Simone Subal Gallery

Florian Meisenberg. "Here in our own dream, we can do whatever we want, with whomever we want, we can be whatever we want whenever we want, we can look however we want and think whatever we want, we can say whatever we want, and smell however we want, we can vote whomever we want and we can buy whatever we want, we can cheers to whomever we want and we can post whatever we want and we can dream whatever we want.", 2020. oil paint, airbrush on canvas. 71 × 71 inches (180.34 × 180.34 cm). Photo: Daniel Terna.

Florian Meisenberg. Preparing for my TEDtalk: The launch of your lounge At the Lounge of your mind In the Mind of your Lounge At the launch of your mind In the midst of yourself In the back of your head. ("I used a mid-size, medium-dry brush to create this effect"), 2020. acrylic heavy impasto gel, oil paint, airbrush on canvas. 84.6 × 84.6 inches (214.88 × 214.88 cm). Photo: Daniel Terna.

Installation view, Electric Forest (Bowery), with Anna K.E., Simone Subal Gallery, 2020. Photo: Dario Lasagni.

Anna K.E., Florian Meisenberg. 45 Degrees Fahrenheit, 2020. CNC engraved Baltic birch, wooden studs, Mirror box and Video piece: Common Storage, 7min. 32 × 96 × 96 inches (81.28 × 243.84 × 243.84 cm). Photo: Dario Lasagni.

Anna K.E., Florian Meisenberg. In the Pipeline No.1, 2019. 3D Animation 1.09 min., metal tube, holographic fan. 20 × 20 × 84 ½ inches (50.80 × 50.80 × 214.63 cm). Photo: Dario Lasagni.

Installation view, Jetzt! Junge Malerei in Deutschland,
Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany, 2019. — Installation view, Jetzt! Junge Malerei in Deutschland, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany, 2019.

Installation view, Jetzt! Junge Malerei in Deutschland,
Museum Wiesbaden, Germany, 2019. Photo: Bernd Fickert — Installation view, Jetzt! Junge Malerei in Deutschland, Museum Wiesbaden, Germany, 2019. Photo: Bernd Fickert

Installation view, Deep Tissue, Berlinskej Model, Prague, 2019.

60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s, 10s, 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s (I used to be with it, but then they changed what ‘it’ was, and now what I’m with isn’t it. And what’s ‘it’ seems weird and scary to me.), 2015, triptych, airbrush, oil, oil paint on canvas, 96 x 252 inches

Florian Meisenberg, The Taste of Metal in Water, Ghebaly Gallery, 2018.

Florian Meisenberg, Furthermore, all the windows looked onto the courtyard and - from scarcely any distance - onto other windows of the same style, 2014, single-channel video, 46' 54".

Florian Meisenberg, The New World Hotel, Kasseler Kunstverein, 2014.

Florian Meisenberg. From the Series: I don't think he knows how to turn on a computer (brief pause), 2016. oil paint, oil stick, and iridescent acrylic paint on canvas. 54.7 × 54.7 inches (138.94 × 138.94 cm).

Florian Meisenberg. From the series: "San Pellegrino (The taste of metal in water)”. Oil on canvas. 96 × 84 inches (243.84 × 213.36 cm).

Florian Meisenberg, Being blonde with insufficient funds (transpirations of a virgin), Mendes Wood, Sao Paolo, Brazil, 2014.

Florian Meisenberg. Napoleon Complex, 2016.
oil paint, oil stick, and airbrush on canvas. 72 ½ × 60 inches (184.15 × 152.40 cm). — Florian Meisenberg. Napoleon Complex, 2016. oil paint, oil stick, and airbrush on canvas. 72 ½ × 60 inches (184.15 × 152.40 cm).

Florian Meisenberg, Delays During Transit: Tales of Early Prematurity, installation view, Kate MacGarry, 2013.

Florian Meisenberg. To be titled, 2016. oil paint, iridescent acrylic paint, and airbrush on canvas. 72 × 58 inches (182.88 × 147.32 cm).

Florian Meisenberg, In Flames Leaving Las Vegas, Simone Subal Gallery, 2018. Photo: Dario Lasagni.

Florian Meisenberg, Florian Meisenberg, ‘From the series: memoirs of the collective unconscious (a snail gets mugged by a gang of turtles. When the cops show up and ask him what happened he replies ‘I don’t know. It all happened so fast’, 2013, oil on canvas, 200 x 180 cm.

Florian Meisenberg & Anna K.E., Countdown Belladonna, Salon Kennedy, Frankfurt, Germany, 2016.

Florian Meisenbergm ‘From the series: memoirs of the collective unconscious (a snail gets mugged by a gang of turtles. When the cops show up and ask him what happened he replies ‘I don’t know. It all happened so fast’., 2013, oil on canvas, 180 x 162 cm.

