Katja Strunz

Born 1970 in Ottweiler, Germany
Lives and works in Berlin, Germany

Selected solo exhibitions

2025
In Formation, Contemporary Fine Arts, Basel, Switzerland

2024
Transformation Paper, Haus des Papiers, Berlin, Germany

2023
Restored Spalls, Nathalie Karg Gallery, New York, USA

2022
Eingeschlossene Zeit, Galerie Krobath, Vienna, Austria
Breath Hold, Galería Casado Santapau, Madrid, Spain

2020
Space Lips, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
Gerold Miller l Katja Strunz, Walter Storms Galerie, Munich, Germany
Ruth Roth & Katja Strunz, Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicska, Salzburg, Austria

2019
Space / Void: Katja Strunz and Anna Martinez, Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, Indianapolis, USA

2017
Anschauung der Form, Galerie Krobath, Vienna, Austria
Bilder & Skulpturen, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany

2014
Present Pasts, Andersen’s Contemporary, Copenhagen, Denmark

2013
Drehmoment (Viel Zeit, Wenig Raum), Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Unfolding Process, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
Zeittraum # 10, Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels, Belgium

2012
Dynamic Fatigue Test, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, Scotland

2011
Tick Tock Crick Clock, Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Nachzeit, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany

2010
Im Geviert, Saarlandmuseum, Saarbrücken, Germany
Zeittraum # 9, Muzeum Sztuki w Łodzi, Łódź, Poland
Canopy Curtain, Kunst-Station Sankt Peter, Cologne, Germany

2009 
Sound of the Pregeometric Age, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK
The Great Bear, Mount Stuart Gallery, Isle of Bute, Scotland
Katja Strunz, Cruise & Callas, Berlin, Germany

2008
Einbruchstellen, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany

2007
Lazy Corner, Artpace, San Antonio, USA
Guten Morgen Erwachen, Almine Rech Gallery, Paris, France
Lazy Corner and the Suicide Walls, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, Scotland

2006
Faltgestalt, Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld, Germany
Whose garden was this?, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York, USA

2005
Ta pedia tou Pirea, Statements, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland

2003
Time of the season, Doggerfisher, Edinburgh, Scotland
Land, Land! (mit Rivane Neuenschwander, Helen Mirra), Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Collagen, Austellungsraum Ursula Werz, Tübingen, Germany
Unendlich, Els Hanappe Underground, Athens, Greece

2002
Zeittraum, Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin, Germany

2001
Katja Strunz, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York, USA
Katja Strunz, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, Scotland

2000
Zeittraum, Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin, Germany

1997
Country, ehemaliges Offizierscasino, Karlsruhe, Germany

Selected group exhibitions

2022
ROHKUNSTBAU 27, Schloss Altdöbern, Germany
SKULPTURENPARK SCHWANTE, Germany

2021
Shaken, not Stirred: Katja Strunz and Julian Lethbridge, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
NEW ORDER. Über Kunst und Ordnung in ungewissen Zeiten, Museum im Kulturspeicher Würzburg, Germany
Day for Night, Kino International, Berlin, Germany

2020
Gerold Miller l Anselm Reyle l Katja Strunz, Galeria Casado Santapau, Madrid, Spain
Au rendez-vous des amis, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
Szene Berlin, Hall Art Foundation, Schloss Museum Derneburg, Derneburg, Germany
Abstrakte Kunst aus der Miettinen Collection, Salon Dahlmann, Berlin, Germany
Skulptur, Galerie Thomas, Munich, Germany
Dasein, Saarländische Galerie, Berlin, Germany
31: Women, Daimler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
Skulptur und Natur, Skulpturenpark Schlossgut Schwante, Schwante, Germany
Heart- 100 Artists. 1Mission, Kunstmuseum Bonn und Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany

2019
Konkrete Gegenwart, Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, Switzerland
Laufrichtung, SMAC, Berlin
Space lips, curated by Katja Strunz, Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicka, Salzburg, Austria
LYNN CHADWICK, KATJA STRUNZ, HANS UHLMANN BIESTER DER ZEIT, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, Germany

2018
PIN, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
5 X Berlin, Boers-Li Gallery, Beijing, China
November, Versuch über eine Revolution, Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin, Germany
Painting After Painting After Painting After: Image- Making in Contemporary Germany, Guangong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
Optik Schröder II, Werke aus der Sammlung Schröder, Mumok Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria

2017
Collage, Galerie Krobath, Vienna, Austria
25 Jahre Werkstatt für Papier Gangolf Ulbricht, Projektraum Kustquartier Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
Salon des Fidèles, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
Small, An exploration of miniature, Sexauer Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Modern Sculpture, Galeria Casado Santapau, Madrid, Spain
Das Skulpturenprojekt – Skizzen, Modelle, Skulpturen, Städtische Galerie Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany

2016
Café Pittoresque, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
Nuovo Scultura Una, Gesso Artspace, Vienna, Austria
Up/Down, Holden Gallery of Manchester, Metropolitan University, Manchester, England
Wendezeiten, CCA, Centro Cultural Andratx, Andratx, Mallorca, Spain
Expanded Fields, Nymphius Projekte, Berlin, Germany

2015
Wo ist hier? # 2: Raum und Gegenwart, Kunstverein Reutlingen, Reutlingen, Germany
The Shadow of your Smile, Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicska, Salzburg, Austria
Notes on Sculpture, Galerie Krobath, kuratiert von Friedericke Nymphius, Vienna, Austria
Ordne und finde mit, Sammlung Philara, Düsseldorf, Germany
Art in Music, Werke aus der ACT Art Collection, Museum für Moderne Kunst Weserburg, Bremen, Germany
Ngoro Ngoro, Berlin, Germany
Einknicken oder Kante zeigen, Die Kunst der Faltung, Kunstraum Alexander Bürkle, Freiburg, Germany
When Now is Minimal, Die unbekannte Seite der Sammlung Goetz, Museum Bozen, Bozen, Germany

2014
Leben mit Kunst, Kunsthalle Weishaupt, Ulm, Germany
Stahlplastik in Deutschland – Gestern und Heute, Kunstverein Wilhelmshöhe Ettlingen e.V., Ettlingen, Germany
Backdoor Fantasies, KAI 10, Quadriennale Düsseldorf 2014, Düsseldorf, Germany
Vanitas. Motive des Vergänglichen in der zeitgenössischen Skulptur, Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin, Germany
Space Interventions. Gordon Matta Clark and Beyond, Salon Dahlmann, Berlin, Germany
Einknicken oder Kante zeigen. Die Kunst der Faltung, Museum für Konkrete Kunst, Ingolstadt, Germany
How Soon Was Now, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
rip, cut – grow, l’oiseau présente, Berlin, Germany
Les Plaisirs Démodés (The Old-Fashioned Way), Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicska, Salzburg, Austria
Art in Embassies – Redefining Modernity, Botschafterresidenz der USA, Berlin, Germany
Front Row, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
Mobiles in der Gegenwartskunst, Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven, Wilhelmshaven, Germany
Widersprüchliche Konturen / Räume und Zwischenräume, Märkisches Museum Witten, Witten, Germany
Paperworlds, me Collectors Room, Berlin, Germany

2013
Rhythm in it. Vom Rhythmus in der Gegenwartskunst, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland
Abstrakt, Kunstverein Wilhelmshöhe Ettlingen e.V., Ettlingen, Germany
Collection on Display: Heidi Bucher, Thea Djordjadze, Berta Fischer, Loredana Sperini, Katja Strunz, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland
Peanuts of Joy, Kunstraum Dreieich, Dreieich, Germany
Art Sheffield 2013, Festival of contemporary art, Sheffield, UK
weich mittel hart, suave medio dure, Galerie Heinrich Ehrhardt, Madrid, Spain
When Now is Minimal. Die unbekannte Seite der Sammlung Goetz, Neues Museum, Nürnberg und Museion, Bozen, Italy
Contemporary Sculpture at Dickinson, Simon C. Dickinson Ltd., London, UK
Secondary Structures, Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicska, Salzburg, Austria
Abstrakt, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
Novecento mai visto. From Albers to Warhol to (now), Highlights from the Daimler Art Collection, Museo di Santa Giulia, Brescia, Italy
Die gestundete Zeit, kuratiert von Gesine Borcherdt, Sies und Höke, Düsseldorf, Germany
Andratx on Paper, CCA, Centro Cultural Andratx, Andratx, Mallorca, Spain
Jacob’s ladder, kuratiert von Max Henry, Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad, Switzerland

2012
Chains, Horse, Berlin, Germany
The Imminence of Poetics, 30th São Paulo Biennial, São Paulo, Brazil
Frieze Art Fair Sculpture Park, Frieze Art Fair, New York, USA
Take off your silver spurs and help me pass the time curated by Gerold Miller, Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicska, Salzburg, Austria
Collaborations & Interventions, CCA, Centro Cultural Andratx, Andratx, Mallorca, Spain
Nymphius Projekte at CCA, Centro Cultural Andratx, Andratx, Mallorca, Spain

