BIOGRAPHY

 

2007   Diploma / Master student

2003   Academy of Fine Arts Munich / Sculpturing / Professor Olaf Metzel

2001 - 2003 Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg / Art and Public Space / Professor Georg Winter

1996 - 1999 Apprenticeship as stonemason and sculptor in stone

 

Awards / Grants

2008  DAAD-Scholarship for the USA 2009

2008  Scholarship of Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn

2007  Debutant Grant of the Bavarian Ministry of Culture and Science, Munich

2005  Scholarship FAAP Art School, Sáo Paolo / Brazil

2002   First prize of the annual exhibition at the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg

2002   Second prize at the competition of the Danner-Foundation

 

Publications (selection)

Diving for Pearls (in your own Soup), catalogue, Exhibition Hall of the City of Munich, 2011

Schwarz war immer die Farbe der anderen, 8 years Gallery Dina4 Projects Munich, publication, 2011

ANNUAL, magazine, Paris, France 2011

New German Art, the Playground.co.uk, William Kherkbek, London, United KIngdom, 2010

Portrait gallery scene Munich, Evelyn Pschak, artnet.de, 2010

Carsten Recksik - New Release, artist book, Salon Verlag, Cologne 2010

kunst.freunde, magazine Haus der Kunst, Munich, 2007

Carsten Recksik - Arbeiten, catalogue as part of the debutant grant of the Bavarian Ministry of Culture and Science, Munich, 2007

forschungsgruppe_f Little, publication, Verlag Silke Schreiber, Munich, 2007

Notes for an art school, publication by the International Foundation Manifesta 6, article by Olaf Metzel, New York/ Nicosia, 2006

Klasse Metzel in der katholischen Akademie, catalogue, Munich, 2006

Kunststudenten stellen aus, catalogue, Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn, 2005

Münchner Merkur, newspaper article, Neue deutsche Höhlenmalerei, München 2005

Ghostacademy, publication by Uli Aigner, 2005

forschungsgruppe_f INDEX, publication by forschungsgruppe_f, 2005

Fucking good art, magazine, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2004

 

Exhibitions / Projects (selection)

2011 Schwarz war immer die Farbe der anderen, Galerie Alexandra Saheb, Berlin

        Help Japan, Benefiz Exhibition, K4, Munich

        Art Cologne, Cologne

        Invitation for Invasion, Kunstraum Morgenstraße, Karlsruhe

        Gemini 6 Rendezvous, Schaufenster, Berlin

 

2010 Hostile Aestetik Takeover, Appartement, Berlin

        Art in unusual spaces, Leeds, UK

        Diving for Pearls in our own Soup, Städtische Kunsthalle, Munich

        neue deutsche kunst/ new German art, Deutsche Botschaft, London, UK

 

2009 Carsten Recksik - New Release!, Gallery Dina4, Munich

        forschungsgruppe-f @ Kunstraum Munich

        lives and works in..., Kunsthaus Nuremberg

        Aperitivo Industriale, Weltraum, Munich 

        Oil on canvas, AEG-Estate, Nuremberg (with Peter Wendl)

        Archive of Shared Interests, White Space, Zurich (with forschungsgruppe_f)

 

2008 Diving for Pearls in Your Own Soup, London, UK

         RADAR loves, Tanzschule, Munich

        Altbau oder Neuland, 200 Years Academy of Fine Arts, Munich

        Carsten Recksik - MPEG Sketchbook, Toy Void , Theater Kammerspiele Munich

        Carsten Recksik - Nuremberg / Techno / City, Kunstbunker, Nuremberg

        10 x 15, Exhibition Park, Festival "Pop Up", Stuttgart

        INDIFFERENCE (is bliss), Skalitzer Strasse, Berlin

        Carsten Recksik - 2Gigabyte of visitors, Night of the Museums, Berlin

        

2007 little germany/ little hungary, Stuttgarter Kunstverein, Stuttgart (with forschungsgruppe-f)

         The funny world of art, Dina4 Projekte, Munich

         Preisträger, Academy of Fine Arts, Munich

         The Final Countdown, Galerie Steinle, Open Art, München

         Proudly Presents, Universal Cube, Baumwollspinnerei Leipzig

 

2006 warm winter ressorts, ALM, Munich

         Klasse Metzel, Katholische Akademie, Munich

         Colonialism without colonies, Shedhalle, Zurich, Switzerland

         Annual Exhibition, Academy of Fine Arts, Munich

         Holy wood, Kunstverein, Sasbachwalden

 

2005 Kunststudenten stellen aus, Kunsthalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn

         say no production II, Klüser 2, Munich

         Palma oder..., Annapril, Munich

         Transmedia 2005, Koblenz

         von wegen video, 84Ghz, Munich

 

2004 double feature, Maximilianspassage, Munich

         Annual Exhibition, Academy of Fine Arts, Munich

         Love it or leave it, 5th Biennial of Cetinje, Montenegro

 

2003 Annual Exhibition, Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg

         ars electronica, Linz, Austria

         Am Königstor ist noch ein Zimmer frei, Schauraum für junge Kunst, Nuremberg