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Fabian Treiber

Fabian Treiber

1986
Born in Ludwigsburg, Germany

Education

2016
Master Student in the Weissenhof Program of Fine Arts
2015
Studies of Fine Arts, State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart

Solo Exhibitions

2025
Solo exhibition, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA (forthcoming)
2024
Bruised, Cob Gallery, London, UK
2023
ZU VIEL BLAU WIRD SCHNELL NACHT, Städtische Galerie, Dresden, Germany
Zu Viel Blau Wird Schnell, Städtische Galerie Ostfildern, Denmark
Most Common Things, Galerie Mark Müller, Zurich, Switzerland
NO NAME GETS TO THE HEART OF IT, Haverkampf Liestenschneider Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2022
Sunrise Doesn’t Last All Morning, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Absence of Presence, Städt. Galerie Ehingen, Germany
BOCHUM, Ruttkowski;68 Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany
2021
Plein Air , Ruttkowski; 68 Gallery, Paris, France
For a While Longer, Haverkampf Leistenschneider Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Doppio, Museum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen, Switzerland
For a While Longer, Haverkampf Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2020
Painting the Night Unreal , Galerie Mark Müller, Zurich, Switzerland
Dream Home Heartache , KANT Galleri, Copenhagen, Denmark
Sweet Home , Strzelski Galerie, Stuttgart, Germany
2019
A Minibar in a Large Scale Room , Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Germany
Common Things , Kunstverein Ludwigsburg, Germany
More Feeling, Ruttkowski; 68 Galerie, Cologne, Germany
2018
Candle, Candle , Kunstverein Sebastianskapelle eV, Ulm, Germany
Autogrill , Strzelski Gallery, Stuttgart, Germany
2017
body doesn’t know , Galerie Mark Müller, Zurich, Switzerland
Front Yard , pop; 68, Ruttkowski; 68 Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Sleeping in an unmade bed , Galerie Tristan Lorenz, Frankfurt aM, Germany
2016
There was always something disturbing. , Strzelski Gallery, Stuttgart, Germany
2015
Move your ass and your mind will follow , (Host Kairos) Experimentierbühne Heusteigtheater, Stuttgart, Germany
2014
Blue Beach, Pink Love, Pale Kobra, Strzelski Galerie, Stuttgart, Germany
9 minutes before Vegas , Dagstuhl Castle, Leibniz Society, Saarbrücken / Wadern, Germany
2013
The drum beats out of time , Strzelski Galerie, Stuttgart, Germany
2011
Hunting company , working title, Stuttgart, Germany