2011
Hieros Glyphos curated by Jan Hoet, Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp, Belgium
Abstrakte Skulptur, Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin, Germany
Welttheater. Die Sammlung Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Kunstmuseum Leichstenstein, Vaduz, Leichstenstein
Train Fantome, Cruise & Callas, Berlin, Germany
Verbrechen und Bild, Künstlerverein Walkmühle, Wiesbaden, Germany
Wert / Sache curated by Anna-Catharina Gebbers, Potsdamer Straße 87, Berlin, Germany
Space Oddity, CCA, Centro Cultural Andratx, Andratx, Mallorca, Spain
Nit al Jardí del Bé I el Mal, CCA, Centro Cultural Andratx, Andratx, Mallorca, Spain
Private/Corporate VI, Daimler Contemporary, Haus Huth, Berlin, Germany
Hotspot Berlin – eine Momentaufnahme, Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin, Germany
The Black Goddess, Autocenter, Berlin, Germany

2010
Missing Beat, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
Never the Same River (Possible Futures, Probable Pasts), Camden Arts Center, London, UK
Physical, Autocenter, Berlin, Germany
step in the arena, Quartier Eurobahnhof, Saarbrücken, Germany
monochrome (part two), galerie lange + pult, Zurich, Switzerland
Schwarz, Märkisches Museum Witten, Witten, Germany
Christmas in July, Yvon Lambert Gallery, New York, USA
Just a matter of time, Galerie Iris Kadel, Karlsruhe, Germany
chrystaline architect, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, USA
A Relative Expanse, Renwick Gallery, New York, USA
Skulpturengarten Villa Schöningen, Villa Schöningen, Potsdam, Germany
Cage Mix: Sculpture & Sound, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK
Bilder über Bilder, MUMOK, Vienna, Austria
High Ideals & Crazy Dreams, Galerie Vera Munro, Hamburg, Germany
Berliner Metallplastik, Nymphius Projekte, Berlin, Germany
The Berlin Box, CCA, Centro Cultural Andratx, Andratx, Mallorca, Spain
The Big Rip Off, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK
100th Exhibition, Autocenter, Berlin, Germany
Neugierig? Kunst des 21. Jahrhunderts aus privaten Sammlungen, Kunst-und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, Germany
Wall & Floor, Almine Rech Gallery, Paris, France

2009
Sphères 2009, Galleria Continua / Le Moulin, Boissy-le-Chatel, France
Minimal Means, Frank Cohen Collection, Initial Access, Wolverhampton, England
Schickeria – High Society, BDA-Galerie, Braunschweig, Germany
elles@centrepompidou. artistes femmes dans les collections du musée national d’art moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Constructivismes (A visual essay), Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, USA
private view, Städtische Galerie Villingen-Schwenningen, Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany
cargo manifest, under construction curated by Anna-Catharina Gebbers, Bayrische Staatsoper, Munich, Germany
Abstractionists unite! Who give you just enough to last a lifetime, The Glendale College Art Gallery, Glendale, USA
Constructivismes, Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Geoplay, Galerie Pilar Parra & Romero, Madrid, Spain
Berlin 2000, Pace Wildenstein, New York, USA

2008
Life on Mars, 55th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA
Rooming In!, Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad, Switzerland
Material Presence. Sculpture and installation from the Zabludowicz Collection, 176 Gallery, London, UK
Private/Corporate V, Daimler Contemporary, Haus Huth, Berlin, Germany
Die Maße der Werts, Klaus Winichner, Natron, Berlin, Germany
The Driller Killer, Forgotten Bar Project, Berlin, Germany
Red Wind, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, USA
Whole Lotta Love, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
Chapter One, About Change, Collection, Berlin, Germany
Andersen’s Wohnung revisited 1996-1999, Andersen’s Contemporary, Berlin, Germany+ De Réalité – pratiques contemporaines de l’abstraction, école régionale des beaux-arts de Nantes, Nantes, France
Group show, Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Boros Collection, Sammlung Boros, Berlin, Germany
Zuordnungsprobleme, Galerie Johann König, Berlin, Germany
So ist es und anders, Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany
Wenn ein Reisender in einer Winternacht – Variationen über Max Bill, Marta Herford, Herford, Germany

2007
Joseph Kramhöller, Gerhard Merz, Anselm Reyle, Haim Steinbach, Katja Strunz, COMA – Centre for Opinions in Music and Art, Berlin, Germany
Winter Palace, De Ateliers, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Delusive Orders, Muzeum Sztuki w Łódźi, Łódź, Poland
Re-mission, Liebling, Berlin, Germany
Grit and Vigor, Light & Sie, Dallas, USA
sculpture garden, Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
You will be re-materialized through your secrets curated by Michael Clifton, Michael Benevento/Orange Group, Los Angeles, USA
Re-Dis-Play, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg, Germany
Art Scope. Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Japan und Deutschland, Daimler Chrysler Contemporary, Haus Huth, Berlin, Germany
Lines, squares and cubes, Produzentengalerie, Hamburg, Germany
Half Square, half Crazy, Villa Arson, Nice, France
Inky Toy Affinitas, Cerealart, Philadelphia, USA
Big Bopp – 15 Jahre Boppstraße, Boppstr 26, Mainz, Germany

