Artist sitting on ladder in studio near abstract painting, surrounded by art supplies

Image: Stefan Haehnel

Born 1987 in Heidelberg (D)
Lives and works in Berlin (D) 

Education

2009-2013
AdBK Karlsruhe (class of Toon Verhoef) 

2013-2015
Städelschule Frankfurt am Main (class of Willem de Rooij) 

Solo Shows 

2025
Freed From Desire, Matta, (IT)

2024
Days Like This, Gratin, New York (US)

2022
Splinters, Matta, Rome (IT)
DUO, Kunstverein Wiesen, Wiesen (DE) with Martin Kähler 

2021
Sidesteps: Roughly Edged, Goeben Berlin, Berlin (D) with John Kleckner 

2020
PrePost, Palazzo Monti, Brescia (IT) 

2019
No Place To Rest, Galerie Tobias Naehring, Leipzig (D) 

2017
A Deep Scrub, DUVE Berlin, Berlin (D) 

2016
Aware Of Being Naive, Basis, Frankfurt am Main (D) with Martin Kähler 

2015
Reasonable Doubt, DUVE Berlin, Berlin (D) 

2014
At The End Of Days Zombies Are Crawling Up The Walls, Im Hinterzimmer, Karlsruhe (D)
with Christian Falkner
The Show Must Go Wrong, Salon Kennedy, Frankfurt am Main (D) 

2013
Tu, Io, Noi, V8, Karlsruhe (D) with Henry Staschik

2012
Cannot See Straight, Kensington Gardens Square, London (UK) 

Selected Group Shows 

2024
Homo Faber, Fondazione Cini, Venice (IT)
Blind Quest, Ballein, Paris (FR)

2023
Lost And Found, GU11, Cologne (D)
Greenhouse, Gratin, New York (US)

2022
A5, AS_EM, Leipzig (D)
Liminal Creatures, Künstlerhaus Bregenz, Bregenz (AUT) 

2020
Transatlantico, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City (US)
Time Flies In This Pending Space, 5th floor, Frankfurt am Main (D) 

2019
Futur 1, Jean Claude Maier, Frankfurt am Main (D) 
Comrades of Time, Whatspace Hardspace, Basel (CH) 
Fictional Nature, Bärenzwinger, Berlin (D)
Under the sun, over the moon and down to earth, Tor Art Space, Frankfurt
am Main (D) Group Show, Galerie Onrust, Amsterdam (N) 

2018
Your North is my South, Museum für Neue Kunst, Freiburg (D) 
Lento e violento, Spazio Buonasera, Turin (IT) 

2017
Core Remission, Gr_und, Berlin (D)
Berlin Masters, Max Lieberman Haus, Berlin (D)
Group Show, Galerie Tobias Naehring, Leipzig (D)
Painting Or Not, Kaviar Factory, Henningsvær (NOR)
Pressing Your Face In Wet Grass, Jean Claude Maier Galerie, Frankfurt (D) 
Tutti Meno Un Etto, Im Hinterzimmer, Karlsruhe (D) 

2016
Shades Of Grey, Kunstraum Riehen, Riehen, Basel (CH) 
Encoding The Urban, Kunsthaus Baselland, Muttenz, Basel (CH) 
My Third Wish Has Always Been Three More, Infinite Berlin (D) 
The Art Of The Matter, CAM St. Louis, St. Louis (US) 

2015
Parked Like Serious Oysters, MMK Frankfurt am Main (D)
If it can’t burn us, can it still warm our hearts?, Mindscape Universe, Berlin (D) 

2014
Paint Me A River, Flur11, Braunschweig (D) 
Flumen, Kunsthalle Mulhouse, Mulhouse (FR) 

2013
Being Specific!, Kunsthaus Baselland, Muttenz, Basel (CH) 
Ø 1985 / Sammlung Fiede, Schlachthaus Aschaffenburg (D) 
V8 Anniversary Exhibition, V8, Karlsruhe (D) 

2012
A Retrospective of Tomorrow’s Artists, Schillerpalais, Berlin (D) 

2011
GVS Art Award for Young Artists, GVS Süddeutschland, Stuttgart (D) 

Awards / Grants / Residencies 

2020
Artist in residence at Palazzo Monti, Brescia (IT) 

2017
TOY Berlin Masters Award (shortlisted) 

2013-2015
Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes 

2012
Heinrich Hertz Award 

Publications 

2019
Contribution in „Fantasies on Art for Friends of Art“ by Immanuel Birkert 

2017
„Farbraumwelten - Die Kunstsammlung der Schufa", Schufa Holding AG 
„Maximilian Arnold - Selected Works", Union Investment Group 

2015
„Parked Like Serious Oysters", MMK Frankfurt a. Main 

2014
Artist book for „Tramp“, initiated by Ferial Karrasch, Members exhibition at Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe (D)

Public Collections 

The Hoff Collection, Henningsvær (NOR) 
Schufa Holding AG, Wiesbaden (D)  

Other 

2019-2021
Founder of the non-profit space Goeben Berlin, Berlin (D)