Artist

VIVIAN GREVEN
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Vivian Greven, born in Bonn in 1985, now lives and works in Düsseldorf. She creates ethereal paintings that borrow visually and thematically from classical arts, pop arts, and digital media world, sliding in fluidity between representation and abstraction. Working in alluring colors and restrained arrangements, her paintings display the interplay between surface and form with a glowing luminosity, dramatically flirting with body structure, dualism, and human existence depicted in serenity and clarity. Beauty is rooted within holiness, which is in connection with the universal balance between the immortal and the ephemeral. Recent solo exhibitions include: Your Skin Is My Shield, Gallery Vacancy at Frieze Seoul, 2022; CLOSE, Kadel Willborn, Düsseldorf, 2021; Nabel, Kunstverein Heidelberg, 2021; VIVIAN GREVEN, Kunstmuseum Langmatt, 2021; The Negatives, Gallery Vacancy, Shanghai, 2021; Apple, Kunstpalais Erlangen, 2020. Group exhibitions at: Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin; Hamburger Kunsthalle; Lippisches Landesmuseum Detmold; Kunsthalle Düsseldorf; Kunsthalle Nürnberg; G2 Kunsthalle, Leipzig; Kunsthaus NRW, Aachen; Ludwig Forum Aachen; Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg; Nassima Landau Foundation, Tel Aviv; Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum, Bremen; Arthena Foundation, Düsseldorf; and Deichtorhallen Hamburg. Greven’s works are in the collections of Braunsfelder Family Collection, Cologne; Long Museum, Shanghai; Kunstpalast Düsseldorf; Kunstpalais Erlangen; Kunstmuseum Stuttgart; Providence College Galleries; Sammlung Kunsthaus NRW, Aachen; Sammlung Philara, Düsseldorf; STRABAG Art Collection, Vienna.
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Vivian Greven, Y I, 2019
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Solo Exhibitions

2022    Your Skin Is My Shield, Gallery Vacancy at Frieze Seoul, KR
2021    CLOSE, Kadel Willborn, Düsseldorf, DE
2021    Nabel, Kunstverein Heidelberg, Heidelberg, DE
2021    VIVIAN GREVEN, Kunstmuseum Langmatt, Baden, CH
2021    The Negatives, Gallery Vacancy, Shanghai, CN
2020    Apple, Kunstpalais Erlangen, Erlangen, DE
2019    Elefant, ak-RAUM, Cologne, DE
2019    0 V, Kadel Willborn, Düsseldorf, DE
2019    Air, Galerie Thomas Fuchs, Stuttgart, DE
​2018    a m o r e, Aurel Scheibler, Berlin, DE
2017    GRAZIA, Aurel Scheibler, Berlin, DE
2017    Eyes Wide Shut, STRABAG Kunstforum, Vienna, AT
2017    VIVIAN GREVEN. BUDUMN, SETAREH X, Düsseldorf, DE   
2016    False Head, Galerie Thomas Fuchs, Stuttgart, DE
2014    ​Diana, Galerie Thomas Fuchs, Stuttgart, DE
2011    Vivian Greven, Museum Kunstraum Neuss e.V., Neuss, DE
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Group Exhibitions

