Magnus Plessen

(German, born 1967)

levitation by magnus plessen

Magnus Plessen

Levitation, 2019

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untitled (fig. 15) by magnus plessen

Magnus Plessen

Untitled (Fig. 15), 2020

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Magnus Plessen

Untitled (Fig. 20), 2021

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Magnus Plessen

Untitled (Fig. 6) , 2019

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Magnus Plessen

Untitled (Fig. 23), 2021

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Magnus Plessen

Untitled (Fig. 24), 2021

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Biography

Timeline

1967
Born in Hamburg
Lives and works in Berlin-Lichtenberg

Exhibitions

2009
Magnus Plessen, Gladstone Gallery, New York
2008
You Dig the Tunnel, I’ll Hide the Soil, White Cube, London
Magnus Plessen, Freizeit, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Berlin (Solo)
2007
Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, “Imagination Becomes Reality,” (group)
Gladstone Gallery, New York (solo)
2006
Sammlung Goetz, Munich, “Imagination Becomes Reality,” (group)
Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, Connecticut, “The Cartin Collection: Subject, Contemporary Portraiture” (group)
Museu Serralves, "Imagens Em Pintura", (group)
Infinite Painting: contemporary Painting and Global Realism, Francesco Bonami, Villla Manin Centro d'Arte Contemporanea
Kunsthalle Mannheim, “Direct Painting” (group) Gladstone Gallery, New York

Literature

2008
Neil, Jonathan, T.D, "Reviews Marathon, New York," Art Review, February 2008, p.75
"Magnus Plessen", The New Yorker, January 7, 2008, p.14
"Magnus Plessen," Monopol, January 2007, p 125.
You dig the Tunnel, I'll Hide the Soil, White Cube, 2008.
2007
Imagination Becomes Reality: An Exhibition on the Expanded Concept of Painting, Sammlung Goetz and Museum für Neue Kunst, 2007.
Magnus Plessen, Gladstone Gallery, essay by Francesco Bonami.
Speers Mears, Emily, "Motion Detector," V Magazine, Winter 2007, p 72
Buhre, Elke, “Art’s Blooming In Berlin,” Modern Painters, March 2006, p 93-97.
2006
Buhre, Elke, “Art’s Blooming In Berlin,” Modern Painters, March 2006, pg 93-97
Infinite Painting: Contemporary Painting and Global Realism, Francesco Bonami, Villla Manin Centro d'Arte Contemporanea, 2006.