1965born in Düsseldorf, Germany
lives and works in Bristol

 
Education
1996-97Tower Hamlets College, London, (Digital Image Creation Manipulation, (P/T)
1991-92Chelsea College of Art and Design, London, (MA Sculpture)
1987-90Goldsmiths' College, London (BA Hons Degree)
1985-87Crawford College of Art and Design, Cork, Irland (Foundation, 1st year Diploma)
1985Apprenticeship in architectural model making, Pfeiffer & Voss, Dusseldorf,
1984-85University Wuppertal, Germany(Art History, Philosophy and Sciences of Literature)


Awards/Residencies
2010Ludwig Gies-Preis für Kleinplastik der LETTER Stiftung, Köln, zur 11. Triennale, Fellbach
2001Botho-Graef-Kunstpreis of the City of Jena
1998-2001Senior Research Fellowship, The University of Wales Institute, Cardiff
1999Joint prize winner Oil of Olay (Lux Centre/Make magazine), London
1998The Henry Moore Fellowship, Spike Island
1997London Arts Board, Awards to Individual Artists 1996/97
1st Prize in Sculpture, EDCR, Portugal
1996MOMART Prize Winner, The Whitechapel Open
1st Prize, The Discerning Eye - New Discovery Art Prize, - HSBC Investment Bank
1993European Artists Pepiniere, (3 month residency) Visual Arts, Budapest, Hungary

 
Solo Exhibitions
2010 Mariele Neudecker, Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin
2009 Mariele Neudecker, Room, London, UK
"Stay Foreever and never come back", presented by Aldeburgh Music, Snape Maltings Concert Hall, Dovecote Studio, Snape, Suffolk
2008 Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin
'This Thing Called Darkness', Arts Towada, Towada, Japan
'2.5 million light years', commission for the NewArtCentre, Roche Court, Salisbury
2007 "Afterlife", Egyptian Collection, Bristol's City Museum and Art Gallery, Bristol, UK
"Those Who Came Before Us, and Us Who Are to Follow / You Are Always On My Mind" (2 permanent video works), Egypt Gallery, Bristol's City Museum and Art Gallery, Bristol, UK
2006"Kindertotenlieder", Salts Mill, Saltaire, UK, Colston Hall Bristol, Bonnington Gallery, Nottingham, UK (DVD-cat.)
"Ambassador", Republic Tower Billboard Project, Centre for Contemporary Art in Association with Visible Art Foundation, Melbourne, Australia
Drawing Residency, R O O M, Bristol, UK
2005"Winterreise life performances: Shaw Room", National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin
Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera London, UK
All Saints Church, leamington Spa, UK
Everyman Theatre, International Festival of Music, Cheltenham, UK
"Kindertotenlieder", Impressions Gallery, York, UK
2004/05 "Over and Over, Again and Again", Tate Britain, London
2004 "Much Was Decided Before You Were Born", Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin
"Over and Over, Again and Again", Tate St. Ives, St. Ives, Cornwall,GB
"Between Us", Tullie House, Carlisle, GB
2003 "Between Us", Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool; Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds; The Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, GB
"Winterreise", Opera North Projekt
2002"New Work", Chapter Art Centre, Cardiff, Wales, UK
2001"Until Now", Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin
"Until Now", Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
"Until Now", 1stSite at the Minorities, Colchester, UK
2000"Until Now", Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK
1999"Never Eat Shredded Wheat" (Memory Maps), James Harris Gallery, Seattle
"Never Eat Shredded Wheat", curated by Leslie Brothers, I-Space, The Krannert Art Museum, Chicago
1998"New Work", Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin
"The Air We Breath is Invisible", Middelesbrough Art Gallery, Middelesbrough
"Shipwreck", project space, Gio Marconi, Milano
"Unrecallable Now", Spike Island, Bristol
