Felix Schramm was born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1970.
After studying Sculpture at Academie Di Belle Arti in Florence and at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf under Jannis Kounellis and Walther Nikkels, artist residences followed in Tokyo and Villa Massimo in Rome.
Schramm's artwork revolves around displacement, which the sculptor addresses in different visual forms within his work. His understanding of sculpture takes the dialectics thereof as a point of departure, from which he generates his modes of spatially oriented work: installation / spatial intervention / sculpture / collage.
Engaging with the relations of space and body has led to different approaches in Felix Schramm's sculptural work, working in groups of works, arranged systematically through a conceptual allocation.
The group "Multilayer" encompasses collages made from large scale photographs taken by Felix Schramm of his three-dimensional installation pieces. The merging of torn photographic paper produces two-dimensionally abstracted visual spaces of jagged edges and image planes.
"Multilayer" refers to Schramm's installation work and simultaneously functions independently on a visual level as a form of spatial construction.
In this case, the viewer begins to reflect differently on the space in front of a multilayer. Tearing away parts of the photograph reveals other forms of the underlying image (photo) and they form the result of a two-dimensional hybrid that changes the cartography of space. A spatio-temporal entanglement is formed.
Felix Schramm negotiates shifts in various differentiated creative forms: he regards entirety in its recombinable parts, among them axes, rifts, warps, the potential alignment of the viewer's perspective, and, to that effect, points of intersection – in both a physical and allegorical sense.
In Felix Schramm's sculptures and installations the surroundings of the object are seen as part of the space that defines the object. With this, Schramm produces formal systems that derive their structure from the dissolution of (architectural) order.
Felix Schramm lives and works in Düsseldorf, Germany.
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022
Interferences, Fondazione Luca & Katia Tomassini (upcoming)
The Verge, Tobias Nähring Gallery, Leipzig
2021
Galerie Markus Lüttgen, Mönchengladbach, Germany
2020
Transition, Markus Lüttgen Gallery, Düsseldorf
2019
Jannis Kounellis, Felix Schramm, Adrian Rosenfeld Gallery, San Francisco
Ace Of Space, Ribot Gallery, Milan
De L´autre Côté Du Vent (with Elger Esser), Kunsthaus Lempertz, Brussels
2018
Changes, Kienzle Art Fondation, Berlin
Taking Of, Bove, Düsseldorf
2017
Crossings, Oktogon, Wuppertal
2016
Duo, Fondazione Volume, Rome
Interface, Kunstverein Heppenheim, Heppenheim, Germany
2015
Bent, Gallery Ribot, Milan
2014
4 Solos, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel
You Cant Beat Time, Frac Alsace, Sélestat
Felix Schramm, Museum Lothar Fischer, Neumarkt, Germany
2013
Accumulation, Gallery Max Mayer, Düsseldorf
2012
Intersection, Magazin4, Bregenz
2010
Concealed Revealed, Institut für moderne Kunst, Nuremberg
Galerie Une, Neuchâtel
ZKB Kunstpreis, Zurich
2009
Spy Numbers, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
él, Galerie Kenworthy-Ball Lange+Pult, Zurich
Heads & Holes, Galerie Thomas Flor, Düsseldorf
2008
Savage Salvage, De Vleeshal, Middelburg
Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Hamburg
2007
New Work: Felix Schramm, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
2006
Soft Corrosion, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin
Galerie Thomas Flor, Düsseldorf
2005
Project Space, NADA Art Fair, Miami
Comber, Grimm/Rosenfeld, New York
Schramm, Konsortium, Düsseldorf
Der Bau, Ausstellungsraum25, Zurich
