FRANZ ACKERMANN

With each exhibition leading him to new destinations, the sense of displacement is what feeds the nomadicartist’s practice. On the canvas, he mixes random memories together with explosive colours and strong emotionsinspired by his many travels. His mental maps with their exuberant palette of hues combine fragments ofphotographs and outlines of skyscrapers in a subtle nod to the legendary seething energy of the megalopolis thatnever sleeps, trying to find a way through the countless blocks of paint that are striking in their imperfection.What Ackermann is proposing here is a totally transformable experimental game. These windows on the worldseize on the ordinary perception of modernity all the better to transfigure it and bring to life a contemporaryconundrum rooted in a life of explorations.

Born in 1963, Franz Ackermann lives and works in Berlin and Karlsruhe. Over the last 20 years, he has taken partin numerous major group exhibitions in Europe, the USA and Japan including: 2018, Kunstmuseum, Bonn,Germany; 2017, Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, USA; 2016, Pinacoteca de Sao Paolo, Brazil; 2009, TateTriennial, London, UK; 2009, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, USA; 2006, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany;2005, Whitney Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA; 2005, MoMA, New York, USA; 2005, Mori Art Museum,

Tokyo, Japan, and 2003, Venice Biennale, Italy. In France, Franz Ackermann’s work has been shown in 2005 atthe Biennale d’Art Contemporain in Lyon and Printemps de Septembre in Toulouse, in 2004 at La Maison Rougeand in 2003 at the Palais de Tokyo, both in Paris. The Staatliche Kunsthalle in Karlsruhe (2014) and BerlinischeGalerie in Berlin (2013) recently held major solo exhibitions of his work. And in 2018, as part of the renovationof the Miami Beach Convention Center, Franz Ackermann created About Sand, a stunning mural for the outerfaçade of the building. He has been represented by Galerie Templon since 2015 and Multiple Locations is hisfourth exhibition with the gallery.