Madeleine Boschan studied painting and photography at Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig from 2000–2006, where she was taught by John M. Armleder et.al. Since 2010 she has participated in numerous institutional exhibitions throughout Europe and North America.
As one of the most innovative sculptors of her generation, Madeleine Boschan constantly experiments with sculptural form and language. Over the course of the past fifteen years, she has created a distinct personal style. Her sculptures are candid and precise, employing few key features. Often she combines classical sculptural traits into a new synthesis or she revises given rules to suit her own purposes, using supporting devices as ends in themselves, for example, or assigning her own private meanings to fundamental human conditions such as one’s individual place of being amidst the world, or to sentiments as attraction and repulsion.
Madeleine Boschan’s style is swift and crispy, uncompromising and versatile. Her eccentric use of sculptural grammar and rhythmicality is a striking example of a young artist venturing into new directions, striving for highly personal as well as precise expressions, for fluidity and gravitas, clarity and passion. Still, she is directly opposed to letting us rest in what we believe we know. What might just be the key to her uniqueness: “So far as I am concerned, sculpture was, is, and will be solely a question of individuality.” And this very individuality is breath-taking, just as daring as it is playful. Madeleine Boschan’s works are a dynamic rediscovery of the energies sealed up in conventional sculpture, enabling us beholders to re-evaluate our experiences with fresh eyes.
Education
2000 – 2006 Hochschule für bildende Künste Braunschweig, DE
2002 École Supérieure d’Art et Design du Havre, Le Havre, FR
Solo exhibitions (selection)
2024
Claiming space, without ever taking space away from space, Kebbel Villa, Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus, Schwandorf, DE
Pole of longing (with Herbert Alexander Basilewski), Salon Schmitz, Cologne, DE
2023
Kunstverein Friedrichshafen (with Adrian Altintas), DE
2022
Lying on stony ground the fragments, Kirche St.Gertrud, Cologne, DE
It´s just a kiss away, Galerie Bernd Kugler, Innsbruck, AT
2021
Drawings, Office Bernd Kugler, Innsbruck, AT
2019
the enormous room, Galerie Bernd Kugler, Innsbruck, AT
In twilight these ridiculous and exquisite things descendingly move among the people, gently and imperishably, Sunday-S Gallery, Copenhagen, DK
Tulips and chimneys, Galería Maior, Palma de Mallorca, ES
2017
BB 105 /146, Galerie Lange + Pult, Zurich, CH
What lays bare in me, Collectors Agenda, Vienna, AT
Partance, Galerie Bernd Kugler, Innsbruck, AT
2016
in which its gaze, bent merely on itself, upholds and gleams, Hezi Cohen Gallery, Tel Aviv, IL
2015
Escapement (with Andy Hope 1930), Neue Galerie Gladbeck, DE
If ever before, far off, and listen, Galerie Bernd Kugler, Innsbruck, AT
What‚s wrong with your eyes, Larry, Berlin, DE
Or am I seduced by its ambient mauve, Herrenhaus Edenkoben, DE
2014
Technicolor: a) Feld, b) Fläche, Marburger Kunstverein, Marburg, DE
Lucky Pierre style, ABC – Art Berlin Contemporary with Galerie Bernd Kugler, Berlin, DE
Capri, Vitamin, Reutlingen, DE
Deal with´em, Jagla Ausstellungsraum, Cologne, DE
2013
Closed Space Stories, Hezi Cohen Gallery, Tel Aviv, IL
Don’t you wonder sometimes `bout sound and vision, Kunstverein Heppenheim, DE
Say a body. Where none. Say a place. Where none. For the body. To be in., Kunstverein Ulm, DE
Scope = immeasurable, Einraumhaus, Mannheim, DE
Anwesenheit unerreichbarer Bezugspunkte, Galerie Bernd Kugler, Innsbruck, AT
2012
An open Field, a Factory, a By-pass, Gloria, Berlin, DE
2011
Kayfabe, Galerie Bernd Kugler, Innsbruck, AT
RoidRage, Kwadrat, Berlin, DE
Niteflix, Autocenter, Berlin, DE
2010
Kalt, modern und teuer, Kwadrat, Berlin, DE
Cosmic Camping, Appartement, Berlin, DE
Group exhibitions (selection)
2024
Each work, Galerie Bernd Kugler, Innsbruck, AT
daß die Göttin nicht himmelswärts, sondern herab nach ihren Freunden blickt, Secci Gallery, Florence, IT
2023
Die Welt ist noch auf einen Abend mein, Galería Ehrhardt Florez, Madrid, ES
The future has an orange background, notforsale, Basel, CH
James Choice, Galerie Bernd Kugler, Innsbruck, AT
Vermeer Contemporary, European Art Association, Berlin, DE
2022
Moving in stereo, Mercedes-Benz Museum, Stuttgart, DE
Power!Light!, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, DE
Die Schönheit von Combray, Galerie Bernd Kugler, Innsbruck, AT
Entwürfe Kunst am Bau Stadtwerke Schorndorf, DE
2021
Nothing in particular, Friedrichs Foundation, Weidingen, DE
Same Same but Different – Art from Germany and Austria, Galerie Crone, Vienna, AT
La renaissance de flâner, Galerie Bernd Kugler, Innsbruck, AT
31: women. (Exhibition after Marcel Duchamp, 1943)., Daimler Art Collection, Berlin, DE
2020
Jubeljahr, Städtisches Museum Schloss Salder, Salzgitter, DE
Ausstellungsplakate 2004 – 2020, Galerie Bernd Kugler, Innsbruck, AT
31: women. (Exhibition after Marcel Duchamp, 1943)., Daimler Art Collection, Berlin, DE
Intermezzo, Galerie Bernd Kugler, Innsbruck, AT
Entwürfe Kunst am Bau für das Gesundheitsministerium, Berlin, DE
2019
some trees, Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles, US
Comrades of time IV, Whatspace c/o Hardspace, Basel, CH
Avanti, Michael Horbach Stiftung, Cologne, DE
10 Jahre Einraumhaus, Einraumhaus c/o Mannheim, DE
postcard reloaded, Kunstraum Potsdam, DE
Summer, Galerie Bernd Kugler, Innsbruck, AT
Light in / as image, Daimler Art Collection, Stuttgart-Möhringen, DE
2018
German Art, Contra Gallery, Zagreb, HR
HARPUNE international, Knust x Kunz, Munich, DE
Junge Kunst / Junge Künstler, Skulpturenpark Heidelberg, DE
Light in / as image, Daimler Art Collection, Stuttgart-Möhringen, DE
First Look, A Space, Berlin, DE
2017
Lob des Schattens (Italienischer Raum), Marc Straus Gallery, New York, US
Modern sculpture, Galería Casado Santapau, Madrid, ES
Zehn Jahre Zürich, Galerie Lange + Pult, Zurich, CH
Artists´Books for Everything, Weserburg | Museum für Moderne Kunst, Bremen, DE
16 godina, Galeriji Contra, Zagreb, HR
Berlin-Klondyke, Umetnostna Galereija Maribor, SI
Mehr Raum, Novomatic Forum, Vienna, AT
The Gift Collection, Galerie Bernd Kugler, Innsbruck, AT
2016
Enea Tree Museum, Rapperswil–Jona, CH
The Gift Collection, Galerie Bernd Kugler, Innsbruck, AT
Moby Dick Filets, Secession, Vienna, AT
Welt am Rand, Kunsthaus Erfurt, DE
Jubiläum, Larry, Berlin, DE
Bedsitter, Mirante, Vienna, AT
Still Still Life, Galerie Bernd Kugler, Innsbruck, AT
2015
Wo ist hier?# 2: Raum und Gegenwart, Kunstverein Reutlingen, DE
Ypres 1914 | 2014: Vanitas extended, Stedelijk Museum, Ypres, BE
18, Contra Galerija, Zagreb, HR
Enea Tree Museum, Rapperswil-Jona, CH
Leipziger Edition, Kulturforum Altenkamp, Schloss Holte–Stukenbrock, DE
Berlin, Salon Dahlmann, Berlin, DE
NAK, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, DE
Standard International – Post Spatial Devices No. II, Geisberg, Berlin, DE
All up, Kosmetiksalon Babette, Berlin, DE
Caritatis, Semper Depot, Vienna, DE
2014
Psycho Killer, qu’est-ce que c’est?, Galerie Börgmann, Mönchengladbach, DE
Luggage and observations, Galerie Klaus Gerrit Friese, Stuttgart, DE
Present, Kunstraum Bethanien, Berlin, DE
2013
Publications, Galerie Bernd Kugler, Innsbruck, AT
Batman Elektronik, Galerie Mikael Andersen, Berlin, DE
Sad Song Symposium, General Public, Berlin, DE
Berlin Klondyke, Hipp Halle, Gmunden, AT
Novecento mai visto. Highlights from the Daimler Art Collection. From Albers to Warhol to now, Museo Santa Giulia, Brescia, IT
From Outer Galaxy to Inner Atom (Stelldichein), Bruch und Dallas, Cologne, DE
Entwicklungsgeschichte der Kunst 1830 – 2140, Galerie Kuckei und Kuckei, Berlin, DE
The Legend of the Shelves, Autocenter, Berlin, DE
Berlin Klondyke, Alte Baumwollspinnerei, Leipzig, DE
Dawn of the Hermetics, Bar Babette, Berlin, DE
2012
Accelerating toward Apocalypse (Private / Corporate VII), Daimler Contemporary, Berlin, DE
Gare de l’Est, Esslinger Kunstverein, Villa Merkel, Esslingen, DE
Eine Frau, ein Baum, eine Kuh, Kunstraum München, Munich, DE
En Désordre, Philara – Sammlung zeitgenössischer Kunst, Dusseldorf, DE
Wunderkammer, Autocenter, Berlin, DE
Berlin Klondyke, Neuer Pfaffenhofener Kunstverein, Pfaffenhofen, DE
Gentle Giants II, Kwadrat, Berlin, DE
Es gibt … Reflexionen aus einem beschädigten Leben?, b-05, Montabaur, DE
Transformationen, FN, Friedrichshafen, DE
Rekollekt, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/ Bethanien, Berlin, DE
Abstract confusion, Kunsthalle Erfurt, DE
Black Oriental, Galerie Bernd Kugler, Innsbruck, AT
Abstract confusion, Neue Galerie Gladbeck, DE
Eine Frau, ein Baum, eine Kuh, Museum für Konkrete Kunst, Ingolstadt, DE
2011
Berlin Klondyke, Art Center Los Angeles, California, US
Synecdoche, Bourouina Gallery, Berlin, DE
Responsolidarity – Galerie Utopia, Remap3, Athens, GR
Abstract confusion, b-05, Kunstverein Ulm, DE
Diktatur Charlottenburg, Kosmetiksalon Babette, Berlin, DE
Dormition, Contra Galerija, Koper, SI
Moraltarantula 5, Zollamt-Oberhafen, Hamburg, DE
Berlin Klondyke, Odd Gallery / Klondike Institute of Art & Culture, Dawson City, Yukon, CA
The International Bongo Bongo Brigade, Haffner, Hall in Tirol, AT
The Visitation, Galerie Hartwich, Rügen, DE
Kunstaktien, Uferhallen, Berlin, DE
Funkhaus Kunstpreis 2011, Funkhaus, Berlin, DE
Based in Berlin / The forgotten Years 2007-11, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, DE
Abstract confusion, b-05, Montabaur, DE
Destructionconstruction, Tape Modern, Berlin, DE
Born after 1924, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, UK
2010
Abstrakt, Forgotten Bar, Berlin, DE
Ruffled Galaxies, Infernoesque, Berlin, DE
Bürokunst für die Mittelschicht, ArtThiess, Munich, DE
Ayran & Yoga – The 1st Berlin Kreuzberg Biennale, Berlin, DE
Ein Fest für Boris, Vittorio Manalese & Fils, Berlin, DE
Equinox, Grimmuseum, Berlin, DE
Sculpture #6, Kantine, Berlin, DE
Girl Overkill II, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, DE
Residencies/Prizes
2018 First prize for art in architecture of the Institute of Quantum Physics and Bio Science, Ulm University, DE
2015 artist in residence, Herrenhaus Edenkoben, DE
2014 exhibition sponsorship, Hessische Kulturstiftung, DE
2011 artist in residence and lecturer, Merzman: Kurt Schwitters in the North West-Festival, Islington Mill, Manchester, UK