2004
Revealing the Pinnacles, Grimm/Rosenfeld, Munich
2003
Room 64, Château Marmont, Hollywood, Los Angeles (with Matias Becker)
2002
Van de Nieuwen Dingen, Tilburg
Galerie Andreas Grimm, Munich
2000
Alpha-M gallery, Tokyo
1999
Escale, Düsseldorf
1998
Kunstmuseum Thun, Thun
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020
Wände/Walls im Kubus, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart
The Place / Once Called Home, Reiterhof, Munich
2019
Hocus Pocus, Museo d´Arte Contemporanea Lissone, Lissone, Italy
2018
On Display III, Philara Collection,, Düsseldorf
Bove, Kunstraum, Düsseldorf
2017
Skulptur #1, Klaus Gerrit Friese gallery, Berlin
2016
Architecture Of Life, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley
Parmi Les Floraisons Du Ciel Incertain, Frac Alsace, Sélestat, Frankreich
My Castle Is Your Home, Kunstverein Wiesbaden
2015
Au rendez-vous des amis, Fondazione Burri, Città di Castello, Italy
2014
Vom Aussenraum zum Innenraum, Kunstverein Potsdam, Potsdam
2013
Les Pleiades, Museum Les Abattoirs, Toulouse
Nuovo Bilancio, Ausstellungsraum Jung und Söhne, Wuppertal
Andratx on Paper, CCA Andratx, Mallorca
2012
Mise-en-Scène: Skulpturale Rhetorik, Kwadrat, Berlin Die 10 Kammern der Phylogenese, Institut Rheinumschlag, Düsseldorf
Wall-Space, Galerie Jochen Hempel, Berlin Private View IV, Galerie Andreas Grimm, Munich
2011
Abstrakt///Skulptur, Georg-Kolbe-Museum, Berlin
Auxiliary Constructions, Kunsthaus Dresden, Dresden
En Ombras, Coleçao Teixeira De Freitas, Santa Cruz de Tenerife
The More Things Change, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
Merz World: Yona Friedman and Tomas Saraceno, Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich
2010
Insight-Outsight: Florian Peters-Messer Collection, Städtische Galerie Viersen, Germany
Ich Wicht, Kunstraum Potsdam, Potsdam
Ursula Schulz-Dornburg, Felix Schramm, dok25a, Düsseldorf
Neues Rheinland, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen
Break, Villa De Bank, Enschede, The Netherlands
The Destroyed Room, Whatspace, Tilburg
The Destroyed Room, The Forgotten Bar, Berlin
Weessen, The Forgotten Bar, Berlin
Felix Schramm, Schmela Bar, Düsseldorf
2009
Villa Massimo, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
Alpha, Pilot Projekt für Kunst e.V., Düsseldorf
All in One, Galerie Kenworthy-Ball Lange+Pult, Zurich
Private view II, Galerie Andreas Grimm, Munich
2008
SKULPTUR!: Piepenbrock Skulpturenpreise 1988–2006, Nationalgalerie Berlin – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin
2007
Umbau/Modification, Neue Kunsthalle St. Gallen, St Gallen
Einstellungen, Skulpturen und Räume, Kunstverein Lübeck, Lübeck
Einblicke, Privatsammlung Piepenbrock, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin
Less Roses, Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Beirut
Fearful Objects, Kavi Gupta Gallery, New York
2006
Summer 2006, Grimm/Rosenfeld, Munich
Eigenheim, Kunstverein Göttingen, Göttingen
4, Anna Helwig Gallery, Los Angeles
2005
Schöne Aussicht, Museum Schloss Benrath, Düsseldorf
Regarding Düsseldorf, DIFA - Raum für Kunst, Düsseldorf
2004
Nachstellungen: Junge Fotographie aus Düsseldorf, Halle 6, Düsseldorf
Achterland en Achterdocht, Lokaal 01, Antwerp
Private View, Grimm/Rosenfeld, Munich
2003
Game over, Grimm/Rosenfeld, Munich
Vor der Arbeit, Kulturbahnhof Eller, Düsseldorf
Il Palazzo delle Libertá, Palazzo delle Papesse, Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena
2002
10 German Artists, Galerie de Zaal, Delft
Schramm, Pompa, Schellberg, Clarissenstraße, Düsseldorf
Galerie Dick de Bruyn, Amsterdam
1998
Kulturbahnhof, Eller
1997
Kounellis Klasse, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Belgrade
15+15, European Capital of Culture 1997, Thessaloniki
1996
Field, Künstlerforum Bonn, Bonn