MICHAIL PIRGELIS
b. 1976, GermanyMichail Pirgelis ( b. 1976, Essen) lives and works in Cologne. In 2010 he received the Audi Art Award for New Positions at Art Cologne and was an artist in residence at Schloss Ringenberg. In 2008 he was the first recipient to be awarded the Adolf Loos Prize from the Van den Valentyn Foundation, Cologne. In 2007 he was awarded the Villa Romana Prize in Florence. In 2011 Pirgelis’ work was shown in a solo exhibition at the Artothek in Cologne. He has participated in group exhibitions at Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf, 2005, Kunstmuseum Bonn, 2010, Thessaloniki Biennale, 2011, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, 2012, and Istanbul Modern, 2013, amongst others.
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