（Germany, b. 1968)
Bluerider ART Shanghai·The Bund is honored to announce the 2026 solo exhibition of our represented German artist Sven Drühl, "Hyper Landscape"—Beyond the Sea of Fog. For over two decades, Drühl has devoted his practice to the exploration of conceptual landscape art. This exhibition presents major works created between 2023 and 2026, encompassing three significant series: silicone paintings, lacquer paintings, and sculpture.
Sven Drühl (German, b.1968) holds a PhD in Art Science from Goethe University Frankfurt and currently lives and works in Berlin. During the 1990s, Drühl simultaneously pursued studies in art and mathematics, and the postmodern discourse of that era profoundly shaped his methodology—a conceptual foundation that continues to underpin his practice today. Drühl employs unconventional materials such as silicone, oil, and lacquer, drawing upon their distinct chemical properties to render natural motifs including mountains, trees, and volcanoes. He has been recognized as a key supported artist by Volkswagen Stiftung Hannover, Rohkunstbau Berlin and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation New York. Exhibited at museums including Museum Wiesbaden, Hans Erni Museum, Märkisches Museum and the National Museum of Art of Romania. His works are held in the permanent collections of the Berlinische Galerie -Museum für moderne Kunst, Berlin, Deutsche Bank, and the Allianz Group, among others.
The title "Hyper Landscape" is not a representation of nature, but rather a profound deconstruction of how nature is perceived. With the cool logic of a mathematician and the appropriative strategies of postmodernism, Sven Drühl extracts the Romantic symbols embedded in art history and recodes them through silicone, lacquer, and vector data—generating a state of "hyperreality suspended between actual terrain and digital virtuality. The subtitle Beyond the Sea of Fog directly references the iconic Romantic legacy of Caspar David Friedrich. When the mist that once symbolized divinity and introspection two centuries ago finally lifts, what remains is no longer the solitary wanderer, but a stark, austere map constructed from algorithms and industrial materials. Drühl guides us through the fog of sentiment toward a landscape devoid of human figures yet saturated with cultural residue—where landscape becomes a meditation on memory, artificiality, and a hyper-landscape belonging to the future.
Sven Drühl is a mathematician at heart, captivated by landscape painting throughout art history since the Renaissance. He has authored numerous studies on contemporary art, with particular interest in post-structuralist and postmodernist discourses of the 1990s—discussions surrounding authorship, originality, composition, hybridity, remix, and the crossing of media and genres. Landscape has always been his central motif. Appropriation serves as one of his core creative strategies. Using unconventional materials—silicone, oil, lacquer—whose distinct chemical properties he fully exploits, he depicts mountains, trees, and volcanoes with fluidity.
He moves effortlessly between European art history and Japanese ukiyo-e, contemplating the surfaces of landscape and the seductive qualities of light over extended periods of observation. Drühl’s work is concerned with how the idea of nature is constructed, disseminated, and reproduced. His landscapes are both meticulously composed and strangely familiar, reflecting how contemporary perceptions of nature are increasingly shaped by visual media, digital technology, and cultural memory. Against the backdrop of climate change and ecological fragility, these works open a reflective space—prompting us to reconsider the landscapes we experience, the landscapes we consume through media, and the landscapes that may vanish in the future. A distinctive feature of Drühl’s work is the complete absence of narrative elements. The absence of figures, paradoxically, points indirectly to human presence and impact. He often works in series, returning repeatedly to certain landscape motifs over long periods, shifting between different media, colors, and forms—even extending into light-based works. His methodology is built upon appropriation and reinterpretation: historical landscape paintings, digital renderings, and mathematical models all become source material, producing landscapes that resist any specific geographic location.
