Michael Krebber is a German conceptual artist. Best known for his sparse canvases and sculptures, Krebber works within the formal language of abstract painting to humorously dissect art history and representational imagery. He often engages with contemporary culture to maintain a critique and commentary on present-day life and the art world economy. Born on April 26, 1954 in Cologne, Germany, Krebber studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe under Markus Lüpertz, subsequently working as the assistant of renowned contemporary German artists Georg Baselitz and Martin Kippenberger. Describing his digital-like manipulation of paint, Krebber enigmatically explained that “painting, as well as any other activity, runs as an application that regularly and constantly changes, from for one person communicating with himself, to two people or more. Like society, here the programs runs wild, everyone might be in a different program, either actively or passively.” Currently living and working in his hometown of Cologne, Germany, the artist has exhibited with Greene Naftali in New York, and his work can be found among the collections of the Kunstraum Grässlin and Texte zur Kunst in Berlin, among others.