07.05.—05.11.2023
Kunstverein Reutlingen

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30.06.—06.08.2022
Galerie Noah Klink, Berlin

Spiegeldialog
by KubaParis

Kahnweiler Award 2022
of the Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler Foundation
27.11.2022—15.01.2023
Museum für Kunst, Rockenhausen

Works
2022
untitled (FLUCTUATION IN LIGHTING)
2021
untitled (p. 375 — p. 412)
under construction
2020
Deine bunte Seite
untitled (FEED)
ENTERTAINMENT THROUGH ABSENCE (Flag)
retouch
2019
Le Message d'Absence
untitled (object a)
untitled (appearing as contours or volumes II)
untitled (p. 234 — p. 301)
2018
Studium neben dem Beruf: auch der Arbeitgeber profitiert
follower (Karl-Marx-Allee)
2017
untitled (> <)
stress and boredom
untitled (L.)
The Critic's Laugh
fit in
2016
untitled (Blip)
follower, following
Magic Moments (1–3)
Parergon (Bremer Hängung I–VII)
fig. 1 (Variation nach M.B.)
Magic Moments (Variations I–IV)
Review
Cloud
Friend
True 2 the Game (I–VII)
untitled (banshee), untitled (comet)
2015
untitled (DER STANDORT EINES SPRECHENDEN ANDEREN...)
untitled (hinges)
Aftermath
untitled (window, Bülowstr. 90)
Excessive Access
2014
untitled (UNTITLED SURROUNDINGS, Berlin)
everything reverses into its opposite; opposites reveal mirrored identities
Tourist (reverse)
future projections relocated in presence
Tourist
Tourist (the birds)
2013
Moonlight Lounge, Berlin
untitled (CELEBRITIES...)
The Reinvention of Misinterpretation
2012
side effects and parallel structures
Specific Vocabulary
untitled (Wr. Sec., 2012)
Confessions of a Poor Collector
Broken Windows Theory
Uhrenvergleich (Vienna)
untitled (window, Rudi-Dutschke-Strasse 26)
2011
untitled (re/constructed column)
if and that's a big if
New Balance
attributes of modification (Hill Arches)
untitled (Selection)
2010
untitled (SEPARATING THE SUBSTANCE FROM THE EVENT AS SUCH)
untitled (L. on P.)
Catalogue Raisonné
BETWEEN GESTURES OF NEW BEGINNING AND RHETORICS OF RUIN
lay down and lie
le je n’est pas le moi (simple choix)
STAGGER (2)
untitled (traffic)
2009
untitled (—————), Vienna
untitled, Venice
searching, 13.01.09
ongoing
untitled ( ________ )
D R A W I N G S
Exhibitions
2021
Antikörper FKK
01.10. 2021—01.12. 2021
2020
Invitation to Love
19.09. 2020—01.11. 2020
Kunsthalle Bremerhaven
Freitod
10.09. 2020—31.10. 2020
Kunstsaele Berlin
ENTERTAINMENT THROUGH ABSENCE
05.06. 2020—01.08. 2020
Gabriele Senn Galerie, Vienna
ALLES WAR KLAR
07.03. 2020—01.11. 2020
Künstlerhaus Wien, Vienna
2019
junger westen
01.12. 2019—02.02. 2020
Kunsthalle Recklinghausen
Wie man mit dem Gummihandschuh philosophiert. Topologische Operationen in Kunst und Theorie
02.04. 2019—09.04. 2019
Kunstuniversität Linz
Bed Manners
28.03. 2019—14.04. 2019
Rock Paper Scissors
28.03. 2019—27.04. 2019
Gabriele Senn Galerie, Vienna
2018
Field of Codes
18.04. 2018—19.05. 2018
PiK, Cologne
all clear
Solo exhibition
09.03. 2018—21.04. 2018
Gabriele Senn Galerie, Vienna
Ankäufe der Sammlung zeitgenössischer Kunst der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
08.03. 2018—03.06. 2018
Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn
2017
Aus der Branche in die Branche
18.05. 2017—08.06. 2017
wellwellwell, Vienna (with Lazar Lyutakov)
Re/Treats of the Contemporary
11.03. 2017—07.05. 2017
Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover
2016
Jahresgaben 2016/2017
26.11. 2016—12.02. 2017
GAK Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen
Paula Modersohn-Becker Preis
06.11. 2016—08.01. 2017
Große Kunstschau, Worpswede
viennacontemporary 2016
22.09. 2016—25.09. 2016
Vienna
VI x VI Positionen zur Zukunft der Fotografie
25.05. 2016—21.08. 2016
LANDESGALERIE LINZ, Linz
Power of Style