2026 solo exhibition, Drühl presents four series. The lacquer painting series is based on computer vector graphics, rendering hyperrealistic mountains, volcanoes, and seascapes —a complete departure from traditional plein-air painting. In "S.D.E.T", the sheen of lacquer and the chiaroscuro of oil brushstrokes together shape the dimensional contours of mountain peaks—sharp, lifelike, hauntingly familiar—blurring the line between virtual and actual terrain. The silicone series responds to the tradition of landscape painting throughout art history, translating classical imagery into bold silicone contours that point to the distance between the ideal of nature and its mediated representation. The large-scale new work "A.W.L" uses silicone to outline rocks and peaks in three dimensions, while pink oil brushstrokes inject a human warmth into its otherwise industrial, austere composition. In the monochrome black work "C.D.F. (Undead)", the surface is enveloped in heavy black oil paint—as the viewer’s gaze shifts, light reflects across the surface and the mountain layers transform accordingly. The "Mountain Relief" sculpture series is derived from processed geographic data of actual mountain terrain, yielding forms that evoke cinematic science-fiction landscapes while preserving their real geographic origins. The bronze sculpture "Eroded" begins with a plaster cast of an actual mountain, worked over with hammer, chisel, and milling machine—its fractured, eroded peaks becoming symbols of natural erosion and the passage of time. These sculptures extend Drühl’s paintings into spatial form. Drühl also selects several 19th-century landscape paintings from his personal collection to be presented alongside his own works, including pieces by Janus la Cour and Edward Theodore Compton. In the new work "J.L.C. II", Drühl appropriates a corner of Janus la Cour’s "Coastal View" from his own collection, layering silicone and oil to form vivid textures—tracing a contemporary landscape through cross-media hybridization. When works spanning from 1870 to 2026 are placed side by side in the gallery, they ignite a dialogue between historical landscape painting and contemporary artistic practice.
In the work of Sven Drühl, landscape is no longer merely a representation of nature, but a reflection on how nature is seen, understood, and transmitted. By interweaving the iconographic tradition of Romanticism with the language of digital imagery, he opens a space for contemplation—where questions of nature, memory, and artificiality may be posed anew.
Solo exhibition “APOCRYPHAL LANDSCAPE” , Marburger Kunstverein
Education
1991-1996 Studium Kunst und Mathematik / Studies fine art and mathematics, Universität GH Essen
2005 Promotion zum Dr. phil. / PhD
2007 Falkenrot Preis / Falkenrot Prize, Berlin
2008 Stipendium / Grant Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York, USA
2011 Gastprofessur für Malerei / Guest Professor for Painting, China Academy of Art (CAA), Hangzhou, China
2016 Ehrenstipendium / Grant of Honour Künstlerhaus Lukas, Ahrenshoop
Solo Exhibitions
2026 Sven Drühl: Hyper Landscape, Bluerider ART, Shanghai, China
2025 Flash: Sven Drühl, Tony Wuethrich Galerie, Basel, Switzerland
2025 Sven Drühl: Künstler – Sammler – Theoretiker / Faszination 19. Jahrhundert, Museum Wiesbaden (Cat.)
2025 Sven Drühl: F.N.J.-K.S.T., KÖNIG BERLIN
2025 Sven Drühl: Totentanz Reloaded, St. Marienkirche, Berlin
2024 Metamodernism, KÖNIG BERLIN, Telegraphenamt, Berlin
2024 All Over, Kunstverein Bamberg / Villa Dessauer, Bamberg
2024 Sven Drühl: Künstler – Sammler – Theoretiker / Faszination 19. Jahrhundert, Hans Erni Museum, Lucerne, Switzerland (Cat.)
