Michael Riedel

Biography

Born in 1972 in Rüsselsheim (Germany). Lives and works in Frankfurt (Germany).

Michael Riedel's artwork has thrived for almost 20 years now on continuous reproduction whereby new work is generated from existing material, in seemingly endless loops and permutations. The point of departure for his graphics, paintings, audiovisual and spatial installations lies in recordings of conversations, in films, performances, club evenings or works by other artists.

Michael Riedel has been a professor of painting and graphic design at the HGB - Academy of Fine Arts, Leipzig since 2017.

Michael Riedel's works have been exhibited in MoMA - The Museum of Modern Art (New York), Tate Modern (London), Fondation d'entreprise Ricard (Paris), Palais de Tokyo (Paris), The Modern Institute (Glasgow), Städel Museum (Frankfurt), Kunsthaus Bregenz (Bregenz), Museum der Moderne (Salzburg), Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (Turin), Zach Feuer (New York), Jüdisches Museum Wien, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College (Winter Park), GAM (Turin), COCO - Contemporary Concerns (Vienna), Renaissance Society (Chicago), Villa Arson (Nice), the Secession (Vienna), Swiss Institute (New York), 9th Lyon Biennale of Contemporary Art, 1st Moscow Biennale, Saarland Museum Modern Gallery (Saarbrücken). In 2017-2018, Michael Riedel had two major retrospectives at Museum Angewandte Kunst (Frankfurt) and Kunsthalle (Zürich).

His work is part of prestigious collections as Fondation François Pinault, MoMA - The Museum of Modern Art (New York), Centre Georges-Pompidou (Paris), Kunsthaus Zürich (Zürich), Yuz Fondation (Hong Kong), The Alfond Collection of Contempopary Art at Rollins College, Cornell Fine Arts Museum (Florida), FRAC Normandie Rouen, Josée and Marc Gensollen collection (Marseilles) etc.