), a project produced by C.A.P., part of Rokko Meets Art, Ikasu Villa/Grand Hotel Sky Villa, Kobe, Japan | |
| 2019 | - Drawing Wow, BCMA, Berlin |
| - Palast der Republik – Utopie, Inspiration, Politikum, Kunsthalle Rostock | |
| - Druckkunstfestival, Spedition Bremen | |
| - Katrin von Maltzahn & Jan Svenungsson, gallery CH, Borrby, Sweden | |
| 2018 | - Paris c'est Elles, La Boite 31, Marie-Ange Guilleminot, Paris, France |
| - AVE 3, Kunstraum SUPER, Wien, Austria | |
| - Paradis, Galerie am Weinberg/Hofgrün, Berlin | |
| 2017 | - Gig #1– Gig #4, four Exibitions in different locations in Berlin |
| 2016 | - paperfile, oqbo/positions Berlin |
| 2014 | - Data & Disaster, Acud Projektraum, Berlin |
| - PROOF IT! Städtische Galerie, Wolfsburg | |
| - Pink Paper Project, Krognoshuset, Lund, Sweden | |
| 2012 | - Real Fiction, Degeberga Konsthall, Sweden (together with Jan Svenungsson) |
| - Alphabet, BKV Brandenburgischer Kunstverein, Potsdam | |
| - on moons, maps & butterflies, Katrin von Maltzahn & Ebba Matz, Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin | |
| - tools & tricks, Museum of Lithographic Art, Tidaholm, Sweden (with Jan Svenungsson) | |
| 2011 | - Familiarity, Vantaa Artmuseum, Vantaa, Finland |
| - 10 Jahre 62 Ausstellungen, Kunstverein Buchholz/Nordheide | |
| 2010 | - /+\ =X, serialworks studio, Capetown, South Africa |
| - on paper, Stalke Galleri, Kr. Sonnerup, Denmark | |
| - Tables of Thought, Kuva, Helsinki, Finland | |
| - Etwas viele, bisschen langweilige, ganz kleine Radierungen, Niels Borch Jensen Gallery Berlin | |
| 2009 | - ZEIGEN. Eine Audiotour durch Berlin, Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin |
| - Post, Space Gallery Melbourne, Australia | |
| - Three private views, Niels Borch Jensen Gallery, Berlin | |
| - Baden gehen / zeichnen – vergegenwärtigen, Kulturzentrum Adlershof, Berlin | |
| - Koordinaten MV. Vom Wesen des Wandels, Staatliches Museum, Schwerin | |
| 2008 | - Recycling Languages, Kunstraum Mühlenstrasse, Lübeck |
| - Hybrid, Architekturgalerie Berlin (with Modersohn & Freiesleben, architects) | |
| - Plots, Characters, Modelle, vonmaltzahn fine arts, München | |
| - Samtid – ur Björn Springfeldts samling, Konstmuseet galleri Astley, Sweden | |
| - 50 Jahre documenta – archive in motion, Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia; Fakultät der schönen Künste der Hacettepe Universität, Ankara, Turkey | |
| 2007 | - Svenska för Invandrare, Konstnershuset Stockholm, Sweden |
| - Being the mirror, Ocular lab, Melbourne, Australia (with Jan Svenungsson) | |
| - Jorge Luís Borges visited Melbourne for 10 days, RMIT School of Art Gallery, Melbourne, Australia | |
| - The power of language, Akademie der Künste Pariser Platz, Berlin | |
| - 70 years after Guernica, Kunstverein Buchholz/Nordheide | |
| - Kempelen - Man in the Machine, Kunsthalle Budapest; ZKM Karlsruhe | |
| - 50 Jahre documenta – archive in motion, Zendai MoMa, Shanghai, China; National Museum & Goethe-Institut Singapore | |
| - Dorothea 2005-2006, Galerie der HBK Braunschweig | |
| - Baden gehen, Neues Kunsthaus, Ahrenshoop | |
| 2006 | - Im Jahr des Hundes, Projekthaus Hamburg |
| - Emergency Room von Thierry Geoffroy Colonel, Galerie Olaf Stüber, Berlin | |
| - 50 Jahre documenta – archive in motion, Chongqing Art Museum, China; Tour & Taxis, Brüssel, Belgium; DA2.Domus Artium, Salamanca, Spain | |
| 2005 | - Modelle & Spam März 2005, KunstBank, Berlin |
| - Svenska för Invandrare, Goetheinstitut Stockholm, Sweden | |
