Born 1973, Maglegaard, Denmark
Lives and works in Berlin, Germany
and New York, United States
Education
Studied at the Städelschule (Prof. Thomas Bayrle)
Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Frankfurt Germany
2024
Sergej Jensen: Older Works and Shadow Paintings, White Cube, London, UK
2022
The Adult Light, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, USA
Sergej Jensen, Consortium Museum, Dijon, France
2021
Sergej Jensen, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Sergej Jensen, AVLSKARL Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2020
Sergej Jensen: Abstract Paintings, Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany
2019
Sergej Jensen, Carpintaria (Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2018
Fabric Paintings, Galerie Buchholz, New York, USA
Strips, Peter Lund, Oslo, Norway
2017
The Weather, Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany
Sergej Jensen, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany
2016
Sergej Jensen, Statens Museun for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark
Edvard Munch In Denmark (with Andrea Fourchy), Avlskarl Gallery, Denmark
Money Bags, White Cube, Bermondsey, London, UK
2015
Sounds of the Earth, dépendance, Brussels, Belgium
Sergej Jensen, Galerie Buchholz, New York, USA
2014
Classic, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, USA
We not, Galerie Buchholz, Cologne, Germany
Sergej Jensen, Avlskarl, Copenhagen, Denmark
Evian, White Cube, Hong Kong, China
2013
Regen Projects, Los Angeles, USA
Fred Thieler Prize for Painting, Berlinische Galerie, Germany
Anton Kern Gallery, New York, USA
2012
Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil
Anton Kern Gallery, New York, USA
2011
Master of Colors, dépendance, Brussels, Belgium
Master of Color, Galerie Neu, Dresden, Germany
Sergej Jensen, MoMA PS1, New York, USA
2010
Dog Show Painting Show, Kunsthalle Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany
Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, USA
The Last Twenty Minutes of 2001, White Cube, London, UK
2009
KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
2008
Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany
Anton Kern Gallery, New York, USA
Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway
Sergej Jensen and Henrik Olesen, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
Sergej Jensen: Schmoll, Kunsthalle Bergen, Norway
Pictures and Paintings, Anton Kern, New York, USA
Pictures and Paintings, Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany
Konsthall Malmö, Malmö, Sweden
2007
Nomadic bags and bag faces, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2006
La chambre de la peinture, White Cube, London, UK
Nature and Nothing, Galeria Fortes Vilaca, São Paulo, Brazil
2005
Paintings (I come from the computer), New-York, USA
Bad Dreams, Patrick de Brock Gallery, Knokke-Heist, Belgium
2004
Arbeiten und ein Feuerwerk, Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany
Kunstverein Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany
Die Jahresrückblicklampe, Galerie Meerrettich, Berlin, Germany
2003
Stürme der Jugend (Storms of The Youth), dépendance, Brussels Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, USA (with Stefan Müller)
Sergej Jensen und Stefan Müller, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany 2002, Kreishaus Hofheim / Taunus (with Stefan Müller)
Nicolas Krupp, Basel, Switzerland
2001
Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany
2000
Galerie Normadenoase, Hamburg, Germany
2024
That Which Binds Us, Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York
Composition for the Left Hand, with works from the Erling Kagge Collection, Kode
Bergen Art Museum, Norway
2024 Group Exhibition, M. LeBlanc, Chicago
2023
Before Tomorrow, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway
Order & Disorder, rodolphe janssen art gallery, Brussels
Comporta 2023, Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel and kurimanzutto, Casa da Cultura de Comporta, Portugal
Heatwave, Galerie Neu, Berlin
2022
Bells, Galerie Buchholz, Cologne
2021
Abstraction Reload, Siegfried Contemporary, London, UK / Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany
Selections, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
2020
Studio Berlin, Berghain, Berlin, Germany – curated by Karen Boros
Walking: Movements North of Bolzano, Museion, Bolzano
My Cartography: The Erling Kagge Collection, Fundación Banco Santander Madrid, Spain; Fondation Vincent Van Gogh, Arles
00s. The 2000s in the Cranford Collection, MO.CO. Hôtel des Collections,
Montpellier
2019
Now Is the Time: 25 Years Collection Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
2018
Memory Palace, White Cube, London, UK
The Marciano Collection, Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, USA
Hӧlle, Galerie Buchholz, New York, USA
Optik Schröder II, Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna, Austria
2017
Cool, Calm and Collected, ARoS Aarhus Art Museum
EUROVISIONS: Contemporary art from the Goldberg Collection, National Art
School Gallery, Sydney
Proof of Life / Lebenszeichen, Weserburg | Museum of Modern Art, Bremen
Painting I or I not, Kaviarfactory, Henningsvær
