1969 Born in Rheydt, Germany
1989-92 Studied at Dusseldorf Academy, Munster Academy and Hamburg Academy
Solo Exhibitions
2007 19-20:30 Uhr 31.05.2007, Magazin der Staatsoper Undter den Linden, Berlin
Gregor Schneider, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee (WI)
2006 Gregor Schneider, Fondazionemorragreco, Naples, Italy
Gregor Schneider: Totalschaden, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany
Luis Campaña Gallery, Cologne
2005 Museum of Contemporary Art Serralves, Porto
2004 517 W 24th Street, Barbara Gladstone, New York
Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin
Die Familie Schneider, Artangel, London
Kunst-Station Sankt Peter, Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst und Musik, Köln
Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum, Okayama
2003 Dead House u r, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
Gregor Schneider Hannelore Reuen, Kunsthalle Hamburg, Germany (cat.)
My Private #1: Gregor Schneider, MM Pasteur, Milan, Italy
2002 Gregor Schneider: Fotografie und Skulptur, Museum für Gegenwartskunst , Siegen, Germany
Lost Past, Leper, Belgium
Konrad Fischer Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Haus Ur Stiftung, DKM, Duisberg (cat.)
2001 German Pavilion, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (cat.)
Kabinet für aktuelle Kunst, Bremerhaven, Germany
2000 Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin
Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
Foundation Gallery Foksal, Warsaw
Keller, Vienna Secession, Vienna (cat.)
Alte Hausschlampe, Gartenlaube, Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld, Germany
1999 Focused, Galerie Tanit, Munich, Germany
Massimo de Carlo, Milan, Italy
Elizabeth Cherry Contemporary Art, Tucson (AZ)
Löcher, Luis Campaña, Cologne, Germany
Kunsthalle Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany
Private Werte, Künstlerwerkstatt, Lothringer Str. 13, Munich, Germany
1998 Puff, Stadtisches Museum Abteiberg, Monchengladbach, Germany (cat.)
Haus u r, Rheydt, Aarhus Kunst Museum, Aarhus, Germany (cat.)
Wako Works of Art, Tokyo, Japan
1997 Galeria Foksal, Warsaw (cat.)
Sadie Coles HQ, London
Galerie Wako, Tokyo
Gallery Konrad Fischer, Dusseldorf, Germany
Luis Campana, Cologne, Germany
A place (to be), Gallery Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam
Totes Haus u r, 1985-97, Portikus am Main, Frankfurt, travelled to Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (cat.)
1996 Kunstlerhaus Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany (cat.)
Kunsthalle, Bern, Switzerland (cat.)
1995 Luis Campana, Cologne, Germany
Constructon of the completely isolated guest-room, Rheydt
1994 Galerie Andreas Weiss, Berlin
Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany
1993 Galerie Konrad Fischer, Dusseldorf, Germany
1992 Galerie Lohrl, Monchengladbach, Germany (cat.)
1990.91Construction of an unknown work in the disappearing village of Garzweiler
1989.91Construction of the completely isolated dead room, Giesenkirchen
1985.97Construction of the house u r, Rheydt
1985 Galerie Kontrast, Monchengladbach, Germany
Group Exhibitions
2005 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Fundación Marcelino Botin, Santander, Spain
Empreinte Moi, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris
Threshold, MW Projects, London
Universal Experience: Art, Life, and the Tourist’s Eye, Museum of
Contemporary Art, Chicago (cat.)
2003 Uneasy Space, Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe (NM) (cat.)
Modelled Reality, Oberosterreichisches Landesmuseum, Linz, Austria (cat.)
Action Button, Nationalgalerie Hamburg Bahnhof and Museum fur Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany
The Living Museum, MMK Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Franfurt am Main, Germany (cat.)
Home Sweet Home, Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark
Busan Metropolitan Art Museum, Korea (cat.)
2002 Sammlung Kaubrok, Museum Abteiberg Mönchengladbach, Germany
Der andere Raum, Kunstverien Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Lost Paper 2002 – 1914, Leper, Belgium
Triennale der Photographie, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Germany (cat.)
3. Umbau / Schragspur, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
K21, Kunstsammlung NRW, Düsseldorf, Germany
Stiftung DKM, Duisburg, Germany
Unheim, Capricci und Anerchitekturen, Stadthaus Ulm, Germany
Paper Art 8 – International Biennale der Papierkunst, Düren, Germany
Museum für Gegenwartkunst, Siegen, Germany
MMK Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (cat.)
Come In, Institut fur Auslandsbeziehungen, Moscow (cat.)
Self Portraits and Portraits, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo, Japan
Sofia Underground Festival of Performance and Street Events, Sofia, Bulgaria
Performing Buildings, Moderna Museet, Swedish National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Stockholm, Sweden
Cardinales, Museo de Arte Contemporanea de Vigo, Spain (cat.)
Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece
2001 Blick nach vorn, Sammlung Langen, Hombroich, Germany
Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland (OH)
F, Produzentengalerie Hamburg, Germany
Ein gut plazierter Helm ist ein beruhigender Blick, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Germany
Archilab, Fine Art Museum, New Orleans (LA)
Quadrennial for Contemporary Art, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent, Belgium
Birnen, Bohnen & Speck, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Come-in, I.F.A., Moscow
1st Tirana Biennial, Tirana
Kunstwerke Berlin, Germany (cat.)
Quadrennial of Contemporary Art, S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium (cat.)
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (CA) (cat.)
2000 Wonderland, The Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis (MI) (cat.)
Apocalypse, Royal Academy of Art, London (cat.)
Wiener Secession, Vienna
EXPO 2000, From Kurt Schwitters until now, Sprengelmuseum
Hannover, Hanover, Germany; Kunstsammlung NRW, Nordrhein-Westphalen; Haus der Kunst Munchen, Munich, Germany (cat.)
1900-2000-Two Turns of The Century, Goteborg Kunstmuseum, Goteborg, Netherlands and Nordic Institute of Contemporary Art
Gartenlaube, Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld, Germany
ein/räumen, Kunsthalle Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Missing Memory and Desire, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland
Kunstakademie Dresden, Germany; Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany
Henry Moore Foundation, Leeds
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
Locher, Luis Campana, Cologne, Germany
German Photoworks, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo, Japan
1999 Anarchitecture, Stichting De Appel, Amsterdam
The Space is Everywhere, Villa Merkel, Esslingen, Germany
Museum Schloss, Rheydt, Germany
53 Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (PA) (cat.)
German Art, Art Athena, Athens
Zeitenwenden, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany; Kunstmuseum Ludwig, Vienna
Am Horizont, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld, Germany
New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
German Open, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany (cat.)
The Invisible City, Maares Centrum Beeldende Kunst, Maastricht, Netherlands
Kabinett für aktuelle Kunst, Bremerhaven, Germany
Focused, Galerie Tanit, Munich
Private Werte, Kunstlerwerkstatt Lothringerstrasse 13, Munich
1998 Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark
ARC Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris (cat.)
Stadtisches Museum Abteiberg, Monchengladbach, Germany (cat.)
Perfect Usual, Kunstverein Freiburg; Germanisches Nationalmuseum
Nurnberg; Kunstverein Braunschweig; Kunsthalle Kiel; Kunsthalle Gera, Germany
Performing Buildings, Tate Gallery, London
The Confined Room, De Waag, Amsterdam
Center for Contemporary Art, Maastricht, Netherlands
1997 Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (cat.)
No Man’s Land, Museum Haus Lange/ Esters, Krefeld, Germany
1996 Dorothea von Stetten Kunstpreis, Kunstmuseum Bonn (cat.)
Peter MERTES Stipendium, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn (cat.)
1994 Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany
Grants and awards
2002 Paper-Art-Award, Verband Deutscher Paperfabriken VDP
2001 Golden Lion Prize for the Best National Participation, 49th Venice Biennale
1999 Art award Villa Romana, Florenz
1998-99 Art Awards Bremerhaven
1997 Award for the Promotion of Catalogues from the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen
and Halbach Fund
1996 Project Fund from the Institute for Foreign relations, Stuttgart
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Grant
Peter Mertes Grant
Dorothea von Stetten Award
1995 Arts Award NRW
Grant from Arts Fund Bonn e.V.
Grant from the Society and Culture NRW