Max FRINTROP | Berthold Pott

MAX FRINTROP (for press and detailed CV scroll downwards)

Born 1982 in Oberhausen, lives and works in Düsseldorf, GER

Education

2003-2009
Academy of Art, Düsseldorf, Germany, master class

Selected exhibitions:

2024

solo presentation at ArtGenève, Geneva, Switzerland (Jan 2024) / group exhibition at Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Germany (summer) / solo exhibition at Berthold Pott, Cologne, Germany (Nov 2024)

PAST:

2023: Group exhibition at Kunstmuseum Bonn, GER, presentation of the museums collection (May 2022 – until April 2024) / Group exhibition at CAB Foundation, Brussels, Belgium (2023 Sept-Nov) / Group exhibition „You should be there“ at Madison Gallery, San Diego, USA ( 2023 July-Sept) / Group exhibition at Johann König, Berlin, Germany (2023 Sept-Nov) / Group exhibition at Plus One, Antwerp, BE (2023 March/April) / Group exhibition with Isa Genzken, Max Frintrop, Thomas Scheibitz, Henning Strassburger at Zidoun-Bossuyt, Luxemburg (2023 Jan-March)

2022: Solo exhibition at AplusB in Brescia, Italy / Solo exhibition at Santa Lucia Gallery, Berlin / Solo exhibition at Mies van der Rohe Haus, Berlin, GER / Group exhibition at Kunstverein Lippe, Museum Detmold, GER / Solo exhibition at Xippas Baronian, Knokke, Belgium / Group exhibition at Mott Projects Los Angeles, USA

2021: „Nearby“ group exhibition at museum PEAC, Freiburg, Germany / „Ehrenfeld“ at Berthold Pott, Cologne, Germany / „Plays“ solo exhibition at Andersen´s Contemporary, Copenhagen, Denmark

2020: „Max Frintrop and Pam Glick“ at Berthold Pott, Cologne, Germany / „Painters in the Mist“: Max Frintrop and Pam Glick at Ober Gallery, Kent, USA / „Now! Young painting in Germany“, group exhibition at Museum Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany

2019: duo presentation Max Frintrop – Benoit Platéus at NADA Miami booth Berthold Pott / „Hot Waxed Horsebacks“ solo exhibition at Budapest Art Factory, Budapest, Hungary / „Now! Young painting in Germany“, group exhibition at Kunstmuseum Bonn, Museum Wiesbaden, Museum Gunzenhauser, Chemnitz, Germany

2018: „Lardo“ solo exhibition at Berthold Pott, Cologne, Germany / „Chansons dans le vide“, solo exhibition at Albert Baronian, Brussels, Belgium

2017: „Mi Par D´Udir Ancora“ solo exhibition at AplusB, Brescia, Italy / „Keine Welt“ solo exhibition at Kunstverein Heppenheim, Germany

2016: „Fasi Lunari“ group exhibition curated by Albert Oehlen, with Peppi Bottrop, Andreas Breunig, Max Frintrop, Fabian Ginsberg, Yuji Nagai, Albert Oehlen, David Ostrowski, at Fondazione Carriero, Milan, Italy / „Daily Bread“ solo exhibition at Lyles & King, New York, USA / „Frontron“ solo exhibition at Berthold Pott, Cologne

2015: „You should be here“ solo exhibition at Andersen´s Contemporary, Copenhagen, Denmark

2014: „Leverage“ solo exhibition at Berthold Pott, Cologne, Germany

2013: „Salad Days“ Max Frintrop and Michail Pirgelis, Kunstverein Parkhaus im Malkastenpark, Düsseldorf, GER

2012: „Ricochet“ solo exhibition at Berthold Pott, Cologne, GER

Selected works / installation views:

Max Frintrop, 2023, untitled (MF2311A, SOAP´S), ink, acrylic, pigments on canvas, 180 x 130 cm

Space lies folded against the wall solo exhibition Max Frintrop at Mies van der Rohe Haus, Berlin (April – Sept 2022)

Ich bin ein Bild solo exhibition Max Frintrop at Berthold Pott, Cologne, GER (Nov 2021 – Jan 2022)

Max Frintrop, untitled (Allstar), 2020, 220 x 180 cm, ink, acrylics, pigments on canvas

Max Frintrop Pam Glick, Berthold Pott Cologne, 2020

Max Frintrop, 2020, untitled (bootlegger), 180 x 130 cm, ink, acrylic, pigments on canvas

Max Frintrop, 2020, untitled (prospect street), 220 x 180 cm, ink, acrylic, pigments on canvas

Max Frintrop, 2019, untitled (Lel terher), 260 x 180 cm, ink, acrylic, pigments on canvas

Max Frintrop, 2019, untitled (safe as milk), 220 x 180 cm, ink, acrylic, pigments on canvas

Max Frintrop, 2019, untitled (run paint run run), 180 x 130 cm, ink, acrylic, pigments on canvas

Max Frintrop, 2019, 290 x 205 cm, ink, acrylic, pigments on canvas

Max Frintrop, 2019, 220 x 170 cm, ink, acrylic, pigments on canvas

Max Frintrop, untitled, 2019, ink, pigments, acrylic on canvas, 220 x 170 cm

„Lardo“, solo exhibition at Berthold Pott, Cologne, Sept/Oct 2018

„Homeland 2“ group show at Berthold Pott, Cologne, June/July 2018 (left painting by Max Frintrop)

Max Frintrop, untitled (Drop), 2018, 200 x 150 cm, ink, acrylic, pigments on canvas

Max Frintrop, untitled (fifty thousands centuries), 2018, 41 x 38 x 15 cm, wood, metal, plastic, cardboard, lacquer on canvas

„Chansons dans le vide“, solo exhibition Max Frintrop at Albert Baronian, Brussels, Belgium (April/May 2018)

„Keine Welt“ solo exhibition Max Frintrop, at Kunstverein Heppenheim, Germany (2017)

„Frontron“, solo exhibition Max Frintrop at Berthold Pott, Cologne (2016)

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„Frontron“, solo exhibition Max Frintrop at Berthold Pott, Cologne (2016)

„Leverage“, solo exhibition Max Frintrop at Berthold Pott, Cologne (2014)

„Ricochet“, solo exhibition Max Frintrop at Berthold Pott, Cologne (2012)

Selected press

Art-Viewer, Max Frintrop „Ich bin ein Bild“ at Berthold Pott, Cologne, 30. Dec 2021

Tagesthemen, German TV new channel ARD, „Junge Malerei in Deutschland“, Sept 18, 2019

Weltkunst: „Das Totenreich kann warten“ by Alexandra Wach, Nov 14, 2019

„Mehr als Strich und Farbe: Junge Malerei in Bonn“, WDR, by Thomas Köster, Sept 2019

FAZ, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: „Immer verrätselt“ by Michael Hierholzer, 19 Sept 2019

Westdeutsche Zeitung WZ: „Die malende Jugend erobert die Museen“ by Helga Meister, 21 Sept 2019

Spiegel Online: „So malt die junge Generation“ by Carola Padberg, 21 Sept 2019

Handelsblatt: „Junge Malerei in Deutschland. Der Königsdisziplin den Puls gefühlt“ by Dr. Christiane Fricke, 26 Sept. 2019

„Letting the painting do the job“, Interview with Collecteurs Magazine, New York, June 2017

„Frontron“ article at Daily Lazy, Berlin, Sept 2016

Publications:

„MAX FRINTROP“ – Space lies folded against the wall / An der Wand liegt der Raum gefaltet, Mies van der Rohe Haus, Berlin, August 2022

„MAX FRINTROP – Ich will aus meinem Herzen keine Mördergrube machen“, published by Walther König, Cologne, 2016, text by Dr. Alexander Klar, Museum Wiesbaden, Alex Bacon, Mirko Strauch (192 pages)

„MAX FRINTROP – Lieder im Vakuum“, publication for the exhibition „Chansons dans le vide“ at Albert Baronion, Brussels, Belgium, April-June 2018