Solo exhibition
21.05. 2016—31.07. 2016
GAK Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen
Collaborative Networks
22.04. 2016—21.05. 2016
Forum Stadtpark, Graz
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Stipendium
17.03. 2016—20.03. 2016
Berlin
tokyo temporary library
01.03. 2016—31.03. 2016
Austrian Cultural Forum, Tokyo
NOW/HERE
30.01. 2016—21.02. 2016
Franz Josefs Kai 3, Vienna
WIN WIN
Solo exhibition
15.01. 2016—05.03. 2016
Gabriele Senn Galerie, Vienna
2015
FIAC Grand Palais & Hors les Murs, Paris
22.10. 2015—25.10. 2015
Paris
The Vacancy
01.10. 2015—19.10. 2015
Galerie Crone, Berlin
abc art berlin contemporary
17.09. 2015—20.09. 2015
Berlin
Curated by_vienna 2015: Tomorrow Today
11.09. 2015—09.10. 2015
Gabriele Senn Galerie, Vienna
Im Inneren der Stadt. Öffentlicher Raum und Frei-Raum
19.07. 2015—11.10. 2015
GAK Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen
Pathological Hoarding
08.07. 2015—05.08. 2015
Gabriele Senn Galerie, Vienna
The Day Will Come - When Photography Revises
19.06. 2015—13.09. 2015
KUNSTVEREIN IN HAMBURG, Hamburg
Berlin Art Prize
12.06. 2015—04.07. 2015
District, Berlin
48 Drawings
29.04. 2015—15.05. 2015
Spike Art Quarterly, Berlin
Destination Wien Extended
17.04. 2015—31.05. 2015
wellwellwell, Vienna
Art Cologne
16.04. 2015—19.04. 2015
Cologne
subversiv – Raum für Alternativen
24.02. 2015—23.03. 2015
GrazMuseum, Graz
basal
21.02. 2015—11.04. 2015
Aanant & Zoo, Berlin
Wo makes Europe
17.01. 2015—01.03. 2015
Gdanska Galeria Miejska, Gdansk
2014
The Tourist
Solo exhibition
22.11. 2014—07.02. 2015
Aanant & Zoo, Berlin
Group Show III
27.06. 2014—02.08. 2014
alexander levy, Berlin
The Missing or: One Thing Next to Another
03.05. 2014—05.07. 2014
KUNSTSAELE BERLIN, Berlin
2013
I´m so glad to see you
27.09. 2013—29.09. 2013
Ernst-Reuter-Platz 2, Berlin
Die Erleuchtung schlägt zurück
Solo exhibition
26.09. 2013—31.08. 2014
SALZBURGER KUNSTVEREIN, Salzburg
4th Independent Publishers
28.06. 2013—30.06. 2013
Kunsthalle Wien
A Group of Six Artists
27.04. 2013—16.06. 2013
Aanant & Zoo, Berlin
Skizze einer Generation am Ende der Geschichte
21.02. 2013—23.03. 2013
Motorenhalle, Dresden
2012
From the Age of the Poets
08.09. 2012—20.10. 2012
Aanant & Zoo, Berlin
Merchandize
11.08. 2012—08.09. 2012
8. Salon, Hamburg
Max Schaffer
Solo exhibition
11.05. 2012—16.06. 2012
Gabriele Senn Galerie, Vienna
I.N.T.E.R.M.I.S.S.I.O.N.
Solo exhibition
09.03. 2012—05.04. 2012
Sammlung zeitgenössischer Kunst der Kulturabteilung der Stadt Wien, Vienna
On Screen – Aktuelle Fotografie aus Österreich
25.02. 2012—26.02. 2012
FOTOHOF, Salzburg
35. Bremer Förderpreis für Bildende Kunst
29.01. 2012—26.02. 2012
Städtische Galerie, Bremen
2011
Gesellschaftsspiele
25.07. 2011—26.07. 2011
museum in progress, Vienna
Die Fotografie in Referenz...
08.03. 2011—30.04. 2011
FOTOHOF, Salzburg
The Sense of Possibility in Case of Doubt
19.01. 2011—25.03. 2011
Sotheby´s, Vienna
Window Shopping Series
10.01. 2011—11.03. 2011
Gabriele Senn Galerie, Vienna
2010
Frieze Art Fair
14.10. 2010—17.10. 2010
London
Search, Build And Destroy
30.06. 2010—31.07. 2010
Gabriele Senn Galerie, Vienna
a room is a room is a room
12.02. 2010—19.02. 2010
MAGAZIN Society for development of the arts, Vienna
2009
Which Life?
06.11. 2009—05.12. 2009
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Contemporary Fine Happy End
16.07. 2009—17.07. 2009
Ve.Sch Verein für Raum und Form in der bildenden Kunst, Vienna
2008
Utopien des Raums
25.03. 2008—10.04. 2008
Kyrgyz National Museum of Fine Arts, Bischkek, Kyrgyzstan
2006
Topsy-Turvy Topography: Die Sammlung/neu/sehen
15.10. 2006—21.01. 2007
Kunsthalle Bremen
Publications
KUNSTSÆLE 2010-2020
Published in 2023 by DISTANZ