2006
Wir hätten das Land gern weit und Rund und Sie…, Showroom Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Music and Art, COMA – Centre for Opinions in Music and Art, Berlin, Germany
Sammlung Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland
Art Scope 2005/2006 – Interface Complex, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Strange I’ve Seen That Face Before, Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany
Delete/How to Make a Perfect Ghost curated by Michael Clifton, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, USA
Optik Schröder, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
Conversation with Art, on Art, bauhaus to contemporary Art, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2005
36 x 27 x 10, White Cube Berlin im ehemaligen Palast der Republik, Berlin, Germany
Lichtkunst aus Kunstlicht, ZKM Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany
The Addiction curated by Anna-Catharina Gebbers, Gagosian, Berlin, Germany
The The, Modern Art, London, UK
ars viva 04/05 – Zeit / time, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany; Zacheta Narodowa Galeria Sztuki, Warsaw, Poland
unburied / reburied, Kunstbunker, Nuremberg, Germany
Der Kunst ihre Räume, Kunstverein Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Mallorca Open 05. Principles of construction, CCA, Centro Cultural Andratx, Andratx, Mallorca, Spain
Die gute Form, Galerie Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin, Germany
Sculptures d’appartement, Musée departemental d’art contemporain de Rochechouart, Rochechouart, France
Abstraktes Material (with R. Levi, Meuser, F. Penker), Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria
Dead/Undead, Galerie Six Friedrich Lisa Ungar, Munich, Germany

2004
Regard sur l’abstraction dans la scène berlinoise, Galerie Alimentation Générale – Art Contemporain, Luxemburg, Luxemburg
Formalismus. Moderne Kunst, heute, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
ars viva 04/05 – Zeit / time, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany
I Feel Mysterious Today, Palm Beach ICA, Lake Worth, USA
Keep Your Head to the Sky, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York, USA
Black Friday Galerie curated by Cristoph Keller, Kamm Berlin, Berlin, Germany
It’s All An Illusion. A Sculpture Project, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland
Specific Objects, Galerie Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin, Germany
Sans Soleil, Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany
Barraque d’dull odde, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy
Contemporary Art of the DaimlerChrysler Collection, The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Museum Africa, Johannesburg; South African National Gallery Cape Town, Kapstadt, South Africa

2003
Sammlung DaimlerChrysler, ZKM Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany
Silver Convention curated by Gerold Miller, Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin, Germany
Splendor Geometrik curated by Antje Majewski, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne, Germany
Comme des Garcons: 40 views of an Icon, Moscow, Russia; Zurich, Switzerland; Berlin, Germany
HELP, Els Hanappe Underground, Athens, Greece
Inaugural Group Exhibition, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York, USA
Hands Up, Baby, Hands Up! curated by Michael Neff, Oldenburger Kunstverein, Oldenburg, Germany
Renderings, Delfina Studio Trust, London, UK
Hot, Blue & Righteous, Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin, Germany
Fallen Angels, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, USA
Minimalism and After II, DaimlerChrysler Contemporary, Haus Huth, Berlin, Germany

2002
RomaRomaRoma, Project Space by Toby Webster, Gavin Brown und Franco Noero, Rome, Italy
My Head Is On Fire But My Heart Is Full Of Love, Charlottenborg exhibition space, Copenhagen, Denmark
Waiting For The Ice Age, Galerie Georg Kargl, Vienna, Austria

2001
Privat, zu Gast bei Hannibal Collector, Harald Falckenberg, Hamburg, Germany
Not At Home curated by Susanne Bürner, Schloß Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany
Circles 5, ZKM Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany
Wandbilder, Atelier J. Rosenmeyer, Berlin, Germany
Die Vertreibung der Händler aus dem Tempel, Kunstfabrik am Flutgraben, Berlin, Germany

2000
Sympathie curated by Wawa Tokarski, Montparnasse, Berlin, Germany
Dieter Detzner, Berta Fischer, Bernd Krauß, Hansjörg Meyer, Anselm Reyle, Katja Strunz, Büchsenhausen Ausstellungsraum, Innsbruck, Austria
Landscape, Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin, Germany

1999
Nordwestpassage, Städtische Galerie Lüdenscheid, Lüdenscheid, Germany

1998
Thilo Heinzmann, Bernd Krauß, Katja Strunz, Thomas Zipp, Andersen’s Wohnung, Berlin, Germany
Gangbang curated by Laurids und Matthäus, Galerie Margit Haupt, Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
Meisterschüler der Staatlichen Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe, Schloss Bruchsal, Bruchsal, Germany