Maxim Brandt
1986 born in Kerch / Ukraine
2008–2015 studies of fine art at the Muthesius Kunsthochschule Kiel
2009–2011 studies with Jürgen Partenheimer
2011–2015 studies with Antje Majewski
2013 August Westphalen travel grant
2014 working grant from the Schleswig-Holstein Cultural Foundation
2014 stay in Guangzhou, China, College of Fine Arts, South China Normal University
2015 Master of Fine Arts
2018 Jeune Création, Paris
Statement:
Maxim Brandt creates in his works an absurd, poetic reality that radiates an atmospheric mystery. He
describes his visual worlds as poetic staging. He is moving between reality and fiction, between the present
and reminiscence. Everyday motives are deconstructed and recombined again with each other. This creates
new meanings and connections between the things that often seem incomprehensive or irrational. The result
of this is usually absurd, ambiguous dream images which have a self-contained logic. For each new painting
he examines his own image material for usable individual elements that he puts together to form a new
homogeneous 3D-composition. The process of mounting is comparable to a "mise-en-scène" in the theater
or to the rhyming of a poem. During the painting process he often changes colors and lighting conditions,
adds new requisites or reduces the composition. This new arrangement of things means for him an absolute
poetry. It expresses itself by incoherence, acausality and discontinuity.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2022:
DUEL -Maxim Brandt and Marius Martinussen, NB Galleri, Viborg, Denmark
Maxim Brandt, Edition Berlin/Galerie Rainer Gröschl, Kiel
2020
Hexenkraut, Szydlowski Galerie, Warsaw
Maxim BRANDT / Alexis GALLISSAIRES Mathilde Hatzenberger Gallery, Brusseles, Belgium
2018
Forest of Things, NB Galleri, Viborg, Denmark
Gewohnheiten, Ku1, Kellinghusen
2017
SO UND ANDERS, Gudberg Nerger, Hamburg
Vision des Kuckucks Kunst & CoGallery, Flensburg
2016
Fantastic Imperfections, Galerie in der Wassermühle, Trittau (Catalog)
2015
Yellow Soup, Galleri NB, Viborg, Denmark
2014
Logic behind the logic, August-Westphalen Reisestipendium, Neumüster
2012
Immer noch wach, SGVSH, Kiel
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2022
upcoming Groupshow, Fragment gallery, Moscow
2021
Gods and Monsters, Kunstverein Familie Montez, Frankfurt a. M.
Domino 3, Salve Projektraum, Berlin
ANDERSWELTEN. Malerei heute, Museum Villa Rot, Burgrieden
Needful Things, Uxval Gochez Gallery, Barcelona
Lusus Naturae, BCMA Gallery, Berlin
Mediated Landscapes, Fivesparks Gallery, Harvard, Massachusetts, USA
Les Academies #2 Nature Morte, Mathilde Hatzenberger, Brussels
KOSMOS LEM – Neue Bilder zu Neuen Welten, Rechenzentrum Potsdam
Don’t be lazy be crazy, Kunstverein Fantom, Berlin
Alternative Realitäten, Projektraum Galerie M, Berlin
2020
WAOU, galleri NB, Viborg, Denmark
VISARD, Salve, Berlin
Contemporary Landscape, galleri NB, Viborg, Denmark
2019
IT'S JUST AN ILLUSION, ARTDOCKS, Bremen
Velvet Ropes by GIFC, Showhouse Jay Jay, Antwerp, Belgium
Part of the Exhibition "The Shadow of Dream" by Open Group at PAVILION OF UKRAINE at the 58th Venice biennale, Venice, Italy