INFECTED FOOT, Greene Naftali, New York
Bunker #3, Boros Collection, Berlin
Condo 2017: Maureen Paley hosting dépendance, Maureen Paley, London
L’offre, DHC Montreal, Canada
2016
Edvard Munch in Denmark: Andrea Fourchy and Sergej Jensen, Avlskarl Gallery, Copenhagen
The Squatter, Gaudel de Stampa, Paris
Zeitgest: Arte da Nova Berlim, Goethe Institut, Brasilia
Grabt Tiefer, ihr Schönen, Galerie Neu, Berlin
Intertwined, Great Hall Exhibition, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, New York
My Abstract World, me Collectors Room, Berlin
The Campaign for Art: Contemporary, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Illumination, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark
2025
Albert the kid is ghosting, David Roberts Art Foundation, London
Losing the Compass, White Cube, London
Love Story – Works from Erling Kagge’s Collection, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo
Works on Paper, Greene Naftali, New York
Second Chances, Aspen Art Museum, Colorado
For Real, Galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris
2014
Le Musée d’une nuit (script for leaving traces), Fondation Hippocrène, Paris
We not, Galerie Buchholz, Cologne
Abandon the Parents, National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen
Variations: Conversations in and Around Abstract Painting, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Painting and the Painterly, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark
Happier than the Morning Sun, Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf, Germany
Traces of Modernism, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
dépendance at Carlos/Ishikawa, Carlos/Ishikawa, London
Galerie Neu at Gladstone Gallery, Gladstone Gallery, New York
2013
Decorum, Musée d’art modèrne de la ville de Paris, Paris, France
Keilrahmen. Painting Forever, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
Art & Textiles – Fabric as Material and Concept in Modern Art from Klimt to the Present, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
DSM-V, The Future Moynihan Station, New York, USA
The Gesture and the Sign, White Cube, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2012
Catle In The Air, Centre of Culture ZAMEK, Poznan, Poland
No Helps, Mehringdamm 72, Berlin, Germany
Circus Wols: An Homage, Weserburg | Museum of Modern Art, Bremen, Germany
2011
Printemps de Septembre Festival, Toulouse, France
Thomas Bayrle kuratiert (ungern) Schrippenkönig mitp, Galerie Mezzanin, Vienna, Austria
Structure & Absence, White Cube Bermondsey, London, UK
Precarious Worlds: Contemporary Art From Germany, Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, USA
Time Again, Sculpture Center, Long Island City, USA
Provisional Painting, Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London, UK
All of This and Nothing, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA
Tableaux, Magasin CNAC, Grenoble, France
Dystopia, CAPC, Bordeaux, France
2010
The House of Wonder, MD 72, Berlin, Germany
“…”, Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany
Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, France
Novel, dépendance, Brussels, Belgium
Neue Alchemie. Kunst der Gegenwart nach Beuys, Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Münster, Germany
Fischgrätenmelkstand, Temporäre Kunsthalle
Mehr Teppich/More Carpet, Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin, Germany
„SHAZAM!“, Galerie Gerhardsen Gerner, Berlin, Germany
2009
Modern Modern, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, USA
My Summer Show, Galerie Lelong, New York, USA
Your Gold Teeth II, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, USA
The Splendour of Fear, Michael Benevento, Los Angeles, USA
Nothing to say and I am saying it, Kunstverein Freiburg, Freiburg Minimal Means, Initial Access, Wolverhampton, UK
Getting Nowhere, Galleria Gentili, Prato, Italy
Carnegie Art Award, various locations
Black Summer, Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium
2008
Friends and Family, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, USA
NY Une Saison à Bruxelles, dépendance, Brussels, Belgium
Painting Now and Forever, Part II, Matthew Marks Gallery and Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, USA
No Information Available, Gladstone Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Review, Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany
MD 72, Mehringdamm 72, Berlin, Germany
Boxer, Literaturhaus Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden
Terms and Conditions, De Ateliers, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Review, Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany
o Information Available, Gladstone Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
The Art of the Real, Oud Vliegveld, Oostende, Belgium
Rauschende Gäste. Die Sammlung Rausch und die Städelschule zu Gast im Hotel Marienbad, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
2007
Helmut Draxler: Shandyismus…, Kunsthaus Dresden, Germany
Von Bill Viola bis Aernout Mik, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany
It Takes Something To Make Something, Portikus Frankfurt, Germany
Made in Germany, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany
Joseph Strau and Galerie Meerrettich, Vilma Gold, London
Conditions of Play, The Moore Space, Miami; traveling to Locust Projects, Miami, USA
Very Abstract and Hyper Figurative, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, UK
dépendance at Galerie Neu, Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany
2006
Shandyismus. Autorschaft als Genre, Wiener Secession, Vienna, Austria
Tension; Sex; Despair- Aber hallo/na und, WUK Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Austria
Austria Filaturen, Sies + Höke Galerie, Düsseldorf (kuratiert von Bettina Klein), Germany
Von Bill Viola bis Aernout Mik, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany
Albrecht Schnider, Rebecca Morris, Sergej Jensen, Grieder Contemporary, Küstnacht bei Zürich, Switzerland
Dekade 1993 – 2007, a project by Dirk von Lowtzow, Open Space
Art Cologne, Booth: Galerie Neu / Galerie Buchholz, Cologne, Germany
Delete/How to Make a Perfect Ghost, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, USA
Of Mice and Men, 4th Berlin Biennale, Berlin, Germany
Whitney Biennial, New York, USA
Momentum 2006, Momentum – Nordic Festival of Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway
Faster! Bigger! Better!, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
Under Pressure, Art: Concept, Paris, France
Optik Schröder, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
Infinite Painting, Villa Manin Centre for Contemporary Art, Codroipo, Italy
Down By Law, a project by the Wrong Gallery for the Whitney Biennial, New York, USA
A reverie interrupted by the police, Galeria S.A.L.E.S., Rome, Italy
Implosion, 10 Years Anton Kern Gallery, New York, USA
2005
IN CONCERT, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Mallorca Open, Centro Cultural Andratx, Andratx, Spain
Nolens Volens, Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany
2004
Art Contemporain, Luxembourg
Biennale São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Happy Days are Here Again, David Zwirner Gallery, New York, USA
Eclipse: Towards the Edge of the Visible, White Cube, London, UK
Formalismus, Moderne Kunst, heute, Kunstverein Hamburg, Germany
Works from the Boros Collection, Museum für neue Kunst ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
Jahresgaben 2004-2005 / Ausstellung, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
Jetzt und Zehn Jahre davor, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin Rheinschau 2004, Cologne, Germany
Universal Outstrech, Flaca, London, UK
2003
Western, Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark
Anke aus Kork (Anke made of Cork), Galerie Arkade, Mödling, Austria
New Abstract Painting, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
deutschemalereizweitausenddrei (germanpaintingtwothausandandtwo), Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
Dirty Pictures, The Approach, London, UK
Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne, Germany
2002
HOSSA, Centro Cultural Andratx, Mallorca, Spain
Lothringer 13, Munich, Germany
Fluten (Floods), Hamburg, Germany
Urgent Painting, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
Waiting fort he ice age, Galerie Georg Kargl, Vienna, Austria
Schöne Aussichten Herr Schweins, Galerie Otto Schweins, Cologne, Germany
2001
Frankfurter Kreuz, Schirn-Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
G.F.j.K., Baden-Baden, Germany
Viva November, Braunschweig, Germany Papierarbeiten, Bernadette Mittlup, Cologne, Germany
2000
l.o.w., Frankfurt
G.M., Berlin
Deutsche Kunst in Moskau (German Art in Moskau), Moscow, Russia
1999
Otto hat Besuch (Otto has a visitor), Copenhagen, Denmark
Malerei 1.9.- 31.10., Berlin, Germany
1998
Miles, Mannheim, Germany
Wisconsin, Frankfurt, Germany
1997
Downtown, Frankfurt, Germany
Playground, Frankfurt, Germany
W 5, Munich,Germany
Performances since 1998 with Claus Richter and Oliver Husain; since 2004 Da Group w/Michaela Meise. Ledermuseum, Offenbach; Kunstverein, Stuttgart; Kunstverein, Frankfurt; Expo, Hannover; Golden Pudel Club, Hamburg; C/O, Offenbach; TAT, Frankfurt; Museum Fridericaneum, Kassel; Galerie Wintergarten, Wien; Kunstverein Hamburg; Migros Museum, Zurich,; Liste Basel.
Concert, Publications, Film Music, etc.:
“Sud“, “Vivienne“, “Sergej Jensen group“, “Bernadette Hengst“, “Schwabinggrad Ballett“; “Tolerantes Brandenburg“, „Songs of Nico“ (w/Michaela Meise), Red Crayola (w/Henning Bohl).
Awards
2017 Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts Eckersberg Medal
2013 Fred Thieler Price
2010 Carnegie Art Award
Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo
Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, IL
Boros Collection, Berlin
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Columbus Museum of Art, OH
Fondation Beyeler, Switzerland
FRAC Auvergne, France
Hamburger Banhoff – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart Kunst, Berlin
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Hall Art Foundation, Palm Beach
Judith Rothschild Foundation, New York
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington, DC
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Illinois
Museum of Modern Art, New York