German/English
928 pages, numerous color images and b/w images, Softcover, 28 × 34 cm
ISBN 978-3-95476-422-8

On over 900 pages, the thick tome lays out a chronological tour of ten years of exhibition-making, starring André Butzer, Lovis Corinth, Channa Horwitz, Friedrich Kunath, Michael Müller, Blinky Palermo, Manfred Pernice, James Rosenquist, Karin Sander, Max Schaffer, Thomas Scheibitz, Josef Strau, Elaine Sturtevant, Peter Wächtler, and many others. The chronology is complemented by contributions by Geraldine Michalke, Lukas Töpfer und Ellen Blumenstein, who recall the venue, its discourses, and the individuals who made it what it was.

Le Message d'Absence
Published in 2019 by Drawing Books, Vienna

Ed. of 100, signed and numbered

Power of Style
Published in 2017 by Verlag für moderne Kunst

Texts by Janneke de Vries (ed.), Tobias Vogt, Hemma Schmutz
Design: Cabinet Gold van d´Vlies
German/English
Paperback, 24 x 17 cm, 104 pages, 44 colored illustrations
ISBN 978-3-903 153-06-6

VI x VI Positions on the Future of Photography
Published in 2015 by Verlag für Moderne Kunst, Wien, KUNSTVEREIN IN HAMBURG & Landesgalerie Linz
STREULICHT Compendium
Published in 2015 by STREULICHT - Magazin für Fotografie und Artverwandtes, Edition of 100
STREULICHT N°4 Photography - Touch
Published in 2014 by STREULICHT - Magazin für Fotografie und Artverwandtes, Release: 23.05.2014 at SECESSION, Vienna
STREULICHT N°1 Photography – Performance
Published in 2012 by STREULICHT - Magazin für Fotografie und Artverwandtes, Released on 31.10.2012, Presented at: NY ART BOOK FAIR, PARIS PHOTO, OFF PRINT PARIS
Specific Vocabulary
Published in 2012

Self-published Xerox Zine
Ed. of 20 + 2AP

FROM THE AGE OF THE POETS
Published in 2012 by Aanant & Zoo, Berlin
a plinth of foam
Published in 2012

Self-published Xerox Zine
Ed. of 10 + 2AP, signed and numbered

PARAPRAXIS
Published in 2012

Self-published Xerox Zine
Ed. of 20 + 2AP

Broken Windows Theory
Published in 2012

Self-published Xerox Zine
Ed. of 20 + 2AP, signed and numbered

ATTRIBUTES (Hill Arches)
Published in 2011

Self-published Xerox Zine
Ed. of 20 + 2AP

Contemporary Fine Burnout Syndrome
Published in 2011

Self-published Xerox Zine
Ed. of 10 + 2AP, signed and numbered

LOOPS
Published in 2010

Self-published Xerox Zine
Ed. of 10 + 2AP, signed and numbered

Contemporary Fine Job Descriptions
Published in 2010

Self-published Xerox Zine
Ed. of 5, signed and numbered

Raster und Fadenkreuz
Published in 2009 by transcript
Texts
Everyday Life is Undeterminable
/ Das Alltägliche ist das Unbestimmbare
by Andreas Spiegl
Of Parerga and Paratexts: Max Schaffer's Edges between Text and Image
/ Von Parerga und Paratexten: Max Schaffers Ränder zwischen Schrift und Bild
by Tobias Vogt
Max Schaffer. Nothing but Facade?
/ Max Schaffer. Alles Fassade?
by Hemma Schmutz
Power of Style. An Exhibition Tour
/ Power of Style. Ein Ausstellungsrundgang
by Janneke de Vries
Flussverteilung im Abluftspalt for Mads Westrup "Som var jeg Morandi"
by Max Schaffer
Info & CV

Gabriele Senn Galerie, Vienna
office@galeriesenn.at
T: +43 1 585 25 80

Email:
info@maxschaffer.com

cv_maxschaffer
untitled ( ________ )
untitled (—————), Vienna
BETWEEN GESTURES OF NEW BEGINNING AND RHETORICS OF RUIN
lay down and lie
STAGGER (2)
untitled (traffic)
Catalogue Raisonné
untitled (L. on P.)
attributes of modification (Hill Arches)
untitled (Selection)
untitled (re/constructed column)
Uhrenvergleich (Vienna)
untitled (window, Rudi-Dutschke-Strasse 26)
Confessions of a Poor Collector
untitled (Wr. Sec., 2012)
Specific Vocabulary
Friend
The Reinvention of Misinterpretation
follower, following
Moonlight Lounge, Berlin
future projections relocated in presence
Tourist
Tourist (the birds)
Excessive Access
Aftermath
untitled (hinges)
untitled (DER STANDORT EINES SPRECHENDEN ANDEREN...)
Cloud
untitled (banshee), untitled (comet)
Magic Moments (Variations I–IV)
True 2 the Game (I–VII)
fig. 1 (Variation nach M.B.)
Magic Moments (1–3)
Parergon (Bremer Hängung I–VII)
untitled (Blip)
The Critic's Laugh
untitled (L.)
stress and boredom
untitled (> <)
untitled (appearing as contours or volumes II)
untitled (object a)
Le Message d'Absence
retouch
untitled (FEED)
Deine bunte Seite
le je n’est pas le moi (simple choix)
untitled (UNTITLED SURROUNDINGS, Berlin)
Broken Windows Theory
untitled (CELEBRITIES...)
Tourist (reverse)
Review
untitled (SEPARATING THE SUBSTANCE FROM THE EVENT AS SUCH)
New Balance
Studium neben dem Beruf: auch der Arbeitgeber profitiert
untitled (window, Bülowstr. 90)
everything reverses into its opposite; opposites reveal mirrored identities
side effects and parallel structures
searching, 13.01.09
fit in
untitled, Venice
ENTERTAINMENT THROUGH ABSENCE (Flag)
untitled (FLUCTUATION IN LIGHTING)
follower (Karl-Marx-Allee)
if and that's a big if
untitled (p. 375 — p. 412)
untitled (p. 234 — p. 301)
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