DIASPORA, Mathilde Hatzenberger Gallery, Bruxelles, Belgium
SALAD DAYS - A Young Space Online Exhibition, USA
Velvet ropes, 0-0LA Gallery, LA, USA
HIDDEN & BAD #2, AR_29, Berlin
YOUR DREAMS ARE MY REALITY, Amlinsky, Berlin
Velvet Ropes by GIFC, New York
Velvet Ropes by GIFC, Austin
LECKER MALEREI, Atelierhof Kreuzberg, Berlin
Die Vernunft macht Urlaub, Galerie Elysee, Hamburg
True Romance; Preparing for the darkness 4, Kühlhaus, Berlin
While Supplies Last, Bellevue Arts Museum, Washington
Velvet Ropes by GIFC at Galleri Golsa, Oslo
Velvet Ropes by GIFC at Soulland Store, Copenhagen
Daydreamers III by Elisa Rusca, https://www.daydreamers.biz/
Velvet Ropes by GIFC at Steinsland Berliner, Stockholm
Velvet Ropes by GIFC, London
DOMINO °2, Salve, Berlin
...Vereint..., Finanzministerium Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel
2018
UFER OPEN, Uferhallen, Berlin
[EXTRA]TERRESTRE(S) – Cabane Georgina, l’association A.Ken, Marseille, France
art about art, Bunkerhill Galerie, Hamburg
THAT'S ALL RIGHT MAMA, XXY, Berlin
68e édition de Jeune Création, Palais des Etudes, Paris, France
All you can see, Rizzutogallery, Palermo, Italy
Ausstellung des Eb-Dietzsch-Kunstpreises, Jena
Stolen Images, Meinblau Projektraum, Berlin
2017
Silent Action, The Drawing Hub, Berlin
edition neun, Bunker D Galerie, Kiel
Stroke - a Daring Preview, Cadillac House Munich Gallery, München
ZWET NEBA ZAGRANIZY (Die Farbe des Himmels im Ausland) - Diehl Cube, Berlin
Gopea 55 kunstwerken uit Duitsland - Villa de Bank, Enschede, Holland
2016
A GALLERY IS A SUPERMARKET - Vadim Zakharov Apartment, Berlin
21x15 - Groupshow - Galerie affenfaust, Hamburg
Driven By Pleasure, Neu West Berlin Galerie, Berlin
For You Vor Ort, Exschlecker-Galerie, Kiel
gopea, hase29, Gesellschaft für zeitgenössische Kunst, Osnabrück
Regionale 3 - News from Nowhere, Overbeck-Gesellschaft, Lübeck
Muthesius-Kunstpreis 2016, Kunsthalle Kiel
Fingerspitzengefühl, Gudberg Nerger, Stockholm
Eberhard-Dietzsch-Kunstpreis-Ausstellung, Jena
Eirene, Mahnmal Kilian Flandernbunker, Kiel
2015
berlininclujinberlin - CFR, Gara Mica, Piata Garii, Cluj-Napoca, Rumänien
AUA – AUF UND AB, Westwerk, Hamburg
Ziran / Nature – Kunst aus Kiel und Guangzhou, Brunswiker Pavillon, Kiel
Vater Kunstpreis 2015, Kunstverein Haus 8, Kiel
2014
"HELLØWEEN", The Idling Gallery, Berlin
Mal wieder Freitag der 13.,The Idling Gallery, Berlin
Ziran / Nature, Artspace of College of Fine Arts, Guangzhou, China (Catalog)
Muthesius-Preis 2014, Kunsthalle, Kiel (Catalog)
2013
Farbenfroh, Kunstraum B, Kiel
Preview Berlin 2013, Umtrieb Galerie
60. Landesschau des BBK SH Schloss Gottorf, Reithalle, Schleswig (Catalog)
Gottfried-Brockmann-Preis 2013, Stadtgalerie, Kiel (Catalog)
2012
strange but true - Muthesius KH Absolventen Ausstellung, Sophienblatt, Kiel
HINZU II, Kunstraum B, Kiel
2011
NORDNORDOST - neue Malerei aus Deutschland, Stadtgalerie, Kiel (Catalog)
Sensation Colorante, Hanse-Office, Brüssel, Belgien
Intersearch Projekt, Bergstraße 11, Hamburg
2010
Projekt Flamingo, KKI-Laboratorium, Flensburg
Projekt IMPULS, Muenzstrasse 11, Hamburg
Ding auf der Schwelle, Gängeviertel, Hamburg
