Selected Group Exhibitions

2023

Channeling. MMK, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
To Bend the Ear of the Outer World, Gagosian, Grosvenor Hill, London, England
Space for Imaginative Actions. Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Radical Abstraction, Skarstedt, London
Abstract Explorations: 100 Years on Paper. Gagosian Gallery, Gstaad, Switzerland
Austria-Germany Painting 1970 to 2020. Albertina Modern, Vienna, Austria
Extraordinary Form Abstract and non figurative art from Miettinen Collection, 1970 – Present. Miettinen Collection, Berlin, Germany
Before Tomorrow. Astrup Fearnley Museet 30 Years. Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway
Beautiful, Vivid, Self-contained. Hill Art Foundation, New York, USA
The ömen: Albert Oehlen paintings and Paul McCarthy sculptures. Gagosian Gallery, New York, Usa

2022

Let’s Go! Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
Energetic Gestures. Kunstsaele, Berlin, Germany
986. Galerie Max Hetzler, London, UK
Drawing Wow 3. Drawing Wow, Vienna, Austria
On Land/On Vanishing Land A Day of Music in “Haunted Realism”. Gagosian Gallery, London, UK
D•I•E Orpheusmaschine. JUBG, Cologne, Germany
The Painter’s New Tools. Nahmad Contemporary, New York, USA
Space For Imaginative Actions New Presentation Of The Collection, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
The Most Dangerous Game. Spurs Gallery, Beijing, China

2021

Jetzt oder nie – 50 jahre sammlung LBBW. Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
Oehlen, Pendleton, Pope.L, Sillman. Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
The 80s. Art of the eighties. Albertina Modern, Vienna, Austria
Beat the System! Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany
Enjoy – The mumok Collection in Change, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig (MUMOK), Vienna, Austria
Wonderland. Albertina Modern, Vienna, Austria
Ways of Seeing Abstraction. Deutsche Bank KunstHalle, Berlin, Germany

2020

The Essel Collection. Albertina Modern, Vienna, Austria
00s. Cranford Collection: the 2000sMO.CO Hôtel des collections, Montpellier, France
Crossing Views. Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France

2019

La Source, Fondation Carmignac, Paris, France
Hyper! A Journey Into Art And Sound, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Zu viel ist nicht genug! Die Schenkung “Sammlung Atelier”, Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria
You can do better – Bad Painting. Elektrohalle Rhomberg, Salzburg, Austria
Double Lives. Visual Artists Making Music. Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany
Nur nichts anbrennen lassen – New Presentation of the Collection. Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Artist’s Choice: Amy Sillman – The Shape of Shape. Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)New York City, USA

2018

True Stories: A Show Related to an Era – The Eighties. Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
Konzeptuelle Fotografie Aus Der Sammlung Falckenberg, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany
Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today. Institute of Contemporary Art Boston (ICA), Boston, MA USA
German Art. Galleri K, Oslo, Norway

2017

Aspects of german art. Ben Brown Fine Arts, London United Kingdom
Progressive Praxis. De La Cruz Collection Contemporary Art Space, Miami, FL USA
The World is Made of Stories. Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo Norway
Matière Grise. Galerie Max Hetzler – Paris, Paris France
Die Erfindung der Abstraktion. Akademie-Galerie – Die Neue Sammlung, Dusseldorf, Germany
Cafe Pittoresque. Contemporary Fine Arts (CFA), Berlin, Germany
Franz West ARTISTCLUB. 21er Haus, Vienna, Austria

2016

Prototypology. Gagosian Gallery, Rome, Italy
Open This End: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Blake Byrne. Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery – Columbia University, New York City, NY, USA
Geniale Dilletanten – Subkultur der 1980er-Jahre in Deutschland. MKG – Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Nice Weather. Skarstedt Fine Art, New York City, NY, USA
Ordinary Pictures. Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA
In Wonderland – A Birthday Exhibition For Timo Miettinen. Salon Dahlmann, Berlin, Germany
Die Neuen Wilden – Figurative Malerei in der BRD in den 80er-Jahren. Groninger Museum, Groningen, Netherlands
Albert Oehlen. Summer Exhibition. Foundation for the Promotion of Contemporary Art in Weidingen. Weidingen, Germany
Spring Group Exhibition. Condo, Kippenberger, Oehlen, Salle. Skarstedt Gallery, New York City, NY, USA
Painting 2.0 – Malerei im Informationszeitalter. Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig (MUMOK), Vienna, Austria
Elective Affinities – German Art Since the Late 1960s. Latvian National Museum of Arts, Riga, Latvia
Fine Young Cannibals. Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York City, NY, USA
German Paintings: Georg Baselitz, Martin Kippenberger, Albert Oehlen. Skarstedt Gallery – New York City, NY, USA
German Paintings: Georg Baselitz, Martin Kippenberger, Albert Oehlen. Skarstedt Gallery – London, London, UK

2015

Drawings II – Russell Bowman Art Advisory, Chicago, IL
German Art – Galleri K, Oslo
Open Source: Art At The Eclipse Of Capitalism – Galerie Max Hetzler – Paris, Paris
Open Source: Art at the Eclipse of Capitalism – Galerie Max Hetzler – Berlin, Berlin
Selbstjustiz Durch Fehleinkäufe – Neuerwerbungen Der Sammlung Falckenberg 2011-2014 – Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg
Image Search – Hannah Hoffman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Matters of Pattern, Skarstedt, New York, USA

2014

in farbe! – Figur – Landschaft – Abstraktion, Gesellschaft für Gegenwartskunst (GfG), Augsburg, Germany
ordinary freaks. The Coolness in Pop Culture, Theatre and Museum, Künstlerhaus. Halle für Kunst und Medien, Graz, Austria
Now-ism: Abstraction Today, Pizutti Collection, Columbus, Ohio, USA
Without You I´m Nothing, Heldart, Berlin, Germany
Variations: Conversations in and around Abstract Painting, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, USA
Wild Heart: Art Exhibition of German Neo-Expressionism, China Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Cool Place, Sammlung Scharpff Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
Halftone: Through the Grid, Galerie Max Hetzler, Paris, France
Fürchtet Euch nicht! Bestimmung des Feldes zu einer gegebenen Zeit: Malerei nach 2000, Neue Galerie Gladbeck, Gladbeck, Germany
No Problem: Cologne/ New York, 1984-1989, David Zwirner, New York, USA
Do it Moscow, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
Albert Oehlen Talking about Painting, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
69/96, Gebert Stiftung, Rapperswil, Switzerland
Sammlung Falckenberg, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

2013

The Show is Over, Gagosian Gallery, London, UK
Group Show, Gagosian Gallery, Hong Kong, China
Albert Oehlen / John Sparagana, Studiolo, Zurich, Switzerland
REMEMBER EVERYTHING: 40 Years Galerie Max Hetzler, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
Donation Florence et Daniel Guerlain, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Decorum, Carpets and tapestries by artists. Musée d’Art modern de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
Why Painting Now, Krizinger Projekte, Vienna, Austria
Albert Oehlen — Markus Oehlen — Joyce Pensato — Matthias Schaufler — John 
Sparagana — Rebecca Warren, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
Il Palazzo Enciclopedico, 55th International Art Exhibition at the Venice Bienalle, Italy
Das Gluck kommt aus dem Nichts, Kunsthalle Nurnberg, Nuremberg, Germany
Genius Loci, Contemporary Masters, Dusseldorfer Akademie nach 1945. Setareh Gallery, Dusseldorf, Germany
Postwar German Art in the Collection, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Riotous Baroque, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain
Dritte Welle – Die Gruppe SPUR, der Pop und die Politik, Kunsthalle Kiel, Kiel, Germany
Von Beckmann bis Warhol. Die Sammlung Bayer. Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany
Group Show, Gagosian Gallery, Hong Kong, China
A tribute to Franz West, Galerie Konzett, Vienna, Austria
Out of the house, Works from the Cranford Collection, Sala de Arte, Fundación Banco Santander, Madrid, Spain

2012

Deftig Barock. Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
Wunder. Kunsthalle Krems, Krems, Austria

2011

Georg Baselitz / Eugène Leroy / Albert Oehlen. Nicolas Krupp, Basel, Switzerland

2010

Filmschönheit. Art & Film. Galerie Mezzanin, Vienna; Wien Galerie Gisela Capitain, Vienna; Köln Gallery, Cologne, Germany; Green Naftali, New York
Der Westen leuchtet,. Kunstmuseum Bonn, Switzerland
Permanent Trouble. Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie, Kunst aus der Sammlung Kopp München, Regensburg, Germany

2009

Art of Two Germanys / Cold War Cultures Kunst und Kalter Krieg—Deutsche Positionen 1945–1989. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, Germany; Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin

2008

Bad Painting — good art. MUMOK, Vienna

2007

Klio. Eine kurze Geschichte der Kunst in Euramerika nach 1945. ZKM | Museum für neue Kunst, Karlsruhe, Germany

2006

FASTER! BIGGER! BETTER! Signetwerke aus den Sammlungen. ZKM | Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe, Germany

2005

The Triumph of Painting, Saatchi Gallery, London

2004

TASCHEN Collection. Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
Biennale São Paulo, São Paulo
Heißkalt, Aktuelle Malerei aus der Sammlung Scharpff. Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
Heißkalt, Aktuelle Malerei aus der Sammlung Scharpff. Kunsthalle Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Outlook. Benaki Museum, Technopolis, The Factory, Athens
Berlin – Moskau / Moskau – Berlin 1950 – 2000. Martin – Gropius – Bau, Berlin
Obsessive Malerei—Ein Rückblick auf die Neuen Wilden. ZKM | Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe, Germany

2002

Los excesos de la mente. Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville, Spain
Painting on the Move. Museum für Gegenwartskunst Basel, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland

2001

Abbild—recent portraiture and depiction. Steirischer Herbst, Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Switzerland

2000

Der Ritt der sieben Nutten—das war mein Jahrhundert .Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany
In Between. Expo 2000, Hanover, Germany

1995

Oehlen Williams 95. Wexner Center for Arts, Columbus, OH
INIT Kunst-Halle, Berlin

1994

Herbert Brandl, Albert Oehlen, Christopher Wool. Museum of Modern Art, Prague

1992

Arbeiten auf Papier. Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne, Germany
Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Albert Oehlen, Christopher Williams. Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles