Michael Krebber has long explored the premises, challenges, and possibilities of painting and has made investigative contributions to this discourse. He is a professor at the Städelschule since 2002 and was awarded the 2015 Wolfgang Hahn Prize, along with R. H. Quaytman, earlier this year.
Selected solo exhibitions include: Systemic Relevance, Galerie Buchholz, Berlin, Germany, 2014; STOPICE, dépendance, Brussels, Belgium, 2013; Les escargots ridiculisés, CAPC, musée d’art contemporain, Bordeaux, France, 2012; C-A-N-V-A-S, Uhutrust, Jerry Magoo and guardian.co.uk; Painting, Greene Naftali, New York, USA, 2011; FROM MCB TO MBC, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles, USA, 2010; Pubertät in der Lehre/Puberty in Teaching, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany, 2008; Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France, 2007; sometimes it snows in april, presentation with Rachel Harrison, The McAllister Institute, New York, USA, 2006; Michael Krebber, Secession, Vienna, Austria, 2005; warm up (how I hit a snob), Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles, USA, 2004.
Selected group exhibitions include: R. H Quaytman and Michael Krebber, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany, and Call and Response, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York, USA, 2015; We not, Galerie Buchholz, Cologne, Germany, 2014; Hamlet, Mise-En-Scène, Jack Smith in Frankfurt, Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 2012; Provisional Painting, Modern Art, London, UK, 2011; Gambaroff, Krebber, Quaytman, Rayne, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway, 2010; At Home/Not At Home: Works from the Collection of Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg, CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, USA, 2010; The Most Contemporary Picture Show, Actually, Kunsthalle Nuernberg, Germany, and Grey Flags, Sculpture Center, New York, USA, curated by Anthony Huberman and Paul Pfeiffer, 2006; Conditions of Display, The Moore Space, curated by Gean Moreno, Miami, USA, 2007; Formalismus, Kunstverein Hamburg, Germany, and Rhinegold: Art from Cologne, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK, 2004; Hier ist dort 2, Secession, Vienna, Austria, 2002.
The gallery programme began in 1984 in a Victorian terraced house in London’s East End. Initially named Interim Art the gallery changed its name to Maureen Paley in 2004 as a celebration of its 20th anniversary. Since September 1999 the gallery has been situated in light industrial space in Bethnal Green. In July 2017 Maureen Paley opened a second space in Hove called Morena di Luna. In October 2020 a third space was opened in London called STUDIO M. From its inception the gallery’s aim has remained consistent: to promote great and innovative artists in all media.
Maureen Paley Artists
From its inception, Maureen Paley has promoted international contemporary art with a focus on artists from Europe, America, and the United Kingdom. While working across diverse practices, many gallery artists share a common interest in social concerns. These include German artist Wolfgang Tillmans, whose has presented subjects such as pride parades and Black Lives Matter rallies in intimate photographs and moving image works; Dutch artist Erik van Lieshout and his deeply personal installation and collages; and Gillian Wearing, a Young British Artist with a penchant for tackling public and private spheres in her photographs and videos. These artists are represented alongside General Idea, an artist group known for its role in the development of discourses on queer identity and AIDS activism in art; and Liam Gillick, whose sculptures and films interrogate socio-political and economic systems of the constructed world.
