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
2012
Asthoff, Jens. “Sergej Jensen.” ArtForum January 2012: p 233 Prince, Mark. “Sergej Jensen.” Art in America January 2012: p 112
2011
Rhodes, David. “Letter from Berlin Sergej Jensen Master of Color.” The Brooklyn Rail October 2011
Asfour, Nana. “Sergej Jensen: The artist does a lot with a little.” TimeOut New York April 22, 2011 Smith, Roberta. “A Textured Palette Without Much Paint” The New York Times January 27, 2011
2010
Robecchi, Michele. “Sergej Jensen.” Flash Art October 2010, Issue 274
MacMillian, Kyle. “Minimalist Sergej Jensen Weaves Remnants into Art” The Denver Post August 27, 2010
Hudson, Suzanne. “Previews: Sergej Jensen.” ArtForum May 2010: p 139
At Home/ Not At Home: Works from the Collection of Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg, Hessel Museum of Art/ Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (exhibition catalog)
2008
Joanna Fiduccia, Sergej Jensen, Artforum International, September 2008 Douglas Fogle, Life on Mars: 55th Carnegie International, 2008
Saskia Draxler, Artforum online, March 21, 2008 2007 N.N., Art Basel 2007, in: Hali.com, June 27
2006
Sergej Jensen at Anton Kern Gallery, Brian Sholis, Artforum, January, p.221.
Sergej Jensen at Anton Kern, Matthew Guy Nichols, Art in America, p.148.
Pattern Recognition – the art of Sergej Jensen, Lisa Pasquariello, Artforum, Summer, p. 326-329. *“Delete/How to Make a Perfect Ghost.“ , Anton Kern Gallery, New York.
2005
Sergej Jensen at Anton Kern, Roberta Smith, The New York Times, Nov. 4. Homespun Intelligence, Jerry Saltz, The Village Voice, Nov. 4.
Sergej Jensen at Anton Kern, The New Yorker, Nov. 7.
Sergej Jensen, Kyle Bentley, Artforum, Oct.
Sergej Jensen at Galerie Neu, Arden Reed, Art in America, May.
* “Formalism. Modern Art, today. Formalismus. Moderne Kunst, heute.“, Hatje Cantz Verlag Diederichsen, Diedrich: „Formalismus“ in Artform, March, p.231.
2004
Schiff, Hajo: “26.Biennale von Sao Paulo“, in Kunstforum, Bd.173, p. 245 Eichler, Dominique: “SergejJensen“, in Frieze Issue 87, Nov/Dec
Kunstverein in Hamburg,
Prince, Mark: 26a Bienal de Sao Paulo, Curatorial Text. September 2004
* “Eclipse-Towards the edge of the visible“, White Cube, London
* “Werke aus der Sammlung Boros“, zkm Karlsruhe, Ostfilder-Ruit, Hatje Cantz Verlag
2003
* “Sergej Jensen – Stefan Müller“, Kunstverein Braunschweig Prince, Mark: „Feint Art“, in: Art Monthly, 06.03 No. 267
* “New Abstract Painting“, Museum Morsbroich Leverkusen
David Grubbs: “Zu früh unvollendet“, in Texte zur Kunst, Heft 49 März
Spiegel 3/2003: Florian Illies über „deutschemalereizweitausendrei“
* “deutschemalereizweitausendrei“, Hrsg. Nicolaus Schafhausen, Frankfurter Kunstverein shortlist art, in Village Voice, Jan 29-Feb 4
Saltz, Jerry: „Rays of Light“, in Village Voice, Jan. 22-28
2002
Grown Up and in Love With Color, Roberta Smith, The New York Times, Art Review/The Armory Show, Feb. 22nd
Vitamin P, Phaidon Press
* “Urgent Painting“, ARC, Paris
2001
Gnadenlos gemütlich eingerichtet, Ina Weintrautner, Handelsblatt, Jun. 18.
* catalogue
2023
Before Tomorrow, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway
Order & Disorder, rodolphe janssen art gallery, Brussels
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
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
Condo, Maureen Paley hosting dépendance, Maureen Paley, London, UK
L’Offre, DHC Montreal, Montreal, Canada
Bunker #3, Boros Collection, Berlin, Germany
2016
The Squatter, Gaudel de Stampa, Paris, France
Edvard Munch in Denmark: Andrea Fourchy and Sergej Jensen, Avlskarl Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Grabt Tiefer, ihr Schönen, Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany
2014
The Hawker, dépendance at Carlos / Ishikawa, London, UK
Script for Leaving Traves, David Roberts Art Foundation, London, UK
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
Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark
Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, USA
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, USA
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
National Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo, Norway
Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, USA
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
FRAC Auvergne, France
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California, USA
Judith Rothschild Foundation, New York, USA
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Société des Amis du Musée national d’art moderne, Paris, France
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
Tate, London, UK
Verein der Freunde der Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany