Anselm Reyle © Verena Bruening

Anselm Reyle (b. 1970 in Tübingen, Germany) lives and works in Berlin. He studied at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart and Karlsruhe. Since 2009 he has been Professor of Painting/Drawing at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg.

Reyle’s work operates at the intersection of painting and sculpture. His practice is characterised by the use of industrial materials and found objects such as metallic foils, mirrors, and neon, as well as materials and remnants of consumer culture, which are removed from their original context and reconfigured within his compositions.

His work has been presented in numerous institutional exhibitions worldwide, including XPM Museum, Changsha (2024); MoCA Westport, Connecticut (2023); Kunsthalle Vogelmann, Heilbronn (2022); Aranya Art Center, Qinhuangdao (2020); Deichtorhallen Hamburg (2012); and Kunsthalle Zürich (2006). Works by Anselm Reyle are held in major international collections, including Centre Pompidou, Paris; Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris; Pinault Collection, Venice; Nationalgalerie – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin; Saatchi Gallery, London; and Leeum / Samsung Museum of Modern Art, Seoul.

education

1991–1997
Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe
1990–1991
Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, Stuttgart

selected solo exhibitions

2026
Chapel of Ghouls, KÖNIG GALERIE, Berlin
Infinite Longing, Walter Storms Galerie, Munich
2025
Sunrise Mission, Opera Gallery, London
Babylon Fading, Ron Mandos Gallery, Amsterdam
2024
Magic Shine Ray 800, XPM Museum, Changsha
Opera Gallery, Geneva
2023
Paradise, KÖNIG GALERIE, Nave, Berlin
2022
Looking West: Anselm Reyle & Jon Young, Morgan Presents, New York City, USA
2020
After Forever, Aranya Art Center, Qinhuangdao
2019
Reflections, KÖNIG GALERIE, Chapel, Berlin
2017
Laguna Sunrise, Almine Rech, Brussels
Eight Miles High, KÖNIG GALERIE, Berlin
2016
Keramik, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin
2013
Electric Spirit, Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Moscow
Ultracore, MAGASIN – Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Grenoble
2012
Mystic Silver, Deichtorhallen Hamburg
Stolen Fantasy (with Franz West), Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin
2011
Anselm Reyle, Arken Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj
Meissen Debris Acropolis, Gagosian Gallery, Athens
Anselm Reyle feat. Franz West, Galerie Almine Rech, Paris
Anselm Reyle, Andersen’s Contemporary, Copenhagen
Anselm Reyle, Des Moines Art Center, Iowa
2010
Anselm Reyle, Kukje Gallery, Seoul
Elemental Threshold, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle
2009
Monochrome Age, Gagosian Gallery, New York
Acid Mothers Temple, Kunsthalle Tübingen
2007
The 7th Dream, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York
The 5th Dream, The Modern Institute, Glasgow
2006
ARS NOVA, Kunsthalle Zürich
2004
The Art of Anselm Reyle, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York

selected group exhibitions

2025
The Scharf Collection. Goya – Monet – Cézanne – Bonnard – Grosse, Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin
MINEBANE! Contemporary Art – The Taguchi Art Collection, Akita Museum of Art & Akita Senshu Museum of Art, Akita
2024
Floating Islands, Istanbul Modern, Istanbul
Streetspace Banger, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen
Sinn und Form, Villa Merkel, Esslingen
2023
6th Suzhou Jinji Lake Biennale, Suzhou
2022
Friendship. Nature. Culture. 44 Jahre Daimler Art Collection – Werke der Sammlung 1920–2021, Daimler Art Collection, Berlin
Blanc des Blancs, Villa Schöningen, Potsdam
2020
The Essl Collection, Albertina Modern, Vienna
Szene Berlin. Berlin kommt nach Niedersachsen, Hall Art Foundation, Schloss Derneburg
Solid Fiction, Emsdettener Kunstverein, Emsdetten
Neon Delight, Zentrum für internationale Lichtkunst Unna, Unna
Recyclage surcyclage, Villa Datris Foundation for Contemporary Sculpture, L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue
2019
Abstraction(s), Song Museum, Beijing
Lichtparcours: Auftakt, Kunstverein Braunschweig
2018
Hello World, Revision einer Sammlung, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany
2017
Miniatures, Sexauer Gallery, Berlin
Modern Sculpture, Galería Casado Santapau, Madrid
2016
Franz West – ARTISTCLUB, 21er Haus, Belvedere, Vienna
On the Subject of the Ready-made, Daimler Contemporary, Berlin
Made in Germany: Contemporary Art from the Rubell Family Collection, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio
Takashi Murakami’s Superflat Collection – Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama
2015
Deutsche Kunst nach 1960, Essl Museum – Kunst der Gegenwart, Klosterneuburg
Boundless Treasures: Inexhaustible and Limitless, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
2014
One Way: Peter Marino, Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach
NOW-ism: Abstraction Today, Pizzuti Collection, Columbus
Pliage / Fold, Gagosian Gallery, Paris
When Now Is Minimal. Die unbekannte Seite der Sammlung Goetz, MUSEION, Bolzano
2013
BubeDameKönigAss, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
Salon der Gegenwart, Hamburg
2012
The Slide Show, FRAC Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand
Looking Back for the Future, Kunsthalle Zürich
Raw Materials – Vom Baumarkt ins Museum, Museum für Konkrete Kunst, Ingolstadt
2011
Taste – The Good, the Bad and the Really Expensive, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden
Lustwarande – Raw, Museum De Pont, Tilburg
2010
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Bilder über Bilder – Diskursive Malerei aus der Daimler Kunstsammlung, mumok, Vienna
2008
Depletion, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
The Hamsterwheel, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö
2007
Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century, New Museum, New York
Sequence 1, Palazzo Grassi, Venice
The Artist’s Dining Room, Tate Modern, London
2006
Painting in Tongues, MOCA – Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles