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1967
born in Hamburg, Germany
lives and works in Berlin
solo exhibitions (selected)
2013
White Cube, São Paulo
Gladstone Gallery, Brussels
2012
White Cube, London
Gladstone Gallery, New York
2010
Magnus Plessen, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich
2009
Magnus Plessen, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
2008
Magnus Plessen, Freizeit, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Berlin
2007
Magnus Plessen, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
2006
Magnus von Plessen, Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich
2005
For Immediate Release, Gladstone Gallery, New York
Focus – Magnus von Plessen, The Art Institute of Chicago
2004
Magnus von Plessen, Centre Pompidou, Paris
Konrad Fischer Galerie, Berlin
Magnus von Plessen, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
2002
Magnus von Plessen, Malerei, K21 Kunst Sammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
Recent Paintings, PS1 New York
2001
Neues Kunstmuseum, Luzern, Switzerland
1999 – 2003
exclusive representation by Isabella Czarnowska (formerly Kacprzak)
group exhibitions (selected)
2010
Bakowski, Bosacki, Plessen, Tarasewicz, Topolovac, Galerie Isabella Czarnowska, Berlin
2009
Slow Pantings, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen
2008
You Dig the Tunnel, I’ll Hide the Soil, White Cube, London
2007
Imagination Becomes Reality Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe
2006
Imagination Becomes Reality”, Part V. Fantasy and Fiction, Sammlung Goetz, Munich
Full House – Gesichter einer Sammlung, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim
Infinite Painting: Contemporary Painting and Global Realism, Villa Manin, Centro d’Arte Contemporanea, Codroipo, Italy
Havekost / Kahrs / Plessen / Sasnal, Museu Serralves, Porto, Portugal
The Cartin Collection: Subject, Contemporary Portraiture, Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London
2003
Clandestine, Dreams and conflict, 50. Venice Biennale
Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich
2002
Startkapital, K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
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Monographs and solo exhibition catalogues
Grosenick, Uta and Daniel Marzona (eds.), Magnus Plessen: Die Augen in der Hand, DuMont Buchverlag, Köln 2009.
Bonami, Francesco, Magnus Plessen, Navado Press / Gladstone Gallery, Trieste / New York 2007.
Bertaux, François (ed.), Magnus von Plessen, Espace 315, Éditions du Centre Pompidou, Paris 2004.
Magnus Plessen: Malerei, K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf 2002.
Magnus Plessen: Recent Paintings, PS1, New York 2002.
Heynen, Julian and Ulrich Loock, Magnus von Plessen, Neues Kunstmuseum, Luzern 2001.
Books and group exhibition catalogues
Rondeau, James, Contemporary Collecting: The Donna and Howard Stone Collection, Art Institute of Chicago and Yale University Press, New Haven 2010.
Imagination Becomes Reality: An Exhibition on the Expanded Concept of Painting, Sammlung Goetz / Museum für Neue Kunst, München / Karlsruhe 2007.
Images in Painting: Museu Serralves, Museu Serralves, Porto 2007.
Von Plessen, Magnus, Carlo Bottigelli – Magnus von Plessen, Kunsparterre, München 2007.
Bonami, Francesco and Cosulich Canarutto, Sarah (eds.), Infinite Painting: Contemporary Painting and Global Realism, Villa Manin, Centro d’Arte Contemporanea, Codroipo, Italy 2006.
Rondeau, James, Carlo Bottigelli – Magnus von Plessen, Kunsparterre Müchen, München 2005.
Coetzee, Mark, Not Afraid: Rubell Family Collection, Phaidon, New York 2004.