2023 Sven Drühl: Apokryphe Landschaften, Märkisches Museum, Witten
2022 Sven Drühl: Die Aufregung – 20 years later!, Kunstverein Leverkusen
2022 Sven Drühl: Shin-hanga Epilogue, Städtische Galerie Bad Reichenhall
2022 Apokryphe Landschaften, Märkisches Museum Witten (K / C )
2021 Apokryphe Landschaften, Kunsthalle Emden (K / C )
2021 Virtual Landscapes, ALEXANDER OCHS PRIVATE, Berlin
2020 New Works, A Pick Gallery, Turin / Torino, Italien , Italy
2020 Apokryphe Landschaften, Marburger Kunstverein (Cat.)
2020 New Landscape 4.0, Bluerider Art, Taipei, Taiwan
2019 Floating Landscapes, St. Matthäus Foundation, Berlin
2019 On the coast, Hartwich Gallery, Sellin on Rügen
2019 New Paintings, CONRADS, Düsseldorf
2018 Painting Engineer, Neue Galerie Gladbeck
2018 Mash-up, Kunstverein Coburg
2018 Mountain High, Alexander Ochs Private, Berlin
2017 Simulacra, Galerie Tony Wuethrich, Basel, Switzerland
2017 Simulated Landscapes, Opere Scelte, Torino, Italy
2017 Simulationen. Landschaft jenseits der Wirklichkeit, Kunsthaus Nürnberg
2017 Permutation, Caspar-David-Friedrich-Zentrum, Greifswald
2016 Simulationen. Landschaft jenseits der Wirklichkeit, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin (Cat.)
2016 Shin Hanga – Japanese Landscapes, Kallmann Museum, Ismaning
2016 Landscape Engineer, CONRADS, Düsseldorf
2015 Shin Hanga – Japanese Landscapes, Stadtgalerie Kiel (Cat.)
2015 The invention of the landscape, WIMMERplus, Prien (with Hiroyuki Masuyama)
2015 Shin Hanga – Japanese Landscapes, DKM Museum, Duisburg
2014 Shin-hanga prologue, Alexander Ochs Galleries Berlin
2014 Architectures, Haus am Lützowplatz as a guest in the IG Metall building, Berlin
2013 Works 2001-2013, Von der Heydt-Kunsthalle, Wuppertal, (Cat.)
2013 Interpretation, Schwäbisch-Hall art association
2012 ArchScape, Alexander Ochs Galleries, Berlin
2012 Neon, Hartwich Gallery, Sellin on Rügen
2012 Strategies Against Architectures, LEVY Gallery, Hamburg (Cat.)
2012 Strategies against Architectures II, Nord LB Gallery, Hanover
2011 Dance of Death. Paintings and sculptures, Hospitalhof Stuttgart (Cat.)
2011 Archiscapes, B-05 Arts and Culture Center, Montabaur
2010 Shades of Gray, Galleri SE, Bergen, Norway (Cat.)
2008 Engineering Utopia, Michael Schultz Gallery, Berlin
2008 Landscapism, Michael Schultz Gallery, Seoul, South Korea (Cat.)
2008 Black Paintings, Gallery of the City of Remscheid
2008 blackscapes, Schultz Gallery Beijing, Beijing, China (Cat.)
2008 The Modernist, Backnang City Gallery
2007 Falkenrot Prize 2007, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (Cat.)
2007 Undead, FS.Art, Berlin
2006 artistic research, Zeppelin Museum, Friedrichshafen
2006 artistic research, Museum of the City of Ratingen (Cat.)
2006 Alpenterror, Municipal Gallery Waldkraiburg
2006 colored and black, Galerie Clara Maria Sels, Düsseldorf
2005 Serial landscapes, Scharpf-Galerie / Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen
2005 Reload, gip contemporary, Zurich, Switzerland
2005 Pop Suppliers Two, Society of Friends of Young Art, Baden-Baden (with Stefan Wissel)
2004 Pop Suppliers, Flottmann Halls, Herne (with Stefan Wissel, Cat.)
2004 Chimeras, gallery in the park, Burgdorf, Switzerland
2003 The victory of the trophy, artist association Malkasten, Düsseldorf
2003 bastard paintings, office for art, Dresden (Cat.)
2002 The excitement, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen (Cat.)
2002 The excitement, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund
2002 Remix, Fassbender Stevens Gallery, Chicago, USA
Selected Group Exhibitions and Screenings
2026 BETWEEN GESTURE AND DIGITAL CODE, a pick gallery, Torino, Italy
2026 Im goldenen Schein – Japanische Tradition trifft westliche Moderne, Museum DKM, Duisburg
2026 Dem Himmel so nah. Wolken in der Kunst, Angermuseum Erfurt
2026 BILDER, DIE WIR LIEBEN. 40 Jahre Kunsthalle Emden, Kunsthalle Emden
2026 Sammlung Holle / salondergegenwart, Kunstraum Potsdam
2025 Where earth meets sky, KÖNIG BERGSON, Munich
2025 Unsere Kunst – Eure Kunst, Stadtgalerie Kiel
2025 Dem Himmel so nah. Wolken in der Kunst, Kunsthalle Emden
2025 LUMEN, Schloß Biesdorf, Berlin
2025 Moments Of Clarity Janus La Cour And The New Image Of Nature, Nivaagaards Malerisamling, Nivå, Denmark
2025 from sea to sky, Bluerider ART, Los Angeles, USA
2025 Dark Arcadia, Kunstverein Neukölln, Berlin
2025 Dear World, KÖNIG TELEGRAPHENAMT, Berlin
2025 Dem Himmel so nah. Wolken in der Kunst, Städtische Galerie Bietigheim-Bissingen
2024 Momente der Klarheit – Janus la Cour und das neue Bild der Natur, Museum Kunst der Westküste, Alkersum, curated by Florian Illies
2024 Showroom presentation, KÖNIG BERLIN
2024 Golden Age: Art and Modern Space, Bluerider ART, London, UK
2024 ECHT JETZT? Realismus aus der Sammlung, Kunsthalle Emden
2024 New Age, Galerie Knut Hartwich, Sellin auf Rügen
2024 Golden Age-Art and modern space, Bluerider ART London, UK
2024 Golden Age, Bluerider ART Taipei, Taiwan
2023 Homeland Universe, Bluerider ART London Mayfair, UK
2022 Macht! Licht!, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
2021 Japonismus 2.0. Landschaft im Zeichen Japans, Städtische Galerie Bietigheim-Bissingen
2020 SIGHT SEEING. The world as an attraction, Kunsthalle Emden (Cat.)
2020 NIGHTMARE, TAM Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, USA
2020 SEE_Stücke | Facts and Fiction, West Coast Art Museum, Alkersum (Cat.)
2020 Power! Light !, Wolfsburg Art Museum (Cat.)
2020 What remains, St. Matthäus Foundation, Berlin
2020 SEE_Stücke | Facts and fiction, Alfred Erhardt Foundation, Berlin, (Cat.)
2019 OneHundred Works, Galerie Tony Wuethrich, Basel, Switzerland
2019 Radziwill and the present. Landscape, technology, media, Municipal Gallery Bietigheim-Bissingen (Cat.)
2019 50 anos de realismo – Do fotorrrealismo à realidade virtual, Centro Cultural do Banco Brasil, Brasilia, Brazil (Cat.)
2019 Inspiration masterpiece, Museum Villa Rot, Burgrieden
2019 Fleeting designs, project space of the German Association of Artists, Berlin
2019 POSTCARD RELOADED, Kunstraum Potsdam (Cat.)
2019 A monument to Wolfgang Neuss, Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin
2019 Alps – the myth of nature, MEWO Kunsthalle, Memmingen
2019 Nightmare, La Estacion Gallery, Chihuahua, Mexico
2019 50 anos de realismo – Do fotorrrealismo à realidade virtual, Centro Cultural do Banco Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Cat.)
2019 Geierwally and the mountain in contemporary art, Solingen Art Museum, Solingen
2019 Betaland, CONRADS, Düsseldorf
2018 Novy Cerny romantism, Topicuv Salon, Prague, Czechoslovakia (Cat.)
2018 Works from the Municipal Art Collection, Backnang City Gallery, Backnang
2018 OneHundred – 100 Works, Galerie Tony Wuethrich, Basel, Switzerland
2018 Salon present 2018, Salon present, Hamburg (Cat.)
2018 Wanderland, Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg, Nuremberg (Cat.)
2018 50 anos de realismo – Do fotorrrealismo à realidade virtual, Centro Cultural do Banco Brasil, Sao Paulo, Brazil (Cat.)