Full CV

2024

solo presentation at ArtGenève, Geneva, Switzerland (Jan 2024)

group exhibition at Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Germany

solo exhibition at Berthold Pott, Cologne, Germany (Nov 2024)

2023

Group exhibition at Kunstmuseum Bonn, GER, presentation of the museums collection (May 2022 – until April 2024)

Group exhibition at CAB Foundation, Brussels, Belgium (Sept-Nov)

Group exhibition „You should be there“ at Madison Gallery, San Diego, USA (July-Sept)

Group exhibition at Johann König, Berlin, Germany (Sept-Nov)

Group exhibition at Plus One, Antwerp, BE (March/April)

Group exhibition with Isa Genzken, Max Frintrop, Thomas Scheibitz, Henning Strassburger at Zidoun-Bossuyt, Luxemburg (Jan-March)

2022

Solo exhibition at AplusB in Brescia, Italy (Nov-Dec 2022/ Jan 2023)

Solo exhibition at Santa Lucia Gallery, Berlin (Oct/Nov 2022)

Solo exhibition at Mies van der Rohe Haus, Berlin, GER (April-Sept 2022)

Group exhibition at Omstand, Arnhem, NL (June/July)

Group exhibition at Kunstverein Lippe, Museum Detmold, GER (29 April – 7 August 2022)

Solo exhibition at Xippas Baronian, Knokke, Belgium

Group exhibition at Mott Projects Los Angeles, USA

Fair exhibitions: Art Cologne (Nov 2022) and Art Antwerp (Dec 2022)

2021

„Nearby“ group exhibition at museum PEAC, Freiburg, Germany (until August 2021)

„TNOA“, group exhibition at KW, Cologne, Germany (June/July 2021)

„Ehrenfeld“ at Berthold Pott, Cologne, Germany (April/May 2021)

„Plays“ solo exhibition at Andersen´s Contemporary, Copenhagen, Denmark (April/May)

2020

„Max Frintrop and Pam Glick“ at Berthold Pott, Cologne, Germany

„Painters in the Mist“: Max Frintrop and Pam Glick at Ober Gallery, Kent, USA

group exhibition at „Projectspace on the Inside“ and Gerhard Hofland, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

group exhibition at Collectors Depot, Pörtschach am Wörther See, Austria (June-August 2020)

„Now! Young painting in Germany“, group exhibition at Museum Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany

2019

duo presentation Max Frintrop – Benoit Platéus at NADA Miami booth Berthold Pott: (Dec 2019)

„Hot Waxed Horsebacks“ solo exhibition at Budapest Art Factory, Budapest, Hungary

„Now! Young painting in Germany“, group exhibition at Kunstmuseum Bonn, Museum Wiesbaden, Museum Gunzenhauser, Chemnitz, Germany

2018 /

„Lardo“ solo exhibition at Berthold Pott, Cologne, Germany

„Chansons dans le vide“, solo exhibition at Albert Baronian, Brussels, Belgium

2017

„Mi Par D´Udir Ancora“ solo exhibition at AplusB, Brescia, Italy

„Keine Welt“ solo exhibition at Kunstverein Heppenheim, Germany

2016

„Fasi Lunari“ group exhibition curated by Albert Oehlen, with Peppi Bottrop, Andreas Breunig, Max Frintrop, Fabian Ginsberg, Yuji Nagai, Albert Oehlen, David Ostrowski, at Fondazione Carriero, Milan, Italy

„Daily Bread“ solo exhibition at Lyles & King, New York, USA

„Frontron“ solo exhibition at Berthold Pott, Cologne

2015

„You should be here“ solo exhibition at Andersen´s Contemporary, Copenhagen, Denmark

2014

„Leverage“ solo exhibition at Berthold Pott, Cologne, Germany

2013

„Salad Days“ Max Frintrop and Michail Pirgelis, Kunstverein Parkhaus im Malkastenpark, Düsseldorf, GER

2012

„Ricochet“ solo exhibition at Berthold Pott, Cologne, GER