Born in 1976 in Ansbach, Germany. Lives and works in Great Britain and Germany
Andreas Blank was born in Ansbach in 1976. He attended the Karlsruhe State Academy of Art (Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste) and was Meisterschüler under Prof. Klingelhöller. He held a scholarship with the German National Academic Foundation and received his MFA from the Royal College of Art in London. In 2009 he was a finalist for the New Sensations Award by Channel 4 and the Saatchi Gallery. Blank lives and works in London and Berlin.
EDUCATION
2001-2006
Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe with Prof. Harald Klingelhoeller
2007
Hochschule für Bildende Künste Hamburg, guest student with Andreas Slominksi
2008-2009
Royal College of Art London
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021
ANATOMY OF WORDS II, CHOI&LAGER, Cologne
2019
The Imprint of the Space Someone Used 2, Galerie Knecht und Burster, Karlsruhe
Landscape Metaphor 2, Humboldt-Universität, Geographical Institute, Berlin
Reverse Metaphysik 2, Sotheby´s Munich, Artist Quarterly, Munich
2017
Reverse Metaphysik, Schlicht Barock Fine Art, Feldbach, Austria
2014
The Imprint of the Space Someone Used, Galerie Christian Ehrentraut, Berlin
Hors-champ, Junge Kunst e. V., Wolfsburg
2013
Landscape Metaphor, Benrimon Contemporary, New York
Anatomy of Words, Galerie Choi&Lager, Cologne
2012
Shadows of Words Spoken, Galerie Christian Ehrentraut, Berlin
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
FLOWER, CHOI&CHOI Gallery, Seoul
2021
Points of Resistance, Zionskirche, Berlin
A Rose is a Rose, Artists against FGM, Online Exhibition
2020
Werke von und um Michael Buthe, Galerie Kleiner von Wiese, Berlin
Werk im Werk X, Artspring, Berlin
Elysium, Galerie Kleiner von Wiese, Berlin
2019
Bonum et Malum, Villa Erxleben, Berlin
The Coke Side of Art, Galerie Frank Schlag, Essen
Water(Proof), Momentum, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin, curated by Rachel
Rits-Volloch & Taniá Guedes
In Living Memory (Contemporary Still Life), Oliver Sears Gallery, Dublin
Small, Schaufenster, Berlin, curated by Oliver Mark
2018
Für immer Blau, Kunstverein Duisburg, Duisburg
ANDREAS BLANK & HELENA PARADA KIM, Choi&Lager, Seoul
Ansbach Biennale, Ansbach Contemporary 2018, Ansbach
Beauty is Everywhere, Salon Waldorf Astoria, Berlin, curated by Ingrid Manthe
Die Nächte des Heliogabalus - Hommage to Otto Piene, Schlachthaus.fresh&fine art,
Berlin
NGORONGORO II, Artistweekend, Berlin
SEGRETE, Palazzo Ducale, Genova
2017
Private Choices, Central for Contemporary Art, Brussels
Landscapes of Loss, Ministry of Environment, Berlin
Fünfklang, Choi & Lager Gallery, Cologne, curated by Andreas Blank and
Stefan von Wiese
Material Boys & Girls Part 2, Bernheimer Contemporary, Berlin
We All Love Art, Schlachthaus Fresh & Fine Art, Berlin, curated by Ryszard Wasko
Mixed Realities, Bernheimer Contemporary, Berlin
People Places Things, AT Kearney, Berlin, curated by Ingrid Manthe
2016
The Pleasure of Love, 56th October Salon, City Museum, Belgrad, curated by
David Elliot
Why?, Secret Garden, Berlin
Plastic Obsession, Department of Environment, Dessau
Umweltfestival, Gasometer, Berlin
What would I die for?, Bernheimer Contemporary, Berlin
KIK EIGHT, Kino International, Berlin
2015
Looking Forward Looking Backwards, Bernheimer Contemporary, Berlin
Works on Paper III, Momentum Berlin, Berlin
Objects in a Room, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin
NGORONGORO, Artistweekend, Berlin
CREDITS, Galerie Christian Ehrentraut, Berlin
2014
Kolibri. Neue Tendenzen an einem aus der Zeit gefallenen Ort, Ballhaus Kolibri, Berlin
Aus dem Fundus der botanischen Semantik, Cruise & Callas, Berlin
Always Crashing in the Same Car, Galerie Knecht und Burster, Karlsruhe
2013
Tresholds, Trafo Kunsthalle, Stettin
The Scene changes to an empty room, De Fabriek, Eindhoven
Oh Plastiksack!, Musee de Design et d´art appliqués contemporains, Lausanne
2012
Carving in Britain from 1910 to Now, The Fine Art Society, London
Recasting the Gods, Sumarria Lunn Gallery, London
Ein weißes Feld, Sammlung FIEDE, Aschaffenburg
Dividing Line, High House Gallery, Oxfordshire
Memory. International Contemporary Sculpture, Palazzo Arti Napoli (PAN), Naples
Oh, Plastiksack!, Gewerbemuseum Winterthur, Winterthur
Stillstehende Sachen aus der Sammlung SOR Rusche, Museum Abtei Liesborn,
Wadersloh-Liesborn
2011
Galerie Christian Ehrentraut, Berlin
Stressing Spiritual Needs Even When Selling Ice Cream, DNA-Galerie, Berlin
Memory, Rosenfeld Porcini Gallery, London
Please Write, Posted Projects, London
2010
Transcending, LARMgalleri, Copenhagen
New German Art/Neue Deutsche Kunst, German Embassy, London
2008
2007
GRANTS & AWARDS
2009
2008
Scholarship for Great Britain, Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes
2007
Residency, Stiftung Vorwerk, Hamburg
2005
Scholarship Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes