Michael Krebber

The elements here are the contents of my studio, set up on the ground floor at Greene Naftali. After I had had an idea for how to finally handle and accomplish the task I had defined for myself, and after setting up an experimental arrangement for that, I decided to just switch the power button off and ship this complete painting machine to the gallery and that way to also be rid of it.

The motif for the invitation card shows a Turing machine — notes from an Oswald Wiener seminar, held around 2001 at the Düsseldorf Art academy. The text included here is from Friedrich Wolfram Heubach, written in 2000 for my exhibition at Kunstverein Braunschweig. For the Grey Flags exhibition at Sculpture Center in New York in 2006, this translation was made and printed in the accompanying publication.

I am particularly interested in the inverse Picasso and Les Demoiselles d'Avignon as an early work of Cubism, which I see all the time at MOMA in New York. Both hint at my recent press release for Esprit de Corps.

studio: ca 29’ x 63’, 1827 sqf

ground floor: ca 39.3' x 50', 1965 sqf

—Michael Krebber

Born in Cologne in 1954, Krebber lives and works in New York. This untitled solo exhibition is his ninth with Greene Naftali. Institutional solo exhibitions of his work have been held at Fondazione Antonio Dalle Nogare, Bolzano (2021); Museum Brandhorst, Munich (2019, with R. H. Quaytman); Kunsthalle Bern (2017); Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto (2016); Museum Ludwig, Cologne (2015, with R. H. Quaytman); CAPC Musée d’art Contemporain, Bordeaux (2012); Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne (2008); Secession, Vienna (2005); Städtische Galerie, Wolfsburg (2000); and Kunstverein Braunschweig (2000).

His work is in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Centre Pompidou, Paris; The Art Institute of Chicago; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; CAPC Musée d'art Contemporain, Bordeaux; Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum of Contemporary Art, Berlin; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Aïshti Foundation, Lebanon; Museum Brandhorst, Munich; Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson; and RISD Museum, Providence, Rhode Island; among others. He was awarded the Wolfgang Hahn Prize by the Museum Ludwig, Cologne, in 2015 (with R. H. Quaytman).