Marcel Odenbach

Born in 1953 in Cologne, lives and works in Cologne • 1974–79 Aachen University of Technology, BEng; since 1992 Professor at the State Academy of Design, Karlsruhe • Solo exhibitions since 1987: 1987 Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Ascan Crone Gallery, Hamburg • 1989 Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid • 1993 Esslingen City Gallery, Villa Merkel, Esslingen; Braunschweig Art Association • 1994 Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn; Galerie Stampa, Basel; Eigen + Art, Leipzig • 1996 Sprengel Museum, Hanover; Firehouse, Harlem, New York • 1997 Liechtenstein State Art Collection; Goethe Institute, London • 1998 New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York • 1999 Galerie Stampa, Basel • Group exhibitions since 1987: 1987 ‘L'Èpoque, la mode, la morale, la passion’, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; documenta IIX, Kassel • 1989 “Video Sculpture: Retrospective and Current 1963–1989”, Kunstverein Köln • 1991 “Metropolis”, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin • 1993 Mediale, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg; “Allegorie de la richesse”, Humboldt University, Berlin • 1994 Media Biennale, Leipzig • 1996 Museum of Contemporary Art, Basel • 1997 “Images of Germany”, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin; Anton Kern Gallery, New York