Amélie Esterházy

Amélie Esterházy has been working as a visual artist since 2008. She has participated in numerous national and international exhibitions, including: Rohkunstbau, Kolbe Museum Berlin, Alegra Ravizza Gallery Lugano, Jecza Gallery Timisoara, Gallery Volker Diehl Berlin, Porthmeor Studios St. Ives, CCA Andratx, OPHEIM Wroclaw and others.

In addition to participating in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Berlin and internationally, she has received a scholarship from the Wilhelmina Barns Graham Trust at Porthmeore Studios/ St. Ives, England, UK with the Turner Prize winner Veronica Ryan, as well as the Al Balad Residency of the Ministry of Culture in Saudi Arabia.

In Berlin, she runs the project space "OPEN Berlin" (www.open-berlin.net) and has curated numerous exhibitions there with artists such as Alicja Kwade, Katharina Sieverding, Gregor Hildebrandt and many more.

Education

2002-2004
Fashion Design Lette-Verein, Berlin, Germany

2004-2007
Philosophy and Cultural studies, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany

Solo exhibitions (selection)

2020
Smells like Apophenia, KanyaKage, Berlin, Germany 

2019
Moor Way, Porthmeorstudios, St Ives, UK

2018
Speculum Maius, Thomas von Aquin, Erzbistum Berlin, Germany

2017
Solid Matter 2.0, Diehl Galerie, Berlin, Germany 
Noble Surface, C1 Galerie, Berlin, Germany 
Traces with Christiane Möbus, Allegra Ravizza Galerie, Lugano, Switzerland

2015
Amelie Esterhazy & Molnar Zoltan, Jecza Gallery, Timisoara, Romania 

2014
Imprints of Solid Matter, Diehl Cube, Berlin, Germany
Interchangeable Templates, Smac, Berlin, Germany 

2013
Elapsed Utopia, Wendt & Friedmann Gallery, Berlin, Germany 

2010
Default Values, Wendt & Friedmann Gallery, Berlin, Germany 

Group Exhibitions (selection)

2023
Din A 4, Schaufenster, Berlin, Germany
Let life be beautiful like summer flowers, Wehrmühle, Biesenthal, Germany
The Exhibition, art residency program, Al Balad 2022, Jeddah, Saudi-Arabia

2022
Departure at former Airport Tegel, Berlin, Germany
Blanc de Blanc, Villa Schöningen, Potsdam, Germany

2021
Schnee der hinterm Berge fällt, Avlskarl Galerie, Copenhagen, Denmark
Cosmoscow, Diehl Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Every truth has four corners, OpEnheim, Wroclaw, Poland

2020
2 Jahre Kanya & Kage, KanyaKage, Berlin, Germany 
Future Forms and Fiction, Schau Fenster, Berlin, Germany

2019
AOTD, CCA Kunsthalle, Andratx, Spain 

2018
The Art House, Office Impart, Hamburg, Germany
Works on paper, Gussglasshalle, Berlin, Germany

2017
Unavailable Works, Gallery Benoni, Copenhagen, Denmark
Rohkunstbau XXIII, Heinrich-Böll-StiftungSchloss Lieberose, Berlin, Germany 
Picha, Me Collectors Room, Berlin, Germany
Small, Sexauer Gallery, Berlin, Germany

2016
Physical Fiction, Garage Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands
New Adventures in Vexology, Kunstverein Amrum, Germany
Triangularities, Centrum Berlin, Germany
Maximum Likelyhood, Kunsthaus Erfurt, Germany 
In Formation, Gallery Sexauer, Berlin, Germany

2015
BERLIN ROMA, ROMA BERLIN, Galerie Ebensperger, Berlin, Germany 
Arcadia Unbound, Funkhaus Berlin, Germany
Porn, Porn, Porn, EIGEN + ART Lab, Berlin, Germany 
Ngorongoro, Artist Weekend, Berlin, Germany 
Starting Grid, Display Gallery, London, UK  
Alles was ich mag fast, Schaufenster, Berlin, Germany