2018 Radziwill and the present. Landscape, technology, media, Kunsthalle Emden, Emden (Cat.)
2018 Art and coal. The black side, Museum DKM, Duisburg (Cat.)
2018 New Black Romanticism, Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz, Austria (Cat.)
2018 Black Box, Kunsthalle Lüneburg
2018 New Black Romance, Backnang City Gallery
2018 Weather Report, Galerie Knut Hartwich, Sellin on Rügen
2018 Our art / your art, Stadtgalerie Kiel
2017 Berlin-Klondyke, UGM Maribor Art Gallery, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Slovenia
2017 Art in Art, MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow, Poland (Cat.)
2017 New Black Romanticism, National Museum of Art of Romania, Bucharest, Romania (Cat.)
2017 InterWalls, Galerie Tony Wüthrich, Basel, Switzerland
2017 SHOW, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Leipzig
2017 New Black Romanticism, Stadtgalerie Kiel
2017 We call it work, Opere Scelte, Torino, Italy
2017 smal things: good things, Alexander Ochs Private, Berlin
2017 New Black Romanticism, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (Cat.)
2017 OneHundredAndOne Works, Galerie Tony Wuethrich, Basel, Switzerland
2016 Passion – Fan behavior and Art, Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest, Hungary (Cat.)
2016 Paesaggio Futuro, Opere Scelte, Milan, Italy (Cat)
2016 Fifty cigars for the light of the future, art association in the castle, Untergröningen
2016 The story has one mistake, too many narrators, Kunstverein Gütersloh
2016 Remix, Alexander Ochs Private, Berlin
2016 30 high, Flottmann halls, Herne (Cat.)
2016 Passion – fan behavior and art, Stadtgalerie Kiel
2016 ECCE HOMO? ECCE HOMO !, St. Canisius Church, Berlin
2016 The Power of Images, European Artists’ House Upper Bavaria, Freising
2016 Intersections – Contemporary Art and Tradition, Museum of Asian Art, State Museums in Berlin
2015 Time travel. The 1904-2014 collection, Kunsthalle Emden
2015 Good art? Want !, On AEG, Nuremberg
2015 Under Construction, Finanza & Futura, Torino, Italy
2015 Under Construction (B) erlin, Opere Scelte, Torino, Italy
2015 Worldviews. Landscape in art since the 15th century, situation art / museum underground, Bochum
2015 Nightmare, Salon de Lirio, Goa, India
2015 A MAN WALKS INTO A BAR …, me Collectors Room, Berlin (Cat.)
2015 Beuys without a hat: Karin Székessy photographs artists, Horst-Janssen Museum, Oldenburg
2015 Land in sight, Weserburg / Museum of Modern Art, Bremen (Cat.)
2015 Passion – Fan Behavior and Art, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (Cat.)
2015 Nightmare, Visual Voice Gallery, Montreal, Canada
2015 Opening on the foam, Sacrow Castle, Potsdam
2015 Berlin – Klondyke. The Berlin Editions, Salon Dahlmann, Berlin
2015 Passion – Fan Behavior and Art, Kunsthaus Nürnberg, Nuremberg
2014 From 1900 to today, Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal
2014 Worldviews – Het landschap verbeeld in zes eeuwen kunst, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, Netherlands (Cat.)
2014 in medias res … media art from the collection of the ZKM, EnBW Showroom Berlin
2014 Pure Color / Pure Color, WIMMERplus, Prien am Chiemsee
2014 Nightmare, UGM Maribor Art Gallery, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Slovenia
2014 Headlights. Light art in Germany in the 21st century, Kunstmuseum Celle (Cat.)
2014 five high two – works from the collection of the ZKM, representation of the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg at the federal government, Berlin