"The Halted Traveller", Bergens Kunstforening, Bergen, Norway
Lucy de Bellevue - Mariele Neudecker, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris
1997Art Dealers 2, Marseille, (Lotta Hammer)
"New Work", Lotta Hammer Gallery, London
1996"Stolen Sunsets", Studio Galeria, Budapest, Hungary
1993Pepiniere Exhibition, Barcsay Exhibition Hall, Budapest, Hungary
1991"Piece-talk"s,in collaboration with Gillian Wearing, Diorama Art Centre, London
1990"The High Priestess", in collaboration with Gillian Wearing, Goldsmiths"College
1989"Bilder und Objekte", Kunsthaus Mettmann, Düsseldorf

 
Group Exhibitions
2010 "Invisible dust", kuratiert von Alice Sharp, London Zoo, London, UK
"Extraordinary measures", Belsay Hall, Northumberland, UK
11. Trienale für Kleinplastik, Fellbach near Stuttgart, Germany
"Extraordinary Measures", Belsay Hall, Newcastle, UK
"Earthscapes", Bridport Art Centre, Dorset, UK, touring to Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Honiton, Devon, UK
"Realismus - Das Abenteuer der Wirklichkeit", Kunsthalle Emden and Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung München, Germany
2009 DRIFT 08 , Millenium Bridge, Thames River, London
"Trying to Cope with Things That Aren't Human (Part One)", AirSpace Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire
"In_Fluence", Belfast, curated by Ralf Sander
"Trying to cope with things that are not human (Part One)", David Cunningham Projects, San Francisco, touring exhibition
2008 "Arts Towada", Towada Art Center, Towada, Japan
"Command and Control", Standpoint Gallery, London, UK
"Acclimatation", Villa Arson, Nice, France
"Monochrome. Drawings and Prints", Rabley Contemporary Drawing Centre, Marlborough, UK
"Wonder", Singapore Biennale, curated by Fumio Nanjo
"DRIFT", London, curated by Illuminate Productions, London
2007 „Real and Imagined Landscapes“, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, USA
„Reality Crossings“ 2. Foto Festival - Mannheim - Ludwigshafen - Heidelberg, Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen, D
„Venice: City of Dreams?“, Sotheby’s Conduit Street Gallery, London
„Place Memory“, video screening at Stroud Valleys Artspace as part of site07, Gloucestershire, UK [C]Artography: Map-Making As Artform, Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland
Reality Bites, Sam Fox Arts Center at Washington University, St. Louis
2006'Melancholie. Genie und Wahnsinn in der Kunst.', Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin
"The Sublime is Now!. Das Erhabene in der Kunst von Barnett Newman bis heute", Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf (Switzerland)
"ARS 06", Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma , Helsinki (Finland)
2005"Elemental Insight", BBC London, then touring Vertigo, Sudley Castle, UK
"Modellräume, Stadt." Museum Nordhorn
"Wunderkammer: The Artificial Kingdom", Lincoln, UK
"Salvator Rosa: Wild Landscapes", Compton Verney, Warwickshire (GB)
"Munch revisited. Edvard Munch und die heutige Kunst", Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund
2004"Into My World: Recent British Scupture", The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, USA
"Zwischenwelten³, Haus Esther- Haus Lange, Krefeld
"Elemental Insight³, MET Office, Exeter
"Natural Histories: Realism Revisited³, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (SMoCA), Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
"Other Times³, City Gallery Prague, Prague (Czech Republic)
2003"Berlin-Moskau,Moskau-Berlin: 1950-2000", Walter-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
"Orifice",Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, Australia
"From Dust to Dusk", Museum of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
