Magnus Plessen

Magnus Plessen was born in 1967, in Hamburg. He lives and works in Berlin. He is a Professor of Painting at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe since 2019.

Plessen is one of the most important painters of his generation. He has had solo exhibitions at The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Massachusetts (2014); Art Institute ofChicago (2005); Espace 315, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (2004); Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, K21, Düsseldorf, Germany (2002); and MoMA PS1, New York (2002), as well as numerous solo gallery exhibitions, incl. White Cube (London and Hong Kong), Gladstone (New York), Konrad Fischer (Düsseldorf and Berlin) and Mai 36 (Zurich). He has participated in various international group exhibitions, including at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta (2022), the Museu Serralves, Porto, Portugal (2007), the Goetz Collection, Munich (2006), and was represented at the 50th Venice Biennale (2003).

Works by Magnus Plessen have been placed in important international collections, incl. Centre Pompidou (Paris), the Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles), the Art Institute of Chicago, the Kunstsammlung NRW K20/K21, the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), and the Pinakothek der Moderne (Munich).