2014 Elsewhere – Longing Images in Contemporary Art, Kallmann Museum, Ismaning
2014 Nearby – Artistic World Explorations, Plüschow Castle
2014 good taste – hopefully, Alexander Ochs Galleries, Berlin
2014 Bielefeld Contemporary, Bielefeld Art Association (Cat.)
2013 Cold bark – rare earths, Municipal Gallery Bietigheim-Bissingen (Cat.)
2013 Circles – circles, urban area, art association, Diöszesan Museum and ETA Hoffmann Museum, Bamberg (Cat.)
2013 Dark Matters, Ulm Art Association
2013 A time of gifts, Märkisches Museum Witten
2013 The Legend of the Shelves, autocenter, Berlin
2013 It’s a thing. When everyday life becomes art, Kunstverein Sundern
2013 BergWelten, Art @ Lanz, Kitzbühel, Austria
2013 Berlin – Klondyke, Alte Cottonspinnerei, Werkschau-Halle, Leipzig
2013 Map and area, WIMMERplus, Prien am Chiemsee
2013 When wishes come true. New works meet classics from the collection, Kunsthalle Emden
2013 Berlin – Klondyke, HippHalle, Gmünden, Austria
2012 Convoy Berlin, Biksady Gallery, Budapest, Hungary / Müvészetek Háza (House of the Arts), Veszprém, Hungary (Cat.)
2012 Cold bark – rare earths, Märkisches Museum Witten
2012 Worldviews. Landscape in art from the 17th to the 21st century, art museum Dieselkraftwerk, Cottbus (Cat.)
2012 Nightmare, Goethe Institut Johannesburg, South Africa
2012 Berlin – Klondyke, Kunstverein Pfaffenhofen
2012 This is the night that despite a thousand days can say, Guardini Foundation, Berlin
2012 Death Can Dance, Town House, Zurich, Switzerland, curated by Lori Hersberger
2012 Nightmare, Green Papaya Art Projects, Quezon City, Manila
2012 Cold bark – rare earths, Stadtgalerie Kiel (Cat.)
2012 Landscape as a World View, Chemnitz Art Collections (Cat.)
2011 Berlin – Klondyke 2011, Art Center Los Angeles, USA
2011 Halleluwah – Homage to CAN, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
2011 Art after 1945, Museum Ratingen (Cat.)
2011 Deer factor. The Art of Quoting, ZKM – Museum for New Art, Karlsruhe
2011 Halleluwah – tribute to CAN, ABTART, Stuttgart (Cat.)
2011 Berlin Klondyke 2011, Odd Gallery / Klondike Institute of Art & Culture, Dawson City, Yukon, Canada
2011 DEAD_lines, Von der Heydt-Kunsthalle, Wuppertal (Cat.)
2011 Landscape as a World View, Wiesbaden Museum
2011 Discover and Escape, Aulich Merkle Foundation, Offenbach (Cat.)
2011 Nightmare, The Company, Los Angeles, USA
2011 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart
2011 Nightmare, project space of the German Association of Artists, Berlin
2011 Worldviews. Landscape in art from the 17th to the 21st centuries, Kunsthalle Kiel
2011 Nightmare, Cell Project Space, London, UK
2010 Nightmare, Transformer Gallery, Washington DC, USA
2010 Boomerang. Perm Biennal of Graphic Arts. Museum of Contemporary Art, Perm, Russia (Cat.)
2010 Redefining Center, light art exhibition in the Domaquarée, Berlin (Cat.)
2010 Culture (s) of Copy, Edith Russ Site for Media Art, Oldenburg
2010 Culture (s) of Copy, Goethe Institut, Hong Kong Arts Center, Hong Kong, China
2010 Home Run, Architecture Museum of the Technical University, Berlin (Cat.)
2010 Polyfizzyboisterous Seas, Hartwich Gallery, Rügen
2010 Worldviews. Landscape in art since the 17th century, Museum Situation Kunst, Bochum (Cat.)
2010 Mixed, Brandenburgischer Kunstverein Potsdam
2010 When the night is deepest, Bel Etage, Berlin
2010 The Bushwick Battle, Fortress to Solitude, New York, USA (Cat.)
2010 Waldbild, Municipal Gallery Waldkraiburg (Cat.)
2010 Mixed, Märkisches Museum, Witten (Cat.)
2010 Constructed Landscapes, Neue Galerie Gladbeck
2009 Constructed Landscapes, Stadtmuseum Oldenburg (Cat.)
2009 Demonstrate. An audio tour through Berlin, Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin (Cat.)
2009 One ‘forward, two back, Forgotten Bar Project / Gallery in the government district, Berlin
2009 Moving Ahead Together – Contemporary Art from Germany and China, Wuhan Art Museum, Wuhan,Hubai Province, China (Cat.)
