PHILIPP SIMON

Born in 1987, Berlin, Germany
Lives and works in Berlin

EDUCATION

2014

Master of Fine Arts, Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee

2011

Academy of fine arts Vienna, Class of Prof. Birgit Megerle and Prof. Mona Hahn (exchange year)

2007–2013

Diploma of fine arts, Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee, class of Prof. Antje Majewski

SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2022

Incomplete Nature, Kirchgasse Gallery, Steckborn, Switzerland

2021

The Big Picture, Schiefe Zähne, Berlin, Germany

2020

[no title], 15 Orient Gallery, New York, USA

2019

synthetic, access, Italy, Rollaversion, London, UK
Leibliches Hören und sein Knecht, with Lukas Quietzsch, Kunstbunker, Nuremberg, Germany

2018

Die dritte Person, Schiefe Zähne, Berlin, Germany

2017

Buffet der guten Zwecke, with Lukas Quietzsch, Kunstverein Freiburg, Germany

2016

Gefühle in Zeiten des Kapitalismus, tai project, Kunming, China
OK - I Love you, Real Positive, Cologne, Germany

2015

Obey, with Lukas Quietzsch, Garret Grimoire, Vienna, Austria

2014

Reif, Kühlhaus, Berlin, Germany

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED)

2023
Interests, Schiefe Zähne, Berlin, Germany
Slow Dance (3), curated by Richard Sides and Luca Beeler, Stadtgalerie Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Target Group Show, conceived by Hannes Schmidt, Braunsfelder, Cologne, Germany

2021

Constellations in a Bubble, Kirchgasse, Steckborn, Switzerland
Buffers, Schiefe Zähne invited by Contemporary Fine Arts (CFA), Berlin, Germany

2020

Tokyo Detroit Berlin, Tokyo Arts and Space (Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture), Tokyo

2019

Work Together Stay Alive, curated by tzvetnik.online at Exile Gallery, Vienna, Austria
Allergische Instrumente, for Max Ruf with Lukas Quietzsch, Liszt, Berlin, Germany

2018

Shadows, The Wig temporary space by Richard Sides, Berlin, Germany
Lovers and other spectres, Kingsgate Project Space, London, UK

2017

Look, all this is fraud, Milieu, Bern, Switzerland
If it‘s right or wrong, it‘s probably right., W139, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Der Schneckentraum, Suicidal Oil Piglet, Melbourne, Australia

2016

Hafenstraße, S-Bhf Hafenstraße, Berlin, Germany
Schmausebold und Bleibefett, Real Positive, Cologne, Germany
Life ist Life, Garret Grimoire, Berlin, Germany

2014

Leben mit Kunst, Liszt, Berlin, Germany

2013

Colorado, public space, Zürich, Switzerland
Hausordnung, HfbK Hamburg, Germany
I‘ am so glad to see you!, BHROX, Berlin, Germany

2012

No, it is opposition, Haus am Oranienplatz, Berlin, Germany

PROJECTS, CURATORIAL AND LECTURING

2020

Strategies of Space – Lectureship Universität der Künste, Berlin, Fashion Department

2019

Lectures at KHB Berlin and HfG Offenbach

Lecture in collaboration with Lukas Quietzsch at Akademie der Künste Nürnberg

2017

Lecture in collaboration with Lukas Quietzsch at Muthesius Kunsthochschule Kiel

2014–2019

Co-Founder of L I S Z T, Artist-run space together with Monika Senz & Lukas Quietzsch, Berlin, Germany | http://lisztliszt.de

PUBLICATION

2018

Drawings of the show Die dritte Person in: Nazi Knife #11, ed. by Hendrik Hegray & Jonas Delaborde, published by BATT COOP, Paris

2016

Open Doors are Scary, Philipp Simon on 4chan, Edition of 300, AKV Berlin ISBN 978-3-944591-40-7

2014

Insert in: The Happy Fainting of Painting, ed. by Hans-Jürgen Hafner & Gunter Reski, Düsseldorf, Köln (Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König); ISBN: 978-3-86335-670-5

AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS

2020

shortlisted for Ars Viva Price

2016

DAAD Grant for Gefühle in Zeiten des Kapitalismus at tai project, Kunming, China

2015

Elsa-Neumann Grant (NaFöG, Berlin)