wolf.vonkries@gmail.com
* 1971 lives and works in Berlin


FORMATION
2002-2004 Post-graduate Programme « La Seine » (ENSBA) Paris
2001 Meisterschüler (MfA) at the University of the Arts Berlin
1995 – 2000 BfA University of the Arts Berlin

RESIDENCIES / GRANTS

2020 SIM Korpúlfsstaðir Residency, Rekjavik, Iceland
2019 Prendendo Tempo, Collemacchia, Italy
2016 HIAP - Helsinki International Artist Program
2016 Arbeitsstipendium Senatsverwaltung für Kultur, Berlin
2015 EL ECO, Mexico City, Mexico (Supported by Goethe Institut)
2011/ 2012 Capacete São Paulo, Brasil (supported by Goethe Institut)
2010 Kim Whan Ki International Art Residency, South Korea
2009 Residency ACSL, Yerevan, Armenia
2008 Artist in Residency program Platform, Vasa, Finland
2006 Ssamzie Space Seoul, South Korea,
2002-2003 DAAD Post-Graduate Scholarship
2002 Cité International des Arts, Paris France


EXHIBITIONS
(Selection)
2022
„In der Mitte des Wetters“  Wetter- und Klimawerkstatt, Offenbach

2021
 "Bluff", Palais für aktuelle Kunst, Glückstadt
2020
 “Zero Waste"; Museum der Bildenden Künste, Leipzig
"Fit durch Wunder", Galerie Laura Mars, Berlin
“February”, SIM Gallery Rekjavik, Iceland
2019
 “Freigänger”, ehem.Frauengefängnis Berlin
2018
“D´Après la Nature”, La petite Fabrique d´Art, Paris
“Perfect Match” Schaufenster, Berlin
2017
 “Hours and Hours of Inactivity", Neue Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin
“Becoming Undone”, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin
2016
“Seven Hills”, Kampala Biennale, Kampala Uganda
“Weaving around the Void”*, HIAP Gallery Augusta, Helsinki
2015
 “Last Sighting”, DAAD Galerie, Berlin
“Las Pesca del Día”*, Museo EL ECO, Mexico City
“Objects on the Edge”, Tieranatomisches Theater, Berlin
“Streuflüsse”, House of the Arts, Brno, Brno Chechia
“Self Storage”, Another Space, Kopenhagen
2014
Non linear journals“*, Tete Berlin
Biennal de Belleville, Paris
„All in One Party“ InSitu, Berlin
„Episode 7“, Another Space, Kopenhagen
2013
„Komplexraum“, General Public, Berlin
„Forms of Emptiness“**, NuN Exhibition Space ,Berlin
„Nuit Blanche“, Paris
2012
 „Landscapism“, Pallais für aktuelle Kunst, Glückstadt
„The Dust blows forward and the dust blows backward“, UFO Presents, Berlin
2011
„Ränder hereingebrochen Mitte zerstört“ Galerie Metro Berlin
„Ruine“, Wiesenburg, Berlin
„Tactiques et bricolages quotidiens”, École Spatiale
d´Architecture de Paris , Paris
2010
„No Soul for Sale“, Tate Modern, London,
„Brücken und Poller“* Simultanhalle, Köln 
„Muster ohne Wert “*, Centre d’art Ferme du Buisson France
“En Presence”, CEEAC Strasbourg, France
“The Mouse trap”, Galleria Tiziana die Caro, Palermo, Italy
“Never Ending Story”, Tehran, Iran
“A Walk around the Block”, Centre d’art Ferme du Buisson Marne La Valee, France
“Take Shape Make shift” Instants Chavirés, Montreuil, France
“Sleeping Disorders”, Forgotten Bar Project, Berlin
«Casting » , Visite ma Tente Berlin
2009
 «Collaborations», Autocenter, Berlin
« Catch Of The Day », Forgotten Bar Project, Berlin
« Material Evidence », Loop Berlin
« Schattenspiele »*, Platform Vasa,Finland*
2008
„ May Day*“TÄT (Berlin),
“Phoenix vs. Babylon”, Espace Ricard Paris, France
“If you give me the mountains i will ask for the sea”, Peter Lav Photo Gallery Kopenhagen, Denmark
“Avaruus Lakana”*, Platform Vasa Finland
“White Noise (Schnee)”*Galerie MB Prospects Berlin
„Freunde und Bekannte“, Sparwasser HQ Berlin, Germany
"ZappingUnit", Ferme de Buisson, Marne-La-Vallée, France
"Mieux vaut etre un virus que tomber malade" Mains d'Œuvres, Paris, France
2007
« Quantity as Quality » Kunsthalle Exnergasse Vienna, Austria
« Double Space »Ssamzie Space, Seoul, South Korea
« High Lights »Galerie Mikael Andersen, Berlin, Germany
« Le Syndrome de Broadway »Centre Du Parc St. Léger, Pougues Les Eaux, France
« Vaisseau* » La Planck, Paris, France
« 01/01 », Poliflur, Berlin Germany
« Accessories » Galerie Mikael Andersen, Kopenhagen, Denmark
„Videoisme » Point Ephemère, Paris France
2006
“Anonymous”, Kunsthalle Schirn, Frankfurt, Germany
« Sans Conservateurs » Commissariat, Paris, France
« Blurring Spaces » Ssamzie Space, Seoul, South Korea
“Prefixes”, La Box, Bourges, France
“5th Berlin Biennale” Brix, Berlin, Germany
2005
“Dying to Make a Living”, Sparwasser Berlin, Germany
„Au dela du Copan“, Espace Paul Ricard, Paris, France
“Urban Art Stories”, Berlin Alexanderplatz Berlin, Germany
„Failures“Korridor, Berlin, Germany
2004
“Nothing in particular II” Space without a Roof, Amsterdam, Netherlands
„Beijing dezoned Paris“Cube-espace multimedia Paris, France
„Hansi Hinterseer“ Wiensowski Harbord Berlin, Germany
“Made in China, Designed in France” Espace Paul Ricard Paris, France
“Dazibao”, Nuit Blanche, Paris, France

PUBLICATIONS / REVIEWS
2015
Terre Motto, Las Pescas del dia, The Catch of the day, essay
by Mauricio Marcin
“Siebdruck with Rinderbandwurm”, Fabian Federl on “Objects
on the Edge” in Tagespiegel vom 3. Juni 2015
2013
M (Notes on the Meander), Artist Book 2013
2012 Wandering Magazine, Conversation between Chris Sharp und
Wolf von Kries
2011
Territories (Essay), in “don´t look back, Vasa Finnland
2010
 Echantillons sans Valeur in Art Review; London,
Great Britain Mayi 2010, Issue 41,
The Mouse Trap
 in Mousse Magazine, Mailand, Italy, June
2006
 ANONYM, In the Future nobody will be famous, Snoeck
Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Köln
Prefixes, Interview mit Julie Pellegrin, Presses du réel, Dijon,
France
2005
The Making of Alex, Urban Art Stories, Revolver Berlin, 2005
2004
Au dela du Copan, ENSBA Press, Paris, France
2003
Made in China Conveived in France, ENSBA Press, Paris,
France
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