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Michael Kain (DE)

 Through the materiality in his paintings and drawings the German artist Michael Kain creates multidimensional illusions. In his works the tradition of modernism is being continued.

Bei der Materialität der Malereien und Zeichnungen des deutschen Künstlers Michael Kain werden multidimensionale Illusionen an den Betrachter vermittelt. Mit seiner organischen Formsprache führt Kain die modernistische Malertradition weiter.(Sie finden die biografischen Daten auf deutsch nach der englischen Version)

Biography:

·1949 born in Berlin

·1981 - 1986 completes studies for a Diploma the Kunsthochschule in Berlin under Prof. Dietrich Noßky and Prof. Heinrich Tessmer

·1986 candidacy for the Association of Fine Artists of the GDR

·since 1986 freelance in Berlin

·1989 becomes member of the Association of Fine Artists; Applied and Graphic Arts

·1993 member of the Professional Organisation of Artists, Berlin (BBK-Berlin); Trebnitz (Brandenburg), Symposium - Nature-Sketches

·1994 Scholarship of the Senate for Cultural Opportunities, Berlin

·1996 Engelsholm (Denmark), Symposium

·1997 Kiruna (Sweden), Snow festival

·2002 residential scholarship from the Foundation for Culture in the House of Art at Schloß Wiepersdorf

·2002 2nd place in a competition "Artistic design for the school for the non-abled bodied in Berlin-Buch" (in association with Achim Niemann)

Exhibitions
1989 - Berlin, Club Gallery Otto Nagel (with Beata Palucka-Alvarez
1991 - Berlin, Gallery Prisma
1991 - Berlin, Hotel - Metropol
1993 - Berlin, Gallery Pankow (with Ricarda Pohl and Hartmut Hornung)
1994 - Berlin, Gallery Seyffert-Stahl
1997 - Berlin, Gallery am Prater
1998 - Berlin, Gallery Seyffert-Stahl (with Thomas Zickelbein)
1998 - Bernau (Brandenburg), Gallery Bernau (with Thomas Zickelbein)
1998/99 - Rheinsberg (Brandenburg), KURT TUCHOLSKY Memorial Schloß Rheinsberg
1999 - Berlin, Gallery am Weißen See (with Achim Niemann)
1999 - Regensburg (Bayern), Reichsstädtischer Salzstadel, Berlin / Brandenburg Painting and Sculpture (with Achim Niemann and Frank Seidel)
2000 - Berlin, Gallery M (with Bernd Kerkin)
2001 - Berlin, Gallery Mitte, New Work
2001 - Berlin, LOFT 36 (with Reinhardt Grimm
2002 - Bernau (Brandenburg), Gallery Bernau (with Reinhardt Grimm)
2002 - Løgumkloster (Denmark), Museet Holmen (with Thomas Zickelbein)
2002 - Bernau (Brandenburg), Gallery Bernau (with Reinhardt Grimm
2003/04 - Berlin, Gallery parterre, New Works
2005/06 - Berlin, Gallery Mitte

Group Exhibitions
1989 - Berlin, Altes Museum, LebensART
1989  -Berliner Tage in Moscow
1989 - Invitation Karl Hofer Gesellschaft(with Beata Palucka-Alvarez,
                   Susanne Rast, Klaus Lindner as well as artists from West Berlin

· West Berlin, Westend Station, Work from Four Art Schools (1989);

· Madrid, Facultad de Bellas Artes, Work from Four Art Schools (1990);

· Amsterdam, Rijksakademie van Beldende Kunsten, Work from Four Art Schools(1990);

· Berlin (Ost), Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee, Work from four art schools (1990)1990 - Berlin/East, Gallery Weißer Elefant, Werkstatt 90

· 1990 - Berlin/East, Exhibition at the Fernsehturm, ZWEI TAKT

· 1993 - Schloß Trebnitz (Brandenburg), Nature Sketches

· 1995 - Granollers (Spain), Museu de Granollers, Berlin in Katalonien

· 1995 - Berlin, Rathaus-Gallery Reinickendorf, Berlin in Katalonien

· 1996 - Engelsholm (Denmark)

· 1997 - Eberswalde (Brandenburg), Kleine Gallery

· 1997 - Altranft, Brandenburgisches Freilichtmuseum / Gallery

· 1997 - Kunstverein Bützow e.V. (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern)

· 1997 - Berlin-Buch, Künstlerhof / Akademie der Künste Berlin-Brandenburg

· 1997 - Gallery Bernau (Brandenburg)

· 1998/99 - Berlin, Gallery Pankow, Artist for the Gallery

· 1999 - Bautzen (Sachsen), 1. Bautzener Bürgerschule, SELBSTBILDNIS pro figura

· 1999 - Svendborg (Denmark), Gallery Sak, DIALOG 3 'Dialog med Kunsten'

· 2000 - Bernau (Brandenburg), Gallery Bernau, Dezenium-Ausstellungsprojekt >KÖPFE<

· 2002 - Bernau (Brandenburg), Gallery Bernau, "The Sketch"

· 2003 - Berlin, KPM-Quarter, "ZEITGENÖSSISCH! Art in Berlin"

· 2004 - Bernau (Brandenburg), Gallery Bernau, "Eigenes - Fremdes. Collage, Assemblage; an expidition of 25 artists from the Förderkreises Bildende Kunst e.V."

· 2004 - Heringsdorf (Usedom), Kunstpavillon Heringsdorf, "Wasser"

· 2004/05 - Bernau (Brandenburg), Gallery Bernau, "The Sketch II"

Diversity of ownership:

includes the City Senate of Berlin; the City Hall Berlin-Pankow; the City Hall Berlin-Marzahn; the HSD-Developments mbH, Business Centre and Apple Centre; the Day Nursery Berlin-Altglienicke and collectors in Berlin, Munich, Aachen, London and Denmark