Prof. Michael Reisch

1985 // Studied art, Stadsacademie voor toegepaste Kunsten, Maastricht, Netherlands

1986-91 // Studied art, focus on photography and sculpture, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, Netherlands, diploma degree

1991 // Studied art, (guest), Kunstakademie Düsseldorf

2012 // Teaching assignment, “Photography and Digital Media”, head of an independent class, Alanus University of Arts and Social Sciences, Alfter/Bonn

Since 2013 // Professorship “Photography and Digital Media”, head of an independent class, Alanus University of Arts and Social Sciences, Alfter/Bonn

Awards and scholarships

2007 // Work scholarship, Stiftung Kunstfonds Bonn­

2002 // Project scholarship, Stiftung Kunst und Kultur des Landes NRW

1990 // Artist in Residence, Fondation Cartier, Paris

Solo exhibitions, selection

2021 // iPhone-series, Roland Barthes_AI, Galerie Falko Alexander, Cologne

2018 // Post-Photographic-Prototyping, Kunstverein Ruhr, Essen

2018 // Present Progressive, Double Solo, Felix Ringel Galerie, Düsseldorf

2014 // Michael Reisch, Scheublein+Bak, Zurich

2013 // Selected Works, MKK Museum Kurhaus, Kleve

2013 // Bischoff/Weiss Gallery, London

2013 // Hengesbach Gallery, Berlin

2012 // New Works, Peter Lav Gallery, Copenhagen

2011 // Shifting Realities, Scheublein Fine Art, Zurich

2008 // Kunsthalle Erfurt, (cat)

2007 // Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh

2007 // Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg, (cat)

2007 // Landesgalerie am Landesmuseum Oberösterreich, Linz, (cat)

Group exhibitions, selection

2023 // Constructing Landscape, Sprengel Museum Hannover

2023 // Expect the Unexpected, Kunstmuseum Bonn

2022 // darktaxa-project: the Düsseldorf-constellation, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Biennale for Visual and Sonic Media photo+

2022 // German Caviar, Die fotografische Sammlung, Kunstmuseum Bonn

2022 // The computation of Photography, AFF Berlin

2021 // darktaxa-project: the Paris-constellation, Geste Paris

2021 // How to win at Photography, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland

2021 // ready ready made, Neuer Kunstverein Aschaffenburg

2020 // Shanghai International Photofestival, Shanghai, China

2019 // Illusion Nature – Digital Worlds, Museum Sinclair-Haus, Bad Homburg

2019 // Beyond the Documentary, Artron Art Center, Shenzhen, China 

2019 // Photon | Icon, darktaxa-project.net at Galerie Falko Alexander, Cologne

2017/18 // Beyond the Spere of Reproduction – Beyond the Documentary, Städtische Galerie KUBUS, Hannover; Städtische Galerie Bietigheim-Bissingen; Städtische Galerie Iserlohn; WHITEBOX ART CENTER and Joy Art Museum, Beijing; Galaxy Museum of Contemporary Art, Chongqing; Museum of Contemporary Art, Shenzhen, China

2017 // Revision, Permanent Collection, Kunstmuseum Bonn

2017 // Mizhi Cave House International Photography Art Festival, Shaanxi, China

2016 // Thinking algorithms, Scheublein+ Bak, Zurich

2015 // Photo Bejing 2015, german contribution, World Art Museum, Millenium Monument, Beijing

2015 // Permanent Collection/New Acquisitions, Museum Kurhaus Kleve

2015 // against photography, Scheublein + Bak, Zurich

2015 // Photographic Image and Data Image, Museum Kulturspeicher Würzburg

2015 // Land in Sight, 400 Years of Landscape Painting, Museum Weserburg, Bremen

2014 // Reflections – Aesthetic References, Darmstadt Days of Photography, main exhibition Designhaus, Darmstadt, (cat.)

2012 // Points of View. Places of Photography, Kunstverein Hildesheim und Römer-und-Pelizaeus-Museum, Hildesheim,  (cat.)

2011 // Alpine Landscape—Place of Longing and Stage, Residenzgalerie,Salzburg, (cat.)

2011 // Section  Romantic Camera,Permanent Collection, National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland

2010 // Realism – The Adventure of Reality,Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich; Kunsthalle Emden; Kunsthal Rotterdam, (cat.)

2003 // Modeled Realities Landesgalerie am Landesmuseum

Upper Austria Linz, (cat.)

2002 // Between Construction and Reality, Landscape in Contemporary German Photography, Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum, Aachen

1996 // …as if painted, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein

2021 // noPublication, 1000 pages, with darktaxa-project, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und  Franz König, Cologne

2020  // noManifesto, with darktaxa-project

2020 // Untitled / Untitled, double-publication

2013 // Selected Works, monograph, 96 pages, Kerber-Verlag,

2010 // New Landscapes, monograph, 100 pages, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern,

2006 // Michael Reisch, monograph, 124 pages, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern,

• EON AG, Germany
• Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
• Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany
• HSBC Trinkaus & Burkhardt, Germany
• Kunstraum Alexander Bürkle / PEAC, Freiburg, Germany
• LACMA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, USA
• Leung-Collection, Hongkong
• Museum Kurhaus, Kleve, Germany
• National Galleries Edinburgh, Scotland/UK
• Novo Nordisk Collection, Denmark
• Sammlung Peter C. Ruppert, Museum Kulturspeicher, Würzburg, Germany
• REHA Suisse, Switzerland
• Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg, Germany
• Swedish County Council, Sweden
• UBS, Switzerland
• West-LB, Germany

Numerous private collections in: Austria, Australia, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, USA