Florian Meisenberg, Kunstpalais Erlangen, Germany, 2015.

Florian Meisenberg, Battery Life, Planthouse, New York, 2015.

Florian Meisenberg, Oh, Ah Rimbaud, Rimbaud, 2013, single-channel video, 3.53 mins, 2013, single-channel video, 3" 53'.

Florian Meisenberg. In Flames Leaving Las Vegas (Sphinx), 2018. Cat: pigment printed CnC cut plexiglas, rear projection
Topographical models: CnC cut MDF, transparent resin. 56 ½ × 33 × 26 ½ inches (143.51 × 83.82 × 67.31 cm). Photo: Dario Lasagni. — Florian Meisenberg. In Flames Leaving Las Vegas (Sphinx), 2018. Cat: pigment printed CnC cut plexiglas, rear projection Topographical models: CnC cut MDF, transparent resin. 56 ½ × 33 × 26 ½ inches (143.51 × 83.82 × 67.31 cm). Photo: Dario Lasagni.

Florian Meisenberg, “GUERNICA MON AMOUR, GIVE ALL AND GET SOMETHING (POSTMODERN TRAUMA)”, 2012, single-channel video, 8'22".

Florian Meisenberg, Wembley, farewell my concubine, 2013, single-channel video, 2' 49".

Florian Meisenberg & Anna KE, Late Checkout, Signal, New York.

Florian Meisenberg, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, 2016.

Florian Meisenberg, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90RM07vHQiw, Kate MacGarry, 2011.

Florian Meisenberg, from the series: Cosmic Experiences, 2011, oil on canvas, 245 x 200 cm

Florian Meisenberg, From the series: Cosmic Experiences, 2011, oil on canvas, 23 x 30.5 cm.

Florian Meisenberg, from the series: The Vision Of Tomorrow, Today, 2011, oil on canvas, 245 x 200 cm.

Florian Meisenberg, Hairy Combs, 2011, oil on unstretched canvas, 215 x 290 cm.

Florian Meisenberg, From the Series: It Was More Than It Was, 2011, oil on canvas, 50 x 40 cm.

Kogelnik in New York, 1967. Image courtesy the Kiki Kogelnik Foundation

Meisenberg was born in 1980 in Berlin. He graduated from the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in 2010. Selected solo shows: Kunstparterre, Munich, Germany (2020, forthcoming); Kate MacGarry, London (2011, 2013, 2020, forthcoming); Simone Subal Gallery, New York (2013, 2015, 2018, 2020); Zabludowicz Collection, London (2019); Avlskarl Projects, Copenhagen, Denmark (2017); Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne (2014); Kasseler Kunstverein, Kassel, Germany (2014); Kunst aus NRW / Förderpreis für Bildende Kunst, Ehemalige Reichsabtei, Aachen, Germany (2012); Wentrup Gallery, Berlin (2012, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2019); Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany (2011); Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany (2009). Recent selected group exhibitions: Jetzt! Junge Malerei in Deutschland, a traveling exhibition in four locations in Germany: Kunstmuseum Bonn, Museum Wiesbaden, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz Museum Gunzenhauser, and Deichtorhallen Hamburg (2019); neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin, Germany (2018); Zeppelin Museum, Friedrichshafen, Germany (2017); Broehan Museum, Berlin, Germany , (2017); Broehan Museum, Berlin, Germany, (2017); Kiasma Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki, Finland, (2017); Philadelphia, (Cat.) (2017); Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, (Cat.) (2016); , Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Germany, (Cat.) (2016); Bundeskunsthalle Bonn, Bonn (2015); Kunstpalais Erlangen, Germany (2015, 2019 (with Anna K.E.)); Goethe Institute, Hong Kong; Ausstellung in der Sammlung Kunst aus NRW in der ehemaligen Reichsabtei Aachen-Kornelimünster, Aachen, Germany (2014); Museum Kunsten, Aalborg, Denmark (2014); Queens Museum of Art, New York, USA (2014); Grieder Contemporary, Zurich, Switzerland (2013); Galerie Parrotta Contemporary Art, Stuttgart, Germany (2013); Boros Collection II, Berlin, Germany (2012); Avlskarl Projects, Copenhagen, Denmark (2012); Solinger Kunstmuseum, Solingen, Germany (2011); New Talents Biennale 2010, Cologne, Germany (2010); Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany (2010); Kunstverein Langenhagen, Germany (2010). In 2018, Distanz published Meisenberg’s third monograph with the title: SOMEWHERE, SIDEWAYS DOWN, AT AN ANGLE, BUT VERY CLOSE.