2009 Monuments in Time, Schultz Gallery Beijing, Beijing, China
2009 wasistdas09, espace artcore / JTM Gallery, Paris, France
2009 Constructed Landscapes, Galerie Michael Schultz, Berlin
2009 ANNEXE / INFIX, Beijing 798 Biennale, Beijing, China (Cat.)
2009 SAABSDPDJIMKRLCPTRSSS.FWMW, Philara – Collection of Contemporary Art, Düsseldorf (Cat.)
2009 Access, Künstlerhaus Dortmund, Dortmund (Cat.)
2009 private, Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal (Cat.)
2009 Foxtrot Saxonia, Kunsthalle Dresden, Dresden (Cat.)
2009 SAABSDPDJIMKRLCPSSSFW.MW, autocenter, Berlin
2008 Hirschweg twenty one, Coburg Art Association, Alte Darre, Coburg
2008 Black bile – red juice. Aspects of the Melancholic, b05 art and design center, Montabaur (Cat.)
2008 burned out, ForgottenBarProject / gallery in the government district, Berlin
2008 Close-up, Galeria Por Amor a Arte, Porto, Portugal (Cat.)
2008 Unterholz, Dina4 Projects, Berlin (Cat.)
2008 ITCA International Triennale of Contemporary Art, Nationalgalerie Prague, Czech Republic
2008 Obsession, Neue Galerie Landshut
2007 Idyll, dream and fallacy, gallery of the city of Remscheid
2007 Group show, Galleri SE, Bergen, Norway
2007 Idilio, DA2 Domus Artium, Salamanca, Spain (Cat.)
2007 Freshly painted, Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf, Switzerland (Cat.)
2007 Inferno in Paradise, Alexander Ochs Galleries, Berlin
2007 Pop up Vol. I, WIMMERplus, Munich
2007 100 years of the Kunsthalle Mannheim, Kunsthalle Mannheim
2006 Arena of Abstraction, Morsbroich Museum, Leverkusen
2006 Landscape paraphrases: Dring-Drühl-Havekost-Jensen, Museum Baden, Solingen (Cat.)
2006 Painting as Presence, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (Cat.)
2006 Made in Germany, gallery in the park, Burgdorf, Switzerland
2006 Idyll, dream and fallacy, Falckenberg / Phoenix-Hallen collection, Hamburg (Cat.)
2006 Pictorial Research, art agents, Hamburg
2006 Singular, Galleri SE, Bergen, Norway
2005 Art of light from artificial light, ZKM / Museum for New Art, Karlsruhe (Cat.)
2005 De Natura, Center d’Art Contemporain, Meymac / Limoges, France
2005 what doesnt fit, The Nunnery Gallery, London, UK (Cat.)
2005 Colors & Trips, Palais Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz, Austria (Cat.)
2005 Colors & Trips, Museum of the City of Ratingen
2005 Landscape paraphrases: Dring-Drühl-Havekost-Jensen, Städtische Galerie Münsterland, Emsdetten
2005 Approaches of young spruces, gallery Clara Maria Sels, Düsseldorf
2004 VIP 2, The New, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen
2004 definitely provisional, Appendiks, Copenhagen, Denmark
2004 Landscape paraphrases: Dring-Drühl-Havekost-Jensen, Städtische Galerie, Gladbeck (Cat.)
2003 X. Rohkunstbau, Groß Leuthen Castle, Spreewald (Cat.)
2003 lives and works in …, Neuer Kunstverein Aschaffenburg (Cat.)
2003 57th Bergische Kunstausstellung, Museum Baden, Solingen (Cat.)