"Brightness ­ works from the Thyssen-Bornemisza Contemporary Art Foundation", Museum of Modern Art Dubrovnik, Dubrovnik, Croatia
"Strange and Beautiful", Sketch, London
"Danger Zone", Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland
"Out of Place", Harewood House, Yorkshire, GB
"Liquid Sea, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
"Beaufort 2003", Museum of Modern Art Oostende/Cloister Ten Bogaerde, Belgium
"micro/macro - British Art 1996-2002", Muczarnok, British Council Exhibition, Budapest,Hungary
"The Idea of North", Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2002/03"Frozen", Site Gallery, Sheffield, UK
2002"Judie Bamber, David Deutsch, Moira Dryer, Mariele Neudecker", Gorney
Bravin + Lee Gallery, New York
"Humid", The Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
"IMAGINATION-Romanticism", The Brno House of Arts, Czech Republicm, travelling to Galway, Ireland
"At Sea", Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich, GB
"Here, There, Elsewhere". curated by David Blamey, London Print Studio Gallery, London
"Conquistadores of the Useless", contemporary art at the Alpine Club, curated by Bruce Haines, London
"Der Berg", Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg, Germany
2001/02"Utopien heute? Kunst zwischen Vision und Alltag", Wilhelm-Hack-Museum Lud
2001"IMAGINATION-Romanticism", Jena, Germany
Skulptur-Biennale Münsterland, Kreis Steinfurt, curated by Christoph Tannert
Yokohama International Triennale of Contemporary Art, curated by Fumio Nanjo
"Bright Paradise", Auckland Art Gallery/New Zealand, curated by Alllan Smith
Sonsbeek 9 "Locus Focus", Arnheim/The Netherlands, curated by Jan Hoet
"Artline V", Borken/Germany, curated by Jan Hoet & Michel De Wilde
"Superman in Bed", Collection Gaby and Wilhelm Schürmann, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund/Germany
"At Sea", Tate Liverpool, UK
"Humid", Spike Island, Bristol, UK and Melbourne Festival, curated by Juliana
Engberg
"Time Odyssee", Galeria Luis Serpa Project, Museo National de Historia Natural, Sala de Veado, Lisbon, Portugal
Total Object Complete with Missing Parts, Tramway, Glasgow, curated by Andrew Renton
"Landskap", Uppsala Konstmuseum, Uppsala/Sweden
2000Waterfront, Helsingor/Denmark, curated by Pontus Kyander
"Blue", Launch Exhibtion, The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall
"The Wreck of Hope", The Friedrich Society, The Nunnery Gallery, London
"Utopias", Mead Gallery, Warwick, UK
1999Maribor Triennale Exhibition for Ethnography and Art, Umetnostna Galerija
Maribor, Slovenia
"In Uso", Michettin Museum, Pescara, Italy
"Things Can Change in a Day",Storvagan Museum, Kabelvag, Kunstfestivalen, Lofo ten, Norway curated by Per Gunnar Tverbakk
"The Olay Vision Award For Women Artists", LUX Gallery, London
Melbourne Biennale 1999, Melbourne, Australia, curated by Juliana Engberg
"About Time", Cardiff Art In Time festival, Cardiff Wales
The New Landscape, From the British Council Collection, curated by Ann
Gallagher, touring to Southamerica, Eastern Europe
"Simulacra - Keeping it Real", works from the Arts Council Collection,
touring UK
1998"Travelogue", curated by Alison Chisholm, The Travelling Gallery and The City
"Summer Show", gallery artists, Lotta Hammer Gallery, London
"Here to Stay", Arts Council Collection purchaes of the 1990"s, touring UK
"Richard Wentworth"s Thinking Aloud",curated by Richard Wentworth,
Southbank, touring, Kettles Yard, Cambridge, Corner House Manchester, Camden Arts Centre London
Micro", Hayles Gallery, London,curated by Cliften Steinberg
"Multiples", curated by Dr. Knubben, Kunstverein Ravensburg, Germany
"Feeringbury VIII Ð Cultivated", Feeringbury Manor, Minories art gallery,
Colchester, curated by Stephen Hepworth und Richard Kirwan
