MICHAEL MARKWICK

American / Netherlands,  b. 1974 

M.F.A. Masters of Fine Arts, Indiana University, Bloomington, U.S.A., 2002

B.F.A. Bachelors of Fine Arts, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan, U.S.A., 1998

AWARDS, HONORS, STIPENDS / AUSZEICHNUNGEN, EHRUNGEN, STIPENDIEN (AUSWAHL)

2024
Stipend, SilvrettAtelier Montafon, Silvretta Montafon, Austria
2021
Deutscher Künstlerbund e.V. – Stipendium / Neustart für Bildende Künstlerinnen und Künstler; Berlin, Germany
2020
Sonder-Stipendium; Senate Department for Culture and Europe; Berlin, Germany
2011
Basisstipendium; Mondriaan Fonds, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2009
Werk Budget; Mondriaan Fonds, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2008
Nomination, Wim Izaks Prize; Dordrechts Museum, The Netherlands
2007
Nomination, Koninklijke Prijs voor Vrije Schilderkunst (Netherlands Royal Painting Prize); The Hague, The Netherlands
2006
Basisstipendium; Mondriaan Fonds, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2025
Mum, do caterpillars go to heaven?, C U AT SADKA, Kraków, Poland — Solo exhibition
SilvrettAtelier Montafon 2024, Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz, Austria
SilvrettAtelier Montafon 2024, Kunstforum Montafon, Schruns, Austria
2023
LAST LAUGH, nationalmuseum, Berlin, Germany
Why Paintings Work, Kourd Gallery, Athens, Greece (Curator: Jurriaan Benschop)
Berlin, A 10-Year Itch / Am Flutgraben, PICTURA, Dordrecht, The Netherlands
2021
A Grammar Of Gestures, Kourd Gallery, Athens, Greece (Curator: Jurriaan Benschop)
A Sense of Possibility, Michael Markwick, Robert Muntean, Galerie Born, Born a. Darß, Germany
2020
Exhibitionisms, Tiger Strikes Asteroid – Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Michael Markwick: Sunshine for a Long Midnight, Galerie Born-Berlin, Berlin, Germany — Solo exhibition
2019
Michael Markwick: New Songs to Learn and Sing, Martin von Wagner Museum, Würzburg, Germany — Solo exhibition
Long Loud Silence; Robert Gfader, Michael Markwick, Robert Muntean; Galerie am POLYLOG, Wörgl, Austria
2018
Serious Play: Lucy Teasdale / Michael Markwick, Galerie Born-Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2017
Michael Markwick: New Paintings, Galerie Born – Projektraum Heiddorf, Neu Kaliß, Germany — Solo exhibition
Re: Imagining Europe, Box Freiraum, Berlin, Germany (Curator: Jurriaan Benschop)
Loud Silence; Robert Gfader, Michael Markwick, Robert Muntean; Parallel Vienna, Austria
Loud Silence; Robert Gfader, Michael Markwick, Robert Muntean; Botschaft Berlin, Germany
2016
Gallery Artists, Galerie Born, Darß, Germany
Loud Silence; Robert Gfader, Michael Markwick, Robert Muntean; Parallel Vienna, Austria
Loud Silence; Robert Gfader, Michael Markwick, Robert Muntean; nationalmuseum, Berlin, Germany
2015
Robert Gfader / Michael Markwick / Robert Muntean, Kunstverein Steyr, Steyr, Austria
2014
It Never Happened: 10 Years Noordkaap, Noordkaap, Dordrecht, The Netherlands (Curators: Katja Diallo & Jan Kryzons)
Reflections on Life Earthbound, Galerie In Vorm, Hasselt, Belgium
2013
Geist und Form: Ten Painters from Berlin, Grunwald Gallery of Art, Bloomington, Indiana, U.S.A. (Curator: Jurriaan Benschop)
The Legend of the Shelves, Autocenter Berlin, Germany
2012
Michael Markwick, The WYE; U.S. Embassy Event, The WYE, Berlin, Germany — Solo exhibition
2011
Under Pressure: Current Trends in Printmaking, Kresge Gallery at Lyon College, Batesville, Arkansas, U.S.A. (Curator: Carly Dahl)
2010
Michael Markwick: Periphery Rising – New Drawings, Kunst in Kreuzberg e.V. / Atelierhof Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany — Solo exhibition
BLICK OHNE ENDE: Niederländer in Berlin, Centrum Beeldende Kunst Dordrecht & Autocenter Berlin, Germany (Curator: Jurriaan Benschop)
Art Prize, The Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, Michigan, U.S.A.
Schwarzwald, Kunstvlaai Art Fair, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (Curator: Arno Coenen)
Hier gibt es keine falschen Hasen!, Forgotten Bar Project – Galerie im Regierungsviertel, Berlin, Germany
Schwarzwald, Noordkaap, Dordrecht, The Netherlands (Curators: Arno Coenen & Katja Diallo)
NATURansichten, Gallery Alte Schule, Berlin, Germany (Curator: Matheos Pontikos)
2009
Salon, Pictura, Dordrecht, The Netherlands
Disturbed Nature: Three Artists at the Edge of Nature, Gallery Cluster, Berlin, Germany (Curator: Jurriaan Benschop)
Summer – An Abundance of Forms, Gallery In Vorm, Hasselt, Belgium
Over-leven / Sur-vivre / Sur-vive I, Gallery In Vorm, Hasselt, Belgium
Youth Cult, Dada Post Gallery, Berlin, Germany (Curators: Howard McCalebb & Lou Andrea Savoir)
Opposites Attract – On Dialectics, De Veemvloer, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (Curator: Christine Sluysmans)
2008
ART AMSTERDAM, Gallery Tanya Rumpff, Amsterdam, The Netherlands — Solo exhibition
Michael Markwick: Deeper / After Relocation, New Excavations and Paintings, Dordrechts Museum, Dordrecht, The Netherlands — Solo exhibition
Koninklijke Prijs voor Vrije Schilderkunst, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague, The Netherlands

RESIDENCIES (SELECTION) / KÜNSTLERRESIDENZ (AUSWAHL)

2024
SilvrettAtelier Montafon, Silvretta Montafon, Austria
2008
Frans Masereel Center, Kasterlee, Belgium
2007
Dordrechts Museum, Dordrecht, The Netherlands
2006
Frans Masereel Center, Kasterlee, Belgium
2005
Kunstfabrik Am Flutgraben, Berlin, Germany
Amsterdam Grafische Atelier, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (June 2005)
Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice, Italy (April 2005)

COLLECTIONS / SAMMLUNGEN (AUSWAHL)

  • Vorarlberg Museum, Bregenz, Austria
  • Martin von Wagner Museum, Würzburg, Germany
  • Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, Belgium
  • Frans Masereel Center, Kasterlee, Belgium
  • Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan, U.S.A.
  • Hong Kong Graphic Arts Center, Hong Kong
  • Indiana University Print Archive, Bloomington, Indiana, U.S.A.
  • John Beck Collection, Indiana University Museum of Art, Bloomington, Indiana, U.S.A.
  • University of the Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
  • Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, U.S.A.
  • Mary Baldwin College, Staunton, Virginia, U.S.A.
  • South Carolina University, Columbia, South Carolina, U.S.A.

LECTURES / TEACHING / INTERVIEWS (SELECTION)

2025
Visiting Artist, Graduate Lecture and Workshop “Painting Between Abstraction and Empathy,” Neue Architekturschule Siegen (NAS), Siegen, Germany
2020
Artist Talk: Sunshine for a Long Midnight, Galerie Born-Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2019
Artist Talk: New Songs to Learn and Sing, Martin von Wagner Museum, Würzburg, Germany
2017
Artist Talk, IFCEAS, Universität Würzburg, Germany
2016
EASLCE Conference Talk: “Discordant Harmonies and Imagined Wildness: A Painter’s Open Creative Space,” Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Guest Panelist, Federal Academy of Security Policy in Berlin, Germany
2015
Public Interview with Gallery Director Dr. Enrico Savio, Kunstverein Steyr, Austria
2014
Visiting Artist Lecturer, The Hong Kong Open Printshop, The Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre, Hong Kong
2013
Visiting Artist Lecturer, The Hong Kong Open Printshop, The Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre, Hong Kong
Visiting Artist, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; University of South Carolina, Columbia; Lyon College, Batesville; Indiana University, Bloomington; Calvin College, Grand Rapids, U.S.A.
2010
Public Interview with Dr. Heinz Stahlhut (Leiter der Sammlung Bildende Kunst, Berlinische Galerie), Autocenter, Berlin, Germany

CATALOGUES & BOOKS (SELECTION)

  • Pichler, Karlheinz. SilvrettAtelier Montafon 2024. Design by Angelika Wittwer-Grabher. SilvrettAtelier Montafon / Kunstforum Montafon, 2024. ISBN 978-3-200-10537-9, pp. 25–28.
  • Benschop, Jurriaan (trans. Susan Ridder). Why Paintings Work. Helsinki: Garret Publications; Athens: Idea Books, 2023. ISBN 978-952-7222-17-1, pp. 208–215.
  • Dombrowski, Damian; Gersdorf, Catrin; Renninger, Sophie. Essays in Michael Markwick: New Songs to Learn and Sing. Martin von Wagner Museum, Würzburg. J.H. Röll Verlag, 2019. ISBN 978-3897545328, pp. 9–27.
  • Schulze, Karin. Serious Play: Lucy Teasdale / Michael Markwick. Berlin: Galerie Born, 2018, pp. 3–20.
  • Markwick, Michael. New Paintings. Berlin: Galerie Born, 2017.
  • Benschop, Jurriaan; Stirratt, Betsy. Geist und Form: Ten Painters from Berlin. Bloomington: Indiana University, Grunwald Gallery of Art, 2014, pp. 16–64.
  • Autocenter Berlin. The Legend of the Shelves. Berlin: Distanz, 2013.
  • Benschop, Jurriaan. “Disturbed Nature: Drei Künstler am Rande des Natürlichen.” Berlin: Gallery Cluster, May 2009.
  • Benschop, Jurriaan. BLICK OHNE ENDE: Niederländer in Berlin. Berlin: Autocenter, Druckteam Berlin, 2010, pp. 4–64.
  • van Laar, Timothy. Introduction to monograph Michael Markwick: Collisions / Trees-Bones-Earth and Sky. 2009.
  • “Stichting Koninklijk Paleis Te Amsterdam, Koninklijke Prijs voor Vrije Schilderkunst.” 2007, pp. 1, 33.

SELECTED PRESS

  • HAPF. “Doyenne der Kunstszene im Künstlerhaus.” Vorarlberger Nachrichten, Austria, January 22, 2025.
  • Interview with Michael Markwick. Featured in SilvrettAtelier Montafon artist video. Mein Montafon (YouTube), August 24, 2024. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfq2JlM-GCA
  • Marie Ross. “Michael Markwick.” The Fidelio Podcast, Episode 7, June 2, 2014.
  • Jurriaan Benschop. “‘Nieuwe’ schilder