2022    Johann Gottfried Schadow – Embracing Forms, Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin, DE (forthcoming)
2022    I’m Stepping High, I’m Drifting, and There I Go Leaping, Xiao Museum of Contemporary Art, Rizhao, CN
2022    VIERMALVIER / FOURTIMESFOUR, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, DE
2022    Finger Bang, Perrotin, Paris, FR
2022    Girl Meets Girl, Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Vestfossen, NO
2022    Neun Positionen der Jungen Malerei, Lippisches Landesmuseum Detmold, ​Detmold, DE
2022    FACE TO FACE – Porträts aus der Sammlung Frank Brabant & Gäste at Museum Haus Opherdicke, Holzwickede, DE
2022    Happiness Is a State of Mind, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, DE
2022    Something Between Us, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nürnberg, DE
2022    MIXED FEELINGS, G2 Kunsthalle, Leipzig, DE
2021    21/21. – neue malerei in der sammlung, Kunsthaus NRW, Aachen, DE
2021    Art History Selects, Providence College Galleries, Providence, US​
2021    Sweet Lies. Rethinking Identity, Ludwig Forum Aachen, Aachen, DE
2020    Poisonous Kiss. Lovely Venom., curated by Vincent Vanden Bogaard, Tick Tack, Antwerp, BE
​2020    MAGNET: Fleeting Forces in Forms, Gallery Vacancy, Shanghai, CN
2020    On Everyone’s Lips, From Pieter Bruegel to Cindy Sherman, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, DE
2020    High Voltage Two, Nassima Landau Foundation, Tel Aviv, IL
2020    Berührend, Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum, Bremen, DE​
2020    Something Between Us, KAI 10 | ARTHENA FOUNDATION, Düsseldorf, DE
2020    Now! Young Painting in Germany, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, DE
2019    Image Vision, Pfilipp Pflug Contemporary, Frankfurt, DE
2019    Now! Young Painting in Germany, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn; Museum Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden; Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz - Museum Gunzenhauser, Chemnitz, DE
2019    Touch Knows You Before Language, Lyles & King, New York, US
2019    SHAPED FIGURE, Krefelder Kunstverein, Krefeld; MMIII Kunstverein Mönchengladbach, Mönchengladbach, DE
2019    ON REPEAT, Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool, UK
2019    TO MAKE THE STONE STONY, Golsa, Oslo, NO
2019    Ladies Only, VALLOIS, Paris, FR
2018    Insane in the Membrane, Sammlung Philara, Düsseldorf, DE
2018    The Space Between, with Sterling Lawrence, PRACTISE, Chicago, US
2018    Ecstasy, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart, DE
2018    Classic Beauty: 21st-Century Artists on Ancient [Greek] Form, Providence College Galleries, Providence, US
2018    Dead Eden, Lyles & King, New York, US
2018    L’esule e le Grazie, with Wilhelm von Gloeden, SOYUZ, Pescara, IT
2017    LONG AGO AND FAR AWAY, BRAUNSFELDER, Cologne, DE  
2017    Akademie, KIT – Kunst im Tunnel, Düsseldorf, DE
2017    A Painter's Doubt, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, AT
2016    STRABAG Artaward International 2016, STRABAG Kunstforum, Vienna, AT
2016    Ghost, with Natascha Schmitten, SETAREH X, Düsseldorf, DE
2016    Die GROSSE Kunstausstellung NRW, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, DE
2015    Malerei, jetzt., KIT – Kunst im Tunnel, Düsseldorf, DE
2015    HOLY SHIT!, ruelle, Mainz, DE
2015    Ping Pong, with Mevlana Lipp, SITTart Galerie, Düsseldorf, DE
2015    Young Positions, Galerie Heinz Holtmann, Cologne, DE
2015    Genius Loci III, SETAREH, Düsseldorf, DE
2015    Künstler sammeln, Akademie-Galerie, Düsseldorf, DE


Awards & Residencies

2020    Marianne-Defet-Painting-Scholarship, Nuremberg, DE
2018    Artist in Residence, Providence College Galleries, Providence, US
2017    Artist in Residence, STRABAG, Vienna, AT
2016    Recognition Award, STRABAG Artaward International 2016, Vienna, AT
2013    Academy Scholarship for Painting, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, DE
2011    Artist in Residence, Bow Arts Trust, London, UK


Collections

Braunsfelder Family Collection, Cologne, DE
Long Museum, Shanghai, CN
Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, DE
Kunstpalais Erlangen, Erlangen, DE
Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart, DE
Providence College Galleries, Providence, US
Sammlung Kunsthaus NRW, Aachen, DE
Sammlung Philara, Düsseldorf, DE
STRABAG Artcollection, Vienna, AT

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