2014
rip, cut – grow, l`oiseau presente, Artweek, Berlin, Germany  
Kolibri, Ballhaus-Gartenstrasse, Berlin, Germany 
Mensch Maschine, Skulpturen-Triennale, Bingen, Germany
Rekollekt, Gallery Borchart, Hamburg, Germany 
black market, Berlin, Germany 
Schwarz weiß ich, Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany

2013
Mixed Signals, Part 2, Kunstverein Ulm, Germany
Alles Wasser, Gallery Mikael Andersen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Bogota, Hotel Bogota, Berlin, Germany
Luxus Loft, Schaufenster, Berlin, Germany

2012
APES presents, Galerie Volker Diehl, Berlin, Germany 
Appartement reinstalled, Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
Alles Wasser, Galerie Mikael Andersen, Berlin/Copenhagen, Germany/Denmark

2011
Die Linie Überschreiten, Westwendischer Kunstverein, Gatow, Germany 
Backstage Riders, Tagesspiegelgebäude, Berlin, Germany
Skulptur Abstrakt, Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin, Germany 

Curated Exhibitions

2023
I can´t translate myself into language anymore, Natalie Czech und Jean Pascal Flavien, OPEN Berlin, Germany
I can see your voice, Donia Alchetairy und ahmed Katlesh, OPEN Berlin, Germany
Vara Vision, Simon Mullan, OPEN Berlin, Germany
Why cant I hold all these projections, Nora Heinisch, OPEN Berlin, Germany
Contact Zone, Pola Sieverding, OPEN Berlin, Germany

2022
Delivery Hero, Isa Melsheimer und Oliver Mark, OPEN Berlin, Germany
Oblivion, *abundance and Aquarius *(the age of), Groupexhibition, Open Berlin, Germany
Leaky Lines, Katja Aufleger and !Mediengruppe Bitnik, OPEN, Berlin, Germany

2021
Home Run, Gerd Rohling, OPEN, Berlin, Germany 
Endogenous Error Terms, Mischa Leinkauf, OPEN, Berlin, Germany
Refuse to be human!, Mediengruppe Bitnik, OPEN, Berlin, Germany
Die Sonne um Mitternacht schauen, Katharina Sieverding, OPEN, Berlin, Germany

2020
Play Date, Lisa Tiemann und Max Rödel, OPEN, Berlin, Germany
We are O P E N group exhibition, OPEN, Berlin, Germany
Future Forms Fiction, Schaufenster, Berlin, Germany

Residencies

2022
Al Balad Artist Residency, Ministry of Culture run by Hafez Projects, Saudi Arabia
Stipendium für Projektraumbetreiber*innen der Senatsverwaltung, Berlin, Germany
X Keramika Majolika, Egerland Stiftung, Karlsruhe, Germany

2021
Stipendium für Projektraumbertreiber*innen der Senatsverwaltung Berlin, Germany

2018
Porthmeore Studios Residency in St.Ives gestiftet von Borlase Smart John Wells Trust und Wilhelmina Barns-Graham-Trust, UK 

2014
CCA Andratx, Andratx, Spain

Artist talks

2019
Glowing core, panel discussion at Stiftung Brandenburgertor, Berlin, Germany

2018
Lunch Time Talk, at the Porthmeor-Studios as part of the residency in St Ives, UK

2017
Rohkunstbau XXIII, with Jeni Fulton, Andrew Gilbert and Amélie Esterhazy                
Artisttalk Solid Matter 2.0 Galerie Diehl at Kunsthochschule Berlin Weißensee, Germany
Artisttalk at the exhibition Noble Surface C1 Galerie for Picture Berlin, Germany 

Workshops

2017
Artist Workshops at the Me-Collectors Room children's art program, Berlin, Germany

2016
Artist Workshop for Ceep-Seminar of the Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft, Berlin, Germany

2015/16
Artist Workshops for Children with the „One Fine Day“ e.V. in Kibera, Nairobi, Kenya, East Africa

2011
Artist Workshop for Children as part of the exhibition „Skulptur Abstrakt“ at Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin, Germany