2003 brand the image, Galerie Mirko Mayer, Cologne
2003 scapes I, Galerie Tony Wüthrich, Basel, Switzerland
2003 Points of View, gallery in the park, Burgdorf, Switzerland
2002 VIP, Very Important Pieces, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen
2002 Drawing Days, Galerie Michael Zink, Munich
2001 Gallery Simon Spiekermann, Düsseldorf
2000 Künstlerhaus, Dortmund
1999 Junge Westen 99, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen (Cat.)
1999 Live the noble handicraft of the butchers, town. Gallery Museum Folkwang, Essen (Cat.)
Collections
Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Berlin
Berlinische Galerie
Museum für moderne Kunst, Berlin
DKM Museum, Duisburg
Kunsthalle Emden
Märkisches Museum Witten
Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf, Schweiz / Switzerland
Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen
Situation Kunst /
Museum unter Tage, Bochum
Museum der Stadt Ratingen
Stadtgalerie Kiel
Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal
ZKM | Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe
Stadt / City of Essen
Städtische Galerie Backnang
Landesregierung Baden-Württemberg
Allianz Forum
Sammlung / Collection Cardia, Porto, Portugal
Coroplast, Wuppertal
Deutsche Bank
E.ON Art Collection, Düsseldorf
Sammlung / Collection Gädeke, Berlin
HypoVereinsbank, München / Munich
Hotel Bayern, Tegernsee
Sammlung / Collection Kerber, Bielefeld
Sammlung / Collection Kettler, Bönen
Leinemann Stiftung, Berlin
Sammlung / Collection Lobeck, Wuppertal
Sammlung / Collection Willi Michel, Bern, Schweiz / Switzerland
Corporate Collection
Novartis, Basel, Schweiz / Switzerland
Sammlung / Collection Philara, Düsseldorf ·
Sammlung / Collection Prinz von Hohenlohe
Sammlung / Collection Sperling, Mainburg
SØR, Oelde
Stiftung St. Matthäus, Berlin
UTM, Luxemburg / Luxembourg
Sammlung / Collection Wemhöner
Sammlung / Collection Zhang Zhenqingn, Shanghai, China
Scholarships and Awards
2008 Grant of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York, USA
2007 Falkenrot-Award, Berlin, Germany
2003 Scholarship of Pollock-Krasner-Foundation, New York, USA Scholarship of X. Rohkunstbau, Germany
2002-04 Grant of Volkswagen-Stiftung Hannover, Germany
Selection Bibliography
2017 Sven Drühl, Künstler – Kritisches Lexikon der Gegenwartskunst, Ausgabe / Issue 119, Hrsg. von / E d. by Detlef Bluemler, Lothar Romain, Neu-Isenburg
2016 Sven Drühl: Simulationen. Landschaft jenseits der Wirklichkeit. Hrsg. von / E d. by Katja Blomberg, Haus am Waldsee, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln
2015 Sven Drühl: Shin-hanga – Japanese Landscapes. Hrsg. von / E d.by Rasmus Kleine, Wolfgang Zeigerer, Stadtgalerie Kiel, DKM Museum Duisburg, Kallmann-Museum
2015 Ismaning, Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld
2013 Sven Drühl: Werke 2001-2013. Hrsg. von / E d. by Gerhard Finckh, Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal
2012 Sven Drühl: Strategies against Achitectures. Hrsg. von / E d. by Thomas Levy, Kerber Verlag Bielefeld
2012 Sven Drühl / C laudia Splitt: Synapsenfieber. Hrsg. von / E d. by Taborpresse, Berlin Künstlerbuch mit Original-Lithografien / Artist Book with Original Lithographies
2012 Sven Drühl – Totentanz. Bilder und Skulpturen. Hrsg. von / E d. by Helmut A. Müller, Hospitalhof Stuttgart, Kettler Verlag, Bönen
2010 Sven Drühl: Shades of Grey. Hrsg. von / E d. by Sjur Nedreaas, Galleri S.E, Bergen
2007 Sven Drühl: Falkenrot-Preis. Hrsg. von / E d. by Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
2006 Sven Drühl: Artistic Research. Hrsg. von / E d. by Oliver Zybok, Museum Ratingen,Zeppelin-Museum Friedrichshafen, Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld
2004 Sven Drühl / S tefan Wissel: Poplieferanten. Hrsg. von / E d. by Flottmann-Hallen, Herne, modo Verlag, Freiburg
2002 Sven Drühl: Die Aufregung. Hrsg. von / E d. by Gerhard Finckh, Museum Morsbroich Leverkusen, Museum am Ostwall Dortmund
Unruh Kunstforum- Tip Magazine Cover 2016
- Raphael Suter Basler Zeitung
- Kunstforum International
- Bietigheim
- Tagesspiegel
- Lakeberg Art Week 2016
- KUFO 2018
- Marburger Kunstverein