"Nature of Man", curated by Pontus Kyrander, Kunsthalle Lund, Schweden
"Launch", 50 Artists, Spike Island, Bristol
"The House In The Woods", Contemporary German Sculpture, CCA, Glasgow, touring to Aberdeen and Belfast
1997"Light",curated by Paul Heber-Percy and Joan Key, Richard Salmon, London
"Belladonna", curated by Kate Bush and Emma Dexter, ICA, London
7th International Biennial of Sculpture and Drawing - EDCR - Bienal International De Escultura e Desegno Das Caldas Da Raina, Portugal
"A Sense of Scale", curated by Alessandro Vincentelli, Ikon Touring,
Birmingham and Midlands
"Belladonna: a selection", FIRSTSITE in The Minories, Colchester, UK
A CASE FOR A COLLECTION": New Work by Contemporary Artists, The Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne
"Browse", THC final exhibitions, Tower Hamletts, London
"Art Dealers 2", Friche de la Belle de Mai, Marseille
"Whisper and Streak", (with Fiona Banner, Hadrian Pigott, Bridget Smith, Heidi Specker), Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin
"Boredom", CD Rom, ICA, London
"Multiples", Arnolfini, Bristol, UK
1996Art 96", with Curtain Road Arts, Business Design Center, London
"Private View",curated by Penelope Curtis und Veit Gorner The Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, North Yorkshire
"Out of Space", curated by Emma Sandbach, Cole und Cole, Oxford
"Lightness and Weight", The Custard Factory, Birmingham
"New Contemporaries-Multiples", Camden Art Centre, London
"Whitechapel Open", (MOMART PRIZE WINNERS Mark Hopkins, Andrew Mansfield, Mariele Neudecker), Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
"The Discerning Eye", curated by Jonathan Watkins, Mall Galleries, London
1995"In and out of touch", curated and organized with Barbara Thumm, Budapest
Galeria, Budapest, Ungarn - Haus Ungarn, Berlin, Germany
1994"Aritma 2", with Attila Csorgo, Eike, Petra Kussner,Istvan Szil, Fiona Tan),
Foundation for Modern Art, Dunaujvaros, Hungary
British Telecom New Contemporaries, (with Fiona Banner, Mark Cannon, Milo
Garcia, Hadrian Pigott, Mike Silva, Kerry Stewart) Camden Art Centre,
London - Conerhouse, Manchester -Arnolfini, Bristol - Fruitmakrket
Gallery, Edinburgh - Aberystwyth Art Centre, Aberystwyth - Catwright Hall, Bradford
"Exchange - Echange", curated by Anna Best and Alexandra Fontura, Monumental II, Lissabon, Portugal
"Miniatures", The Agency at Curtain Road Arts, London
"Art(s) d"Europe", Gallerie de L"Esplanade, Paris, France
1993"Brick Lane Open 4", Curtain Road Arts, London
"Western Exposure", Riverside Studios, London
"Tjuna Fis Compitisn", with Fiona Tan), Fö Utca 3, Budapest, Hungary
1992"Clove Two", with Johannes Albers, Dan Bonsall, Michael Grant), Clove Two Gallery,
1989"37 Seconds", Slaugterhouse Gallery, London
"Lieblinge Aufhängen", Galerie Tannenbaum, Dusseldorf

 
Collections
Saatchi Collection, London
The Arts Council Collection, London
The City Art Centre Edinburgh
The Thyssen-Bornemisza Contemporary Art Collection, Vienna
The British Council Collection, London
The Government Art Collection, London
Towner Collection, Eastbourne
Phillip Morris Collection, NY
Museum of Contemporary Art, Guadalajara, Mexico
The Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki
various private collections

 
Teaching/Lecturing
2001The Royal Academy, London
The Royal College, London
1998Goldsmiths" College MA, London
UWIC - Cardiff School of Fine Art
Academy of Fine Art, Bergen, Norway
1997Chelsea School of Art, MA-sculpture
Exeter School of Art & Design, University of Plymouth (P/T)
1996/97Exeter School of Art & Design, University of Plymouth (P/T)
1994Kingston University, London
Middlesex University, London
Brighton School of Art
NCAD, Dublin
1993Kingston University, London
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