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024
Two person exhibition with Alfie Caine, Cobb Gallery, London, UK (forthcoming)
The First Taste, Anat Ebgi, New York, NY
2023
10 Year Book Release, Ruttkowski;68, Basel, Switzerland (forthcoming)
My World Play, Haverkampf Leistenschneider, Berlin, Germany
MIXED PICKLES, Ruttkowski;68 Gallery, New York, NY, United States
2022
Ohne Titel, Kunstmuseum Singen, Germany
Purple Rain, Kunstgruppe Köln, Salon Schmitz, Germany
It is, It isn’t, Galerie Mark Müller, Zürich, Switzerland
Mein Hut der hat drei Ecken, Ruttkowski;68 Gallery, Paris, France
2021
This Must Be The Place , Villa Schoeningen, Potsdam, Germany
Rewilding , Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles, United States
Sommervögel , Galerie Mark Müller, Zürich, Switzerland
The Artist is Online – Painting & Sculpture in the digital Age (curated by Anika Meier & Johann König), KÖNIG Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Domesticity (curated by Sasha Bogojev), Vollery Gallery, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Contamination, G-Art-en Artspace, Como, Italy
Big Hans Purrmann Prize , Kulturhof, Speyer, Germany
2020
Hybrids , CFHILL Art Space, Stockholm, Sweden
Fukubukuro , Haverkampf Gallery, Berlin, Germany
JUST PAINTED. , Kunstverein Neuhausen, Germany
Mixed Pickles 8 , Ruttkowski; 68 Gallery, Wilhelmhallen, Berlin, Germany
Mixed Pickles 6 , Michael Horbach Foundation, Cologne, Germany
2019
Artifacts , Nevven Gallery, Gothenburg, Sweden
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Scholarship – The Exhibition , Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany
Mrs. AS meets Volker Böhringer, guest Fabianreiber, Villa Merkel galleries of the city of Esslingen aN, Germany
Single, but happy, Galerie Mark Müller, Zurich, Sweden
a take on paper , KANT Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
mixed pickles 4 , Michael Horbach Foundation, Cologne, Germany
2018
OPEN HOUSE , (Karl Schmidt-Rottluff main selection), Alte Münze, Berlin, Germany
Works on Paper , BEERS Gallery, London, United Kingdom
interior motives , MPV Gallery, Den Bosch, Netherlands
Rue Charlot , Ruttkowski; 68 Gallery, Paris, France
the art of living , Arts Projects Australia, Melbourne, Australia
Ciao , Strizzi. Exhibition room for usability, Cologne, Germany
on the home front , KANT Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
mixed pickles 3 , the shelf, Berlin, Germany
Emergencias del acontecimiento , Espacio [Es] positivo, Madrid, Spain
LICHTSTRASSE , Ruttkowski; 68 gallery, Cologne, Germany
mostly abstract_03 , Benoni Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
RUDE ASSEMBLY , Campbell Project Space, Sydney, Australia
2017
paper cuts , tripp gallery, London, United Kingdom
mixed pickles 2 , Michael Horbach Foundation, Cologne, Germany
we are the ones , Carlsberg City Gallery & Art Hall, Copenhagen, Denmark
Mulhouse 017 Biennial of young contemporary art, Mulhouse, France
TRUNK, Kunstverein Lüneburg eV, Lüneburg, Germany
2016
GROUP II, Tristan Lorenz Gallery, Frankfurt aM, Germany
PRACTICE PROCESS PROGRESS , Municipal Gallery Villa Merkel, Esslingen, Germany
Content, AKKU project space (Künstlerbund Baden-Württemberg), Stuttgart, Germany
2015
The day after tomorrow artist, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany
small & mighty , Filser & Gräf Gallery, Munich, Germany
close gives birth. , Ostertagshof in collaboration with the Kunstverein Neuhausen, Germany
Monochromosomes , Domagk Ateliers, Munich, Germany
2014
Walter Stöhrer Prize, Klaus Gerrit Friese Gallery, Stuttgart, Germany
Baby you can drive my car, Art Association Guest Rooms eV, Möhringen, Germany
Stand. Now, Fritz and Hildegard Ruoff Foundation, Nürtingen, Germany
to heaven and back, Kunstverein Neuhausen, Germany
Show 3, Soglia Artspace, Leipzig, Germany
Neither wide nor deep, Graben, State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, Germany
2013
NO PLACE TO HIDE , Employment Agency, Stuttgart, Germany
NO PLACE TO HIDE – Return to Sender , Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
Klett art projects, Next Big Gem, Stuttgart, Germany
2012
Do not forget the vigor of the bamboo root , Städtische Galerie Villa Merkel, Esslingen aN, Germany
Selection of scholarship holders from the German National Academic Foundation, Braunschweig Art Academy, Germany
CON | temporary arthouse , gallery tour Mitte, Stuttgart, Germany
Closest to Paradise , Kunstverein Oberer Neckar, Horb aN, Germany
2011
Now, Now , Municipal Gallery and Art Association, Reutlingen, Germany
Floods , galleries Müller-Roth and Michael Sturm, Stuttgart, Germany
Show me yours, I show you mine , Wilhelmspalais, Stuttgart, Germany

Prizes and Awards

2021
Big Hans Purrmann Prize (Finalist & Exhibition)
2014
Walter Stöhrer Prize for Graphics (recognition) from the Walter Stöhrer Foundation
2013
12th art competition Klett-Kunstprojekte, Stuttgart
2008
Academy Award

Awards, Fellowships, and Grants

2018
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Scholarship, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Foundation, German National Academic Foundation, Berlin
Marianne Defet Painting Grant (nomination, Kunsthalle Nürnberg), Nuremberg
Publication funding from the Ministry of Science, Research & Art, Baden-Württemberg
2017
Silkscreen Grant, Lepsien Art Foundation, Luxembourg
[Es] positivo 7B Art Residency, Madrid
2016
Studio funding from the City of Stuttgart
2015
Weißenhof program of fine arts
2011
Autumn funding from the Karin Abt-Straubinger Foundation

Press and Publications

2022
"Ten Questions for Fabian Treiber." Daedalus Roma. September 14, 2022.
2021
Bortt, Luis. "An Artist interview #20: Fabian Treiber." Kunzten. 2021.
2017
Kostarias, Yannis. "Fabian Treiber’s Beautifully Disturbing Abstraction Interferes With the Normal." Art Verge. November 09, 2017.

Public Collections

The Olbricht Collection, Essen, Germany
Museum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen, Sweden
State collection of the state of Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Pond Society, Beijing/ Shanghai, China
MWoods Museum, Beijing, China
X Museum, Beijing, China
Credit Suisse Collection, Switzerland
Art Museum Stuttgart, Germany
Ståhl Collection, Norrköping, Sweden
Public collection of Region Västra Götaland, Gothenburg, Sweden
Art Museum St. Gallen – permanent loan from private collection, Switzerland
Graphic collection of the city of Esslingen aN, Germany
Defet Art Collection Nuremberg, Germany
Graphics library of the new Stuttgart City Library, Germany
Regional Council Stuttgart, Germany
Dagstuhl Castle Art Collection, Wadern, Germany
Art collection of the State Academy of Fine Arts, Stuttgart, Germany
Karin Abt-Straubinger Collection, Stuttgart, Germany
Bech Risvig Collection, Silkeborg, Denmark