Curriculum vitae – Gregor Passens

Born 1974 Lives and works in Munich and Buenos Aires.

Studying and working:

2014 - 2015
Artist for the Foundation Nantesbuch, Luitpold High School Munich
2007 - 2013
Artistic associate at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich with professors Gerhart and Olaf Nicolai
2006
USA – fellowship from the Bavarian State
2005 - 2006
Internationales Künstlerhaus Villa Concordia, Bamberg
2002 - 2003
DAAD grant, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2000
Master class with Professor Nikolaus Gerhart
1999
Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
1994 - 2001
Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, with professors Hubertus von Pilgrim, Pia Stadtbäumer, Michaela Melián and Nikolaus Gerhart, Completed Masters of Fine Arts

Prizes and grants: (a selection)

2009
Erwin and Gisela von Steiner Foundation
2008
Project studio Sitterwerk, St. Gallen, Switzerland
2005
Project grant from the city of Munich
2004
Erwin and Gisela von Steiner Foundation
2003
Prinzregent Luitpold Foundation
2003
Bavarian State Award
2002
Debutanten 2002 catalog funding
1998
Leonhard and Ida Wolf Prize

Exhibitions: (a selection)

2015
Event Horizon, Porto, Portugal
2014
ho poimen ho kalos, Erlöserkirche Munich Geheimpfade der Natur, invaliden1 Galerie, Berlin
2013
my mind keeps wandering, Biesenthal, Berlin Freeze, Galería mite, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2012
Wake uo, Artothek, Munich
2011
Scale, Supreme Building Authority of the Bavarian State, Munich Separated at Birth? An Encounter between Art and Craft, 42SNA - Geo-aesthetics of the Caribbean, Cartagena de Indias, Columbia (curator: Esteban Álvarez)
2010
Die dritte Dimension, Municher Künstler im Salzamt, Linz, Austria Der Leere Raum with Martin Wöhrl, Rathaus Kunsthalle, Munich
2009
Variation Time, Galerie der Künstler, Munich
2008
The Unfair Fair, Rome, Italy 2858, Galerie der Künstler, Munich Von hier aus, Künstlerhaus Marktoberdorf
2007
Triumph, neues kunstforum mit Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne; Rencontres Internationales, Madrid, Berlin and Paris
2006
VIDEOTHEKA, Kunsthalle Vienna, Austria Triumph, El Basilisco, Buenos Aires, Argentina Cinema Capacete VI, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Travestis, Open Space, Galerie Thomas Zander, Art Cologne, Cologne
2005
A Parasite Showing, k-forum, Vienna,+ ARGE Galerie, Bozen, Italy Buenos días Santiago – An Exhibition as Expedition, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Santiago de Chile, Chile, (curator: attitudes)
2004
A Temporary Monument for David Mc Comb, STUK, Leuven, Belgium (curator: Jean Bernard Koeman) Xtreme Houses, Lothringer 13, Munich + Halle 14 Stiftung Federkiel, Leipzig Definitely Provisional, Appendiks Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark Muslim Mulliqi Prize, The Kosova Art Gallery, Pristina, Kosovo
2003
Verboden op het Werk te komen, W 139 im Brakke Grond, Amsterdam, Holland U-topos, Second Biennale Tirana, Albania (curator: Ann Demeester) ARTES – DAAD, Santiago de Chile, Chile

Art in Architecture: (a selection)

2016
Ein Stein der Weisen, Special Education Munich, QUIVID (in planning)
2014
Cepa cupria, Natural Sciences, University Regensburg
2012
Tympanum design, Stiftskirche Berchtesgaden
2011
Altar design, St. Willibrord Church, Munich
2010
Freischwimmer – überdimensionierter Rettungsring, University Clinic, Freiburg
2008
Batterie, new biology wing, Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität, Campus Planegg-Martinsried, Munich