| - 50 Jahre documenta – archive in motion, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel | |
| - Klasse Girke Positionen 1971-1996, Verein für aktuelle Kunst, Oberhausen | |
| 2004 | - Fine Words Butter No Cabbage, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, USA |
| - schwEDEN, Felleshus, Skandinavische Botschaften, Berlin | |
| 2003 | - My private languages, Akershus Konstnersenter, Akershus, Norway |
| - tools, Niels Borch Jensen Gallery, Berlin | |
| - Under different Circumstances, Charlottenborg, Kopenhagen, Denmark | |
| - paceless, CD-ROM Projekt, Pinapple, Malmö, Sweden | |
| 2002 | - living archive, BueroFriedrich, Berlin |
| - Svenska för Invandrare, galleri BOX, Göteborg, Sweden | |
| - structures, Sparwasser HQ, Berlin | |
| 2001 | - Galleri Konstepidemin, Göteborg, Sweden |
| - Freitag der Dreizehnte, Niels Borch Jensen Gallery, Berlin | |
| 2000 | - meine privaten Sprachen (my private languages), Kunstraum München |
| - biennale Balticum, Rauma Taidemuseo, Finland | |
| - iHOP, Lunds Konsthall, Sweden | |
| - Zeichen und Letternlappen, Galerie Hartmut Beck, Erlangen | |
| - Launching the new, Sparwasser HQ, Berlin | |
| - M Art In(n), Helsingborg, Sweden | |
| 1999 | - window views, Galerie Barbara Wien, Berlin |
| - Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin | |
| - works on paper, Stalke Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark | |
| 1998 | - Templebar, Dublin, Ireland |
| - time tunnel, gallery 360°, Tokyo, Japan | |
| - Bild und Malerei, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin | |
| - learning by doing, ARTS Victoria Melbourne, Australia | |
| - h. a transcontinental project, Melbourne, Australia | |
| - Ich denke oft an Piroschka, Hungary House, Berlin | |
| 1997 | - Searching for the perfect language, Galerie Puttkamer, Berlin |
| - artclub Berlin, artforum Berlin | |
| - trial & failure, Taidehalli Helsinki, Finland | |
| - Bildspeicher (image memory), Galerie Barbara Wien, Berlin | |
| - The Artist and an Urban Environment, Art Gallery Slovenj Gradec, Slovenia | |
| - Baltic Ikonopress, Szczecin, Poland | |
| - Brandenburgische Kunsttage - Partie Nr. 5, Drewen in Brandenburg | |
| 1996 | - something nice to hang, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin |
| - Laboratorium Berlin (labatory Berlin), Contemporary Art Center, Moskau, Russia | |
| - geben und nehmen (to give and to take), Kunstverein Schloss Plüschow | |
| - 30 seconds + titel, luxus cont., Berlin | |
| - Original Copy, Taidehalli Helsinki, Finland | |
| - files - art as position in the age of global technologies, bunker 4th floor, Berlin | |
| - missing links, Galerie Klaus Fischer, Berlin | |
| 1995 | - Bild und Malerei: Hyperpainting, Galerie Wohnmaschine, Berlin |
| - English for You, transmission Gallery, Glasgow | |
| - Studio Hellerau, group project at "Festspielhaus Hellerau", Dresden | |
| - Private mix, Galerie Eigen & Art, Berlin | |
| 1994 | - Gewöhnlich unterwegs, Stubnitz, Rostock |
| - Dokument - Stationen, neuer Kunstverein Kassel and Galerie allgirls, Berlin | |
| - when tekkno turns to sound of poetry, Shedhalle, Zürich and Kunstwerke, Berlin | |
| - Galerie Eigen & Art in London", Independent Art Space, London, GB | |
| 1993 | - John Miller, Aura Rosenberg. "The Friends` show", Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin |
| - Context Art. The Art of the 90‘s, Steirischer Herbst, Graz, Austria | |
| - minimal curating, Städtisches Kaufhaus, Leipzig | |
| - Users/KvM/Oil on canvas, Galerie ARTACKER, Berlin |